Reform oversight of Italy’s science funds
We wish to highlight the stark contrast between the hardship in Italy’s publicly funded research community (see G. Parisi Nature 530, 33; 2016) and the reportedly largely unused sums of money allocated to a single research institute over the past 12 years. After 3 years without any financial provision for bottom-up research, Italy’s government is providing €31 million (US$36 million) a year for the next 3 years to cover research in the humanities as well as science.