Call for the development of 4.0 solutions for the CoronaVirus COVID-19 emergency

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To deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, ARTES 4.0 collaborates in the dissemination of the Covid-19 Extraordinary Notice of the Ministry of Economic Development , which finances industrial research and experimental development projects that exploit 4.0 technologies with the aim of containing the social and short and long-term economic impacts on all sectors, both public and productive, of the Coronavirus and in general for the fight against infectious diseases.The ARTES 4.0 extraordinary call finances industrial research and experimental development projects that exploit 4.0 technologies to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and in general to fight infectious diseases, with the final aim of containing the social and economic effects in the short and long term across all public and productive sectors.What are 4.0 technologiesThe term.



Industry 4.0 indicates a trend of industrial automation that integrates new Special Data production technologies to improve working conditions, create new business models and increase the productivity and production quality of plants . There is no substantial agreement among scholars on the improvement of working conditions. For some, in fact, the improvement of working conditions would only be a promise, not unheard of, that every technical-organizational transformation brings with it.Beneficiaries of the extraordinary emergency callThe beneficiaries are Micro, Small, Medium and Large Enterprises, as well as Start-Ups .Beneficiaries can participate individually or in business partnerships (ATS/ATI).Universities and research organizations (OdR) can participate in project proposals not as partners, but as suppliers of goods and services in the context of research collaborations, contractual research, consultancy services and equivalent services.Beneficiaries must meet the following requirements:have a permanent establishment in Italybe duly constituted as a company and registered in the Companies Register.





Application areas of eligible interventionsHere is a list of possible application areas of eligible interventions:monitoring and assistance to patients in isolationremote clinical assistance systemsdecontaminationcontainment of the health emergencyremote working activities (smart working)sanitation of environmentsprovision of healthcare facilities to support hospitals (e.g. pre-triage)diagnostics, therapy and clinical management for containment and prevention;health and safety in the workplaceprotective equipment for medical personnel involved on the front line in the emergencyvital signs monitoring systems (e.g. temperature measurement in public areas)"soft" telemanipulation of equipment and systems/laboratories in contaminated areas, to support "smart working"predictive maintenance and "anomaly/fault detection" in "critical" industrial areas and equipment and/or critical healthcare facilities (quarantine or contaminated, continuity in the absence of human operators.