ITSERR is a project designed according to the needs of the Religious Studies scientific community to support the existing national infrastructure and bring it to a higher level of maturity, in terms of involvement of technology and ability to increase the innovation, quality and variety of the knowledge produced by the community of Religious Studies.

ITSERR is based on the postulate that the Humanities can offer superdiverse datasets whose complexity challenges technologies and ICT scholars. Therefore, the project aims at transforming the scientific community of Religious Studies from being a mere actor in the implementation of established technologies to the driver of a new match with the new assets of AI/BD/HPC.

The project is implemented to:

• strengthen the RESILIENCE RI in its preparatory phase, through its national institutional dimension, scientific positioning, technical development and public perception;
• support excellence by putting the more qualified scholars and researchers in Religious Studies and ICT at the service of the excellencein research in Religious Studies, producing disruptive innovation for the domain;
• advance efficiency with the improvement of the accessibility to data, facilities and experts belonging to the national context and promoting data FAIRness;
• expand the RI national network of researchers, users and stakeholders, and be able to translate the national experience on other national contexts and at the European level;
• enhance operativity by offering new services and tools that are ready to be accessed by the end of the project and can thus rapidly enable new research scenarios and attract scholarship, research and industry to leverage the Italian scientific community of Religious Studies towards a more innovation oriented research methodology.

Referente scientifico per UniTo
Stefano De Martino

Soggetto proponente
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)