Special Event II

Rome Technopole
The state of research communicated by the players 

September 20-21-22

Rome Technopole is the Lazio regional innovation ecosystem - made up of 7 universities, 4 Research bodies, the Lazio Region and the Municipality of Rome, and other public bodies, 20 industrial groups and companies - which actively contributes to increasing investments in research and development, in the driving sectors of:
1. energy transition,
2. digital transition,
3. health and bio-pharma.

Rome Technopole is one of the most ambitious, innovative and challenging projects in the NRP area, financed by the MUR with 110 million Euros, which engages the Partners in the implementation of innovative projects over 3 years.

The 8 Flagship Projects of the Rome Technopole are:
1. Decarbonization and digitization in research on new green energy sources
2. Energy transition and digital transition in urban regeneration and construction
3. Digital transition in the decarbonization process and waste recycling processes
4. Development, innovation and certification of medical and non-medical devices for health
5. Digital transition through radar technologies, quantum cryptography and quantum communications
6. Artificial intelligence, virtual reality and digital twins for advanced engineering and aerospace
7. Advanced and automated innovation laboratories for diagnostic and therapeutic biopharmaceutical solutions
8. Human-centred artificial intelligence for customer service and business development.

Also, Rome Technopole provides the city of Rome and the Lazio region with a "one-door" model for university education, for higher education, for research and technology transfer, for the promotion and development of innovation in sectors with a higher technological content and of strategic interest for our country. Sapienza University of Rome is the project leader, and the President of Rome Technopole Foundation is Antonella Polimeni, Rector of Sapienza University of Rome. The Rome Technopole Foundation idea comes from the availability of several academic and industrial excellences established in a narrow geographycal comprensory and all related to research and technologies development applied to energy and digital transition as well as into the field of Health and Biopharma. This is seen as a viable answer to the challenges coming from the market demand evolution, from the increased commercial and technological capacities of emerging countries as well as from the need of keeping or reaching the state of the art in the domains mentioned above. The objective is intended to be reached by simplifying the enterprise-academia relationship through a unique entity where all the capacities are embedded, shortening the reaction time upon the request of qualified personnel/competencies and adapting the high educational path upon specific requests coming from the industrial world. The success of this initiative depends from the way it is applied in practice, from the acceptance of each partner of collaborating wherever there is not direct competition among each other and from the recognition of intensification of the level of the defies every company has to face to survive a market more and more aggressive, such that putting in place a research partership merging with its neighbors can be an effective way not to disperse resources.

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Organized by the Foundation Rome Technopole, the Workshop is structured around a comprehensive workplan featuring the eight flagship projects, which together the 6 spokes collectively represent the pillars upon which the Rome Technopole's mission is built, embodying the intersection of research, academia, industry, and regional governance. By exploring the strategic details of each flagship project, this workshop serves as a critical platform for knowledge dissemination, idea exchange, and fostering collaborative synergies.

The sessions will provide an in-depth analysis of the technological breakthroughs, research milestones, and industry collaborations that define each flagship project. Participants will gain insights into the innovative methodologies, cross-disciplinary approaches, and transformative impacts that these projects are set to achieve within their respective thematic domains. As the Rome Technopole ecosystem propels forward, the workshop stands as a testament to the collective dedication towards shaping a future marked by sustainable energy, digital transformation, and advancements in healthcare and biopharmaceuticals.

Lead industry: Eni S.p.A
Universities and EPR: Università La Sapienza, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma- UCBM, CNR – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ENEA - Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile
Industries and other entities: Aeroporti di Roma, ACEA, Catalent

FP1 involves activities starting from fundamental and applied research, up to development of: training programs focused on the theme of sustainable entrepreneurship through the collaboration with ENI Joule; training programs capable of vertically specializing the best talents and developing resources through an innovative training offer, focused on the new skills needed for green jobs; virtual reality tools, which have the ultimate goal of supporting the energy transition; specific programs with activities that involve employees of partner companies and / or selected companies that correspond to the Technopole mission on intrapreneurship issues, favoring a "contamination"; of experiences between the same participants from different companies.

Lead industry: COIMA Rem s.r.l.
Universities and EPR: Sapienza Università di Roma, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Università degli Studi Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Università LUISS, Campus Biomedico, CNR, ENEA, INFN
Industries and other entities: Almaviva, BVtech

FP2 focuses on development and application of digital and green technologies to urban regeneration and building construction, according to the green city approach which assumes ecological quality as a strategic priority in order to ensure sustainability and resilience of programs and intervention projects in the era of the climate crisis, soil scarcity and other natural resources.
The project cover all aspects of the open-innovation chain including: 

1. Technology development and innovation aimed at implementing digital transition and zero- emission in construction and urban regeneration; 
2. Scale-up of technology in order to enhance TRL of these technologies and apply it to the design of the new campus and headquarter of Rome Technopole, as a case-study for technology exploitation; 
3. Development of a model of sustainable mobility integrated in the project of green urban regeneration;
4. Educational and training activities on these technologies to be integrated as “minor” courses in the existing ones;
5. Outreach and public engagement aimed at disseminating the culture of digital transition and green technology for urban regeneration  in society.

BV Tech
Sustainable mobility

Lead industry: Maire Tecnimont SpA
Universities and EPR: Università La Sapienza, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Università della Tuscia, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Università Campus Bio-Medico (UCBM)
Industries and other entities: Almaviva

The main aim of the project is to study how digital technologies can help to better industrialize waste recycling processes and plants by making them sustainable and innovative, while promoting the creation and activation of circular districts.
The project, being transversal to the areas of digital and ecological transition, is structured in the following technological tasks:

1. the development of a predictive model based on artificial intelligence to predict the characteristics of incoming waste as feedstock in order to pilot its delivery chain;
2. the selection and advanced characterization of waste to map its origin and characteristics;
3. the tracking and advanced characterization of recycled products to enable circular economy clusters;
4. the development of innovative and sustainable low TRL technologies, processes and materials for the recycling and reuse of waste materials (e.g. recovery of critical elements and rare earths from waste, etc.)
5. the development of a voluntary certification system, based on blockchain technology, aimed at placing "plastic credits" on the market with a scheme similar in principle to that of "carbon permits or credits";
6. the advanced and predictive monitoring of the environmental impact of waste recycling plants.

Lead industry: Leonardo SpA
Universities and EPR: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", CNR – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Sapienza Università di Roma, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Industries and other entities: Airbus Italia, MBDA Italia SpA

The project will focus on the development of innovative processing architectures and AESA radars and on new technologies for quantum cryptography & communications, from satellite to ground. Digital transition of the leading theme across this project and it is declined through the following main topics:

1. Neural processing, compressive sensing, waveform optimization, micro doppler detection, sustainability, virtualization, digital twin, with the scope also to set up a domestic line of production and overcome risks connected to a technological dependency and  supply shortage, improve costs/performance  ratio and increase the competitiveness of the national industry;
2. Multisensor and distributed processing (considering also cyber resilience);
3. Artificial intelligence evolution and big data analytics.

Moreover, in the perspective of innovation ecosystem, a Joint Lab will be set up with the scope of analyzing and validating the performance of network components and key exchange protocols in relation to the physical characteristics of the quantum signal, with a view to realize integrated terrestrial / satellite networks. Specific innovative curricula will be activated in existing university courses in order to strengthen and widening knowledge of students in ICT and big-data engineering.

Gian Carlo CARDARILLI
Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Calibration techniques for MIMO radar

Andrea QUIRINI, Fabiola COLONE, Pierfrancesco LOMBARDO
Sapienza University of Rome
A Flexible Design Strategy for Three-Element Non-Uniform Linear Arrays

Romeo BECCHERELLI
CNR
Beamscanning antenna for THz applications

Lead industry: Thales Alenia Space
Universities and EPR: Sapienza Università di Roma, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Università degli studi Roma Tre, Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Università della Tuscia, CNR, LUISS, INFN, ENEA, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
Industries and other entities: Airbus Italia, Almaviva, Bvtech, MBDA

This project is centered within the digital transition stream and involved different activities in the innovation ecosystem perspective: applied research, technology development and innovation; Open Research Infrastructures; higher education with industrial collaboration.  The scope is to create a Join Lab to promote a stable cooperation between universities, research centers and industries to develop proof-of-concept level activities in the field of advanced engineering, including space applications, aerospace, satellite technologies, exploiting digital technologies: 

1. Artificial intelligence (Machin & Deep learning) and big-data analytics;
2. Virtual and augmented reality;
3. Robotic collaboration;
4. Virtual testing and simulation;
5. Co-design and co-engineering thinking to discover new innovative and creative solutions to be tested, validated and integrated.

FP8 objective is to foster a more AI-oriented re-design of value chain creation for any digital ecosystem. To this purpose the goals are: devise models, processes and tools that are strongly grounded on the pillars of privacy, robustness, fairness, explainability, sustainability and transparency to stakeholders; and investigate and possibly advance the latest solutions (i.e., those based on the data-as-a-product paradigm), fostering the adoption of privacy, security and sustainability principles by entities and players which are investing in a digital growth.

1. Development of new medical and non- medical devices for heath application and healthcare: this include all steps starting from applied research to technology transfer and scale-up of technologies; 
2. Experimental testing and validation of the devices, including the various stages of certification and clinical investigation (e.g. approval by the committee ethics, conducting clinical investigations, etc.);
3. Creation of a new Joint Lab for assist companies in all process of development, testing and certification of medical and non-medical devices, including training for technician and longlife learning.