Club Facility Manager
Promote Facility Management skills among members and set up a network of professionals.

Activities
Organization of courses, training seminars and Thematic Booklets. Two editions of the complete course in collaboration with IFMA, the first in the classroom and the second remotely (due to Covid). First Thematic Booklet already drafted and a second one ready in October 2020.
One seminar already organized and another envisaged for the launch of the second journal.
 
Results
20 participants (15+5)
Over 50 Facility Managers registered in the Club.

Integration of IT infrastructures Cloud
Develop high-quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient IT infrastructure for the switchover of traditional infrastructures to Cloud computing.

Activities
Creation of a project for the integration of the IT infrastructures of the three associations with the switchover from mostly on-premises to almost exclusively cloud solutions (public cloud).
Outsourcing to cloud of all Confindustria Emilia phone and data systems, with the setup of an MPLS between four facilities.

Results
5 servers eliminated, for a total of over 40,000 kWh

Governance and Civil Responsibility - Risks
Promote Civil Responsibility in the Governance of companies with updates and risk assessment in compliance with Org. Mod. Law 231.

Activities
Organization of courses, live and streamed training seminars for member companies on Civil Responsibility for corporate Governance.

Results
100 companies took part.

Agreements with banks for the access to microcredit
Promote activities with a positive social impact through investments aimed at purchasing goods and services, the payment of salaries and the support of costs for training courses.

Activities
Support for the drafting of a business plan, presentation of the documents to the bank, preliminary investigation of the bank for the granting of loans up to maximum €30,000 guaranteed up to 80% by the European Investment Fund or by the SME guarantee fund.

Results
2 companies applied for the support and an agreement with one bank was stipulated.

Promotion of the use of Fintech among member companies
Increase user knowledge on financial services through the reduction of financial intermediation.

Activities
From the point of view of start-ups, crowdfunding is a concrete way to financially include small businesses whose credit needs are not satisfied by traditional credit solutions.

Results
5 companies involved.

Trasformatore Sostenibile (Sustainable Transformer) Project
Reduce the impact of transformers during their life cycle using Green and Circular Economy solutions.

Activities
Creation of a transformer prototype that uses vegetable oil instead of highly-flammable and pollutant mineral oil as coolant. The frame is made of aluminium and paper, which are both recoverable, rather than aluminium and resin which cannot be separated and must therefore be disposed of as waste or used for roadbeds.

Results
30% reduction of the water contamination generated by vegetable oil compared to mineral oil.

Assessment 4.0
Increase the knowledge of companies as regards 4.0 enabling technologies, suggesting actions coherent for the digitalisation process.

Activities
Service provided by the Research and Innovation department to help businesses innovate through activities assessing the actions taken and the potential for development as regards technologies, processes and management coherent with 4.0 approaches.

Results
80+ companies analysed.
80+ assessment days.

Infrastructures for the environment
Improve environmentally-sustainable infrastructures with a special focus on Africa.

Activities
Organization of business information workshops to stimulate the participation of companies in tenders financed by the World Bank, in partnership with MAECI (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation)

Results
116 companies attended the workshops.

Collaboration projects in Developing countries
Support for the spreading of knowledge and business technological development in Developing countries.

Activities
Organization of hospitality meetings with representatives from 52 companies from Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Uganda.

Results
527 meetings organized with member companies.