The first study visit organized by the Municipality of Genoa took place on the 30th January 2018 in the context of the PURE COSMOS Project.

Partners and stakeholders of the project participated in the full immersion day, which was animated by a structured session of presentations and round tables in the Municipality’s building, the topics were:

• the general state of the digitalization process in Italy, with a look at the European agenda and the Italian one

• the payment system and the PagoPA platform

• the experience of the Municipality of Genoa

• information technology solutions

The participants then moved to the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa. The experts of the IIT described to the attendees how the research centre works, the staff, the objectives and the goals achieved by the foundation.

Finally, the group was guided through the robotics’ laboratories, where were presented the latest versions of humanoid robots and their skills.