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From the football pitch to urban regeneration: the innovative impact of EURO2032
Milan, 30 October 2023 - The meeting 'EURO2032. Un'opportunità di innovazione per la cultura, l'economia, l'ambiente’ (EURO2023. An Innovation Opportunity for Culture, Economy, Environment) as part of theInternational Specializing Master in Sport Design and Management.
The awarding of the 2032 European Football Championship to Italy (jointly with Turkey) is a significant opportunity for cultural, economic and environmental innovation and the development of a multi-scalar organisational model: from social inclusion to infrastructural and urban redevelopment, from the enhancement of existing specificities (cultural, environmental, identity) to the promotion of a positive legacy after the event. For Italy and the cities involved, this is an opportunity for urban regeneration and for enhancing and re-designing the sports infrastructures involved.
"The theme of major sporting events – Emilio Faroldi, Executive Vice-Rector of Politecnico di Milano – is more topical than ever and requires a debate that can increasingly place training at the centre as a pivotal factor on which to set visions and future actions in the world of sport in all its many forms”.
According to FIGC Secretary General Marco Brunelli, “anticipating the needs of the future and intercepting opportunities is one of the strategic missions of the Italian Football Federation. Today, with the awarding of Euro 2032, this commitment becomes even more important and delicate. Walking this path alongside Politecnico di Milano, helping to train the professionals of the future, is a privilege for us and a task for which we feel a strong responsibility”.
During the meeting, the seventh edition 2023-2024 of the International Specializing Master in Sport Design and Management was presented and the Diplomas were awarded to the Alumni of the 2021-2022 edition.
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Politecnico di Milano is a scientific-technological university which trains engineers, architects and industrial designers.
The University has always focused on the quality and innovation of its teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with business and productive world by means of experimental research and technological transfer.
Research has always been linked to didactics and it is a priority commitment which has allowed Politecnico Milano to achieve high quality results at an international level as to join the university to the business world. Research constitutes a parallel path to that formed by cooperation and alliances with the industrial system.
Knowing the world in which you are going to work is a vital requirement for training students. By referring back to the needs of the industrial world and public administration, research is facilitated in following new paths and dealing with the need for constant and rapid innovation. The alliance with the industrial world, in many cases favored by Fondazione Politecnico and by consortiums to which Politecnico belong, allows the university to follow the vocation of the territories in which it operates and to be a stimulus for their development.
The challenge which is being met today projects this tradition which is strongly rooted in the territory beyond the borders of the country, in a relationship which is developing first of all at the European level with the objective of contributing to the creation of a single professional training market. Politecnico takes part in several research, sites and training projects collaborating with the most qualified European universities. Politecnico's contribution is increasingly being extended to other countries: from North America to Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe. Today the drive to internationalization sees Politecnico Milano taking part into the European and world network of leading technical universities and it offers several courses beside many which are entirely taught in English.
