The Latest Updates on Astra's Progress

Almost 7 million euros transferred, many tasks completed, and the project's progress status is well underway.

This is how the data update on the Astra portal, one of the Vitality ecosystem projects, can be summarized.

The data, updated as of November 2025, reports a total of 6.7 million euros transferred, to which the final project balances will be added, reaching the overall allocated amount of 10.4 million euros.

Within the three project work packages, there are 39 milestones, all of which can be navigated through this portal. Of these, 14 are already completed, 8 are in the process of completion, 14 are ongoing, and 3 have been cancelled due to some in-progress modifications to the project activities.

Work Package number 2 (Digital platforms for Space industry) has the highest number of completed objectives: 8.

It must also be added and highlighted that the "completion date" is used to consider a milestone finished. For almost half of the milestones (16 out of 39), the completion date is the same as the project end date, which is December 2025.

These are just a few figures, but they are emblematic of how a research project funded with public resources has been monitored, even through this portal. In fact, it is not common for such monitoring to be publicly presented, especially within the scope of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).

Photo: the headquarters of the Gran Sasso Science Institute Rectorate in L'Aquila (Italy)