POSTE ITALIANE - SOCIETA PER AZIONI

Their core work

Poste Italiane is Italy's national postal service and one of Europe's largest integrated logistics, financial services, and digital communications companies. Within H2020, they contribute real-world operational infrastructure and large-scale user environments for testing innovations in urban logistics, cybersecurity, IoT, and fintech. Their participation brings a rare combination: massive physical delivery networks, financial services platforms (PostePay, BancoPosta), and millions of end users — making them an ideal testbed partner for projects that need to validate solutions at national scale.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their early H2020 period (2015–2017), Poste Italiane focused on cybersecurity infrastructure — threat intelligence feeds, malware analysis, honeypots, and botnet tracking through SISSDEN — alongside traditional logistics innovation. From 2019 onward, their focus shifted decisively toward IoT, blockchain, and digital platforms applied to financial services, energy, and security. This mirrors the company's broader corporate transformation from a postal operator into a digital services and fintech provider.

Poste Italiane is moving toward data-driven digital services — expect future interest in data sovereignty, AI-powered logistics, and secure digital finance infrastructure.

How they like to work

Poste Italiane participates exclusively as a consortium partner, never as coordinator — consistent with large end-user organizations that contribute operational environments rather than driving research agendas. With 148 unique partners across 23 countries, they work in large, diverse consortia typical of Innovation Actions. Their value to any consortium is clear: they bring a national-scale infrastructure for real-world piloting and validation.

Broad European network spanning 148 unique partners across 23 countries, reflecting their role in large-scale Innovation Actions and Research consortia. No geographic clustering — their partnerships are genuinely pan-European.

What sets them apart

Poste Italiane offers something few partners can: a national-scale infrastructure covering logistics, financial services, and digital communications with millions of active users. For any consortium needing a large real-world testbed in Italy — whether for smart logistics, fintech regulation sandboxes, or IoT security — they are an unmatched validation partner. Their dual identity as both a logistics operator and a financial services provider enables cross-domain projects that others simply cannot host.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PLATOON
  Their largest H2020 investment (EUR 315,875), marking Poste Italiane's entry into the energy data platform space — a significant sector expansion.
• INFINITECH
  Applied IoT, blockchain, and big data sandboxes specifically to finance and insurance — directly aligned with Poste Italiane's core fintech business.
• SISSDEN
  A substantial cybersecurity project (EUR 227,500) focused on threat intelligence infrastructure including honeypots, darknets, and botnet tracking at scale.