Italian partners
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Vodafone Omnitel N.V
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Vodafone Italia is part of the Vodafone Group, the world leader in the mobile
telecommunications sector, operating in 25 countries, with Network partnership in
another 35 countries. Vodafone Italia was Italy's first private mobile telephony
operator. In December 2006, Vodafone Italia had over 26 million customers, and more
than 5.6 Vodafone live! customers. The company has about 10,000 employees, 8
operational call centres around the country and over 2,000 outlets. Vodafone
Italia's financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2006 report total revenue
of €8,324 million.
Vodafone Italia has international roaming agreements with 471 operators in 235
countries. The GSM-GPRM network covers over 97% of Italy, representing 99.4% of
the population.
In June 2006 Vodafone Italia launched the new
HSDPA service known as Super
UMTS Broadband and
became the only Italian mobile operator with coverage as wide as standard
UMTS, representing
70% of the population.
In 2004 Vodafone Italia launched its
UMTS network. As of
January 2007, UMTS
coverage had been extended to 75% of the population. As of January 2007 the number
of UMTS devices
and Connect card UMTS
have grown to 4,4 million. Vodafone Italia is to the first place between the
European companies of Vodafone Group for number of devices
UMTS.
Since it was established in 1995 it has stood out for its innovative approach to
services and communications.
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R&S INFO srl
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R&S INFO is an IT Company active in Parma and Milano, Italy, since 1990.
Both an engineering and a management consulting Company, the main business sectors
are Healthcare Management Systems, Knowledge Management Systems, Business Process
Re-engineering and Workflow Management Systems.
Customers of R&S are medium to large?sized industrial companies, universities,
hospitals, local healthcare organizations, public administrations.
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RATIO CONSULTA SpA
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RATIO CONSULTA SpA is an IT
Company based in Milano since 1986. The mission is to design, develop and market
systems for advanced telecommunications applications, to provide services for the
management of advanced telecom systems, to market and support the "AD-HOC" market
information system and the "INTELLIWARE" customisable voice recognition system.
The main R&D activities
address value added TLC products
and services such as: Call Centres, Internet Applications for e-mail and
e-commerce, Design of multimedia networks (Fibre optics, Copper wire, Wireless,
Satellite), Voice & Data over frame relay and
IP.
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Interdipartimental Research Centre "E. Piaggio"
Faculty of Engineering,
University of Pisa
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Interdepartmental Research Center "E. Piaggio" is an Institute of the University
of Pisa, working to promote and perform multidisciplinary research in the fields
of Bioengineering, Robotics and Automation. It cooperates with private and public
companies to study specific application problems that need advanced or innovative
solutions. The staff is composed by electronic and chemical engineers, physicists,
chemists and biologists.
The main research areas of our Institute include materials engineering
(piezoresistives, piezoelectric polymer, polyelectrolyte gel, conducting polymer)
and bioengineering: "intelligent" materials and systems for sensing and actuation
(i.e. artificial senses - touch and olfaction, biosensors, pseudo-muscular actuators).
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Mountain Community of Taro and Ceno Valleys (CMV)
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The "Mountain Community of Taro and Ceno Valleys" (CMV) is operating since 1976 and has been constituted in accordance with the art. 27 D.L. 18/08/2000 N.267 and Regional laws N.3/1999 e N.11/2001. As a Local Administration body, the mission of CMV is to exploit the mountain territory of the member Municipalities with the fulfilment of special plans and interventions for the development of mountain areas as established by the European Union in accordance with the Regional and National legislations. The CMV is in charge of managing the assistance to elderly, young and disabled persons in the member Municipalities.
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CNR Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR-ISTI)
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The Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) is the largest institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR); it is located in the CNR Research Area of Pisa. ISTI was constituted in September 2000 as a result of a merger between the CNUCE Institute (CNR-CNUCE) and the Institute for Information Processing (CNR-IEI). The Institute became fully operational in 2002. It is the largest Institute among the 110 Institutes spread all over Italy and constituting the CNR. Research is organized in dynamic units, called Research Laboratories, which pursue a well-defined set of strongly related scientific objectives. The teams include permanent staff, visitors, post-doctoral fellows and doctoral students, with an average number of 10 members per Lab. The Research Laboratories are largely independent and results are subject to periodical evaluation; the current number of Research Laboratories at ISTI is 14.
