(Tiper Stock Exchange) – TIM has signed a collaboration agreement with the CNR – National Research Council, aimed at developing scientific research activities and joint projects in the field Urban Intelligence and Smart Cities. the framework agreement, Of four-year term and renewablewas signed by Maria Chiara CarrozzaPresident of the National Research Council, and by Elio SchiavoChief Enterprise & Innovative Solutions Officer of TIM.
“The growing urbanization and concentration of the population in cities, combined with the decrease in available resources and the effects of climate change, require intelligent management policies of the urban ecosystem”, declared the President of the National Research Council , Maria Chiara Carrozzaadding “the Urban Intelligence project of the Cnr intends to provide urban governance with the digital tools to face the challenges to which they are called, also for the achievement of the sustainability objectives defined by the UN Agenda 2030”.
“This agreement is important for us because Smart Cities are at the heart of our strategy. We offer local administrations our technologies and skills to enable them to design the cities of the future and achieve important economic development objectives, cost control and processes on the more efficient territories”, he underlined Elio SchiavoChief Enterprise & Innovative Solutions Officer of TIM.
Cooperation will have among the goals the identification and development of research programs, training, technology transfer and other common initiatives in the field of Urban Intelligence and Smart City. The programs and initiatives implemented will mainly concern the strengthening of the Urban Intelligence Virtual Laboratory of the Cnr through new research synergies with private entities and scientific collaboration on the subject also through joint activities. One area of cooperation will be that relating to “Digital Twin of Cities”.
The agreement follows the collaboration already successfully tested at the recent ‘TIM Smart City Challenge’a scouting initiative to encourage the growth of the Italian Smart City ecosystem which involved over 170 startups, scaleups and innovative companies.