Joint Research Partnerships are multi-stakeholder collaborations involving supply-chain companies and/or competitors together with multiple departments of Politecnico di Milano, aimed at guiding and supporting industrial research in a pre-competitive perspective.
They focus on a specific domain characterized by high technological complexity, strong experimental content, and frontier innovation, and their impact is grounded in the logic of a Community of Practice.
Objectives:
- Sharing technological trends and sector challenges
- Exchanging corporate and/or professional best practices
- Collaborating to foster innovation and technological development within a specific supply chain or industry
- Anticipating and guiding investment decisions in advanced research
- Supporting policy making
-
Hydrogen JRP
Since 2021, the Hydrogen JRP has been driving the creation and consolidation of a hydrogen supply chain in Italy, supporting the competitiveness of companies in the energy sector.
-
Healthcare Infrastructures JRP
Since 2022, the Healthcare Infrastructures JRP has been working on the development of technological evolution scenarios for the definition of the Next Generation Hospital.
-
Rail Transport JRP
Since 2008, the Rail Transport JRP has been addressing topics related to innovation and to the infrastructural, economic, engineering and environmental sustainability challenges of the railway sector.
-
Construction JRP
Since 2025, the Construction JRP has been connecting companies and institutions across the Built Environment sector with the resources and expertise of the ABC Department, with the goal of actively contributing to the definition of potential research themes.
-
Nuclear JRP
Since 2025, the Nuclear JRP has been bringing together the nuclear production supply chain and the Italian Nuclear Association, with the goal of providing a policy brief for institutions on this topic.
