Mission &Vision

The Space Sustainability Center (SSC) of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, established in 2021, deals with research and studies concerning issues of space sustainability.

Professors and researchers from all macro-areas of the University who cope with topics of interest in the Space field have joined the Center for Space Sustainability.

The goals of this center are to carry on activities in research, seminars, post-graduate training and interdisciplinary technical-scientific collaboration in the fields of Engineering, Medicine, Law, Economics, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, and Physics as well as Human Sciences.

Furthermore, the Space Sustainability Center of “Tor Vergata” fosters the dissemination of multidisciplinary knowledge of the various issues related to sustainability in the Space field through scientific cooperation with national and international bodies and institutions (i.e. NASA, ESA, ASI, UAESA, JAXA) Research Centers, Universities, public and private, industries and companies.

We are strongly committed to promoting sustainable development. We firmly believe in a more sustainable world and we are constantly engaged in the promotion of a new concept of space sustainability capable of meeting the needs of all stakeholders, present and future.

We want to make a difference in the world, planning our activities, events and conferences with the future in mind through a comprehensive and creative way of thinking focused on innovation, research and communication with a multidisciplinary approach.

The head of the center is professor Loredana Santo, who is also the head of the Department of Industrial Engineering, administrative headquarters of SSC.

The vice-head is professor Federica Sangiuolo.