Steps towards the creation of the Pietralata technopole, an innovation hub that will be set up by the Rome Technopole foundation thanks to Pnrr and regional funds.
The Gualtieri council, in fact, approved the project financed with resources from the Lazio Region FESR 2021-2027 plan and the Pnrr, the European-led national recovery and resilience plan. A fundamental step, which arrived after four months of confrontation with the government of Francesco Rocca. The innovation hub in Pietralata is a project of the foundation made up of Roman universities, the four major public research bodies, Unindustria, the Lazio Region, the Municipality of Rome, the Chambers of Commerce of Rome, Latina-Frosinone, Rieti-Viterbo and others reality.
The interventions approved on 22 June are part of those, indicated by Roma Capitale on the proposal of the urban planning department, to be carried out with a total financing of 70 million euros, which also include the Ostia Sea Park, for which approximately 24 million euros expected. “There is money from Europe and the first concrete interventions for the urban regeneration and transformation of the Ostia coast and the Pietralata district have also been identified – explained the mayor Roberto Gualtieri -. Together with the Region we can really implement a relaunch strategy that has been awaited for years. The foundations are laid for the definitive realization of a large project like the Technopole, the symbol of what will increasingly be a Capital of Innovation and technological transfer”.
For councilor Maurizio Veloccia, the technopole is fundamental “to attract intelligence in those scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical STEM disciplines that Rome extremely needs to be competitive at a national and international level. We therefore hope that the Region will implement as soon as this measure is possible, by approving the agreement scheme and unlocking these first loans”.
