Fondazione ITS per le Nuove Tecnologie della Vita Alessandro Volta Area Science Park – SS 14 km 163,5 Basovizza – 34149 Trieste (Italia)
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Based on a vision Innovative entrepreneurs, secondary schools, research institutions and health care companies in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, operating in the sector life science, the Technical High School (ITS) Foundation for New Technologies of Life Alessandro Volta is being Established in Trieste in 2014, with the aim of meeting the training needs of the area, particularly in the biomedical field.
The Foundation was born on particularly fertile ground in Trieste. The experience of designing and building the city’s new hospital, Cattinara Hospital in the early 1980s, saw biomedical technologies at the center of planning for the first time in our country. Italy’s first clinical engineering service was born in this hospital, and a close collaboration began with the University of Trieste, which activated the graduate school in clinical engineering that trained the vast majority of our country’s clinical engineers over 30 years. In the late 1980s, an entrepreneurial experience, that of the TBS Group, began, developing in more than 20 countries and taking this experience to the world.
Therefore, the Foundation was born precisely from the drive of stakeholders such as TBS Group, which, together with Istituto Tecnico Statale A. Volta, Area Science Park, the Municipality of Trieste, the University of Trieste, the Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina (ASUGI) and the Azienda Sanitaria Friuli Occidentale (ASFO), which immediately formed a close collaboration to structure a
living lab
(interactive laboratory) capable of faithfully reproduce a hospital environment in which to incorporate biomedical technologies and equipment for practical exercises. Fundamental to this is the contribution of the local advanced research world, with ICGEB-International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnologyand Elettra-Sincrotrone among the promoters of the Foundation.
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The establishment of this ITS was realized in line with the first Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) of Friuli Venezia Giulia for the 2014-2020 structural funds programming in response to business demand for a highly qualified training supply of new and high technical skills that can promote innovation and technology transfer processes.
La vision innovation is embodied in the LAB3 (LABoratory for Advanced Technology in Healthcare REpair Training and Education), a flagship of the Foundation and the first example in Italy and Europe of a laboratory dedicated to the advanced training of specialized biomedical technicians; this consists of a biomedical laboratory (CT room, X-ray room, operating room) and a medical informatics laboratory.
In order to ensure a training environment strongly oriented toward practical exercises, and in line with the technological evolution related to Industry 4.0 strategies, the Foundation has strengthened its facilities in 2019 with the LAB3D (LABoratory for 3D print and virtual, augmented and mixed reality), dedicated to APP development, augmented, virtual and mixed reality systems, modeling and 3D printing.
Attention next turned to technologies related to Telecommunications and IoT solutions (Internet of Things) applied to the medical (telemedicine), agribusiness, and environmental sectors.
The Foundation is a “nonprofit” legal entity, in which various public and private actors participate, which operates through projects in line with “New Technologies of Life.” In relation to the strategic priorities for the economic development of the country and in the areas and according to the priorities indicated by regional planning, the Foundation pursues the purposes of promoting the dissemination of technical and scientific culture and continuing education in the field life science, as well as to support measures for the development of the economy and active labor policies.