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Innovation partnerships
TEDxLakeComo
As a strong believer in the talent and ideas
of everyone who wishes to “improve reality”,
once again Ratti took part as a sponsor of TEDxLakeComo, encouraging interested employees to participate. TEDxLakeComo, now in its tenth edition, represents an unmissable opportunity for those seeking to challenge themselves and open themselves up to highly stimulating themes in order to rethink the world in which we live. Thirteen/ fourteen speakers make presentations on various topics ranging from science to technology to society. The tenth edition of TEDxLakeComo was held on Saturday 10 November 2018 in the Centro Internazionale Congressi (international conference centre) of Villa Erba at Cernobbio. The theme was BRIDGES: “a bridge is a structure that is built in order to get past an obstacle; it is a fundamental means of communication for reaching places that would otherwise be isolated; it is the undeniable symbol of union between persons, peoples
and cultures; it instils safety, it expresses the possibilities of mutual help between two shores;
it narrates a desire to challenge and converge with different scientific disciplines, technologies
or practices, but also between the present and the future, between reality and dreams”.
ComON
Ratti is also a partner of COM ON, a project launched in 2008 thanks to the passion of a group of Como entrepreneurs who, with the support of Unindustria Como, gave life to a true “European creativity hub” in order to foster the dissemination of creative ideas, not only by bringing the most talented graduates from the most prestigious design schools to companies in the business region of Como, but also by promoting an interaction between various entrepreneurial organisations, universities, training schools, young students and professionals
– testimonials and authorities – in a permanent training and fusion laboratory. Every year Ratti
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hosts talented young interns, giving form to the interaction between entrepreneurial organisations and training schools, in an intersection of creativity, experience and feelings.
DIGITAL FOAM,
Smart Fashion and Design
As a part of the DIGITAL FOAM experimental development project, financed by the Lombardy Region through the “Smart Fashion and Design” tender (DDUO 3169/2016), Ratti participates
as an end user in a partnership whose leading players are a research centre (Innovhub - Stazione Sperimentale della Seta), a chemicals company, a textiles machinery company and two end users.
The project derives from a need to improve the sustainability of digital printing and seeks to develop and demonstrate, within an existing production
line, integrated machinery for the preparation
and functionalisation of the fabric substrates of various fibres destined for inkjet printing, thanks to experimentation with innovative technologies that have a lower environmental impact.
The project is currently testing and carrying out trials on an industrial prototype that has been deployed at end-user companies.
SMART4CPPS
Conceptualised by the working group “Smart Manufacturing” of AFIL, the SMART4CPPS (Smart Solutions for Cyberphysical Production Systems) project is a partnership financed by the Lombardy Region (Call Agreements for research and innovation POR FESR 2014-2020, Project ID 236789). The players are companies and research organisations (Milan Politecnico, University of Bergamo, University of Brescia).
The project sets out the paradigms that underpin Industria 4.0., according to which ICTs not only support production processes, but are also integrated into components, machines and environments that thus become CPS (Cyber – Physical Systems) that are intercommunicating and intelligent.
The development of this working programme
Source: One of the images on the site www.tedxlakecomo.com
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