Special Initiatives 2025

MECSPE Young&Career

The special initiative MECSPE Young & Career returns to MECSPE Bari, a meeting point between companies, looking for new professional figures, and young talents eager to enter the world of manufacturing and Industry 5.0.

The aim is to highlight the positions most in demand at present, the skills needed to access the manufacturing sector and stimulate the interest of young people in this field.

The aim is to highlight the most in-demand job positions, the skills needed to access the manufacturing sector and stimulate young people’s interest in this field.

An area dedicated to talent and innovation. The project offers students the opportunity to connect with leading companies in the sector, discover what’s new for the year and the products exhibited. At the same time, enterprises will have the possibility to select the best profiles to include in their teamwork.

MECSPE Sustainability Pathway

The EcoFriendly Path evolves into the Sustainability Path, an initiative aimed at giving visibility and rewarding exhibitors who have already embarked on a sustainability path.

Training Square 5.0

From the collaboration between MECSPE and FONDAZIONE ITS A. CUCCOVILLO, Piazza della Formazione 5.0 represents a space where the ITS and its partner companies share experiences, projects, and opportunities for the development of the Territory.

The aim of this area is to increasingly highlight the importance of the connection between Company and Education, involving students who are the true protagonists, along with companies and schools. In a constantly evolving context, it is essential for companies to rely on resources equipped with technical and innovative skills, such as those of ITS students.

The Piazza includes a Speech Area, featuring a rich schedule of interventions, and a Demonstration Area, where partner companies will present new products and solutions, engaging students who have tested them firsthand.

Innovation Square

R&D, materials and technologies for the energy transition
Focus: Aeronautics – Hydrogen – Artificial Intelligence

MECSPE’s return to Bari takes place under the theme of innovation. In a region that has a cluster dedicated to aeronautics, high-tech industries and research centers such as the Politecnico di Bari and CETMA, the PIAZZA DELL’INNOVAZIONE PER LA TRANSIZIONE ENERGETICA finds its natural location within MECSPE, Italy’s leading technology fair for the industry.

TMP Square

TMP actively participates with some associates in the TMP Square, in order to consolidate the relationship between manufacturing realities in the plastics sector.

Politecnico di Bari

The Piazza dedicated to Politecnico di Bari, shared with Confindustria Puglia, returns to MECSPE Bari, through the display of some of the most innovative projects of the Politecnico and a rich calendar of events and round tables in Arena B, located nearby.

Distretti e Associazioni

AIDAM Village

AIDAM – Italian Association of Mechanical Automation – founded in 1999 with the aim of representing the innovative industrial sector of Mechatronics. With over 65 member companies, AIDAM provides high-tech manufacturing solutions and practical services of common interest by creating synergies with the industry’s research and cultural development hubs.

Agorà Confimi Industria Bari

Absolutely consistent with the themes of the event – innovation, digitalization and sustainability – , Confimi Industria Bari will be a protagonist at MECSPE Bari with the project “AGORA’ CONFIMI INDUSTRIA BARI” a group of companies from the Apulia region that will offer visitors networking opportunities with exhibitors and partners in the area and educational moments, thanks to a rich program of events organized by the associates.

ASCOMUT

ASCOMUT is the Association representing companies importing and distributing in Italy: machine tools, tooling, ancillary equipment and accessories, measuring machinery and instruments, chemical products for manufacturing and maintenance.

CNA Produzione

Founded in 1946, the CNA, National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Enterprises, has over 622,000 members who employ over 1.2 million people. CNA represents the largest representative association distributed in the territory.

CONFARTIGIANATO e la collettiva a Mecspe BARI

Confartigianato is the Europe’s largest network representing the interests of and providing services to crafts and micro and small enterprises.

CONFINDUSTRIA Puglia

Confindustria Puglia – Association of Industrialists of Puglia represents and protects the requests of all companies in the manufacturing, services, third sector, extractive industry, energy supply, transport, construction, tourism and entertainment, through continuous and constructive relationships with various public institutions.