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The challenge of the Einstein Telescope involves companies. And at the Region's call for Sardinian companies to develop enabling technologies within the ET project, 78 operators submitted 91 expressions of interest.
The areas of technology that have attracted the most interest are virtual reality and artificial intelligence, indoor and outdoor environmental monitoring, and vacuum tube insulation. The companies are mainly based in the provinces of Cagliari, Nuoro and Sassari, with a presence also in Oristano and Southern Sardinia. In addition, three proposals were submitted by companies operating in the peninsula.
A starting point
"The great response obtained from the expression of interest is a strong signal that shows how ready our production fabric is to take up the challenge of innovation and to collaborate with the world of great scientific research," emphasises Giuseppe Meloni, Regional Planning Councillor and Vice-President of the Region. The aim of the initiative is to define a detailed picture of the potential interest expressed by companies operating in Sardinia in the various technological fields, with a view to more effectively orienting possible future activities in support of the ET project - which Sardinia is a candidate to host in the area around the former Sos Enattos mine, in Lula - as well as strengthening connections with the regional production system'. The project involves the installation of a gravitational-wave detector (the meter that develops in a triangle with a dimension of 10 kilometres on each side), which Italy is a candidate to host in tunnels more than 100 metres deep in the Sos Enattos mine in Sardinia. A site defined by experts and researchers as 'ideal' and which sees Italy competing with another in Limburg, the area located between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
The ET challenge
