National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR)

The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR - NRRP) is part of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) economic recovery project in response to the pandemic crisis generated by COVID-19. The Plan is developed around three strategic axes shared at European level - Digitalisation and Innovation, Ecological Transition, Social Inclusion - and along six Missions, i.e. main thematic areas on which it intends to intervene:

• Mission 1 "Digitalisation, Innovation, Competitiveness, Culture"
• Mission 2 "Green Revolution and Ecological Transition"
• Mission 3 "Infrastructure for Sustainable Mobility"
• Mission 4 "Education and Research"
• Mission 5 "Inclusion and Cohesion"
• Mission 6 "Health"

The plan's cross-cutting priorities, also known as "Strategic Axes", are the principles that guide the investments, reforms and projects of the PNRR and aim to reduce territorial, generational and gender gaps in society. Each Mission will have to make improvements in all these segments of the country system. The implementation of the Plan will have to guarantee the same economic and social opportunities for men and women with reforms, training and investments, with a view to gender mainstreaming.

Within Mission 4 "Education and Research", component 2 "From Research to Business" intends to:

• Strengthening research and encouraging the dissemination of innovative models for basic and applied research conducted in synergy between universities and businesses
• Supporting processes for innovation and technology transfer
• Strengthen research infrastructures, capital and skills to support innovation

As part of Mission 4, Component 2 "From Research to Business" (M4C2) has a total allocation of 12.92 billion euros. It is divided into 11 investments grouped into 3 lines of intervention that cover the entire supply chain of the research and innovation process.

In particular, it aims to strengthen research and promote the dissemination of innovative models for basic and applied research conducted in synergy between universities and businesses; to support processes for innovation and technology transfer; to enhance research infrastructures, capital, and skills that support innovation.

The M4C2 also provides for four types of investments aimed at: strengthening research structures for the creation of "national R&D champions" on certain "Key Enabling Technologies" (the National Centers); creating and strengthening "innovation ecosystems", building "territorial R&D leaders" (the Innovation Ecosystems); implementing an integrated system of research infrastructures and technological innovation infrastructures and partnerships extended to universities, research centers, and companies for the financing of basic research projects (the Extended Partnerships). The University of Florence is involved in all these actions.

Unifi participates also in PADigitale 2026 and in the call from the Italian Minister of Culture related to Mission 1 Component 3 (M1C3).