Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action
MUSA – Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action is an Innovation Ecosystem funded by the Ministry of University and Research under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
The project involves collaboration between the University of Milan-Bicocca, the proposing institution, the Polytechnic University of Milan, Bocconi University, Milan University and numerous public and private partners.
MUSA was established in Milan as a response to the challenges that the metropolitan city faces in the transition to the three domains of sustainability: environmental, economic and social. And with an ambition: to usher in a new model of public/private collaboration that can be replicated nationally and internationally.
MUSA identifies the Lombardy region as an ideal laboratory for testing integrated innovations and planning interdisciplinary responses that act on several city management fronts: the environmental front, in which urban development must respect and strengthen biodiversity and foster optimal solutions for energy and sustainable mobility, the technological front, with the untapped potential of digitalisation and deep tech, and the economic and financial front, in which education and sustainable finance are playing increasingly central roles.
The POLARIS Interdepartmental Research Centre is involved in the Spoke 1 of the project, dedicated to safeguarding and enhancing the potential of the natural environment within the city, from biodiversity to renewable energy sources, from monitoring to involving citizens in sustainable mobility.
Spoke Leader: Massimo Labra
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