On March 12 and 13 the final seminar of the European project Data4Energy was held in Falun (Sweden).

It’s an Erasmus+ initiative that aims to strengthen the capacity of local governments in the collection, management and use of energy data to support more effective policies on environmental sustainability.

During the seminar, the results of interviews with medium-sized municipalities in Emilia-Romagna and Sweden were presented, together with the results of the online survey aimed at small municipalities.

From 1 to 3 of April 2025 the Transnational Meeting of the European project Digi-Inclusion was held in Bologna, an occasion for exchange and dialogue that put the focus on digital inclusion themes organized by Lepida together with every involved European partner.

During the last week of March, in Turin, 4 European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) have met the European Union to evaluate the upgrades and results obtained until now. 

Regione Emilia-Romagna supports since its beginning ER2Digit, since it represents a fundamental piece of the regional ecosystem of digital transformation.

The approach that also involves the Thematic Communities (COMTem) has underlined a specificity that has attracted interest in the team of the evaluators which focused on the engagement mechanism (involvement). 

EmiliaRomagnaWiFi has surpassed 6 million single users per year, confirming itself as an essential and appreciated service.

The network, active 24/7, offers free, fast and open connection, guaranteeing the privacy of users.

Counting more than 12.600 access points connected to the optic fiber, Lepida covers libraries, sports facilities, coasts, hospitals, public workplaces and squares, museums, schools, and universities, guaranteeing digital inclusion and access to online services.

The URBACT Local Group (ULG) of the Digi-Inclusion project (coordinated by Lepida) has settled the priority actions in order to reduce the digital, access, use and usability gap in the Metropolitan Area of Bologna: these are going to be added to the Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for at least 3 years.

LepidaTv is constantly expanding its catalogue, reaching almost 10.000 available videos. 

The new season of “Traguardi! Sport e territorio in Emilia-Romagna” (Goals! Sport and territory in Emilia-Romagna) was produced in 2025, and the first episode consists in a monography dedicated to mountain climbing. 

Frost and snow couldn’t stop the construction of the trellises for the CellMon projects.

Thanks to the help of 3 helicopters, in the last two months Lepida has completed the construction works of numerous trellises: Neviano degli Arduini, Coli, Lesignano de’ Bagni, Bedonia, Lizzano in Belvedere, Carpineti, Casola Valsenio, Cerignale and Predappio.

Thanks to this final rush, the total amount of established trellises has reached 36 units, of which 28 are on-air with operating services that had daily piques of 1.4 Gbps. 

The Emilia-Romagna Region was awarded by the Observatory of the Politecnico of Milan in the “Digital Regional Agenda” category. 

Elena Mazzoni, Digital Agenda Regional Councilor, has received the prize on the 28th of January: “Our objective is to put citizens and companies at the center of the digital transformation, in order to overcome disparities between territories and inequalities”.

A Chilean delegation, composed by various experts in healthcare, informatics and organization, was hosted by Lepida in an interesting lecture on: “Healthcare systems organization, ICT and telemedicine”. 

The meeting took place on November 28th in the Third Tower of the Emilia-Romagna Region; after Gianluca Mazzini’s (General Manager of Lepida) warm welcoming, there was a thorough presentation of the Emilia-Romagna health system and its innovations, which are also being implemented in our Region thanks to the PNRR funds. 

On the 3rd and 4rth of December 2024, the kick-off meeting of the PADRION (Public Administrations facing Digital transformation as a community in the ADRION area) project was held in Bologna, co-financed by the Interreg Program IPA ADRION with the coordination of Lepida. 

The annual audit by the Certification Body on Quality, Information Security and Health and Safety Management Systems was successfully completed on the 14th of November on the work led by Lepida, confirming the ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and ISO 45001 certifications.

The verification has permitted the transition from the 2013 to the 2022 version of the ISO 27001 standard, that updates the controls to be carried out in order to implement, maintain and continuously improve an Information Security Management System.

Less than 10 minutes to generate an air quality impact scenario based on the vehicles running at regional level and in each municipality.

This is, after months of brisk work, a first result of the Proof of Concept (POC) of VERA, the Regional Digital Twin.

The POC, in further refinement, measures the air quality impacts of the Emilia-Romagna region with reference to regional traffic and road policies.

This tool, available in this first phase for regional governance and domain experts, allows the generation of scenarios having as input three distinct modes: