Sophia University Institute: opening of the 2024-25 academic year
On Tuesday 4 March 2025, the opening ceremony of the 17th academic year took place in the main hall of the Sophia University Institute in Loppiano.
Sophia University Institute: inauguration of the 17th academic year
Fabio Petito, Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex, will deliver the prologue entitled “Dialogue, religions, geopolitics”. Archbishop Gherardo Gambelli of Florence, and Dr. Margaret Karram, President of the Focolare Movement, will take the floor.
A day of celebration and reflection in the name of Renata Borlone
On Sunday 23 February, the little town remembered Renata Borlone, focolarina, co-responsible of Loppiano and servant of God, on the 35th anniversary of her death.
The 2015 Renata Borlone Prize Goes To Physicist Fabiola Gianotti
The 2015 Renata Borlone Prize will be conferred upon Fabiola Gianotti, during a ceremony on Sunday, February 15, 2015.
The “2018 Renata Borlone, Woman in Dialogue” Prize awarded to astrophysicist Suleiman Baraka.
The 2018 Renata Borlone Woman in Dialogue Prize has been awarded to astrophysicist Suleiman Baraka, Director of the Center for Astronomy and Space Sciences-Al Aqsa University, Gaza, Palestine, and Post Doc Associate NASA Langley Research Center
Renata Borlone Award 2013 goes to astrophysicist Piero Benvenuti
Philosophy, science and faith: more than complementary, mutually dependent. A one-day conference explored the relationship between the sciences and humanities.