Planet4: University of Pisa leads the digital transformation of European SMEs

A common language and collaboration to meet the challenges of new technologies. University and enterprise are forming a new alliance thanks to Planet 4, the European project coordinated by the University of Pisa. It has been activated since the end of 2020 to bridge the gap between scientific research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and its industrial application, as an enabling technology for the industry 4.0. The results of this ambitious project are potentially directed at an audience of around 20 million small and medium-sized enterprises – as many as there are in the European Union, which is lagging behind in adopting modern digital 4.0 technologies. "The industry 4.0 model requires European small and medium-sized enterprises to deal with technological progress more decisively if they want to maintain their competitiveness on the global market," explains Daniele Mazzei, associate professor at the Department of Computing Science at the University of Pisa and team leader of the project. "We worked with Planet4, first and foremost, to improve communication between the academic world and small and medium-sized European enterprises in the field of new technologies, creating a proper Esperanto in the industry 4.0. This is a new form of […]

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