La presentazione di Franco Cima, Ambasciatore Epale e consigliere della città di Bologna al Cultural Exchange con la delegazione israeliana del 21 gennaio a Firenze

1. The BIG DATA project
in Emilia-Romagna
Franco Cima
Epale
Ambassador
Firenze, 21st Junuary 2019

2. Bologna and Emilia Romagna
Bologna is not a “Learning city” as Unesco definition state for but..
By the way Bologna is a “Learner”City!

3. Learning Cities: a new challenge
Learner city today means facing the challenges that the urban dimension face us.
Urban intelligence is an indispensable prospect in view of achieving the goals of the 2030 UN
Agenda.
In Learner cities and territories, information and communication technologies are declined into
innovative platforms and services that improve quality of life, levels of employment and
competitiveness.
In an sentence: digital transformation

4. Urban and cities Digital Transformations
There are multiple dimensions on which the "digital transformation" of urban realities takes place and
made possible by digital infrastructures:
The creation of intelligent networks for functional services (energy, water cycle, waste, mobility)
The construction of monitoring systems for environmental contexts (safety, air quality, traffic)
The growth of social interactions (work, consumption, access to services, participation, social relations).
In a word:

5. A strategy for European and
Mediterranean Country
The Emilia Romagna Region is working to create a hub
where machines, infrastructures and skills are able to
manage huge amounts of data, which will be made
available for the development not only of Emilia-Romagna,
but of the whole of Europe and in particular of the
Mediterranean area.
HOW?

6. Emilia Romagna Overview

7. Emilia-RomagnaRegional Profile
Main Indicators
Population 4.45 million
GDPpercapita 34.500 €
Export 63 billion €
Employment rate 66.3%
No. companies 372.000
R&D– GDP2%
6 Universities +JohnsHopkinsUniversity
135.000 University students
6 National andInternational ResearchCentres
(Cineca, CNR- National ResearchCouncil, INFN- National
Institute for Nuclear Physics,INAF- National Institute for
Astrophysics, ENEA- NationalAgencyfor New Technologies,
Energyand Sustainable EconomicDevelopment, CMCC-
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, INGV
- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica eVulcanologia)
International Authorities/Agencies
(EuropeanFoodSafetyAuthority, European Centre for
Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)
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8. Researchand innovation are based on:
- Public facilities andinfrastructures
- Private incentivized companies
- Universities and High Competence training centres
- Dissemination Eventsand Exhibitions
- European and International networks (VaguardInitiative)
Emilia-Romagna R&D
Researchandinnovation strategy
Publicinstitutions Private companies
Universities andHigh
CompetenceTraining
centres
Collaborative
projects
Company
academies
Regional, National and European Programmes
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9. HIGHEDUCATIONSYSTEM
• 7 Universities
• Bologna BusinessSchool (Master and MBA)
• PhD and international Data SciencePhd
• School of advanced studies in FoodSafety
• MUNER(Motor vehicle in Emilia-Romagna)
with the cooperationamong
Universities, Companies, Public Foundations and Public Administration
150.000 students
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10. THEECOSYSTEM
HIGHTECHNOLOGYNETWORK
TECHNOPOLES
INCUBATORNETWORK
MAK-ERNETWORK
S3AREAS
CITYOPEN LABORATORY
NETWORKOFTRAINING
CENTRES
90 LABORATORIES
10 TECHNOPOLES
10 SMARTSPECIALISATION
AREAS
57 PRIVATEANDPUBLICSPACES
19 PUBLICANDPRIVATESPACES
10 URBANLABORATORIESFOR
CITIZENS
150 PRIVATECERTIFIEDCENTRES
(+ COMPANYACADEMIES)
CLUSTER 7 +1 + 1
UNIVERSITIES,BUSINESS
SCHOOL,MUNER
MASTERDEGREES,PHD
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11. Highlights:TechnopolesandS3areas
•A network of 10 infrastructures
located in 20 locationsthroughout
the Emilia-Romagnaregion,
hosting and organizing activities
and services for industrial
research, experimental
development and technology
transfer.
• Industrial researchLaboratories
equipped with research tools and
staff dedicated to activities and
services designed with the
companies, favouring the
networking at national and
international level.
•Servicefacilities and
opportunities for researchers,
start-up and spin-off (S3areas).
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12. TechnopolesNETWORK
Universities– Laboratories – S3Areas
• MIRANDOLA
• ASTERAGENCY
ASTER
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13. Highlights:Incubatorsand Fablabs
TheIncubatorsnetwork
TheFablabsnetwork
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14. Highlights:Clust-ER ASSOCIATIONS
Clust-ER Associations are communities of public and private bodies (research centres, businesses, training bodies) that share ideas, skills,
tools, and resources to support the competitiveness of the most important production systems in Emilia-Romagna. It is a competitiveness that
no longer relies on the ability of individual research centres or businesses to operate on the global market, but increasingly on the ability
of the entire local system to be innovative and attractive.
The9 Clust-ERAssociationsare:
• accredited laboratories
• innovation centers
• companies
• training centers
• other subjects
350 total participations
BIG DATA
CLUST-ER
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MUNER
CLUST-ER

15. TheBigData andArtificial
Intelligence Strategy
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16. EUROHPCDECLARATION
A cooperationframeworkfor
acquiringanddeployingan
integrated exascale
supercomputinginfrastructurethat
will be availableacrossthe EU for
scientific communities as well as
public and private entities
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17. 13
THE REGIONALCOMMUNITY
Privateandpublicfoundationsandinstitutions
Opificio Golinelli, Mast Cultural and Philanthropic Foundation, Masotti Fashion
Foundation, Marco Biagi Foundation, BolognaBusinessSchool,Foundation of
ReligiousScienceJohnXXIII,Nomisma EconomicResearch,Prometeia Consulting on
risk, wealth and performance, European Food SafetyAuthority, Consortium for the
future in Research,…
Leadingdigitalcompanies
IBM, Yoox,CRIF,Engineering, Dedagroup,…
StrongInternational connectionsamonguniversities, companies,institutions
Connectivity
LEPIDA,GARR,GEANT
HW Infrastructure
CINECA,INFN,LEPIDA
SWInfrastructure
centre of excellencein Material Design, Operational Chainfor ClimateServices,
Visualinformation technology lab, Genomic and bioinformatics dataprocessing…
Endusers
University system,National ResearchInstitutions andAgencies,Public
administrations, Private and industrial organizations

18. Ashowcase:BolognaBigDataTechnopole
A National and Regional investment for Digital Economy and BD
• 100.000 sqm for data centres,laboratories,
competence centre, Aster agency
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19. BolognaBigData Technopole– BolognaHub
Conference and
Education centre
Competence centre
Industry 4.0
BI-REX
Protezione civile andregional
agencyfor development and
innovation
Eneacentre
IORbiobanks
University
centre
National Agency
Italia Meteo
«Balletteresearch
and innovation
centre»
BIGDATAfor science
& humanities
FOUNDATION
ECMWFData
centre
CINECA-INFN
Supercomputing
centre
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20. 2016- ECMWF(the International Centre for Medium-range Wheater Forecast)wassearchinganew location for its Data Centre and launched acall for
expression of interests amongthemembers
September 2016 - Italy selected BolognaasNational solution for DCrelocation, in the "Manifattura Tabacchi"premises, owned by Regione Emilia-Romagna
December2016 - Italy presented aproposal to ECMWF
December2016 – 50 M€ invested by Italian government for Italian meteorology including infrastructures
March 2017 – Italian proposal technically selected byECMWF
May 2017 – agreement MIUR-Regione Emilia-Romagna
June2017– Italian proposal selected, hosting agreement signedby the Italian government and ECMWF,supplementary agreement signedby Regione
Emilia-Romagnaand ECMWF
December2018 – Hosting agreement ratified by tha Italian Parliament and signedby President Mattarella
January2018– Executive project approved, additional resourcesneedefrom Regione Emilia-Romagna
Thecontext for ECMWFDataCentre
 May 2018 – European call for tender published –52M€
 December 2018 – Start of works
 Closing date: September 2019
• NationalResources
• Regional Resources
• ERDFResources
Anopportunity for Italian positioning in HPCInternational landscape
Thesteps
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21. Next steps:«Ballette researchandinnovation centre»
new laboratoriesandCompanies investments
Data services
BIGDATAAssociation
Start-up and creativity centreCompany research centres
University andbusiness
schoolactivities
Researchcentres
BALLETTEFLOORS
Company research centres
Research centres
Artificial Intelligence:
new laboratoriesandresearchactivities
(Modena, Ferrara,Parma)
University Laboratories in the different
fields of Technopole competences in
collaboration with companies and
European Networks
Other privateInvestments
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National and international
Companies, STARTUPS

22. TheBolognaCompetenceCentreIndustry 4.0
Big dataInnovation-Research EXcellence(BI-REX)
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BI-REXwill beapublic-private centerassisting SMEs in adoptingIndustry4.0 enablingtechnologies through
technology advisory and assessment, design and validation of innovative solutions, andtraining.
Locatedin Bologna,BI-REXwill gatherthe know-howof the EmiliaRomagnaNetwork of HighTechnology to
develop solutionsfor SMEsat highTRL,near to the market, in particular in the following industrialsectors:
Mechatronics and Automotive, Biomedicine, Agri-Food, Energyand Environment , Logistics, Servicesand Financing
Partnership:
Università di Bologna (leading Institution), Università di Modena e ReggioEmilia, Università di Ferrara, Università
di Parma,Università Cattolica di Milano
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di FisicaNucleare
ASTER,CINECA,Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Bologna Business School, FondazioneGolinelli
• 23 companies – technology provider
• 31 companies – end users
€ 7,5 M in cashcontribution- € 7,2 M in kindcontribution

23. High Performance Computing,Artificial Intelligence and BigData
for economiccompetitiveness
 Manufacturing
 Automotive
 Materials
 Meteorology
 Environmental protection
 Life scienceand medicine
 Culture and creativity
 Smart cities (MASA- Modena automotive smart area)
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Theinvestment focus- applications
Thankyou!
Researchand competences in BIGDATAandARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE
are the new mainstream forinnovation