Founded by Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino, the ASP may be attended only by talents who enrol in one of their programmes of laurea specialistica (hereafter indicated as LS (MSc) ) in Engineering, Architecture or Design. The ASP, through a highly selective process, gives up to 150 promising students the opportunity to participate in an additional advanced programme that runs in parallel to the LS programmes.

ASP students complement the knowledge achieved in their specific LS with a multifaceted and enriched understanding of innovation processes and contexts. They develop an interdisciplinary attitude to conceive, plan, implement and promote complex innovation projects that produce sustainable progress in economy, society and culture.

There are 2 separate calls, each targeted to a specific group of students and with different deadlines:

1) a call reserved to foreign citizens (EU and extra EU), who have not graduated in Italy, deadline May 31st, 2008, up to 38 places;

2) a general call, open to all students (at least 112 places available), to be issued on May 15th, 2008 with deadline September 15th, 2008.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
To be eligible for this selection, applicants have to:

• be a citizen of a country other than Italy (citizens with double nationality are considered foreign citizens and therefore eligible for this call)
• hold a first level academic degree (i.e. Bachelor) or an equivalent academic qualification that grants access to the LS programmes of the Politecnico di Milano or of the Politecnico di Torino (see http://www.polimi.it/english and http://international.polito.it/en/ for details), earned before October 31st, 2008;
• be ranked in the top 10% of their class;
• have a sufficient knowledge of the English language. For non-native English speakers, this must be certified as defined in the "Application package" section;
• provide clear and sufficient motivations and attitude to participate in the ASP educational programme.

Number of Places

For the Academic Year 2008-2009, the ASP will enrol up to 150 students, up to 90 at Politecnico di Milano and up to 60 at Politecnico di Torino. Up to 38 places of the aforementioned are reserved to talented foreign students (EU and extra-EU citizens), up to 23 at Politecnico di Milano and up to 15 at Politecnico di Torino. This specific call concerns these 38 places reserved to foreign students.

Admission Fees

Because of the funding made available by the Italian Ministry of University and by private sponsors, all students admitted in the Academic Year 2008-2009 will benefit from fee waiver for the two years of the ASP study programme, with the exception of the regional tax and administrative fees.