"We are running out of time..." SuperScienceMe thought. "The earth cries out for help...we can't just stand there, we must do something and we must do it now...all together.." SuperScienceMe – REsearch is your RE-Generation fully embraces the European Green Deal, to reverse the course and to turn climate and environmental challenges into opportunities. In this historical moment, in which all certainties are falling apart dramatically, SuperScienceMe appeals to all generations and, like a modern Noah, units them around an ideal, calls them to build a symbolic ark, in order to convey the message that “Research can help regenerate the planet and save lives” Due to the recent events, the pandemic, the dramatic climate changes, the severe threats to democracy, our world is telling us something. In these difficult times, it is easy for people to feel disoriented and lose faith in science; the deniers, the conspiracy theorists, the insurrectionists, all of them are the result of this slow but continuous and inexorable drift. Once again, SuperScienceMe leverages the power of research and the enthusiasm of researchers, to enter the hearts and heads of people to slow down this wave until it reverses its path, before it's too late. To achieve this goal, building on the success of the past editions of the project, researchers from universities and institutions of two regions of southern Italy, Calabria and Basilicata, will open the doors of their laboratories; they will bring research to the non-specialized audience and will talk to people of any age, in order to show them the extraordinary normality of their superhero lives. Furthermore, in line with MSCA-NIGHT scope, the project, bringing researchers closer to the general public, will encourage the youth to embark on scientific careers also helping the planet. SuperScienceMe must open people's eyes and minds, to make them believe in science again, to defeat the darkness and restore the earth to its original color..the Green

The purpose of this project is to analyze approaches, methods and instruments of Social Finance (SF) helpful to support Social Enterprises (SEs) localized in some marginal territory of the EU (and especially in Sardinia). The project aims: 1) to contribute to the international academic debate on SF, with a focus on the role of SF for SEs through the analysis of the best practices useful for the improvement of the economic wellbeing; 2) to provide better theoretical and practical solutions, by designing tailored financial instruments for the SEs located in Sardinia with the aim to develop and to test efficient ways to reduce social exclusion and to promote social innovation; 3) to promote a permanent network between the involved parties with the aim to encourage new financial approaches for a more inclusive society. The relevance of this research project is confirmed by: i) the role of SF and SEs in the European agenda, in the academic debate, and in the challenges for financial systems; ii) the need to overcome the limits of the mainstream finance and to conceptualize a new finance approach able to be a good finance for a more inclusive society, iii) the multidisciplinary approach to the field of SF that involves both social innovation and social entrepreneurship. The innovativeness of the project is related to: i) the combined research approach (deductive/inductive) useful for exploratory studies; ii) the international approach to the topic of SF, that will be explored in collaboration with one of the leading international researcher in the field of SF and one of the most prominent researchers in the field of impact finance. The research activities will be developed through: i) the outgoing phase at Waterloo University; ii) the return phase at UNICA (Sardinia/South Italy). The project will allow the construction of a permanent Excellency Laboratory in Sardinia and will promote the development of SF and SEs in such marginal territory.

SuperScienceMe - REsearch is your R-Evolution aims at reaching the general public of Calabria and Basilicata regions in Southern Italy, focusing in particular on the young ones. SuperScienceMe proposes a fascinating journey across several epochs of human evolution and science, to convey the message that research represents an intrinsic character of mankind, being, for this reason, free of any barrier and stereotype. Research is human richness and, just like human fantasy and imagination,can’t be confined nor limited. Research is freedom. In this historical epoch, the sensibility of people must be brought back to the values of equality and inclusion, strongly promoted and pursued by the European Union. Within this scenario, especially young people must be taken care of and educated in order to appreciate the beauty of diversity. Research can play this game successfully. Based on these considerations and on the successful previous editions of the NIGHT, SuperScienceMe expands its boundaries, including in the partnership another region of Southern Italy, to promote inclusiveness and equality through Research. The activities of the NIGHT will be developed in research centres as well as in locations which are uncommon for science,like hospitals and juvenile prisons, to explain how research revolutions have driven the fantastic evolution of mankind. To open their wings towards the general public, researchers will tell the compelling story of research speaking the language of non-experts in science, challenging each other to show that they are nothing but ordinary people, just like everyone else, doing an extraordinary job, which consists in looking at nature and trying to appreciate and understand its elusive secrets. European Union was conceived on the pillars of a society based on innovation, research, equality and inclusiveness. SuperScienceMe has been thought to reinvigorate these concepts showing the exciting journey of research through the eras of human evolution.

Research requires original ideas, freedom, rigor, discipline and continuous study; it requires knowing how to pursue goals, accepting failures and frustrations, and fully enjoying gratifications and satisfactions. Research gives unique opportunities and Hope to the world, especially to the new generations, inspires people to get involved, to believe in and gamble on themselves. This is the message Giorgio Parisi, fresh Nobel Prize in physics, delivers to the world on the day of the awarding of the most important prize for a scientist; and this is the message that superheroine SuperScienceMe makes its own for the new edition of the European Researchers’ Night. Researchers are like curious children, whose attention is inexorably attracted by the charm of nature; they are inebriate by so much beauty, then ask questions and seek for answers, they study tirelessly, attempting to unveil the secrets of the Universe. SuperScienceMe aims at spreading this message to children, young people, men, women and families, in a historical moment in which people are bewildered, facing challenges that seem insurmountable for mankind. Only science can help humanity to reach the summit and to scan the horizon of the future with hope. For this noble purpose, SuperScienceMe asks for help from one of the greatest scientists that history can remember: Leonardo da Vinci. The Italian genius will accompany SuperScienceMe and modern scientists on a wonderful journey among the people, to tell them the exciting fairy tale of science. In line with the main scope of the MSCA-CITIZENS action, the project “SuperScienceMe - RESearch is your RE-Source” builds a symbolic bridge that connects past and future by passing through the present and gets researchers closer to the general public encouraging at the same time the youth, especially the women, to embark on scientific careers, thus driving everyone’s effort towards a more equitable, green, resilient and healthy Europe.