After the break due to the pandemic and after the extraordinary winter special which, last December, has brought soul music back onto the stages of the Memphis of the Apennines, Porretta Soul Festival has returned to its usual location for its 34th edition.

The last weekend of July, Porretta has seen thousands of enthusiasts crowd its streets and venues. LepidaTV was once again the media partner of the event, involving a great crew of technicians and operators and four cameras, which managed the live broadcastings of all the sets that took place on the Rufus Thomas Park stage.

Among the 41 projects submitted, 13 are Italian and overtook the careful examination of the European Commission: the ER2Digit project was entitled to a fund of 4.5 millions of euros. The project, presented by ART-ER and involving Lepida and Cineca, is aimed at the creation and development of the Digital Innovation Hub European network.

On May 12th Lepida organised a meeting with the title “The dematerialization of social Justice processes”, in order to share what has been done about this topic and which opportunities have been offered to the interested and available for digitalisation parties.

The meeting, attended by nearly 60 people from Municipalities or territorial Unions, was opened by Councilman Calvano and the CEO Frieri, who confirmed the support of the Region to the Municipalities and Unions that will take part in the project.

The Resilience and Recovery National Plan is a great chance to renew the digital features and functionalities that local Institutions have at their disposal.

Several bid are being made, for example, to simplify the digitalisation of existing systems, which are already in use in Data Centres, or to secure solution already in place, or to enable the migrations toward system or production chains’ Clouds; other bids are related to the massive use of authentication systems based on SPID, CIE and Open ID connect, or concerning portals for citizens.

The first design “sprint” of the Bologna Living Lab (LL4), which is part of the European project PRECINCT, is close to its end.

The Project, which aims to increase the resilience of critical infrastructures, is raising the awareness of the interconnection which exists among the several networks that cross each other in Bologna’s node.

LepidaTV’s new website is finally online, completely renewed in both its graphic and informative components, featuring a modern and impactful layout. The restyling does not only concern the visual elements, but also functionalities and contents presentation, which have been reorganised to simplify the classification and the users’ choice.

The Fascicolo Sanitario Elettronico (FSE) is the tool which allows the citizen to keep track and look up its own health history, sharing it with healthcare workers.

Lepida’s WiFi Access Points installations are continuing as part of the European Project WiFi4EU. After the activations in Bomporto, Valsamoggia and Coriano, indoor and outdoor APs have been activated in Ravenna, Voghiera and Pianoro.

The “IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference” took place this year too.

In his introductory speech, during the first meeting between Lepida and Bologna Association of Engineers, Vincenzo Tizzani, the Representative of Bologna Association of Information Engineers, underlined how the agreement between Lepida and the Association aims at offering a technical support for school activities digitalization, in line with the networks realised by Lepida, to the regional scholastic system.