RESTART: RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smART

The RESTART research and development programme has the ambitious objective of helping to shape the evolution of telecommunications in Italy, revitalising a sector with world-class skills and expertise. It focuses on the main topics in telecommunications science and technology; it will leverage and contribute to technologies such as distributed cloud, artificial intelligence, programmable hardware architectures, integrated optics and optical computing, optoelectronics and sensing. It is being developed as a partnership of 25 public and private bodies.
Theme: Telecommunications of the future
Unipd project contact: Andrea Zanella, Michele Zorzi
Proposing body: University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Implementing body: Fondazione di partecipazione RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smART - Fondazione RESTART
Website: www.fondazione-restart.it
PUBLIC ENTITIES
University
- Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
- Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
- Politecnico di Bari
- Politecnico di Milano
- Politecnico di Torino
- Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa
- Sapienza Università di Roma
- Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
- Università di Catania
- Università di Firenze
- Università di Napoli Federico II
- University of Padua Research Organisations
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
PRIVATE ENTITIES
Research Organisations
- Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni
- Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Companies
- Athonet s.r.l.
- Ericsson Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.
- Italtel S.p.A.
- Leonardo S.p.A.
- Open Fiber S.p.A.
- Prysmian S.p.A.
- TIESSE S.p.A.
- TIM Italia S.p.A.
- Vodafone Italia S.p.A.
- WIND Tre S.P.A.
VIDEO: Michele Zorzi presents the RESTART project at the Agorà delle Scienze of Science4All 2025
