Proposal - 17th EMC 2020 - Catania
A proposal to host the 17th European Microscopy Congress Catania, september 20-25 2020
A proposal to host the 17th European Microscopy Congress
Catania, september 20-25 2020
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A proposal to host<br />
th<br />
The 17 European<br />
Microscopy Congress<br />
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
September 20-25, <strong>2020</strong><br />
he Italian microscopy community would be pleased<br />
Tto host the next edition of the <strong>EMC</strong> <strong>2020</strong> again in<br />
Italy after 52 years.<br />
We take this chance to mention Italian great love for<br />
microscopy as the history already has evidenced, starting<br />
from Galileo Galilei (1565-1642), who was the rst<br />
scientist dealing with the aberration problem in the eld<br />
of optics, and continuing with Vasco Ronchi who<br />
discovered, in 1923, the Ronchi test, also called<br />
Ronchigram, well known to all microscopists since it is<br />
now used to measure and correct the spheric aberration<br />
in a modern microscope.<br />
Nowadays there are many Italian microscopists that<br />
continue to give a signicant scientic contribution to<br />
such a wonderful discipline. In <strong>Catania</strong> is located the<br />
Italian center for Electron Microscopy called Beyond-<br />
Nano, among the most important center in Europe,<br />
hosted at the IMM laboratory, one of the largest research<br />
center of the Italian National Research Council (CNR).<br />
It would be a honor for us to welcome you in<br />
<strong>Catania</strong>, the second-largest city in Sicily. <strong>Catania</strong> is one<br />
of Italy's most important and ourishing cultural, artistic,<br />
and political centers. In 1434 it witnessed the opening of<br />
the rst University in Sicily. After the terrible earthquake in<br />
1693, it was redesigned in the Sicilian Baroque style,<br />
today Unesco World Heritage site. Also some of the most<br />
signicant buildings of the Roman Empire's era are<br />
located here. <strong>Catania</strong> is one of the most charming<br />
seaside town of the east coast of Sicily. It has a strategic<br />
position, near the main Sicilian touristic attractions<br />
On overall there are 7 Unesco World Heritage sites<br />
in Sicily, that you could get a chance to visit once here. The<br />
Sicily is also renewed for food and last but not least the<br />
“Etna rosso” wine has become one of the most<br />
prestigious wine in the world.
As conference venue we have chosen the municipal<br />
center “le Ciminiere”, a former sulphur works recently<br />
transformed into a lively cultural center. Lecture halls,<br />
exhibition area and meal facilities are located inside the<br />
same conference center area distributed among three<br />
main blocks. Exhibitors will be at the center of the<br />
conference, allowing them to have fruitful meeting with<br />
the delegates. To meet the needs of exhibitors, we will<br />
plan ve days for the mounting and three days for<br />
disassembly.<br />
Together with our Scientic Committee we planned<br />
7 parallel symposia on life sciences (LS), physical sciences<br />
(PS), and analytical sciences (AS), one plenary for day,<br />
and two poster sections for about 800 posters. At least 8<br />
topics will be dealt during the pre-meeting workshops: in<br />
situ, in operando, EELS Tutorial, Environmental TEM,<br />
nano-medicine. Finally, the social dinner will be hosted<br />
in an exclusive location, and several excursions both for<br />
delegates and accompanying persons will be organized<br />
during the event.<br />
To ensure the success of the conference we<br />
engaged the Medeacom society, partner of Sicilia<br />
Convention Bureau. Medeacom is an outstanding PCO<br />
(professional congress organizer), founded in 2004 and<br />
expert in the organization of scientic congress, cultural<br />
meeting, and events.<br />
We are looking forward to meet you in <strong>Catania</strong> for<br />
the <strong>EMC</strong> <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
Giuseppe Nicotra<br />
Corrado Spinella<br />
General Chairs of <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong>-<strong>Catania</strong>
A proposal to host<br />
th<br />
The 17 European<br />
Microscopy Congress<br />
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
September 20-25, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Presentation letter from<br />
Prof. Elisabetta Falcieri
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
<strong>Catania</strong> is located on the Ionian coast of Sicily, in the south of Italy.<br />
<strong>Catania</strong> is the second-largest city in Sicily, and the hundredth-largest city in the European Union.<br />
Founded in 729 BC by Calcidesi, boasts a millenary history characterized by various dominations. It was a royal<br />
residence and capital of the<br />
Kingdom.<br />
In the centre stands the<br />
city’s symbol, a lava<br />
elephant known as «Liotru»<br />
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<strong>Catania</strong><br />
In the 14th century and in to the Renaissance period,<br />
<strong>Catania</strong> was one of Italy's most important and ourishing<br />
cultural, artistic, and political centers.<br />
In 1434, it witnessed the opening of the rst University<br />
in Sicily founded by Alfonso of Aragon.
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
<strong>Catania</strong> today is the city rebuilt after the strong 1693 earthquake which destroyed it completely, it was<br />
redesigned in the Sicilian Baroque style.
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
Catanese Baroque style has been declared a Unesco World Heritage site
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
The main Baroque monuments include the Cathedral , dedicated to<br />
Saint Agatha , the Patron Saint of the city, the churches of<br />
San Benedetto, and San Giuliano, in Crociferi street, and the Biscari<br />
Palace, the largest baroque palace of the city.<br />
The Fish Market in <strong>Catania</strong> is one of the most colourful in all of<br />
Sicily. Is a special experience that you should not miss when visiting<br />
<strong>Catania</strong>. Hustle and bustle and shouting dealers who advertise their<br />
products provide a deep insight into the lives of the Sicilians.
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
The Achillian Thermal Baths are among the most signicant<br />
buildings of the Roman Empire’s era in <strong>Catania</strong>. The structure was<br />
excavated in the 1700s by Ignazio Paternò Prince of Biscari.<br />
Rotunda’s Thermal Baths was construcred<br />
between the rst and second century A.D.<br />
and destroyed around the end of the sixth<br />
and the early seventh century A.D. Some of<br />
the rooms originally had marble oors and<br />
mosaic walls decorated with frescoes.<br />
Indirizzo Thermal Baths, dating back to<br />
the 2nd A.D. century, are situated in the<br />
middle of the pescheria, the picturesque<br />
open-air sh market of <strong>Catania</strong>.
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
Erected in 1250 by the Emperor<br />
Frederick II of Swabia, the Ursino Castle<br />
was built on a promontory along the<br />
coastline of the city.<br />
After being fortress, it became, for shorts<br />
periods, the residence of the<br />
Aragon royalty.<br />
In 1669 the lava surrounded tha castle,<br />
covered the towers and altered the<br />
coastline. The 1693 eartquake damaged<br />
again the structure causing the collapse of<br />
the southern and eastern middle towers.<br />
Today the castle is a museum, that houses<br />
several collections and temporary<br />
exhibitions too.
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
Roman Amphitheatre is the 2nd century<br />
grandiose Roman monument, one of the<br />
largest in Italy, is almost entirely hidden<br />
under modern constructions.<br />
It is visible in part in Stesicoro square.<br />
The area today is part of the historical centre<br />
of the town, and was formerly used as a<br />
necropolis. It’s part of the Graeco-Roman<br />
Archaeological Park of <strong>Catania</strong>.<br />
The site presented the elliptical plant.<br />
It was built with lava stone from Etna<br />
covered with marble and had thirty-two<br />
rows of seats.
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
Etna is the largest active volcano in Europe, it has been declared a<br />
Unesco World Heritage site and has a nature reserve: the Etna Park.
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
Etna Volcano<br />
Taormina<br />
<strong>Catania</strong> is one of the most charming seaside<br />
town of the east coast of Sicily.<br />
It has a strategic position, near the main Sicilian<br />
touristic attractions.<br />
30 Km<br />
45 Km<br />
<strong>Catania</strong><br />
65 Km<br />
Siracusa<br />
<strong>Catania</strong> airport is the 2nd in Italy. It is easily<br />
reachable with direct ights from many European<br />
cities, such as Munich, Rome, Cologne,<br />
Manchester, Amsterdam, London, Zurich, etc.
Acitrezza<br />
Such characteristic as to inspire the Odes of Homer for his Odyssey, Acitrezza, is a small, very charming<br />
shing village. The landscape is dominated by the 8 faraglioni (volcanic stacks),<br />
and lava cliffs that where formed before Etna. According to the myth of the Odyssey written by Homer,<br />
it was the<br />
Cyclops Polyphemus who<br />
hurled these large boulders<br />
at the vessels of Ulysses.<br />
Acitrezza also hosted the setting of<br />
the novel Malavoglia by Giovanni<br />
Verga, the most important of<br />
the Italian Verismo.
Taormina<br />
Being one of the most known tourist destinations in whole Sicily, Taormina, known as<br />
The Pearl of Mediterranean Sea, still represents one of the poshest places in the region.
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Sicily<br />
Arab-Norman Palermo and<br />
the Cathedral Churches<br />
of Cefalú and Monreale, listed in 2015<br />
Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands),<br />
listed in 2000<br />
Mount Etna,<br />
listed in 2013<br />
Syracuse and the Rocky<br />
Necropolis of Pantalica,<br />
listed in 2005<br />
Archaeological Area<br />
of Agrigento,<br />
listed in 1997<br />
Late Baroque Towns<br />
of the Val di Noto,<br />
listed in 2002<br />
Villa Romana del Casale,<br />
listed in 1997
Sicilian food<br />
Sicilian cuisine shows traces of all the cultures which established themselves on the island of Sicily over the<br />
last two millennia. Its cuisine has a lot in common with Italian cuisine and also has Greek, Spanish, French<br />
and Arab inuences.
Le Ciminiere Convention Center<br />
Le Ciminiere is the municipal <strong>Catania</strong> congress and exhibition center choosen<br />
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for hosting the 17 <strong>EMC</strong> in <strong>2020</strong>
Le Ciminiere Convention Center<br />
Literally «the chimneys» this former sulphur works has been<br />
transformed into a lively cultural center. Permanent features<br />
include the Museo dello Sbarco, a moving reminder of the US and<br />
British landings in Sicily in 1943, a cinema museum and a<br />
traditional sicilian puppet theatre.<br />
With over 30.000 sq between exhibition and congress<br />
area, Le Ciminiere is located close to the city center.
Le Ciminiere How to reach<br />
2 minutes walk<br />
8 minutes by car<br />
Bus every 5 minutes
Le Ciminiere Convention Center<br />
Aerial photos of the convention center Le Ciminiere<br />
Le Ciminiere is at walk distance (1.0 km)<br />
of the city center, where the main hotels<br />
and B&B are located .<br />
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Is strategically located at 200m from the<br />
train station where there are the bus<br />
terminals of most of the municipal<br />
bus lines.<br />
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Lecture halls, exhibition area and meal<br />
facilities are located inside the same<br />
conference center area distributed<br />
among three main blocks,<br />
max 30 meter each other
Le Ciminiere Convention Center<br />
Padiglione C1<br />
Main Room (1.250 pax)<br />
Room - 2 (600 pax)<br />
Room - 3 and 4<br />
Registration desk<br />
Booth<br />
Coffee area<br />
Museum<br />
Padiglione F1<br />
From C1 to F1 - 1 min. walk<br />
Room - 5 to 8<br />
Poster<br />
Padiglione F1<br />
Booth<br />
Coffee area
15 mq<br />
Le Ciminiere Convention Center<br />
Room 3<br />
200 pax<br />
P10<br />
G20<br />
10 mq<br />
Pad.<br />
C1<br />
- Ground floor<br />
2.500 sm<br />
700 sm for exhibitor<br />
B40<br />
Main entrance<br />
Registration desk<br />
P7<br />
G21<br />
10 mq<br />
Booth<br />
P9<br />
Room 2<br />
600 pax<br />
G22<br />
25 mq<br />
Room 4<br />
120 pax<br />
L2<br />
G23<br />
20 mq<br />
Booth
Le Ciminiere Convention Center<br />
Pad.<br />
C1<br />
- First floor<br />
1.500 sm<br />
Main Room (1.250 pax)<br />
and Room 2 (600 pax)<br />
are respectively intercommunicating<br />
Area<br />
Consolle<br />
Booth<br />
G28<br />
90 mq<br />
Main Conference Room<br />
1.250 pax<br />
Karaoke<br />
P21<br />
P37<br />
Area<br />
Retrogaming<br />
G27<br />
90 mq
Le Ciminiere Convention Center<br />
TubeGame<br />
Coffe area<br />
Area<br />
Live<br />
Pad. F1<br />
- Ground floor<br />
4.000 sm<br />
200 to 400 Poster<br />
2.000 sm for exhibitor<br />
Poster<br />
Booth<br />
Room 6<br />
150 pax<br />
Room 5<br />
150 pax<br />
Info point<br />
Area<br />
Firme
Le Ciminiere Convention Center<br />
Coffe area<br />
Pad. F1 - First floor<br />
3.500 sm<br />
200 to 400 Poster<br />
1.500 sm for exhibitor<br />
Room 7<br />
150 pax Area Vintage<br />
Booth<br />
Room 8<br />
150 pax<br />
Poster<br />
Room 6<br />
120 pax
Le Ciminiere Convention Center<br />
All the halls are already furnished with<br />
complete audiovisual support.<br />
Audiovisual will be provided<br />
where needed by very<br />
renowned company.
Le Ciminiere Convention Center<br />
The conference center<br />
has several spaces devoted<br />
to refreshments.<br />
There are areas dedicated to<br />
bars and restaurants inside,<br />
both indoors and outdoors.<br />
There is the possibility of<br />
creating coffee break area<br />
near the halls.<br />
There are also two industrial<br />
kitchens available.
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong> Preliminary budget<br />
Registration fee panel, based on 2000 attending delegates and 1500 paying delegates<br />
EMS Members<br />
No EMS Members<br />
Students<br />
Life Members<br />
Early<br />
Regular<br />
€ 450,00 € 550,00 € 250,00<br />
On site<br />
% Attendees<br />
40% 20%<br />
40%<br />
Total extimated from registration fees 585.000,00
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong> Preliminary budget<br />
Registration fee includes:<br />
- Admission to all scientic sessions;<br />
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- Access to the technical exhibition area;<br />
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- Congress materials (congress bag, nal program, access badge)<br />
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- Coffee breaks, welcome cocktail, farewell cocktail.<br />
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Registration fee will not include:<br />
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- Lodging (and its booking), the participants will be responsible<br />
for booking their own accommodation;<br />
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- Lunches and the conference dinner;<br />
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- Printed version of the proceedings.<br />
We are working to have a bus & metro<br />
pass offered by the City of <strong>Catania</strong>
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong> Preliminary budget<br />
Budget exhibitors<br />
With over 2.500 sm of exhibition area,<br />
the price (in Euro) per square meter for exhibitors will be of 350,00 /mq<br />
The price is just for the space and doesn’t include stand design,<br />
stand building, and power supply lines, which are, as an example:<br />
realization of a basic booth 200,00 /mq<br />
realization of a personalized booth 360,00 /mq<br />
furniture kit (table, chairs, hanger) 180,00 <br />
Lights and wiring 450,00 <br />
We extimate to sell 1.500 sq for<br />
exhibitors to reach<br />
over 500.000,00
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong> Preliminary budget<br />
List of expenses<br />
Daily attendee costs<br />
(coffee break, Sunday reception, farewell drink party)<br />
Fixed attendee cost<br />
(proceeding usb, conference program, service fees, website)<br />
240.000,00<br />
160.000,00<br />
Invited speakers, plenary speakers, awards<br />
90.000,00<br />
Committee expense<br />
80.000,00<br />
Rooms, conference construction and technical services<br />
220.000,00<br />
Conference center rental and PCO<br />
280.000,00
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong> Preliminary budget<br />
Total of extimated expenses<br />
1.070.000,00<br />
Total of extimated income<br />
1.085.000,00<br />
Net result <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong> - <strong>Catania</strong><br />
15.000,00
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong><br />
The measures to encourage the participation of young and disadvantaged participants<br />
A special low registration fee<br />
applied to young scientists.<br />
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will be<br />
Scholarships, supported by EMS and SISM,<br />
will be based on the scientic quality of<br />
submitted abstract.<br />
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Young scientists from countries with less<br />
favorable conditions will be especially<br />
encouraged to apply.<br />
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Exhibitors and local authorities will be<br />
invited to issue additional scholarships.
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong><br />
Accommodation<br />
Hotel price in <strong>Catania</strong> are very cheap,<br />
90-130 per night for a four stars hotel.<br />
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A large number of B&B’s is present in<br />
the city, and the average price per night<br />
per person isaround 30-65 per day.<br />
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According to HPI, <strong>Catania</strong> is the third<br />
City more protable in Itlay.<br />
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In September student houses are free<br />
so we think to get an agreement with<br />
the <strong>Catania</strong> University in order to host<br />
young and disadvantaged participants<br />
at a very special low priced.
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong> General Chair<br />
Giuseppe Nicotra-PhD<br />
Born in <strong>Catania</strong> on January 5, 1972.<br />
Since 2012 he is staff researcher at the headquarters of the IMM-CNR of <strong>Catania</strong>, where from January of the<br />
same year worked on both the strategic planning than the design and construction of the rst Sub-A resolution<br />
transmission electron microscopy Italian laboratory, which today holds the position of director. Also as part of<br />
the same project he coordinated the entire training course and organized and directed the rst Italian school of<br />
electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS).<br />
On February 2006 he obtained the title of PhD in materials science at University of <strong>Catania</strong> under the scientic<br />
supervision of Prof Emanuele Rimini. He worked as a visitor researcher at the University of California at Davis and the National Center<br />
for Electron Microscopy at Berkeley, under the scientic supervision of Prof. Nigel D Browning, where he started to work in the eld of<br />
scanning transmission electron microscopy (S/TEM), both monochromated that spherical aberration corrected (Cs corrected), applied<br />
in the eld of Materials Science and Biological Sciences. He received the Presidential Student Award from the Microscopy Society<br />
of America. Recently he started to study new and innovative two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as Graphene, Silicene and<br />
Phosphorene, leading to important scientic discoveries.<br />
He is guest editor of the Elsevier Journal, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, and author of more than 100 scientic<br />
international papers..
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong><br />
General Chair<br />
Corrado Spinella-PhD<br />
Born in <strong>Catania</strong> on February 16, 1962.<br />
He is and Director of the Department of Physics and Technology of Matter – CNR, President of the National<br />
Technological District "Sicilia Micro Nanosistemi”. received his Dr. degree in Physics in 1985. In 1989 he joined<br />
as researcher the Istituto Nazionale di Metodologie e Tecnologie per la Microelettronica (IMETEM) of the Italian<br />
National Research Council (CNR). From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of IMETEM and in 2002 he moved as<br />
senior researcher to the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM). Since 2008 to 2014 he was<br />
Director of IMM.<br />
His research activity is in the eld of new materials and processes for micro and nanoelectronics: front–end<br />
processing for ultra large scale Si technology; Si–based optoelectronics; science and technology of silicon<br />
carbide for RF or power electronics; novel memory devices based on silicon nanocrystals; advanced techniques,<br />
based on transmission electron microscopy, for characterization of nanostructured materials. He is author of more than 250 scientic<br />
papers and of several international patents.
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong> Organizing Committee Chair<br />
Elisabetta Falcieri-Prof<br />
Born in Trento on January 5, 1949.<br />
Degrees in Biological Sciences and Medicine (hons) in Bologna University and, successively, Specialty in<br />
Virology Since 1990 she is a member of the Italian Society of Microscopical Sciences and since 2014 she is<br />
SISM President. Since the beginning she was a member of European Microscopy Society too. From November<br />
1983 to October 1984 she was Research Assistant at University Medical School, Geneva (CH). Since 1989<br />
italian Research National Council Associate. University Researcher in Bologna Medical School, Associate<br />
Professor in Chieti University, and, since March 2001, Full Professor of Anatomy in the Faculty of Health and<br />
Physical Exercise of Urbino University. Chairperson of LM-67 second level Degree Course, she was Coordinator<br />
of the the PhD Course of "Molecular and morpho-functional methods applied to physical exercise" and, actually,<br />
of the interclass PhD Course of “Life Sciences, Health and Biotechnology”.<br />
She is Professor of Human Anatomy in rst level course, of Clinical Anatomy in the second level course and of Clinical Anatomy of<br />
Motor System in the I level Master Course "Functional training" Between 2009 and 2015 she was Rector Delegated for Department<br />
Organization. She is also member of the Italian Societies of Anatomy, Histochemistry, Cell Cultures, Cytometry, Myology, and of the<br />
European Tissue Culture Society. She is reviewer for international journals. Her research elds are morpho-functional features of<br />
hemopoietic, nerve, muscle and cartilage cells death, studied by means of a variety of molecular and microscopical approaches.<br />
She is author of the Italian edition of the text "Netter Atlas of Neurosciences", Masson eds., Milano, 2004 and also of 2010 edition by<br />
Elsevier eds. She is co- author of the text "Anatomia dell'Apparato Locomotore", ediSES, Napoli, 2008. On September 4-9 2011 she<br />
organized in Urbino the” X Multinational Congress on Microscopy” together with Austrian, Croatian, Czechoslovak, Hungarian,<br />
Serbian and Slovene Microscopy Societies. Since 2016 she is a MC member to COST Action 15214, Bruxelles. She is author of 485<br />
scientic publications, 177 full papers.
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong> Programme at a glance
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong><br />
Workshops programme<br />
In situ - In operando<br />
EELS Turorial - Enviromental TEM<br />
Nanomedicine<br />
Workshops and local organising committee<br />
Dr Roberto Balboni, CNR-IMM Bologna<br />
Dr Regina Ciancio, CNR-IOM Trieste<br />
Dr Stefania Meschini, ISS Roma<br />
Prof. Manuela Malatesta, University of Verona<br />
Dr Massimo Tonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia<br />
Dr Cristiano Albonetti, CNR-ISMN Bologna
<strong>Catania</strong> - <strong>EMC</strong><strong>2020</strong> Professional Congress Organizer<br />
Local organizing secretariat will be Medeacom partner of Sicilia Convention Bureau<br />
Medeacom is one of the most important PCO and DMC in Sicily, founded in 2004 has organized more<br />
than 1.500 events.<br />
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Medeacom offers extremely high quality services thanks to the availability of<br />
adequate human, nancial and technical resources.<br />
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Medeacom is specialized in development of: scientic congress, cultural meeting,<br />
events, publishing, graphics and web design.<br />
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Medeacom organizes one of the biggest annually event in Italy ( Etna Comics) with<br />
over 70.000 participants in 4 days, at The Ciminiere convention center.
Professional C ongress Organizer<br />
www.medeacom.com<br />
Supported By<br />
www.siciliaconvention.com