\ Innovazione \ AGREEMENT SIGNED FOR A REGIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK

Favouring the coordination of research activities in Friuli Venezia Giulia through a scientific network of excellence; improving the connections between the regional scientific system and the economic realities of the territory; developing the spread of knowledge regarding innovation and increasing the national and international visibility of the entire scientific sector of the region.

These are the aims of the Programme Agreement signed last August by the President of the FVG Region Debora Serracchiani, by the Education Minister Stefania Giannini and by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni, to promote the science and innovation system of the FVG Region (SIS FVG).

“The Agreement”, emphasised President Serracchiani, “testifies to the desire of the Region to look towards the future, concentrating in a concrete way on research, to generate new entrepreneurial opportunities and quality jobs. But this new important synergy is also the confirmation of what has been certified in recent days by an authoritative study of the 2016 Regional Innovation Scoreboard of the European Commission, on the basis of which Friuli Venezia Giulia represents, together with the Piedmont Region, one of the two regions with a vocation for innovation, occupying a significant upper range position in the European rankings.”

The Agreement assigns an operational role to AREA Science Park to achieve the envisioned goals, including the annual drafting of an Operational Plan of Activities to be achieved while respecting the Policy Council. The Policy Council is made up, in addition to AREA, by the Universities of Trieste and Udine, by Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, by the School of Advanced Studies (SISSA), the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), the National Oceanographic Institute (OGS), the Institute of Astrophysics and the Tomadini Music Conservatory of Udine and the Tartini Conservatory of Trieste.