Technologies

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SELEX Sistemi Integrati and the academic world share a long history of mutual co-operation. Ever since the founding of Selenia in the ‘60s, the company has promoted a very large number of joint initiatives with universities (Rome, Naples, Pisa, Florence and L'Aquila, to mention but a few) and research centres, often at the leading edge of the Italian and international scene.
Not only does the relationship between SELEX Sistemi Integrati and the academic world involve forms of collaboration for scientific and educational purposes, such as papers for congresses and articles for journals, conferences, study courses, degree theses; its main focus is actually on the setting up of joint teams, based on specific co-operation agreements. Moreover, there are instances of experts from the industrial world who, upon concluding their activities conducted with their university colleagues, have become lecturers at prestigious universities such as Rome’s “La Sapienza”, Naples’ “Federico II”, Turin Polytechnic and the University of Calabria.
The system based on co-operation agreements - i.e. one- or two-year contracts requiring continuous monitoring of results with respect to commonly agreed goals - dates back to the ‘70s and gained increasing popularity up until the early ‘90s. After a brief slowdown, this phenomenon received further support from the former AMS, and especially from FINMECCANICA. More recently, such collaborations, which had traditionally centred on radar-related topics, have acknowledged the new strategic mission of SELEX Sistemi Integrati by expanding into the fields of Large Systems and next generation technologies, such as photonics and nanotechnologies.  Co-operation agreements currently involve five macro-areas:

• Software architectures
• Radar systems
• Electromagnetic compatibility
• Nanotechnologies
• Logistics