BACKGROUND Innovation and technology offer effective solutions to the challenges of contemporary society. In Italy, the ageing population requires a radical rethink of products and services through an accessible approach [...]
BACKGROUND Artificial Intelligence is transforming industries and creating new opportunities. Through large language models, multi-modal generation, natural language processing, and data synthesis, AI is revolutionizing all sectors: from enhancing customer [...]
BACKGROUND Hitachi Rail, a global leader in railway solutions, is exploring the integration of DevOps approaches, Generative AI and highly efficient Cloud environments for B2B business, with the aim of [...]
BACKGROUND Utility poles are a widespread infrastructure that covers the entire national territory and are used when burying cables is too costly or not feasible due to topographical reasons. The [...]
BACKGROUND Leva is an engineering company that designs complex mechatronic systems to connect people, brands, and spaces, fostering engagement and exploration in immersive environments. By combining innovative engineering, new entertainment [...]
BACKGROUND As part of decommissioning legacy technologies, particularly the copper network, the challenge is to develop innovative solutions for recovering decommissioned cables, both underground and overhead, and transforming them into [...]
BACKGROUND The Marazzato Foundation, established in 2023, promotes initiatives focused on social, environmental, and cultural responsibility. Among its main goals is the preservation and enhancement of the historic truck collection [...]
BACKGROUND Today, thanks to technological advancements, we are entering a new era where space innovation is transforming how we explore the universe and improve life on Earth. In aerospace, upstream [...]
BACKGROUND Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing automotive engineering in several areas, such as: predictive maintenance to maximize performance and quality of various vehicle components, vehicle automation to understand complex traffic scenarios, [...]
Background: Beyond 2030, the widespread deployment of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) faces significant challenges in the technology landscape. While opportunities abound, including leveraging big data for traffic awareness and [...]
Background: The use of 3D printers has revolutionized various sectors, including the space one, where it assumes crucial importance for multiple reasons related to research, exploration and colonization of space. [...]
Background: Wabtec SPA, based in Piossasco (TO) and a world leader in the supply of brake control systems for railway applications, intends to adopt an efficient system to keep new [...]
Background: The company flagship products are hose or cable reels; the product core is a tube or electrical cable wounded on a coil. The system allows, through a spiral spring, [...]
Background: In a constantly evolving healthcare context, the optimization of patient transport processes plays a crucial role in ensuring efficient and safe care. The need to transfer patients on stairs [...]
Background: Several Areas of PoliTO, in collaboration with some faculty members, are working on developing the new university app. One of the proposed features is the digitalization of maps within [...]
Background: Both high-mountain alpine huts and mid-altitudes tourist-oriented huts are increasingly suffering from a reduction of water resources and changing availability of renewable energy, mainly due to climate change and [...]
Background: Nearly thirty years after the approval of the 1995 Town Master Plan, the city of Turin has started working on a new Master Plan to guide the development of [...]
Background: The contemporary urban landscape often sees once-vital areas falling into disuse, leaving a void in the city. This is the case of the “Ex Ospedale” area in Asti. ANCE [...]
Background: Environmental sustainability, resource management, and emissions reduction are increasingly important. Responsible environmental interaction is crucial for ongoing production and planetary preservation for future generations. Therefore, deep-tech solutions are vital [...]
Background: The Digital Twin is the digital replica of a physical object, be it a product, a process or a system. In the Digital Twin, data and information from the [...]
Background: The construction and subsequent management of new treatment plants for industrial waste is a process that challenges the local contexts with a number of environmental, spatial and socio-economic repercussions, including the infrastructural networks, the landscape characters, the relations with the [...]
Background: Following the increasingly rapid evolution of the market, consumers are changing their way of approaching purchases also in the Food&Beverage sector preferring digital. The fragmentation of purchases leads to [...]
Background: Landslides, floods and fires are among the major natural hazards having a great impact on the socioeconomic framework of the world. Changes in environmental conditions, due to the growth [...]
Background: The consumption of land and the degradation of urban green spaces pose a significant threat to the environment and biodiversity in our cities. Additionally, urban forests play a crucial role in carbon [...]
Background: The challenge encompasses two crucial aspects of the energy landscape: electric mobility and Renewable Energy Communities. Future penetration of electric vehicles (EV) equipped with technologies of bi-directional charging (V2G) [...]
Background: The increasingly difficult situation of fire management and the growing direct economic costs require proactive approaches to reduce the likelihood of the occurring catastrophic forest fires. An important consideration [...]
Background: In the near future cities will undergo significant transformations to address urgent social challenges such as population growth in “southern” areas, depopulation of rural areas, climate change and disruptive [...]
Background: The automotive sector is undergoing a revolution due to advanced technologies, including light commercial vehicles. The future of commercial vehicles relies on smart solutions, including the use of predictive algorithms. The advent of V2X (vehicle [...]
Background: In the coming years, there will likely be an increase in demand for Public Transport Systems (PTS), requiring a rise in system efficiency. Users are less inclined to use PTS due to a lack of [...]
Background: The adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles has increased thanks to various incentives. However, the current objective is to establish an extensive network of charging stations to address the [...]
First didactic period (September ’22 – January ’23): CHALLENGE _By Firms “The Next Gen of Coffee Packaging”_By LAVAZZA “Power energy management for sustainability: Package and connections”, _By MISTA “Enhanced Mobility [...]
Call for Ideas Hailstorms are dangerous and costly phenomena which occur in areas with a temperate, tropical and subtropical climate. These events are expected to worsen in response to climate [...]
Call for Ideas From renewables energies to sustainable energies is the ambition of ENEL GREEN POWER. This is a very challenging path that is possible only through impacts mitigation, local [...]
Topic The challenge is proposed by the Langhe Monferrato Roero Tourist Board. Langhe Monferrato Roero is a UNESCO Landscape Heritage area characterised by a peculiar vineyard landscapes. It is located [...]
Call for Ideas At Lavazza, we recognize the impact of packaging and the challenges ahead, which is why we have been working over 10 years to research, develop, test and [...]
Topic Sustainability goals and EU decisions have lead to major investments in replacing fossil fuels with renewable energies. This is especially true in the e-mobility field, where investment is focusing [...]
Call for Ideas Nowadays, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), things are becoming smarter, ubiquitous, and heterogenous. The IoT foster systems to be more productive, efficient, and sustainable. Besides, [...]
Call for Ideas The intervention in places affected by natural or man-made disaster opens a vast field of responses and experimentation in the cultural and technical spheres. The most tangible [...]
Call for Ideas Today’s trend in IT systems is to move toward passwordless access systems that are valid and recognized across all platforms, mobile, desktop and browser. Indeed, such systems [...]
Call for Ideas Nowadays, due to the geopolitical conflict in North-East Europe, fossil fuel supplies have suffered from high economic inflation and serious delays in deliveries. Facing the challenges of [...]
Call for Ideas The electrical grid is the infrastructure that enables the energy transition, interconnecting renewable generation and final consumers. The necessity to connect distributed renewable sources brought new complex [...]
Topic According to the IEA (International Energy Agency), Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems account approximately for 50% of buildings energy demand. As a consequence, exploring energy management strategies [...]
Topic In Europe, the percentage of people over 65 will rise from 29.6% in 2016 to 51.2% in 2070. This demographic change will lead to an evolution in people’s behaviour [...]
“Dream your Outdoor” è il nome della Challenge@PoliTO che Ambin Skis ha proposto agli studenti magistrali del Politecnico, con l’organizzazione del CLIK – Connection Lab and Innovation Kitchen di Ateneo. La giovane azienda – il cui [...]
Fare impresa nello spazio, questo il focus della Challenge@PoliTo dal titolo “Space Economy: take your start up space”, organizzata dal CLIK – Connection Lab and Innovation Kitchen del Politecnico in collaborazione con l’Incubatore I3P e il progetto ESA [...]
La Challenge@PoliTo “D.I.Y. – Digital Identity for Yourself” – conclusasi il 9 giugno e organizzata dal CLIK – Contamination Lab and Innovation Kitchen del Politecnico e lanciata da Aruba, azienda leader in Italia per i servizi online [...]
Si è da poco conclusa NewLAW (A NEW Life for Alumina-based Wastes) la Challenge@PoliTO organizzata dal CLIK– Connection Lab and Innovation Kitchen del Politecnico in collaborazione con l’azienda Sacal s.p.a. – specializzata nel recupero e nella raffinazione di rottami [...]
Call for Ideas How do you think new technologies can help who do outdoor activities to have a better knowledge and awareness of the territory? Can you imagine innovative ways [...]
Call for Ideas The issue of digital identity is increasingly topical, i.e. the right of citizens to be recognized through a unique and cross-border mechanism, both online and offline. This [...]
Call for Ideas Inspection, testing and maintenance operations are performed on vehicle (aircraft, car, truck) by qualified operators and technicians. Such operations often represent a heavy workload for the operators, [...]
Call for Ideas Nowadays, all decision has to be supported by objective evidence. That is also true for the infrastructure assets’ maintenance as bridges and viaducts in kilometresand kilometresof motorways. [...]
Call for Ideas SACAL Spa, Società Alluminio Carisio, uses specific processing and melting cycles to refine aluminium scraps, implementing a recovery and recycling process that has important and positive ecological [...]
Call for Ideas During the current pandemic situation, the “O.d.C. – Ospedale di Comunità” has been re-evaluated. Within the PNRR, they will be strengthened using funds from the community program [...]
Call for Ideas Today we hear more and more about the Space Economy. In recent years, space has become a fundamental resource for monitoring the Earth, for the use of [...]
Call for Ideas The current energy transition challenges us to build city districts that are not just highly energy efficient but also green, comfortable and affordable. This challenge is promoted [...]
Call for Ideas Nowadays, the attractiveness of public transport is still too low to obtain a modal shift from private vehicles. Route planners offer the fastest or most direct routes [...]
Call for Ideas Sea&Symphony, founded in 1995 in Torino and initially aimed at the nautical market, design, buiId and sell, all over the world, a large series of electrical mechanisms [...]
Call for Ideas The Covid emergency has made it necessary to rethink and reinvent the worktime lunchbreak by setting new long-lasting trends. A market research survey of 1200 students and [...]
Call for Ideas The new technologies, jobs, lifestyles, which have established themselves in particular in the last decade, require a new approach to the learning and educational system, which instead [...]
Nella finestra di programmazione della nuova politica di coesione 2021-27 e dei fondi NextGeneration EU, la Challenge mira alla definizione di metodologie “innovative”
The aim of the challenge is to realize a new system or process of a new sealing system to wrap chocolate-based food products, guaranteeing their conservation and containment.
The aim of the Challenge is to design a museum for the future transforming the industrial site into a focal point, active during all the year and in which it is possible to test innovative solutions for the exposition (e.g. ICT, AR, gaming). To enhance th
The Challenge is to define tools aimed at the preliminary design of the storage system and/or its optimal management that can consider the various external factors that will have to be identified by the teams as determining or critical factors.
Call for Ideas Sabelt, an international company that produces components for the automotive, aerospace and aviation sectors, wants to anticipate, support and guide changes, proposing innovative solutions. Sabelt’s challenge requires imagining the seat of the future, [...]
The challenge aims at identifying, developing, and implementing sustainable concepts allowing for a better exploitation of the benefits coming from automated and connected mobility.
Call for Ideas In recent years, digitalization has expanded its reach like never before. The pandemic has accelerated an already ongoing transition to digital services, but has also highlighted and [...]
CASE, acronym of “Connected Autonomous Shared Electric”, in other words, “The Car of the Future”. FCA, since years caring on evolution and market/customer needs, proposes its challenge.
The technological revolution is transforming our lives at breakneck speed, dramatically altering the ways in which we work, learn and even live together.
There is only one planet Earth! In 2050, the population will reach 9.6 billion and the equivalent of almost three planets could be required to provide the natural resources needed to sustain current lifestyles.
Is it possible to predict successful fashion trends? With the emergence of Big Data, the biggest challenge for data scientists today is no longer accessing enough data.
More than 35% of the microplastics come from the washing of synthetic clothing and enter into circulation due to the discharge water of the appliances.
From 2013, FAO begins to sustain the diet based on insects (Entomophagy), as one of the sustainable alternative to global proteins production.
In an increasingly fast and dynamic world, where people are getting more digital oriented, Poste Italiane aims to become a provider of digital services and experiences to satisfy the growing needs of customers and the market.
The environmental challenges linked to mobility both in terms of emissions and of sustainable and efficient energy use are becoming increasingly important.
Nowadays, the concept of travel is changing the paradigm, focusing more attention to the services that the infrastructure could offer to the travelers.