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A new joint laboratory has been established at the Joint School of Design and Innovation: the "Sino-Italian Joint Laboratory for Sustainable Urban and Rural Heritage Conservation and Regeneration." This initiative stems from the collaboration between Xi’an Jiaotong University and the Politecnico di Milano.

November 15 marked the opening of a exhibition at the Milan Building in iHarbour, titled "Design Evolution/Space Design/Postcards from China."

On November 9, the Italy-China Rectors’ Forum was held at Peking University, jointly organized by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and the Italian Ministry of University and Research.

On 9 November 2024, professors Annalisa Dominoni, Flora Gaetani and Nicola Crea, from Politecnico’s Department of Design, partecipated to the second edition of the “International Design Education Forum” in Chongqing.  

On November 2nd, professors from Politecnico di Milano, teaching at the Joint School in Xi’an, had the opportunity to visit the regenerated Chinese village of Yuan Jia Cun (袁家村).

From August 26 to September 1, 40 Polimi students participated in a Summer Camp organized by Xi’an Jiaotong University.

Polimi’s Rector, Donatella Sciuto, visited Xi’an Jiaotong University on 30th and 31st  August 2024.

From July 15 to 25, 2024, 20 students of the Engineering-Industrial Design program of the Joint School took part in a study tour organized by Politecnico di Milano in Italy.

On July 9th 2024 a group of 19 students of the Joint School, Architecture program, together with 2 professors from XJTU landed in Milano to take part in a study tour during which they visited Milano, Como, Mantova, Verona, Vicenza and Sabbioneta.

On 20th June 2024, took place in the Aula Magna of Politecnico di Milano the third meeting of the Joint Management Committee of the XJTU-Polimi Joint School.

On 5th June 2024, Prof. Li Kun presented his book "A morphological interpretation of a northern Chinese traditional village- case study of Zhangdaicun village", in conversation with professors Zhai Binqing, XJTU, and Gerardo Semprebon, Polimi. The conference is part of the series of seminars "Design-Future" for XJTU students, held in the Milan Building.

On 8th March 2024, Pietro Piazzolla, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, presented a seminar in the Milan Building in the context on the series of lectures "Design-Future"

On March 7, 2024, Alessandro Scandiffio, professor at Politecnico di Milano, held the seminar: "A network of slow routes 'in between' Italian UNESCO sites”. The conference is part of the series of seminars "Design-Future" which take place in the Milan Building and are open to all XJTU students.

The Joint School building, designed by Polimi's architects and now renamed the Milan building, hosted some innovative teaching activities during the first semester of the academic year 2023/2024.

The first Bachelor programs of the Joint School of Design and Innovation officially started on 5th September 2022

The fifht edition of the Roundtable organized by the Heritage Alliance of the New Silk Road (HANSR) is a hybrid event hosted on-site and online by the School of Sciences and Humanities of Nazarbayev University, Kazaksthan.

Following last year's success, the University Alliance of the Silk Road (UASR) will organize also in 2022 a virtual Summer School, with courses offered by many partner Universities. The courses are available for free also to students and professors of Politecnico di Milano.

The fifth workshop of the Heritage Alliance of the New Silk Road (HANSR), will take place on 4th-6th November 2022, hosted by Nazarbayev University’s School of Sciences and Humanities. The Conference "Heritage: Mobility and migration, past and present" is open to scholars from all career stages who conduct work in Eurasia, the Call for Papers will close on 30th July 2022.

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Electrical Engineering Students at XJTU, researchers at Polimi

On November 19th took place the Annual UASR Presidents’ Forum, at the end of two weeks of events, organized by Polimi and XJTU.

Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) offers 2 scholarships for Polimi students interested in attending a Master of Science or PhD, starting from September 2022. Deadline: 28 February 2022.

The Politecnico di Milano and the University Alliance of the Silk Road (UASR) suggest a critical survey on the theme of sustainability in a post-pandemic society. The different contributions will offer a broad and interdisciplinary reflection on the possible meanings of this concept from an ethical, social, and design point of view. The debate will involve, at different scales, the new social and cultural models induced by the post-pandemic society and the possible forms of living that derive from it. 

On 22 October 2021 took place the Final Defence for the Joint School Project and two new BSc programs, in “Architecture” and “Engineering-Industrial Design”, before experts of the Chinese Ministry of Education and the Education Department of Shaanxi province (where Xi’an is located).

The 2021 edition of the Roundtable organized by the Heritage Alliance of the New Silk Road and hosted online by Politecnico di Milano, focus on status of the architectural and archaeological heritage after its restoration and subsequent accessibility.

Xiaokang Liu, once a student of the MSc double degree program between Polimi and XJTU and currently a researcher at Polimi has won the Richard B. Schultz Best Transaction Paper Award assigned by the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society for the year 2020.

Politecnico di Milano is launching an international video competition for students and PhD candidates with the collaboration of the University Alliance “Heritage Alliance of the New Silk Road”. To participate register and submit your video within 10 October 2021.

The online courses “Innovation and Design: The Italian Way” discuss the peculiarities of the Italian approach in developing design-driven innovations in several industries: Furniture, Arts and Culture, Fashion, Food, Materials, Yacht. To attend register within July 19th.

The Roundtable "Heritage Management: Musealization or Use?" will take place on 8-11 November. University professors, scholars, research fellows and professionals are invited to participate. The call for papers is open until 20 September 2021.