Great investment in research is required when choosing to operate in the latest and most innovative areas.

Aitek is a partner in national research projects (M.I.U.R. - Economical Development Ministry – 2015 Industry Programme) and european (VII E.U. Research Programme Framework).

Our Company is also a member of consortiums and pools whose aim is to promote and support cooperation among Firms, Universities and Research Centres. Aitek is also a partner of SIIT (Intelligent Integrated System Technologies) Technological District and founder member of the Polo della Robotica.

Since 2002 Aitek has been registered in the Albo dei Laboratori di Ricerca of the Ministry of Education, University and Research, according to Art. 14 D.M. 593 of 8/8/2000 (Executive Decree n. 1166 of 31/7/2002).

Our customers can entrust Aitek with project works and researches and thus take advantage of FAR (Fondo per le Agevolazioni alla Ricerca) funds to finance orders or contracts for research activities in the following areas:

- Industry Research;

- Production Process Research and Study;

- Previous Research Results application ;

- Technical Staff Training;

- Experimental Trials and Tests.

In 1999, in collaboration with Genoa University LIRA-Lab, Aitek was awarded prestigious IST Prize for Giotto-Retinic Project: a retina-like space-variant geometry CMOS digital videocamera for video communication on wireless networks (European Patent n. 1089342).

Aitek has never forgotten its ‘academic’ roots and remains closely bound up with the academic and research world.