The Computer Security Incident Response Team of the Emilia-Romagna Region (CSIRT-RER) is officially operative.

It’s a structure dedicated to cyber-security established by the Region to support its Constituency of reference – that is the regional agencies and structures and the Bodies that signed the Convenzione per la Community Network in Emilia-Romagna – in preventing, detecting and answering cybersecurity incidents while constantly improving the cybersecurity posture thanks to the adoption of standardized and good common practices.

The “L’Europa in Emilia-Romagna” platform has been recently launched and it’s accessible at europa.regione.emilia-romagna.it, bringing to life a dynamic space where the social and institutional fabric of the Region can meet, cooperate and grow together.

The final evaluation of the European PRECINT project was held in Bruxelles with the aid of a profitable and positive dialogue with the evaluation experts of the European Commission, and it manifested some evident interests for the operators who work with interconnected critical infrastructures and aim to improve their resilience.

How can we effectively use AI to manage the territory and the administrative processes? 

What tools can be used to improve supervision and risk management? 

What are the necessary competences, and which ethical implication should be taken into consideration?

MyHealth@EU represents the digital infrastructure for online health assistance in Europe which ensures a secure and interoperable exchange of health data between Member Countries of EU, guaranteeing continuity of cure for European citizers traveling, offering the same therapy as their Country of residence. 

On October the 19th 2023, inside the charming setting of Oratorio San Filippo Neri, ART-ER, Lepida and Cineca launched ER2Digit, an ambitious project dedicated to the PA and Emilia-Romagna industries digitalization, co-financed by the Digital Europe program and the Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy. 

Artificial Intelligence represents a field of strong technological innovation with multiple opportunities and risks.

This new phenomenon will bring significative changes to the local Pubblic Administration regarding its manners of territorial managing. However, exploring the potential of these technologies brings up numerous doubts.

ER2Digit, the European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) of Emilia-Romagna will meet agents from Public Administrations and Enterprises to present its services dedicated to the territory. 

The meeting is going to take place in Bologna at the Oratorio San Filippo Neri (Via Manzoni 5) on October 19, 2023 from 09:00 AM to 01:00 PM. 

Starting from the challenges presented by the Digital Agenda 2020-2025, the event is going to offer food for thoughts and concrete solutions to address the digital transition and to respond to innovation needs. 

On the 14th of June, 2023, the final event of the Erasmus+ TRANSIT project was held in Parma; it was focused on the promotion of sustainable mobility and behavioural change through the implementation of training courses aimed at workers, citizens and students.

The meeting aimed at Data Protection Officers (DPOs) of public and private data, promoted by the Guarantor for the protection of personal data in cooperation with Lepida and the Emilia-Romagna Region, took place on 23rd of June 2023 in Bologna at the Arena del Sole Theatre, with more than 800 participants registered from all over Italy. 

The conference of PRECINCT, the European project aimed at improving the resilience of Critical Infrastructure (CI), was held in the second week of May 2023. 

Lepida participates in the project as part of the Bologna Living Lab (LL4), together with Bologna Airport, ITL Foundation and FS-Technologies, but also as a nodal actor with its own network infrastructure within Bologna's experimental site. 

Tough times are ahead for hacking: twenty-five new bloodhounds will soon be on the trail of perpetrators of crimes that increasingly put at risk data and infrastructures essential to the activities of Public Administrations and important private production companies. 

In fact, the two-year course in Cybersecurity in PA promoted and implemented by Fitstic, an ITS Foundation that operates in the ICT sector in Emilia-Romagna, kicked off last March 30.