Last updated: 02/08/2021

The 12th edition of Switch2Product | Innovation Challenge has concluded. This programme promotes innovative solutions, new technologies and business ideas put forward by students and young graduates (<3 years) from the Politecnico di Milano. The challenge is organised by PoliHub, the Politecnico di Milano Innovation District & Startup Accelerator managed by Fondazione Politecnico, the Technology Transfer Office (TTO), and Deloitte.

This year also saw the partnership between the MIP - Business School of the Politecnico di Milano and Università Bocconi, joined by Joule, Fondazione Social Venture Giordano Dell’Amore, the Milano Monza Brianza Lodi Chamber of Commerce, and Bugnion.

180 candidates, more than 600 innovators, 30 finalists, and 25 teams awarded: these are the numbers of the 2020 edition. Winners are provided access to the Business Acceleration Programme with the aim of developing their innovation project, which involves consolidating the team’s skills, product prototyping and development, forming a strategy to enter the market, and contact with investment funds, as well as testing the business model.

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Among the winning teams, we highlight those of the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”:

• Eggs & Beacon
  Category: MedTech
  Description: Cheap and effective device that facilitates clinical trials of vaccines and medicines in pandemic cases and cardiovascular diseases
  Reward: S2P Covid 30K Reward -Getit! Twice Special Grant & Special Program – PoliHub acceleration program
  Team: Claudio Conci (Project Manager), Manuela Raimondi
   
• LIFT Energy
  Category: CleanTech & Manufacturing
  Description: LIFT ENERGY proposes an innovative treatment that has a disruptive impact on Li-ion batteries
  Reward: Joule the ENI School for Business Special Grant & Special Program – PoliHub acceleration program
  Team: Maurizio Sansotera (Project Manager)
  
  
• NanoMug
  Category: MedTech
  Description: A system that proposes a new usage of multi-functional nano-particles for carrying medicines thanks to an innovative process
  Reward: Getit! Twice Special Grant & Special Program – PoliHub acceleration program
  Team: Paola Petrini (Project Manager)
  
  
• ROPLASTIC
  Category: CleanTech & Manufacturing
  Description: Flexible and simple process to reuse plastic waste
  Reward: Joule the ENI School for Business Special Grant & Special Program – PoliHub acceleration program
  Team: Flavio Tollini (Project Manager), Massimo Morbidelli and Giuseppe Storti
  
  
• SINERGY- makeS energy flow
  Category: CleanTech & Manufacturing
  Description: A battery capable of accumulating energy from sulfur waste through a Circular Economy approach
  Reward: S2P Grant – Joule the ENI School for Business Special Grant & Special Program – PoliHub acceleration program
  Team: Alessandra Accogli (Project Manager), Prof. Luca Magagnin

Release:

I magnifici sette del Politecnico
Il Giorno, Ed. Milano - 7 febbraio 2021 | pag. 4