Event information and agenda
Festival della Scienza Medica - XI ed. addresses a broad spectrum of contemporary medical sciences, with a focus on the interaction between prevention and precision medicine—two central areas of modern medicine whose interplay is of vital importance both for the preventive containment of organ-specific and systemic diseases and for increasing the effectiveness of targeted treatments.
The topics, organized into seven symposia and a roundtable discussion, have been selected to explore the most relevant aspects of this relationship and to provide the audience with an up-to-date and accessible overview of the most advanced developments in medical knowledge applied to the prevention and treatment of diseases, with particular attention to environmental, socio-health, and diagnostic dimensions, as well as to their mutual synergies.
Check out the Festival agenda: Festival della Scienza Medica
Pre-registration (from 20th April 2026 to 13th May 2026): registration form
Credit recognition for Festival attendance
Female and male students who attend the Festival events on at least the three days of May 15–16–17, 2026 may request recognition of the activities carried out during the Festival in terms of university credits, according to the procedures and deadlines indicated below.
Students enrolled in the 2025/2026 academic year in the degree programmes in Medicina e Chirurgia (Bologna, Forlì, Ravenna), Medicine and Surgery, and Medical Biotechnology who have attended all Festival activities and passed the test held on May 17 at the end of the events will be awarded:
- 1 elective university credit, if enrolled in the first year of the Medicina e Chirurgia programme(Bologna, Forlì, Ravenna);
- 3 elective university credits, if enrolled in Medicine and Surgery, Medical Biotechnology, or in a year beyond the first in Medicina e Chirurgia degree programme (Bologna, Forlì, Ravenna).
The test will consist of a multiple-choice questionnaire on the activities carried out during the Festival. It will be in English for students enrolled in Medicine and Surgery and Medical Biotechnology, and in Italian for all others.
Students who pass the test will be issued a certificate stating that they have successfully met the requirements.
How to apply for credit recognition
- Download, fill in and sign the 'credit recognition' form available in the 'Attachments' box of this web page;
- attach the receipt for payment of the stamp duty virtually paid;
- attach the certificate of eligibility issued by the organizers of the Festival della Scienza Medica– XI edition to students who have passed the test prepared by a committee specifically appointed by the CARISBO Foundation;
- send the form, the related attachments, and a copy of an identity document via the “Write to us” function of the Virtual Help Desks (topic: “Credit recognition”).
Please note that incomplete applications, or applications submitted by non-institutional email accounts, will not be considered.
Deadlines
Applications for credit recognition must be submitted according to the conditions outlined in this web page:
- by 30 June 2026;
-for students graduating in the 2025/2026 academic year, by the deadline set for administrative requirements for admission to the final examination sessions of the June–July period.
