Activities for Students

Every year, our department welcomes around 250 secondary school students to its laboratories, offering them a range of orientation and PCTO activities.

Visits to the laboratories for students address cutting-edge topics of high social relevance, such as big data, new materials and technologies, artificial intelligence, climate change and quantum computers. The objective is twofold: to guide students towards the study of physics, introducing them to advanced research, and to help them acquire basic skills related to the “profession of physicist”.

The variety of activities offers a broad and stimulating overview of physics, its interconnection with other disciplines and its social impact. Each laboratory is also an opportunity to develop cross-disciplinary skills that are essential in today's world of work, such as creativity, design, communication and collaboration.

Workshops for students

Individual workshops aimed at introducing students to the study of physics and helping them acquire basic skills in the “profession of physicist”.

Workshop-Laboratory for the construction of educational experiments

In addition to familiarising themselves with a physics laboratory and workshop and consolidating their basic knowledge of physics, students will acquire skills in science communication and dissemination.

Find out more on the Scientific Degrees Plan (PLS) website

Guided tours of museum collections

In collaboration with the University Museum System (SMA), guided tours are organised:

- to the Physics Collection, which houses numerous 19th and 20th century instruments for experiments in mechanics, optics, electromagnetism, thermology and atomic physics
- to the Specola Museum, which houses the historical heritage of astronomical observation instruments.