Italian Physical Society : The Extreme Energy Events Project and its most recent results

— The Extreme Energy Events Project is an experiment for the detection of Extensive Air Showers (EAS). It consists of a sparse array of about 50 muon telescopes distributed throughout the Italian territory plus CERN, covering an area of 3 × 10 km. Its distinctive feature is that the telescopes, based on Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC), are housed in High Schools and managed by groups of students and teachers. About ∼ 40 × 10 muon tracks have been stored and analyzed since the first coordinated data taking in 2014. The analysis activity is currently in progress and focused on several items: coincidence searches of muons from the same EAS and long distance correlations between different EAS, study of time variations of the muon flux on ground level, searches for large scale cosmic ray anisotropy and for upward-going particles.