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Internationalization
We have fully embraced today’s needs for
internationalization, in as much as it is – in our view –
an essential facet of today’s world. We are also pleased
that 28% of our postgraduate students to our various
Masters and other post-graduate programs come from
overseas.
One of our many internationalization activities (see box
for more details) is the IDEA LEAGUE, a strategic
alliance among leading European technical universities,
including also ETH in Zurich, TU in Delft, RWTH in
Aachen and Chalmers University, UK, with the goal of
strengthening the links between technology, science
and society.

We have wholeheartedly embraced
internationalization, via strategic alliances
with leading world-class universities,
increased enrollment of foreign students,
classes in English and renewed
academic programs

Another strategic alliance is Alliance4Tech, founded
together with CentraleSupélec, Technische Universität
Berlin and University College London, aiming at the
creation of a European Campus without borders for
students and faculties, with differences in culture and
traditions but all united by a passion for technology and
innovation. The GNP of the five metropolitan areas
where these universities are located would be
equivalent to the 10 largest economy in the world!
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But perhaps the most daring example of
internationalization is the developing partnership with
Chinese universities: the new Innovation Hub, or
campus, in Milan with the Tsinghua University of Beijing
(see box), for which the Agreements have just been

The new Sino-Italian Campus in Milan

In February 2017, in front of the President of the People’s Republic of China Mr. Xi Jinping and of the President
of Italy Mr. Sergio Mattarella, Mr. Qiu Yong, the President of the Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Mr. Ferruccio
Resta, the Rector of the Politecnico di Milano, have finalized their agreement to create within 2017 the Sino-
Italian campus in Milan, at the site of Politecnico’s campus in Bovisa, Milan.
The main objective of this initiative is the development of a platform to attract Chinese investments in
innovation, via the establishment of post-graduate and Executive Ph.D. courses and programs, as well as via
the participation in numerous laboratories which the Politecnico has already developed in the area. The
enterprises which will invest in this endeavor will have a privileged access to all these services, the possibility
of establishing an R&D branch in the new campus and of interacting with PoliHub, Politecnico’ s incubator of
start-up companies (considered to be one of the top five such initiatives in the world and the second one in
Europe), and with TUS STAR, the greatest university incubator in the world.
Therefore, the goal of the new campus will be to attract Chinese companies as well as numerous start-ups,
thus enhancing the Bovisa Campus’ reputation as one of the leading innovation clusters in Europe.

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