The platform for innovators will host challenges and calls for ideas
A “Start-up Kit” enables the launch of a project in just one week
Milan, 17 February 2021 – A2A’s new portal dedicated to Open Innovation is online: a platform for start-ups, businesses, universities, research centres and all those involved in the Italian and international ecosystem of innovation.
Reachable at https://innovation.a2a.eu/, the portal is a virtual space in which life will be given to experimentation projects and the joint development of technological solutions, taking on challenges like the energy transition and the circular economy, decarbonization, sustainable mobility, the water cycle or the creation of cities of the future.
An Open Innovation platform seeking to foster sustainable development and the improvement of the quality of life.
The portal will host calls for ideas and challenges which focus on themes of strategic importance for A2A and which will seek out ideas, solutions and projects, including those already under way. The portal will also be a meeting point with possible reference targets for A2A’s Corporate Venture Capital fund, which foresees investment in seed and early-stage start-ups in Italy and the rest of Europe.
In order to get innovation projects up and running quickly and help meet the needs of start-ups and SMEs, A2A has decided to create the “Start-up Kit”: a set of ad hoc, fully digital measures which, by simplifying procedures, allow companies to become operative immediately. The Kit can actually guarantee the signing of a digital contract in a week and receipt of a down-payment of 50% of the total project cost. Moreover, the payment is at 30 days and a focal point set up by A2A will be available to the start-up for the entire duration of the project, ensuring the maximization of synergies.
The ideas put forward through the innovation platform will be assessed by A2A experts, who will be able to give the go-ahead for joint development collaboration, the creation of a pilot/prototype or scale-up of the solution proposed. For A2A, cooperation and joint participation are essential elements in the creation of an ecosystem of innovation that is “open”, inclusive and inter-connected, committed to contributing to sustainable development.
A2A Media Relations
Giuseppe Mariano
Tel. 02 7720.4583
ufficiostampa@a2a.eu
