NRRP intervention area: Mission 4 – Education and Research
Component: 2 - From research to business
Investment: 1.4 – Strengthening research structures and creating “R&D national champions” on some Key Enabling Technologies
Duration: the project will end on 31/08/2025
Total project funding: €319,922,088.03
Proposer: Politecnico di Milano
Towards inclusive, digital and sustainable mobility
MOST is the National Centre for Sustainable Mobility funded under the PNRR. It represents a collaboration between 25 universities and research centres, and 24 major companies in the mobility and infrastructure sectors. The centre aims to lead the green and digital transition of the industry sustainably, ensuring industrial progress while helping local institutions implement modern, sustainable, and inclusive solutions.
The mobility sector faces the challenge of significantly reducing emissions and energy consumption to minimise its global environmental impact. In Italy, the sector is projected to reach a value of 220 billion euros by 2030, employing 12% of the workforce.
Project structure and participation
Foundation Composition
Universities and research institutes
- Politecnico di Milano
- Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
- Politecnico di Bari
- Politecnico di Torino
- Università di Roma La Sapienza
- Università del Salento
- Università degli Studi di Bergamo
- Università degli Studi di Brescia
- Università degli Studi di Cagliari
- Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale
- Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Università degli Studi di Genova
- Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
- Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca
- Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
- Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
- Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"
- Università degli Studi di Parma
- Università degli Studi di Padova
- Università degli Studi di Palermo
- Università degli Studi di Salerno
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Università di Pisa
- Università Politecnica delle Marche
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR - National Research Council)
Private actors
- Almaviva S.p.A.
- A2A S.p.A.
- Accenture S.p.A.
- Angel Holding S.r.l.
- Atos Italia S.p.A.
- Autostrade per l’Italia S.p.A.
- Brembo S.p.A.
- C.R.F. S.C.p.A.
- ENI S.p.A.
- Ferrari S.p.A.
- Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A.
- Fincantieri S.p.A.
- FNM S.p.A.
- GE Avio Aero s.r.l.
- Hitachi Rail STS S.p.A.
- Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.
- Iveco Group N.V.
- Leonardo S.p.A.
- Pirelli Tire S.p.A.
- Poste Italiane S.p.A.
- SNAM S.p.A.
- Teoresi S.p.A.
- Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A.
- UnipolSai Assicurazioni S.p.A.
Areas of action
- Spoke 1 – Air mobility (leader: Politecnico di Torino)
- Spoke 2 - Sustainable vehicles on the road (leader: Politecnico di Torino)
- Spoke 3 – Maritime transport (leader: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR (National Research Council)
- Spoke 4 – Rail transport (leader: Politecnico di Milano)
- Spoke 5 - Light vehicles and active mobility (leader: Università degli Studi di Bergamo)
- Spoke 6 - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles CAV (leader: Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
- Spoke 7 – CCAM: Cooperative, connected and automated mobility and smart infrastructure (leader: Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope")
- Spoke 8 – Mobility as a Service and innovative services (leader: Politecnico di Bari)
- Spoke 9 – Urban mobility (leader: Università di Roma La Sapienza)
- Spoke 10 - Logistics and freight transport (leader: Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II")
- Spoke 11 - Innovative materials and lightening (leader: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)
- Spoke 12 – Innovative engines (leader: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR (National Research Council)
- Spoke 13 - Electric traction system and batteries (leader: Politecnico di Milano)
- Spoke 14 - Hydrogen and new fuels (leader: Politecnico di Bari)
The University of Bologna participates in Spoke 1, 2, 6, 7, 11 and 13. It is the coordinator for Spoke 11.
Project team
University of Bologna Team
Scientific Coordinator
Prof. Nicolò Cavina
Teaching and research staff
- Alessandro Ascari
- Sara Bagassi
- Armando Bazzani
- Gabriele Bellani
- Tiziana Benelli
- Gian Marco Bianchi
- Luciano Bononi
- Tommaso Maria Brugo
- Andrea Cavallini
- Lorella Ceschini
- Luca Ciacci
- Vincenzo Cirimele
- Leonardo Corbo
- Enrico Corti
- Alessandra Costanzo
- Simone D'Agostino
- Massimiliano De Agostinis
- Francesca De Crescenzio
- Emanuele Luigi "De Angelis"
- Paola Fabbri
- Maria Letizia Focarete
- Leonardo Frizziero
- Stefano Gandolfi
- Loris Giorgini
- Fabrizio Giulietti
- Gabriele Grandi
- Claudio Lantieri
- Alfredo Liverani
- Carla Martini
- Alessandro Marzani
- Stefano Mattoccia
- Laura Mazzocchetti
- Nicola Mimmo
- Giangiacomo Minak
- Alessandro Morri
- Mirco Musolesi
- Gabriele Neretti
- Ivano Notarnicola
- Giuseppe Notarstefano
- Giacomo Paolini
- Giovanni Pau
- Fabrizio Ponti
- Maria Nadia Postorino
- Susanna Reggiani
- Mattia Ricco
- Maria Clelia Righi
- Alessandro Rivola
- Claudio Rossi
Staff hired with project funds
Researchers
- Antonio Bacciaglia
- Maria Pia Falaschetti
- Yasser Gritli
- Francesco Lo Franco
- Emanuele Maccaferri
- Valerio Mariani
- Roberto Meattini
- Mattia Mele
- Andrea Melis
- Davide Morselli
- Margherita Pazzini
- Said Quqa
- Antunes Staffolani
- Lavinia Tonelli
PhD students
- Elisa Augello
- Marco Bruno
- Matteo Cappuccio
- Riccardo Ceriani
- Filippo Dalla
- Elisa Damiani
- Lorenzo Di Meco
- Hadi Eidinejad
- Luigi Gamberini
- Chiara Gianassi
- Araujo Millene Gomes
- Saba Hafeez
- Ozlem Kaya
- Mattia Magnani
- Enrico Mannocci
- Curzio Pagliari
Departments involved
- Department of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician" - CHIM
- Department of Industrial Chemistry "Toso Montanari" - CHIMIND
- Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" - DEI
- Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering – DICAM
- Department of Physics and Astronomy "Augusto Righi" – DIFA
- Department of Industrial Engineering - DIN
- Department of Management — DISA
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering – DISI
The activities carried out by the university research teams in this project concern:
- study, through virtual reality technologies, of the efficiency of hydrogen-powered vehicles, with respect to both their energy consumption and their safety and ergonomics
- advanced research to design, analyse and test sophisticated algorithms for autonomous driving, through the analysis of simulators and of the hardware requirements of test platforms for autonomous vehicles in land, air and sea environments
- design of materials for the structural lightening of vehicles, with the aim of reducing fuel consumption and emissions in the transport sector, through innovative light alloys (aluminium, titanium, magnesium and composites), ferrous alloys (steels and cast irons), polymer-based materials and polymer matrix composites
- study to promote the industrial development of new recycling chains for innovative materials
What activities are in progress?
- The research teams dedicated to the MOST national centre are conducting work on:
- developing the prototype of a vehicle combining an electric motor with solar panels and a battery, which also includes a hydrogen engine
- studying the interaction between drivers, vehicles and roads and analysing how to make our road networks and infrastructures more connected, smart and safe through the contribution of technology
- developing road safety models, capable of:
- calculating the probability of accidents
- monitoring road conditions, predicting and compensating for temperature-related changes
- detecting problems through the use of artificial intelligence
Find out more on the project website
- calculating the probability of accidents
- monitoring road conditions, predicting and compensating for temperature-related changes
- detecting problems through the use of artificial intelligence