Fondazione E. Amaldi

The primary objective of the "Edoardo Amaldi" Foundation is to promote and support scientific research aimed at technology transfer, starting from the space sector, as a fundamental tool for the country's economic development and as a source of innovation for improving competitiveness, productivity and employment. The reference model that inspired them is the German Fraunhofer Institute, absolute excellence in technology transfer and applied research.
The Foundation sees the participation of private and public subjects aiming to be a virtuous experimental model in which the public contribution is lower than the private one, a best practice of the public-private partnership which aims to make this same model repeatable also in others. districts in addition to the aerospace one.
The Foundation aims to develop and make available the results of applied research, produced by different public and private actors and to produce internal research activities. This approach, commonly called "open innovation", tends on the one hand to speed up the acquisition of innovation by SMEs, putting various researchers from different backgrounds in contact directly and in the same environment, and on the other hand to reduce Research costs and Development.