- DIPARTIMENTO DI ELETTRONICA E INFORMAZIONE
- FACOLTA' DI INGEGNERIA DELL'INFORMAZIONE
- CEFRIEL
- SPINOFF COMPANIES
THE ICT INSTITUTE OF POLITECNICO DI MILANO
Since the beginning of the 80’s, research and innovation have changed deeply, mostly due to the unprecedented pervasiveness of ICT and to the broadening of the application spectrum. These characteristics will continue to be the leit-motiv of future technology trends. ICT will further stimulate innovation in services and contribute to target societal needs such us health and wellness, mobility and transport, energy needs and environmental protection. Advances in hardware and software will allow much more intelligence and far greater interactivity to be built into many more everyday items and ICT will play a role in virtually every aspect of our lives.
The ICT ecosystem at Politecnico di Milano in the last decades has responded to this challenge and has recently promoted the birth of a novel institution specifically targeted to this purpose: The ICT Institute.
The ICT Institute includes the Dipartimento of Elettronica e Informazione (DEI), the Faculty of Information Engineering, a Consortium and spin-off companies in the ICT field, with the goal of covering the entire innovation path from basic research to product/service prototyping and technology transfer.
Within the ICT Institure, members play complementary roles: DEI is committed to cutting edge research five to ten years ahead of current practice, while Consortium and spin-offs cover the next steps towards product/service demonstration and delivery.
The ICT Institute is the instrument to:
- establish a unified brand clearly identifying all the institutions of Politecnico operating in the ICT field;
- integrate the educational programs of the Faculty of Information Engineering, the Master courses offered in collaboration with the Consortium, and the DEI PhD program;
- create, around the academia, a community of professionals and alumni who will contribute to preserving the traditionally strong link with the national and global economic environment.