On September 2015, Dr Gianfelice Rocca and MIT President Rafael Reif extended the Progetto Rocca until 2020. With this renewal, the Fondazione Fratelli Agostino ed Enrico Rocca
will have contributed $3.9 million over 15 years in support of the MIT-POLIMI partnership. The foundation honors the memory of MIT alumnus Roberto Rocca.
According to President Reif, “MIT’s partnership with POLIMI has yielded wonderful opportunities for our faculty, postdocs, and students to collaborate with their counterparts in Italy in addressing common challenges in engineering and science. We remain grateful for the Fondazione’s continued commitment to creating such meaningful pathways for collaboration in problem-solving.”
Gianfelice Rocca, the son of Roberto Rocca, and one of Italy’s leading industrialists, paid special tribute to MIT for establishing this program: “The Fondazione has been delighted to see such a robust and productive partnership develop between MIT and the Politecnico over the last decade, and looks forward to confirming its support to this initiative in the name of Roberto Rocca.”
