On December 2nd 2022, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi visited the L54 nuclear research reactor at Politecnico di Milano. Politecnico di Milano was the first university to offer a degree program in Nuclear Engineering, started experimentally as early as the 1950s and opened definitively since 1960. Under license from 1960 to 1980, Politecnico also operated…
In October, researchers from the SESAM (Sustainable Energy Systems Analysis and Modelling) group of the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano held a seminar in Tunis entitled “Science Diplomacy and Evidence-Based Policymaking” and a three-day technical training for members of a Tunisian consortium for economic and energy analysis and modelling, as well as for lecturers and students from ENIT, the National Engineering School of Tunis.
European Agency Euratom-funded project kicks off Politecnico di Milano is one of the partners in ANSELMUS (Advanced Nuclear Safety Evaluation of Liquid Metal Using Systems), a four-year project funded by the European Atomic Energy Community’s EURATOM research and training programme. The project aims to make a significant contribution to the safety evaluation of nuclear systems…
Politecnico di Milano is a partner in the Horizon-Euratom funded project Politecnico di Milano is a partner in the ECOSENS (Economic and Social Considerations for the Future of Nuclear Energy in Society) project, funded by the European Community under the HORIZON-EURATOM research and training programme. The project aims to analyse citizens’ opinions and perceptions of…
Esplore project: research published in Nature Communications Linear carbon atomic wires are one-dimensional carbon-based systems which, thanks to their particular thermal, optical, electronic and mechanical properties, are considered extremely interesting for their potential applications in various fields. The European project EspLORE, coordinated by Prof. Carlo S. Casari of the Department of Energy of Politecnico di…
Sesam research group delivered a master’s module of the Italian Higher Education with Africa Foundation Politecnico di Milano is part of the IHEA Foundation – “Italian Higher Education with Africa”. The aim is to offer a multi-purpose university-level training programme specifically designed to support universities and young professionals on the African continent. This is the…
Matteo Passoni from the Department of Energy is one of the 166 winners of the ERC Proof of Concept 2022, the €150,000 grant awarded by the European Research Council to reward ideas and proposals that have the potential to lead to a marketable product. Thanks to the grant, Prof. Passoni and his team will spend…
A team from the Energy Department of Politecnico di Milano, led by Professor Giacomo Persico, is a partner in the recent H2020 project “CO2OLHEAT- Supercritical CO2 power cycles demonstration in Operational environment Locally valorising industrial Waste Heat“. The total budget of the project is around 18.8 million euros and it will last for four years,…