South
Bologna, Italy
South Regional Hub
The South Regional Hub covers a large area, including Italy, Greece, Cyprus, and Malta, with plans to possibly include nearby countries like Albania, Israel, and Turkey.
Leveraging Mediterranean Heritage and Cutting-Edge Technology
The South Regional Hub benefits from several key strengths: an emerging community of leading partner organisations in the sector; the Mediterranean as a unique area of focus, blending rich European cultural heritage with modernity and offering great potential for valuing culture, design, and the arts through new technologies like digital tools and AI; collaboration with the Emilia-Romagna region via ART-ER and its regional ecosystem, known for advanced digital and supercomputing infrastructure and strong support for the cultural and creative sectors through innovative policies and funding.
Meet our team
Angelica Monaco, MD in International Political Sciences, is the Director of the Regional Hub South. With a solid background in innovative entrepreneurship focused on climate change, digital domains, CCSI, social innovation and a long experience in managing European Programmes and Projects, Angelica will ease the access to the territorial assets and to the European network for the CCIS in the region.
Hosted by ART-ER
In the CCIS, recognized among the sectors with a high development potential in the regional smart specialization strategy, ART-ER has been involved for years in supporting the Region and its stakeholders in the systematization of data, initiatives and skills also thanks to tools such as the Observatory and the HUB for culture and creativity. The cultural and creative industry is now worth around 4% of the regional economy and represents an important catalyst for innovation with significant added value for all production sectors, an attractive employment context for talents and a fundamental factor for triggering processes with strong social impact. The stability of this sector is closely related to the ongoing transition processes, primarily the digital one which will see data and AI as an element of strong change for the creative and production processes themselves. The recent signing of the partnership agreement and the establishment of the Co-location Center South in Bologna finally kicked off the activities of the EIT Culture & Creativity in our territory, thus strengthening the support systems in the field of innovation, training and business creation in favor of the CCIS. ART-ER will operate with a view to ensuring the best synergies and the widest participation in these opportunities of regional actors.