Politecnico di Milano

Overview

Politecnico di Milano is one of the most outstanding universities in the world, among the top 20 in all the three areas of specialisation: 17th in Engineering (24th in 2016), 9th in Architecture (15th in 2016) and 5th in Design (10th in 2016), according to QS World University Ranking. Founded in 1863, Polimi is the largest school of Architecture, Design and Engineering in Italy, with 3 main campuses located in Milan, heart of fashion and design industries, and 5 campuses based around the Lombardy region, which is one of the most industrialized areas of Europe.

In the academic year 2016/2017, 20% of the students enrolled in Master of Science Programmes were international students.

Inter and multidisciplinary approaches are fostered throughout the academic path, and represent the methodological approach of the PhD School and the ASP (Alta Scuola Politecnica), a school for young talents from all over the world, who develop their skills in a team work context to pursue complex innovation projects.

Teaching is closely related to research, a key commitment that enables to achieve results of high international standards, while creating connections with the business world.

Strategic research is carried out mainly in the fields of energy, transport, planning, management, design, mathematics and natural and applied sciences, ICT, built environment, cultural heritage, with more than 250 laboratories, including a Wind Tunnel (unique in the world for configuration and features), a Crash Test Centre, PoliFAB (the University's infrastructure for micro and nano production) and PoliFactory, a laboratory where new design processes are developed.

Polimi was the first university in Italy for funded projects under the FP7 and also in Horizon 2020 maintains its Italian leadership among other universities (1621 proposals, 207 funded projects for a global amount of more than 94 Million Euros).

 

Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (Polimi Partner - www.fondazionepolitecnico.it/en) was founded in 2003 through a joint effort between the Politecnico di Milano, major city and regional institutions and important corporations to support the university’s research projects and contribute to innovating and developing the economic, productive and administrative environment. Fondazione Politecnico is committed to building a more effective relationship between the university, industry and public administrations.

To achieve these goals, Fondazione Politecnico develops:

innovation projects not only for large companies, but for numerous small to medium sized enterprises that characterise the Italian economy;

European projects that, by leveraging the Politecnico’s renowned capabilities, extend the network of both university and industrial collaborations outside our borders.

These efforts are complemented by a number of training programmes aimed at upgrading professional skills, to keep workers up-to-date with the rapidly evolving labour market, and of digital and online collaboration initiatives.

Aware of the importance of contributing to economic and social growth, Fondazione Politecnico develops social responsibility projects in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano, involving teachers and students in the drive for civil and communal change. In a global context, Fondazione Politecnico has been active in co-operation projects with both countries in need and nations experiencing exponential growth.

 

In 2013 Fondazione Politecnico transformed the Acceleratore di Impresa, Politecnico’s business incubator unit, into a modern structure designed to support the best national and international innovative startups, entrepreneurial empowerment and co-working projects: PoliHub (http://www.polihub.it/), which operates selecting innovative business ideas, forming teams, defining business model and market viability, research, financing and scale-up support. Mentors are managers, entrepreneurs and investors from various innovation sectors providing Acceleration/Startup/Business-Incubation. PoliHub delivers the basic services of an operative DIH: technology transfer, training, incubation and awareness construction capitalizing on the university competences and university consortia (Cefriel, MIP and Poliedra).

PoliHub has been recently awarded third place incubator from the UBI Global ranking (http://ubi-global.com/rankings/) among the top university incubators. Digital technologies.