It was inaugurated at the Terna headquarters in Naples, in the presence of the Minister of Innovation Paola Pisano, the Chief Executive Officer for IT and the Digital Agenda of the Metropolitan City of Naples Rosario Ragosta and the Chief Executive Officer of Terna Luigi Ferraris, the Innovation Hub, the first in the South and the second in Italy.
Through interaction and exchange with external realities such as universities, research centres, startups and companies, the Innovation Hub will become a laboratory in which to create, develop and concretely test new ideas. The integration of skills new and synergistic will therefore be the cornerstone of this experience which started from the headquarters of the Turin operating area in April: it opens its doors today in Naples and will soon continue in other Italian cities.
Specifically, the Naples Innovation Hub will be focused on Digital to People i.e. on digital transformation of business processes and innovation of tools in the Human Resources and Organization area. The first 6 Startups selected will develop Digital Safety and Digital Human Resources projects: from processes to make asset maintenance more efficient, to the creation of apps that virtually reconstruct field operations to be used to train personnel, to the creation of a collection of training needs to design personalized training courses and digital coaching.
The project is part of the national innovation and digitization process for which Terna will invest approx 700 million euros over the next 5 years. The goal, in an increasingly complex energy scenario, is to develop prototypes of innovative ideas focused on the new technological trends relevant to the Company thanks to the creation of working groups made up of subjects of different origins and skills. The projects that will be launched will favor the diffusion of the culture of innovation, the creation of future professional skills of excellence and the development of industrial solutions that can be implemented on a larger scale.
The inauguration of the Innovation Hub was also an opportunity for Terna to launch a new competition which aims to involve local professionals in the design of stations electrical integrated into the territory. It starts right from Campania where in Capri Terna has already built a unique station of its kind, designed in harmony with the environment in which it is inserted.
“We are proud – he commented Terna CEO Luigi Ferraris – to continue this path of innovation which has the objective of creating synergies between Terna's people and professionalism and the excellence of the territory to develop innovative ideas and paths for the benefit of an increasingly modern, efficient, flexible and sustainable electricity grid in capable of promoting the energy transition underway. The Innovation Hub in Naples confirms the importance of this city and this region in Terna's strategy which envisages investments in the Campania electricity grid of over 5 million euros over the next 536 years”.
