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Politecnico di Milano, founded in 1863, is a public scientific-technological university which trains engineers, architects and industrial designers. The University has always focused on the quality and innovation of its teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with business and productive world by means of experimental research and technological transfer. Research has always been linked to didactics and it is a priority commitment which has allowed Politecnico Milano to achieve high quality results at an international level as to join the university to the business world. Research constitutes a parallel path to that formed by cooperation and alliances with the industrial system.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA) is a key academic institution with an outstanding reputation for high quality, state-of-the-art research. Faculties at DICA are involved in research activities within several engineering and natural sciences areas with a major emphasis on civil and environmental engineering, land planning and geomatics. 

The Department of Electronics, Information and Biomedical Engineering (DEIB) is one of the largest European ICT departments and it is a vital institution capable of promoting education, fundamental and applied research, and technology transfer to companies. The six department sections cluster consolidated competences in systems and control, computer science and engineering, electronics, telecommunications, bioengineering and electrical engineering.

The University of Insubria, founded in 1998, promotes continuous development of basic and applied scientific research, to guarantee high standard levels of innovation, learning, creativeness, and planning thanks to the intense activities of its research groups, structures, and services.

In the Department of Science and High Technology (DiSAT) basic research merges with applied research, promoting interdisciplinary research and training. DISAT research areas include four sections: Environment-Health-Safety-Territory, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics. DISAT aims to produce innovation and positive effects on society and it is included in national and international collaborations and is characterized by high scientific productivity.

The University has specific expertise in occupational and environmental hygiene and air pollution research and chemical characterization of PM. A fully equipped laboratory is dedicated to these topics, with a state-of-the-art endowment, including direct-reading instruments and filter-based samplers for PM monitoring and sampling, and a chemical laboratory for complete chemical characterization.

Fondazione Politecnico di Milano was established in 2003 at the behest of Politecnico di Milano, together with Milan’s main institutions and the regional government of Lombardy, with the support of several important business companies. Fondazione is actively engaged in enhancing the University’s development path of accessible innovation and to share the many strengths that define its research in the fields of engineering, architecture and industrial design with manufacturing companies and the local community, driving progress to build the future. The Foundation contributes towards innovating and developing Italy’s economic and productive landscape, operating to improve the efficiency of relationships between Politecnico and companies, institutions and public authorities, by providing professional support, including on an international scale, to research, education and the University’s third mission. Fondazione Politecnico di Milano plays a strategic role in promoting cooperation and interaction between the academic world, business and public administration, with the twin aims of making the extensive technical-scientific knowledge accessible and transferring the results of research. It is responsible for the overall D-DUST project management. It also defines and implements communication strategies.