ASP Cycle

Colorado: Community-based policies for natural resource sustainable development

The project compare problems, approaches and solutions applied to the sustainable planning and management of natural resources in two distinct geographical landscapes: the 5 Terre (marine environment) and the Valle Varaita (alpine region). The final aim is to develop as far as possible innovative policies in order to manage local resources that trying to solve […]

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Smart-k: The app that will make small knitwear companies bigger

In Italy, small and medium knitwear companies are the ones suffering more the ongoing economic crisis. While International fashion brands have kept on exploiting economy of scales and delocalization strategies, small players have not been able to defend their share of market. Even if they own extraordinary skills and expertise, often they are not able

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PIA_A: Playing Architecture, a prototype of a smart public building

The challenging goal of the project is designing infrastructures to provide fundamental services in developing countries, in complex situations such as slums or bidonvilles, inserting buildings able to produce energy where it is needed without transportation. The practical idea is to implement several small, prefabricated clinics to have a fast, cheap and sustainable solution but

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SCIeNCE: Food and Water Security in Changing Climate

Water is the most precious although most threatened resource on earth: environmental, economic and social factors are posing serious risks to its availability. Many projects concerning the domestic saving of water have been developed, but the fact that the majority of human water footprint is linked to the consumption of agricultural products is not fully

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PMM-HEV: Power Management and Modelling of Hybrid Electrical Vehicle

In the context of the development of the future mobility models it is necessary to consider the different aspects that may determine the feasibility of a proposed solution. For sure, the need to reduce the emissions and energetic consumption associated to the movement of people and goods has become a major issue of the policy

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FRUC: Future of Retailing in Urban Cities

Small urban retailers, in European cities, are facing a decrease in attractiveness because of the increase number of shopping malls, big chain shops and internet retailers. This led to the closure of a relevant number of stores and to the consequent reduction of people’s traffic in cities’ street. These closures are negatively affecting the vivacity

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LAMP: Laser Additive Manufactoring & Prototyping

AM is a technical innovation with the potential to turn around the way in which companies manufacture end-products and do business, giving a new shape to both internal and external processes (concerning the firm-client relationship). As a matter of facts, its market, consisting of all products, materials and services, was worth around 3.07 billion USD

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ACED-IoT : Safe Cities through Cloud and the Internet of Things

The ongoing growth of urban population coupled with the frequency of extreme weather phenomena all over the world is causing an increase in the exposure of people and goods to natural hazards. This implies a general rise of the risk level. The culture of risk prevention and management is increasingly widespread – also due to

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