Main points

Student wellbeing: an emergency, the mainstay of our program

We cannot pretend nothing: at the Polytechnic there is a silent and dramatic emergency that flutters through the classrooms and that no one considers. Many students are uncomfortable and competing in university life and we, as representatives, believe that we must pay special attention to the issue.

Health Survey, Identify Problems

How do we solve the problem if the Polytechnic does not have an investigation into the climate of student welfare? We want to understand what the problems are from and try to solve them at the root, to do this we will continue to work on an investigation questionnaire, an initiative that does not yet exist at Polimi.

POLIPSI funds increase

As already done in the previous mandate, increase funding for the service that provides students with psychological support, both personal and educational.

Relaxation areas

Predict within Campus areas chilling as it happens to departments.

Prevention of bullying and sexism

Make the university environment more inclusive and welcoming for the students. Creating student venues and organizing specific events to promote gender diversity.

Taxes and right to study

Poli’s fees are higher than other public entities, yet our university’s budgets are quite sincere: it is also one of the few universities that manages to guarantee scholarships to all eligible candidates, using its own funds.

Eligible = beneficiaries

We support the University’s political choice to invest its own funds, even if large (7 million) to ensure that all eligible candidates are also scholarship recipients.

No-tax area extension

We support the facilities established this year for scholarships and the extension of the no-tax area along the lines of other Italian universities.

Salary increase 150h

We want to adjust the 150h hourly wage with the market, increasing it from โ‚ฌ10/h to โ‚ฌ13/h. In parallel, also increase the hourly wage of the tutoring call.

Train reimbursement included in the DSU grant

All commuter students who benefit from the DSU should be entitled to a third choice which provides for a refund for the local or regional public transport pass.

Teaching: less pressure, more innovation

Teaching is a major theme of the university and at Polytechnic it is time to change: it must be improved, but above all made more effective and innovative, it makes no sense to create heavy-handed programs that lead students to despondency and to feel inadequate. Teachers must also be accountable. We want a fresh teaching, a workshop and a sharing, here are some of our proposals.

Teacher training: teachers can learn too!

We want to promote and make training courses for the teaching profession, a flu-like experience between pedagogy and public speaking, to make lessons more interesting and effective and to improve teacher-student relationships.

Post - examination questionnaire: a challenge to be taken forward

Years ago, following our idea, the pilot project of post-examination questionnaires was born: a tool to comprehensively assess teachers even after the moment of examination. Post-exam teacher evaluations are to be extended to all courses of study.

Streaming and Recording: will we allow?

Despite the advice of the University, there are still many teachers who do not provide registration. Let’s persist in making streaming a reality.

Sixth appeal: speaking seriously

Introduce a sixth appeal along with a pause for the partial post-class, so that the exam can be recovered before the next session.

Associations: the soul of the students

Anyone who knows us knows, in these two years we have worked hard to help and improve the conditions of the student associations, which are in some way “sisters” of the representations. We want a Polytechnic where the associations are not just a trophy to be shown when necessary but a real world that is valued, represented and facilitated. We need to support these realities and make them attractive to all students.

Register of associations: freedom of choice

Modify the Regulations of the Register of Associations with the Third Sector Reform, giving more freedom of choice and action to student associations.

University bureaucratic support

Ensure that associations have the opportunity to discuss and enjoy ad hoc support for these entities.

The benefits of nonprofits

If the Poli associations cannot become non-profit then it is necessary to guarantee the licenses and advantages that allow carrying out a professional activity.

Association space: a locker is not enough

Student associations need at least a large common space where they can work and to use as a point of reference and aggregation. We propose to obtain the space in the currently unused building 11B.

Meals and meal vouchers: overcoming the past

The pollen canteens are among the most expensive in Italy, the canteens ban was written and approved at quite critical moments. However, we propose to rewrite the notice that manages them: by setting price limits, system of menus on the basis of the ISE, diversified prices and a greater vegetarian supply. In parallel, to act immediately, we propose an increase in the meal voucher.

Good meal: aligned with inflation

Five euros (ยฃ5) in Milan is not enough for a lunch and barely for a breakfast. Although regional funds are small, it is necessary to align prices with the average cost of living.

canteens ban: a deadline finally approaching

The canteens ban has few constraints for operators (price limits, vegan menus, glutenfree, vegetarian). It was adopted at a critical juncture, but we also opposed its extension and this mandate would be the right time to re-write it.

Price system by ISEE

Prices system on ISEED bandsThe prices of the canteen are to be differentiated according to the ESA and different prices for students, faculty and PhD students.

A new canteen: not just lunch.

Opening canteens in the evening, as is the case in many universities.

Spaces: a new ecosystem and the conquest of building 11B

Yes, we know that space is an age-old and cumbersome problem, which will not be solved overnight. The truth is that we must continue to propose long-range visions, it is only thanks to them that change can be achieved. If the representatives of Svoltastudenti hadn’t dared and thought big fifteen years ago, the Patio and the Agorร  open 24 hours a day would not exist today. Therefore, exactly fifteen years after what was a great revolution, we offer you a new vision of spaces.

Areas h24: Polimi city of students

Creating an intersection between refreshment areas, sports venues, study points and leisure points that can make the Politecnico di Milano dedicated to us students. Imagine a place where we can peacefully develop our habits and our lives. A place where you can both study and have opportunities for recreation, for discussion, for working in a group, for practicing sports when you want. A place where we can feel good, welcomed and where we can find maximum comfort.

There are spaces: let's make the most of them!

We are continuing the work begun with the spaces commission to enhance places that are currently undervalued: we want to present a plan for building 11B, currently unused.

Department spaces: they are not a world apart

We want to encourage intergenerational dialogue, and improve the student-teacher relationship by opening spaces to everyone, such as the second floor of the Collina degli Studenti (Campus La Masa), which is currently exclusive only to professors.

Marathon between campuses? Only at PolimiRun

We propose to insert a shuttle service between Leonardo and Bovisa, for promote connections between the various campuses with a shuttle service (Polink) following the example of what is already present in some Milanese districts and in the future evaluate the 24-hour service also on Fridays and weekends.

Schools

ICAT School – Civil, Environmental and Territorial Engineering – Copy

This school, despite its smaller size compared to sister 3I, prepares some of the most sought-after professionals in the world of work. In addition to the issue of appeals and teachers who discourage Erasmus, the problem with ICAT school is that it is not very attractive to students. But we have thought about some improvement proposals, both for teaching and attractiveness.

Encouraging international mobility

In ICAT school, Erasmus is often strongly discouraged by professors or insufficiently evaluated, but Athenianโ€™s policies go in the opposite direction – a direction – that of internationalization, which we have always supported and to which the ICAT school must line up.

lighten the material load

In line with what has been described in the program’s general points, we are also proposing the need to add appeals for this school, which we consider to be essential.

Organize exhibitions and exhibitions, improve open day

We propose to organize real internal ICAT exhibitions, so that everyone knows what we are doing and how important our industry is. In addition, the course has lived for years in a condition of low attractiveness, although the professional figure is one of the most sought after. We will work to renew the course, we also need to improve the effectiveness of Open Day and enhance the guidance to high school children

Tutoring the most difficult subjects

Unfortunately, many courses are practically impossible to pass on to the first appeal, a student-tutorship is required to help overcome these difficulties, which often also affect the psychological aspect of the student.

AUIC School – Urban Architecture and Construction Engineering

If the students in engineering complain of a misallocation of the study load, in the school of AUIC the focus is design and group projects. This school is very large: think it holds all the courses in Architecture, but also construction and construction! The proposals we present to you are different: bonus points for students Polymes for access to the magistrals, create a laboratory of models even for the three-year period, but above all cut down on the cost of models and laboratories.

Raise awareness of mental health

Training and pedagogy courses for professors, to modify some improper attitudes that go as far as impairing the psychological well-being of students (for example late night reviews, not having lunch breaks, also requiring work at night).

Laboratory for models also in three-year degree!

Well, in the most important architectural faculty in Italy there is no model laboratory for students of three – year courses in architecture. In addition to this, we have identified some of the spaces that are in disuse or not used that we want to convert and equip particular shelves to keep the models in progress.

Maximum ceiling for models and laboratories

The cost of the laboratories is extremely expensive, even putting thousands of euros on the students’ pockets. To solve this problem we want to move from one point of view: first of all, to make teachers not make absurd demands (such as precious materials models), and second to ensure that every student has a discount card that can be spent on Poliprint. What’s more, we want to equip classrooms with interactive digital whiteboards that can be used for reviewing and avoiding having to print every time.

No lessons at week design

As an example of what we have already achieved at DESIGN school, leave free hours or days of lessons to visit Fuorisalone during design week. It is not possible that during the most important planning week of the year the students will be overworked and delivered.

DESIGN School – need more flexibility

Over the next two years we intend to continue and improve even more the student/School of Design dialogue. We want the School of Design to be an inclusive space, a community where you can grow professionally and humanly. This is why we intend to create a series of initiatives to improve teamwork dynamics, help students personalize their university career and collaborate with the various bodies to obtain ad hoc aid for student designers

If you study design you can't do anything else, even that's enough.

We will ask that the 6 credits courses offer the exam method for non-attending students, planning and attendance are an added value but it is necessary to provide the possibility of giving the 6 credits exams also to working students or students engaged in other activities, whether they are cultural or sporting .

More flexibility: to each his own path!

We will work in the various bodies to obtain more appeals for preparatory laboratories, especially those of the first years, in such a way as to limit the situations of students with a “career block”. We will work to improve the distribution of appeals within the exam sessions.

Week zero. Let's start off on the right foot!

We propose that the first week of the first semester become a moment of mood setting for the whole year, creating a series of orientation events provided by the School.

Design week: stop lessons

In the next few years we want to obtain the suspension of ongoing tests and the further reduction of lesson times during the design week. We will also propose that the courses integrate visits to stands and events into the semester programme.

School 3I – Industrial and information Engineering

With its 35,000 students, it is certainly the polymers’ wall and collects all the courses of industrial engineering and information under its control. But unfortunately, many engineering students live with excessive stress and competition in their own path. We have considered some proposals to improve the overall organization of the calendar with particular emphasis on the critical situation of appeals and evaluations.

Too Much Workload

Excessively demanding exams from a teaching point of view can be made lighter by replacing part of the final assessment with a project, also encouraging group work and revaluing the relationship between CFUs granted and hours of lessons.

Stimulating project activities

To encourage laboratories and projects between students of different degree courses but also within the courses themselves: theory is certainly important, but the figure of the engineer must also be able to get his hands on and familiarize himself with reality.

appeal, a real disaster

We propose a more flexible appeal system with the inclusion of an extra appeal during the partial appeals and a full appeal at the same time as the second part. We want to insist on the exploitation of preappeals and partial.

Supernumerary to actual tests

We must ensure that the passing of a supernumerary to actual examination, in the event that it does not take place within the deadlines currently set, does not require the fee to be paid and enrollment to a new semester, causing unnecessary discomfort to us students.

Off-city campuses

Piacenza Campus

The Piacenza campus hosts both Engineering and Architecture courses, is located on two different Campuses but mainly suffers from a lack of events and activities.

Encourage the creation of associations and groups

We need more student activism, we want to encourage the creation of associations within the campus to support aggregation and networking.

Create a debate and music club

We want to encourage the participation of campus students by providing discussion groups and a place to practice musical activities.

Organize sports tournaments

Among the many activities that Piacenza lacks, sport is one of them. Among our proposals is that of creating sports teams and making open playgrounds and agreements with local sports bodies available to students.

Annual event

To better publicize the Polo di Piacenza, we want to organize a one-day event-festival made up of culture, art and music.

Mantova Campus

The Mantova campus, just steps from the center, is mainly home to architectural courses. The buildings are well maintained and recently restored but lack relaxation areas, open h24 classrooms and suffers from the supply problem for model materials, which are essential for all students.

Casagialla open 24/7

You cannot not have an open 24h/24 space in an architecture faculty, you need to ask the campus managers to open a h24 space, as is the case with the Leonardo Campus.

Laboratory Tests

We want to keep open the classrooms in which the labs are held so that we can provide space for the students in that laboratory to work without going to occupy all the classrooms with materials and models making it impossible for students of other years to work.

Improve material suppliers

Often, students on campus have to take many kilometers to buy the materials needed for the models, sometimes even going to other cities! The Mantova Pole needs to start dialogs with local suppliers and authorities in order to make sure that it has more material at hand.

Create relaxing environments

To improve the physical and mental health of students during the days and nights of work.

Cremona Campus

The Cremona campus is mainly home to Management and Informatics Engineering Courses, but also contains smaller courses such as Agricultural and Music and Acoustic Engineering. There is a project underway to build a new Campus that is more innovative and central than the city center, but given the delay in the work we have a series of proposals to improve the immediate livability: a new canteen service and improvement of the study spaces, accompanied at the educational level by the proposal for a new double degree course that can make full use of the Territorial Pole.

New double degree in Cremona

Create a route that, by properly modifying the curriculum, allows you to receive a double degree in management and IT engineering so as to distinguish the Campus from Cremona.

Enhancing Services and Space

We need to increase the space available for study classrooms and offer a state-of-the-art canteen service. We want to make the campus more livable, although it is planned for the future to move to the new premises: works are slowing down, so in the meantime there is an urgent need to improve the quality of the spaces.

Reviewing excellence

Paths of excellence enhance the Campus, but we want to demand greater transparency in communication and make the keeping of the scholarship more sustainable (9 out of 10 have had to leave).

Contact with Cremona enterprises

We want the Career Service to organize a career day in Cremona or events that bring students and companies together.

Lecco Campus

The Pole of Lecco is distinguished in the landscape of Milan Polytechnic because of the incredible quality of the study space, the open space, the administration services and the quality of the teaching provided. All this represents an extraordinary wealth that deserves to be treated and valued in full. The size of the Pole of Lecco can truly become a model that places the health of the student at the center of its health.

+ Health 2 feel good 2 feel better

We propose the introduction of a psychological counseling of the Polyps in the headquarters of Lecco, with one or more people on site at least once a week. Introduce a day dedicated to blood donation and medical conventions in the territory.

+ Sports 2 feel better 2 be together

We have to take more sport inside Lecco Campus, not just the day of PolimiRun. We want to create teams from all the different courses at the Pole to organize sports tournaments and bring down the cost of attending tournaments. We also believe that there is a need to set up territorial conventions to allow sports teams to train and practice sports in suitable fields (preferably in winter)

+ Socialization 2 be together

Promotion of events such as ski outdoors (as done by the representatives at EDA), trips, guided tours and excursions around the city and thus promote the activities of the city of Lecco and the lake.

+ Services 2 are healthy

The problem of parking and mobility needs to be addressed in a coordinated manner with local authorities and the involvement of students, including by setting up car – sharing agreements. The library is also to be improved: it would be useful to have more magazines on shelves and not just the last copy to leave.