Archimede wins the Sicily Innovation Award 2025
Archimede is the overall winner of the Sicily Innovation Award 2025 in the Advanced Stage category, dedicated to companies and projects that are already active and ready to grow and expand.
The event held on November 21st at the Ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva in Palermo was a vibrant mix of meetings, pitches, stories, and visions: a journey into the heart of a Sicily that innovates and collaborates. It was a valuable opportunity for startups and companies to exchange ideas, rich in inspiration and shared lessons.
The event concluded with the award ceremony, where Archimede was proclaimed the overall winner of the Sicily Innovation Award in the Advanced Stage category. This recognition confirms and reinforces the startup’s mission: to bring off-grid technologies and deep tech solutions from Sicily to the world.
The Sicily Innovation Island:
a celebration of the value of technological innovation
The Sicily Innovation Award, part of the Innovation Island ecosystem, is now one of the main regional awards dedicated to startups, companies, and research centers that stand out for the impact and innovative potential of their projects.
The initiative was created with the aim of promoting excellence in the region that can contribute to Sicily’s economic growth, promoting ideas, technologies, and business models that improve industrial processes, increase competitiveness, and promote sustainability. The Award was created to connect innovation, give it visibility, and recognize its value.
Archimede’s victory in the Advanced Stage category confirms the startup’s innovative potential and reinforces its mission: to bring off-grid technologies and deep tech solutions from Sicily to the world.
Innovation as a driver of growth for Sicily
This recognition celebrates and reinforces Archimede’s vision: to bring off-grid technologies and deep tech solutions from Sicily to the world, demonstrating that innovation in the region is not only possible but also an essential driver of development. The Sicily Innovation Award was created to connect emerging excellence, promote innovation, and raise its visibility. Archimede, with its young team, demonstrates that Southern Italy can be a birthplace of complex technologies capable of competing on the national and international markets.
For the Archimede team, the Sicily Innovation Award represents an achievement they hope will serve as an example for other young startups, talents, and innovators: a call to believe in Sicily as a place where it is possible to build, grow, and shape the technological future.
Acknowledgments
“For us, innovation is constructive disobedience,” says Riccardo Puglisi. “It’s the ability to look beyond and overcome the ‘it’s always been done this way’ mentality and creating something that doesn’t yet exist. With Archimede, we have shown that innovation in Sicily is not only possible, but necessary.”
Archimede expresses its sincere gratitude to Innovation Island and all the strategic partners that support it, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), ESA Bic Brindisi, the Italian Space Agency, CDP Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Le Village by CA Sicilia, CrossConnect, ELIS, Plug and Play Tech Center, SkillforEquity, UniCredit and many others.