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Basic research, entrepreneurship and open innovation. Tech Europe Foundation established

Transforming Milan into one of Europe’s leading tech hubs, establishing an open environment where scientists, companies and startups can collaborate and grow together. A non-profit foundation promoted by its founding members Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Bocconi University, ION and FSI, the Tech Europe Foundation (TEF) has been established in Milan. TEF’s goal is to create […]

Serious games help students improve their transliteracy skills

Can you build up your STEAM skills playing serious games? The Erasmus + project TLIT4U – Improving Transliteracy Skills through Serious Games means to do just that. Its objective is to spark off students’ skills in STEAM subjects through applied video games, otherwise known as serious games. Apart from their educational purpose, serious games are […]

TechCamp@POLIMI gets underway with scholarships for the most able students

You have until the 31st of March 2024 to send in your application to TechCamp@POLIMI, a summer camp where secondary school students are exposed to university-level technical courses. This year, we are offering 74 scholarships, courtesy of our partners, which are available as from the 15th of February, the day the applications open. These include […]

FPM US projects on the New York stage at the “World of Excellence” Gala

Empowering girls to study science subjects and self-drive vehicles. These are just two of the projects presented at the first FPM US “World of Excellence” Gala on the 27th of October in New York. The objective was to promote initiatives helping talented and innovative youngsters, and create ties with companies, whilst reaffirming the excellence of […]

ESA BIC for space entrepreneurship

The objective of this project is to inject extra impetus into the creation of new businesses, whilst generating a chain reaction in a number of industrial sectors by developing new products, services and business models that utilise space-based systems, data and infrastructure.  This is the reasoning behind setting up three new centres in Italy, the most recent […]

Happy Birthday Foundation! 20 years of innovation with and through companies

  Twenty years have past since Fondazione Politecnico di Milano was founded, twenty years in which universities, companies and institutions have forged a strong alliance in their work at the frontiers of research, driving Italy’s economic and social growth. In 2000, the Italian Government introduced a law that opened the doors to university foundations, which […]