Consorzio PST Multisettoriale Magna Graecia

Sectors

• Agricultural/food
  • Food technologies
  • Agricultural production
• Energy and Environment
  • Energy

Services

• Research and Development
  • Research and Development inside the park
  • Administration of external research projects
  • Technology transfer
  • Commercialization of technologies
• Human Resources
  • Organisation of conferences, courses and seminars
  • Partnerships with universities and other research institutes
  • Management consultancy
• Business
  • Consultancy related to intellectual property
  • Network formations
• Administrative services
  • Consultancy for dealing with public administration
  • Support of relations with the EU
• Other services
  • Territorial marketing
  • Consultancy for public administration related to energy resources

Data and Facts

Key data

• Founded in: 2004
• Seats: 1
• Employees: 8
• Total Area: 400 m²

Sponsors

The sponsors are all public authorities:

• 23 Communes in the Province of Crotone;
• Alto Crotonese mountain community and Marchesato mountain community;
• Governement agencies: Province of Crotone and Crotone Chamber of Commerce;
• Trade associations craft: Unione provinciale Artigiani di Crotone (Province of Crotone Crafts Association), C.N.A. Crotone and Confartigianato Crotone;
• Trade associations agriculture: Confederazione Italiana Agricoltura Crotone, Coltivatori diretti di Crotone (Province Association of Direct Cultivators) und Confederazione Interprovinciale Agricoltori di Crotone;
• Other corporations: Confindustria Crotone, Consorzio Rete Ecologica Calabria, Consorzio Crotone sviluppo, Consorzio per lo sviluppo industriale della provincia di Crotone, Lega Cooperative di Crotone and Confcooperative – Association of the Provinces CZ and KR

Objectives

• Extending the competitiveness of the firms
• Attracting investors
• Enhancement of the technological level of companies and facilities
• Enhancement of the cooperation between universities and companies
• Technological support of the companies and facilities
• Site support
• Economic exploitation of scientific results

Network

• Apsti

Location

Location and Environment

Infrastructure and links

Technology transfer

Inclusion in EU project

• “Traditional and biological agricultural foods ICT project: extension of the technological infrastructures for greater market penetration and to react dynamically on the national and international markets”. Approved with 10 980 000 Euros (Not active).
• “GESFO: Integrated development for the management of the forestry heritage for the protection of ecological functionality” project: Presented by PST.KR and CNR, Section air pollution of Rende". Approved with 520 000 Euros (completed).
• “MESSIAH” Project ACTION 1 – CENTRE FOR MONITORING AND TECHNOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY. Approved with 500 000 Euros (completed).
• “INPECRO” Project realised by a company from the Crotone area in the milk/cheese sector, together with PST.KR, on the topic of systems and technologies in the industrial production of Pecorino from Crotone. Approved with 54 600 Euros (completed).
• Master “Process and Product Designer for the Wood Branch” presented by PST.KR, the CCIAA and the firm Gandalf. Approved with 300 000 Euros (completed).
• “Cohesion, Safety and Legality”: Project, planning and management by PST.KR, presentation PIT 11 Alto Crotonese. Approved with 75 000 Euros (completed).
• “Clean Energy”: Project Presentation PIT 11 Alto Crotonese, management PST-KR. Approved with 75 000 Euros (completed).

Activities

PST.KR has convened, as part of the activities of the technology district for cultural heritage in Calabria, the first Meeting for Innovation. Here the starting shot for the Messiah project was fired, which is located in the Centre for Monitoring and Technological Observatory (CMOT).

• Objective Attention was focused on the foundation of a network activated by the companies located in the district. This network is considered as the basis for the sustainability of the initiative.

Structure The meeting can be sub-divided into three phases:

• 1. Phase: The attention was focused here on the detailed presentation of the topics both regarding the inventory of the cultural heritage and also the current status of the university research.
• 2. Phase: Then interest was focused on the national and regional textile companies, which are developing the innovative technologies for the cultural heritage area
• 3. Phase: Thereafter, a joint meeting took place to discuss the various motions and the needs of the local companies involved.

For the generation of new development ideas and for mutual exchange, the companies participating in the meeting were requested to take part in a brief brainstorming, in order to filter the supply and demand for innovations. Results of the Brainstorming The joint results were initially worked out and arranged in accordance with the management process of the heritage assets (knowledge, preservation, use and valorisation) in order to then analyse them in accordance with the dimensions of the innovation (process, market, product/services). The starting point for the tasks taken over by CMOT was the valorisation process with the following breakdown through to the knowledge process. Starting from the valorisation there were diverse innovation proposals: from the development of the services offers in the outsourcing process via craft training through to the development of products and services for Digital-TV. With regard to the products, two interesting points, which ought to be pursued, were drawn up by several participants: firstly, the reconditioning of the Calabrian style element ebony; secondly, the development of reproductions in virtual companies. With regard to the sphere of usage, in particular, the Financing Project was emphasised. The focal point here was the use of a finance tool for restoring or preserving cultural heritage, especially for use and upgrading. Another topic related to the sensitisation of the young with regard to responsible treatment of the immense capital value of cultural heritage. A further topic was preservation. Here two procedures for the process of innovation were proposed: 1. Introduction of specialisation tools and capital certifications in the preservation area 2. Necessity of promoting the incorporation of restoring and construction companies in special projects. At the close of the conference, it was requested with regard to the extension of the markets to identify pointers which are conducive to the opening up of foreign markets, in particular, those in the East, towards the Russian/Chinese markets and towards the Mediterranean countries.

Contacts to Germany already exist:

We have included the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Germany in the II Call by Interreg IVC –WaterMan Project. The objective of the project envisages an exchange of experience and knowledge and political commitment in the following directions: - Enhancement of the supply quality and the water preparation, including cooperation in the field of water reserves; - Integrated, sustained support and participation in the administration of inland waterways and seawater; - Development of an ecosystem based approach in the field of sustained administration of the seas and coastal regions including the advantages of use of the sea; - Adjustment to the effects of climate change in the water economy sector. In the light of these afore-named aims and the priorities laid out in the invitation to tender for INTERREG IVC, WATERMAN pursues the main aim of an integrative approach with the analysis of a broad spectrum of problems and the drawing up of possible pre-requisites for 2030 in the sphere of applicable strategies in the cost-benefit relationship in the individual regions.

Research and Development

Incubator and Incentives

Incubator

PST.KR provides the companies with modern equipped research centres and laboratories. In addition, the following services are offered:

• Promotion and extension of networks and partnerships within research and technology transfer;
• Determination of the technology and innovation needs;
• Project Management;
• Dissemination of the research results.

The PST.KR management devotes itself to the following aims:

• Integrated project management;
• Networking between facilities and companies;
• Coordination of the networks between companies/facilities.

Moreover, PST.KR performs the following activities:

• Support of the companies in the search for innovative ideas;
• Support of the dissemination of the ICT culture between the companies;
• Intensification of the transfer of best practices and innovative methods.

Incentives

Regional incentives:

• “N.E.T. Natur Energie Territorium – Network for Renewable Energies” Project developed by the Confindustria Calabria, in cooperation with PST.KR, the Agency for Development and Services in Agriculture - ARSSA, of the University of Calabria -UNICAL. Approved with 70 000 Euros (still to be used).

European incentives:

• “ARCHI-NET” project joint program INTERREG III B ARCHI-MED – PST.KR in cooperation with the States in the South-East Mediterranean Area for the realisation of a virtual network of knowledge and technology parks, in order to promote the extension of already existing parks and the competitiveness of the companies. Approved with 105 000 Euros.