NATO, Promostudi Sign Maritime Research Agreement

 

The Promostudi Foundation and the NATO Centre for Maritime Research & Experimentation (CMRE) today finalized a three-year maritime research and development agreement.

 

The agreement between the two organizations, both based in La Spezia, Italy, includes agreements on joint innovation activities, research in the maritime environment  and reciprocal exchange for educational and scientific purposes, both nationally and internationally. In particular, opportunities will be developed for cooperation in issues of common interest such as robotics, underwater acoustics, underwater systems, and more generally in systems engineering and ICT (information and communication technologies).

 

Rear Admiral Hank Ort (Rtd), director of the CMRE and Dino Nascetti, president of Promostudi foundation, signed the agreement.

 

 “This agreement will establish the framework for the development of innovative new technologies in a variety of scientific fields” said Ort. “The benefits to both institutions are numerous with the free exchange of knowledge among scientists and researchers in both institutions is paramount.”

 

 "I am particularly pleased that the signing of this agreement will open Promostudi collaboration with one of the most important centers of maritime research of the Western world,” Nascetti said.

 

“This cooperation will enable our researchers to work more widely beyond naval engineering, architecture and mechanical engineering," Nascetti said . "To collaborate with CMRE will also be an important stimulus for the teaching of the University of La Spezia and I hope that the international scientific staff of the NATO Centre will enable us, in time, not only to consolidate our presence in the field of underwater systems research, underwater acoustics and advanced robotics, but also to enrich our educational system in an international vision.”

 

Promostudi is a research organization originally formed in 2002 by a collaboration between Law Spezia's Municipality, Provincial Authority, Savings Bank Cultural Foundation, Chamber of Commerce, Industrialists' Association and Port Authority. It is now a branch of Genoa University's Polytechnic Institute and operates independently in the field of applied research, developing studies and projects for the naval, nautical and offshore world.