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Research infrastructures
In order to support outstanding research at a national and European scale and to foster the growth of open and integrated systems of research, innovation, technology transfer, knowledge and skills in the R&D system, the DSU supports and coordinates Italy’s participation in the main European research infrastructures included in the ESFRI Roadmap (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) and in the National Research Infrastructures Plan (PNIR) – ESFRI Social & Cultural Innovation (S&CI) Area – ERC Sectors – Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).
DSU and Digital Research Infrastructures in Social and Cultural Innovation
European Research Infrastructures (RI) in S&CI provide access to facilities, expertise, resources, tools, data and related advanced services for
- the scientific community, to carry out high quality research.
- to the main R&D stakeholders (universities, policy makers, PA, enterprises, cultural institutions, third sector, etc.), for the development of research training, applied research, innovation and technology transfer, skills and knowledge, in the logic of Open Science and Open Innovation.
The CNR is leading Italy’s participation in the main European Research Infrastructures (IR) in the Social & Cultural Innovation (S&CI) sector, included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2021 and/or in the National Research Infrastructures Plan (PNIR) 2021 – 2027:
Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA ERIC)
A large-scale European ERIC digital research infrastructure, providing the scientific community with facilities, tools, datasets, expertise and certified services, to conduct research of excellence in the social science domain, contributing to the development of effective tools and solutions to address some of the major global social challenges of the 21st century: health, demographic change, well-being, inclusive societies, safe societies.
Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN ERIC)
European research infrastructure of the ERIC type, providing integrated access to a wide range of language data and tools to support research in the humanities and social sciences.
Digital Research Infrastructures for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH ERIC)
Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. DARIAH aims to improve and support excellent research, teaching and innovation in the arts and humanities.
European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E–RIHS)
The Pan-European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science, coordinated by Italy (CNR), whose European Hub is located in Florence.
Open scholarly communication in the European research area for social science and humanities (OPERAS)
OPERAS is a Europe-wide distributed research infrastructure that aims to integrate and enhance scholarly communication channels, resources and tools in the social sciences and humanities, to develop advanced strategies, policies, resources, tools and services to support Open Science, and to effectively address the needs of scholarly communication SSH.
REligious Studies Infrastructure: tooLs, Innovation, Experts, conNections and Centres in Europe (RESILIENCE)
Distributed infrastructure of pan-European interest for religious studies, integrating and making accessible sources, resources, facilities and services of the most important European research institutions in the field of historical and religious sciences.
Research Infrastructure for Research and Innovation Policy Studies (RISIS)
RISIS aims at the construction of a pan-European distributed infrastructure of services and data relevant to research and innovation dynamics and policies in the Research and Innovation Policy Studies macro-sector.
Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE ERIC)
SHARE, acknowledged as a Research Infrastructure by the European Commission and set up as ERIC in March 2011, is an interdisciplinary and longitudinal survey of economic, social, health and well-being conditions of the population aged 50+ in twenty-seven European countries (plus Israel), which supports the study of the effects of health, social, economic and environmental policies on the life course of European citizens.
New S&CI Research Infrastructures included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2021
Starting in 2023, the DSU supports the implementation and development of new European research infrastructures (ESFRI Project) in the area of Social Sciences:
GGP (Generations & Gender Programme)
Distributed European research infrastructure aiming to provide researchers, scholars and policy makers with high quality and transnationally comparable longitudinal data on demographic and family dynamics to meet today's major scientific and societal challenges.
GGP is based on the collection, documentation and dissemination of data from nationally and Europe-wide representative large-scale surveys. It provides data on transitions to adulthood, family dynamics, fertility decisions, work-life balance, well-being and intergenerational exchanges. GGP maintains a European contextual database that includes a wide range of macro-level indicators, characterising the social, economic and institutional context of European countries, to support empirically informed policy-making on families and populations.
GUIDE (Growing Up In Digital Europe: EuroCohort)
The first European comparative birth cohort survey: a European research infrastructure that will provide a benchmark for high quality longitudinal statistics for the development of social policies to improve the well-being of children, young people and their families across Europe.
GUIDE/EuroCohort will be a cohort survey including a sample of infants and a sample of school-age children. Both cohorts will be interviewed using a common questionnaire and data collection methodology at regular intervals until the age of 24. The data will be used by a broad community of researchers in the fields of health, child development, family studies, psychology, sociology, demography and economics and will generate cross-cultural comparative results of potentially great value for the implementation of services for children and youth, and for the development of regional, national and European policies and initiatives in these fields.