Italy

Italy

Overview

European Commission

Mandated Organisation

Consortium GARR

EOSC Steering Board representatives

Giorgio Rossi
Roberto Cimino

The ministerial decree n.268 of 28-02-2022 establishes the Piano Nazionale per la Scienza Aperta – PNSA – (Italian Plan for Open Science) addressing policy on scientific publications, research data, research evaluation, open science and open data models for public health. On 14-03-2023 a work-group was established by directorial decree, to draw a document on implementation of the PNSA. Explicit compliance with the open science rules is mandatory in MUR research grants.

https://open-science.it/itaeosc2023

Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure (ICDI)

The National structure Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure (ICDI) was created in 2019, one of the four founding members of the EOSC-A, acting as a forum among representatives of major Italian Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, with the aim of promoting synergies and common strategies at the national level and optimising Italian contributions to European and global challenges including the EOSC. The Consortium GARR (Federico Ruggieri), being part of the ICDI as well as acting as Mandated Organisation in the EOSC-A, connects a number of stakeholders totalling 17 Members and 7 Observers, and provides the ultra-broadband network dedicated to the Italian research and education community through the Open Science Café.  Several ICDI members are also part of the EOSC Advisory Groups.  The current ICDI profile mainly consists of Research Performing Organisations, aiming to include Service Providers in future.

National Events

NTE Italy

National Tripartite Event Italy
calendar_month 05 June 2023

The Ministry of University and Research promotes the first Italian Tripartite Assembly for the European Open Science Cloud: ITAEOSC-2023 The European Open Science Cloud will be the internet of high-quality scientific data and services benefiting, as a public good, research and innovation...

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Policies

Italy’s Open Science policies are defined in the PNSA (2022), but require operational rules to be implemented. To this end a working group has been setup by MUR.

Since the PNSA was published without any associated funding, currently the investments in Open Science come from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP 2021-2026) funded projects whose efforts are made to develop Open Science and create data policies. However, it is expected that the Ministry will facilitate the creation of a harmonised Open Science ecosystem.

National Research Programme 2021-2027: Italian National Plan for Open Science

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People

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    Mauro Campanella

    Delegate of Consortium GARR, EOSC-A Mandated Organisation for Italy at the EOSC Symposium on 20-22 September 2023 in Madrid.
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    Blue-Cloud 2026 interviews

    Hear from Sara Pittonet Gaiarin (Trust-IT, Project Coordinator), Pasquale Pagano (CNR-ISTI, Scientific and Administrative Coordinator) and Dick Schaap (MARIS, Technical Coordinator), interviewed at the project kick-off in February 2023.