The European Researchers’ Nights, promoted by the European Commission, have been organised every September since 2005. They are an opportunity to meet researchers, talk to them, and to find out what they really do for society, in interactive and engaging ways. This year The Giorgio Cini Foundation will take part to this initiative opening to the public the ‘Vittore Branca’ International Center for the Study of Italian Culture (Nuova Manica Lunga Library and Residence).

The ‘Vittore Branca’ International Center is a residential resource for humanities studies where young researchers and expert scholars can stay while working in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini libraries.
The Center is named after Vittore Branca – a world-renowned Italianist who was Secretary General of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.