Month: March 2022

Published on 31 March 2022

A model capable of bringing together, even on an international scale, demand and supply of health products during emergencies. This starting from a practice carried out in Italy during the pandemic to cope with the health crisis.

This is the experience of 25 Italian companies, 9 of which made in Emilia-Romagna (list attached), which, as part of the broader U.S. program USAID’s Covid-19 Response in Italy Invest, have, including through production reconversions, contributed to the development and implementation of key solutions to combat the pandemic: from masks to rapid tests, from innovative sanitization systems to special bio-containment stretchers for the movement of patients.

The initiative has been promoted and financed with 10 million dollars by the United States Government through the Usaid Agency (United States Agency for International Development).

Published on 29 March 2022

The event, organized by the UAE with the aim of promoting global investment, was attended by intellectuals and experts from around the world, as well as government officials, institutional investors, market leaders, startups and SMEs, social entrepreneurs and other stakeholders.

Regional Councillor for Economic Development Vincenzo Colla, speaking on behalf of President Stefano Bonaccini, presented the regional strategies for the promotion of international investment, strengthening the Region’s positioning as a partner of the United Arab Emirates and the entire Menasa area (Middle East, North Africa and South Asia). 

Published on 22 March 2022

On February 28 and March 1, the Italian Pavilion hosted the last stage of the Intellectual Property Award, a competition between Italian technological patents developed by Universities, Research Centers and Scientific Hospitalization and Treatment Institutes, organized by MISE in collaboration with Netval. Of the 20 patents presented in sectors ranging from agrifood to cybersecurity and life sciences to green mobility, the works of 7 Italian universities were awarded.

Among these, two came from the University of Bologna. These are “Re-paper”, reusable silica for decontaminating paper that promises to innovate the paper recycling sector, and “Self-confident”, online learning for detecting depth sensors failures, which offers a solution to increase the safety and effectiveness of autonomous driving systems.

Published on 08 March 2022

Participants will visit some cutting-edge companies for agricultural production, in an area where the scarcity of fertile land and water resources has pushed companies to apply innovative technologies to produce fresh and quality food. Dubai, with its over 3 million inhabitants belonging to around 200 different nationalities, represents a market of demanding and attentive consumers.
For this reason, in recent years, high-tech companies have sprung up to compete with climate change.

Among the leading companies born with these objectives “Jebel Ali M”, the largest desalination plant in the UAE, “Badia Farm” the most important hydroponic company in the world and the“Al Rawabi” farm , one of the leading dairy  and fruit juices companies in the country.
The visit will be an opportunity to deepen the themes of technological innovation and environmental sustainability – main theme of EXPO 2020 in Duba