Contacts
- lifewatchitalia[at]unisalento.it
- +39 08 32 29 48 18
University of Salento
via prov. Lecce Monteroni sn,
73100 Lecce, Italy
Italy is one of the founders of LifeWatch ERIC and hosts its Service Centre. LifeWatch ERIC has always been strongly supported by the national scientific community, as well as regional and national institutions, since Italy is a biodiversity hotspot in Europe, with more than 57,400 animal and 6,500 plant species. Italian landscapes and protected areas are natural laboratories for biodiversity and ecosystem research.
The LifeWatch Italy webportal provides a networking interface for the biodiversity and ecosystem community, offering learning and training opportunities, semantic resources and data, ICT services & VREs, supporting research activities and science-based policymaking.
What We Do
Semantics
Education
Data & Metadata
Citizen Science
Services
VREs
The Italian Ministry for Universities and Research (MUR) and the Italian National Research Council (CNR) lead the Italian contribution to LifeWatch ERIC and the activities of its distributed centre, in close cooperation with the Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection.
Organised as a Joint Research Unit (JRU), LifeWatch Italy is coordinated by the department of Earth system science and environmental technologies of the CNR. The General Assembly and the Coordination and Management committees oversee its governance.
The JRU counts among its many members the most important institutions active in this domain, including the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic (Castelporziano Presidential Estate), the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institute for Nuclear Physics, the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics, the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, as well as many universities, regional agencies and private bodies (please see here for the full list of members).
Projects
News from LifeWatch Italy
Environmental Education as a Tool for Teaching Inclusion
ENVRI Community International Summer School is back in person!
Introducing the EBES Master's Diary
International Women’s Day 2022: Emilia Chiancone
Waterfowl Dataset on LifeWatch Italy portal
Debut open access paper published in the Biodiversity Data Journal
Research Grants at University of Salento
LifeWatch ERIC Executive Board members to speak at the 'XXX° Rassegna del mare'
LifeWatch Italy fellowship
EcoLogicaMente
General Assembly Members


