CE.Si.S.P. is an interuniversity Centre for the Development of Product Sustainability, coming from the interaction among different specialised abilities, Academic Seats and Advanced Research Centres. The constituent universities are: University of Genoa (Administrative seat), Polytechnic of Turin, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa.
CE.Si.S.P. research centre is deeply interdisciplinary and consists of academic professors, academic research fellows, PhD engineers and experts.

CE.Si.S.P. activities started in 2006 in the field of Sustainable Development, Process and Material Engineering, Economics and Political Science, Carbon Strategy and Management.

The Department of Chemical and Process Engineering "G.B. Bonino" DICheP (University of Genoa, Italy) develops its research activities both on traditional and newest topics of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnologies and Environmental Engineering. The research is funded by national and international agencies, including the MIUR (Ministry of Instruction, University and Research), the European Commission, national and overseas governments, and industry. DICheP supports several PhD and Degree courses in Engineering Faculty, Mathematic, Physic and Chemical Science Faculty and Medicine and Surgery Faculty. Many of the staff represent Italy on national and international specialist committees, such as European Federation of Chemical Engineers working parties.	The Department of Polytechnic of Turin among the contitutent ones was the Materials Science and Chemical Engineering - DISMIC	The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy) is a public university specialised in the applied sciences: Economic Science, Jurisprudence and Political Science in the Social sciences Department; agrarian Sciences, Medicine, and Industrial and Computer engineering in the Experimental Sciences Department. IN-SAT is a research laboratory of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. It includes professors and researchers in economics, management, engineering and political science. The mission of the IN-SAT Lab is to study and suggest new approaches to innovation and management in private firms, public administrations andregions, with particular attention to sustainability.

CE.Si.S.P. starts from the need of creating an EXCELLENCE POLE for an innovative research on product sustainably.

INSPIRING PRINCIPLES

• Promotion of interaction among different specialised abilities, Academic Seats, Advanced Research Centres.
• Operation through building and sharing multi-disciplinary knowledge.
• Promotion of scientific, technological and didactic activities for environmentally sustainable production and consumption.
• Creation of a qualified interlocutor for the development of international projects supporting a scientific and technological really innovative research.
  

OBJECTIVES OF THE CENTRE

Exclusive tasks of the centre are RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION in the product sustainability sector; particularly, the centre proposes the following aims:

• Promoting and coordinating methodological and applied research activities in the fields of Environmental Product Declarations (EPD, ISO 14025), LCA and ECO-Design, Integrated Product Policies, Sustainability Innovation and Marketing, Carbon Management and Trading.
• Supporting information and knowledge trade between researchers, also with collaboration with others Institutes and University Departments, with national and international research bodies.
• Promoting potential external diffusion of the acknowledgment of the centre with scientific spreading actions, meetings, workshops, symposiums, schools and collaborations in research and development activities.
• Carrying out scientific support and research activities towards Public bodies and/or Private structures for sector development.
• Promoting diffusion and strengthening in Italy of the International EPD® System, provisionally acting as ACB (Auxiliary Competent Body) with scientific support role.
  
  

MAIN RESEARCH SECTORS:

 

Public Bodies :	Private Structures :
LCA analysis supporting Integrated Product Policies. Development of criteria for ecologic labels. Development of criteria for Green Public Procurement. Sector studies about product innovation. Projects about CO2 emission reductions for carbon credits management.	LCA Analysis. Eco-design projects and product innovation. Innovative materials studies. BAT (Best Available Technology) studies. Development of Environmental Product Declarations. Development of product communication systems. Strategic analysis on markets and sustainability. Carbon management and trading.

 

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