The Federico II University of Naples lands in New York with headquarters at the Tata Innovation Center

A new great honor for the city of Naples , his education stops in the Big Apple.

The prestigious University of Naples Federico II recently opened a space called the "Italian Academic Center " in New York, at the Tata Innovation Center . The campus is located on Roosevelt Island, part of a Silicon Valley.

What is this?

This 200-square-meter space will host innovation projects , training , and research initiatives , sponsored by the University of Naples, together with Sapienza University of Rome and the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. The space is located in a splendid location overlooking the Queensboro Bridge , which connects Queens to Manhattan.

The Tata Innovation Center is a unique facility in New York City, developed and built to leverage the resources of Cornell Tech , a leading research university. The center's ecosystem offers technology companies a direct connection to Cornell University's talent pool , as well as other U.S. and international universities.

The director of the Apple Academy speaks

Giorgio Ventre , director of the Apple Academy and professor at Federico II, said the collaborative project was launched in 2019, but slowed down due to the pandemic . The campus was designed to develop digital applications in every sector, from finance to medicine.

Federico II will have a showcase with enormous potential where its students and Campania startups can collaborate with other international universities , such as Columbia and New York University, and with large companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft or Apple.

The venue had been chosen together with Sapienza and the University of Bologna already in 2019. The pandemic has slowed down the whole project but we are now ready to start the activities of the Italian Academic Center.

Cornell continues Ventre – created this place for their research, development and innovation teams to collaborate with companies. But he understood the potential and therefore opened the doors to other universities and companies from all over the world: here they can commercialize new products and technologies, based not only on theoretical design but precisely on their application.

The campus is dedicated to digital transformation with applications in every sector, financial, medical, organizational.

For Federico II it is the opportunity to have first of all a physical space in which to promote what our students and the countless startups from Campania produce. Both for collaborations with other universities, first of all Columbia and NY University where many former Frederick professors teach, but also the universities of Boston, Ithaca and Washington. It is a business attractor, perfect for hosting startups that may be of interest to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple. A showcase with enormous potential.

source: ilmattino.it