CHRIS Biobank: An open biomedical research platform in South Tyrol
Alessandro De Grandi, Insitute for Biomedicine
Since 2011, the CHRIS study has collected biological samples and data about health and lifestyle habits of the population in Vinschgau/Val Venosta. The CHRIS Biobank stores biological samples and data from the CHRIS Study and makes those data FAIR through standardization. The CHRIS Biobank also became member of BBMRI-ERIC, a European research infrastructure for biobanking, which supports a greater findability of CHRIS data. To make data accessible and reusable, a population engagement policy and ethical/legal approach for sustainable biobanking was developed, including a dynamic consent procedure. The CHRIS Biobank makes data available for further research, but also supports public health by providing evidence base for policy making and health-related awareness raising in Vinschgau and in South Tyrol more boardy.
Vital Mountains
Federica Maino, Instutite for Regional Development, in collaboration with Federica Benatti and Renzo Provedel of BRIT srl
The project Vital Mountains is about local development in a marginal mountain area located in Trentino. Through a case study developed with the close involvement of the local community, the project aims to provide approaches and methods to other mountain areas that wish to embark upon community-based revitalization processes. Vital Mountains focuses on the following research questions: how to maintain viable communities in mountain areas? How to empower them for their sustainable development? This is an action research project that draws on the U-Theory of change by Otto Scharmer. The local population, economic actors and administrators have been actively involved in the project in each stage of the project, also thanks to extensive use of participatory action research methods.
Alpine Drought Observatory
Peter James Zellner, Rufai Balogun, Mohammad Alasawedah, Michele Claus, Bartolomeo Ventura, Alexander Jacob, Thomas Iacopino, Luca Cattani, Andrea Vianello, Giacomo Bertoldi (Institute of Earth Observation, Eurac Communications, Eurac ICT, Center for Sensing Solutions, Iinstitute for Alpine Environment)
The Alpine Drought Observatory – or ADO for short – is an open and freely accessible drought observatory for the Alpine region that results from an interdisciplinary, cross institute and service departments project that brought together the Institutes for Earth Observation and Alpine Environment, the Center for Sensing Solutions, and the departments of Information Technologies and Communication. The ADO web platform feeds on big data satellite and climate archives and shows curated drought information through an interactive web platform for stakeholders and decision makers. It updates itself daily! All data produced in the ADO project are FAIR and the code is openly available, reusable as a whole, adaptable and modular.
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