By director’s decree dated 14/11/2022, the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) published the second so-called procedura a sportello – in which applications are considered in chronological order, so long as the funds last – to finance industrial research and experimental development projects of high technological impact.
The agreements aim to create innovation paths that support the EU development objectives and are of strategic importance to improve the technological competitiveness of a certain industry, economic sector or geographical area.
In order to be eligible for funding, the projects must provide for the carrying out of industrial research and experimental development activities to implement new products, processes or services or to improve existing products, processes or services by developing key enabling technologies, within the specific areas of intervention of the second pillar of the European Union framework programme. Research bodies act as joint proposers of the projects, together with the direct recipients of the call for applications, i.e. businesses that operate in the industry concerned and research centres.
The total funding for the initiative amounts to € 500,000,000, 34% of which is reserved to projects to be carried out in Regions of Southern Italy.
The University of Bologna’s project
The University submitted a project as joint proposer through the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI).
The project is currently in the evaluation stage.
