Average for EU - Researcher Gran Sasso Science Institute Employee Review

I was lucky to work with great people here. The administration is now overall well-organized and positively oriented towards foreign employees (big thanks to Ilenia, a star of GSSI). The city of L'Aquila is beautiful and there is plenty of good food and things to do.

I do not recall anything significant.

- For Italian standards in Academia salaries are a bit above the average at the moment due to strong support from government funds. - Good infrastructures conditions.

- Lack of supportive and collective learning research environment - Old school ex-cathedral management practices in most departments - Non-accountability attitude - No self-evaluation, and zero interest on listening to problems - Lack of official documentation, and avoidance of email communication on important issues favoring verbal communications. This ends up on false commitments and no proof from the side of the employer to prove things.