The PADRION project (Public Administrations facing Digital transformation as a community in the ADRION area) has been selected for the financing program Interreg cooperation Program IPA Adrion 2021-2027. The project addresses the common challenge of digital transformation and innovation capacity of Public Administrations. 

 Within the ER2Digit project, the first series of alerts was launched on November 22nd 2023.

The response was extraordinary, with 22 Public Administrations (PA) submitting 35 applications for services, demonstrating considerable interest in digital innovation.

In order to develop, strengthen and expand the network infrastructure, and doing so connecting PAs and making datacenter more performing and safer, the implementation of routing, switching and safety solutions is a crucial step. 

This is why in September 2023 Vista Technology, a certificated Juniper partner, has been chosen by Lepida through a public procedure as Juniper Networks products supplier.

After the webinar “Rete IoT per l’Emilia-Romagna – Insieme per un ecosistema di dati intelligenti” (IoT Network for Emilia-Romagna – Together to build an ecosystem of intelligent data), which was held in september 2023, new memorandums of understanding were signed with more than 20 bodies, the needs for sensors for specific territorial projects were collected and the phase of their installation began.

In December 2023, Emilia-Romagna Region, Lepida and the pensioner’s trade unions – Spi Cgil, Fnp Cisl and Uilp Uil – renewed the memorandum of understanding which aims to support the most vulnerable segments of the population during the access and use of the Digital ID SPID and its related online services, such as Fascicolo Sanitario Elettronico, ERSalute, app IO and PagoPA.

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?