INDUSTRIAL POLICIES

Confindustria Lombardia oversees issues related to industrial policy and the development of the Lombardy production system, monitoring the evolution of regional policies and interventions that affect business competitiveness.

Our activities focus, in particular, on incentives, innovation, credit, internationalisation, regional policies, infrastructure and transport, as well as environmental and energy policies that impact the production system. Through dialogue with institutions, Confindustria Lombardia contributes to the discussion and definition of policies and tools to support the competitiveness, attractiveness and development of the Lombardy region.

Lobbying

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5 September 2018
Ambiente ed Energia

Action regarding the suspension of sludge collection at storage facilities

Confindustria Lombardia has expressed its concern to the Lombardy Region Environment Department regarding the suspension of sewage sludge collection at storage facilities.
29 August 2018
Internazionalizzazione

EU-Japan: free trade agreement signed.

This paves the way for a valuable channel for Italian and European goods and services to reach the Asia-Pacific regional market.
28 August 2018
Infrastrutture e trasporti

Guidelines for priority interventions on the road network

27 August 2018
Europa

Enterprise Award for Innovation - IxI

24 August 2018
Infrastrutture e trasporti

Pact for Lombardy - Priority infrastructure projects

Confindustria Lombardia's guidelines on the priority infrastructure projects outlined in the Pact for Lombardy
24 August 2018

Integration of the Regional Territorial Plan in accordance with the land take reduction act

24 August 2018

Confindustria Lombardia's proposals for the future of the regional health service

23 July 2018
Europa

SME Instrument Phase 2: Lombardy-based company among the beneficiaries

19 July 2018
Europa

Italian Healthcare Venture Forum – Bootcamp 2018: applications open until 25 July

18 July 2018
Europa

Funding available for the creative industries

17 July 2018
Europa

2019 Italy-Israel Scientific and Technological Cooperation Call for Proposals

13 July 2018
Europa

Cyber Security: support for scale-ups and SMEs

9 July 2018
Europa

3 tips for working on a project proposal - H2020 secure, clean and efficient energy

9 July 2018
Europa

COSME Info Day: event recordings and presentations are now available

5 July 2018
Politiche industriali e innovazione

Diego Andreis appointed new President of AFIL - Lombardy Intelligent Factory Association

3 July 2018
Europa

Digital transformation of businesses 2018

29 June 2018
Europa

6 Lombard SMEs win the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Phase I call for proposals

27 June 2018
Europa

Internships for digital skills

27 June 2018
Politiche industriali e innovazione

CLM Conference 'Mobility in Lombardy – Industry and Innovation'

26 June 2018
Europa

IMPACT Connected Car, €60,000 for mobility startups

22 June 2018
Europa

SME Instrument: a multiplier for private investment

19 June 2018
Politiche industriali e innovazione

Winners of the first edition of "Cento4.0 - The excellence of advanced manufacturing in Lombardy"

18 June 2018
Internazionalizzazione

2018 SACE Report on Italian Exports

Italian exports are on the rise; logistics infrastructure and digitalisation are the two key ingredients to consolidate this growth
14 June 2018
Internazionalizzazione

US customs duties on steel and aluminium

13 June 2018
Internazionalizzazione

Meeting with the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region

Strategic discussion between Confindustria Lombardia and a delegation from the French region regarding the development of the Alpine Macro-region
11 June 2018
Europa

Digital Europe Programme - EU budget proposals 2021/2027

8 June 2018
Europa

Horizon Europe regulations published

8 June 2018
Europa

Digital Opportunity Traineeship – opportunities for businesses

25 May 2018
Europa

SME Instrument Phase 2 results, second cut-off

24 May 2018
Europa

2019 EU Budget - European Commission proposals

16 May 2018
Europa

Overseas Trade Fairs programme – focus on Asia

8 May 2018
Europa

Enterprise Europe Network celebrates its 10th anniversary and relaunches its services with a focus on innovation

2 May 2018
Europa

IPR Helpdesk

18 April 2018
Europa

Industry 4.0 Seminar - 15 May, Lomazzo

18 April 2018
Europa

Mountain Entrepreneurs and Innovators

18 April 2018
Politiche industriali e innovazione

LOMBARDY ENERGY & CLEANTECH DAY 2018: innovation and technology transfer at the heart of the event

The LE2C Cluster organised a full day dedicated to innovation and technology transfer: the Lombardy Energy & Cleantech Day 2018
10 April 2018
Europa

VentureEU: €2.1 billion for investment in European innovative start-ups

27 March 2018
Internazionalizzazione

Promoting exports for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises through e-commerce platforms

Regione Lombardia "Export 4.0" call for applications published
27 March 2018
Europa

Digital Single Market — Portability of online content services

22 March 2018
Europa

Lombardy launches two pre-commercial procurement tenders in the healthcare sector

19 March 2018
Europa

Second SME Instrument Phase 2 cut-off

7 March 2018
Politiche industriali e innovazione

Cluster2Cluster: "zero-mile" internationalisation

The Lombardy Aerospace Cluster has successfully launched the first pilot event in Switzerland for the BUSINESS NETWORKING project.
1 March 2018
Politiche industriali e innovazione

New leadership appointed for the Lombardy Life Sciences Cluster, with Gabriele Pelissero as President

The Cluster's Board of Directors has appointed Riccardo Palmisano as Vice President
26 February 2018
Europa

SCALER services: supporting innovative businesses in their growth journey within international markets

23 February 2018
Europa

'Europe for the growth of your business', a meeting for companies at ComoNext

Press release
15 February 2018
Europa

Post-2020 EU budget: European Commission guidelines

15 February 2018
Politiche industriali e innovazione

Proposals for a competitiveness policy for Lombardy - 2018 regional elections

#CompetitiveLombardy
12 February 2018
Politiche industriali e innovazione

The green chemistry cluster is expanding its operations beyond the Lombardy region.

12 February 2018
Politiche industriali e innovazione

CNAO opens its experimental facility to companies

The Lombardy Life Science and Aerospace clusters are ready to help their SMEs seize the opportunity
12 February 2018
Politiche industriali e innovazione

Vanguard: MoU signed between the network's regions.

Driven by the Lombardy Region and the AFIL cluster, the commitment of the regions to implement the Circular Economy demo case has been strengthened.
1 February 2018
Europa

European Commission: the new Data Privacy regulation (GDPR) is coming

What changes for businesses and how to comply
31 January 2018
Europa

Horizon 2020: 2018-2019 European energy efficiency calls for proposals are now open

29 January 2018
Europa

Public consultations on Europe post-2020

16 January 2018
Europa

New EU Gateway business missions to China, Japan and South-East Asia

11 January 2018
Europa

SME Instrument Phase III - Develop your skills with the SME Instrument Academy

10 January 2018
Europa

European Innovation Council: jury of 87 experts selected

9 January 2018
Europa

List of Horizon 2020 SME Instrument evaluators

8 January 2018
Europa

Collaboration between SMEs and research centres: the Innodriver S3 call for proposals is now open again

14 December 2017
Europa

EU Consultation - Digitalisation of travel documents

11 December 2017
Europa

New EU Gateway Business Avenues missions

New calls for applications are now open for business missions to Asia, organised by EU Gateway Business Avenues in collaboration with EEN
11 December 2017
Europa

Digitalisation vouchers for SMEs

5 December 2017
Politiche industriali e innovazione

The Lombardy Life Sciences Cluster appoints a new President

Appointment of Silvio Garattini, founder of the Mario Negri Institute
22 November 2017
Politiche industriali e innovazione

National Enterprise 4.0 Plan

On 19 September 2017, the results of the Industry 4.0 Plan were presented, alongside the guidelines for the second phase, which has been renamed Enterprise 4.0.
8 November 2017
Europa

Updates to the 2018-2020 EIC Fast Track to Innovation call

8 November 2017
Europa

Updates to the 2018-2020 EIC SME Instrument call

6 November 2017
Europa

Manifesto for competitiveness and innovation in the Alpine Macro-region - EUSALP

The regional representatives of the Confindustria system involved in EUSALP have defined a manifesto for the competitiveness and innovation of the industrial sector within the Alpine Macro-region.
31 October 2017
Europa

Registration is now open for the 1st Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region - EUSALP

25 October 2017
Europa

The 2017 edition of Meet in Italy for Life Sciences was a success

24 October 2017
Politiche industriali e innovazione

CENTO 4.0 is underway

The initiative developed by the AFIL cluster, which recognises the most innovative manufacturing companies in the Lombardy region.
24 October 2017
Politiche industriali e innovazione

Meet in Italy for Life Sciences 2017

The Lombardy Life Science Cluster is participating with 19 Ambassadors
24 October 2017
Politiche industriali e innovazione

Mobility 4.0 in the era of the circular economy

The conference organised by the CLM cluster on the outlook for the components supply chain
24 October 2017
Politiche industriali e innovazione

Aerospace@Industry4.0

Cloud & Data Security
20 October 2017
Politiche industriali e innovazione

The LE2C cluster presents the 2017-20 Strategic Plan

17 October 2017
Europa

The 2018–2020 work programmes for the SME Instrument and Fast Track to Innovation have been published

5 October 2017
Europa

Opportunities for SMEs, INCluSilver call: innovation vouchers

3 October 2017
Europa

Applications are now open for new EASME evaluators

20 September 2017
Internazionalizzazione

Internationalisation voucher:

Terms and operational procedures for accessing the Temporary Export Manager scheme have been published
18 September 2017
Europa

Presentation of the 2018 calls for scientific and industrial cooperation with Israel

Rome, 27 September 2017
13 September 2017
Politiche industriali e innovazione

The Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster is participating in the public consultation on the National Energy Strategy

An opportunity to highlight the role of clusters in its promotion and implementation, as well as in defining and sharing objectives
11 September 2017
Europa

EU-China Mission (24-31 October 2017)

11 September 2017
Europa

EU Prize for Women Innovators

8 September 2017
Europa

SME Instrument Phase 1: final 2017 cut-off date brought forward to 7 November

6 September 2017
Europa

Heritage in Changing Environments call for proposals now open

6 September 2017
Europa

SIAVS call for innovative social start-ups

28 August 2017
Europa

2018 Italy-Israel Scientific and Technological Cooperation Call for Proposals

25 August 2017
Europa

SME Instrument - Business Acceleration services

31 July 2017
Europa

Eurostars 2 - Deadline 14 September 2017

21 July 2017
Europa

CIPE: €68 million for the digitalisation of MSMEs

19 July 2017
Europa

SME Instrument Phase 2 – a Lombardy-based company among the beneficiaries of the June cut-off

18 July 2017
Europa

Elevator pitch @NanoInnovation 2017: registration now open

The Elevator Pitch for researchers, businesses and startups will take place in Rome on 28 September 2017 as part of the NanoInnovation 2017 conference.
4 July 2017
Internazionalizzazione

Sanctions against Russia extended

Food embargo until 2018
4 July 2017
Europa

Report on the future of R&I programming in Europe

4 July 2017
Politiche industriali e innovazione

2017 INNODRIVER-S3 Call for Proposals

The Lombardy Region has published the 2017 INNODRIVER-S3 call for proposals, a measure designed to support MSMEs in the acquisition and development of advanced technological innovation services and patenting processes.
30 June 2017
Europa

Reflection paper on the future of EU finances

30 June 2017
Politiche industriali e innovazione

Le2C presents Smart Metering for water management and purification in Lombardy

Smart technological innovation is a key factor in the sustainable management of water resources
28 June 2017
Internazionalizzazione

Internationalisation Report - 2017 edition

Presentation of the 2017 regional internationalisation survey by Confindustria Lombardia: 'Lombard businesses in the world: how and where'
26 June 2017
Europa

6 Lombardy-based companies awarded Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Phase I funding

26 June 2017
Europa

Interim evaluation report on the Fast Track to Innovation published

21 June 2017
Europa

European Innovation Scoreboard 2017

21 June 2017
Europa

Call for participation in the China-Italy Science, Technology & Innovation Week