An Argentine institutional delegation visits PoliTO
Last week a delegation of the Argentine Investment and International Trade Agency accompanied by representatives of the Consulate General of Argentina in Milan visited PoliTO: focus of the meeting on I3P incubator activities and the possibilities for future collaboration in strategic areas such as aerospace, energy and artificial intelligence.
The delegation, led by Adjunct Consul Lucas Candia and composed of Maximiliano Re, of the Argentine Consulate's economics-commerce-tourism section and Sergio Pardo, Executive Director of the Argentine Investment and International Trade Agency, Maximiliano Castillo, investment manager and Mariana Ron, international trade promotion, was initially welcomed by President Giuseppe Scellato at the I3P incubator, and then moved to PoliTO offices.
Here the delegation met with Vice Rector for International Affairs Alberto Sapora, Professor Silvia Bodoardo of the Department of Applied Science and Technology-DISAT and staff from PoliTO international affairs area.
After a brief introduction of PoliTO internationalization strategy – recently implemented in the new rector's term, aiming to strengthen relations with Latin America and Africa - Vice Rector Sapora summarized the upcoming events on PoliTO international agenda, including a mission to Argentina in the first week of September alongside the Piedmont Region. Prof. Sapora also presented long-standing collaborations with Argentine institutions and the status of negotiations for a double-degree agreement in the areas of electrical, electrical, management, mechanical and civil engineering with the Universidad Nacional de Rosario.
Professor Bodoardo introduced the various collaborations established over the years with Argentine universities, including Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, mainly around energy transition, storage and batteries: an important field in which there could be interesting collaborations in the future.
The Argentine delegation, for its part, confirmed a strong interest in starting concrete collaborations with PoliTO on the mentioned topics, which are also central to the development of South American countries, with both the Consulate and the Agency for Investment and International Trade fully willing to support future joint actions.
