On May 26, 2025, Spoke 1 – Aerospace and Sustainable Mobility held the workshop “Doing Business in Space”, a day of discussion focused on the economic, strategic, and institutional dynamics that are reshaping the space sector in the era of the New Space Economy.
The workshop brought together professors and researchers from internationally renowned universities and research centers, with expertise in innovation economics, strategic management, and policy analysis, alongside both emerging and established business players, including high-level startups and companies.
The goal of the workshop was to develop a structured perspective on the ongoing transformations in the space sector, with particular attention to emerging governance models, enabling technological trajectories, and the mechanisms of interaction between public and private actors.
The working sessions alternated between theoretical contributions and case study presentations, offering valuable insights into market configurations, research support policies, and the evolution of the space industry value chains.
Great participation and concrete dialogue between research and business at the Spoke 1 event on Aerospace and Sustainable Mobility
On April 3, the event dedicated to the results of Spoke 1 - Aerospace and Sustainable Mobility, organized at Environment Park as part of the Ecosystem Roadshow 2025, concluded successfully. Many moments of discussion and networking, to promote innovation and technological and sustainable transition.
Excellent turnout of companies, researchers and stakeholders from Spoke 1 and the NODES area. Speeches by the companies involved in the Spoke gave a concrete overview of the project results obtained thanks to the Spoke 1 cascade calls, created to support high-tech solutions for the Aerospace and Sustainable Mobility supply chains.
Spoke 1 represents the collaboration at the highest level of different entities, bringing their important and complementary expertise to the table – Spoke 1 introduces:
I3P
Founded in 1999, Politecnico di Torino’s Incubator (I3P) supports the creation and development of innovative startups with high technological intensity and strong growth potential. It offers consulting services, mentoring, fundraising support, workspaces, and networking opportunities.
SKF launches a challenge on the design of innovative spaces for work wellness and hospitality in the aerospace sector.
Teoresi wants to address the macro-theme of smart mobility, considering the technological evolution in the sector and the concept, broad, of sustainability.
The initiative is open to Bachelor's, Master's, single-cycle or master's degree students from UniTo, with the participation of students from Politecnico di Torino, who are interested in proposing innovative ideas in their respective fields.
The participants, organized in interdisciplinary teams and supported by mentors, will face a three-week challenge (May 8-29, 2025), with three main in-person events, Kick-off, Mentors' Day, Pitch Day.
Meetings with mentors from UniTo, Politecnico, Spoke 1, SKF and Teoresi will be held along the way. At the end, a committee will award the most innovative idea.
The Challenges are an excellent opportunity for professionalization, and all participants will receive an Open Badge. The awards will be posted soon.
Registration is open until April 21, 2025.
More information, registration and contact details on the UniTo pages:
Challenge SKF
Challenge Teoresi
Spoke 1 represents the collaboration at the highest level of different entities, bringing their important and complementary expertise to the table - Spoke 1 introduces:
Environment Park
Environment Park is the Turin-based Technology Park for the environmental innovation and sustainability.. With its laboratories and spaces for business establishment, it has been working alongside companies and local governments in the development and adoption of innovative energy and environmental technologies for more than 25 years.
Envipark provides the park's hydrogen, green chemistry and CCUS “open labs”, created and managed in partnership with POLITO and IIT, and the CLEVER Cluster business network for technology transfer actions to sustainable mobility and aerospace companies.
At the A&T trade in Turin, CIM 4.0 is promoting training initiatives, with a special focus on the aerospace and sustainable mobility sectors. It highlights the educational activities of NODES aimed at strengthening skills in these key areas for regional development.
Spoke 1 supports the industrial sector through upskilling and reskilling initiatives designed to enhance and update professional competencies in response to the challenges of the green and digital transition. Through targeted training programs, it helps companies navigate the evolving industrial landscape.
As a Spoke 1 partner, CIM 4.0 plays a pivotal role in supporting businesses with the adoption of advanced technologies and the digitalization of production processes. Thanks to cutting-edge infrastructure and specialized training, it contributes to the transformation of the industrial sector by facilitating access to innovative tools and fostering a culture of sustainability-driven innovation and efficiency.
CIM 4.0 has recently launched the Mobility Academy Light Edition, specifically focused on the themes of Spoke 1. Individual courses can be combined to complete the full Academy program or taken separately to strengthen expertise in specific areas.
All the Spoke 1's training programs
Gli obiettivi di NODES e dello Spoke 1 prevedono il massimo supporto all’irrobustimento e alla creazione di nuove realtà imprenditoriali innovative nei settori di riferimento, Aerospazio e Mobilità sostenibile. Grazie ai finanziamenti di Spoke 1, alcune realtà sono pronte a fare il passo successivo nel loro percorso di sviluppo tecnologico, verso il mercato e con grande potenziale di impatto.
Tra i Proof of Concept finanziati dallo Spoke 1, il progetto IDRA, iniziato a dicembre 2023 sulla base dei primi sviluppi della omonima tecnologia, già vincitrice dell’Intellectual Property Award 2023, ha fatto grandi passi avanti ed il team, composto da ricercatrici e ricercatori del Politecnico di Torino, ha appena fondato una nuova Start-Up: DEPLOTIC, Spin-Off del Politecnico di Torino, che ne porterà avanti lo sviluppo.
BINP, the incubator of entrepreneurial projects, startups and spin-offs promoted by the Polytechnic University of Bari, hosted a new meeting dedicated to cooperation between the academic world and local companies in the context of Spoke 1, Aerospace and sustainable mobility. The event was an opportunity for discussion between the innovation players of the Space of the Ecosystem sector with the realities of Puglia and Southern Italy.
The companies involved in Spoke 1 and the researchers of the Space4You project shared the research and development activities they are carrying out with companies and researchers in the public, with the aim of strengthening or creating new synergies on the national territory.
In fact, during the event, the results and expectations of Space4You were presented, a wide-ranging applied research project carried out by Politecnico di Torino, Università di Torino, Politecnico di Bari e Lnks Foundation. Furthermore, the progresses made by companies in industrial research and experimental development projects, funded by cascading calls, were presented.
The cascading calls for proposals of Spoke 1, Aerospace and sustainable mobility have allowed the launch of more than 20 industrial research projects, carried out by large and small companies.
Spoke 1 already has more than 70 companies in its network between research projects and training activities, and will continue to work to simplify the dialogue between the innovation actors of the NODES territories, both in the north and in the south, for a synergistic production fabric and an increasingly competitive "Space system"
For further information:
Flagship Project Space4You
Industrial projects
On November 6, Università di Catania held the seminar "Power Electronics for electric mobility".
Unict is an integral part of the Electro Flagship Project, the research project dedicated to electric mobility. The university's research team, led by Professor Giacomo Scelba, presented the progress on GaN-based On-board Battery Charging solutions to companies and researchers in the public. A more extensive in-depth analysis of the entire Electro project can be found here.
The seminar dealt in depth with the activities of the research groups of Converters, Electrical Machines and Drives and Electrotechnics of Unict and in particular the results of the two groups for power electronics.
Spoke 1 presented the objectives and results obtained with the funding of industrial research and for the formation of networks and connections between the actors of innovation in the territory, to facilitate the knowledge of the projects and the collaboration between research and industry, between actors of excellence in northern and southern Italy.
The Flagship Project
An in-depth look at the many facets of Electro, the Spoke 1 Flagship Project for electric mobility.
In the Green Economy Guide published in the Scenari supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore, it is possible to discover the research lines of the Flagship Project, which follow the trajectories of electric mobility with a wide spectrum, in order to cover the widest possible number of the technological needs of the market.
The Electro Flagship contains multiple research teams, working on different strategic areas and components of electric vehicles, which together lead to an integrated common proposal, which aims to support the change imposed on the entire supply chain. In fact, research ranges from the development of devices, to new innovative materials, to the study of business models and commercial developments.
Electro is coordinated by the Politecnico di Torino, partnering with University of Turin, Links Foundation and the Università di Catania.
The article can be found at page 14 at the link below:
Green Economy Guide (ITA)
On 27 and 28 September, the Researchers Night brings knowledge. The event brings together researchers from local universities and allows people to discover new technologies and developments that will change our daily lives in the coming years.
The European Researchers Night in Turin is again this year brought by UNIGHT - United citizens for research - and is organised by Università di Torino and Politecnico di Torino. Similar events were held in many European cities on the same dates.
During the event, organised in the outdoor spaces of the Royal Museums of Torino, Spoke 1's research was also showcased, and the project staff exhibited its extensive research projects, the Flagship Projects, and the themes contained within them, to the general public. Attendees at the Night were able to discover the contribution of research on highly topical issues such as Sustainable Mobility, both in terms of electrification and the lesser-known green hydrogen, and on the New Space Economy, that sees great involvement form the private sector and isn't only the realm of government funded ventures. Researchers from Spoke 1 illustrated the technologies being studied and developed and how these will have an impact on everyday life, faster than we tend to think.
The full program: Unight (unightproject.eu)
Spoke 1 Flagship Projects : Spoke 1 - Flagship Projects | Nord Ovest Digitale e Sostenibile
The Flaghsip Projects dedicated to Sustainable Mobility present their progress during Next Generation Mobility 2024
Next Generation Mobility is dedicated to the mobility supply chain and the meeting between innovation players, such as companies, start-ups, universities and institutions, which will be able to discuss innovation, business opportunities, compliance and reforms in the sector.
Spoke 1 brought two Flagship Projects dedicated to mobility, which participated in the National Conference on Hydrogen and e-fuels and the conference on e-Mobility and bio-fuels.
During the second National Conference on Hydrogen and e-fuels, Professor Marzia Quaglio presented the H2Mobility project, on Green Hydrogen, one of the key energy carriers in the energy transition path, necessary for the progressive reduction of emissions in the coming decades, especially for heavier vehicles.
The Spoke 1 Students Challenge carried out by students from Politecnico di Torino with Gruppo Iren ends with great satisfaction.
The challenge was multifaceted and concerned two crucial aspects of the energy landscape: electric mobility and renewable energy communities. The future penetration of electric vehicles equipped with two-way charging (V2G) technologies can provide flexibility to the grid and become a relevant component for “energy communities.” In this context, electric vehicles can be viewed as batteries on wheels, useful for maximizing self-consumption of locally generated energy, increasing energy flexibility by storing and releasing electricity as needed.
The operational objectives of the challenge were multiple and complex; the teams worked to formulate technologically feasible and profitable market solutions, identify technological limitations of the current market, simulate application scenarios, build a technology roadmap of future developments, define business models that can generate value for all key players, and finally, define effective remuneration methods for electric vehicle owners within the EC.
The teams demonstrated remarkable creativity, developing innovative solutions with great commitment. Indeed, critical factors were addressed, from the stochasticity of available electric vehicles to the specific mobility needs of users requiring innovative charging stations.
The Students Challenges are an opportunity for companies to develop innovative solutions together with students to meet challenges.
The goal of the Challenges is twofold, both to give students the opportunity to interact with the business community, public institutions, associations, and third sector entities in NODES project areas through the “learning by doing” method, and to give companies and other stakeholders the opportunity to meet young talents and discover innovative solutions applicable in their realities.
Spoke 1 awaits new challenges, any company in the sectors (aerospace or sustainable mobility) can submit its problem and apply by visiting the
Dedicated page
Ecosystem players meet to find interesting new ways forward together, identifying the skills, synergies and needs of players in the Aerospace and Sustainable Mobility supply chains.
The event "Projects and Progress. Academy and Industry dialogue" on June 19 was a great success in terms of participation and discussion among Spoke 1 actors, representatives from innovative companies and applied research presented projects funded through NODES, and then looked together for new developments and applications, comparing possibilities for cooperation and complementary skills.
A new opportunity to build a challenge with Spoke 1, Aerospace and Sustainable Mobility.
An occasion for companies to develop innovative solutions together with students to solve industry problem with the "Students Challenges."
The goal of the Challenges is twofold, both to give students the opportunity to interact with the business world, public institutions, associations and third sector entities in the NODES project areas through the "learning by doing" method, and to give companies and other stakeholders the opportunity to meet young talents and discover innovative solutions applicable in their realities.
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