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Research and Innovation

Thematic, Multiplayer Partnerships

Joint Research Partnerships are multi-stakeholder collaborations involving supply-chain companies and/or competitors together with multiple departments of Politecnico di Milano, aimed at guiding and supporting industrial research in a pre-competitive perspective.

They focus on a specific domain characterized by high technological complexity, strong experimental content, and frontier innovation, and their impact is grounded in the logic of a Community of Practice.

Objectives:

  • Sharing technological trends and sector challenges
  • Exchanging corporate and/or professional best practices
  • Collaborating to foster innovation and technological development within a specific supply chain or industry
  • Anticipating and guiding investment decisions in advanced research
  • Supporting policy making

Types of JRPs

01

High impact for policy

Frontier topics with high technological impact for the national system and for an industrial supply chain, with strong involvement of industry associations and public institutions.

02

Collaborative community

Frontier topics where collaboration among multidisciplinary and cross-company teams leads to the definition of new concepts and/or future scenarios.

03

Networking & Practice sharing

Topics of strategic relevance for one or more research groups, aimed at enhancing corporate practices through peer-to-peer exchange and faculty-driven insights.

The Numbers of the JRPs

Active JRPs

Partner Companies (Actual)

Departments Involved

Published Documents

Active JRPs

  1. Hydrogen JRP

    Since 2021, the Hydrogen JRP has been driving the creation and consolidation of a hydrogen supply chain in Italy, supporting the competitiveness of companies in the energy sector.

  1. Healthcare Infrastructures JRP

    Since 2022, the Healthcare Infrastructures JRP has been working on the development of technological evolution scenarios for the definition of the Next Generation Hospital.

  1. Rail Transport JRP

    Since 2008, the Rail Transport JRP has been addressing topics related to innovation and to the infrastructural, economic, engineering and environmental sustainability challenges of the railway sector.

  1. Construction JRP

    Since 2025, the Construction JRP has been connecting companies and institutions across the Built Environment sector with the resources and expertise of the ABC Department, with the goal of actively contributing to the definition of potential research themes.

  1. Nuclear JRP

    Since 2025, the Nuclear JRP has been bringing together the nuclear production supply chain and the Italian Nuclear Association, with the goal of providing a policy brief for institutions on this topic.

Other Thematic, Multiplayer Partnerships

AIRIC

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation for Companies

MATT

Metal and Technological Transformation Research Centre

People Analytics for Employee Engagement & Wellbeing