Programme: PIANO NAZIONALE DI RIPRESA E RESILIENZA (PNRR)
MISSIONE 4, COMPONENTE 2, INVESTIMENTO 3.1 “Fondo per la realizzazione di un sistema integrato di infrastrutture di ricerca e innovazione”
Project title: Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System
Acronym: ITINERIS
Duration: 1/11/2022 – 31/10/2025
Project budget: 159,2 milions of Euro
ISMAR budget: 25.567.889,84
Web site: https://itineris.cnr.it/
Summary:
ITINERIS will build the Italian Hub of Research Infrastructures in the environmental
scientific domain for the observation and study of environmental processes in the atmosphere, marine domain, terrestrial biosphere, and geosphere, providing access to data and services and supporting the Country to address current and expected environmental challenges. ITINERIS coordinates a network of national nodes from 22 RIs.
The main goal is to develop cross-disciplinary research in environmental sciences through the use and re-use of existing (or pre-operational) data and services and new observations, to address scientifically and societally relevant issues such as sustainable use of natural resources, implementation of Nature-Based Solutions, Green and Blue Economy, pollution reduction, critical zone and ecosystem management and restoration, carbon cycle, mitigation of the downstream effects of climate and environmental change. The marine domain component, coordinated by ISMAR, is a key element of ITINERIS. The Italian Integrated Ocean Observing System (IT-IOOS) has been designed and established with the aim to guarantee access to Italian facilities, services and marine data and to ensure long term monitoring of EOVs, EBVs and ECVs. IT. IT-IOOS goal is to integrate and harmonize the data collected by a vast network of tools – such as buoys, gliders, drifters, research vessels, numerical models – and make them accessible from a single portal. IT-IOOS will be able to contribute to European and International effort on ocean observations (EOOS and GOOS), responding to the major challenge of UN Ocean Decade of Science for Sustainable Development.
Contact person in ISMAR: Rosalia Santoleri (rosalia.santoleri@cnr.it)
Partnership:
- CNR, Italia (Capofila),
- INGV – Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
- OGS – Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale
- ISPRA – Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
- Università degli Studi di Firenze,
- Università Ca’Foscari,
- INFN – Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
