The Smart Living Technologies Cluster is an initiative of the Italian Ministry of Research and is designed to operate predominantly at different levels and degrees to achieve a significant research ability and critical mass, end-user engagement and maturity and aggregation experience in relation to the integration between industry-end-user research and public policies.

The cluster was born to operate at different levels and degrees, and to achieve these objectives:

• Capacity of research and critical mass – scientific excellence in the area of interest;
• Industrial Leadership – number and size of enterprises and their presence in the market;
• Participation of End Users – link to needs of users and consumers;
• Maturity and experience of aggregation – link to integration between research- enterprises- end users- public politics.