UniTO hosts event presenting Spoke 2 opportunities: cascading calls and funding for business and research.
All the funding opportunities for area businesses and the research community to support a green future.
On April 13, 2023, the event "TECH FOR GOOD. Innovation in Green Technologies" in which the University of Turin presented the themes and funding opportunities of Spoke 2 - Green Technologies and Sustainable Industry.
Speakers at the meeting were: Cristina Prandi - UniTO Vice-Rector and Spoke 2 Coordinator, Edoardo Braccio - Spoke 2 Project Manager, Micol Crostelli - Unioncamere Piemonte, and Chiara Ferroni - NODES Director General; who provided a detailed overview of the activities of the NODES hub and Spoke 2, the contents of the cascading calls, POCs, training opportunities, as well as how the enrollment platform works.
Following this, Professors Enrico Boccaleri, Mauro Fasano, Debora Fino, and Federico Forneris, moderated by Marco Zanetti, expounded in a panel on the specific issues of each cascading call, leaving room for questions from event participants: companies, faculty, researchers, and students.
Cristina Prandi highlighted the key words that contribute to the implementation of Spoke 2 - Green Technologies and Sustainable Industry activities, such as: Green Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Materials and Bioeconomy.
Around these concepts, which leverage the territory's existing strengths in interdisciplinary fields, Spoke 2 plans to allocate 8.3 million euros for cascading calls for businesses-distributed over two lines of intervention: A, North and South, and B-and in support of "Proof of Concept" (PoC) projects with high social and economic impact, aimed at building new entrepreneurial realities.
Thus, there are numerous funding opportunities-through calls-for research, startups, spin-offs, enterprises and sustainable technologies offered by Spoke 2, aimed at implementing and applying the circular economy to industrial system processes, to boost green and sustainable production.
