Franco Cima - Big Data Project
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The document discusses the Emilia-Romagna region's initiative to become a hub for big data and digital transformation, with a focus on improving quality of life and competitiveness through innovative technologies and infrastructures. It outlines the region's strong educational and research ecosystem, including partnerships with universities and private companies, aimed at fostering technological advancement. Key highlights include the establishment of technopoles, incubators, and the Bologna Big Data Technopole to support research in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
Franco Cima - Big Data Project
- 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?
- 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) 7
- 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 8
- 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 9
- 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 10
- 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). 11
- 12. TechnopolesNETWORK Universities– Laboratories – S3Areas • MIRANDOLA • ASTERAGENCY ASTER 12
- 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 14 MUNER CLUST-ER
- 16. EUROHPCDECLARATION A cooperationframeworkfor acquiringanddeployingan integrated exascale supercomputinginfrastructurethat will be availableacrossthe EU for scientific communities as well as public and private entities 16
- 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 18
- 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 19
- 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 20
- 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 21 National and international Companies, STARTUPS
- 22. TheBolognaCompetenceCentreIndustry 4.0 Big dataInnovation-Research EXcellence(BI-REX) 22 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) 23 Theinvestment focus- applications Thankyou! Researchand competences in BIGDATAandARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE are the new mainstream forinnovation