Thanks to the agreement signed a few days ago, the University of Trento officially joins ICDI.

The current criteria for evaluating research profoundly affects - and not always in a positive way - the behaviour of researchers and the quality of scientific methodology, as well as the choice of dissemination channels. Alternative perspectives and methods have been discussed for years. Let’s take stock with Elena Giglia and Donatella Castelli.

Open Research Europe (ORE) is the new open access publishing platform launched by the European Commission. EC grantees are invited to publish original results stemming from Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects in ORE, while the publishing cost will be fully covered by the EC.

Thanks to an agreement with the Foundation for Religious Studies (Fscire), the RESILIENCE infrastructure (REligious Studies Infrastructure: tooLs, Experts, conNections and CEnters), has become part of the ICDI network.

Online the Italian Covid-19 Data Portal. The web site is implemented by the Italian node of the European Elixir infrastructure and coordinated by Cnr. GARR is collaborating in the project by providing the digital infrastructure

The OCRE (Open Clouds for Research Environments) project has published the catalogue dedicated to the procurement of public cloud services for education and research organisations.

The EOSC Association has opened a public call for candidates for the Secretary General.

The first general assembly of EOSC Aisbl, the international organization that aims at implementing the European vision of open science, saw the election of the Italian Marialuisa Lavitrano as Director with a three-year mandate in the first BoD.

The participation and the role of universities is crucial for the development of EOSC. The Milano-Bicocca University is the first University to join ICDI.