Student activities

Every year students can make use of a fund dedicated to self-managed cultural and recreational activities that enrich their collegiate and community experience, adding the latter to their educational experience.
The fund is administered by a working group made up of "mayors", reference figures within the colleges, and by "ministers", in charge of the sectors of interest, elected annually by the students' assembly.
The ministries are: Ministry of Sport; Ministry of Cultural Activities; Ministry of Music; Ministry of Newspapers; Students' Forum; Ministry of the “Festa”.
Students at  the Florence branch also have an annual fund for cultural and recreational activities which is managed by one/two representatives.

The students' forum

The Students' Forum was created by a group of students who wanted to participate in the cultural activities of the SNS while helping students reflect on current reality as they move closer to the world of work.

The aforementioned activities are generally public meetings to which important public figures are invited to speak about their experiences.

These meetings are not organized as conferences but, as the name suggests, as forums where speakers and audience - students, professors and local residents - can interact.

ISPIRA – Inclusiveness in Science, a Possibility for Identification and Representation 

ISPIRA is a project of scientific dissemination created by women Ph.D. students of the Faculty of Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore. Its innovative aspect is the workshop that prepares SNS students of both genders for activities of dissemination, a workshop involving participation in a theatre masterclass centring on the communication of scientific contents. ISPIRA involves both male and female students, although the activity of dissemination in schools is carried out specifically by the female students, so as to offer secondary school girl students examples of women researchers, prepared for and enthusiastic about their work, with whom they can identify, thus unseating the idea of male predominance in the world of science. Thanks to the skills they acquire at the masterclass, the female speakers are able to convey in a clear and engaging way their own passion for the scientific disciplines. Presenting the topics discussed in a personal and subjective light helps to reduce the fear and the distance often felt by students when they come up against scientific subjects.