The A2A Life Company Group and Politecnico di Milano have started up collaboration for the development of innovation, research and training initiatives in the Energy & Utility sector, to support Italy’s ecological transition. The recently signed partnership model is based on two agreements with a total value of 8 million euros and a duration of 5 years.
In particular, the agreement provides for the establishment of a Joint Research Centre to implement multidisciplinary experimental projects on specific issues such as sustainable mobility, the development of renewable energy and hydrogen, battery recycling, the study of new technologies for waste treatment and the recovery of materials and energy, for a total of 5 million.
At the same time, the partnership will give rise to a Joint Research and Innovation Centre inside the Innovation District, which Politecnico di Milano is developing at the former Bovisa gasometer park and in which A2A will take part with a total investment of 3 million euros. The Joint Centre will be entirely dedicated to innovation in the following thematic macro-areas: “Technologies for the environment and energy” and “Technologies for sustainable mobility”, also touching on the themes of energy transition and the circular economy.
The JRC – Joint Research Center has proven to be one of the most valid tools for strengthening the understanding between universities and business.
The agreement was signed by the Rector of the Politecnico, Ferruccio Resta, and by Renato Mazzoncini, CEO of A2A, in the presence of the President of A2A, Marco Patuano, the Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala and the President of Regione Lombardia, Attilio Fontana.
The JRC – Joint Research Center has proven to be one of the most valid tools for strengthening the understanding between universities and business. For activating an ever closer synergy on topics of common interest and to meet the challenges that the NRRP poses to Italy: from energy transition, to sustainable mobility, and renewable energy. These are some of the objectives of the agreement which sees Politecnico di Milano working alongside A2A. One of the companies most actively encouraging this path of shared growth. Ready to support joint research from an open supply chain perspective. This agreement in fact represents a shared desire to create a real ecosystem of innovation that goes beyond applied research projects to the development of a flagship project on which the Politecnico will focus in the coming years.
Ferruccio Resta, rector of the Politecnico di Milano
