the ROME – at The end, after eight years of the ports in the face, closed, never beaten, of evasive answers subsequent to the meetings in the university with their lawyers – ‘you are right, but too much time has passed” – the researcher Giambattista Scirè , 44, has decided to write to the president of the Republic. And tell also to Sergio Mattarella his history as a scholar of contemporary History to which is the preferred state – for a role as researcher, which, in fact, brought in the body of the university is the winner of the tender – an architect. A long history of victories, the judicial – penal – and defeats professional: Giambattista Scirè in these eight seasons was released completely from the circuit university of the Country, has won a dispute in the administrative courts of first and second level, but he stopped posting. To work.
Well, twenty-three days after writing to the president, Scirè, just came out from the last interview with the rector of the University of Catania, last Wednesday, he turned on the computer and spotted an e-mail. A Pec, the better. In bold. Came from the general Secretariat of the presidency of the Republic. The director of the business Office of the Administration of justice, Stefano Erbani , he replied. In the name of the president. And had done so by using those two words used by the researcher, “transparency and merit”, 10 November 2017, had become the title of the association that the same Scirè had helped found and which today, after some difficulty, guide.
In Pec Quirinale, was written this: “The Head of State follows with great attention the issues she highlighted in the conviction that, also in the university sector, it is necessary to always follow the principles of legality and transparency. Italian universities can boast levels of excellence in various fields of knowledge, and are the best results only when it is founded on the autonomy and freedom of teaching, guided solely by the principle of merit. Hoping that she will find response to his / her expectations in the course of the academic career, i offer you my most cordial greetings.”
now Says Giambattista Scirè: “The President Mattarella, we wanted to let you know who is on our side-the universities and the departments they now know that the Head of State hopes for and recommends their a way transparent.”
it is interesting to note how, in the span of twenty-three days elapsed between the letter of the Scirè, and of the response of the Quirinale, the University of Catania – beheaded in seven departments by a recent investigation of the power of Attorney has set a new meeting with the Scirè, the first of the neorettore Francesco Priolo .