Networks and Associations

All Digital (previously known as Telecentre Europe) is a leading pan-European association based in Brussels, representing member organisations across Europe that work with 25,000 digital competence centres.

BI-REX is one of the 8 national Competence Centers established by the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy (formerly MISE) within the framework of the Industry 4.0 plan. it is a public-private Consortium, established in 2018 and brings together in partnership 60 players including Universities, Research Centers and Businesses of excellence and has a specialized focus on Big Data. ART-ER is a member of BI-REX and participates in the Steering Committee.

The non-profit Association established in 2018 aims to promote a community founded in Emilia-Romagna by research centers and infrastructures of excellence in the field of supercomputing (High Performance Computing) and Big Data processing. Specifically, the Association promotes the sharing and integration of Big Data infrastructures present on the national territory, in order to strengthen the capacity of the productive system to develop services and applications based on Big Data processing.

14 founding members: ART-ER Soc.Cons.p.a (also on the Board of Directors), CINECA, CMCC (Centro Euro Mediterraneo Cambiamenti Climatici), CNR, ENEA, INAF, INFN, INGV, IOR, LEPIDA Spa, University of Bologna, University of Ferrara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, University of Parma.

The Clust-ER aims to strengthen the role of services in order to maximize their potential for driving and changing the production system and the entire socioeconomic system. It focuses its action on 6 strategic lines of research and innovation through working groups representative of Emilia-Romagna's innovative services system

The European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) Network is the driving force behind Europe’s digitalisation. With the support of the European Commission, it brings together EDIHs, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and public sector organisations (PSOs) to make the EU’s Digital Decade 2030 targets a reality.
ER2Digit, the Emilia-Romagna EDIH coordinated by ART-ER, is one of the thirteen nodes of the EDIH Network.

The Vanguard Initiative (VI) is an association that brings together a large and growing number of European regions, starting with the most industrialized ones, that have an interest in developing synergies by pooling their regional strategies for smart specialization. The association's goal is to stimulate intra-regional collaborations for industrial innovation and create new value chains at the European level on primary technological thematic areas such as: Artificial Intelligence, biotechnology, sustainable and efficient manufacturing, nanotechnology, 3D printing, smart medical devices, off-shore renewables and hydrogen. The Emilia-Romagna Region is a founder member of the VI association, ART-ER, which performs a supporting function for the entire regional innovation ecosystem, participates as Associated Member.