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Strategic orientation

Bringing our expertise and innovative content to more vulnerable contexts

Politecnico di Milano aims to contribute to societal growth in a logic of responsibility and reciprocity through innovative forms of collaboration between the University and the local community, bringing its expertise and innovative content to more vulnerable contexts, activating programmes of co-learning and co-production of knowledge.

In the 2023-25 period we will: strengthen the Off Campus programme through which the University expresses its commitment and connection to the local community, expanding its educational and cultural offers; build, around the Off Campus initiative, a collaborative platform with local stakeholders in synergy with the Polimi4nonprofit project; Building upon the Off Campus experience, develop a 'sustainable model' of social innovation in proximity.

Goals and targets

1  

ENHANCING THE OFF CAMPUS SYSTEM
 

2,500 students involved in Off Campus activities over the three-year period.

2  

PLATFORM FOR COLLABORATION WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES
 

200 organisations engaged in Off Campus over the three-year period.

3  

A ‘SUSTAINABLE MODEL’ FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION IN PROXIMITY
 

Strategic plan for ‘sustainable’ development.

Focus on

Off Campus

An initiative promoted with the aim of strengthening the presence of Politecnico in the city of Milan. The underlying concept is that of a more engaged University, targeting social challenges and closer to neighbourhoods and communities.

Off Campus offers areas for teachers, researchers and students in the peripheral areas of Milan, where to carry out teaching and research activities and host cultural initiatives. 

Visit the Off Campus page