Cooperation for Development @ Politecnico di Milano

1. Cooperation for Development @ Politecnico di Milano Emanuela Colombo (presented by Giancarlo Spinelli)

3. Cooperation4Development: overview • Cooperation for Development • External Context: Challenges and needs of cooperation • The Eight Goals of the Millennium • Logics of global Interdependence • Main Actors • University competences • Internal Reasons: university cooperation • Cooperation and University: • Vision and value added • mission • paths • Coordination • Cooperation for Development @ Politecnico di Milano • Mandate, Vision and Mission • Reasons and shared Rationale • The opportunity of collaboration: Partners • The Challenge: renewing project making • Intervention Scopes, Methods and Results (2006 and 2007) • Dissemination, Training, International and local Projects • Relationships and Partnerships: Institutional Committments • Research and Technology Transfer

4. Cooperation4Development: overview • Cooperation for Development • External Context: Challenges and needs of cooperation • The Eight Goals of the Millennium • Logics of global Interdependence • Main Actors • University competences • Internal Reasons: university cooperation • Cooperation and University: • Vision and value added • mission • paths • Coordination • Cooperation for Development @ Politecnico di Milano • Mandate, Vision and Mission • Reasons and shared Rationale • The opportunity of collaboration: Partners • The Challenge: renewing project making • Intervention Scopes, Methods and Results (2006 and 2007) • Dissemination, Training, International and local Projects • Relationships and Partnerships: Institutional Committments • Research and Technology Transfer

5. Cooperation4Development @POLIMI • Cooperation4Development: challenges and needs The 8 Goals Millennium MDGs and the frontiers of global development • multidisciplinary and complex tasks, challenge for all Mankind • strong partnerships are required • Theinterdependency principle states that our World is a single Nation Brandt’s Report (1978) • Economic: total convenience for the global market • Environmental: mankind actions and impact on environment • Social:interrelations between culture and societies in order to keep peace • An INNOVATIVE model of Developmentable to preserve and integrate local culture • and support Mankind in the path towards the growth of a sustainable civil society is needed • Development Issues concern everybody!

6. The 8Goals of the Millennium s MDGs • Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education • Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women • Goal 4: Reduce child mortality • Goal 5: Improve maternal health • Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases • Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability • Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development • The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-and signed by 147 Heads of State and Government. • It contains specific commitments to fight poverty, - It recognises that there are needs relevant to all countries: the poor and especially the rich ones • - It fixes the deadline 2015

7. Cooperation4Development @POLIMI • Cooperation4Development: challenges and needs The 8 Goals Millennium MDGs and the frontiers of global development • multidisciplinary and complex tasks, challenge for all Mankind • strong partnerships are required • Theinterdependency principle states that our World is a single Nation Brandt’s Report (1978) • Economic: total convenience for the global market • Environmental: mankind actions and impact on environment • Social:interrelations between culture and societies in order to keep peace • An INNOVATIVE model of Developmentable to preserve and integrate local culture • and support Mankind in the path towards the growth of a sustainable civil society is needed • Development Issues concern everybody!

8. Cooperation4Development : preliminary remarks • Cooperation4Development: Challenges and needs • Transversal & multidisciplinary approaches are required for programs • Inspired by shared objectives and agreements - Governance • Focused on local capacity building, knowledge transfer,local contest and human factor • Centered on appropriate technology transfer and environmental preservation • Able to operate for the benefit of stakeholders • Strong Partnerships, Network capabilities areneeded and required • With capable and motivated actors for covering the multitasking needs • “Professionals” need to be trained for acting in this field

9. Cooperation4Development @POLIMI • Cooperation4Development: Universities as proper partners • The academic mission stands on three pillars: • 1. teaching and education • represents the foundation of the capability of spreading knowledge • research activities • represent the way for updating our knowledge, keep a dynamic teaching, develop a critical capability in the young generations. • technology transfer within the relations with industrial companies • represents the way in which the academic culture demonstrates to be effective for the social and economical development of the Nation and its market. • We have to play a role… • “Professionals” need to be trained for the global world

10. Cooperation4Development at Polimi: the vision • The vision @ Politecnico di Milano: • Technology & Innovation • have always represented key advantages • for great competitive performances. • Technology & Innovation alone are not enough anymore. • Only driven byHuman factors and coupled with the principle of Social Responsibility • They may build a good set of instruments and values able to support our civil society • in the “challenge for global Development and human promotion” • The problem of development concerns the whole world…

11. Cooperation4Development @POLIMI:the vision • The vision @ Politecnico di Milano: • Learning principles of Cooperation4Developmentcreates positive values that may be useful in any global frame where people will work • These values may lead to a • generation of responsible individuals (North & South) • able to truly act in that worldwide “challenge for global Development” • All Universities need to prepare the • Citizens of The Global World

12. Cooperation4Development at Polimi:the mission • Serving and Supporting the Social Development: • A. Set up of a program of education & training, dissemination, spreading, • training professionals able to operate in the social transformation • Taking care of Social, human and environmental factors • Able to identify appropriate model of development and technologies • B. Building strong partnerships for empowering project effectiveness • Institutions, NGOs, international/Non profit organizations, Private companies, Universities • Empowering projects capabilities • C. Using research and relationships to become a reference/support • to Identify new models and methods • to understand better the cause/effect mechanisms • We foster cooperation with existing international networks

13. Cooperation4Development at Polimi Objectives, Methods and Approach • Objectives • Knowledge Transfer for innovation and economic development (joint training starting from research and interaction with the territory) • Creating/strengthening culture and competence • Strengthening institutional contextstarting from universities • Training researchers; • Improving quality of Professors skills and competences; • Developing better study curricula and promoting student mobility; • Evaluating the opportunities of staff exchanges • Increasing intellectual and human capital • Method and Approach • Involvement for knowledge sharing and decision making processes • Continuous monitoring • Attention paid to complexity(State, Civil Society) • Strengthening links between Italian and local universities • Supporting the creation of transversal local networks • Involving institutions, private sector and NGOs >> Ethic visionof civil society (as a goal, not as a mean)

14. Cooperation4Development @POLIMI • In the previous years we have focused our activities on dissemination and training and we have experienced many opportunities in term of partnership and project development • Dissemination • Cultural Road map for MDGs under the U.N. patronize • Seminars and Workshops on Development and Intercultural Aspects • Training • Course “Engineering and Cooperation4Development” – First @POLIMI (2.5 Credits) • Within Alta Scuola Politecnica a Project for Ecuador has been proposed • Projects opportunities • Africa (Kenya, Tanzania)/Latin America (Ecuador)/Middle Est (Lebanon):support to the autonomy development (Local institutions , local universities, local ONGs) • UNIDO Faculty Chair on Innovation • Institutional Relations • Coordinators: “Universities Network @NORTH Italy” (by Ministry of Foreign Affairs) • Working group “School & Voluntaries” (by Ministry of Education – Lombardy office) • Research and Technology Transfer • Agency/ Observatory on best practices, models targeted to cooperation for development

15. Cooperation4Development @POLIMI Transversal Partnerships in Cooperation International Organizations ONU, ILO, UNIDO ONGS and Organisation ASVI AVSI, Frères des Hommes Mani Tese, OCCAM, OpenCity Engineers Without borders Soleterrae, Cooperative Chico Mendes, Medecines Sans Frontières AIAT, Corridoio Zero CIRPS, Combonian Missionaries Namaste EADI Universities “Coordinamento Universitario per la Cooperazione e lo Sviluppo” (23 Universities), + other Universities: Roma, Perugia, Siena, Palermo, Calabria, Napoli, Lecce Finnish & Norway Network of Univ.Delft & Gratz Universities Partners Institutions DGCS-MAE, Regione Lombardia, ICE Private Sector Assolombarda, Sodalitas Foundations

16. Cooperatio4Development@Polimi: an example Program of Partnership within the EAC: EDULINK ExC3ITE Project • PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITIES

17. Program of Partnership within the EAC: EDULINK ExC3ITE Project • PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITIES POLIMI fosters cooperation with local Institutions to support the scientific and Technological upgrading of the local Higher Education Institutions • Overall Objective • • Boosting the contribution of Engineering Technology to the socioeconomic development of the East African Community • Specific objectives • • To build capacity in delivering relevant and effective training programmes, preparing an enabling environment to carry out research activities andfoster community service through a Network of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

18. Program of Partnership within the EAC: EDULINK ExC3ITE Project • Expected Results • the project is built around the ideas of Capacity building and Networking that cross over the specific objective of the program • 1. A regional network (RN) of HEIs in Engineering Technology consistent with national, regional strategies for reinforcing generation of knowledge and innovation. • 2. A common strategic approach for generating synergies with Stakeholders and contributing to the fulfillment of the HEIs’ missions. • 3. Teaching and Support staff development • focused on capacities (innovative teaching • and training methodologies), technical • competences and facilities. • 4. A common pilot approach to quality • control system for improving and monitoring • teaching and learning • 5. Enhanced capacity for governance • and management in the partner institutions

19. Program of Partnership within the EAC: EDULINK ExC3ITE Project • Strategic Relevance • • The Project proposed by the Consortium is aligned with the Edulink vision and presents the following strategic relevance: • Regional integration for effecting the socioeconomic development • Engineering Technology and Focus on Innovation in line with the EAC strategies • Response to the current EAC HEIs strategic plans • Governmental involvement and political goodwill • Capacity building • Regional and International Networking • Participatory process and PCM • Attention to gender and brain drain issues • Quality control and assurance in teaching and learning • Local ownership • ....to have an ExC3ITing project in hand

20. Program of Partnership within the EAC: EDULINK ExC3ITE Project • EDULINK II CALL (European Project on Higher Education) • Title:EXC3ITE • Elimu (Education) For Common Creative Capacity • in Innovation, Technology and Engineering. • - Applicant : Politecnico di Milano • - Partners: • The Mombasa Polytechnic University College, • The Kenya Polytechnic University College, Kenya; • The Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology, Tanzania • - Associates • Ministry of Science and Technology – Kenya • AVSI Foundation (Italian NGO), Italy • Fondazione Politecnico, Italy • Italian Embassy in Nairobi, Italy • Ingegneria Senza Frontiere – Milano (Volunteers) , Italy

21. Cooperatio4Development@Polimi: an example PERU PROJECT SECTORIAL INNOVATION SYSTEM Institutional Capacity Building and Competences for innovating the Textile sector APPLICANT: PARTNER: UNIDO Politecnico di Milano Scuola Superiore di Sant’Anna Ministerio de la Producción Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, Ministerio de Educatión, Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo, Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae (UCSS), Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI), Consejo Nacional de Competitividad (CNC) FUNDING: Ministero degli Affari Esteri Cooperazione Italiana attraverso Ufficio Cooperazione di Nairobi CAF: comunità andine

22. Cooperation4Development @POLIMI:pre-conditions • Pre-conditions to be addressed • “Scientific Method, Quality Assurance, • Process Innovation and Partnerships • need to be thedriving force • for strengthening our potential & our impact • and building • a high quality network able to act in a • network of networks • for global development”. Every shared approach has acost-benefit balance for individuals It is time to effectively confirm our choices