More than 1.500 Alumni followed the livestreaming of the 9th edition of the Convention Alumni Politecnico di Milano.
What will be the new equilibrium? Around this topic the speakers have shared their views among themselves and in relation to the university, sharing their vision and their global expertise.
EQUILIBRIO POLITECNICO
In the third part of the Alumni Convention of Politecnico di Milano 2020, Rector Ferruccio Resta describes what was the experience of the University in the face of the pandemic, what course of action was implemented to confront the situation and pictures, together with Professor Enrico Zio what will be the Politecnico of tomorrow. What will be the teaching like? How will the research world evolve?
Claudia Pingue, Alumna of Telecommunications Engineering and Ex-General Manager of Polihub: "I am proud to place my knowledge and competences in the world of technology at the disposal of the university and of sustainable growth."
The Technology Transfer Fund of CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund was inaugurated. It is endowed with 150 million euros and will support the creation and development of deep tech startups. It will be led by Claudia Pingue Alumna in telecommunications engineering and former General Manager of PoliHub.
Credits: https://startupitalia.eu/
The fund will be focused on some areas of technological and scientific research through agreements with universities and research centers. From the research point of view Italy is on the forefront and its ranked 8th in the world for number of scientific publications and number of researchers and is ranked 10th for number of patents given to the European Patent Office. This fund has the goal of highlighting the italian scientific heritage and closing the gap between competences and capitals, supporting the technological transfer processa and promoting innovation and competitiveness of the research-industry area. Pingue comments to Start-up Italia: "I am proud to place my knowledge and competences in the world of technology at the disposal of the university and of sustainable growth."
"Today is of the utmost importance to talk about public infrastructures in Italy. We need to guarantee their safety and making them long-lasting".
Autostrade per l’Italia will be investing in research and development: artificial intelligence, data analysis and electric mobility are key elements in the agreement struck with Politecnico di Milano, which also includes a hiring plan of 2400 units at ASPI, open to recent graduates in engineering of the university.
"Today is of the utmost importance to talk about public infrastructures in Italy. We need to guarantee their safety and making them long lasting, but that alone is not enough. It is our duty to project models and technological solutions that will anticipate the needs and the requirements of tomorrow. Electric vehicles and sensorized highways are not futuristic visions but rather concrete opportunities of investment – says Ferruccio Resta, Rector of the Politecnico di Milano – “We need to invest in a smart mobility, that will be able to monitor traffic, the conditions of roads and that will signal the needs of intervention at high speed. The Politecnico di Milano takes on by signing the agreement with Autostrade per l’Italia this commitment.
The agreement aims at developing projects of digital transformation related to the tracking of traffic flows to digital payments, to cybersecurity to monitoring and maintaining the infrastructures and using artificial intelligence in projects. Sustainability and renewable energy will be key components of the project as well. Lastly there will be projects of higher education for the workers of the ASPI group and for university students, that will be included in development and testing of strategic activities.
Live on Uno Mattina, the Rector of the Politecnico di Milano describes how the university system will evolve in the future
The disruption caused by the pandemic has made necessary to re-think the university system, in terms of new knowledge and with regards to the instruments that will assist the education system in the future. What to expect in the next phases? On the topic Ferruccio Resta, Rector of the Politecnico di Milano and Giovanni Lo Storto, Director General of Luiss Guido Carli were interviewed on Uno Mattina (4th of january 2020).
Le città sono sempre state indissolubilmente legate alle infrastrutture e al loro sviluppo. Sono le infrastrutture che rendono possibile lo sviluppo urbano, a maggior ragione oggi, quando spazio dei flussi e spazio dei luoghi sono inesorabilmente intrecciati proprio nelle città.
Un legame che è stato ulteriormente enfatizzato dalla pandemia che stiamo vivendo, che ha quasi azzerato le relazioni di prossimità; è stato solo grazie alle infrastrutture digitali e logistiche che abbiamo potuto rimanere connessi con gli altri e continuare a svolgere le nostre attività. Quali infrastrutture serviranno per rendere le nostre città luoghi di innovazione e di coesione sociale? Come progettarle e realizzarle sfruttando i dati da cui siamo circondati?
Ne discutono i professori Giovanni Azzone, Alessandro Balducci e Piercesare Secchi intervistati dal prof. Enrico Zio.
Ernesto Gismondi has passed away on the 31st of december 2020: one of the ambassadors of Made in Italy around the world for his avantgarde design, he was the founder and President of Artemide, one of the most known companies in lighting design.
Born on the 25th of december 1931, Gismondi was Alumnus of the Politecnico di Milano in Engineering, as well as being a graduate of missile engineering a the Scuola Superiore di Ingegneria di Roma. He has founded Artemide in Milan in 1960; today, the Artemide Group is one of the most famous lighting companies in the world. Under the guidance of Gismondi the company has collaborated with world famous designers and engineers such as Vico Magistretti, Gio Ponti, Gae Aulenti, Santiago Calatrava, Richard Sapper, Michele De Lucchi and more. Gismondi himself has made a name for himself as international designer and was among the founders of "Memphis", an avantgarde movement that push forward the evolution of design in Italy and around the world.
Credits: Artemide
His visionary entrepreneurial work in Artemide has give him numerous awards, among which we can cite the "Entrepreneur of the year 2008" of Enrst & Young for the category Innovation, the European Design Prize 1997, and numerous Compassi d'oro: in 1967 for the famous Eclisse signed by Vico Magistretti, another famous Alumnus of the Politecnico di Milano, in 1989 for the Tolomeo of Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina; in 2004 for the applique Pipe of Herzog & De Meuron and in 2014 for the In-Ei Collection of Issey Miyake.
He has been nominated Cavaliere del Lavoro by President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano in 2008 and in 2018 he has recieved the Compasso d'oro to the career, with the following motivation by the jury: "Areospace engineer, professor and entrepreneur: a man with polyedric interests. Founder of Artemide he has used design characteristics as a distinctive catro and he has develpoed collaborations with the design world in Italy and in the world. A coherent example of how design can be a strategic push for the collective economic and cultural development and he has always worked towards the recognition of italian design on a world stage."
From 1964 to 1984 Gismondi was associated professor at Politecnico di Milano. He has been also vice president of ADI - Associazione Design Industriale and in his long career he has been in charge of numerous institutional roles.
"An empathic engineer, a civic entrepreneur and a pragmatic creative" says Stefano Boeri, celebrating “three competences of his: technological research on materials, the passion for the risk of entrepreneurship and beauty as a border of creativity, that are part of the DNA of italian design."
Stefano Rebattoni has been nominated as the new CEO of IBM Italy. He has been working for 19 years in IBM, in which he has been been covering positions of increasing responsibility; Rebattoni is 46, an Alumnus of the Politecnico di Milano in Managing Engineering and has an MBA from Warwick Business School.
“We are at a crucial point in shaping the future of our economic, social and health system." says Rebattoni in a comment. "The current global crisis is accelerating the disruption and the need of a digital re-invention". The CEO highlights the committment of IBM to push forward the digital transformation of companies in Italy to further digitalization and development of the country. In this context, he adds, the development of an open cloud-hybrid platform and of AI will have a pivotal importance in this strategy.
The overall number of calls made to the emergency number 112, correlated to the calls made in regards to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, can indicate when the pandemic has started and anticipate new waves? A study is trying to answer these questions.
On the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information it has been published the paper “Mapping Spatiotemporal Diffusion of COVID-19 in Lombardy (Italy) on the Base of Emergency Medical Services Activities”, which has been developed within a Phd Scholarship in Biomedic Engineering financed by the Politecnico di Milano to the Engineer Lorenzo Gianquintieri, in collaboration with the team of Enrico Caiani, of the Department of Electronic, Informatics and Bioengineering and that of Professor Maria Brovelli of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The Coronavirus epidemics has officially started in Italy on the 21st february 2020. However it is not known how many cases there were already in teh days and weeks prior to that date. The research group offers a rapresentation of the virus in those first phases, utilising georeferential data to the calls made to the emergency number for respiratory diseases and the subquential actions taken by the emergency teams. The purpose of the study is to identify the beginning of abnormal patterns to understand the diffusion the the virus on the territory of the Lombardia region.
FIND OUT THE RESEARCH ON COVID-19 DONE AT THE POLITECNICO DI MILANO IN THE SPECIAL NUMBER OF THE MAGAZINE
Research at Politecnico di Milano gives an essential contribution to the technological, cultural and social development of our country and of the whole world. In this historically significant period of time many researchers of Politecnico have developed and are continuing developing researches to forecast and handle the pandemic, cointaining the diffusion and mitigating its effects. Stay updated on the news and on the resarch on Covid-19 at Politecnico di Milano. Visit www.covid.progressinresearch.polimi.it
…...all tested in the Wind Tunnel of the Politecnico, Europe's biggest boundary layer laboratory!!
With 'Wind Tunnel' we identify a certain type of lab that includes in itself other kinds of labs - says Marco Belloli, scientific director of the Wind Tunnel to Corriere Innovazione, which has published an article on one of the biggest laboratories of the Politecnico di Milano, Europe's biggest boundary layer laboratory. Here is tested everything that moves through air, such as sports cars and regular cars, aircrafts and other fast-moving means of transportation as well as everything that needs to stand still in high wind situations: bridges, buildings, eolic turbines and other technologies. "We have two test rooms- says Belloli: one of boundary layer and the other of low turbolence. The first room replicates the condition of wind blowing against still objects: buildings, turbines etc. The low turbolence one is used to test objects that move through air, such as elicopters and high speed trains.». Objects but people as well: here athlets such as Viviani and Zanardi tested their skills.
Together with a lot of civil, naval and aeronautical engineering (buildings, towers, stadiums, bridges), the Wind Tunnel is a key instrument for a lot of research projects financed by the European Commission: for example the “Clean Sky” project, which aims to reduce the emission in aereonautical transportation and for eolic energy. The maximum velocity in the boundary layer chamber is 15 meters per second, while in the low turbolence one is 55 meters per second: that is more than 200 km/h.
Maurizio Melis, journalist and Alumnus of the Politecnico di Milano, is the host of Smart City, a series of interviews on sustainable technologies that airs on Radio24. During the episode on December 9th he interviewed Professor Marco Belloli, from the department of Mechanics and scientific director of the Politecnico di Milano Wind Tunnel (GVPM) as well as bein an expert on Floating Wind Energy.
During the interview “sustainable 2030: the explosion of floating eolic turbines", Belloli explained the technology at the basis of this system and the potential that these turbines could have in producing renewable energy. According to the International Energy Agency, in 2019 eolic turbines have produced just the 0,3% of the world's energy demand of electricity but the extimates are that in the next 10 years the development of the technology will be able to produce up to 420 mila TWh per year, which is equivalent to 18 times the current energetic demand of electricity around the world.
Belloli concludes its interview with a panoramic of the most advanced countries in using turbines, of the most promising spots for their use and the role of Italy. Europe is leading in the development of eolic systems and the "Mediterrenean are is very favourable for this technology. Italy has a long history of ship building and of offshore sites, which could mean that could be a key player in this area."
We need physical spaces to attract talent, competences to create business acceleration, funds to be competitive in an international scenario. "We are on a good path to do so" says the Rector in an interview with La Repubblica.
What are the strategies, tailored for the italian territory, that will be able to support and push forward the innovative force of Start-ups and Small and Medium Companies, the backbone of our industrial system? The Rector of the Politecnico di Milano discuss it in an interview with La Repubblica. The key is to connect the university and companies: “We need places to attract the primary components of innovation: talents and capitals”, says Resta.
The Politecnico di Milano, always innovative for the industrial system has been studying a series of tools: for example "We have been developing in the North West side of Milan, in the gasometers park a great big scientific pole that will host spaces for startup incubation, private and public scientific labs, an industry accelerator and spaces for companies interested in product research", with an investment of 100 million euros thanks to the effort of the University and investments from public and private insititutions. Another piece of this strategy is the new competence center MADE: “a center in cooperation with 42 big companies to support small and medium companies in their digitalisation processes. The small entrepreneur can come to the center, see the available technologies and evaluate what could be added in the processes of its company". The University is working on building an accelerator and a fund of venture capital in line with the main technological universities in Europe.
"Between Europe and the United States there is no systemic difference, nor of abilities nor of skills" concludes the Rector "But we cannot reap if we do not sow. Things are made making a fertile terrain. And to do so we need the will to make european and national platforms in which you can address universities and research centers giving them funds in exchange for specific results in 5 years, so that they can work towards that direction."
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