The Center of Competence ICT-SUD has presented a project for the realization and the launch of a network of centers of technological competence in 6 Italian regions: Calabria, Campania, Puglia, Sicily, Sardinia and Basilicata. The objective is to promote the technology and scientific development of the regional companies (especially PMEs) by supplying technology transfer services that focus on enhancing competitiveness and increasing efficiency of production processes that involve the ICT sector.
The final aim is to enable the companies to optimally respond to the ICT demand and to better target their regional market but also the national and international markets.
This approach is also used inside the network for the proposition and realization of multi-disciplinary projects of strategic value for the South of Italy (Mezzogiorno).

The project was presented by the scientific and technology park of Calabria, Calpark S.C.p.A. under the initiative of the University of Calabria and financed by the Ministry of economic development.
The objectives of the project are to favor technology transfer actions, bridging research and market and to contribute to the social and economic development of the Calabria Region by promoting and sustaining new high-tech PMEs.  The project selects new entrepreneurial ideas and high-tech innovative companies in phase of start-up or newly constituted and provides them with technical, economic and financial assistance.

The project aims at developing new methodologies and technologies in view of an innovative approach to training and to maintenance support in aeronautics, based on techniques such as virtual reality, enriched reality, artificial intelligence, psychology of learning processes and analysis of the influence of human factors. The objective is to contribute to increase the security of air freight by reducing the risks of accidents caused by maintenance defaults themselves caused by human mistakes or non standard working habits.  The project also includes a master training in “Innovative Methodology for aeronautic maintenance”.

ICONA is a regional project coordinated by INNOVA aimed at sustaining innovation actions and at increasing the competitiveness of PMEs in the Calabria Region by responding to their specific needs a favouring the matching between offer and demand for innovation. The main activities carried out are: animation and awareness rising of the industrial context, technology audits and implementation of of an operational model for the supply of an integrated package of services aimed at disseminating innovation across the Calabrian PMEs.

The project was presented by the company CIRA SCpa (Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali) and carried out in two phases. In the first phase research was conducted to develop an intelligent maintenance management system presenting high levels of reliability and security thanks to the constant monitoring of the structural integrity and the proper control of the vehicle (aerospace and aeronautics). In a second phase a Master-level training was carried out on the theme “Design of intelligent systems for the monitoring and the security control in aeronautic structures”.