Avviso N. 3277 del 30-12-2021 Proposte di intervento per la creazione di 12 Ecosistemi dell'innovazione sul territorio nazionale da finanziare nell'ambito del PNRR - Missione 4 Componente 2 Investimento 1.5 MUR
"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.
THE's challenge is to make Tuscany the 'health region' by pushing research towards applications and companies to grow technologies dedicated to health and wellbeing. The ecosystem will devote part of the funding to providing funds for applied research to companies and spin-offs on the basis of special public calls for tenders, as well as to the temporary hiring of about 300 new young researchers.
Scuola IMT is involved in Spoke 3 dedicated to Advanced technologies, methods and materials for human health and well-being (Scuola IMT Principal Investigator Massimo Riccaboni) and SPOKE 8 Biotechnologies and imaging in neuroscience (Scuola IMT Principal Investigator Emiliano Ricciardi)