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Sustainable development

Sustainable research  

To extend scientific research efforts on key sustainability issues, to consolidate and reinforce our position as a leader in technological, social and environmental innovation, while embedding the sustainability perspective across all research areas.

Sustainable development in research topics

Politecnico di Milano believes that the focus on sustainable development should be as pervasive as possible, in this favoured by an interdisciplinary approach in facing the challenges of scientific progress and technological development. Key enabling factors are the training and awareness-raising of researchers, incentive tools for the generation of synergies between researchers of all disciplines and the availability of large university laboratories and living labs located throughout the territory.

  • SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastrutture
  • SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities
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    goals

Ethical and responsible research

Politecnico di Milano aims to strengthen the skills needed to address the challenges of ethics in science and technology and those related to the broader implications of scientific progress, technological development and innovative design. Furthermore, the university intends to continue developing an open-science and open-access, ethical and responsible approach to scientific research, identifying suitable communication tools to enhance the impact of research.

  • SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastrutture
  • SDG 16: Peace, Justice and strong institutions
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    goals