Politecnico di Milano and USP’s shared history in applied sciences excellence
When it comes to international cooperation, The Politecnico Di Milano, also fondly known as Polimi, feels like an extension of USP inside Italy: it is the university worldwide that welcomes the highest number of USP exchange students. In a lifetime of cooperation for applied sciences, both universities have produced works that have had major impacts on the academic environment and to society as a whole. Learn more about the cooperation between USP and Polimi here.
The University of São Paulo and the Italian university Politecnico di Milano have history together when it comes to the engineering sciences and to the development of projects in architecture and urbanism.
The partner institutions contribute to each other in achieving a level of excellence and recognition through recognizing the modern relevance of internationalization. They have several double degree programs available to its students and have many programs and research opportunities available to students, scholars, and faculty members as a whole.
Throughout the years, USP and Polimi have developed many conjunct publications and researches on a variety of subjects.
An example is a research on utilizing polymers present in solar plaques to repair the eye’s retina. The polymer, called Polythiophene, is responsible for light absorption in organic solar cells and might be able to restore the light absorption capacity of the human retina. The project, led by Polimi’s professor Guglielmo Lanzani, has the collaboration of USP’s São Carlos Physics Institute professor Paulo Barbeitas Miranda. The research even had an article published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry B.
Another research on the safety of automatic boarding systems carried out by Vânia de Oliveira Neves, a student at USP’s São Carlos Math and Computer Sciences Institute, was also made possible by the double degree program between USP and Polimi. Neves, who went to study in Milan for the program, was supervised by Luciano Baresi at Polimi and by Paulo Cesar Masiero and Márcio Eduardo Delamaro at USP.
There are many other projects funded by both universities. Currently, Milano is hosting a total of 51 USP students. The universities also have seven agreements in effect: four between USP’s and Polimi’s institutes dedicated to architecture, urbanism and design, and other three destined to engineering students and scholars.