Partners
Politecnico di Milano - Department of Energy
The Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Milano, is leading several research projects focused on technologies relating to the production, conversion, transport and use of energy, in terms of a complete social and environmental sustainability. Thanks to the range of skills offered by the Department of Energy, the Politecnico di Milano can boast one of the most influential structures in Italy: a reference point for its high teaching level, a primary research partner, an active partner of enterprises, bodies and institutions, both nationally and internationally.
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Politecnico di Torino - Department of Energy
The Department of Energy (DENERG) is the leading structure in the areas of energy and sustainable development, covering the fields of production, transport, distribution, conversion and use of energy. The main goal is to improve the existing technologies in the energy sector, to promote the innovation and to contribute to the rational and aware use of different energy resources. DENERG promotes, organizes and manages the basic and applied research, the technology transfer and business services in the field of energy resources and related conversion technologies, distribution and final use in the industrial, civil, transport and service sectors environments.
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Università di Padova - Department of Industrial Engineering
The Department of Industrial Engineering (DII) represents a hub of education and research in numerous areas of Engineering, including Aerospace, Chemical, Electrical, Energy, Materials, and Mechanical Engineering. The DII hosts 48 research laboratories that promote innovation in industrial engineering and competitiveness through excellence in research and training, collaborating with companies and businesses at national and international levels.
Among the research activities in this department, the BETA_Lab group deals with the evaluation of the energy aspects of buildings, including analysis of comfort and quality of the indoor environment, the study of the performance of HVAC systems, the integration with renewable energy resources, and the planning of energy efficiency strategies at the urban scale.
Università di Catania - Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering and Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture
The URBEM project involves professors from the DIEEI (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering) and DICAR (Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture). Both Departments are active on topics concerning Building Physics and, more generally, all research sectors related to Energy Transition and energy and environmental efficiency, being thus an important point of reference for the Sicilian territory.
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Università di Roma La Sapienza - Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering
The Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering (DIAEE), born in 2010, is divided, for scientific and functional reasons, into the following four sections: the Technical Physics Section, the Astronautical Engineering Section, the Electrical Engineering Section and the Nuclear Engineering Section. In particular, the Technical Physics Section involved in the PRIN 2020 research project deals with building energy, but in general its activities concern the areas of lighting, acoustics, ventilation, indoor air quality (IAQ), heat exchange and energy planning and optimization. Equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for research and teaching and great data acquisition capacity for field measurements, a technological laboratory located within the Urbe Airport area where some research on decarbonisation and the energy transition is underway. The Department works on a broad portfolio of fundamental and applied national and international research projects on Technology, Energy, Construction and Environment, energy planning and process decarbonisation.
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Associated Partners
Università degli Studi di Firenze - Department of Architecture
The Department of Architecture (DIDA) is one of the key organisational structures of the University of Florence (UNIFI). It is responsible for the research activities and the knowledge transfer, and, in close connection with the School of Architecture, for the teaching programmes too. The DIDA has administrative and expenditure autonomy and its internal regulations. The DIDA identifies its scientific and educational field in the culture and science of design, understood as a synthesis between aesthetic-humanistic, technical-scientific and economic-organizational dimensions. The Department of Architecture is divided into various areas and specializations, which cover vast areas of knowledge. The different disciplinary areas that belong to the DIDA concern: architectural design, survey and representation of architecture, history of architecture, conservation and restoration, science and technology of constructions, architectural technology, valuation, industrial design, urban design and land use planning, landscape design, and building physic
Università degli Studi di Pavia - Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture
The Faculty of Engineering (relatively young, reborn in 1967) is considered among the best Italian engineering schools today. In the CENSIS rankings it is placed in the first positions both for the quality of the Degree Courses and for the quality of the research of its departments (Civil Engineering and Architecture, Industrial and Information Engineering, Mathematics “Felice Casorati”). It offers 4 three-year degree courses, a five-year single-cycle degree, for the master’s degree 4 courses in English and 4 in Italian.
The Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture directs its research towards four areas of multidisciplinary activity: knowledge, conservation, reuse and sustainable enhancement of the built heritage; smart sustainable city; protection of the territory, communities and assets from natural and environmental risks; virtual modeling and additive manufacturing (3D printing) for advanced materials.
Università Iuav di Venezia - Department of Architecture and Arts
Today, the Iuav University of Venice is a place of teaching, higher education, and research concerning the design of spaces and human environments. About 4000 students are enrolled in bachelor and master degree courses, more than 300 post-graduate students attend higher education courses (postgraduate specialization courses, doctorate, and specialization school), and more than 170 lecturers and researchers are currently employed at Iuav.
Iuav has always been an experimental university in its institutional organization and teaching methods, which are increasingly characterized by the experience of projects’ laboratories. It is the only university in Italy entirely dedicated to teaching and research in design disciplines: Architecture, Urban Planning, Design, Arts, Fashion, Theatre and Performing Arts, all included within the single Department of Architecture and Arts.
Iuav research focuses on the cultures and disciplines of the project involving architecture, urban planning, landscape, design, the arts, and fashion, integrating technical and humanistic knowledge. The university includes a wide range of knowledge. It connects with a variety of local authorities and communities that are closely linked to sustainability issues through research projects that focus on different topics, collaborating with the university’s laboratories that provide highly specialized tools, technologies, and skills.
Università della Calabria - Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering
The Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering conducts research, teaching and technology transfer activities in the field of Industrial and Service Engineering. Research activities are carried out in the typically mechanical areas (cold and hot) and in the fields of Materials Science, Industrial Plants, Electrical Systems for Energy, Economic-Managerial Engineering and Decision Science, with awards of excellence in national and international scenarios.
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Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata' - Department of Industrial Engineering
The Department of Industrial Engineering of the “Tor Vergata” University of Rome offers three Bachelor courses and three Master’s degree courses: Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Energy Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Sciences (English Taught) and Master’s Degree in Chemistry for Nano-Engineering (English Taught). The Department organizes also a PhD program in Industrial Engineering and four International Master courses, providing education to approximately 500 students. The mission of the Department is to promote and valorize education, culture, and research on several subjects that fall within industrial fields, together with the development of topics relevant to technological innovation, energy conversion and environmental sustainability. The Department is involved in many research projects on advanced technologies in the mechanical, technological and aerospace fields and since 2021 it has been the administrative headquarters of the Space Sustainability Center (SSC) which carries out research and post-graduate training activities, promoting multidisciplinary knowledge and the sustainability in the space sector, through scientific cooperation with national and international institutions (NASA, ESA, ASI, UAESA, GCTC).
