Month: May 2015
IL FRANTOLIO GROWING ON THE WORLD STAGE
IL FRANTOLIO GROWING ON THE WORLD STAGE A FAMILY business that exports (only) extra virgin olive oils across the globe and uses the ancient Lacrima…
SOFT-TOUCH ROBOTICS THAT REACH OUT TO THE FUTURE
Professor Cecilia Laschi from The Biorobotics Institute at Pisa’s Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna YOU May know what a robot is, but what about…
BLACK IS THE NEW RED AT PISA'S CUTTING EDGE UNIVERSITY
Luca Bardi, direttore generale, at Sant’ Anna WHETHER it’s black tomatoes or robot octopuses, some of the most startling scientific developments are coming from…
THE LEARNING ZONE
Associate Professor of biorobotics, Cecilia Laschi with her octopus robot PISA’S elite Scuola Normale Superiore university is based in some of the city’s…
GETTING CLEVER OVER STUDENTS WORTH TO LOCAL ECONOMY
CITY BUSINESS LEADER Henry Hutchins is planning to work with the University of Plymouth to research exactly how many millions of pounds the…
GERMAN BUSINESS DELEGATION VISITING PLYMOUTH
The city of Leipzig A DELEGATION of business leaders from the German city of Leipzig are visiting Plymouth from the 16th to 19th…
UNDER THE LID OF 16TH CENTURY TOILET HUMOUR
Meridian teacher David Stevens A PORTSMOUTH teacher is inspiring his international students by writing a comic book about 16th century lavatories in…
PORTSMOUTH FAMILY ENJOY BEING HOST AMBASSADORS
THE WHITE FAMILY FROM EASTNEY BARRACKS, PORTSMOUTH FOR many years I’ve been a carer and enjoyed looking after people, but when I had…
PISA AIRPORT CREATES JOBS
Pisa/Plymouth – Italian city’s airport creates 1k jobs for every 1m passengers By WILLIAM TELFORD, Business Editor/Plymouth Herald Pisa’s famous leaning tower PISA…
MORE THAN JUST A LEANING TOWER – PISA BUILDS ITS ECONOMY ON HIGHT-TECH
More than just a leaning tower – Pisa builds its economy on high-tech By WILLIAM TELFORD, Business Editor/Plymouth Herald The river Arno in Pisa, Italy…
PLYMOUTH & PISA – TWO CITIES, TWO TOWERS, ONE AIRPORT – THE SIMILARITIES & DIFFERENCES
Plymouth and Pisa – two cities, two towers, one airport – the similarities and differences By WILLIAM TELFORD, Business Editor William Telford in Pisa THE…
GOING GREEN AT SURPLUS RESCUE
Picture: German students’ Charlotte Jander and Johann Rottman on work placements at Surplus Rescue and Dorcas Media. MANY people from across the…