Italian scientific community, as a Joint Research Unit (JRU), has signed an official agreement to which fifteen institution participates, including national research centres and universities, with the aim of supporting and promoting the italian participation to ICOS-RI (Integrated Carbon Observation System – Research Infrastructure), a pan-european research infrastructure which provides harmonized and high precision scientific data on carbon cycle and greenhouse gas budget and perturbations.

University of Padova participates to this network with a measuring station in Negrisia di Ponte di Piave in the province of Treviso, maintained by Andrea Pitacco (DAFNAE), professor of Crop-Atmosphere Interactions in the Degree Courses of Land and environment Science and Technology and Viticulture and enology Science and Technology at the University of Padova.