earlier this week renewing the EU’s strong, principled support for open science.
,
she said that we are entering a new “era of open science”, which will
be “good for citizens, good for scientists and good for society”.
She explicitly highlighted the transformative potential of open
access, open data, open software and open educational resources –
mentioning the EU’s policy requiring open access to all publications and
data resulting from EU funded research.
European Commission
Neelie Kroes
Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda
Opening up Scientific Data
Launch of the Research Data Alliance/Stockholm
18 March 2013
I am very happy to be with you today, here in the EU, to launch the global Research Data Alliance.
Scientists have always sought new
ways to share. And they've always been in the vanguard using new
technologies to help them do that better.
Scientists developed the internet,
for example. Its forerunner, the Computer Science Network of the
eighties, was funded by the National Science Foundation; then scientists
at CERN developed the worldwide web. Now it's everywhere: available to
scientists and laymen, the greatest tool for sharing information ever
invented.
It's no wonder that scientists are
in the lead on those new tools. Because only when results and evidence
are shared, can the community examine and compare, discard and learn.
That's the philosophy behind the learned society and the scientific
journal. There can be no modern science without sharing. Now we need to
also make the most use of new, digital tools.
Because those tools can take us
into a new era: the era of open science. I'm in no doubt we are entering
that phase: and that the impact will be good for citizens, good for
scientists and good for society.
Whether it's scientific results,
the data they are based on, the software used for analysis, or the
education resources that help us teach and learn, being more open can
help, transforming every discipline from astronomy to zoology, and
making our lives better.
There's three points I want to make today.
First, the EU is supporting open
science. Because I know that we can advance these goals through our
policies and platforms. And because I know that our society and our
future are best served through science that is faster, better and more
open.
The EU has long invested in
research and innovation. Now, even in these difficult times, EU leaders
have agreed to significantly increase that investment. It's the right
thing to do: faced with weak growth, we must all the more focus on
future growth, and all the more ensure the tools and knowledge that can
make us more productive.
But taxpayers who are paying for
that research will want to see something back. Directly – through open
access to results and data. And indirectly – through making science work
better for all of us.
That's why we will require open
access to all publications stemming from EU-funded research. That's why
we will progressively open access to the research data, too. And why
we're asking national funding bodies to do the same.
More specifically, we are
investing in the iCordi project: a leading global forum to chart,
demonstrate and drive convergence between emerging data infrastructures.
And of course iCordi also supports this Alliance.
All in all, we are putting openness at the heart of EU research and innovation funding.
Second, while we can offer support
from the EU, the tools to make science more open and effective don't
lie with us: they lie in your hands, with scientists themselves. This
revolution offers great new opportunities: for best results, they should
not be imposed from outside, but with the ownership and collaboration
of the scientific community itself.
That's why I'm delighted at how
you're building this Alliance. The Internet Engineering Task Force is a
great model to use. A model for working together, building a large
community and using its expertise. A model to find consensus, find a
common language, and make huge progress. A model with the internet
itself as track-record – and highly consistent with the values of the
scientific community.
My third point is that this needs to
have a global dimension. The further our vision spreads, the greater
will be the benefits. And my vision spreads well beyond the EU's
borders.
I know international partners feel
the same. I welcome the recent White House announcement on open access:
it's good for citizens, good for society, and good for science.
And in Australia, too, I know that
key Research Councils are embracing Open Access. While the Government
itself has endorsed the principle of wide access to public research.
I welcome that we are moving in
the same direction. We are propelled by the same, inevitable currents of
change. And I look forward to continuing to work on this with the US,
Australia, and others.
One year ago in Rome, I announced
that we were working with international partners on a global approach.
So that the world's scientific resources could work together
inter-operably, and be open to discovery.
And today we launch this
international initiative, with the EU hand in hand with the USA and
Australia. I am delighted to have this global coordination to define a
global infrastructure.
Because by working together across
countries and disciplines, we can make scientific progress broader,
deeper, and more workable, catalysing new and unexpected solutions.
If knowledge is an unknown land,
this infrastructure is not just the network to help us discover and
explore it: in time it could come to shape and define it.
I am proud to welcome this today.
It's the right change at the right time, with the right ambition. Acting
on this impressive scale, you can advance research and scholarship.
We may not know exactly where that
will take us. What exact new results we will find. After all, if you
knew precisely what the outcome would be, it wouldn't be research!
Those scientists who developed the internet didn't know where it would
lead – nor did Newton when he went for a lie-down in his orchard.
Science is filled with leaps of faith and journeys where you're not sure
of the destination: this is no different. But I am confident the
results will be amazing, because openness as a philosophy has never let
us down so far.
As the statistician Professor
Deming put it, "In God we trust, all others bring data". Let's build a
home for that data – so everyone can bring it and use it – and let's
surge forward to the next great discovery.
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http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Chiara_Carrozza
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Il 28 settembre 2010 Maria Chiara Carrozza è stata confermata Rettore della Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa per il triennio accademico 2010 / 2013, raccogliendo uno straordinario successo e venendo eletta al primo turno.
Da gennaio 2012 il titolo di Direttore è cambiato in Rettore.
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27 04 2013
Maria Chiara Carrozza,
nata il 16 settembre del 1965, è il nuovo ministro all’Istruzione, università e ricerca.
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23 aprile 2013 Maria Chiara Carrozza durante la visita alla scuola Sant'Anna di Pisa di Giuliano Amato e Francesco Profumo .
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Maria Chiara Carrozza e' in servizio come Professore Ordinario di Bioingegneria Industriale (ING-IND/34) presso l'Istituto di Biorobotica della Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa.
Ha conseguito il PhD in Ingegneria (1994) presso la Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna e la Laurea in Fisica (1990) presso L'Universita' di Pisa. E' membro della IEEE Society of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) e della IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation (R&A). E' coordinatrice di diversi progetti finanziati dalla Commissione Europea, dal Miur e della Regione Toscana nel settore della Neuro-Robotica nel campo delle protesi di arto superiore e inferiore, dell'assistenza personale e della riabilitazione neurologica.
Responsabile dell'Area Neuro-Robotica dell'Istituto di Biorobotica della Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (40 persone fra dottorandi, post-doc, e ricercatori), e' socia di due spin-off: Microtech Srl e Technodeal Srl. Nel suo curriculum numerosi incarichi a livello nazionale e internazionale.
