A new great honor for the city of Napoli, his education stops in the big Apple.
The prestigious University of Naples Federico II has recently opened the space that takes the name of “Italian Academic Center” in New York, at the Tata Innovation Center. The campus is located on Roosevelt Island, under a Silicon Valley.
What is this?
In this space of approx 200 square metersWill be held projects di innovation, training e Research, sponsored by the University of Naples together with the Sapienza University of Rome and the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. Everything is located in a splendid location that points towards the bridge queensboro which connects the Queens neighborhood with Manhattan.
Il Tata Innovation Center is a unique facility in New York City, developed and built to take advantage of the Cornell Tech resources, a major research university. The ecosystem of the center offers technology companies a direct connection with i talents of Cornell University, as well as with others university US and partners..
The director of the Apple Academy speaks
Giorgio Ventre, director of the Apple Academy and professor at Federico II, stated that the collaboration project was started in 2019, but due to the pandemic there has been a slowdown. The campus was designed to develop digital applications in every sector, from financial to medical.
La Frederick II will have a showcase with enormous potential where its and students and startups from Campania can collaborate with other universities partners., such as Columbia and New York University, and with large companies such as 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
