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“Prepararsi al futuro”, a new meeting with Piero Angela

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29 October 2018 / in News / by

Prepararsi al futuro, the speaking tour conceived by Piero Angela from the awareness of the central role that the science is acquiring today, both in the global and the daily context, will take place once again next Thursday with a new event on the scientific method.

The events of “Prepararsi al futuro”, scheduled from 11th October 2018 to 26th February 2019, in collaboration with Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione per la Scuola, Politecnico di Torino and Ufficio Scolastico Regionale, propose to students an accurate analysis of the present, together with visions and predictions of the future. Through science and research of scientists, sociologist, demographers, doctors and entrepreneurs, the protagonists of the present will try to tell the future.

In the event of Thursday 11th October at 11.30 am, “IL METODO DELLA SCIENZA – Sapere quello che si sa e non sapere quello che non si sa” (THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD – knowing what we know and not knowing what we don’t know”) will take part:

Piero Angela, journalist and writer

Francesco Profumo, President of the Compagnia di San Paolo

Guido Saracco, Rector of the Politecnico di Torino

Fabrizio Manca, General Director of the Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per il Piemonte

Ludovico Albert, President of the Fondazione per la Scuola

Juan Carlos De Martin, rector delegate for culture and communication of the Politecnico di Torino

Piero Bianucci, journalist

Sala Giunta del Rettorato del Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24

Late enrolment in the academic year 2018-2019

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29 October 2018 / in News / by
Immatricolazioni tardive

Did you know that it is possible to enroll late? From today, 8th October, till next 12th November , the University of Turin allows new enrolments, paying a surcharge for late payment.

Together with enrolment, you will have to sign up for the TARM too. You can sign up until 15th October 2018 for bachelor’s degree and master’s degree courses in Italian concerning the Scuola di Management ed Economia (School of Management and Economics), the Scuola di Scienze Umanistiche (School of Human sciences)  and the Scuola di Scienze Giuridiche, Politiche ed Economico-Sociali (School of law and political, economic and social sciences).

As regards the courses in English, you can sign up for the TARM till 12th October (by 12.30 am). The test will take place on 23rd October 2018 in the Aula Magna of the Campus Luigi Einaudi (Lungo Dora Siena, 100a – Torino).

For further details visit the page of Unito.

The blessing of the university transcripts and students recurs again

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24 October 2018 / in Events / by
benedizione

The Mass for the beginning of the academic year recurs again, with the blessing of students and university transcripts during the week of the School and University.

Pensare con Lode, university pastoral, promotes the special event to start the academic year and receive the blessing of the Lord.

 

The event will take place on Sunday 21st October at 6.30 pm at the parish church of S. Teresa di Gesù Bambino, in corso Mediterraneo 100 in Turin.

 

Here the poster

Collegno, a new university in the Certosa Reale

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24 October 2018 / in News / by
collegno


Collegno too will have its university: it’s Primary Education Sciences, that the Università degli studi di Torino opened yesterday, 15th October 2018, in the Certosa di Collegno.  250 first-year students will start their academic courses within the walls of the Certosa, with the expectation to double the number of students in 2019 and increase it even more in 2020.

The university will occupy an area of about 2230 square metres. On the ground floor there will be main accesses, 4 classroom for 35 students, one classroom for 200 students, an office, a reception, a control room and a room with electrical panels. On the upper floor there will be offices and rooms for welcoming.

“University means young people and more presence in life. The future of the metropolitan area is growing here and this is a good sign, which strengthens the attractiveness” said Sergio Chiamparino, who took part in the inauguration together with the mayor Francesco Casciano, the rector Gianmaria Ajani and the general director of the Asl To 3 Flavio Boraso, the landlord.

The event sanctioned the return of the University in Collegno, and, at the same time, the reutilisation of an extraordinary place: the Certosa. The complex, situated inside the Parco Generale della Chiesa di Collegno, is not only the hospital of the Smemorato di Collegno by Totò, but it is also a great example of Carthusian monastery, wanted by Christine of France and part of the spectacular project of the Theatrum Sabaudiae.

 

AL Lavoro, the career day of AlmaLaurea

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24 October 2018 / in Events / by
AL Lavoro

AlmaLaurea is ready for the return of AL Lavoro, the career day which will take place on 8th November 2018 in Turin, at the Palazzo dello sport of the Parco Ruffini (Viale Bistolfi, 19), from 9.30 am to 5 pm. The event of 8th November will be a meeting between students, graduands or graduates, and representatives of big leader firms of the sector, in order to get to know employment.

AlmaLaurea, university consortium created in 1994, in which today participate 75 universities, represents 91% of Italian graduates. It has always monitored in a constant way courses and performances of students from the employment point of view. It brings demand and supply nearer by making available the curricula of new graduates and evaluating requirements and professional profiles which public and private, national and international firms want.

Enrolment AL Lavoro

How to participate? To participate you just have to follow 3 simple steps:

    1. keep the AlmaLaurea CV up to date and Sign up in the event in order to let firms see your profile.
    2. select the firms you would like to meet and find out the scheduled workshops
    3. come to AL Lavoro on 8th November

 

Companies which will be present

Accenture, Akronos Technologies, Alten Italia, Blue Reply, Capgemini, Carrefour, CNH Industrial Italy, Cooper Standard Automotive, Decathlon, Deloitte, Exxonmobil, Findomestic Banca, Flex, Iriscube Reply, Italdesign, ITT Motion Technologies, Keyence Italia, Lavazza, Leonardo, Lidl Italia, Luxottica, Magneti Marelli, Mars Italia, PQE Group, Santander Consumer Bank, SKF Industrie, Techedge, Unilever,  Unipol Gruppo, Würth Phoenix. In addition will be present the educational institutions: 24Ore Business School, Uninform Group.

If you need information or assistance read the F.A.Q.
or write to supporto.laureati@almalaurea.it

Start@Unito: exceptional exam for online students

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24 October 2018 / in News / by
Start@Unito
If you have followed one of the online courses of the project and you have just enrolled in UniTo, you can sign up for the exceptional exam Star@Unito.

Starting from 15th October 2018, it is in fact possible to take the exam of online courses, made available by the project Start@Unito.

The exam must be taken in person in the University, after enrolment and after

  1. having finished all courses and passed the final exam;
  2. having filled out the career plan on MyUnito;
  3. having  signed up for the exam on MyUnito.

During the exam, you must bring ID card and the certificate of attendance, obtained at the end of the online course.

But let’s take a step back… Do you know the Start@Unito project?
Whatever may be the degree course you are interested in, UniTo makes available free online teaching, that you can follow even if you are not a university student yet. You can study at you rhythm, practice with self-assessment tests and take the exam as soon as you have enrolled.
Signing up is simple: you just have to visit the platform Start@UniTO and choose the courses you like. You log in with a click, also by using access details of social networks and you can immediately start your new courses.
Start@UniTO  allows you to start university on the right foot: not only does it help you in choosing the right courses for you, but it also allows you to obtain, from the very beginning of your university career, an exam already passed!

 

This initiative starts as part of the strategies for the improving in quality and efficiency of didactics, in order to promote and make the transition between high school and university easier, throughout the realization and spreading of a series of teaching, entirely online, to get closer to the university system. This allowed students attending the last year of high school (school year 2017-2018) to check their university choice.

Besides evident relapses in terms of orientation, this projects wants to be a tool for facilitation, motivation and support at the beginning of university, considering relapses as a positive sign to reduce the rate of retreat and dispersal.

The project led to the realization of 20 open online courses (usable by all users, who have personal access details in order to grant a simple monitoring of accesses), on wide and general topics, which are preparatory for the university courses of the first year.

At the end of the courses, students will be given a certificate stating the acquired knowledge, that will be necessary to students enrolled in UniTO in the academic year 2018-2019 (bachelor’s or master’s degree) to immediately take the exam. In this way students can get their learning credits in advance compared to the standard degree course.

In addition, the fact that the teaching is open and accessible by everyone will make the project more open to the audience, meaning also people who are not future UniTO students, in accordance with the purposes of “terza missione” and “public engagement” of the university.

Here the list of courses, divided in departments

 

Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società (department of Culture, Politics and Society)

  • Lessico delle scienze politiche, sociali e internazionali (lexis of political, social and international sciences)

 

Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell’Educazione (department of Philosophy and Educational sciences)

  • Cos’è la filosofia (what is philosophy)
  • Elementi di sociologia e ricerca sociale (elements of sociology and social research)

Dipartimento di Fisica (department of Physics)

  • Fisica (physics)

Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza (department of Law)

  • Diritto alla salute (right to health)
  • Europa: istituzioni e diritti (Europe: institutions and rights)
  • Legge e giustizia (law and justice)

Dipartimento di Informatica (department of IT)

  • Informatica e pensiero computazionale per le scienze della natura (IT and computational thinking for natural sciences)
  • Informatica e pensiero computazionale per le scienze umane (IT and computational thinking for human sciences)

Dipartimento Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne (department of Foreign languages, literatures and cultures)

  • Antropologia culturale (modern anthropology)
  • Didattica delle lingue moderne (didactics of modern languages)

Dipartimento di Management (department of Management)

  • Economia e azienda (economics and business)

Dipartimento di Matematica “Giuseppe Peano” (department of Mathematics)

  • Elementi di logica matematica (elements of mathematical logic)
  • Elementi di matematica e storia delle scienze (elements of mathematics and history of sciences)
  • Matematica in e-learning (mathematics in e-learning)

Dipartimento di Psicologia (department of Psychology)

  • Storia della Psicologia (history of psychology)

Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnologia del Farmaco (department of Drug Sciences and Technology)

  • Come nasce e come funziona un farmaco? (how is a drug created and how does it work?

Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi (department of Sciences of Life and Systems Biology)

  • Zoologia generale (general zoology)

Dipartimento di Studi Storici (department of Historical Sciences)

  • Storia contemporanea (contemporary history)

Dipartimento Studi Umanistici (department of Human Studies)

  • Media e comunicazione (media and communication)

Visit the platform Start@UniTO

Sustainable agriculture, superfoods… 5 online open courses on food by UniTo

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24 October 2018 / in News / by
Progetto EIT Food: 5 MOOC di UniTO sul cibo
EIT FOOD project: 5 MOOCs on food by UniTo

On Monday 22nd October the first two of the five thematic online courses on food will start. MOOCs –Massive Online Open Courses are free courses for distance learning for a large amount of people and they have been developed by the University of Turin in collaboration with the University of Reading (UK), the University of Helnsinki (FI), the University of Hohenheim (DE), the Queen’s University Belfast (UK) and the University of Warsaw (PL).

 

All MOOCs will be soon available for free on the online platform Future Learn, where you can already submit and book your participation. First courses will start on Monday 22nd October 2018. Join now to receive assistance from the tutors.
 

The 5 MOOCs are the result of the UniTo participation in the EIT FOOD project. In fact, the University of Turin is the only Italian academic partner of the EIT Knowledge & Innovation Communities “EIT FOOD”, one of the major initiative on international level, focused on agricultural and food innovation. EIT FOOD connects corporate and academic partners, research institutes and centres of 13 European countries throughout the entire food chain. EIT FOOD activities include the support to projects of innovation, education, communication and creation of innovative enterprises.

 

Topics of the MOOCs

In the course called “Trust in the Food we eat”, will be examined the challenges and responsibilities of different people in the food system; in particular the role of the consumer in influencing the system to produce food we trust. Available information for consumers will be evaluated and there will be a debate on innovative methods to improve the trust of consumers in food products. How much do you trust your food? Find out the systems of food supply, security, sustainability, nutrition and quality.

The course will start on Monday 22nd October 2018. Join now to receive assistance from the tutors.

Link al corso su Future Learn

The course  “Understanding Different Diets: Mediterranean, Baltic sea, and Okinawa” will help participants to know the health benefits of the Mediterrean, the Baltic sea and the Okinawa diets, based on updated scientific basis. At the end of the course, participants will be able to know features and benefits of these three diets; identify food properties; develop a comprehension of healthy food consumption and learn how to prepare healthy recipes.

Link diretto al corso su Future Learn

The MOOC “Food for thought – the interaction between food and brain”, will examine the interaction between intestine and brain. In fact, organs which are apparently unrelated, are actually interconnected. Through biology, psychology and neurosciences, the correlation between brain, thoughts, emotions and food will be examined.

Link diretto al corso su Future Learn

The course  “Fork2Farm: Sustainable agriculture in a changing environment” will focus on threats to global food security and will consider the main challenges that have to be faced in order to maintain healthy and sustainable food supply for the well-being of consumers in both developing and developed countries. In fact, global chains of food supply are encountering always more significant problems, which affect security and sustainability of the food industry and reduce faith of consumers.

The course “Superfoods: myths and truths” will bring to the discovery of superfoods, such as Goji berries, amaranth and quinoa. Through biology, cognitive sciences and nutrition, positive and negative aspects of this kind of food will be highlighted, with particular attention to super features of traditional food.

For all information about MOOCs, you can contact the Ateneo Unito EIT Food Staff – Direzione Ricerca e Terza Missione, writing an email to eitfood@unito.it.

 

La critica? Facciamoci un pensiero (Criticism? Let’s think about it)

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11 October 2018 / in News / by
Critica, Hangar Lab

Saturday 6th October directors of regional multidisciplinary circuits of live performances, experts of criticism and journalists, students and teachers, operators and artists will meet.

Saturday 6th October directors of regional multidisciplinary circuits of live performances, experts of criticism and journalists, students and teachers, operators and artists will meet for the event “LA CRITICA? FACCIAMOCI UN PENSIERO” (Criticism? Let’s think about it)

The aim is to discuss about closing the gap between the cultural activities of the area (and the ones who write about it) and behaviors and perspectives of young people, students or not, in the perspective of employment and production in this framework.

The event has been carried out and promoted by the Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and  Hangar Piemonte as part of Hangar Lab- Le professioni della cultura, in collaboration with ANCT – Associazione Nazionale dei Critici di Teatro and the bachelor degree in DAMS of the Università degli Studi di Torino.

The event will be from 9.30 to 12.30 am at the Auditorium Quazza, Palazzo Nuovo, in via Sant’Ottavio 20, Torino.​

 

Program of the event

Saturday 6th October, 9.30 – 12.30 am Auditorium Quazza, Palazzo Nuovo –  via Sant’Ottavio 20, Torino

9.30 am accreditation of participants

10.00 am institutional greetings

Matteo Negrin, director Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo
Armando Petrini, DAMS Torino
Valeria Dinamo, project manager Hangar Piemonte

Speeches of:

Valeria Ciabattoni, director of  CEDAC – Circuito multidisciplinare della regione Sardegna
Giulio Baffi, president of  ANCT – Associazione Nazionale Critici Teatrali
Armando Petrini, DAMS Torino
Enrico Pastore,  freelance critic
Pasquale Vita, Coordinator of  Circuito Regionale Multidisciplinare –  ATER Associazione Teatrale Emilia Romagna

Chairman Davide Lorenzo Palla, actor and artistic director of Tournée da bar

A debate will follow

Interviews by Maura Sesia, journalist and collaborator of Repubblica

Free entry till there are places available

Info: progetti@piemontedalvivo.it

 

 

RiStory, the short story festival

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11 October 2018 / in Events / by
RiStory

Turin is to be discovered, not only in its urban fabric, but also in the metropolitan one. In the cities which surround Turin the culture is moving and leads to unique events.  One of these is RiStory, a festival entirely centered on short stories, which will take place in Rivalta di Torino. RiStory lasts three days (from 5th to 7th October 2018) and wants to rediscover a literary genre, the one of short stories, which is often obscured by the large and popular fame of the novel.

The rooms of the library and the Castello di Rivalta, ancient castle on the Trebbia valley, will house this first festival, planned by the artistic director Alessandro Perissinotto, writer and university teacher in Turin.

With reading, meetings with school students and artistic contamination between music and narration, RiStory wants to become a place of national cultural debate, by restoring and conveying high values of literature, trough a genre that is popular and easy to reach.

The aim, said Nicoletta Cerrato, cultural councilor in Rivalta, is to create a permanent workshop on short stories, also thanks to the important partnerships with the Università degli Studi di Torino  and the Teatro Stabile. In fact, together with the festival, will also start Lab, a literary monthly hothouse, whose audience, guided by writers and scholars, will be able to think about the writing of short stories.

The first guest of RiStory will be the writers Dario Voltolini and Maurizio De Giovanni, together with the president of the Ordine dei Giornalisti, Alberto Sinigallia, and the musicians Massimo Bubola and Boosta. Everyone of them has a great interest in short stories.

 

Program

Friday 5th October – Castello degli Orsini di Rivalta, Biblioteca “Silvio Grimaldi”

5.30 pm: opening

6.30 pm : RiStory live, presentation and reading. Alberto Sinigaglia

9.30 pm: Gothic Night. Theatre reading of gothic stories inside the castle and the Ricetto. Obligatory reservation at the number 011 9045585/57.

Saturday 6th October – Castello degli Orsini/(Ala Piazza Bionda) 

10.00 am: RiScoperte. (Castle). Great stories from the past. Reading-class on Italo Svevo!

3.30 pm: Kamishibai (castle). Animated reading for children. Obligatory reservation at the number 011 9045585/57.

9.30 pm: literary Dj-set with Boosta (Ala Piazza Bionda)

6.30 pm: RiFlettori. Maurizio De Giovanni, L’ultimo passo di tango, Rizzoli 2017 (Ala Piazza Bionda).

9.30 pm: literary Dj-set with Boosta (Ala Piazza Bionda)

Sunday 7th October Castello degli Orsini/(Ala Piazza Bionda) 

11.00 am RiStory Lab: presentation of the permanent workshop on short stories and of the Premio Banca del Piemonte (Castle).

4.30 pm: RiCordi. Stories of the Great War. Massimo Bubola, Ballata senza nome, Frassinelli 2017 (Ala Piazza Bionda).

Besides university : “Fantastic Teachers and Where to Find Them”

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11 October 2018 / in News / by
Frida, ricerca

What do university teachers of the Università di Torino do when they aren’t teaching?

The curiosity to find out the life of teachers after lessons in classrooms or laboratories, with research, passions and ideas led FRidA – il Forum della Ricerca di Ateneo to come up with a new radio format “Fantastic Teachers and Where to Find Them”, anchored by Giulia Alice Fornaro and Fabiano Catania, in collaboration with Radio 110.

For the first time the passions of teachers besides professorship.

Stories of new projects, successes, challenges and difficulties, personally told by researchers of the Università degli Studi di Torino.

Two guests for the first episode of the new format

The first episode, recorded live at the Salone del Gusto-Terra Madre last 24th September, had two guests. Two “fantastic teachers” decided to take part in the program. The first one was Daniela Fargione, teacher of Anglo-american Literature. Since she found out she is coeliac she has become an expert of “environmental humanism”, because also literature and art can help in becoming aware of environmental problems. The second guest was Stefano Bechis, researcher at the Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze del Territorio. He wanted to become a musician, but students protests against nuclear power led him to work with solar energy… in Africa!

To listen to their stories on FridA:

Episodio 1 – Sul filo della sostenibilità tra letteratura e cooperazione

Stay tuned… every Friday a new episode!

You can follow the anticipations of next episode (online on 5th October) on the social pages of FridA: Facebook and Instagram

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