The new portal of the italian research and Horizon 2020 Italy

The new portal of the Italian research "ResearchItaly" has been recently launched. It represents a comprehensive toolbox for researchers, for those who want to better understand the world of research and to satisfy their curiosity (www.researchitaly.it).

In this new website, OGS has great visibility: the research vessel OGS Explora is highlighted as a “success story” in the first page of the website and several OGS activities have been included in sub-links related to other “success stories”, “main projects” and “interviews and life stories”.

Together with the new portal of the Italian research, the Italian Ministry of University and Research recently presented a document where the guidelines to align the national programs to Europe's decisions about research and innovation are described: Horizon 2020 Italy (http://hubmiur.pubblica.istruzione.it/web/ministero/focus190313). In this document, the main priorities and research strategies for the next years are indicated. In particular, Horizon 2020 Italy intends to fight the economic crisis by focusing on research and innovation, and to reduce fragmentations and duplications which presently affect the Italian and the European system.