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Tecnalia Italy S.r.l.

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member Tecnalia Italy Srl is the Italian branch of Fundación TECNALIA Research & Innovation (www.tecnalia.com), Spain’s leading private non-profit R&D organization. Based in the Basque Country, Tecnalia has a staff of around 1,400 people, organized into 5 Research and Development divisions (Industry and Transport, Energy and Environment, Construction and Sustainability, ICT, Health) and a Laboratory Services Division, which provides testing and certification activities for the same sectors covered by the R&D divisions. Tecnalia is one of the most active players in the Spanish national Industria 4.0 program, as well as in the corresponding regional Basque Industry 4.0 program, where it operates both on the more markedly industrial manufacturing side (additive manufacturing, advanced and collaborative robotics, new materials and manufacturing processes, flexible and intelligent machines, eco-efficiency…) and on the ICT side (human-machine interfaces, cyber-physical systems for smart manufacturing, industrial cyber-security, industrial big data analysis and business intelligence, product servitization, digital business and economy).

Università degli Studi di Perugia (UNIPG)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The University of Perugia participates in promoting ARTES 4.0’s activities and contributes to gathering requests for guidance, training and innovation services, industrial research and experimental development, and consulting from companies that approach the Competence Center. The UniPG “macro-node’s” areas of specialization cover various aspects central to the themes of ARTES4.0 and Industry 4.0 more generally. In its role as a “Macro-node” of ARTES 4.0, UniPG offers specific know-how in the field of “Smart Infrastructures,” in particular: - applications and tools for diagnostics, monitoring, forecasting and prevention for civil infrastructures.- seismic monitoring of monumental buildings and strategic structures- flood and landslide risk forecasting - smart management of water supply and distribution networks.- Artificial Intelligence (computational argumentation)- Cybersecurity- Blockchain Departments funded by MIUR: Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology – DCBB Department of Excellence in Pharmaceutical Sciences – DFARM Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – DICA Department of Engineering – DI Department of Mathematics and Computer Science – DMI

Trenitalia S.p.A.

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member Trenitalia S.p.A. operates in the passenger mobility services sector at national and international level.At the core of its mission, Trenitalia considers service safety, quality, worker health and environmental protection as essential conditions, and regards the centrality of the customer relationship as the way to achieve a stable competitive advantage.

Mediavoice S.r.l.

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member Mediavoice S.r.l. is a company strongly oriented towards research and innovation, operating in the field of assistive technologies and, more specifically, in solutions addressing the challenges faced by blind and visually impaired people.Mediavoice S.r.l. holds several patents, all in the area relevant to this project, through which the company channels its vertical know-how in voice technology.

Meccano S.p.A.

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member Meccano S.p.A. is a consortium research body; it operates on a non-profit basis with the following main accreditations/recognitions: •Applied Research Laboratory recognized by M.I.U.R. under Art. 4 of Law 46/82; •Metrology Center accredited by ACCREDIA No. 122/M with a Quality Management System compliant with the UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard for the control and calibration of measuring instruments (linear and electrical quantities); •Specialized CAD/CAE/CFD Center: 3D design, rendering and drawings of mechanical devices/components; static and dynamic finite element simulations; fluid dynamics simulation; •Specialized CAM Center; •Prototype Development Center.

Stargate Consulting S.r.l.

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member Stargate Consulting srl was established in 2009, incubated at the Polo Tecnologico di Navacchio; it develops corporate innovation programs, trains staff in Project Management and identifies suitable financial instruments for carrying out projects. It is accredited by the Italian Institute of Project Management, is a training agency accredited by the Tuscany Region and by the leading joint interprofessional funds, and has trained and certified more than 2,000 people in Project and Innovation Management, Financial Tools for Innovation, Business Design, and Industry 4.0 skills. It carries out strategic consulting, assessment of digital transformation innovation potential, investment assessment, and sourcing of financial resources; it has developed innovative methodologies for business model innovation, process and product innovation, and orientation towards enabling technologies. In recent years it has managed over 200 projects, mainly in IT/ICT, automation/robotics, chemistry and smart factory, obtaining more than €20,000,000 in funding through national and/or European research calls related to Industry 4.0 technologies.

Pure Power Control S.r.l.

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member Pure Power Control S.r.l. is an established company in its tenth year of activity, operating in the fields of advanced robotics and electronic controls for the automotive and machinery industry. The company is engaged in developing low-environmental-impact vehicles based on electric and hybrid-electric propulsion, for which it carries out systems design and develops advanced energy management systems in collaboration with the most prestigious manufacturers. The company also designs and builds self-driving vehicles dedicated to carrying out work operations, focusing in particular on the integration of advanced localization and geolocation systems, on devices and functions for monitoring the work process, and on navigation and work-process management algorithms.

Scapigliato Srl

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member Scapigliato Srl is a company owned by the Municipality of Rosignano Marittimo that manages the Polo Impiantistico di Scapigliato. Scapigliato’s “continuity and innovation” project, called “Fabbrica del futuro” (Factory of the Future), was created with the aim of producing a progressive and constant reduction in landfill disposal, and a progressive development of new ways of managing the waste cycle based on the circular economy - that is, the concept that replaces the logic of production that uses raw material, creates products, uses them and disposes of them. In this context, Scapigliato develops projects aimed at implementing industrial processes that allow the transformation of landfill sites into advanced plants for recycling, recovery and enhancement of secondary raw material.

LK Lab S.r.l.

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member LK LAB S.r.l. is an innovative start-up founded in 2016 in Fiorano Modenese (MO). Our activities are focused on technological innovation and mainly involve: • Experimental research and development in the field of robotics and engineering; • Experimental research and development in the field of biotechnology and natural sciences; • Training courses and professional refresher courses.

Laboratori ARCHA S.r.l. unipersonale

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member ARCHA, an acronym for Analisi e Ricerche di Chimica Applicata (Applied Chemistry Analysis and Research), is an Analysis and Research laboratory in the Chemical and Biological sector. It has been based in Pisa since its founding in 1989 and has state-of-the-art laboratories covering 1,400 sqm and a Pilot Test Center covering a further 200 sqm. It is organized into three areas: the technical laboratory area (accredited analyses and tests for chemical, physical and microbiological investigations); Startup assistance (developing innovative ideas by turning them into projects and systems); and the ICT Computer Science area (Software design and development)

INAIL – Istituto Nazionale per l’Assicurazione contro gli infortuni sul Lavoro

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding MemberINAIL is a non-economic public body whose institutional tasks include research, study, experimentation and advanced training in the field of occupational health and safety. The Institute carries out study and experimentation activities in the prosthetic and rehabilitation field. Its specialization in the sector and the innovative drive given over time to prosthetic care, also as a result of the growing expertise attributed to the Institute in the reintegration and employment integration of people with work-related disabilities, has led the INAIL Center in Vigorso di Budrio to be recognized as a center of excellence internationally in the experimentation and application of prostheses and orthopedic devices.

Fondazione Toscana Life Sciences

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding MemberFondazione Toscana Life Sciences (TLS) is a non-profit body with the aim of supporting research activities in the field of life sciences and, in particular, supporting the development of projects from basic research to industrial application. Specifically, the Foundation was created to facilitate the business start-up process in the biotechnology sector applied to human health; support research in the field of orphan diseases; manage technology transfer activities in the biomedical field and enhance research. To achieve these goals, TLS created the bioincubator, where it provides space, technology platforms and services, and offers its support in industrial, scientific and business development matters. Fondazione TLS is the managing body of the Tuscany Region’s Life Sciences technology district and represents the Region within the ALISEI national Life Sciences Cluster.

Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding MemberFondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus takes care of children with severe disabilities, affected by complex acquired and congenital conditions; of patients of all ages who need neurological, orthopedic, cardiological and respiratory rehabilitation interventions. It constantly strives for technological innovation aimed at delivering ever more effective and efficient care pathways and treatment processes. With this in mind, in recent years the Foundation has consolidated, strengthened and launched new service units and tested new delivery models in line with continuity of care and integration with the local area.

CONSEL – Consorzio ELIS per la formazione professionale superiore Società Consortile a r.l.

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member CONSEL’s purpose is the acquisition and provision, both for its own consortium members and for third parties, of consortium services of a scientific, educational, cultural, welfare and hospitality nature, as well as any related, complementary and/or connected services, such as, in particular and among other things, the study, design and implementation of post-secondary qualification initiatives suitable for providing qualified technical knowledge, the establishment and awarding of scholarships, and the promotion and encouragement of scientific, technological, educational and cultural research.

CERTEMA S.c.r.l.

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member Structured across five technology areas, with more than 1,500 sqm of laboratories and 500 sqm of office and meeting/training room space, Certema was created to provide companies with innovative services and advanced technologies across a wide range of industrial fields (i.e. 1) Environmental and Process Analysis and Air Quality, 2) High/Ultra-resolution Scanning Microscopy, 3) Optoelectronic Prototyping & HMI, 4) Mechanical Construction, 5) Advanced Mechanical Technology). The Laboratory is managed by a consortium made up of six (6) industrial partners characterized, in addition to strong technical expertise and extensive industrial experience in each of the technology areas present, by a complementarity of application sectors - which include, among others, IT, software development, automation, electronics, metal fabrication, precision mechanics - allowing the Technology Laboratory to cover every area of implementation. Certema is able to provide technical support for any type of business initiative in all its phases, from feasibility study, to design, to prototype construction, to validation, to industrialization, up to pre-series production.

COMAU S.p.A.

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding MemberComau is among the global leaders in the complete and comprehensive supply of solutions, services, products and technologies that meet specific production needs in the field of industrial automation. Comau’s expertise, built up over 45 years of history, is expressed through an “open” range of products, solutions, technologies and services, easy to use and oriented towards value creation. The future of industrial automation is based on lean and sustainable solutions and products and is driven by a balanced collaboration between humans and machines, which COMAU sums up in a single word: HUMANufacturing. Placing people at the center of business processes within a production plant, in full collaboration with the industrial automation solutions and new digital technologies that surround them.

Digital Innovation Hub Confartigianato Imprese Vicenza

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The Digital Innovation Hub of Confartigianato Vicenza is an innovation laboratory serving the various Areas and specialties that make up the Association’s complex ecosystem. The DIH is a space for cross-association contamination through a new approach aimed at collaboration and the development of innovative projects, both internal and external to the Organization. Its founding purpose is to develop projects, carry out research and development, and accelerate technological, organizational and strategic innovation processes to enable the organization to transform digitally and adapt quickly to today’s many changes. The goal is to adopt a data-driven, interdisciplinary and participatory approach, guided by a well-organized, output-oriented working method.

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding MemberThe Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) is a foundation funded by the State to carry out scientific research activities for technological development purposes. In its role as a “Macro-node” of ARTES 4.0, the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia promotes ARTES 4.0’s activities and gathers requests for industrial research, experimental development and guidance. Its thematic specializations are focused on advanced and collaborative robotics and Industry 4.0 enabling technologies. Making companies aware of this potential leads them to request research projects that can increase their level of technology and, therefore, their competitiveness.

European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The main goal of the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) is to make the Laboratory’s expertise and advanced laser equipment available to the Italian and European scientific community for carrying out their experiments and specific applications in various fields of science and technology. LENS is also equipped with electronic and mechanical workshops for building components needed to operate prototypes. LENS also has a chemistry and biology laboratory for preparing samples or materials used in research or technology transfer fields. The instrumentation built at LENS has possible spillover effects in priority market sectors: Renewable Energy, Energy Saving, ICT, Nanotechnology, New Materials and Life Sciences.

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche participates in the ARTES 4.0 High Specialization Competence Center. As a “Macro-node” of ARTES 4.0, it offers a complete set of services, expertise and infrastructure available to companies wishing to achieve, effectively and quickly, genuine technological, product and process innovation through the Competence Center. The main themes made available range from robotics to the enabling technologies connected to it: advanced chemical-physical sensing, innovative communication networks and systems, additive manufacturing, advanced materials. It does so from its offices in Florence, Pisa, Palermo and Catania.

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (UCBM)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma is the seat and reference point in the Lazio Region for the ARTES 4.0 Competence Center. It offers services in the fields of advanced and collaborative robotics and related enabling digital technologies, with particular reference to Healthcare 4.0 and safety, with an inclusive approach also towards other fields, in response to the training and innovation needs of companies interested in the “macro-node’s” services.

Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca (IMT)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca is a university, research and advanced training institution, with special status. Its main subject of study is the analysis of economic, social, technological and cultural systems. Since its founding, the Scuola IMT has stood out for the quality and innovative capacity of its research and doctoral program, and for its interdisciplinary nature, characterized by the complementarity of methodologies drawn from subjects such as economics, engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, cognitive and social neuroscience, political history, archaeology, art history, and cultural heritage analysis and management. In its role as a “Macro-node” of ARTES 4.0, IMT is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach to the various topics addressed, including: Industrial automation, Cybersecurity, Big Data, Virtual testing, Additive manufacturing, Digital strategies and business models, Business behavior, Open innovation, Economics of innovation, Neuroscience, Network models, Artificial Intelligence and Strategic behavior analysis.

Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The Università Politecnica delle Marche participates in the ARTES 4.0 High Specialization Competence Center. In its role as a “Macro-node” of ARTES 4.0, the Università Politecnica delle Marche’s main objective is to foster the competitive and productive growth, primarily of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), in sectors related to its main research and technology transfer areas. In particular, the “Macro-node” aims to provide innovative solutions based on demonstrators available in various manufacturing fields, in order to provide viable solutions that are easily integrated with businesses. Departments of Excellence funded by MIUR: Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences - DIISM Department of Civil, Building and Architectural Engineering - DICEA Department of Management - DIMA

Università di Siena (UNISI)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The University of Siena participates in the ARTES 4.0 High Specialization Competence Center. In its role as a “Macro-node” of ARTES 4.0, its strategic area is Life Sciences, with the following objectives and thematic areas: - automation of production processes, Big Data management, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence for applications in Personalized and Precision Medicine and sustainable development of Biotech-pharma, agrifood, bioeconomy and bio-based industry. - Technologies and applications based on Artificial Intelligence for the processing, integration and analysis of data from the healthcare and pharmaceutical fields, such as to provide forecasts or recommendations for diagnosis, therapy, health status, lifestyle and nutrition, defining new healthcare models and improving therapeutic outcomes, with a view to sustainable growth of the healthcare service. - Development of innovative immersive teaching-training systems using Virtual and Augmented Reality in the Biotech-pharma, agrifood, bio-based, bioeconomy, healthcare and, more generally, healthcare sectors. Departments of Excellence funded by MIUR: Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy – DBCF

Università degli Studi di Sassari (UNISS)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The Università degli Studi di Sassari was created to listen to and meet companies’ innovation needs through guidance, training and support activities for the development of innovation projects, industrial research and experimental development within Industry 4.0. In its role as a “Macro-node” of ARTES 4.0, it carries out guidance, training and innovation activities for companies on topics concerning the impact of robotics, cobotics, augmented and virtual reality, machine learning, and haptic technology within organizational/management and innovation processes of companies, paying particular attention to analyzing the impacts that these technologies can produce on the management of their market relationships (B2B, B2C, B2B2C) and, more specifically, on the customer experience. Departments of Excellence funded by MIUR: Department of Economics and Business Sciences - DiSEa

Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The Scuola Normale Superiore (better known in Italy as “la Normale”) is a higher education institution based in Pisa and Florence. It carries out doctoral and postdoctoral training activities. The Scuola Normale Superiore participates in the ARTES 4.0 High Specialization Competence Center, with its Academic Class of Sciences (a Department of Excellence funded by MIUR). In particular, the “macro-node’s” scientific thematic areas concern the following enabling technologies: • Big Data and Analytics: mathematics for finance, statistical data analysis, mathematical modeling, numerical analysis, high-performance scientific computing and methods for analyzing large-scale graphs and networks; • Additive Manufacturing: innovative materials, functional composite materials for products and processes; • Advanced Manufacturing Solutions: nanotechnology and innovative nanostructured materials, composite materials, functional coatings; • Augmented Reality: development of augmented reality applications on Head Up Displays; • Simulation: numerical analysis and development of efficient numerical algorithms to solve large-dimensionality problems in the physical, chemical and pharmaceutical sciences, using techniques ranging from quantum mechanics to hybrid quantum-mechanical/classical methods or purely classical methods. Departments of Excellence funded by MIUR: Academic Class of Sciences

Università degli studi di Firenze (UNIFI)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The University of Florence participates in the ARTES 4.0 High Specialization Competence Center. In its role as a “Macro-node” of ARTES 4.0, it is engaged in the following scientific and technological thematic areas: •Advanced, robotized and connected production systems, supply chain, embedded systems, IoT, telecommunications networks; • Advanced solutions for: data science, big data, machine learning and data analytics, business intelligence (data warehouse & data mining); • Nanotechnology and innovative nanostructured materials, composite materials, formulations, industrial chemistry, applied chemistry; • Digital management and marketing innovations, risk control and market expansion, development of SME internationalization techniques; • Statistical methods for product and process control; • Computer experiments and simulations for product quality and reliability. Departments of Excellence funded by MIUR: Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications “G. Parenti” Department of Economics and Management

Università di Pisa (UNIPI)

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The University of Pisa participates in promoting ARTES 4.0’s activities and contributes to gathering requests for guidance, training and innovation services, industrial research and experimental development, and consulting from companies that approach the Competence Center. The UniPi “macro-node’s” areas of specialization cover various aspects central to the themes of ARTES4.0 and Industry 4.0 more generally. In its role as a “Macro-node” of ARTES 4.0, UniPi offers specific know-how in the areas of: • Low-cost automation and optimization of production processes, traceability, logistics; • Industrial Big Data & Analytics; • Industrial Internet of Things (IoT); • Innovative manufacturing (additive manufacturing, nanotechnology, CAE models); • Collaborative robotics, coordinated robotic vehicles, manipulation and grasping, prosthetics. The expertise within the UniPi “macro-node” covers both hardware aspects (from sensing to robotics, at various levels of quality and specialization) and more properly software aspects (from data collection and storage through to data processing techniques, with specific know-how in big data handling and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques). Departments of Excellence funded by MIUR: Department of Information Engineering Department of Physics “Enrico Fermi” Department of Computer Science

ALLEANTIA S.r.l.

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member Alleantia is one of the leading companies for Industry 4.0, entirely dedicated to providing the best solution on the market for Industrial IoT. Its Plug&Play edge software is used by many national and international companies and industrial groups to carry out their digital transformation, in production and in their products. Alleantia’s software connects, in a few seconds, easily and intuitively, any machinery and production plant of a company, of any brand and technology, with any on-premise or cloud, web and mobile application, and with the most widely used management software, to quickly deliver Industry 4.0 solutions.

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

February 27, 2024

Member type: Founding Member The Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna is a public university institute with special status, operating in the field of applied sciences: Economic and Management Sciences, Legal Sciences, Political Science, Agricultural Sciences and Plant Biotechnology, Medical Sciences and Industrial and Information Engineering. As regards its activities within ARTES 4.0, as coordinator of a macro-node the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna combines fundamental cross-cutting expertise. In its role as a “Macro-node” of ARTES 4.0, two main domains are active: engineering, with particular reference to ICT, robotics and Industry 4.0 technologies, and economics and management, with particular reference to Open Innovation and R&D Management, the Economics of Innovation and industrial dynamics. The “Macro-node” carries out guidance activities towards Italian companies, to identify, on the one hand, technological innovation needs, and to provide support for innovation management and technical matching, including through organizing awareness events on key economic and innovation policy topics. It also organizes specific training initiatives, such as second-level master’s programs, doctoral courses and specific professional training courses, which will also make use of demonstrative technology lines. To stimulate innovation projects, the “Macro-node” in particular builds demonstration lines for feasibility analysis of innovative case studies and the carrying out of pilot studies in the field of Industry 4.0 enabling technologies. Departments of Excellence funded by MIUR: -Institute of BioRobotics and Institute of Communication, Information and Perception Technologies – TeCIP -Institute of Management and Institute of Economics.

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