Spoke 9: new calls worth 22.4 million euros
€1,500,000 for the Triveneto region and €950,000 for the Mezzogiorno are available from SISSA for the creation of Digital Twin prototypes
Trieste, 6th May 2024
8th July 2024 is the expiration date for new funding opportunities allocated by SISSA within the initiatives promoted by the iNEST Consortium. In line with the research and innovation goals of iNEST Spoke 9, led by SISSA, such funding is aimed at the creation of prototypes of Digital Twins, the virtual copies of real assets deployed in different scenarios, such as industrial processes and products, infrastructure, natural environments, complex intelligent systems (ports, cities, transportation systems), healthcare, economic activities. The calls, worth €1,500,000 and €950,000, are aimed at companies and businesses in the Triveneto and Mezzogiorno regions, respectively, and can be found at https://www.consorzioinest.it/bandi/bandi-spoke-9/
These initiatives are part of the action conducted by the iNEST Consortium, funded by the National Plan for Resilience and Resistance, to promote and support the application of the most advanced digital technologies in the main areas of specialization of the Triveneto region (Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, and the Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano), thus creating a widespread network of innovative expertise in the Northeast in sectors such as industrial manufacturing, agriculture, maritime, mountain, construction, tourism, culture, health, and food.
«This is the second round of calls of this kind that we are promoting, as SISSA and as Consortium,» Gianluigi Rozza, Professor of numerical analysis at SISSA and Spoke 9 representative, comments. «The first round ended last October and led to the funding of 10 project proposals across Triveneto and Mezzogiorno, with a total value of almost 2.5 million euros. The topic of the Digital Twin is highly relevant and benefits from the research carried out within Spoke 9: we hope to see the first results soon. These new calls represent an interesting opportunity for other companies: from industry to medicine, from infrastructure to services.»
Like SISSA, each of the other universities involved in iNEST has issued its own calls for proposals, corresponding to the Spoke it leads. All calls can be found on the iNEST Consortium website. Applications must be submitted to the iNEST Consortium through the designated platform at https://www.bandiconsorzioinest.it/.
Further information about the calls will be provided via webinar: the one dedicated to calls for the Triveneto region will take place on 7th May at 4:30 p.m., while the one for calls for the Mezzogiorno will be on 9th May at the same time, both on Zoom. Instructions on how to participate are available here.
