Tuesday November 15 is the appointment for the Kick Off Meeting of the MEET infrastructure project (Monitoring Earth's Evolution and Tectonics) to be held at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in Rome. With this meeting the studies on the tectonics of Italy officially begin, financed by the Ministry of University and Research as part of Mission 4 "Education and Research" of the PNRR - Next Generation EU.
MEET is aimed at the improvement and implementation of scientific networks dedicated to Earth monitoring and observation. In addition to INGV which is its coordinator, 8 other excellences of Italian research will be involved in the project: the National Research Council (CNR), the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), the University of Naples Federico II of Naples, the University of Bari Aldo Moro, the University of Roma Tre, the University of Genoa and the University of Trieste.
MEET was born within the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) of which INGV is the leader and hosts the registered office of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). The Italian scientific community of reference EPOS has organized itself into the Joint Research Unit (JRU) EPOS-Italia which brings together many of the institutions and universities co-proposing the MEET project.
There are four main objectives of the project, financed by a total budget of 43 million Euros:
● the technological updating of large observation networks and scientific laboratories
● it development of two Natural Observatories (the Pizzi Deneri Observatory on Etna and Sos Enattos in Sardinia)
● new implementation of scientific instrumentation in the Messina Strait area, in Irpinia and in the southern Ionian area
● theimplementation of innovative IT platforms of services for science and society by sharing with the entire international scientific community in the Italian portal for Earth Sciences new resources, collected data and research products according to principles codified at European level, such as Open Access and FAIR (Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable)
For Objective 1: Technological upgrading of large observation networks and scientific laboratories.
Italy has seismological, geodetic and geochemical networks throughout the country of great value and scientific importance with instrumentation that must be constantly updated and brought to the state of the art.
For Objective 2: Development of the Pizzi Deneri Observatory in Sicily and in the Sos Enattos mines in Sardinia.
Two unique observatories in the world, the volcanological observatory on Etna - the highest volcanological observatory in Europe - and the seismological one in the former Sos Enattos mine for recording seismic signals that are currently unknown.
For Objective 3: New implementations of scientific instrumentation in the Messina Strait area, in Irpinia and in the southern Ionian area.
For the area of the Strait of Messina and for Irpinia, the objective is to make a qualitative leap in the observations and quantification of the geological processes responsible for the accumulation of deformation on the faults which give rise to the strong earthquakes which characterize these two areas. Furthermore, new marine instrumentation, not yet present in the Mediterranean, will be installed in the southern Ionian area, capable of observing the propagation of a tsunami wave in the open sea.
For Objective 4: Integration of new resources at an international level, also through the implementation of the Italian Portal for Earth Sciences.
The scientific products derived from the MEET project will be shared with the entire international scientific community through the implementation of ICT services for science and society by creating IT platforms for Earth sciences and for space observation. The purpose of this part of the project is to connect knowledge and knowledge in the field of geosciences to help develop an international synergy inspired by the values of sharing and progress that represent the scientific strategy of the European community for Research Infrastructures.
Poster of the MEET Project Kick Off Meeting
November 15-16 | INGV Conference Room | Via di Vigna Murata, 605 - Rome
MEET is aimed at the improvement and implementation of scientific networks dedicated to Earth monitoring and observation. In addition to INGV which is its coordinator, 8 other excellences of Italian research will be involved in the project: the National Research Council (CNR), the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), the University of Naples Federico II of Naples, the University of Bari Aldo Moro, the University of Roma Tre, the University of Genoa and the University of Trieste.
MEET was born within the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) of which INGV is the leader and hosts the registered office of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). The Italian scientific community of reference EPOS has organized itself into the Joint Research Unit (JRU) EPOS-Italia which brings together many of the institutions and universities co-proposing the MEET project.
There are four main objectives of the project, financed by a total budget of 43 million Euros:
● the technological updating of large observation networks and scientific laboratories
● it development of two Natural Observatories (the Pizzi Deneri Observatory on Etna and Sos Enattos in Sardinia)
● new implementation of scientific instrumentation in the Messina Strait area, in Irpinia and in the southern Ionian area
● theimplementation of innovative IT platforms of services for science and society by sharing with the entire international scientific community in the Italian portal for Earth Sciences new resources, collected data and research products according to principles codified at European level, such as Open Access and FAIR (Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable)
For Objective 1: Technological upgrading of large observation networks and scientific laboratories.
Italy has seismological, geodetic and geochemical networks throughout the country of great value and scientific importance with instrumentation that must be constantly updated and brought to the state of the art.
For Objective 2: Development of the Pizzi Deneri Observatory in Sicily and in the Sos Enattos mines in Sardinia.
Two unique observatories in the world, the volcanological observatory on Etna - the highest volcanological observatory in Europe - and the seismological one in the former Sos Enattos mine for recording seismic signals that are currently unknown.
For Objective 3: New implementations of scientific instrumentation in the Messina Strait area, in Irpinia and in the southern Ionian area.
For the area of the Strait of Messina and for Irpinia, the objective is to make a qualitative leap in the observations and quantification of the geological processes responsible for the accumulation of deformation on the faults which give rise to the strong earthquakes which characterize these two areas. Furthermore, new marine instrumentation, not yet present in the Mediterranean, will be installed in the southern Ionian area, capable of observing the propagation of a tsunami wave in the open sea.
For Objective 4: Integration of new resources at an international level, also through the implementation of the Italian Portal for Earth Sciences.
The scientific products derived from the MEET project will be shared with the entire international scientific community through the implementation of ICT services for science and society by creating IT platforms for Earth sciences and for space observation. The purpose of this part of the project is to connect knowledge and knowledge in the field of geosciences to help develop an international synergy inspired by the values of sharing and progress that represent the scientific strategy of the European community for Research Infrastructures.
Poster of the MEET Project Kick Off Meeting
November 15-16 | INGV Conference Room | Via di Vigna Murata, 605 - Rome
