Trento becomes EIT ICT Labs' sixth co-location

As of January 1, 2012 Trento is a fully committed co-location centre of EIT ICT Labs, the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) for ICT, initiated by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
The Trento co-location centre focuses on leveraging ICT for Quality of Life. Located in the FBK Research complex in Povo, Trento, in front of Trento Technical University, it is close to its core partners: Engineering, Telecom Italia and TrentoRise. 
The location is at the core of the Trentino Region, an area rich in communications infrastructures and bristling with innovative companies (it is sometimes referred to as Semantic Valley). The co-location centre provides a common showcase for innovation and projects - both those conducted on site and for those conducted in other parts of Italy by its affiliated partners, such as Centro Ricerca FIAT (CRF) and STMicroelectronics.  Other affiliated Partners with activities all over Italy are; in Lombardy (Polimi), Piedmont (Polito), Emilia Romagna (Università di Bologna) and Tuscany (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna).
The Trento Node is active in all parts of the Knowledge Triangle - Education, Research and Business Innovation and in all present thematic action lines of EIT ICT Labs: Digital Cities, Smart Spaces, Smart Energy Systems, Intelligent Mobility and Transportation Systems, Healthcare & Wellbeing and Future Media & Content Delivery. The co-location centre strategy is to become the hub for all trials and experimentations going on in the Trentino territory, thus providing a single holistic view on how ICT can contribute to increase the quality of life.
Trento Node core partners:

• Telecom Italia (industrial partner)
• Engineering (industrial partner)
• Trento RISE (academic partner)

Trento Node affiliate partners:

• Centro Ricerca FIAT (CRF)
• STMicroelectronics
• Politecnico di Milano
• Politecnico di Torino
• Università di Bologna
• Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa

For more information: eit.ictlabs.eu