Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

Permanent Organisations
Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
One of the design offices at the Istituto Mario Boella
Ministry of Education, University and Research, with specific applications and infrastructures for
the fourth generation mobile phones; and ADITECH, funded by the Piedmont Regional
Authorities, aiming at building and testing a wearable equipment capable of measuring selfsufficient
elderly body parameters transmitting them to assistance centres.
Supported by the Compagnia di San Paolo, the POLIMEDIA project deals with research into
multimedia focusing on the digitalisation of similar contents, cooperating with prominent Turin
institutions and with the support of Virtual Reality and MultiMedia Park. Turin provides potentially
fertile soil for the development of joint initiatives on multimedia applications, hosting on its territory
public and private bodies involved in multimedia, both with regard to its contents (Cinema
Museum, Mountain Museum, national Cinema school, Teatro Regio, Conservatory, DAMS –
University Department of Art, Music and Performing art, RAI Production Centre), and to
technologies, like the University Department of Informatics, CSP, VRMMP (Virtual Reality and
MultiMedia Park), Telecom Italia Lab, Rai Research Centre. Moreover, the monitoring process of
innovative and high technology SMEs set up recently by Turin Wireless Foundation in agreement
with the Institute recorded the presence on the territory of a significant number of small and
medium enterprises.
The institute, in cooperation with the Polytechnic, the Turin Wireless Foundation and the Galileo
Ferraris Institute, joined the working group on the design project of a weather station in Turin.
Furthermore, in 2004 the institute launched a Master on Navigation and Related Applications
(targeting satellite localization technologies under the patronage of the United Nations’ Office for
Outer Space Affairs) in the wider framework of research activities with Laben. The institute
established institutional cooperation relations with universities and the industrial sector with the
aim of achieving timely applicative results.
In the ICT&Society sector, the project “Poli della Conoscenza” (knowledge poles) analysing the
expansion of knowledge society in Barcelona, Lyon and Turin is currently under way.
In 2004 the Global Access Program, an important international business planning programme,
reached its third year of activity. It was designed and coordinated by the Anderson School of
Management, University of California (Los Angeles) and promoted in Italy by ISMB and Turin
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