(1 march 2017) Unipa (University of Palermo), Sicily and El Salvador in collaboration in the name of research and cooperation. A pool of researchers from Unipa are guided by Giuseppe Giunta, professor of “Structural Geology” and former docent of DiSTeM of Unipa in Central America where he is carrying out a new Italian collaborative project for development on “areas prone to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and floods” according to a statement on the University’s website. The project involves El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and other Central American countries. The research project falls under the University’s Inter-University International Cooperation scheme and the Italian-Central American network’s natural disaster analysis and risk assessment that connects Unipa with UES University of San Salvador in El Salvador, San Carlos University in Guatemala City, UNAN in Managua, Nicaragua, and UNAH in Honduras. The dean of the University of Palermo, Fabrizio Micari, will join the research expedition later this week for a few days. (red)
