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Self-driving vehicles and sustainable mobility: a national meeting coordinated by Unimore on 25 January

As part of the activities of the MOST - National Centre for Sustainable Mobility, led by the Politecnico di Milano, a progress meeting of Spoke 6 (Connected and Autonomous Vehicles), coordinated by Unimore will be held in Modena on 25 January 2023.

The Universities, Research Centres and major national companies participating in Spoke 6, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), will meet on Wednesday 25 January, under the coordination of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, to identify a common strategy for moving from research to enterprise in a supply chain perspective and extended collaboration in the Autonomous Driving field.

A day dedicated to discussion and networking between Spoke members, local authorities and other players in the production and research context, including the other Spokes with which synergies are envisaged for the achievement of the project objectives (Spoke 1 - Air Mobility; Spoke 3 - Maritime vehicles; Spoke 4 - Railway), which will see the participation of the President of the National Centre for Sustainable Mobility, Prof. Ferruccio Resta, the Rector of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Prof. Carlo Adolfo Porro, and the Mayor of Modena, Gian Carlo Muzzarelli.

The event, scheduled from 10am to 5pm, will start at Spoke 6, in the MASA (Modena Automotive Smart Area) area inside the new Modena Datacenter (Via Rubens Triva), and will then move to the Marzaglia Motor Racing Track (Strada Pomposiana, Modena), in order to share with all partners and local authorities the potential of MASA and the Motor racing Track as Living Lab and pivotal elements of an innovative technological pole for the development of autonomous driving vehicles and related enabling technologies.

The first face-to-face meeting between all consortium partners will lay the foundations for effective, fruitful and transparent cooperation between local and regional authorities and the private sector to establish advanced testing facilities, and create an innovation ecosystem of excellence capable of fostering innovation through the systemic utilisation of research results by the entire production system.

The topic of self-driving vehicles, on which our University is investing heavily in terms of research and innovation - says Carlo Adolfo Porro, Unimore's Rector - is of great relevance. We are therefore very pleased to have such a large number of partners involved in the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Spoke of the National Centre for Sustainable Mobility in our city, who, together with the coordinators of the other Spokes focusing on air, rail and maritime mobility, will make a huge contribution to the scientific debate on these topics and help to strengthen the ecosystem of innovation that has distinguished our area for years’.

‘MOST was born on the impetus of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan to create the largest player in the mobility sector and contribute to the competitive renewal of the country. - comments Ferruccio Resta, President of MOST, National Centre for Sustainable Mobility - The topic of autonomous and connected mobility is a great challenge not only in terms of research and innovation, but also in terms of economic and social impact. Spoke 6, which the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia heads, represents one of the most important nodes in the network activated by the National Centre. It is therefore essential that meetings such as today's are not limited to opportunities for technical discussions, but become opportunities for dialogue with the territory and the innovation needs of all the players involved’.

'This initiative, - comments the mayor Gian Carlo Muzzarelli - is part of the path that sees the Modena area at the forefront of the realisation of the vehicles of the future, in a synergy that binds institutions such as the Municipality and Unimore and the business and association world. Together towards autonomous, connected means of moving and transporting people and goods in innovative ways too: they will travel in a context of sustainability and physical and cyber security, but also of an economy made up of quality work, capable of bringing wealth and respecting the values, ethics and rights shared by the community'. ‘So the Most project, which also involves the Modena automotive smart area (Masa) - adds the mayor - integrates and gives new perspectives to Motor valley, an area that for a century now has represented an open-air laboratory of innovation in the motor and motorsport sector, thanks also to the action of Made in Italy ambassadors such as Enzo Ferrari, and with the wisdom of the minds and hands of the women and men who have made a dream possible and who still make it concrete today'.

It is a great honour to have the leading Italian companies actively involved in research into innovative solutions for autonomous and connected mobility as guests in Modena, - says Marko Bertogna, Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Physical, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at Unimore. - We have big plans to make the most of the funds made available by the NRRP for these technological challenges, in order to provide Italy too with worthy infrastructure for testing and validating autonomous vehicles, for land, water and air domains. Our universities have confirmed themselves at the highest level in the autonomous driving challenges organised in recent years at international level. We hope to achieve similar results over these 3 years of the project together with the qualified partners who will accompany us on this journey.’

MOST, National Centre for Sustainable Mobility - In the coming decades, the main challenge for the mobility of the future will be to drastically reduce emissions by achieving the highest possible level of sustainability globally. There will therefore be a strengthening of the development chain in research and the economy, with enhanced technology transfer mechanisms to enable a robust and effective green transition, the achievement of carbon neutrality by 2050 and a digital transformation for an efficient and inclusive mobility service.

Through specific research and innovation programmes and activities, MOST, which is part of one of the national centres envisaged by the NRRP under Mission 4, Component 2 “From Research to Enterprise”, investment 1. 4, financed by the European Union-NextGenerationEU, aims to promote innovative “sustainable mobility” with new lightweight solutions, new propulsion systems, hydrogen and electric fuels, and to make the mobility system safer with digital products and processes to promote intelligent management, monitoring and predictive maintenance, reducing fatal accidents. The objectives also include increasing the resilience and efficiency of mobility systems, with solutions and services for public and private transport, creating personalised and accessible mobility that enables new social inclusion, and strengthening the supply chain, national competitiveness and international visibility.

Participants of Spoke 6 of the National Centre for Sustainable Mobility - MOST:

·       Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Coordinator)

·       Politecnico di Milano

·       Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna

·       Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

·       Politecnico di Torino

·       Università di Salerno

·       Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria

·       Accenture S.p.A.

·       Angel Holding S.r.l.

·       Autostrade per l’Italia S.p.A.

·       Ferrari S.p.A.

·       Fincantieri S.p.A.

·       Iveco Group N.V.

·       Leonardo S.p.A.

·       Pirelli S.p.A.

·       Poste Italiane S.p.A.

·       Stellantis - C.R.F. S.C.p.A

·       UnipolSai Assicurazioni S.p.A.

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Articolo pubblicato da: Ufficio Stampa Unimore - ufficiostampa@unimore.it il 25/01/2023