Epsilon Italia srl, EPSIT in brief, is an independent SME established in 1996 in Mendicino (IT).

Our vision: to be a lighthouse visible from afar, an open and reliable anchor point for all sailors who navigate the troubled waters of rapidly evolving data policies, data flows and geospatial technological trends and are looking for expert support to get the right direction.

Our mission: to be continuously aligned with data policies and state-of-the-art geospatial technologies, to support our customers to tackle organizational or technical issues, building capacity and transferring knowledge and skills into their organisations.

We leverage on GI standards and we are member of the OGC – Open Geospatial Consortium.

Since the entry into force of the European INSPIRE Directive EC/02/2007, we have been providing professional technical services related to the implementation of the legally binding requirements of the Directive, providing support for the overall data harmonisation process: from transformation and validation of heterogeneous source data and metadata to the publication of Network Services.

Since 2016, we have been supporting the EEA (European Environment Agency) in the reuse of INSPIRE for environmental reporting as well as for Copernicus in situ component, as partners in consortia executing four different 4-year Framework Contracts.

We are partner of the European Topic Centre on Data integration and digitalisation (ETC-DI) 2022-2026, whose overall purpose is to support EEA and Eionet to meet the strategic objectives of the EEA-Eionet Strategy 2030, aimed to "enable a sustainable Europe through trusted and actionable knowledge for informed decision-making on environment and climate priorities”.

We have recently concluded a 3-year Framework Contract “Operational support to the maintenance and technical evolution of INSPIRE components and artefacts”, awarded by JRC (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission).

These activities are particularly relevant for the modernisation and simplification of INSPIRE in the context of the EU data Strategy and the Digital Europe Programme.

Our company closely follows the green and digital transformation taking place in the EU, well aware of the strategic role of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data in the implementation of the EU Green Deal. We are preparing for the upcoming European single market for data, and we are getting ready to contribute to the Common European Data Spaces envisaged by the EU Data Strategy. We are ready to support public entities and third parties who have obligations under the Open Data Directive with the provision of the High Value Datasets, the public data of highest socio-economic potential that shall be made available for re-use with minimal legal and technical restriction, free of charge, in machine-readable format and via APIs (and bulk download where relevant).

We have been partners in two Horizon Europe projects recently concluded: FAIRiCUBE – F.A.I.R. information cubes and USAGE - Urban Data Space for Green Deal.

We are also actively involved in Copernicus, as partners of the ERASMUS+ project EO4GEO “Towards an innovative strategy for skills development and capacity building in the space geo-information sector supporting Copernicus User Uptake”, and of the ERASMUS+ project SpaceSUITE - SPACE downstream Skills development and User uptake through Innovative curricula in Training and Education.

We are also members of SPACE4GEO, a Large-scale Skills Partnership for the downstream segment of space economy dedicated to data, services and applications promoted under the EC initiative Pact for Skills. SPACE4GEO’s objective is to promote the up-skilling and re-skilling of the workforce, while also attracting new talent to the downstream space and geoinformation sector.

We have been partner of the DEP – Digital Europe Programme project DIS4SME – Data Interoperability Skills for SMEs.

We provide vocational training in the geospatial domain to Public Administrations and to private entities, offering flexible learning paths, based on training modules entirely designed and delivered by us, tailored on specific customer’s needs.

We are executing the 5-year Framework Contract “Semantic Web Linked Data”, awarded by the Federal Office of Topography – swisstopo.

Epsilon Italia benefits from State aids and “de Minimis” aids that are published in the Italian “Registro Nazionale degli Aiuti di Stato”. They can be found at the link: https://www.rna.gov.it/RegistroNazionaleTrasparenza/faces/pages/TrasparenzaAiuto.jspx