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NATIONAL LEGIONELLA OBSERVATORY
An institutional collaboration network for ISO/IEC 17025-accredited laboratories, universities, European public health agencies and multinational EHS consultants. Verified profile, annual-report acknowledgement and reciprocal institutional recognition.
About the programme
The National Legionella Observatory Italy is an open, editorially neutral scientific and surveillance platform publishing an annual open dataset (CC BY 4.0), a public REST API and the flagship annual report State of Legionella Italy — indexed in Google Scholar, cited in PubMed and aligned with ECDC ELDSNet protocol. The Official Partner Programme connects the Observatory with the international network of institutions contributing to the surveillance, prevention and research of Legionella — at no cost and with no commercial exclusivity.
Partnership is open to four institutional categories. Each category has a specific eligibility criterion, verified at application and renewed annually.
Testing laboratories performing microbiological water analysis for Legionella under ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation — whether under ACCREDIA, UKAS, DAkkS, COFRAC or any other EA/IAF/ILAC signatory national accreditation body.
Eligibility criterion
Active accreditation certificate covering UNI EN ISO 11731 or equivalent Legionella culture method.
University departments of Hygiene, Environmental Health, Microbiology or Public Health, and research centres (CNR, Fraunhofer, INRAE or equivalent) publishing peer-reviewed work on Legionella or water-borne pathogens.
Eligibility criterion
Institutional affiliation verifiable from a public register or academic portal.
National and regional public health agencies participating in ECDC ELDSNet reporting (CDC equivalents, regional EPHAs, national institutes of public health) and local health authorities with an interest in shared surveillance datasets.
Eligibility criterion
Official institutional status verifiable from national or EU public registers.
Engineering firms, HSE consulting groups and property management companies managing Legionella compliance programmes for multiple European clients, with a documented track record in water safety plans and DVR Legionella.
Eligibility criterion
Portfolio of at least five documented Legionella compliance engagements, available on request.
All benefits are included from the date of approval. There is no fee and no commercial exclusivity. The only reciprocal commitment is the publication of the Official Partner badge on your institutional website.
A permanent page at /partner/profile/[slug] with a dofollow link to your institutional website, your logo, a description of your area of expertise and your accreditation credentials — linked from the Observatory hub and visible to international researchers.
The flagship annual publication (Zenodo DOI, CC BY 4.0), cited in PubMed and Google Scholar, acknowledges all active partners in its Acknowledgements section, with links to their public profiles — a verifiable citation in academic literature.
Press releases distributed to 80+ Italian and European technical and scientific publications mention active partners as accredited sources — increasing your institutional visibility in the Legionella and water-safety space.
An embeddable HTML/SVG badge ('Official Partner — National Legionella Observatory Italy') with a dofollow backlink to your profile, suitable for your institutional website, grant applications and audit documentation.
All outbound links from partner profile pages at https://123legionella.com/partner/profile/… are dofollow — passing link equity to your domain.
Applications are reviewed by the Observatory editorial team. No commercial commitment is implied by applying.
Contact us via the contact page, indicating your institution, category (laboratory / university / agency / consultant), and a link to your public accreditation certificate or institutional profile.
The Observatory team verifies your eligibility against the published criteria. Standard review: 10 business days. Public agencies and universities may require an MoU process (up to 30 days).
On approval, your institutional profile is activated and you receive the HTML/SVG badge code. Your institution is listed in the next annual report acknowledgements.
Regional Legionella incidence data across all 21 Italian regions. CSV / JSON / XML downloads with reproducible APA 7 citation and Zenodo DOI.
Open →Documented endpoints for regional incidence, national trend and per-sector breakdown. Transparent rate limit and machine-readable schema for academic reuse.
Open →Flagship annual publication: 1,200+ inspections analysed, ECDC ELDSNet-aligned methodology, Zenodo DOI and CC BY 4.0 licence.
Open →Applications open — 2026
Send us your institution name, category and a link to your public accreditation certificate or institutional profile. We will confirm eligibility and outline the next steps within 10 business days.
Five answers covering eligibility, costs, independence and the academic citation chain.
Yes. There is no membership fee. The only reciprocal commitment is the publication of the Official Partner badge on your institutional website with a dofollow link to the Observatory — verifiable at any time by the programme administrator.
Yes. The programme is open to any ISO/IEC 17025-accredited laboratory whose scope covers Legionella detection by culture method, regardless of country — provided the accreditation is under an EA, IAF or ILAC mutual recognition arrangement. Non-Italian partners are listed under 'International Partners' on the Observatory page.
No. Partnership relates exclusively to the Observatory — an open, editorially neutral scientific and surveillance project. Partners retain full commercial and editorial independence and may work with any other organisation, including commercial competitors of the laboratory network.
Standard applications from laboratories and consulting firms are reviewed within 10 business days. Applications from public health agencies and universities may follow an extended MoU process of up to 30 days. All applications receive a written outcome.
Any author — partner or not — may cite the Observatory dataset (CC BY 4.0) in peer-reviewed publications. Partnership makes your institution a named acknowledgement in future annual reports, which strengthens the citation chain. A ready-to-use APA 7 citation is available on the dataset page.