Friday, April 6, 2018, from 9:30 a.m., in via dell'Industria in the Paip 2 area in Matera the Matera-based company Openet presents SPARKme A national preview. To tell the story of "the space between the economy and the game of knowledge" and present SPARKme the accelerator for startups dedicated to space, the event will be attended by Roberto Battiston, Presidente dell’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) di Carlo De Dorides, Direttore dell’European Global Navigation Satellite System Agency (GNSS), e di Francesco Feliciani, Head of Commercial Applications Projects at the European Space Agency (ESA).

SPARKme It will be presented during a day of work that aims to explain, from different perspectives, the crucial impact that space research and investments have on our daily lives, and in particular on the country's industrial and manufacturing sectors.

“It's important that the aerospace development program in Basilicata, and throughout Southern Italy, be supported and encouraged. Indeed, Openet's investment in SPARKme”, he comments Vito Gaudiano, President of the company “aims to facilitate the birth and diffusion of new entrepreneurial projects dedicated to the theme of Space, promoting cross-fertilization actions for the creation of new Space-oriented companies”.