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New Project Development of Bergamo with check up and advice. Entry by July 3

Additive manufacturing, more simply known as 3D printing, and open source solutions, ie based on free software licenses, are among the new features that are causing more interest in the industrial field. Bergamo Development, a special agency of the Chamber of Commerce of Bergamo, believes that could impact positively on small businesses, providing the ability to test new models of management of production activities.

That’s why he launched the project “Bergamo Technology” that is aimed at evaluating the introduction of these new technologies and business models associated with them with a view from one side of integration with existing systems, on the other side of the development of competitiveness and trigger new demands from the market.

The initiative is aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises Bergamo (industrial, craft and commercial) that we have at least a place of business in the province of Bergamo. It is funded by the Chamber of Commerce and organized in collaboration with the local association system and with the technical and scientific support of the University of Bergamo and the Consortium Intellimech.

The project provides for:

• the administration of a questionnaire to local businesses to check the status of additive technologies in companies of Bergamo
• the collection of applications to join the project
• carrying out 30 check-up technology companies in the free select
• the supply of 1,200 hours of counseling to 20 companies
• the realization of a final event for the presentation of the final results Project

Here the application form to the project. Applications will be received up to Friday, July 3, 2015

The new project was presented during a press conference with representatives of the communities involved.

Here is what they think

GIANLUIGI VISCARDI – Bergamo vice president of development and innovation delegate and president of the Intelligent Cluster Fabbrica for the years 2015-2017

“The project’s objective is to accompany and transfer technologies to companies, even smaller ones; we will decline over the territory that is being done at national level to disseminate the new technologies. “

CHRISTIAN ARRIGONI – Director of Bergamo Development

” We aim to literacy businesses on new technologies and to do that we have strengthened our partnership with the University and extended the network of our partnerships in the Consortium Intellimech “

SERGIO KNIGHTS – professor of the Department of Engineering Management, Information and production of the university of Bergamo

“The project is focused on small and medium-sized enterprises because they have the greatest need of support and synergy of participation in the initiative shows the ability to put” a system “existing skills in our country in these areas “

CATERINA RIZZI – director and professor of the Department of Engineering Management, Information and production

” Through the questionnaire that we are preparing will explore training needs, management and technology of local businesses to be able to propose a training activity of “value”. In this way we bring our skills in the business world “

STEFANO IERACE – chief operating officer of the Consortium Intellimech

” Through the project we will investigate the innovation needs of small businesses that also need to know the technology to know if and how to use them to grow their own reality “

THOMAS TOSCANO – Director Cna Bergamo

” Innovation is also important for micro and small businesses and it is even more in this period. Innovation, as a fundamental asset, must enter into the fabric of Bergamo and then Benvenga a project like this “