10 Engineering Course Programs in Italy

Contemporary design encompasses the present, pulling current trends; it is always evolving due in part to the availability of (new) materials and pieces. The aim of the Italian Contemporary Design and Trends Spring Semester is to enrich you with a cultural knowledge on the contemporary design as well as the contemporary art. This allows you to have an overview on the new trends in terms of art, furniture and interior design, as well as learn more about contemporary artists and designers and the different techniques, materials, and tools they use when realizing their artworks. The program will also offer you a practical study of the Italian design system from the management and the design methodology perspective. New trends in furniture, various types of houses, different lifestyles and people's needs and desires will be analyzed from a practical and emotional point of view. Throughout the semester you will be engaged in developing technical and critical skills in the classroom and inside the main trade fairs that highlight the Italian design experience.

The Seasonal School will introduce participants to the urgent topic of textile-based robotics, providing them with interdisciplinary tools to design robots based on textiles, how to leverage the unique properties of these materials to devise wearable and non-wearable robotic tools, and for the understanding of their role in human empowerment, combining engineering, biomechanical, clinical, and regulatory aspects.

The Seasonal School will introduce participants to the extremely relevant topic of designing production systems that are sustainable from an environmental point of view and resilient to climate change and other environmental pressures.

ANIMA (ANImatronics and Mechatronic Artificial organs) Seasonal School draws on the tradition of animatronics, while incorporating innovative knowledge in robotics and biorobotics and promoting automation in medical phantoms used for training healthcare professionals.

The main objective of the Seasonal School ROBOPHIL is to provide a compact and focused training on the philosophical, social, political, and technical aspects of the systemic transformations linked to robotics and artificial intelligence, analysed from a perspective that takes into account different philosophical profiles and the multiple dimensions of agency, both individual and collective.

AGROECOLOGY 26 intends to introduce students to the complex and multifaceted world of agroecology through a transdisciplinary approach, enabling them to acquire basic knowledge and awareness of the importance of the interactions between agro-environmental and socio-economic components as the foundation of the dynamics of transformation of agro-food systems towards true sustainability, and to understand how and why the agro-ecological approach can provide concrete solutions to the great challenges of our time.

The energy crisis that was triggered by the Russian war in Ukraine has led European power markets to unprecedented levels of prices and stress. It has also led to wide ranging policy interventions and calls for reforms of the wholesale electricity market design. The course gathers a group of senior practitioners to discuss and share experiences about both the economic and political forces that drive the debate on the evolution of power and carbon markets to enable and support the decarbonisation of the power sector.

An SOS-certified course for those who want to acquire the necessary practical skills to becoming Healthy Materials and Sustainable Products consultants in the fields of design.

“Today specializations no longer exist, and being and being a designer is a liquid activity, in constant change and always interconnected”.