PoliTO for Social Impact explores and promotes forms of action-research characterized by a transformative intent. It aims to co-design new models of equitable, inclusive, and sustainable social development, and to remove cultural, cognitive, physical, economic, and social barriers that hinder individuals from shaping their life paths and participating fully in their communities.
The Center strongly believes in inclusion, social cohesion, the exercise of universal human rights, and the fight against inequalities. It seeks to carry out transformative research and collaboration activities to develop products and/or services that foster both technological and social innovation.
- Represent and strengthen the University’s commitment to social responsibility by enhancing and promoting the many existing social impact projects
- Promote an active role of the University in fostering equitable and inclusive technological and social development
- Develop skills and competencies explicitly oriented toward emerging social challenges
- Promote the values of civic responsibility, social cohesion, citizenship, and social justice in future generations of professionals and citizens, also through new courses and training programs
- Encourage interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder co-design on social impact themes, across various levels and intervention types, including: products, systems, and services; business models and strategic/operational frameworks; methods for data extraction and visualization; and cross-sector, multidisciplinary laboratories
- Promote the University’s involvement in national and international social impact networks, to expand resources and capabilities at both local and global levels
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Participation in the Center is based on an open platform model. All Politecnico researchers can take part in the Center’s activities while maintaining full affiliation with their department.