This morning, the Project and Service Charter of the National Pole of Sustainable Mobility and Manufacturing which will rise in the TNE spaces at 178 Corso Settembrini in Turin. CIM4.0, together with the Politecnico, Università degli Studi, API, Chamber of Commerce, Unione Industriale, Regione Piemonte and the City of Turin will accompany companies in innovation and training

The Competence Center will coordinate, with the contribution of API, the Chamber of Commerce and the Industrial Union, all the services that characterize the new Sustainable Mobility and Manufacturing Cluster. The recipe is always the same: speed and teamwork, two characteristics that identify not only a precise will but show a careful and real reading of an economic and industrial ecosystem that needs to systemize and develop highly evolved processes and competencies, in line with Italian and European plans on technology transfer and transformation of companies.

The Polytechnic University of Turin will lead the development of the executive project of the Pole, which includes the construction of the building structure, teaching rooms and laboratories, in order to offer companies the services of training, finalized and applied research and technology transfer, networking and contamination between technologies and skills, including through the co-location of companies.

The services provided

Continuing education, through professionalizing degrees, ITS pathways, Academies and Learning Hubs for workers and the labor market with the involvement of the Polytechnic, University, Camerana School, Skillab, API Training, CIM4.0, etc;

Targeted research, through initiatives and research activities of the Polytechnic, University and other public and private Research Centers in the field of Sustainable Mobility and Industry 4.0;

Applied research, technology transfer, product and process innovation through the activities of all public and private research institutions in the field of Sustainable Mobility and Manufacturing.

Networking through communication strategies, organization and management of B2B events in which entities such as Mesap, Torino Wireless, CIM4.0, DIH Piemonte, etc. will be involved.

Co-location of companies through the development of a territorial industrial ecosystem with incubation and acceleration involving large companies, SMEs and start-ups related to Industry 4.0. I3P, 2I3T, Intesa Sanpaolo’s Innovation Center, OGR Tech, Torino City Lab, etc. have already given their availability.

Timing of implementation

The latest decree-law of May 25, 2021 on “Urgent measures related to the emergency from COVID-19, for business, labor, youth, health and territorial services” confirmed a legislative process that already last year had foreseen and defined the creation of a National Pole of Excellence for research, innovation and technology transfer in the Automotive sector in the industrial crisis area of Turin. The first final spaces of the Pole are expected to be available indicatively by 2023.

The economic impact of the project

The first 40 million euros, crucial for the project’s start-up, are available thanks to a contribution from the Piedmont Region, a grant from the Turin Chamber of Commerce and the first funds provided by the MISE in the above-mentioned decree law.

The Sustainable Mobility and Manufacturing Hub will be organized according to a “Hub & Spoke” (Network System) model coordinated by the Politecnico di Torino, with the main Hub in Turin connected to realities of excellence in Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Campania, Abruzzo, Tuscany, Puglia, Basilicata and Sicily.

The comment of Guido Saracco, rector of the Polytechnic University of Turin

Commenting on behalf of all the signatories is Turin Polytechnic University Rector Guido Saracco:

When you manage to make a system between training, business services and applied research, you create the optimal conditions for implementing development projects such as the Sustainable Mobility and Manufacturing Pole. In the Mirafiori Pole, Italian and international companies will find high-level applied research, accompanied also by the possibility of training their staff with the skills needed to implement this innovation; they will be able to test products and solutions with high technological value, be networked with large companies, SMEs and startups, incubate, accelerate and be part of a unique industrial development model. The possibility of restarting from automotive and manufacturing, two historically leading areas for the economy of the territory, represents a great chance for Turin, for Piedmont and for the whole country, which today must base its economic recovery on a model of technological development of excellence, such as the one we will be able to field in Mirafiori

Guido Saracco, Rector of the Polytechnic University of Turin

All available information is on the initiative website.