The proposed technological solutions should aim at:

• innovate the services of the NoiPA catalogue and the underlying processes;
• propose tools and services that enhance the information heritage of NoiPA.

The initiative will run from May 15th 2020 to September 20th  2020.
The selection is divided into the following phases:

• Applications open from May 15th to June  21st 2020 - Closed
• 1st sprint June  25th - July 8th 2020: functional to the optimization of the solution to be presented to meet the needs of the MEF. - Closed
• 2nd sprint July 15th 2020 - September 10th 2020: functional to the realization of a Proof of Concept (PoC), intended as a working demo, although without integration with the MEF information systems. - Closed
•  Demo Day October 9th starting at 10.30 a.m. (video call): presentation of the 10 selected startups and identification of the Call4Innovation project with the highest innovative approach.

On June 21st, the application phase of the Call, which saw the participation of 70 between Start Up and SMEs, was concluded. Applicants considered eligible will now be involved in a first project sprint that will aim to focus the proposed solutions on the requirements of the NoiPA System. This phase will be characterized by direct collaboration between the candidates and the DSII teams. This first sprint will end on July 8th  2020.
To know the Innovative Start-Up and SMEs who have applied click here.

The first sprint meetings ended on July 8th. During the sprint, the documentation submitted by the companies was analysed and, for those that showed greater potential than the requirements of the call, joint sessions were held to explore the proposed solution. After this first sprint, 10 innovative SMEs and startups, thanks to their Proof of Concept (POC), have been selected to take part in the second and final sprint. For additional details regarding the project ideas of the Startups and SMEs please download the attachment.

The PoC Day, last step of Call4Innovation, ended with the proclamation of the winner: ASK DATA, the innovative SME, thanks to its proposal of Customer Care services based on artificial intelligence.

The winning project was identified thanks to the evaluation of the DSII work team, which gave a score to all the selected proposals, based on 5 parameters:

• innovativeness of the proposed solution and technology used
• quality of the PoC (Proof of Concept) produced
• relevance of PoC to the needs and objectives of NoiPA
• ease of integration into NoiPA
• potential of PoC compared to possible MEF requirements.

The solution proposed by ASK DATA included a search engine based on artificial intelligence to support the customer care management of NoiPA. The technology allows, similarly to a Google search engine, to write queries in natural language, translate them into technical queries, and receive immediate and easy to understand answers from any source and database (structured and unstructured).