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National Policy Profile (NPP)

Italy


1 - Bodies responsible for cultural and scientific policies

 


 

Name

Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali - MiBAC

Web site

http://www.beniculturali.it/

Person responsible

Carmelo Rocca (Segretario generale)

Contact person (if different)

Rossella Caffo; email rcaffo@beniculturali.it

Description of responsability and interest, including sectors they cover

Government policy for the cultural sector. It has responsibility throughout Italy for preservation of landscape and of cultural heritage (all heritage sectors: libraries, archives, museums and galleries, built heritage, archaeological sites, tangible and intangible heritage), performing arts (live show, cinema) sport.

related policies

 

  • Policy for cultural heritage preservation, cataloguing and restoration

  • Policy for artistic, historical, ethnological, anthropological and folkloric heritage

  • Policy for architectural heritage and landscape· Policy for contemporary architecture and arts

  • Policy for archaeological heritage

  • Policy for archives

  • Policy for libraries

related programmes

See under each policy

related projects

See under each policy

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Name

Ministro per l'innovazione e le tecnologie - MIT

Web site

http://www.innovazione.gov.it/

Person responsible

Ing. Mario Pelosi (Head of Department)

Contact person (if different)

 

Description of responsability and interest, including sectors they cover

Government policy for technological innovation, development of the information society and related innovations for government, citizens and businesses. His functions refer in particular to network structures, technologies and services, the development and use of information and communication technologies, the fostering of IT and digital awareness and literacy, including through links with international and EU bodies that are active in the sector.

related policies

 

  • Policy for digitisation in public administration

related programmes

 

related projects

 

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Name

Ministero per l' istruzione, l'università e la ricerca scientifica - MIUR

Web site

http:// www.miur.it ;www.istruzione.it

Person responsible

 

Contact person (if different)

Alessandro Musumeci (General Director of the Servizio per l'Automazione Informatica e l'Innovazione Tecnologica)
Luciano Criscuoli (General director of SSPAR, Servizio per lo sviluppo ed il potenziamento delle attività di ricerca) luciano.criscuoli@murst.it

Description of responsability and interest, including sectors they cover

Government policy for education, university, scientific and technological research.

related policies

National Plan for Research

related programmes

 

related projects

 

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Name

Regions and Autonomous Provinces

Web site

http://www.regionibeniculturali.it

Person responsible

Conference of the Presidents of Regions. Coordinating Body for Cultural Heritage.
Region responsible for coordinating body: Piemonte
Alberto Vannelli (Director of Cultural Heritage Department)
Erica GAY (Responsible for Libraries and Archives)

Contact person (if different)

Erica Gay; email: erica.gay@regione.piemonte.it
Alessandro Zucchini (IBACN Regione Emilia-Romagna); email: AZucchini@ibc.regione.emilia-romagna.it
Margherita Spinazzola (IBACN Regione Emilia Romagna); email: MSpinazzola@ibc.regione.emilia-romagna.it

Description of responsability and interest, including sectors they cover

 

  • Cooperation in local heritage preservation
  • Cultural heritage cataloguing and enhancement

related policies

 

  • Policy for local cultural heritage
  • Policy for local authorities libraries, museums, historical archives

related programmes

Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN); Biblioteca Digitale Italiana (BDI); SIUSA - Sistema informativo unificato delle Soprintendenze Archivistiche; Information Network dei beni Culturali (ICCD and several Italian regions)

related projects

The Regions participate to EU and international programmes, such as Interreg (Cadses and Medoc) particularly aimed at the European regions and local authorities, Culture 2000, 5th and 6thFP, Socrates, Life, to the Steering Committees of EQUAL. The following are an example of projects now running in several Italian regions:

  • Interreg Castrum (Leader Partner Piemonte) a survey and strategy on castles and walls;
  • Interreg ITER (LP Emilia-Romagna) a cultural itinerary of historical spas, with descriptive cataloguing and GIS;
  • Culture 2000 Les Chemins de la mémoire (LP Mémorial de Caen) the reconstruction and enhancing of World War historical sites
  • Equal ABSIDE, (as members of theSteering Comm.) Training in libraries.
  • Consortium of European Research Libraries, building and maintaining the Hand-Press Book Database.

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