Strategic Plan
With its Strategic Plan 2025-2030, the University of Milan looks to the future, providing the academic community with a policy tool that aims to drive its transformation into a multi-campus university. At the same time, the document reiterates the University's commitment to remain a multi-disciplinary and public institution, serving the social, scientific and economic progress of Italy and Europe.
Drafted jointly by the governing bodies and the administrative divisions of the University, the Strategic Plan 2025-2030 addresses the complex challenges ahead with an innovative methodological approach. Abandoning the traditional compartmentalisation between the three "missions" entrusted to universities, as well as the differentiation between disciplinary areas, the document sets more cross-cutting goals and principles, along with the respective implementing measures.
More specifically, the Plan describes four systemic goals, i.e. technology, innovation, digitalisation and simplification, and four principles for a joint strategy: strengthening our positioning as a public, multi-disciplinary and multi-campus university; promoting the development of individuals in an evolving society; increasing innovation and social responsibility in all fields of research and knowledge; ensuring sustainability and the right to higher education, accessibility and inclusion. These goals and principles outline a path that is surely demanding, but also ambitious enough to be a true driver of change, capable of impacting on the near and long-term future of the University of Milan.
The intervention areas described in the Strategic Plan include environmental and digital transition, application of artificial intelligence in the daily life of students and staff, open science, cultural heritage valorisation, and the promotion of sustainability, accessibility and inclusion. The common denominator remains a strong focus on the people, intended both as individuals as well as part of a community which has needs, but also brings along talent, commitment and professionalism. This notion is reflected in the epigraph chosen by Rector Marina Brambilla to open the Strategic Plan, a quote from German Enlightenment philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: "The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the truth" (Über die Wahrheit).