ITALY

ARCTIC COUNCIL: OBSERVER (May 2013)

Italy

ARCTIC POLICY

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CONTRIBUTION TO THE ARCTIC

Italys institutional and infrastructural Arctic initiatives are mainly undertaken by the National Research Council (CNR). It has a dedicated Polar Support Unit, which is also responsible for the Italian Arctic Station Dirigible Italia, a multidisciplinary research facility located in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. The National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), an internationally oriented public research institution, has Polar Areas as a dedicated pillar of research activity and the OGS represents Italy on a number of international polar research management and research infrastructure committees

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Represented on the European Polar Board: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) and Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA)
  • Italy is member of POLAR VIEW (PV), an initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission, with participation from the Canadian Space Agency, under the Copernicus programme. Current PV service lines include: sea ice monitoring and forecasting; iceberg monitoring; ice edge monitoring; ice drift trajectories; river ice monitoring; lake ice monitoring; glacier monitoring; snow monitoring

SELECTED EU-FINANCED PROJECTS

CLU srl (CLU) is partner to to INTERACT, (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic) a project aimed at build Capacity for identifying, understanding, predicting and responding to diverse environmental changes throughout the wide environmental and land-­‐use. INTERACT is partially financed by the EU by the 7th Framework Programme.

The National Research Council (CNR) of Italy is partner to to SIOS , (Svalbard Integrated Earth Observing System) a project for the Creation Of an optimized observational infrastructure which can match advanced Earth System Models with observational evidence and provide near--‐real--‐time information on Arctic Change to relevant stakeholders. SIOS is partially financed by the EU by the 7th Framework Programme.

Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani SpA, CETENA, and Compagnia Generale Trattori SpA are partners JOULES (Joint Operation for Ultra Low Emission Shipping), a project aimed at significantly reducing the gas emissions of European Built ships. JOULES is partially financed by the EU by the 7th Framework Programme

 

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