Other projects funded by Veneto Region 
Venice School of Management

The mono-network project Digital Innovations for Cultural and Creative Enterprises, acronym: INDICE, proposes to respond to the growing need for Research & Development (R & D) and make accessible and centralise the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) innovations, in the field of culture and creativity of the territory of the Veneto Region. The INDICE project represents an important step forward in the integration of digital technologies in the different cultural and creative sectors of the Veneto Region. Thanks to the collaboration between RIR companies and the 4 universities that are members of its scientific committee (UniPD, UniVR, UniVE and IUAV), the project realizes under a single file rouge innovation ICT:

• five different solutions and technological innovations applied through Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Digital Twin, biometric security technologies and 3D animation. 5 different technological innovations serving cultural and creative enterprises and cultural tourism; creating replicable solutions that are opportunities for new products, services and therefore growth economic and market conditions on our territory and in other national and international contexts;

• a single platform (DAM Digital Asset Management) to make accessible to companies and public and private stakeholders the data and information obtained in the project. The platform will also have the ability to place and then communicate and insert data within the ecosystem, centralising relevant information in a single regional hub, through collaboration with Veneto Region.

Artistic manufacturing is at a crossroads between preserving traditional skills and adopting innovative technologies. On one hand, artisanal tradition is based on the ability to create new forms and models through direct experience and manual skill, as the act of "doing," combined with imagination, facilitates the innovation and realization of creative ideas.
On the other hand, the adoption of new technologies, such as CAD software and other digital design tools, tends to automate production processes. While these tools facilitate the refinement of components and the final shape of an object, relying solely on digital methods can become a trap that prevents the designer from fully understanding the intersection of material and form.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) amplifies these concerns, threatening to automate creative processes and replace the artisan. AI's ability to generate images, conceive designs, and "think" creatively raises questions about the integrity and future of artistic manufacturing.
The SUNRISE project, led by RIR EUTEKNOS, aims to address this challenge by taking a new path and introducing a paradigm that contrasts the concept of augmentation with that of automation. This approach seeks to reconcile the role of the artisan, promoting a competence-enhancing model that amplifies human capabilities through the strategic integration of AI.
SUNRISE is based on the synergistic combination of two distinct but complementary cognitive modes (Micelli, 2011):

• "T" Intelligence (Technological): Capable of processing and analyzing large volumes of information, with distributed, adaptive, and data-driven knowledge.
• "A" Intelligence (Artisanal): Vertical expertise, rooted in practical experience and a deep understanding of traditional materials and techniques.

To this end, SUNRISE intends to develop an AI-based virtual assistant to support companies in the artistic manufacturing sector. The goal is to help them in the stylistic definition of their products and the generation of new design ideas. The project involves the development of a two-level AI model:

1. General Model: An initial AI model is created, trained with data collected during a preliminary research phase. In this phase, the inputs include:
   Detailed images of design items, used to train the model to recognize visual features such as shapes, colors, textures, decorative patterns, etc.
   Texts that describe the products, providing information on aspects like style (e.g., modern, classic, minimalist), inspiration (e.g., natural elements, historical art), materials used, and manufacturing techniques. These descriptions help the model understand the language used to describe stylistic features and correlate terms with images.
   The model built in this way will be able to classify design products into specific stylistic categories, providing a common knowledge base that translates into a sort of "shared vocabulary" for companies in the sector.
2. Company Specialization: Subsequently, the model will be specifically adapted for each company participating in the R&D project using the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) approach. This method allows the knowledge of generative AI models to be extended using data and specific documents from the companies involved. The model will then be able to provide personalized design suggestions aligned with the company's style and identity, using data from catalogs, websites, and other useful materials provided by the companies themselves.

Coordinator: Carlo Bagnoli
Duration: 15/09/2020 - 31/03/2023
VSM role: proposer
Budget: € 355.880,00 - VSM amount: € 240.000,00
Call: DGR n. 204 del 26/02/2019, Linea 2 - Innovazione aziendale (di prodotto, di processo, organizzativa) [ITA]
Contract no.: 2120-0002-204-2019 - CUP: H72F20000140007

Coordinator: Carlo Bagnoli
VSM role: proposer
Duration: 15/04/2021 - 31/12/2022
Budget: € 291.086,76 -VSM amount: € 288.206,76
Call: DGR n. 204 del 26/02/2019 [ITA]
Contract no.: 2120-0004-204-2019 - CUP: H75F21000140007

Hybrid systems combine the dimension of the physical spaces we live in with the experience of the virtual and ‘cyberspace’. They offer the opportunity to harness the power of 3D, networks and intelligent systems without giving up the physical dimension of encounter, proximity and dialogue, supporting and building new opportunities for coexistence and social interaction. Hybrid environments are products of technical ingenuity and creativity, and in turn enable the multiplication of human creativity and intellect by supporting new ways of interacting, creating, designing, producing. The hybrid world that awaits us is made up of a single reality in which we seamlessly intersect the dimension of physical reality, robust and static, with that of the virtual, flexible and dynamic. We can exploit these dimensions and the synergies that can result from them. We can ensure more sustainable development, better safeguards for the environment, better places to live, new ways of living together and interacting socially. We can also use these resources and opportunities to better tackle the current pandemic. It follows from all this that this project identifies the specialisations of Sustainable Living (mainly) and Creative Industries as technical and cultural frameworks for its activities. The project's enabling technologies will address four complex situations that are particularly threatened, economically speaking, by the current pandemic situation. The potential of virtual-real hybrid systems in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility and resilience will be experimentally demonstrated in various application contexts and, in particular, in four areas of crucial importance for the regional economy: Construction, Trade, Culture and Artistic Manufacturing, research and development areas addressed by the five RIRs participating in the proposal, pooling resources and expertise in sharing the general objectives of the project.

The D3VeRo project (3D Printing in the Artistic Glass Sector to Relaunch and InnOve the Production Chain) aims to re-launch and strengthen the competitive capacity of the glass supply chain, with particular attention to the characteristics that distinguish the production processes and the Art of the Murano Glassmakers, one of the most important regional production areas, which has been giving lustre and prestige to the Veneto region and the whole of Italy for centuries. The project involves various enabling technologies in the area of ‘Smart Manufacturing’ and ‘Creative Industries’. It is developed through a collaboration between leading exponents in the field of research and industrial implementation of the various technologies involved: additive technology, (3D printing), materials engineering, mechanics/mechatronics.
The research involves the sector of the Veneto art glass industry, which has centuries-old traditions in our region, and, more generally, the world of creativity and design, through the development of an interactive and safe model, with a view to the pandemic emergency, of combining, interacting and creatively proposing glass and mineral compositions by means of additive manufacturing. The aim of the project is the development of an innovative production system that allows, on the one hand, the collection, study and processing, by means of ad hoc developed algorithms, of technical-chemical information coming from new materials, binders and production processes in the artistic glass industry, and on the other hand, to connect, through the development of a special prototype platform, artists, glass masters, designers and the complex chain of creativity with the production processes themselves, orienting it towards improvement and multiplying its potential and dissemination in the territories.

The concept of Destination, taken in its broadest sense, connotes a complex territorial sphere on which socio-economic, environmental and cultural dynamics insist and on which the interests of numerous stakeholders converge, structured in a transversal chain that involves both the mediators and suppliers of the tourism product, as well as the production chain and the induced activities generated by it.
Developing the essence of a Destination in the best possible way therefore necessarily means interpreting the same place, seamlessly, both as a place of tourism and as a place of our (or someone else's) living. In order to realise itself as a Smart Destination, the territory needs to develop and nurture a Digital Ecosystem that allows the use and sharing of data, technologies and services respectively for: 

• the destination operator (tourism company or adjacent sectors), to develop value-added solutions that perfectly match the characteristics of its stakeholders;
• the offer mediator, to implement an innovative marketing and promotion model that exploits data to maximise impact and market development;
• the destination user (the tourist and the citizen), to receive customised packages from algorithms based on their attitudes and preferences.

For this paradigm shift to take place effectively, in addition to the creation of a technological platform, it is essential to undertake a process of digital transformation, involving the entire supply chain, from service providers to communications and infrastructure operators. Overall, this transformation will return a tourism sector equipped with the technological and cultural tools necessary to cope:

• contingent emergencies, such as the COVID-19 crisis, its prescriptions, security measures and the need to reshape management;
• medium-term structural changes, such as the challenges that will result from the entry of large digital players into the tourism market.

Coordinator: Maurizio Massaro
VSM role: proposer
Duration: 25/09/2020 - 24/03/2022
Budget: € 383.880,00 - VSM amount: € 288.000,00
Call: DGR n. 204 del 26/02/2019, Linea 2 - Innovazione aziendale (di prodotto, di processo, organizzativa) [ITA] 
Contract no.: 2120-0001-204-2019 - CUP: H72F20000410007

Coordinator: Chiara Mio
Proposer: Istituto Veneto per il Lavoro (IVL)
VSM role: partner
Duration: 01/09/2017- 30/08/2018
Budget: € 497.180,00 - VSM amount: € 24.000,00
Call: 'DGR 948 del 22/06/2016 -Programma Operativo Regionale - Fondo Sociale Europeo 2014-2020 - Asse II Inclusione sociale – “ResponsabilMente – Promuovere l’innovazione sociale e trasmettere l’etica – Percorsi di RSI” – Avviso pubblico per la presentazione di proposte progettuali – Anno 2016'

Coordinator: Chiara Mio
Proposer: Fondazione Centro Produttività Veneto (CPV)
VSM role: partner
Duration: 01/09/2017 - 30/08/2017
Budget: € 500.000,00 - VSM amount: € 24.000,00
Call: 'DGR 948 del 22/06/2016 -Programma Operativo Regionale - Fondo Sociale Europeo 2014-2020 - Asse II Inclusione sociale – “ResponsabilMente – Promuovere l’innovazione sociale e trasmettere l’etica – Percorsi di RSI” – Avviso pubblico per la presentazione di proposte progettuali – Anno 2016'

Coordinator: Chiara Mio
Proposer: FOREMA SRL
VSM role: partner
Duration: 01/09/2017 - 30/08/2017
Budget: € 499.744,50 - VSM role: € 24.000,00
Call: 'DGR 948 del 22/06/2016 -Programma Operativo Regionale - Fondo Sociale Europeo 2014-2020 - Asse II Inclusione sociale – “ResponsabilMente – Promuovere l’innovazione sociale e trasmettere l’etica – Percorsi di RSI” – Avviso pubblico per la presentazione di proposte progettuali – Anno 2016'

Coordinator: Chiara Mio
Proposer: IRECOOP VENETO
VSM role: partner
Duration: 01/10/2017 -30/09/2018
Budget: € 499.952,00 - VSM amount: € 24.000,00
Call: 'DGR 948 del 22/06/2016 -Programma Operativo Regionale - Fondo Sociale Europeo 2014-2020 - Asse II Inclusione sociale – “ResponsabilMente – Promuovere l’innovazione sociale e trasmettere l’etica – Percorsi di RSI” – Avviso pubblico per la presentazione di proposte progettuali – Anno 2016'

Coordinator: Fabrizio Panozzo
Ca' Foscari role: proposer
Duration: 01/07/2016 - 31/03/2017 
Budget: € 118.080,00 - Ca' Foscari amount: € 118.080,00
Partnering: E.B.R.A.L. ARTIGIANATO VENETO; E.F.A. ENTE FORMAZIONE ARTIGIANA; FORMINNOVA S.A.S. DI CARLO D'AMICIS & C.; A.P.A.C. ASSOCIAZIONE PROVINCIALE ARTIGIANATO COSTRUZIONI E INDUSTRIA MANIFATTURIERA; FEDERCLAAI VENETO; FEDERTERZIARIO CLAAI DEL VENETO; VENICECOM S.R.L.; NEXTEP S.R.L.; VDV S.R.L.; N2 LABS S.R.L.; AMBIENTE UFFICIO S.R.L.; ESTE CERAMICHE PORCELLANE S.R.L.; TO BE PLUS DI LUCA MARTON; ASOLO SERVIZI S.R.L.; STUDIO TAMASSOCIATI; CA' ZANARDI S.R.L.; EAMBIENTE S.R.L.; MARIO BERTA BATTILORO DI BERTA SABRINA & C. S.N.C.; EGA S.R.L.; ARBOS S.R.L.; BOTTEGA ORAFA ABC DI D'Agostino Andrea
Call: 'POR FSE Regione Veneto 2014/2020 Reg.to UE n. 1303/2013 e 1304/2013 Asse I - Occupabilità - Obiettivo Tematico 8 - Priorità d'investimento 8.i - Obiettivo Specifico 1 - DGR 1358 del 09/10/2015 - Direttiva per la realizzazione di interventi di Work Experience, DGR 2020 del 23/12/2015 - Stanziamento aggiuntivo di risorse finanziarie e apertura nuovi sportelli - Anno 2016'

Coordinator: Fabrizio Panozzo
Proposer: 'Adecco Formazione srl'
VSM role: Project partner
Duration: 29/02/2016 - 28/02/2017Budget: € 151.106,60 - Ca' Foscari mount: € 72.000,00
Call: 'Bando Regione Veneto – DGR 784 del 14/05/2015 -POR FSE 2014-2020 - Asse I Occupabilità Aziende in rete nella formazione continua' – Tools for the competitiveness of Veneto enterprises - Year 2015 - Notice for the realisation of complex projects for the development of Veneto enterprises

Coordinator: Fabrizio Panozzo
VSM role: proposer
Partnering: ADECCO ITALIA, ADECCO FORMAZIONE, SUMO, FORMASET, FORMINNOVA, EBRAL, EFA, FONDAZIONE CA' FOSCARI
Duration: 02/04/2015 -01/04/2016
Budget: € 557.392,00 - Ca' Foscari amount: € 232.300,00
Call: 'Bando DGR 2747 del 29/12/2014 - UNA RETE PER I GIOVANI' - Projects to increase the impact of the policies of the regional Youth Guarantee Plan and to strengthen the action of the network of training and employment services

Coordinator: Fabrizio Panozzo
VSM role: proposer
Partnering: Luigi Bevilacqua s.r.l., Fedon & Figli s.p.a.,OMP Engineering s.r.l., Fabbrica Pinze Schio s.r.l., Tecnica Group s.p.a., Irinox s.p.a., Videotec s.p.a., Came Cancelli Automatici s.p.a., Nuova Menon s.r.l., Prospettive s.r.l., Prospettive s.r.l., Altana s.p.a., Ligabue s.p.a., Verde Sport s.p.a., Lago s.p.a., Rehateam s.r.l.
Budget: € 128.713,20
CA' Foscari amount: € 128.713,20 - Duration: 12/02/2016 - 30/09/2016
Call: 'POR FSE Regione Veneto 2014/2020 Reg.to UE n. 1303/2013 e 1304/2013 Asse I - Occupabilità - Obiettivo Tematico 8 - Priorità d'investimento 8.i - Obiettivo Specifico 1 - DGR 1358 del 09/10/2015 - Direttiva per la realizzazione di interventi di Work Experience e DGR 2020 del 23/12/2015 - Stanziamento aggiuntivo di risorse finanziarie e apertura nuovi sportelli - Anno 2016'

Ca' Foscari role: Project partner
Coordinator: Fabrizio Panozzo
Proposer: Politecnico Calzaturiero Scarl
Duration: 21/04/2016 - 30/09/2016 
Partnering: Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Management; Fondazione Centro Produttività Veneto; FABRICA S.p.A.;T2i – Trasferimento Tecnologico e Innovazione S.c. a r.l.; UMANA S.p.A.; G27
Budget: € 996.766,00 - Ca' Foscari amount: € 9.600,00
Call: 'Bando DGR 2747 del 29/12/2014 - UNA RETE PER I GIOVANI' - Projects to increase the impact of the policies of the regional Youth Guarantee Plan and to strengthen the action of the network of training and employment services

Responsabile: Fabrizio Panozzo
Propser: Formaset Scarl
Ca' Foscari role: Project partner
Partnering: T2i Trasferimento Tecnologico e Innovazione; Verona Innovazione; Università IUAV di Venezia; Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Management, ADiSS - Educational programmes area, Stage and Placement area; Adecco Formazione; CIF Opere Assistenziali; Engim Veneto; Format – F. Tecnica; Isfid Prisma; Adecco Italia; Crea Lavoro S.r.l.; Boscolo S.r.l.; Career Counseling S.r.l.; SUMO s.c.s.; Ist. Parini (Mestre); Ist. Dante Alighieri (Mestre); Ist. Leonardo da Vinci (Belluno); Ist. Guggenheim (Venezia); Mc Project S.n.c.; Provincia di Rovigo; Comune di Marcon; Comune di Mogliano Veneto; Comune di Quarto d’Altino; Camera di Commercio di Siviglia; EUSA di Siviglia; Enaip Veneto; Coop. Sociale “Il Raggio Verde”; AssoretiPMI; Fondazione Ca’ Foscari
Budget: € 577.839,01 - Ca' Foscari amount: € 8.080,00
Durata: dal 01/08/2015 al 30/04/2016
Bando: 'Bando DGR 2747 del 29/12/2014 - UNA RETE PER I GIOVANI' - Projects to increase the impact of the policies of the regional Youth Guarantee Plan and to strengthen the action of the network of training and employment services