During the KEY ENERGY – ECOMONDO event at Rimini Fiere (October 27^th 2021), the XXIII Ecohitech edition of the historic Italian recognition to the excellence of companies and public bodies for the development of innovative solutions and projects for the green and digital transition of cities has been awarded, during a conference dedicated to Next Generation Cities.

The Ecohitech path was born from the historic Ecohitech Award (born in 1998), with a series of events aimed at enhancing innovative projects, solutions and technologies of companies and public bodies that have achieved concrete results in various areas of the smart city: Environmental sustainability / green transition; Energy transition; Digital transition / digitization; Improvement of services to citizens.

In 2021, in the category dedicated to the digitization of Public Administrations, some important awards were assigned and a special mention went to the Municipality of Milan and to the Merezzate+ project with this reason: “for the design of a neighbourhood that sees its pillars in clean energy, digitalization, the circular economy and sustainable mobility and which proves to have a strong social and environmental impact on the territory“.