Founded in 1859, Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) is a leading university 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, BSc, MSc, PhD, Master Courses (15% are international students). Politecnico is a center of excellence for education and research in engineering, architecture, design and planning and it works in close cooperation with the socio-economic system. Politecnico is part of some of the major European interuniversity networks, such as CESAER, CLUSTER, EUA, Sefi, T.I.M.E. POLITO employs 900 people among professors and tenured researchers. Politecnico can count on a great experience both in scientific projects and administrative management, with more than 230 FP7 projects (66M€). It is currently involved in 175 Horizon EU funded research and innovation projects with a total contribution of 60.3 M€. Thanks to its interdisciplinary outlook, POLITO is able to combine different engineering disciplines (Energy, system analysis and thermo-chemical) within materials science to promote the development of new advanced energy materials. POLITO has expertise in the development, characterization and testing of electrochemical and thermochemical processes and technologies for energy conversion, with special focus in projects related to hydrogen processes and technologies. POLITO was co-founder in 2008 of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (now Clean Hydrogen) and has developed around 30 FP7 + H2020 projects in the domain of FCH, with around 10 in coordination. POLITO manages several laboratories in the domain of FCH, from basic research at low TRL to applied research at TRL6, with around 150+ researchers involved in this research domain. The HUB for H2 Technologies (Italy) is based on the collaboration of POLITO-IIT-EnvironmentPark. The infrastructures include laboratories for hydrogen and sustainability research. Activities develop from testing and modeling to prototyping and demonstration, covering the entire value chain. CO2 Circle Lab focuses on the development of innovative electrochemical, thermochemical and biotechnological processes, driven by renewable energy sources, for the global management of CO2 devoted to the production (with H2) of high value-added products. The Energy Center Lab is devoted to modelling and analysis of scenarios of energy processes and technologies on the local and global scale, for planning suitable solutions, the optimal design of the planned energy systems, and the optimal day-by-day management of the systems.
