Regione Toscana - Sector for Innovation and Research, Department of Economic Development

The Sector for Innovation and Research in the Tuscan regional government has an annual budget of around 45 million euro and a staff of 22 people. Since 2002 over 600 regional projects have been financed under various programmes and the sector has participated in 25 European projects, 6 as coordinator. The Regione Toscana is committed to developing a knowledge-based society and the Sector for Innovation and Research works towards this particularly through technology transfer, reinforcing partnerships between the main innovation actors.
The Sector for Innovation and Research is in charge of four measures on the regional SPD (Single Programming Document) which have financed projects since 2002 on the themes of: Financial Engineering, Innovation in SMEs, Industrial Research and the Information Society. The same sector has also been responsible for two Regional Programmes of Innovative Actions co-funded by DG REGIO of the European Commission (RPIA ITT Technological Innovation in Tuscany and RPIA VINCI – Virtual Enterprises and Organisations).
The Sector’s experience in European funded projects includes the 6th Framework Programme,  INTERREG IIIC and IIIB MEDOCC and ERIK, the European Regional Knowledge Based Innovation Network co-funded by DG REGIO. Particularly relevant to the environmental phenomena studies are: OSIRIS FP6-project, HYDRANET, GRINFOMED+MEDIFIRE, HYDOPTIMET e DESERTNET INTERREG IIIB-MEDOCC projects. The technical activities for these projects are principally developed by LaMMA: a  Regional Laboratory for Meteorology and Environmental Modelling.

Activities foreseen in the frame of the Projet DesertNet 2

In the framework of DESERTNET2 project Regione Toscana objectives are  principally the Implementation of a hydrological model for the assessment of the water deficit  and  the Development of an early warning drought bulletin in support of the agricultural activities, using new versatile drought indexes (SPI, NDVI, …).
The technical activities will be principally developed by LaMMA. Particularly, Regione Toscana has to work on a Meteorological data-base, has to collect Hydrological, Geological and Soil Data to produce the land use maps, the vegetation indexes data-base and the spatialization of the climatic data.
Successively, we have to test the hydrological model and we have to run the model over the selected test area on a year base and on an extreme event. Finally we have to produce the Early warning drought bulletin.
Regione Toscana will be involved in the project results dissemination actions.  

Contacts:

Legal Representative:
Head of the Sector for Innovation and Research:
Simone Sorbi
Via San Gallo 34/a 50129 Firenze Italy
Tel. +39 055 438 2405
Fax. +39 055 438 2426
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Project contact person:
Simone Cristofori
Via san Gallo 34/a 50129 Firenze Italy
Tel. +39 055 438 2445
Fax +39 055 438 2426
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