 The DomusBITae initiative has being promoted since the end of 2009 by a consortium which is now constituted by: University of León (ULE, in collaboration with BITrum), Science of Information Institute (SCII, in collaboration with the Foundations of Information Science), INTECO (Spanish National Institute of Communication Technologies), Unified Theory of Information Research Group (UIT), University of León (ULE), University of Barcelona (UB), University of the Aegean (UAE), Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Aalborg University (AAU), University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3), Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM), Chinese Center of Overseas Social and Philosophical Theories (CCO); and it is furthermore supported by the International Society for Information Studies (ISIS) and the Supercomputing Center of Castilla y León (SCCL).The initiative is aimed at fostering the interdisciplinarity in information studies by means of building a virtual research and educational center as a global house (domus) for information studies (symbolically represented by the unit of information, BIT). Since there are for information relevant grounds concerning formal-, physical-, chemical-, biological-, cognitive-, social-, technological-, ethical- and philosophical sciences, the traditional gaps and boundaries between sciences must be overcome in order to achieve an actual overarching understanding of information, which might be necessary to cope with the global challenges of our information society.
The proposed infrastructure is based on an integration of resources as explained in the section domusBITae proposal.
A Science Advisory Board (representative of the Scientific Communit) should bridge the technical development and the scientific usability in order to address the actual needs of the global community of information studies, selecting best practises for the effectiveness of scientific and technical research, collaborative work and education.
Financial Support Potentiality (open programmes) Several European supporting research programmes might converge with the aims of the proposed initiative regarding: 1) the promotion of an inclusive, trustworthy, safety, democratic and citizen-friendly Information Society (e.g. several themes of FP7, PSP-ICT); 2) the effectiveness in the use of research infrastructures and the improvement in their capacities (FP7-Infrastructures); 3) the promotion of interdisciplinary research (FP7, ESF). The following programmes have been identified as suited for supporting the initiative (see page Open/submitted proposals for more detailed information):
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