Past editions of fosforo:
fosforo: is a fair, a festival, a meeting place. A series of events and activities to spark ideas, overturn clichés, make people fall in love with science, and encourage them to dream, think, invent and discover.
fosforo: 2026
“The sixteenth edition of fosforo: the science festival ended on Sunday 24 May; for four days it turned the squares, historic buildings and landmark sites of Senigallia into one big open-air laboratory spread across the town. From 21 to 24 May, over 215 free events and more than 65 science communicators, researchers and artists brought the town to life, welcoming an audience of 15,000 visitors – families, schools, the curious and enthusiasts, some of whom came from outside the region.”
fosforo: 2025
“When science puts on a show. That could be the ideal slogan for the ‘fosforo:’ festival, which from tomorrow to Sunday will fill the old town and seafront of Senigallia with workshops, talks, lectures, ‘experiments’, interactive exhibitions, theatre performances and escape rooms. Over a hundred events are on the programme, all free of charge.”
fosforo: 2024
“Great enthusiasm greeted the fourteenth edition of fosforo: the science festival, which has established itself as one of the most eagerly awaited and longest-running events on the national science festival scene. The event offered a lively meeting place for the public, researchers, performers and science communicators, confirming fosforo:’s importance in promoting scientific culture.”
fosforo: 2023
“Over 200 events, including workshops for schools, talks, shows and exhibitions, turned Senigallia into a city of science, showing more and more clearly that culture, intelligence and science within everyone’s reach have undisputed appeal.
Three consecutive sell-outs at the La Fenice theatre, with school students and the event starring Dario Bressanini and his food self-defence manual for making informed choices when shopping, “Fa bene o fa male”.”
fosforo: 2022
“Four days and four evenings devoted to the joy of discovery. That’s the atmosphere that filled Senigallia for the twelfth edition of fosforo: the science festival.”
fosforo: 2021
“Over a million views for a science video. At fosforo:, the different densities of liquids go viral on TikTok. During the four days of science in Senigallia, guests and staff made lots of videos for social media, and one video in particular really took off.”
fosforo: 2020
30–31 July 2020 | Summer Edition 12–13 September 2020 | Into the wild
“On Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September comes the Into The Wild version of fosforo:, between nature and science, in the striking setting of Bosco Mio and Casa San Benedetto, on the Saline road in Senigallia. It will be a chance to spend a weekend in the open air, surrounded by the hands-on workshops, science shows, book presentations and activities that fosforo: has accustomed us to over all these years.”
fosforo: 2019
“A festival, a fair, a meeting place: sold out. fosforo: 2019 closes with every workshop and activity fully booked. Sunday’s pouring rain did not slow the stream of families who spent the whole morning asking how to book because, for them, it went without saying that the science festival would carry on. Now in its ninth year, fosforo: is confirmed as a European Science Festival included in the programme of EUSEA European Science Engagement Association.”
fosforo: 2018
“fosforo:, the science festival, went out with a bang in Senigallia. Literally: a demonstration of liquid nitrogen pressure blew hundreds of coloured balls into the air as the final farewell of the eighth edition, which will go down in the records as one of the best attended ever. Helped by fine weather and a flood of fun science activities for every taste, the days of fosforo: saw around twenty thousand people “gravitate” to Piazza del Duca from 10 to 14 May.”
fosforo: 2017
“An edition that promised to break records, and which the fosforo: ‘crowd’ enjoyed even in the rain, even standing with their umbrellas open, just to see the live science experiments and interact with the entertaining animators who came to Senigallia from all over Italy (and from Hungary).”
fosforo: 2016
“I’m the one who should be thanking you,” said Prof. Helios Vocca, lecturer and head of Virgo Perugia and Camerino, who took part in the experiment of the century to hunt down and discover the gravitational waves theorised by Albert Einstein a hundred years ago. “Being here is truly wonderful, and it’s a pleasure to see so many young people interested in scientific research. fosforo: is an event that passes on a passion for culture, for science, for digging deeper; it brings researchers into contact with people and, for that, every one of us can only be glad.”.”
fosforo: 2015
“A record-breaking edition for fosforo:, the science festival. Over three days of live demonstrations, experiments and shows, huge crowds of people and visitors turned out, and they could even admire a real fragment of moon rock that came straight from Houston, in the United States. fosforo: 2015 brought around 15,000 people into the square: enthusiasts and curious minds drawn by the many activities put on by the cultural association Next.”
fosforo: 2014
“Loud applause for Paolo Attivissimo, welcomed and listened to by 200 people at the Chiesa dei Cancelli as he ‘debunked’ conspiracy theories: the moon landing, the Kennedy assassination, the Paul McCartney case and Elvis Presley’s double, the famous ‘Area 51’ where an alien spacecraft is supposedly hidden, chemtrails and 9/11. All these topics were followed by many questions from the audience, which kept fosforo:’s friend Attivissimo busy for over two hours!”
fosforo: 2013
“Despite being hampered by bad weather, fosforo: was a great success with the public: as for the workshops and educational activities run together with schools, special mention goes to the positive experience highlighted by the pupils of the Istituto Comprensivo di Corinaldo, where the exhibition on natural elements gave pupils from as many as six schools in the Senigallia hinterland an enthusiastic first approach to science and nature. A contagious enthusiasm, too, since visitors, parents and teachers alike used very positive words to describe it.”
fosforo: 2012
“With a talk by the renowned astrophysicist Margherita Hack – albeit only by video link due to serious family reasons – a splendid second edition of “fosforo:” came to a close in Senigallia, in a Teatro La Fenice packed to the rafters.”
fosforo: 2011
“The open-air laboratory in Piazza del Duca thrilled everyone, locals and visitors alike, as the first edition of “fosforo:”, the science festival, set the remarkable record of over 3,000 visitors.”