Politecnico di Milano, since 1863 The leading University in Italy for Engineering, Architecture and Design Prof. Emanuela Colombo, [email protected]

Politecnico di Milano, since 1863 The leading University in Italy for Engineering, Architecture and Design

Prof. Emanuela Colombo,

[email protected]

Rector’s Delegate to “Cooperation for Development” - Politecnico di Milano

E. Colombo, POLIMI - UNCHAIN workshop 12/07/10

The Politecnico di Milano’s Logo

The logo originates from Raffaello’s

fresco The School of Athens,

Located in the Stanze Vaticane,

Roma


1863: The first location of the Politecnico di Milano

POLITECNICO DI MILANO is a Public State University founded for

Engineering (since 1863)Architecture (since 1865)

Industrial Design (since 2000)


The Campuses of the Politecnico di Milano

Lombardia Region

Emilia Romagna Region


Vision and Mission

The Politecnico di Milano is a science and technology university producing engineers, architects and industrial designers through a variety of innovative courses taking care of specific technical competences and devoted to all sides of education including deontological and ethical asset.

Today we are focusing our main efforts on two key tasks:

1. Promoting multidisciplinary projects and internal cooperation (INTERNAL) between departments and scientific sectors, to increase overall impact and potential.

2. Enforcing the partnership with stakeholders (EXTERNAL) in order to develop joint research projects of common interest to promote sustainable growth.


Vision and Mission

The Politecnico di Milano mission has always been based on quality and innovation in teaching and research, resulting in a prolific relationship with the economic and manufacturing world through experimental research and Technology Transfer.

The mission is focused on three pillars

1.Teaching and education

2. Research activities

3. Knowledge & Technology Transfer to industry/community


Some figures and dimensions:

Students 38.033Degrees/y

almost 5000/y

Professors 1.293

Tech-Administrative Staff1.122

PhD Students 883

Public Funding 300 Meuro/y

Funding(contracts, EU projects) 60 Meuro/yFrom applied research

Human Resources, Academic year 2007/2008

15° among European Technical Universities according to Times Higher-QS World University

1° in Europe and 8° worldwide for software engineering, according to the Association For Computing Machinery (ACM)


I Level Master

II Level Master

13-year education

1st levelLaureaBachelor

2nd LevelLaurea MagistraleMaster of Science

3rd levelDottorato Di RicercaPh.D.

The New System (after Bologna Process)

6 to 19 years old

19 to 22 years old

22 to 24 years old

24 to 27 years old


84% of graduatesin Italy



Faculty & Students on 2008

Design

Architecture

Engineering

Professors & Researchers

Students329 10.187


Students101 4.63

0


Students888 23.216


Erasmus Programme

Unitech Programme

MEDes Programme

PEGASUS Network

Erasmus Mundus

T.I.M.E. Project

Extra EU Projects

Leonardo

International Internships

Exchange Programme

Sino-Italian Campus


Internationalisation of students

International students coming from 83 countries 1.200 at BSC (5%) 1.100 at MSC (10%) 151 PHD (18%)

Short period exchanges (Erasmus, bilateral agreement, Unitech, a.a. 08/09)878 incoming - 752 outgoing

Master and Short post graduation courses2500 students

Double degrees (T.I.M.E. and bilateral agreements) (a.a. 08/09) total 131 (57 incoming - 74 outgoing)

Alta Scuola Politecnica (In cooperation with Politecnico di Torino)150 young talents wishing to develop their skills towards interdisciplinary in the engineering, architecture, planning, design and managing

Campus Italo Cinese in Shangai (In cooperation with Politecnico di Torino and Tongji University)Two programmes for joint BSC Courses (Mechanical Production Engineering, and Information Technology Engineering) - Italian and Chinese professors 2 years in Italy and 1 year in China for Italian students 2 years in China and 1 in Italy for Chinese students, 2 years together for all the students.

Support in formation and technology transfer to developing countries


The 16 Departments of the Politecnico di Milano

● Aerospace Engineering

● Architectural Projects

● Architecture and Planning

● Bioengineering

● Building and Environment Sciences and

Technology

● Chemistry, Materials and Chemical

Engineering “Giulio Natta”

● Electrical Engineering

● Electronics and Information

● Energy

● Hydraulic, Environmental and Surveying

Engineering

● Industrial Design, Arts, Communication

and Fashion

● Management, Economics and Industrial

Engineering

● Mathematics “Francesco Brioschi”

● Mechanics

● Physics

● Structural Engineering


Research Areas

● Biotechnology and Health● Information Communication Technologies● Materials, Micro and Nanotechnologies● Aeronautics and Space● Environment● Energy● Transport● Citizens, Enterprises and Governance● Built Environment, Infrastructures,Urban and

Land Planning● Cultural Heritage● Industrial Products and Processes● Mathematics● Physics

Our research must integrate

the analytical calculation and the numerical modelling

with experimental approach to obtain reliable results


• Internal Office operating since 2002• Spin-off (19 activated since year 2000)• Patent office: total of patented inventions ≈ 250

on December 2009

Research and Technological Transfer Area Fields Of Activities


Start up (Incubator)

Primary goal of the Incubator is to

support the technological transfer from the university to the industrial world through the creation of new enterprises by offering services to potential entrepreneurs in the start-up phase

On 2008 the number of Start-ups activated and hosted within the incubator is 25

Fondazione Politecnico: Leading role in the development and increase of the national and regional community. Contribute to support• applied research• technology transfer • support to scientific international cooperation • innovation of enterprises and public administration• support to the big projects of the Politecnico di Milano

Long term strategy

and the Third Millennium

Partnership with international Universities, Institutions and Entrepreneurs

Internal Organisation and Quality assurance in the PA


New Social challenges

The 8 Millennium Development Goals are the frontiers of the global growth

The Third Millennium Social Challenges

The interdependency principles Underline the need of managing a global society from the economic, environmental and social point of view

The crisis of the traditional economy which is affecting the whole globe is another alarm which is advising all of us that new directions need to be taken

The aim at Sustainable developmentIdentify the need of new paradigms for

economic and social development aligned with the environment constrain

Competences, Right Attitudes and New Capacities become key elements!


These values may lead to a

generation of responsible individuals (North & South)

able to truly act in that worldwide “challenge for global Development”

Cooperation4Development and the universities

Learning principles of Cooperation4Development create positive values that may be useful into any global frame people will work

All Universities need to prepare the Citizens & the Professional of The Global World

The added value of Cooperation for Development and the Universities


Technology & Innovation have always represented key advantages

for competitive performances.

Technology & Innovation alone are not enough anymore.Only driven by Human factors and coupled with the principle of Social Responsibility

They may build a good set of instruments and values able to support our civil societyin the “challenge for global Development and human promotion”

Using Researches and Relationship for “innovating” the way of cooperating between countries

Cooperation4Development: The vision @ POLIMI

The role of Technical Universities: scientific research for innovation


Scientific Research and University Cooperation

It aims at transforming the idea of technology transfers in a mutual and bilateral construction of new knowledge and technology for autonomous development

It aims at promoting Science and Technology at the service of the community and offers

non conventional framework where applying it.

Innovation still need to overcome frontiers…all the geographical economic and social barrier somehow limiting human and social development



Research is precondition to innovation for local development

Science and Technology should be looked at as instruments serving social needs

The needs of Innovation based on Science and Technology has been recognized by the international community as a proper mean for development

In the North of the world innovation aims mainly at the

frontiers of technology

In the South of the World innovation aims mainly at renovating technology for the local contest


Scientific Research and Innovation


International Projects 132 projects were presented to the EXPO’2015 committee as examples

• Curricula upgrading, review, student exchange

• Staff upgrading/Staff exchange

Teaching

International Cooperation Projects and joint activities

• Joint Research

• Twinned Master’s Thesis

Research

• Promoting a culture of

• research and innovation

• best practise in the industrial sector

• technology at the service of the community

Technology Transfer

By realising Partnership among Universities (north-South)

It is possible to promote

The cooperation among university - industry - institution which is the proper framework for development


• Thematic Area: Higher Education: Academic level • ObjectivesGeneral Objectives: Enhancing the contribution of Engineering Learning and Technology to the socioeconomic development of the East Africa Specific objective: Capacity building in delivery of joint market-driven and high quality training programs in engineering

EXC3ITE: Elimu (Education) For Common Creative Capacity in Innovation, Technology and Engineering

• Involved Countries: East African Community: Kenya, Tanzania • BeneficiariesTarget groups: the teaching, the technical and the administrative staff of the Faculties of the partner HEIs. The students of the engineering course and the students of the most relevant high schools in the countries are respectively considered. Indirect beneficiaries: National Economies• Partner: The Mombasa Polytechnic University College; The Kenya Polytechnic University

College, Kenya; The Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology, Tanzania• Associates: Ministry of Science and Technology – Kenya, AVSI Foundation (Italian NGO),

Italy Fondazione Politecnico, Italy Italian Embassy in Nairobi, Italy Ingegneria Senza Frontiere – Milano (Volunteers) , Italy

• Politecnico Role: Applicant: support to the local development • Financings: EU program

International Cooperation Projects and joint activities: some examples


• Involved Countries: Africa: Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, Egitto, Zambia • Beneficiaries : African University and Enterprises• Partner:Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Heliopolis University, Cairo, Egypt, University Hassan

II, Casablanca, Morocco, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria, University St. Joseph, Beyrouth, Lebanon, Universite de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands , Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, Unido HQ, Vienna, Austria

• Politecnico Role: focal point for technology transfer• Financings: TEMPUS project

International Project :

• Thematic Area:The main goal of UNCHAIN project is to establish a Strategy for Innovation in the MEDA Region. Objectives: Establishing a University Chair on innovation in the MEDA Region, Developing Technology Transfer Policy and Training the Chair Operators, Initiating a re-skilling program on Innovation, EU MEDA Twinning MSc Thesis Program, Developing an EU-MEDA Virtual Environment and Strategy for University-Industry Cooperation in Innovation, Developing a strategy for University-Industry Cooperation in Innovation, Dissemination, Assuring project sustainability

University Chairs on Innovation: UNCHAIN pilot project



• Thematic Area: Development local Community • Objectives: General Objectives To contribute in raising population’s life level in the provinces of Concepción e Huancayo”Specific objective: To consolidate the processes of local management connected to the economic and environmental development

PERU PROJECT 1: Enforcing the territorial development in Concepción e Huancayo

• Involved Countries :PERU. Región Junín, province of Huancayo e Concepción (25 districts)• Beneficiaries :Authority and officials of the economic and social development,

organizations of the manufacturers and organizations of the civil society• Partner: Fratelli dell´Uomo – Onlus, Politecnico di Milano,Asociación Laboral para el

Desarrollo – ADEC-ATC, Equipo de Educación y Autogestion Social – EDAPROSPO, Instituto de Desarrollo Urbano –CENCA, Coordinamento degli enti locali per la pace della provincia di Cremona, TASM SpA, Ingegneria Senza Frontiere – Milano (ISF – MI), Geologi senza Frontiere-Delegazione Italiana, Associazione L’isola che c’è - rete comasca di economia solidale Associazione latinoamericana di Cremona – Onlus, Coordinamento comasco per la Pace

• Politecnico Role: Associates: Participation in different fases: organizer the interchange, support the local University network for International Cooperation

• Financings EUROPAID/126-621/L/ACT/PE• Duration: 40 months



• Thematic Area : Electric Energy Generation and Distribution• Objectives: • To support the national energy policy • To favor the diffusion the local knowledge and the abilities to manage in the future

and in autonomy a complex problem

TANZANIA PROJECT : Reinforcing the National electric net and capacity builidng in the energy sector

• Involved Countries: Tanzania• Beneficiaries: National economic and industrial system• Partner: Politecnico di Milano, Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology• Politecnico Role: feasibility study, strategic plain, transfer capacity, curricula rebuilt , staff

upgrading• Financings: EU calls, private fundations



• Thematic Area

System innovation for sustainable mobility solutions. • Objectives: LeNS aims at contributing to human resources and curriculum

development, in a reciprocal understanding of cultures, by promoting a new generation of designers (and design educators) capable to effectively contribute to a transition towards a sustainable society. LeNS ambitions to promote a new shared disciplinary ground on Design for Sustainability trough a series of exchange activities among the partner institutions. LeNS consortium will jointly produce an open e-learning package (a modular and adaptable package for curriculum development with teaching materials and tools for design educators and guidelines for courses design and implementation In diverse contexts).

PROJECT :LeNS, the Learning Network on Sustainability is a project for curricula development and teaching diffusion on Design for Sustainability focused on product-service system innovation.

• Involved Countries : ItIaly, Thailand, Finland The Netherlands, India, China (>>>AFRICA)• Beneficiaries : Target group African communities, universities and companies.Final beneficiaries: African countries.• Partner: Politecnico di Milano - King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang,

Thailand - University of Art and Design Helsinki, School of Design, Finland - Delft University of Technology, Industrial Design Engineering, The Netherlands - Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India - Sritshi School of Art, Design and Technology, India - Tsinghua University, Academy of Arts & Design, Industrial Design Dept., China

• Funding: the Asia Link Programme, EuropAid, European Commission• Duration: 3 years



Politecnico di Milano Is committed to prepare the next generation for

facing, with proper instruments and methods but also capacity and attitude

the Third Millennium social challenges

The curricula need to be revised On field inter&national experiences are essential

in order to understand what is the meaning of using the professionals capacity and the

personal attitude to serve society And we need to teach this approach to our students.

Our long term vision elaborates the attitude of the volunteers in a comprehensive behaviours of

responsible individuals: citizens or professionals

Industries and institutions are build up by individuals: individual responsibility may induce multiplicative effects

Individual Responsibility as a Key element for social development


Social Responsibility

Quality

Outstanding Teaching

Scientific Research

Innovation

and Transversal Partnerships

are our driving forces

for promoting research

and innovation

to prepare future professionals and

to met the new social challenges

leading to

global development

Final consideration Scientific Research and University cooperation

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Politecnico di Milano, since 1863 The leading University in Italy for Engineering, Architecture and Design Prof. Emanuela Colombo, [email protected]