We are proud to announce that, despite not being able to participate in the races, Team Physis Peb from Politecnico di Milano impressed the jury of the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge 2023, winning the prestigious INNOVATION PRIZE and the YCM SPIRIT PRIZE. Eighty-five students from all the University’s graduate courses, led by a team of…
Five professors from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Chinese university
The report “Thinking Science Diplomacy“, which analyses the state of science diplomacy in Europe, has been published. It is the result of reflections and discussions during the seminar held on 25 January at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation in Brussels. The seminar was organised by the UNTRAD Presidency of the EU Science…
Federico Pedranzini, researcher at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano, has been awarded the “Roberto Sanguineti 2022” prize by Aicarr (Italian Association for Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration) for his paper entitled “HVAC systems and SARS-CoV-2, do we need to rethink design?” The award ceremony will take place on 29 June during the…
The Electric Systems for Energy research group of the Department of Energy of Politecnico has published the report “Modelling, planning and operation of battery storage systems” (LINK).The report presents in a concise and clear way what are the basic activities and analyses for a battery storage system operator to operate in the markets. Storage systems,…
An analysis of the reuse of second-life batteries in the overall technical, economic and regulatory context The paper entitled “Second Life Batteries: Current Regulatory Framework, Evaluation Methods and Economic Assessment”, presented at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering in Prague in 2022, has won the Codes and Standards Committee Prize Paper…
The first training course on digital twin to assess the energy performance of buildings The SmartWins project, funded by the European Commission, aims to strengthen the capacity of Kaunas Technological University (Lithuania) to carry out research and development activities on the digital twin in the construction sector and on methods and technologies for assessing the…
Seminar in italian The seminar, organised by Davide Bonalumi in the framework of the Hydrogen JRP with the participation of Professor André Casal Kulzer from the University of Stuttgart, is dedicated to the role that hydrogen and derived synthetic fuels (e-fuels) can play in the context of a gradual decarbonisation of means of transport to…
Giuseppe Caglioti, 91 years old, Professor Emeritus of the Physics of Matter, was interviewed for Impronte Politecniche, the new series of video interviews in which Professor Emeriti and Honorary Professors of Politecnico di Milano tell their story and at the same time look to the future of their discipline, retracing their beginnings, successes, trials, anecdotes,…
A new spin-off company has been set up at Politecnico di Milano that has its roots in the Department of Energy: it is ENIGMA (Nanoengineered Labels to Identify and Guarantee Authentic Goods), a system that guarantees the authenticity and tracking of a product, which is associated with a unique identification code with a high level…