RDA Europe 4.0 Italian Node presentation during Kick-Off Spanish Node

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RDA Europe 4.0 – The European Plug-in to the global Research Data Alliance” - has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
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RDA EU 4.0 Kick-off Meeting
6-7 March 2018
Italian RDA Node
Emma Lazzeri – CNR-ISTI
12th RES Users' Meeting & 7th HPC Advisory Council Conference
Valencia September 20th 2018
17/10/2018 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall

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Creation, Organisation and Management of
the Italian RDA Node
CNR is the Italian Node Coordinator
We are creating a community and we support it to facilitate the
participation in RDA activities involving institutions, single persons,
infrastructures, working group and other initiatives
IOSSG (the Italian Open Science Support Group) already joined the Node
17/10/2018 https://rd-alliance.org/groups/rda-italy
Italian Open Science
Support Group
ICDI
Italian Computational
and Data Infrastructure
Already Joined
the Node

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Why CNR?
CNR is the largest Research Infrastructure in Italy and a
member of ICDI
CNR is involved in many projects and initiatives related to the
field of data (Data4Impact, SoBigData, BlueBridge, ICDI,…)
CNR is the Technical Coordinator of OpenAIRE
CNR hosts the OpenAIRE National Open Access Desk
CNR hosts the National Point of Reference for Open Science
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Italian reality:
Strong need for coordination in the fields related to RDA
National issues where the National RDA Node plays a key
role:
Research Infrastructures Coordination
Data related Services and Users need to get in contact (what are the
tools provided? Do the potential user know about them?)
Research Data Management training and support
Data Repositories
National Priority Area: Research Data Management
17/10/2018 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall
Creation, Organisation and Management of
the Italian RDA Node

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17/10/2018 https://rd-alliance.org/groups/rda-italy
What can the RDA Node do for the Italian
Open Science Community?
Facilitate the relations within
the Italian Open Science
community as a catalyser of the
Projects, Infrastructures, and
Initiatives on the national level.
Promote the interest of the
Italian community in RDA
Facilitate the participation of
the Italian actors in RDA
through the RDA Europe 4.0
Open Calls
Organise events, workshop,
training courses, webinars, on
themes that address the
community needs and
interests.
Make OS services and users
meet

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Dissemination of RDA activities and output
Dissemination at
national level is
performed in Italian on
our page hosted by RDA
and through thematic
mailing list.
The Italian RDA node
coordinates the CODATA
Data Science Journal
special collection on RDA
results. 4 CFP foreseen:
September 2018
(submissions already
closed and under review)
March 2019
September 2019
March 2019
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Publication fees
offered by RDA
Europe 4.0 for 6
papers on each CFP

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Training and Support
Webinars Series (in Italian) has been organised jointly with
OpenAIRE to disseminate RDA Europe Work and Open Science
major theme within the Italian Community:
A course or summer school on Data Stewardship will be organised
in the framework of the Doctorate Course on Data Science,
organised by CNR in collaboration with University of Pisa, Scuola
Normale Superiore, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and IMT
17/10/2018
https://rd-alliance.org/group/rda-
italy/wiki/open-science-webinar-series-2018

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Synergies with Spanish RDA Node
Identify a common theme for a joint Workshop in
2019 targeting a specific RDA community or a
general interest.
Joint Publication in the CODATA Journal special
issues about RDA vision, strategy and roadmap.
Adoption of RDA Outputs: we are reviewing RDA
Recommendations and Outputs to encourage the
adoption within the Italian and Spanish
communities
Accademic Thesis: dissertation projects will be
offered to students in collaboration with Spanish
Node on RDA specific topics
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RDA Europe 4.0 – The European Plug-in to the global Research Data Alliance” - has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement Grant Agreement number: 777388. The content of this document does not represent
the opinion of the European Commission, and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that might be made of such content.
RDA EU 4.0 Kick-off Meeting
6-7 March 2018
Emma Lazzeri, CNR-ISTI
Email: emma.lazzeri@isti.cnr.it
17/10/2018 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall
Thank You!