Link Campus University: Research and Projects

Research and projects carried out in 2018 by the Link Campus University Research Department

Title: JUMP - Joining University to Market and People

Duration: 20 months
Start date: 01/10/2018
Finish date: 30/06/2020

Description:
The project aims to create a heritage of new professional resources that can help increase the innovative capacity of companies, particularly small and medium-sized ones, by facilitating the absorption and development of scientific-technological knowledge in specific production sectors and local contexts.
The aim is to increase the intensity of technology transfer processes from the university (and its research centres) to companies through the reinforcement of staff and the strengthening of the skills of in-house offices. In particular, the objectives of the project are the following:

technology scouting (monitoring and analysis of the supply of technological innovation developed by researchers in their own facilities);
intellectual property valorisation (formulation of the university strategy for the exploitation of intellectual property, assessment of patentability requirements);
business incubation (valorisation, creation, logistical and advisory support to research groups and aspiring entrepreneurs).

Activities:
LCU's technology transfer process involves the establishment of a dedicated in-house structure, called UTT - Technology Transfer Office, whose tasks are

identification of new technologies and their industrial application
protection of new technologies through the filing of patents, models, designs, trademarks and copyrights;
definition and implementation of an effective marketing strategy;
technology transfer through the assignment of exploitation rights to existing companies or the creation of new companies based on the same;
research collaborations;
consultancy;
management of researcher mobility.

Funds:
Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico (MISE), 'Bando per il finanziamento di progetti di potenziamento e capacità building degli Uffici di Trasferimento Tecnologico (UTT) delle Università italiane e degli enti pubblici di ricerca (EPR) italiani al fine di aumentare l'intensità dei flussi di trasferimento tecnologico verso il sistema delle imprese. Refinancing of already subsidised projects and financing of new projects'.

Title: HINT – Healthcare Integration in Telemedicine

Duration: 18 months
Start date: 01/10/2018
Finish date: 01/04/2019

Partner:

A-Thon Srl – Coordinator
INFOTEL S.R.L.
NET SERVICE S.P.A.
N&C S.R.L.
DINETS S.R.L.
XENIA GESTIONE DOCUMENTALE S.R.L.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING FOR INNOVATION – UNIVERSITÀ DEL SALENTO
INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS - NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

Description:
The project aims to fulfil the necessary requirements for the implementation of a network for clinical support both in cases requiring high specialisation and areas where no specific expertise is required. The project provides for the implementation of a platform for the management of all the cases in which access to diagnostic images is provided with the possibility of applying specific expertise even where it is not physically present at the site where the images are produced.
Central points of this solution will be the optimisation of the possibilities offered by internationally recognised standards (e.g. DICOM, HL7, IHE) and operation on a cloud platform.

Activities:
The main activities of the project will concern the construction of the following integrated subsystems:

Monitoring and improving user experience and natural interaction;
design and interface design of the platform for managing data and diagnostic images;
communication management (especially via social media).

Funds:
The project is co-financed with the funds POR-FESR 2014/2020 of the Puglia Region, Public Call “INNONETWORK SOSTEGNO ALLE ATTIVITÀ DI R&S”

Title: Technologies of Personalized Assistance for the Improvement of the Quality of Life

Duration: 30 months
Start date: 01/09/2018
Finish date: 28/02/2021
LCU share: €1.100.900

PON RESEARCH AND INNOVATION: http://www.ponricerca.gov.it/

Partnership:

DINETS S.R.L - Coordination
CREASYS S.R.L., A-Thon S.r.l., Core Lab - Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Innovazione - Università del Salento, Università degli Studi di Catania - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica, Dipartimento di Medicina clinica e sperimentale, ECUBIT Rende, ECUBIT Napoli, INFOTEL S.R.L., Dedalus S.p.A., Dedalus S.p.A., MATICMIND SPA, ARESS - AGENZIA REGIONALE PER LA SALUTE ED IL SOCIALE, Distretto Tecnologico High-Tech, Federsanità Servizi s.r.l., DIPARTIMENTO DI MECCANICA, MATEMATICA E MANAGEMENT – DMMM, Dipartimento di Informatica, Arancia-ICT Srl - CAMPUS UNIVERSITARIO ECOTEKNE, CONSORZIO SOL.CO. RETE DI IMPRESE SOCIALI SICILIANE, Università degli studi "Link Campus University", Techinnova S.r.l., Dedalus S.p.A. con Socio Unico

Description
The TALIsMAn project is aimed at researching and defining new models and technologies to support fragile individuals, volunteers/associations, and social and health service operators (doctors, nurses, social and health facilities).
The general objectives of the project are:

Defining new integrated care models capable of facilitating the management of frailty. A central element in the definition of these models is the new frailty index, which, based on objective performance indicators, will make it possible to monitor the effectiveness, in terms of impact on the subject's quality of life, and the efficiency of the models themselves in terms of both use of available resources and economic sustainability.
Defining, designing and prototyping an integrated technological infrastructure capable of implementing, governing, monitoring and continuously evaluating integrated care models. This infrastructure will have to be both open and regulated to efficiently integrate new value-added services and thus lay the foundations for a new ecosystem based on the principles of the Silver economy.
Experimenting the implemented solution in real scenarios in order to validate both the goodness of the care models and the ability of the technological infrastructure to effectively support the implementation of these models.

Activities
The TALIsMAn project aims to realize a technological infrastructure based on the informative model inspired by the principles of Population Health Management (PHM) and consisting of the following elements:

a framework, based on artificial intelligence, for Big Data Cognitive Environment for the classification, correlation, comparison, representation, interactive search of data, in order to create an application dashboard for facilities and socio-medical operators
a framework for cooperation and interfaces (API) oriented to interoperability between different smart devices, also wearable, for home care assistance (ADI);
a framwork for services related to telemedicine, telemonitoring, tele-assistance, tele-operation, tele-rehabilitation services to realise healthcare corners also according to the quantified self paradigm;
a framework for secure digital data storage based on blockchain;
a platform to support the community called HealthLand, which is interactive and enables social networking in order to improve social inclusion.

Funds:
The project is co-financed with funds from the PON-FSC 2014/2020 of the MIUR, based on the Public Notice "Notice for the presentation of Industrial Research Projects and Experimental Development in the 12 areas of specialisation identified in the PNR 2015-2020, provided for in D.D. of 13 July 2017 no. 1735"

Title: The other half of football. Information and awareness-raising campaign for the prevention of gender stereotypes in youth amateur football

Funding Institution: Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Department of Equal Opportunities
Start Date: 26/10/2018
Finish Date: 26/07/2020

Partnership:
Ipab Opera Pia Asilo Savoia
Penna a Sfera Edizione Soc. Coop. A R.L.
Associazione Nazionale Volontarie Telefono Rosa
SSD Audace Savoia – Talento & Tenacia Srl
Università Link Campus University– Link LAB

Project Abstract:
The project employs the attractiveness, emotionality, sense of community and belonging typical of football, as well as its engaging, pervasive and exponentially aggregating qualities, with the aim of initiating a path of knowledge and awareness of certain social stereotypes aimed at preventing and combating gender-based violence.
As part of the project, Link LAB offers an education, training and awareness-raising process that, alongside the transfer of knowledge on the main concepts, modes of expression and vehicles of gender-based violence and discrimination, promotes a new sensitivity capable of empowering the various actors to become agents of change themselves in their communities, and promoters of respect and equality.
Recipients will be offered a series of training activities, seminars and workshops that will allow them to deepen - both from a general point of view and with specific reference to the sports context and specifically football - the phenomenon of gender violence in its assumptions and fundamental theoretical concepts, in its different expressions, languages and representations; finally special attention will be paid to the issue of gender stereotypes and their influence on the construction of relational dynamics.

Activities carried out:

training course articulated in focus groups and theoretical and workshop meetings addressed to 24 students aged between 20 and 28 years;
training course consisting in focus groups and seminar meetings addressed to 24 sports club managers and physical education teachers from the schools involved in the project;
monitoring system (ex-ante and ex-post) capable of verifying the achievement of training objectives and of transferring and replicating the benefits in the future;
production of dissemination and training material available to the various sports clubs (not only football) and other training centres involved in sports and youth education.

Title: Accelerating self-employment and entrepreneurship in Kosovo

Funding Body: EuropeAid
Start date: 25.09.2018
Finish date: 26.09.2020

Partnership:
Forum for Civic Initiatives (FIQ)

Project Abstract:
The aim of the project is to promote youth social entrepreneurship by empowering innovative approaches to entrepreneurship such as start-ups.
The project aims to:

Identify and attract young entrepreneurs to Kosovo by offering start-up financing for those with high growth potential;
Engage in innovative acceleration through training and mentoring for tailored capacity building for the development of new business ventures;
Promote local systems and solutions by improving cross-sectoral cooperation

Planned activities:
Link Campus University will engage in the development of a paper on the best options to address Kosovar youth unemployment through active labour market measures, in particular entrepreneurship.
Training on Sustainable Agriculture and ICT

Title: ECHO - European network of Cybersecurity centres and competence Hub for innovation and Operations

Funding Institution: European Commission – H2020 SU-ICT-03-2018
Start date: 01.01.2019
Finish date:31.12.2022

Partnership:

ECOLE ROYALE MILITAIRE - KONINKLIJKE MILITAIRE SCHOOL BE
RHEA SYSTEM SA BE
INSTITUT PO OTBRANA BG
VITROCISET Belgium S.p.r.l. BE
ACEA SPA IT
AON SPA INSURANCE & REINSURANCE BROKERS IT
TALLINNA TEHNIKAULIKOOL EE
FONDATSIYA EVROPREYSKI SOFTUEREN INSTITUT - TSENTAR IZTOCHNA EVROPA BG
INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES BG
Telelink EAD BG
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS EL
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH IE
TELEFONICA MOVILES ESPANA SA ES
EXPRIVIA SPA IT
CIRM - CONSORZIO ITALIANO PER LA RICERCA IN MEDICINA IT
AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA W KRAKOWIE PL
LAUREA-AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY FI
NATIONAL AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY KHARKIV AVIATION INSTITUTE NAMED BY N ZUKOVSKIY UA
SEMMELWEIS EGYETEM HU
VISIONSPACE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH DE
ZANASI ALESSANDRO SRL IT
BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY UK
LINK CAMPUS UNIVERSITY IT
GUARDTIME AS EE
FINCANTIERI SPA IT
NAVAL GROUP FR
ENQUIRYA BV NL
SIVECO ROMANIA SA RO
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE APARARE CAROL I RO
CERTSIGN SA RO

Project Abstract
ECHO proposes an organised and coordinated approach to improve EU cyber defence through effective and efficient multi-sectoral collaboration. The 48-month work plan includes the development, modelling and demonstration of a network of cyber research and competence centres, with a central competence at the Hub. The latter serves as the focal point for the ECHO multi-sectoral assessment framework enabling the management of multi-sectoral dependencies, the provision of an 'EarlyWarning System' and a 'Federation of Cyber Ranges'.

The project will develop and operate according to a governance model capable of coordinating and optimising the activities of the cyber competence centres within the European network, in order to provide excellence in cybersecurity skills development, research and testing, and the development of technology roadmaps and certified security products to improve cyber resilience.

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Planned activities

Cross-sectoral needs analysis;
EU network governance models;
Cross Sector Technology Roadmap;
Federated Cyber Range;
Integration and testing of prototypes;
Demonstration cases;
Dissemination and innovation management.

Title: O-CITY - Orange-CITY: Creativity, Innovation & Technology

Funding Institution: Erasmus+
Start date: 1.10.2018
Finish date: 30.09.2021
Client/Partner/RTI:
UPV - Universitat Politècnica de València (Capolfila),
IICDS - Instituto Internacional of Competences for Sustainable Development ,
MEUS - MARKEUTSKILLSBSCKRANJ - BSC, Business Support Center, Ltd, Kranj ,
LAYER HOUSE - Zavod Carnica-LAYER HOUSE,
BINS - Business Incubator Novi Sad ltd ,
FOUNDATION NOVI SAD - Foundation Novi Sad 2021-European Capital of Culture,
MATERAHUB,
LINK CAMPUS UNIVERSITY,
UNINORTE - Universidad del Norte,
I-SOLUTIONS - I-Solutions Ceipa,
UTH - University of Thessaly,
GM-STUDIO

Project Abstract:
The O-CITY project addresses 3 main challenges

Digital transformation of traditional economic sectors
Preparation of training plans in both professional and personal skills
Discovery and promotion of culture

The project provides for the realization of an online platform which will be implemented in three levels:

The 'Orange Planet' platform will represent local culture with elements such as art, culture, heritage, places of interest, environment, etc.;
On each of these cultural realities will be developed as multimedia applications combining images, sounds, photographs, videos, animations, audio, text, games, etc.;
The universities will act as tutors, trainers and validators of the creative and cultural elements on which they will base their training activity;

The platform will be available to 3 specific kids of users:

City manager
Object creators
Online citizens

Planned activities:
Identifying development areas for creative technology education
Identification and preparation of training plans
Validation of skills according to European standards
Co-ordination of national partners for the development of creative technology education

Title: OCTYS L6 Paris – Cybersecurity (industrial contract)

Funding Institution: Private financing of the client
Start date: 15 october 2018
Finish date: 20 march 2019
Duration: 6 months
Clients:

HITACHI RAIL STS (ex ANSALDO STS)

Description of the context:
RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens), the operator of the Paris metro, has entrusted HITACHI RAIL STS with the implementation of the OCTYS - Open Control of Train Interchangeable & Integrated System (based on CBTC - Communication Based Train Control technology) to modernise the 14 km of its metro line no. 6 (L6), which serves 28 stations.
The project is part of the 'Metro 2030' strategic plan initiated by the same management company to modernise the operational systems of the Paris metro through the development of digital technology. Already operational since the end of 2012 on Line 3, the innovative solutions applied offer maximum performance in increasing operational efficiency and line automation.
On this occasion, an updated version of the CBTC (Zone Controller, Frontam) technology and systems, related devices and architecture capable of interacting with existing signalling equipment will be delivered to ensure the smooth running of the Line 6 systems.

Services provided:
LCU, with its CYRCE research centre, is a consultant specialising in computer security for the protection of critical infrastructures. The contribution includes risk analysis, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing.

Title: DETECt - Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives

Funding institution: European Union – Horizon2020
Start date: 01.04.2018
Finish date: 31.07.2021
Customer/Partner/RTI: LINK CAMPUS UNIVERSITY – Partner
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA
AALBORG UNIVERSITET
AARHUS UNIVERSITET
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI
THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST
UNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES
UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN
Miso Film Aps
PANEPISTIMIO IOANNINON
Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna
UMEA UNIVERSITET
Fonden VisitAarhus
BILIPO
UNIVERSITE PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DEFENSE
FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN
TV2 DENMARK AS

Project Abstract:
Within the DETECt project, the shaping of European cultural identity is understood as a continuous process of transformation that is nurtured through the mobility of people, products and representations across the continent. Thanks to the extraordinary mobility of its products, popular culture plays a decisive role in the circulation of representations and constitutes a shared cultural heritage for large sectors in European society. The project examines the literary, film and television production of the crime genre, from 1989 to the present day, to study how a differentiated set of mobility processes (co-productions, serialisations, translations, adaptations, distribution, etc.) have influenced the transnational dissemination of European popular culture. ) have influenced the transnational dissemination of European popular culture. It also investigates how the treatment of specific 'mobile signifiers' - including representations of gender, ethnic and social class identities - influence the ability of European productions to migrate outside their place of origin, to be consumed and reworked elsewhere and in different ways. By analysing the recent history of the crime genre in Europe, DETECt aims to identify the most appropriate production, distribution and consumption practices to facilitate the emergence of engaging representations of Europe's rich, plural and intercultural identity. The knowledge gained through a detailed research programme will be used within cultural, educational and broad audience engagement initiatives designed to promote the development of new transnational formats for European cultural and creative industries. These initiatives will benefit both from a series of of teaching and research resources and a variety of innovative and collaborative tools, which will be consolidated and organised in the DETECt portal. A series of activities will also be addressed to the wider public. In particular, the development of a mobile app will enable users to contribute to the creation of a collaborative atlas of European crime narratives.

Activities provided:
- Identifying traces of the emergence of European transcultural identity in a set of European crime narratives, whose transnational popularity is rooted in the local and/or national, migrant, ethnic and gender identities that these narratives highlight.
- Mapping the transcultural content of crime narratives to identifying positive and negative stereotyping processes of different types of identities: local and national, linguistic, ethnic and gender, state and supranational institutions.
- Understanding the causes of the diversified reception of a selected corpus of crime narratives in different countries and linguistic communities.
- Understanding how the transnational and transcultural potential of crime narration in Europe is influenced by particular editorial and production policies as well as translation and distribution practices.
- Promoting collaborative research and transcultural dialogue between scholars, students and professionals in both the private and public cultural sector through an integrated programme of cultural and learning activities focusing on the study, critical discussion, and creative elaboration of transcultural European identity in popular culture.
- Engaging the public in European identity research through a set of digital tools specifically designed to promote the social mapping of the transcultural content of crime narration in Europe.

Title: Riyadh - Physical Security Study (industrial contract)

Funding Institution: Private financing of the client
Start date: 28 march 2018
Finish date: 31 july 2018
Duration: 6 months
Clients:

HITACHI RAIL STS (ex ANSALDO STS)

Background description:
HITACHI RAIL STS has been present in Saudi Arabia for more than 15 years, as part of the ANM2 consortium, where it provides services for metro line 3 (Orange Line), the longest in the Riyadh network.
On it, HITACHI RAIL STS has implemented the full range of its capabilities in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of driverless metros (an experience that started more than twenty years ago in Copenhagen).

Services provided:
In this context, LCU, along with its CYRCE research centre, is a consultant specialising in physical security for the protection of critical infrastructures.

Title: WITNESS - Wide InTegration of sensor Networks to Enable Smart Surveillance

Ente Finanziatore: NATO Emerging Security Challenges Division,
Science for Peace and Security SPS Programme
Start date: 01.03.2018
Finish date:29.02.2020
Client/Partner/RTI:
Link Campus University, Italy (Coordinator)
Kingston University– KU, UK
Universitatea de Stat din Tiraspol – UST, Republic of Moldova
International Institute of Management IMI-Nova, Republic of Moldova

Project Abstract:
WITNESS proposes an innovative framework for situational awareness and decisional process, in order to improve the effectiveness of the security forces in prevention and treatment of urban attacks. The pervasive and scalable nature of this framework, based on a sensitive data fusion engine and scene understanding models, will make it easier for security forces to exploit information gathered from multiple sensors (e.g. fixed visible/IR cameras, microphones, UAV payloads) and devices (i.e. police iVests and connected police vehicles), as it will eliminate the need for manual surveillance and processing of sensor streams (e.g. looking at hundreds of cameras).

Expected activities:
- Administrative and technical management of the project, application of appropriate risk management methods (technical and programme), quality and confidentiality management of project outputs, management of IPR-Intellectual Property Rights.
- WITNESS provides for the involvement of end users to define scenarios, collect and analyse requirements, but also to plan a realistic demonstration and evaluate project results. The WITNESS work plan recognises the importance of receiving expert feedback in order to improve and refine the WITNESS framework.
WITNESS will be enhanced by architectural designs defining the structuring principles. The adoption of modular architectures will facilitate the understanding, development and integration of WITNESS.
- The work plan is incremental in terms of the project's main technical results (such as systems, subsystems and algorithms). Said results, along with the integrated WITNESS framework, will be released in at least two iterations in order to enable timely assessment and early risk reduction. The iterative approach of WITNESS will relieve the project from the risks of conventional waterfall approaches.

Title: STEPWISE - Simulation, Training and Exerce to Protect croWded publIc SpacEs

Funding Institution: European Union – Horizon 2020
Start date: 1.09.2018
Finish date: 31.08.2020
Partnership: DIGINEXT- France, CRISIPLAN – Holland, EOS – Brussels, French Ministry of the Interior – France, Belgian Police – special directorate units – Belgium, The Hague Police Force – Holland, KEMEA – Greece

Project Abstract: The aim of the project is the realisation of a simulation platform in order to:

assess the vulnerability of highly frequented public spaces that are configured as 'soft targets' in relation to potential terrorist threats, based on the experience of what has happened recently in several European cities where terrorist attacks have taken place;
train the police and rescue forces involved in preventing, mitigating and responding to terrorist attacks in crowded public spaces.

The platform represents the evolution of the "VASCO" prototype platform developed in a previous european project titled “VASCO - Virtual Studio for Security Concepts” considered successful by the European Commission, in which DIGINEXT (a French company coordinating the present STEPWISE project) actively participated. The evolution will include the integration of new models and simulation scenarios, developed during this project, into the VASCO platform.

Activitise provided:

Market analysis in order to evaluate the STEPWISE demand
Preparing the "white book"
Threat and vulnerability analysis in public places
Establishing and refining the various scenarios envisaged for STEPWISE
Training
Evaluation of the framework

Title: ePOP-ZEB

Duration: 24 months

Start date: 18/01/2018
Finish date: 18/01/2020
Partnership:

Green Vulcano Srl - Capofila
Tec-Wood
Friuli Costruzioni
IOmote
“Ce.R.S.I.Te.S. Sapienza Roma” – Centro di Ricerca e Servizi per l’Innovazione Tecnologia Sostenibile
Link Campus University

Description:
The ePOP-ZEB project saw the realisation of an innovative construction system for modular timber buildings integrated with a Smart platform for optimised energy management and a BIM (Building Information Modeling) system for the digital representation of the physical and functional characteristics of the building components.
A demonstration prototype of the building was constructed at Lazio Innova's Colleferro Active Space and constitutes a laboratory called the Smart City Lab of Rome and Lazio for testing the project's various innovative technologies that will act as a catalyst for regional companies and research centres to develop the project's themes.

Activities:
Prototype software-hardware platform for optimised energy management and monitoring and control of energy and functional parameters.

Subsystem A: ePOP House

Complete prototype of class A4 modular timber building.

Subsystem B: Smart Platform

Prototype software-hardware platform for optimised energy management and monitoring and control of energy and functional parameters.

Subsystem C: BIM methodology

System for the digital representation of the physical and functional characteristics of building components.

Funds:
The project is co-financed with the funds POR-FESR 2014/2020 allocated by Regione Lazio, Public Notice “Bioedilizia e Smart Building” (“Avviso Pubblico”) approved on n. G14229, 30 november 2016.

Title: AGRIDRONEVISION

Duration: 18 months
Start date: 18/01/2018
Finish date: 18/11/2019
Partnership:

SeTel Srl - Capofila
IDS SpA
DIBAF “Università della Tuscia”– Department for Innovation in Biological, Agrifood and Forest System
CNR –IMM Roma
Link Campus University

Description:
The project idea called AgridroneVision focuses on the creation and fine-tuning of an integrated and intelligent system for innovative and knowledge-intensive applications in precision agriculture. The system will consist of a remotely piloted aircraft component equipped with multi-sensory instrumentation dedicated to proximal observation (proximal sensing), a ground control station and an innovative ground drone, as well as a series of sensors for monitoring the main microclimatic parameters.

Activities:
The main activities of the project will regard the construction of the following integrated subsystems:

Drone System. This system aims to develop an aircraft component and a remotely piloted ground drone, equipped with multi-sensory instrumentation dedicated to proximal sensing and mechanical actuators.
Monitoring System. The system will consist of a ground control station and specific command, data fusion and decision-making software.
Sensor System. Commercial sensors will be analysed and innovative sensors developed for monitoring the main microclimate parameters.

Funds:
The project is co-financed with the funds POR-FESR 2014/2020, Regione Lazio, Public Call approved by n. G08726, 29 july 2016.

Title: A safer Lecce for cyclists and pedestrians

Duration: 35 months
Start date: 30/01/2018
Finish date: 31/12/2020

Partnership:

FIAB – (Federazione Italiana Amici della Bicicletta);
PTV Sistema GROUP – Leading technology development centre in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems;
Cras – Applied Research Centre for Sustainable Development;
Movesion – Leading company in the field of mobility management and sustainable mobility;
Link Campus University (LCU);
Elaborazioni.org - Workshop of Territorial Development
Bicincittà Srl;
Municipality of Lecce;
Municipality of Cavallino (LE);
Municipality of Lequile (LE);
Municipality of Lizzanello (LE);
Municipality of Monteroni (LE);
Municipality of S. Cesario (LE);
Municipality of S.P. in Lama (LE);
Municipality of Surbo (LE).

Description:
"A safer Lecce for cyclists and pedestrians" promotes interventions to increase low-polluting services and safe infrastructures for citizens, using careful monitoring and estimation of the environmental benefits produced, with the aim of discouraging the use of cars in favour of cycling and walking. In particular, the project wants to make young people and students the protagonists of new and healthy urban mobility models through the involvement of school-related initiatives.

Specifically, the actions considered by the project include:

the securing of existing cycling and walking routes in the vicinity of schools, businesses, services and hubs;
the valorization and extension of walking buses for students who need to reach schools;
the training of school mobility managers, project contact persons in order to plan sustainable mobility activities in a shared way in schools;
the implementation of road safety education programmes and eco-driving courses in schools;
the experimentation and usability of various innovative tools and free platforms for optimising home-school-work trips;
the strengthening of the municipal bike sharing service;
the design and implementation of awareness-raising campaigns such as that of Fiab Lecce Cicloamici, the non-profit association that promotes the use of bicycles.

Activities:

Creation of a strong and recognisable graphic identity for the project;
communication and awareness-raising campaign for the programme's actions;
creation of all information, digital, paper and social tools;
management and reporting support.

Funds:
Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea Protection - National Experimental Programme Of Sustainable Home-School And Home-Work Mobility (Law 28 December 2015, no. 221 "Environmental provisions to promote green economy measures and for containment of the excessive use of natural resources" art. 5, paragraph 1)

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