ADR Innovation Hub, the start-up accelerator at Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport, has signed, through the Aeroporti di Roma's corporate venture capital fund ADR Ventures, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lufthansa Innovation Hub, the Lufthansa Group's Berlin-based innovation centre.
The partnership will focus on joint innovation projects. For instance, ADR Innovation Hub will share its know-how on start-ups acceleration achieved during the ADR Runway to the future projects. Lufthansa Innovation Hub will share insights and opportunities based on its research and venture building activities.
The MoU outlines key areas of collaboration, including regular exchanges of information about pilot schemes, the co-development of pilots, and the sharing of use-cases, problems and solutions.
“This partnership represents a strategic collaboration in advancing the aviation industry,” said Emanuele Calà, senior vice president of transformation & technology at Aeroporti di Roma and managing director at ADR Ventures. “We are committed to collaboration as a key leverage to shape the future of the aviation industry, we are proud to work alongside Lufthansa Innovation Hub."
“As a crucial part of the travel experience, we see airports as a highly relevant field for innovation” says Dr Stefan Nothelfer, director partnerships and new business ventures at Lufthansa Innovation Hub. “Building on our previous venture clienting and research activities in this area, we are more than pleased about the cooperation with ADR Innovation Hub. We definitely aim to work even more closely with airports in the future.”
