Politecnico di Torino -  Dissemination and Communication Leader

Founded in 1859, Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) is a leading institution in Italy and in Europe in the field of technical-scientific research (www.polito.it), with a yearly budget of about €300 million and over 33,000 students enrolled in academic courses of different levels, Bachelor, Master of Science, PhD, Specializing Master Courses of I and II Levels (15% of them are international students). POLITO is a centre of excellence for education and research in engineering, architecture, design, and planning, where education and research complement each other and create synergies to address the needs of the economic system, of the local community, and, above all, of its students.

Role in the project

POLITO will be strongly involved in WP13 and WP14, guiding and driving the dissemination and communication activities. In this context, to support the communication activities, a further analysis step will be dedicated to the perception of transparent wood and related technologies by a double type of users, i.e., representatives of civil society and project professionals, from different geographical provenance. The data will be collected through both an online survey and focus groups with live interviews provided to professionals in the project partners’ locations, representing the Mediterranean and Scandinavian areas. The focus groups will be developed through investigative techniques also drawn from cognitive ergonomics (e.g., brainstorming, cognitive maps, free analogies). The data will be processed qualitatively and quantitatively and summarized on the project website. 
POLITO will also assist the consortium in the experimental processing/characterization of the materials and in the validation of developed computational models (WP3, WP4, and WP5); it will further contribute to the implementation of the Safe and Sustainable by Design concept (WP9, WP10, and WP11). POLITO will finally take part in project management (WP16 and WP17).