'Big Sciences', a market of 10 billion euros per year

(ANSA) - UDINE, 16 GEN - Big Sciences, i.e. , large-scale scientific research infrastructures at the European level, produce a market of about 10 billion euros annually, offering significant growth opportunities for FVG companies. This was announced today in Udine by Ketty Segatti, central director for research and innovation of the Central Directorate for Work, Training, Education, Family of the FVG Region, and Paolo Acunzo, director Bsbf Trieste 2024, presenting at the headquarters of Confindustria Udine, the Big Science Business Forum 2024, whose third edition, of which the FVG Region is the leading partner, will take place in Trieste from October 1 to 4, 2024, after Copenhagen (2018) and Granada (2022). The event was opened by Confindustria Udine director general Michele Nencioni, who stressed that "the forum represents a great opportunity also for the industries of our territory." "To build the big infrastructures," Segatti said, "Big Sciences has to put out tenders and find innovative companies that are willing to provide technologies, and so this forum is dedicated to companies so that they can enter this market.
    "The ten most important European research infrastructures have come together in the BSBF," Acunzo added, "to create a space where companies can have all the information they need to obtain a contract in the field of science." More than 100 exhibitors from 30 European countries and more than 1,000 participants are expected at the Trieste edition. Several initiatives are coming up, as well as a series of presentations throughout Italy, including one at the national Confindustria, probably in Turin, and a program of visits for companies to research infrastructures: in February, 70 European companies, Acunzo anticipated, will be brought to Cern in Ginevra. The FVG region has applied for the BSBF in partnership with four Italian ministries, Ilo Network Italia, Area Science Park, and PromoturismoFvg, Segatti explained, also announcing "visits to Italian embassies in the Balkan area, with the first stage in Belgrade at the end of February." (ANSA).