“Les Etoiles de l’Europe”

The prestigious French award that annually celebrates and promotes European projects coordinated by French institutions in order to encourage scientists to lead high-profile scientific initiatives funded by the European Union, was conferred to the SeaDataCloud H2020 project. SeaDataCloud H2020, of which the researcher of the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) Simona Simoncelli is coordinator of part of the project and member of the Steering Group, was conferred “to honor teams of researchers and their coordinators for their European commitment and their work in bringing together and coordinating projects”. The awards ceremony will be held today, in Paris, in the presence of the French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Frédérique Vidal.”The award still constitutes an important recognition of the professionalism of Italian research and, in particular, of the INGV research with the tireless action of its researchers also in the environmental field” declared the President of INGV, Carlo Doglioni.