Politecnico di Torino

Founded in 1859, Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) is a leading institution in Italy and Europe in the field of technical-scientific research (www.polito.it), with a yearly budget of about €360 million and over 39,000 students enrolled in academic courses of different levels, Bachelor, Master of Science, PhD, Specializing Master Courses of I and II Levels (22% of them are international students). POLITO is a center of excellence for education and research in engineering, architecture, design, and planning, where education and research complement each other and create synergies to address the needs of the economic system, of the local community, and, above all, of its students.

Role in the project
POLITO will be strongly involved in WP9, guiding and driving the dissemination and communication activities. In this context, to support the communication activities, a further analysis step will be dedicated to the perception of vitrimeric PHAs and related technologies by a double type of users, i.e., representatives of civil society and project professionals from different geographical provenances. The data, collected through both an online survey and focus groups with live interviews provided to professionals in the project partners’ locations, will be processed qualitatively and quantitatively and summarized on the project website. POLITO will also assist the consortium in the experimental processing/characterization of the materials (WP2 and WP3), in the component manufacturing (WP5), experimental support for the computational models (WP6), and application/demo use cases (WP8). POLITO will finally take part in the project management (WP1) and project exploitation (WP10).