Ongoing Projects

New functionally graded materials with unprecedented properties and functionalities

The mechanisms of sleep have been studied for decades, but many aspects remain a mystery. What is known is that sleep is a locally regulated phenomenon in which cortical islands of sleep- and wake-like activity can coexist. This activity is also related to the presence and content of mental activity during sleep. In other words, dreams would result from ‘local awakenings’ in the otherwise sleeping brain.

The training network NEWFRAC is a leading European research consortium composed by eight top university research teams and five high-tech companies. The high-level doctoral training offered by NEWFRAC to thirteen creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers is focused on new strategies for prediction and analysis of multi-field fracture phenomena in heterogeneous engineering systems at different scales.

SoBigData++ strives to deliver a distributed, Pan-European, multi-disciplinary research infrastructure for big social data analytics, coupled with the consolidation of a cross-disciplinary European research community, aimed at using social mining and big data to understand the complexity of our contemporary, globally-interconnected society.

SoBigData RI, with its tools and services, empowers researchers and innovators through a platform for the design and execution of large-scale data science and social mining experiments, open to users with diverse backgrounds, accessible on cloud (aligned with EOSC guidelines), and also exploiting supercomputing facilities. SoBigData RI will render social mining experiments more efficiently designed, adjusted, and repeatable by non-data scientists' domain experts by pushing the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable) and FACT (Fair, Accountable, Confidential and Transparent) principles.

The project aims to strengthen the SoBigData research infrastructure (www.sobigdata.eu), coordinated by CNR-ISTI, with the goal of enhancing interdisciplinary and innovative research on the multiple aspects of social complexity by combining data and model-driven approach. SoBigData emphasizes the concept of “responsible data science”, considering ethical values as one of the pillars of reliable use of big data analytics and artificial intelligence technologies.

Cyber ​​attacks alarm the population, damage the economy and endanger the very safety of citizens when they affect the distribution networks of essential services such as health, energy, transport, and critical infrastructures of modern society. The SERICS project aims to identify the key security and privacy issues that cause societal harm, economic losses and hinder the adoption of smart city technologies, taking into account technical issues but also legal and societal aspects related to security and privacy.

"THE - Tuscany Health Ecosystem" is one of the 11 innovation ecosystems financed at the national level for the PNRR and is the result of a project proposal submitted by the University of Florence, as lead partner, in line with one of the strategic lines of the Region of Tuscany. THE is the only ecosystem dedicated to Life Sciences, which focuses on the needs of the population. The project has received funding totalling EUR 110 million from the Ministry of University and Research.

Tuscany x.0 è uno dei 13 progetti vincitori italiani del bando Europeo per la creazione di un European Digital Innovation Hub con lo scopo di favorire il trasferimento tecnologico attraverso l’adozione di tecnologie digitali avanzate, Intelligenza Artificiale, Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni, Sicurezza Informatica. Pubblica amministrazione e piccole e medie imprese avranno, così, l’opportunità di usufruire di servizi e tecnologie: facili, accessibili e a Km0. In particolare, Tuscany X.0 è il Polo dedicato alle aziende toscane,