Politecnico di Torino s Strategic Approach to the Energy Challenge

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1 Politecnico di Torino s Strategic Approach to the Energy Challenge Enrico Macii Vice Rector 2 nd Energy Clustering Event Torino, September 27 28, 2016

2 POLITO s Campuses School of Engineering Cittadella Politecnica Corso Duca degli Abruzzi Castello del Valentino Automotive Engineering and Design Corso Castelfidardo Mirafiori School of Architecture School of Master Lingotto 2

3 Outline POLITO at a glance POLITO s approach to research Energy@POLITO: Education Research Innovation Partnerships Facilities Other things 3

4 POLITO at a glance People 800 professors and scientists researchers (incl. 750 PhD students) 800 admin and technical staff students (6.000 from abroad) Budget (2015) EUR 250M Research: EUR 70M Education: EUR 30M Research 11 departments 800 research contracts and agreements signed every year Industrial Partners Agusta Westland, Alenia Aermacchi, Comau, Intesa-SanPaolo, ENEL, ENI, Ferrari, FCA, GE AvioAer,o GM Powertrain Europe, HP, Huawei, IBM, Infineon Technologies, Intel, Italdesign Giugiaro, Magneti Marelli, Michelin, Microsoft, NXP, Oracle, Philips, Piaggio, Pininfarina, Pirelli, Reply, Selex, Siemens, STMicroelectronics, Telecom Italia, Thales-Alenia Space, Unicredit Banca Educational Programs BS: 22 MS: 29 PhD: BS/MS programs in English Graduates BS per year MS per year Innovation and Business Patents Around 30 per year Business Research Center (BRC) Hosts over 30 private research labs Employment (Eng) 91% (within 1 year) National Avg: 85% Incubatore Imprese Innovative POLITO (I3P) First university incubator in Italy 260 new ventures created since 2000 VC Hub 14 funds covering the enrire VC value chain Financial resources for more than EUR 1B 4

5 POLITO s Approach to Research Promotion and valorization of multidisciplinarity Joint projects across several departments International collaboration International partnerships International students Participation to collaborative projects EU Framework Program Regional and national calls Investment on human capital PhDs, research fellows, research assistants Partnership with industry Different cooperation models and schemes 5

6 POLITO s core areas (engineering) Aerospace and aeronautics Automotive Energy Environment ICT Management Manufacturing and production engineering Mechanical engineering and mechatronics Nanotechnologies and material sciences One of the main pillars of POLITO s Edu and RD&I strategy, as it calls naturally for multidisciplinary cooperation 6

7 EU Project DIMMER (FP7 SMARTCITIES 2013) District Information Modeling and Management for Energy Reduction [ Example of multidisciplinary project Development of a web-service oriented, open platform with capabilities of real-time data processing and visualization for energy reduction in city districts POLITO project coordinator. Four POLITO departments involved: DAUIN, DENERG, DISEG & DIST 7

8 Results on collaborative projects FP7 H2020 8

9 Education Research Innovation Partnerships Facilities Other things 9

10 BSc: Education (current) Energy Engineering (ENE): 412 new enrolled (1278 in total) Electrical Engineering (ELE): 146 (375 in total) MSc Energy and Nuclear Engineering: 237 (591 in total) Electrical Engineering: 56 (161 in total) PhD programs: Energetics: 17 (55 in total) Electrical, Electronic and Communications: 25 (97 in total) 10

11 Education (stats) Students (ITALY) Students (POLITO) BS POLITO POLIMI MSc POLITO POLIMI ENE ELE Graduations 11

12 Erasmus/Socrates : 34 scholarships to 23 European Universities Asia Link : Energy@POLITO: Education (international) Tsinghua University and Harbin Institute of Technology Joint MSc : Shanghai Jiao Tong University INPG (Erasmus) SELECT - KTH (Erasmus) POLIMI - Poly2Nuc (in English) 12

13 Research Research activities are spread across many departments (9 out of 11), depending on subjects and industrial collaborations Traditional subjects: Energy efficiency in buildings (DENERG, DIST, DAD) Nuclear (safety, fusion, ) (DENERG) Internal combustion engines (DENERG) Hydroelectricity (DIATI) New subjects Waves (DIMEAS) Artificial leaf and biomimetics (DISAT) Biomass (DISAT, DIATI, DENERG) Fuel cells & hydrogen (DENERG, DISAT) Photovoltaic cells (DISAT) and Installations (DENERG) Floating wind turbines (DIMEAS) ICT and energy (DAUIN, DET, DISEG, DIST, DENERG) 13

14 Innovation 49 incubated companies at POLITO s Incubator (I3P). About a dozen may be classified as energy-oriented companies, such as: SmartUPP: domotics and smart home EnerBrain: intelligente indoor climate control systems BeEco: building retrofits EnerPaper: paper recycling for cellulose insulation production GrowinGreen: green façades SysDev: sensors and monitoring Replant: sustainable wood biomass productive chains Sintol: synthetic fuels from recycled plastic Leap: S/W for ICE development Lektro Innovation: electric bicycles Midori: ICT for smart metering of industrial applications 14

15 Partnerships 15

16 Facilities Department of Energy (DENERG) Energy 16

17 DENERG (1) Mission DENERG deals with the themes of energy and sustainable development with the aim of improving existing energy technologies, promoting new ones, and contributing to the rational and informed use of energy resources. Staff 84 Professors 80 Research fellows and external contractors 92 Ph.D. students 28 Administrative and technical staff Research areas Primary energy sources and Renewable energy sources Energy conversion Energy efficiency and Energy final usage Power transmission and distribution Energy design and Building physics 17

18 20 Research Teams Publications (last three years) 496 articles on Journals 439 papers at national and international conferences 21 books 5 patents Projects 129 Commercial Research Contracts (4.5 M ) 20 European Projects (3 M ) 51 Regional and National Projects (4 M ) 10 Spin-offs Teaching 2 BS and MSc degrees 2 PhD degrees Energy@POLITO: DENERG (2) 18

19 Energy 19

20 Model: Innovation Triangle Energy Mission in local perspective Implementation: Innovation Hub 20

21 Energy Context Valuable industrial context Modern and active university campus Established tradition of research and innovation 30 public and private research labs at POLITO s Cittadella Politecnica Company incubator (I3P) operating at POLITO s Cittadella Politecnica, creating 3 new ventures every 2 months (260 companies in 15 years) 21

22 Energy Features 1. Multiscale vision and interactions 2. Multidimensional framework with multiplayers Multidimensional framework allowing interaction between players 22

23 Energy Investment 450 m m m m m m m m m m 2 Superficie utile totale Laboratori Uffici Spazi espositivi Auditorium + sale riunioni Distribuzione + archivi Area Ristoro Altro Terrazza Parcheggi interrati ň 15 M Investimento iniziale m 2 Superficie destinata ad attività (ad esclusione di spazi esterni e parcheggio interrato) SOSTENIBILITA ENERGETICA E AMBIENTALE 0,93 kwh/m 3 anno Fabbisogno di energia primaria per riscaldamento 3,51 Punteggio globale Protocollo ITACA 23

24 Energy Site and facilities 24

25 Other things POLITO is member of the Siebel Energy Institute, together with UC Berkeley, CMU, UIUC, Ecole Polytechnique, MIT, Princeton, Tsinghua and University of Tokio POLITO just signed up as project partner of EIT KIC Innoenergy POLITO is member of EERA 25

26 Thank you for your attention!!! 26