TICASS - Tecnologie Innovative per il Controllo Ambientale e lo Sviluppo Sostenibile Soggetto...

TICASS - Tecnologie Innovative per il Controllo Ambientale e lo Sviluppo SostenibileSoggetto Gestore Polo di Innovazione Regionale «Energia/Ambiente»

Società Consortile senza fini di lucro - Via Bartolomeo Bosco 57/4 - 16121 Genova (Italia)Partita IVA e Codice fiscale 01955020993 - www.ticass.it

“University Industry cooperation: TICASS regional

innovation hub approach”Gustavo CapannelliTICASS’s President

PRAXIS Conference Genova 25-26 September 2014



TICASS – acronym for Innovative Technologies for Environmental Control and Sustainable Development - is a non-profit Consortium established in March 2010, composed of research authorities and large, medium and small companies.TICASS performs, promotes and enhances research activities, as well as transferring excellence technologies in the "Energy and Environment" area with regards to Sustainable Development and Quality of Life.The consortium role is also the coordination of the above mentioned activities at regional, national and international level. Its main goal is to widen knowledge and introduce innovative technologies by the cross-border cooperation, with universities and other public and private bodies.

TICASS Regional innovation hub



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Ticass is a non-profit Consortium including public research bodies (Departments of the University of Genoa), SME's and large Companies. It is the core of the regional Innovation Hub "Energy and Environment" supported by ERDF in the Liguria Region in Italy. Ticass is finalized to carry out, promote, diffuse, transfer and exploit research and innovative technologies for:

- Energy Saving - Environmental Control and Management - Sustainable Development - Improvement of Life Quality

TICASS Regional Research and Innovation Hub…..



9 Research Department belonging to the University of Genova: Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry; Department of Civil

chemical and Environmental Engineering; Department of Physics; Mechanical Industrial Management Energy Environment and Transport Engineering; Department for the Study of the Territory and its resources; Department of Experimental Medicine; Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Information Science; Department of Sciences for Architecture; Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN - Research Area of Genova)

42 Companies

……TICASS Regional Research and Innovation Hub



ISTITUTO ITALIANO SALDATURA

SANTORO IREOS

A&A F.llI PARODI

CAP

INDUSTRIA AMBIENTE

ANALISI e CONTROLLI

SERVIZI ECOLOGICI

IREOS LABORATORI

ITEC

P & T

GIS & WEB

SIIT/PMI

ARCADIA

ANTEA

SIGEPM Ten

EUROCHEM

CPG

UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA;

CNR; INFN

LARGE companiesMEDIUM Ccompanies

SMALL companie

Micamo

Biotec Sistemi

Active Cells

ITALIANA COKE

BOERO

IRENAcqua GasIPLOM

FONDAZ. CIMA FONDAZ. AMGA

FACI

Muvita

SEPG

GISIG



• Research & Development: European, national and regional research projects;

• Training: University master, Life long training, professional courses, Tempus, Erasmus + projects;

• Technology transfer: conversion adaptation and exploitation of research’s outcomes to match concrete industrial requirements and to solve technical and production issues

• Support to local policy makers: collection of inputs from local system of production (paying special attention to SME’s)

• Networking: members of two National technological Clusters, European technology platform for water….

Ticass activities:



Market driven approach;Early involvement of companies and SMEs to collect industrial inputs;Interdisciplinary approach to supply a complete useful answer to concrete problems; Open access to competences and skills of the University of Genova and National Research Council;Development of multidisciplinary and culturally diverse work team specifically targeted for each project;Support the interaction and relationship development between University and Industry;Development of organizational tool to foster technology transfer and trust generation.

How do we do, Ticass’s approach:



Experience in the Training field

Post graduate training;

European projects (Netwater, GreenMA, GeoSmartCity…); Research Grants (coordination of 11 research grants, involving 22 companies, of which 10 SMEs);Scouting regarding instruments, incentives and concessions supporting work placement.



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Post graduate training

Water Treatment;Environmental monitoring;Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals REACH; Master in Advanced Welding Engineering MAWE;Intensive course for Russian junior staff in «Energy saving for Environmental Protection and Control“;Training in Technologies of Water Resources Management



Research Grants Project Companies involved

Number of research grants

FACI

BoeroBartolomeo spa

hydroxytyrosol derivatives synthesis with anticancer potential Active cells srl , F.lli Parodi spa 1

Energy optimization of air conditioning in urban areas through trigeneration IREN Acqua Gas Spa1

Ecotoxicological testing of methods according to the procedure of Good Laboratory Practice in relation to EC Regulation 1907/2006 (REACH)

CPG Lab srl, Industria Ambiente srl, Ireos laboratori srl

1Italiana Coke S.r.l.; IrenAcquaGas S.p.a.; P.&T. SRLItaliana Coke S.r.l.; IrenAcquaGas S.p.a.; P.&T. SRL

Implementation of an integrated platform for the governance of the territory: a case study for networks of underground

IrenAcquaGas Spa , GISIG,ITEC Engineering1

IPLOM spa, Italiana Coke srl

F.lli Parodi spa, Archimede Ricerche srl,

Study of phytoremediation process in an urban area of Imperia IREN Acqua Gas Spa1

New products for the construction industry environmental friendly designed to improove the building envelop performances

Thermal decomposition of molecular gaseous effl uent

Uptake, reduction and reuse of CO2

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