At the 13th Symposium of the Einstein Telescope Scientific Collaboration, which was held in Cagliari from 8 to 12 May, on 9 May, the conference hosted an event dedicated to the presentation of the ETIC project, funded with 50 million euro from NRRP funds, under Mission 4 Education and Research coordinated by the Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR). The event was also dedicated to the Italian candidacy to host the future gravitational wave detector in Sardinia, in the area of the disused Sos Enattos mine, between the municipalities of Lula, Bitti and Onanì, in the Nuoro area. The event started with the institutional greetings of Alessandro Cardini, director of the INFN Cagliari Division, Francesco Mola, rector of the University of Cagliari, Gavino Mariotti, rector of the University of Sassari, and Paolo Truzzu, mayor of Cagliari. After the institutional greetings, the event “Einstein Telescope the great European research infrastructure” was officially opened by the speeches of Anna Maria Bernini, Minister for Universities and Research, Giorgio Parisi, Nobel Prize Laurate for Physics and president of the technical-scientific committee set up by MUR to support the Italian candidature, Giuseppe Fasolino, vice-president of Region of Sardinia, and Antonio Zoccoli, president of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics. The event was widely attended by representatives of local, national and international governmental and scientific institutions. In the afternoon, the NRRP ETIC project and the Italian candidature were the focus of a round table discussion on science and socio-economic impact, with Marica Branchesi, professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, scientist of the ET collaboration and member of the technical-scientific committee set up by the MUR, Luigi Guiso, economist of the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, and Monique Bossi, project manager for ETIC. The round table was chaired Matteo Serra, science journalist and communicator.
