Every 2 years the European Commission selects the 3 best “Cluster Managers” in Europe for the Award “European Cluster Manager of the Year”. In 2022 the DITECFER Coordinator, Veronica Elena Bocci, is one of the 3 Nominees. The Award Ceremony will take place in Prague on 26 September during the European Cluster Conference 2022, organised by…
2020 DITECFER leads "EXXTRA", one of the first 13 European Strategic Cluster Partnerships for Excellence selected by the EU to take the District towards the "World-Class Cluster" dimension.
2018 DITECFER organizes the meeting for Italy of the "ERCI Cybersecurity in Railways Task Force # 4" at the Florence-Osmannoro Laboratories RFI-Italcertifer.
2018 DITECFER leaves the headquarters in the Province of Pistoia and moves to UNISER Pistoia University Center, in one of the buildings where historically the San Giorgio and then the Breda Workshops produced trains.
2015 The "DITECFER Railway Innovation Contest" is created. The initiative aims to select each year, through an open selection process, the 3 most promising innovations for the railway sector with TRL >6 developed in Tuscany (in the first 2 editions) and in Italy (from the following ones). The 3 winners, awarded as "DITECFER Railway Innovation...