The Digital CorNeR project aims to create immersive contents which, by exploiting the high performance of 5G networks in terms of bandwidth and latency, will be tested through use cases during musical, educational, tourist-recreational events. To achieve the objective, the Congress Center of the CNR Territorial Research Area of ​​Bologna will be strengthened, with the creation of a control room that will allow the production of usable contents with the emerging human-machine interfaces (augmented, virtual, immersive and interactive reality voice recognition, etc.).

The TAO project, in the frame of the program POR-FESR 2014-2020 of the Emilia-Romagna Region, aims to develop smart technologies for monitoring coastlines, focusing its activities in the shore sector delimited by the maximum rise of the waves to the depth of closure, i.e., the maximum water depth with active interaction between waves and the seafloor. Main goals are investigating causes of coastal erosion and effectiveness of coastal defense structures.
The project combines 5 public technological transfer laboratories and 4 private companies in a public-private partnership. The Project TAO main objective is to develop a smart, low cost and low environmental impact technological platform composed of fixed and mobile stations for monitoring supra and sub littoral zones. It will be made by a set of ad-hoc developed instruments collecting morpho-batymetric, reflectivity and stratigraphic data for 3D modeling sediment transport and erosion at the seafloor and sub seafloor. The developed technologies will also allow to collect water samples, coastline images and, through the analysis of biotic and abiotic multi-proxies, to carry out environmental status assessments.

The BiophotOmics project (Development and validation of a portable medical device based on bio-photonic imaging integrated with testing methodology LIPID-OMICA) aims at developing an innovative medical device based on two concepts:
a) photonic technology – fabricating a portable bio-photonic device equipped with a dedicated software for dark-field hyper-spectral microscopy analysis of specific samples (blood drops) and
b) innovative testing based on bio-photonic technology for integrated hyper-spectral analysis of fatty acids of cellular membranes as innovative global health marker.

CO_² Lab is the indoor CO2 measurement laboratory, developed by Proambiente, dedicated to secondary school. The course combines elements of air quality and sustainability of electronic devices with digital making and skills.

The CO_² Lab project takes place on three main lines of activities:

1. Theoretical activity: understand the meaning of the CO_² concentration in the environment as an indicator of the healthiness of the environments, with particular reference to the spread of Coronavirus;

2. “Maker” activity: assembling a mini-station for real-time CO_² measurement with low-cost commercial components;

3. Educational activity: reuse of old hardware (smartphones) in a circular economy perspective, with particular reference to the problem of planned obsolescence.

Funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region, the POR-FESR project Value CE-IN (EVALUATION OF REFUE WATERS AND SLUDGE IN CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS) is coordinated by ENEA and includes as partners: Proambiente Scrl (CNR Technopole), Universities of Bologna and Ferrara, Politecnico of Milan and the companies Hera, Caviro Distilleries, Agrosistemi, Irritec, Alga & Zyme Factory and Promosagri. The target is the creation of hi-tech solutions, innovative biotechnologies and new business models to enhance the purification chain of municipal and industrial wastewater as a whole, according to the principles of circular economy.

Due to the increase in the demand for animal proteins and the need to identify sources alternative to the GM soybeans imported for the production of feed, the POR-FESR FLIES4VALUE project (Insects for the bioconversion of agri-food by-products into animal feed and high added-value substances) will create an economic, efficient, competitive and low-impact system to enhance the waste of regional agri-food industries.

The INFORMARE Project (POR-FESR 2014 - 2020) aims at developing an innovative information system to collect and provide observed and forecast meteo-marine data concerning the Emilia-Romagna Coast. The target is to provide new services to private companies operating in the tourism industry.  Funded by the Emilia Romagna Region, INFORMARE is developed by a mixed public/private partnership: 3 regional laboratories for Technology Transfer and Innovation (Proambiente Scrl, C.S.A. Group and Confindustria Emilia-Romagna Ricerca - CERR), 2 private companies (Cooperativi Bagnini Cervia and Communication Technology) and 3 CNR Institutes (ISAC, ISMAR and IBIMET).

IPA/BC monitor is the solution for monitoring particulate matter (PM) emitted from traffic sources and household heating in urban environments, with a focus on priority micro pollutants (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, "€œPAHs"€, or "€œIPA"€ according to the Italian acronym) and climate forcers (black carbon, "BC"€). By means of micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and other highly automatized solutions, IPA/BC-Monitor overcomes the typical problems of encumbrance and costs of offline chemical measurements of particulate matter, and includes a BC monitor integrated with a miniaturized gas chromatographic system for PAH analysis in PM