On October 14th, the opening ceremony of the second edition of the Executive Program on Smart Grids was held at the EN:lab building. This advanced training course is organized by the Department of Energy at the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with E-Distribuzione. The program, directed by Professor Marco Merlo and by Professor Maurizio Delfanti…
On Friday, October 10th, the graduation ceremony of the first cohort of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master program Hydrogen Systems and Enabling Technologies (HySET) took place at the Castello del Valentino in Turin. The program is dedicated to training professionals with multidisciplinary knowledge in the hydrogen sector.
On 23–24 September 2025, the Department of Energy at Politecnico di Milano hosted the General Assembly of the European MARPOWER project at the EN:lab building on the Bovisa Campus. The project is funded under Horizon Europe (Grant Agreement No. 101138341).
The research project “An innovative Multi-Energy Systems design and optimization tool for evaluating decarbonization opportunities”, the result of a collaboration between researchers from Eni and Plenitude (S. Sala, A. Amendola, G. Gioco, M. Primato, T. Audino, M. Di Marco) and the team coordinated by Prof. Emanuele Martelli (Vincenzo Dipierro, Lorenzo Pilotti, Andrea Zelaschi, Alessandro F. Castelli) from the Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Milano, has won the Eni Award for Innovation 2025 in the Digital category.
On October 2, 2025, the Department of Energy organized the annual Poster Session dedicated to second-year students of the PhD Course “Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology (STEN).”
Thirty-nine PhD candidates presented the progress of their research projects through posters in front of the Faculty Board, colleagues, and the entire Department community, in an event that involved more than 100 participants.
On September 29, 2025, the inauguration ceremony for the Corporate Specializing Master Program in “Technologies for Nuclear Power Plants” took place in Genoa, at the headquarters of Ansaldo Energia. The program was developed in close collaboration between Ansaldo Nucleare and the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano.
Prof. Paolo Gaetani and Prof. Giacomo Persico from the Department of Energy at Politecnico di Milano, together with Andrea Notaristefano (our alumnus), received the Best Paper Award from the Turbomachinery Committee of the ASME International Gas Turbine Institute at Turbo Expo 2025, held in Memphis, USA, in August 2025.
On September 26, 2025, the Closing Ceremony of the 18th edition of the Specializing Master “RIDEF 2.0 – Reinventing Energy. Renewables, Decentralization, Efficiency and Strong Sustainability” of the Department of Energy took place. The postgraduate training program is dedicated to energy, environmental issues, and climate protection.
The Department of Energy welcomes Aramchehr Zare, new PhD student in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, funded by the European FutureData4EU project (MSCA COFUND).
The Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano is the coordinator of the ECCO-2050 project (Smart Energy in Cities and Communities for 2050), led by Prof. Emanuele Martelli. The project, which also involves Politecnico di Torino, University of Parma, and University of Ferrara, aims to develop innovative tools to optimize the design and management of integrated energy systems for smart cities and energy communities, with the goal of achieving the decarbonization targets set for 2050.