Fvg from border land to land of connections: Fedriga at ICTP

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, MAY 10 - The presence of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy's Friuli Venezia Giulia region (FVG) "can play an important role in the current context in which the region is committed to transforming itself from a border land to a land of connection," said Friuli Venezia Giulia Region President Massimiliano Fedriga on the occasion of the Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics' 60th anniversary.
    "Thanks to its reputation and commitment to international cooperation, the ICTP also plays a role in facilitating dialogues and collaborations between scientists from around the world," he remarked. The FVG, a "geographical border land," has the possibility of using the presence of the ICTP as a bridge to other regions and nations, facilitating the exchange of knowledge, technologies, and resources. Cooperation with the Western Balkans, in particular, presents opportunities for promoting scientific and technological development in the region and beyond," Fedriga stated.
    In addition to the challenges of life sciences, quantum technologies, and transition that the ICTP of Trieste addresses and on which "the regional administration is focused," the FVG region also "has adopted various measures to encourage the process of decarbonisation of economic systems and energy in terms of reducing emissions with an energy efficiency improvement of the entire 'FVG Region System' and an increase in energy production from renewable sources." The challenge is to increase the use and adoption of hydrogen-based technologies," Fedriga told ANSA.
    The focus is primarily on "green hydrogen derived from renewable sources, used as a raw material, fuel, carrier, or energy accumulator," as a lever for more sustainable development with lower CO2 emissions and competitiveness. The Region also in engaged in "strengthening the collaboration in the hydrogen sector with Slovenia and Croatia by launching a unique process at European level for the establishment of a North Adriatic Hydrogen Valley - Fedriga recalled - an initiative that also responds to the priorities of the 'Clean Hydrogen Partnership' at European level, which has shown interest in the trilateral cooperation platform launched as a pilot experience in the Central Eastern European area." (ANSA).