Why the SSTeF
Nowadays the development of Friulian culture and of the Friulian language can only come about if the most important aspects of modernity — namely the sciences — are practised in Friulian. Although scientific communication throughout the world is conducted in English, everywhere the teaching and the practice of the sciences and technologies are carried forward in the national languages. It was with this conviction that the SSTeF was born: an independent association bringing together researchers, scholars and professionals from a wide range of scientific and technological fields who have the growth of Friulian culture and of the Friulian language at heart.
The aims of the SSTeF are to promote and develop research, knowledge and scientific and technological outreach through the use of the Friulian language. The SSTeF supports all initiatives concerned with the computerisation of the Friulian language; it carries forward initiatives to study, defend and promote biodiversity in Friuli; it supports the publication of scientific books in Friulian and their translation into English; it makes scholarships available to researchers who undertake to publish the results of their research in Friulian as well; and it maintains relations with the institutions and businesses engaged in scientific and technological research in Friuli.
The President
Marzi di Strassolt
Activities
The research and science outreach activities of the SSTeF are carried out first and foremost in Friuli, but activities around the world are also supported. They concern the principal scientific disciplinary fields:
- the exact sciences (mathematics, computer science, physics, statistics, etc.);
- the natural sciences (chemistry, biology, geology, psychology, etc.);
- the health sciences (medicine, veterinary science, pharmacy, etc.);
- the technological sciences (engineering, agri-food technologies, architecture, etc.);
- the economic, social and human sciences wherever the scientific method is employed (theoretical economics, business economics, management, sociology, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology,
- the legal sciences, etc.);
- science journalism
The SSTeF publishes the Gjornâl Furlan des Siencis / Friulian Journal of Science, a scientific journal in Friulian and English in which original research and outreach papers on the most advanced scientific and technological disciplines are published. All articles are available in a bilingual Friulian–English version.
Every year the SSTeF holds a Conference at which its members present their most significant research work.