For more than 150 years, the Politecnico di Torino has been one of the most prestigious public institutions at both the International and Italian levels concerning education, research, technological transfer, and services in all architecture and engineering sectors. The Politecnico di Torino was founded in 1859 as Scuola di Applicazione per gli Ingegneri (Technical School for Engineers), and it became Regio Politecnico di Torino in 1906. A long history, which bore out the University as a reference point for education and research in Italy and Europe, a Research University of international level that attracts students from more than 100 countries and activates about 800 collaborations per year with industries, public institutions, and local organizations.
The attention to theoretical and applied research, the knowledge and development of cutting edge technologies, the concreteness and realism concerning the management of a manufacturing process or the organization of service, the care of functionality without ignoring design, the analysis and proposition of solutions to the challenges of the society of today in order to plan a sustainable future: graduates from the Politecnico di Torino receive an education that goes far beyond technical knowledge. They can manage the interdisciplinary nature of today's scientific world without forgetting social, ethical, economic, and environmental implications.
Excellent results in education and research fields, favorable judgments from students, education processes of quality, and the ability in winning national and European grants brought the Politecnico di Torino to an excellent place in the assessment drawn up by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research (MIUR): since 2010, when the MIUR began to award the public funding of the Fondo di Finanziamento Ordinario according to a table on Universities performances, the Politecnico has always been the first University in Italy. A positioning proved by the good results of the University at the European level.
The Politecnico provides its scientific skills to companies interested in innovation. The Politecnico provides research and consultancy services with a multidisciplinary, multiservice, and customer-oriented approach to meet companies' needs to solve even their complex issues. Companies will find an easy way in order to take part with the Politecnico in granted research projects. The University also provides research, development, and consultancy services, support for trials and analysis, and even more.
Politecnico di Torino is a "Research University" focused on the balanced development of fundamental and applied research. The Department's coordinate research in four macro-areas: Industrial Engineering Information Technologies Management and Mathematics for Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering, Architecture and Industrial Design. The vocation of Politecnico for high-quality research is expressed in the pursuing of three main strategic objectives:
- Promoting high-quality research and the talent of researchers
- Increasing the impact of research on society
- Strengthening an international scientific community
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