The Trento Node focuses on leveraging ICT for Quality of Life. Co-located in the FBK Research complex in Povo, Trento, in front of the University of Trento it is close to its core partners - Engineering, Telecom Italia and TrentoRise.

The location is at the core of the Trentino Region, an area rich in communications infrastructures and bristling with innovative companies (it is sometimes referred to as Semantic Valley). The Co-location Centre provides a common showcase for innovation and projects - both those conducted on site and for those conducted in other parts of Italy by its affiliated partners.

The affiliated Partners have activities all over Italy (CNR) and have labs, connected to the Co-Location, in Lombardy (Polimi), Piedmont (Polito), Emilia Romagna (Università di Bologna) and Tuscany (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna). Affiliated industrial partners are CFR (Centro Ricerche FIAT) and STMicroelectronics.

The Trento Node is active in all parts of the Knowledge Triangle - Education, Research and Business Innovation and in all present thematic action lines of EIT ICT Labs: Digital Cities, Smart Spaces, Smart Energy Systems, Intelligent Mobility and Transportation Systems, Healthcare & Wellbeing and Future Media & Content Delivery.

The Co-location lab strategy is to become the hub for all trials and experimentations going on in the Trentino territory thus providing a single holistic view on how ICT can contribute to increase the Quality of Life.

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