There Italian science prepares to enter the cloudthanks to National Plan for Open Science and within the program European Open Science Cloud, promoted by the European Commission and the European Open Science Cloud (Eosc) association, as part of the new European research framework program Horizon Europe. “The goal is to facilitate access to scientific data and information, making it open and certified”, said the president of the National Research Council, Maria Chiara Carrozza, at the conference organized today in Rome by the Ministry for University and Research and Cnr, within the European collaboration Esoc.
Thus we proceed towards the global data space for European researchaimed at realizing an Internet of scientific data and services in support of one open and transparent collaboration for the benefit of research, innovation and trust in science. The big bet is to get more and more researchers to use the cloud, noted Javier Lopez Albacete of the European Commission’s Research Directorate. “Currently only 40% do it” and “over a third have never heard of the Fair principles”, he added, referring to research management according to the principles according to which scientific data must be traceable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.
It won’t be a simple or quick path: “there is a sort of movement towards open science”, Carrozza said. The meeting is a process that is starting from research institutions and whose goal is to create a cloud of scientific data and information at national and then at European level.
“Bringing scientific data to the cloud naturally poses a cybersecurity problem: it all depends – he said – on the way the cloud is managed”.
The billion euros foreseen by Europe for the Eosc project will allow the development of the skills necessary to bring data and scientific information to the cloud and only after this step is the creation of the cloud expected. As far as Italy is concerned, this will take place in the context of the Digital Agenda, the government project that focuses on information technologies to promote innovation and economic growth.
If 2027 is the deadline established by the European Commission to bring science to the cloud, in reality “we will have to deal with the difficult international geopolitical situation – Carrozza pointed out -“.
Source: Ansa
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