The Ministry for Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) and the National Research Council (CNR) lead the Italian contribution to LifeWatch-ERIC and the activities of its national node, in close cooperation with the Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection.
Organised as a Joint Research Unit (JRU), LifeWatch Italy is coordinated by the department of Earth system science and environmental technologies of the CNR. The General Assembly and the Coordination and Management committees oversee its governance.
The JRU counts among its many members the most important institutions active in the domain, including the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic (Castelporziano Presidential Estate), the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institute for Nuclear Physics, the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics, the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, as well as many universities, regional agencies and private bodies (please see here for the full list of members).