SMILE-DIH is able to quickly put companies in contact with the highly specialized national Competence Centers promoted by the MISE, now the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy (MIMIT), set up to facilitate access to applied research projects, to technology transfer, advanced technology training and 4.0 technology demonstrators.
Their establishment and management involves the involvement of universities and research centers of excellence, but also private companies in the form of public-private partnerships.
The general criteria for the selection were those contained in the Directorate Decree of the Ministry of Economic Development published on 29 January 2018, and in the implementing decree 214/2017, in force since 24 January 2018.
Below the list of Italian Competence Centers