The Italian Community leads 9 Coordinated Investigation Programs CIPs:

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The International Heliophysical Year
(IHY)Activities in Italy
WEBSITE http//ihy.oato.inaf.it
Coord. Ester Antonucci, Lucia Abbo INAF
Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Italy
Italian Network of the IHY
2nd European General Assembly

• Advanced Training
• The scientific programme Series of Events on
  Relations in the Sun-Earth System and Space
  Weather (SERSES) offers a coherent series of
  courses for young researchers in the years
  2006-2009 in different disciplines which concur
  to the Sun-Earth relationships, and presents the
  solarterrestrial environment as a global system
  in order to allow a significant improvement in
  the global knowledge of the entire system. SERSES
  courses will be organized at LAquila, in close
  cooperation, by the Consorzio Area di Ricerca in
  Astrogeofisica and the International School of
  Space Science of the Consorzio Interuniversitario
  di Fisica Spaziale
• 1) Spring 2006 The Physics of the Sun (i.e. The
  Active Sun on your Active Desktop)
• 2) Fall 2006 Solar Terrestrial Physics
• 3) Spring 2007 Magnetospheric dynamics (9-15
  April 2007)
• 4) Fall 2007 Turbulence and Waves in Space
  Plasmas (9-15 September, 2007)
• 5) Spring 2008 Geomagnetism and Ionosphere
• 6) Fall 2008 Solar-terrestrial relations in
  Antarctica

European Implication to the Large
Infrastructures of the Future Turin, Italy
June 18-22, 2007
Italian CIPs
http//ihy2ega.oato.inaf.it
Education Outreach

• The Italian Community leads 9 Coordinated
  Investigation Programs (CIPs)
• CIP10Empirical model of ring current
  distributions proposed by A. Milillo
  (INAF/IFSI)
• CIP12 SOHO-Ulysses coordinated studies during
  the two extended quadratures and the alignment of
  2007-2008 proposed by G. Poletto (INAF/Arcetri)
  and S. Suess (NASA)
• CIP17 Dynamics of the magnetosphere proposed
  by U. Villante (University of LAquila
  Consorzio Area di Ricerca in Astrogeofisica)
• CIP19 Transport of mass and energy across the
  magnetopause during periods of northward IMF and
  their effects on the high latitude ionosphere
  proposed by M.F. Marcucci (INAF/IFSI)
• CIP34 Baloon borne investigation of earth,
  atmosphere and space in the polar regions
  proposed by S. Masi (Università La Sapienza)
• CIP35 Coordinated study on solar wind
  turbulence during the Venus-Express, ACE and
  Ulysses alignment of August 2007 proposed by R.
  Bruno (INAF/IFSI), V. Carbone (University of
  Calabria) and Z. Voeroes (Space Reasearch
  Institute - Austria)
• CIP49 COST296/IHY proposed by G. De Franceschi
  (INGV)
• CIP53 Modelling the magnetosheath flow and
  magnetopause location in the cusp region
  proposed by E. Amata (INAF/IFSI)
• CIP57 "Solar Minimum Watching with Italian
  SINERGIES and more" proposed by M. Storini
  (INAF/IFSI)
• and co-proposes the following CIPs
• CIP8 Mid and high latitude ionospheric-magnetosp
  heric observations proposed by P. Cilliers
  (Hermanus magnetic obs., South Africa)
• CIP54 Inferring the magnetospheric global
  potential distribution from SuperDARN data
  through the Imech numerical model proposed by M.
  Kartalev (IMech.).

• Open Doors Day 10 June 2007
• The SVIRCO observatory for cosmic rays (Rome)
  will be opened to the public and will host
  special presentations on the heliophysical
  environment (http//www.fis.uniroma3.it/
  ?svirco/).
• The University of LAquila and Consorzio Area di
  Ricerca in Astrogeofisica organize a public
  conference on the solar-terrestrial relationships
  (http//www.fisica.aquila.infn.it).
• The University of Rome Tor Vergata organizes
  observations and talks to the public
  (http//www.fisica.uniroma2.it/?solare/index.htm).
  
• The Catania Astrophysical Observatory will be
  opened to the public with special conferences
  (http//www.oact.inaf.it/visite/Speciali.htm).
• The Torino Astronomical Observatory will be
  opened to the public for solar observations and
  ad-hoc presentations (http//www.oato.inaf.it).
• The Astronomical Observatory of
  Capodimonte-Naples will be opened to the public
  with visits, observations and special conferences
  devoted to the Sun and its role in the Universe
  (http//www.na.astro.it).
• The University of Calabria organizes public
  conferences and solar spots observations open to
  the public (http//www.fis.unical.it).

http//www.cifs-isss.org
Italian Virtual Observatory

• Events for schools
• National Program Competition for Secondary
  Schools,- coordinated by Ilaria Ermolli
  (INAF/OAR)
• Schools of LAquila Solar activity and
  geomagnetic storms students of the Istituto
  Superiore D. Cotugno (other schools will be
  involved in the next future) analyze solar
  activity, interplanetary structures, geomagnetic
  activity on the basis of space and ground-based
  heliophysical data and present their results in a
  public conference.
• Catania Astrophysical Observatory Observe the
  sky and draw your emotions children up 10
  years old are invited to send drawing on the Sun,
  the solar system or other astronomical objects.
• European Competition for kids drawings
  (Elementary Schools) for the COST296/IHY Calendar
  - coordinated by INGV (http//ionos.ingv.it/IHY/ih
  y_index.html).

The Italian Virtual Observatory for Sun-Earth
Connections IVOSEC (http//ivosec.oats.inaf.it)
is a project regarding advanced data handling for
Sun-Earth physics and Space Weather monitoring.
It is also in the framework of the electronic
Geophysical Year (eGY)
The Italian activities related to IHY,
International Polar Year (IPY) and eGY are
carried out in a coordinated fashion.
http//ihy.oato.inaf.it
IHY Inauguration Ceremony February 19-20, 2007