Polito Sustainable

The page is managed by the "PoliTo Green Team", an inner association of students, professors and researchers in charge of coordinate actions and investments in order to move the campus in a sustainable path, and support interesting initiatives aimed at spread the "green mentality" and disseminate environmental responsiveness and sustainability culture across society. As all the top international universities, PoliTO wants to play its role in the change toward a more sustainable future. Being already sustainable in the fields of research, education and administration, PoliTO wishes to develop a campus model that addresses global challenges via solutions in harmony with nature, technology and human beings, leveraging on collective knowledge and transmitting the results into the urban connective tissue nurtured by the presence of PoliTO in the Torino metropolitan context. In this track, PoliTO hosted the second G8 University Summit in 2009 and signed an international declaration, pledging to foster sustainable and responsible development in our society. This event was followed by the Green Mobile Campus strategy, launched in 2010, in connection with the Wifi4Energy Project, which provided the opportunity to set up the Living Lab, a fully equipped room for monitoring all energy consumption in the main campus. In 2012, a EU Marie-Curie funded project, titled “UNI-metrics”, Value Metrics and Policies for a Sustainable University Campus, provided a first opportunity to review our activities and metrics towards sustainability. The PoliTO Sustainable path was embraced in 2015 by PoliTO when, in the Horizon 2020 Strategic Plan, it expressed its will to side with the best international universities in raising awareness of its role in society, through the sustainability education. Then, PoliTO moved towards the international accreditation as ‘sustainable campus’, promoting synergetics actions with similar institutions. PoliTO is one of the promoter of the Italian Network of Sustainable Universities (RUS – Rete Italiana Università per la Sostenibilità), endorsed by the Italian Conference of Universities’ Rectors (CRUI). In 2015 PoliTO joined the ISCN (International Sustainable Campus Network) and the Green Metric Ranking, being part of a global forum that sustains academic institutions in brainstorming activities, information and best practices to comply with the sustainability aspects of their activities.