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Technopoles Infrastructure Expansion (PR-FESR 21-27)

Through the collaboration between PROAMBIENTE, MISTER Smart Innovation, and CNR a new project is emerging: expanding, upgrading, and innovating the spaces of Tecnopolo Bologna CNR, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the synergy between research and industry > CALL FOR EXPANDING TECNOPOLI INFRASTRUCTURES IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA REGION, implemented through European Funds of the Emilia-Romagna Region.

The Emilia-Romagna Region has recently approved, through the ERDF Regional Programme 2021-2027 funds, a call to finance infrastructure enhancement projects for Tecnopoli across its territory. This funding represents a confirmation of the regional policy that promotes and enhances the consolidation of technological and scientific infrastructures in the Region as a strategic driver for business and territorial development.

Among the already approved projects is the expansion of Tecnopolo Bologna CNR, located at the CNR Research Area of Bologna, which has received funding of 1.5 million euros. This support addresses the need of the Tecnopolo and its operating laboratories (Mister Smart Innovation, manager and project leader, PROAMBIENTE and CNR) to adapt and expand the existing infrastructure, to meet the innovative needs of local businesses and the community and enable significant growth in employment and activities. The Tecnopolo aims to be a hub of opportunities for growth and development, oriented towards environmental, economic, and social sustainability.

The infrastructure upgrade includes:

  • development of spaces dedicated to management and reception and to laboratory activities, training, and public engagement with innovative audio-video technologies
  • conversion of existing spaces within the CNR Research Area of Bologna, aimed at creating a technological infrastructure for prototype development and process upscaling

Specifically, PROAMBIENTE plans to innovate its activities through a multifunctional laboratory for anthropogenic impacts: a series of instrumentation and technologies will be purchased and implemented to enhance environmental monitoring and the range of services offered to businesses. It will be a physical space for industrial research and analysis dedicated to examining the effects of human activities, particularly those connected to production activities, on the natural environment. The laboratory's objective is to evaluate and monitor the impacts of pollutants and climate-altering gases/particulates to propose solutions for mitigating negative impacts of human action.

  • assessment of fugitive emissions of climate-altering gases from production plants
  • evaluation of diffuse emissions of particulates and emerging pollutants related to livestock farming and new agricultural techniques
  • validation of hydrogen production prototypes
  • assessment of indoor air quality
  • evaluation of coastal erosion effects on our shoreline