The Innovation Group's annual close-of-year fixture on Italian digital policy, this year built around technological sovereignty: where dependence on foreign infrastructure and models actually ends, what sovereign cloud and sovereign…

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PNRR-PNC: Tor Vergata Innovation Day
Hosted by Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
When
Wednesday 7 October 2026
9:00am
Where
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - Macroarea di Ingegneria
Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
Conducted in
Italian
Price
free
about this room
The closing event for the University of Rome Tor Vergata's PNRR and PNC research programmes, held at the Engineering campus. The morning is a plenary with the university, national institutions and the leads of the main research programmes, followed by the opening of the Discovery Hall, an exhibition space for the projects and prototypes produced. The afternoon is the Innovation Arena: hands-on prototypes and technology demonstrators, B2B meetings and networking built around technology transfer between companies, institutions and research, the Start Cup Lazio prize-giving, and a Defensive Cybersecurity Hackathon pitting student teams against scenarios drawn from real incidents. Free with registration.
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Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - Macroarea di Ingegneria, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
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Date & Time
Wednesday 7 October 2026
9:00am
Location
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - Macroarea di IngegneriaVia del Politecnico 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
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