Regional Centre - Trento
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Finances and Funding
In addition to the general information on how to finance your startup and company, the following highlights funding locally available in Trento, Northern Italy.
Calls, Grants and Awards
Organisations
- The local government.
- The university promotes and supports new enterprises related to research.
- An agency created by the Autonomous Province of Trento with the aim of helping local companies and stakeholders to contribute to the growth and promotion of Trentino as a business and research hub.
- The foundation, with more than 350 researchers, conducts studies in the areas of Information Technology, Materials and Microsystems, Italo-Germanic studies, and Religious sciences.
- The Research Centre has a mission to promote and enhance the Trentino land-based economy through studies and innovation that improve agricultural and forestry products and enhance the quality and nutritional value of food products.
- A Public-private local platform of innovation and applied R&D integrating know-how and best practices of University, Research Labs, Companies and Public Institutions in three sectors: Green Building, Renewable Energies, ICT for a sustainable and integrated management of the environment
Programmes
- Business plan competition
- Provincia autonoma di Trento actions for economic development and new enterprises
- Enterprise incubators
University of Trento (Unitn) Schemes
- Unitn services and support for new groundbreaking enterprises linked to research.
- [IMPRESA project]
- An opportunity for net-economy students developing new business ideas.
University of Trento (Unitn) Startups and Spinoffs
- Mountain-eering s.r.l. (founded in 2008, spin off)
- Mountain-eering stems from the need to make hydrological tools available to public agencies, dealing with environmental protection and hazard management, and to private companies working in this field. These tools originate from the state-of-the-art-research carried out by prof. Rigon and his team at the Civil and Environmental Engineering department of Trent University and at CUDAM (Centro Universitario per la Difesa dell'Ambiente Montano).
- The outcome of these research activities having gone past the prototype phase, can now be applied to the engineering management of hydro-geological risk, thus enhancing our current capability to cope with natural hazards.
- These tools are free software and open source, numerical models such as GEOtop (www.geotop.org ), which allow for analyses such as the detection of proneness to soil failures, landslides and debris flow, hydrological cycle analyses, glacier and permafrost evolution, and their impact on water resources. These models are developed to work within a GIS environment such as JGRASS (www.jgrass.org) and to incorporate earth-observation data.
- Mountain-eering provides consultancy based on these models and customer-tailored solutions which also include tutorials and support to the customer. In addition, the company has considerable expertise in environmental surveying and monitoring in general, and in particular, aiming at characterizing the physical parameters required by the model. Currently the company is collaborating with CUDAM and the Geological Survey of the local authority (PAT) concerning hydro-gelogical hazard mapping, and evolution of the Alpine permafrost and the glaciers.
- K4Sint s.r.l. (founded in 2007, start up)
- New sintering/shaping technologies and routes to get near-net-shape components: in particular, specific materials systems to produce Bio-materials, Hard-materials, Functionally Graded Materials. Powder metallurgy is a suitable technology for the production of near-net-shape components, although forming of complex shapes along with full density material is a critical stage to be improved: we are investigating emerging techniques for shaping complex parts with improved performances.
