CRISP, Interuniversity Research Centre for Public Services, was founded in 1997, and consists of an interdisciplinary academic network. The Centre is led by a Director, Mario Mezzanzanica and a Scientific Council. The mission of CRISP is to pursue research, projects, and professional training in Data Science and Big Data Analytics, deriving value from data to support the decision-making process through its multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers, statisticians and economists.