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Technology Platforms consist in the establishment of panels on areas
of priority national interests such as Security and Telecommunications
– centred on the benchmarking between Italy and other countries in
terms of technical and scientific excellence and competitiveness. Such
panels bring together all of the key public and private stakeholders of
any given sector with a view to defining a Strategic Research Agenda
(SRA) in the short, medium and long term. Each Platform
prepares a plan for the training of its human capital and analyses all
possible (private and public) financial sources to implement the
objectives of its Strategic Research Agenda. Some Platforms at European
level, in which the Italian Ministry of Education, University and
Research (MIUR) participates, have already developed into Joint
Technology Initiatives (benefiting from different forms of funding)
following the implementation of a number of provisions of the Amsterdam
Treaty. The current implementation model of each Platform
envisages an integrated set of activities covering Research,
mission-oriented Strategic Bases, Industrial Research, Test
Development, and Excellence-Oriented Training of Human Capital which
all create ‘circular’ synergies and are designed to parallely pursue
short-to-medium term competitiveness objectives and to retain the level
of competitiveness achieved in the medium-to-long term as well. Through
the MIUR, since 2003, i.e. during the Italian Presidency of the EU,
Italy has adopted the strategy of National Technology Platforms (PTN)
either formally or, more seldom, informally linked to the European
Platforms, with due account taken of the peculiarities and special
interests of the country. The implementation of such platforms was
possible through multiple actions and funding initiatives based on the
logic stated above – in which the National Research Council (CNR) has
played a key role as facilitator. In accordance with the approach
agreed with the Ministry for Economic Development (MSE), the contents
of Technology Platforms, whose drafting is now in progress, were added
to the pivotal actions of the National Strategic Framework 2007-2013
(part FAS/PAN and PON - Research and Competitiveness). As such
platforms are representative of the R&D part and of the Innovation
part, the latter being linked to the 5 themes of Industry 2015 and
“related actions”, they are partially covered by other forms of
financial aid earmarked at national level (i.e. for Southern Italy,
without limitation, see the ‘osmosis’ funds of the FAS/PAN and the
connection to Industry 2015).
Vitrociset actively participates in the following Technology Platforms: |
Research & Development 
