Strategic Plan
With its Strategic Plan 2025-2030, the University of Milan looks to the future, presenting internal and external stakeholders with a policy and operational tool that will guide its transformation into a multi-campus university in the next six years. The document reiterates the University's commitment to remaining a multi-disciplinary and public institution, serving the social, scientific and economic progress of Italy and Europe.
The Strategic Plan 2025-2030 adopts an innovative methodological approach: it abandons the traditional compartmentalisation between the three "missions" entrusted to universities, and the differentiation between disciplinary areas, to set cross-cutting goals and principles directly linked to implementing measures.
The document envisages four systemic goals — 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. The result is a real transformation roadmap for the present and future of our institution, in close continuity with the three-year planning document (PRO3) submitted to the Ministry of University and Research, and aligned with our Quality Assurance system, processes and tools.
The Strategic Plan is strongly interconnected to other planning documents, and its implementation is systematically monitored.
A Departmental Three-Year Plan is a strategic planning document produced by each Department in alignment with the University Strategic Plan.
Over the course of 2025, the 31 Departments of the University of Milan wrote their three-year plans for the period 2025-2027, their fourth planning cycle. Each Departmental Three-Year Plan shares seven strategic goals with the University Strategic Plan, which are monitored on the basis of indicators described in the University Strategic Plan itself. Moreover, each Department establishes additional goals, which must in any case be aligned with the University Strategic Plan.
The Strategic Plan 2025-2030 is the result of a participatory process involving the Rector, Deputy Rector and Vice-Rectors, the governing bodies, as well as all Divisions and Centres of the University. This process did not end after the Plan was issued, but continues in the form of periodic feedback initiatives geared towards internal and external stakeholders, to reflect together on what has already been achieved.
These initiatives include the yearly event Noi Statale (We, the University of Milan), which provides an overview of the University's most significant milestones and future challenges, as well as La Statale in ascolto, a series of focus sessions where the governance meets with representatives from different Departments and Divisions to discuss achievements, problems and proposals. The University also liaises regularly with stakeholders from the business sector in the framework of the University Council.
