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ISS - Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italy)

The Istituto Superiore di Sanità acts as administrative coordinator, responsible for the technical assessment of the device and provider of the e-learning platform.

ISS is the main Italian Institute of scientific-technical research, control and advice in public health. Founded in 1934, it has become since 1978 the technical and scientific body of the Italian National Health Service. ISS employs about 1,600 people, including 110 directors of research and 250 researchers. The ISS can count on a wide roster of consultants, collaborating full or part time on specific scientific and technical issues.
The role of ISS within the Italian health system is to promote public health through scientific research, surveys, controls and analytical tests, to collaborate with the Ministry of Health in drawing up and implementing public health programmes and propose technical regulations in the field of public health, to define certification or notification of the testing laboratories and of the notified bodies established on the basis of the EU regulations, to develop specific projects of national health relevance, to carry out training activities in public health care to update and train Italian public health officials, to develop new health care instrumentation.
Besides its activities in Italy, ISS implements research and intervention projects abroad; among others, ISS is or has been recently involved in projects in China, South-Africa, Zimbabwe, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Former Yugoslavia, Russian, Palestinian Self-rule areas, South Africa, Horn of Eritrea, Egypt.