Europe and Italy are adopting a number of strategies and policies towards Africa that reflect a growing focus on the continent and a willingness to strengthen scientific cooperation and strategic partnerships there with a particular focus on initiatives to address the challenges of climate change and environmental protection.
The ITINERIS (Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System) project intends to build the Italian Hub of Research Infrastructures (RIs) for the observation and study of environmental processes in the atmospheric, marine, biosphere and geosphere domains, to systemise access to data and services of the national nodes of the 22 RIs involved
The ‘Natural Capital and Resources for Italy’s Future’ project intends to characterise the biotic and abiotic resources available in our territory (including offshore), according to the principles of sustainable use of natural resources in the following areas: carbon storage and valorisation of CO2; raw materials; ecosystem services and biodiversity; soil status and sustainable use; groundwater; use of marine resources.
The CNR-DSSTTA STUPIRE – Scientific Transdisciplinary Unexplored Paths for Innovative Research on Environment call finances transdisciplinary research proposals on four themes: Resources, Territories, Relations and Changes. The call and subsequent acts are available on the CNR urp page
The European Joint Programming Initiative Sea and Oceans (JPI Oceans) is a strategic platform for the coordination of research funding programmes in the marine-maritime field. The Department has been actively contributing to the activities since 2011, in particular in the actions on Munitions at Sea and Good Environmental Status.
The International Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP3), building on the legacy of the previous IODP, DSPP and ODP programmes, https://www.iodp.org/) and the International Continental Scientific Drilling Programme (ICDP) are the two largest international Earth Science programmes dedicated to scientific drilling in the ocean and continental environments.
The Belmont Forum is an international partnership of 28 funding agencies and consortia across 6 continents that promotes, through the Collaborative Research Actions (CRA) system, the development of transdisciplinary research projects aimed at understanding, mitigating and adapting to global climate change, implementing a global open data policy.
CNR-DSSTTA notice
Joint call JPI Oceans – Italy for Science for Good Environmental Status
(ITA-S4GES)
The PNRR EMBRC-Unlocking the Potential for Health and Food from the seas (EMBRC-UP) Project aims to improve Italian competitiveness in basic and applied marine research in the European context, through the strengthening of the research infrastructures of the EMBRC-IT JRU
SEAmPhonia is a PRIN 2022 project and aims to understand the phenomena underlying the influence of underwater noise on the ecosystem balance, in particular through acoustic field measurements. The project introduces an observation system based on several hydrophones installed at the Acqua Alta oceanographic platform and development activities of an alternative technology based on optical fibres. The DSSTTA participates in the instrumentation design and data analysis.