LUNA ROSSA OPENS ITS DOORS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI

Today, at the Luna Rossa base at Molo Ichnusa, a meeting day was held with students from the University of Cagliari. The initiative, promoted by the Magnificent Rector Prof. Francesco Mola, was attended by more than 100 second-year students enrolled in master’s degree programs from the following faculties: Engineering (Mechanical, Civil, Electrical and Electronic), Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Data Science, Business Analytics and Innovation.

Students had the opportunity to visit the base and come into direct contact with the team’s engineers, designers and technicians. During the visit, several Luna Rossa representatives shared their experiences and provided an overview of the working methodology and the technical and scientific approach required to face a complex and multidisciplinary challenge such as the America’s Cup. The day concluded with a highly attended Q&A session.

The university students described the experience as highly interesting, as it allowed them to understand how academic studies find concrete application in a highly fascinating context such as professional sailing. For Luna Rossa as well, the initiative proved particularly valuable, offering the opportunity to meet and connect with specialized profiles that, in the future, could represent new resources for the team.

«We were very pleased to host female and male students from the University of Cagliari at our base», said Horacio Carabelli, Chief Designer of Luna Rossa. «The America’s Cup is a complex challenge that has always been played on the dual track of sport and technology and requires constant synergy between humans and machines. The enthusiasm and curiosity with which the students took part in the meeting was especially appreciated and confirms the many points of contact between our world and the academic one, suggesting possible future interactions also at a professional level».

Professor Francesco Mola, Magnificent Rector of the University of Cagliari, said: «Events like today’s meeting represent the best way to show our students, particularly in certain fields, what additional career paths may be available to them after university, not only traditional ones, but also the particularly challenging ones offered by organizations such as Luna Rossa, which are stable over time and capable of offering an interesting and stimulating professional future. A collaboration in the development sector is already in place at the University, and the idea is to strengthen it and extend it to other sectors. For this reason, we also extended today’s meeting to students enrolled in Computer Science and Data Science degree programs. The intention is also to bring Luna Rossa into the University, both to start a scouting initiative and to support us in the design of certain academic courses».