Posts by Michele Covolan

Opening up to the public and to the area, so that everyone can be a part of the scientific and technological progress.

The University of Turin (Università di Torino) has launched this initiative a few years ago to answer the challenges of the profound changes of our time. Public engagement, that is mutually sharing knowledge, with all of the social actors (from the scientific community toi the school; from government institutions to the citizens; from cultural institutions to local companies; and media), is the key to giving value and increasing the impact of research on society.

With these features, in April 2015 the FRidA project started, through an analysis of public engagement activities of researchers and research facilities of the University. The project was officially presented on July 8, 2016.

FRidA, il Forum della Ricerca e del public engagement di Ateneo is the tool chosen by the University to open up to the area and engage the world of research with all other parts of society.

Sharing mutually means exchanging skills and experiences, spreading ideas and knowledge, languages and subjects.

A new method of communicating the development of science and technology, that goes beyond the simple criterium of sharing information, showing the university as a catalyst for processes of economic, social and cultural development.

Through the FRidA portal, academic research is seen as a continuous, dynamic and engaging process of formulating problems, hypotheses and experiments which are explained by the researchers themselves.

Today, the beta version of FRidA is available online, where you can explore UniTo’s Research section through different programs, skills, key topics, resources, events and reports by the researchers.

Info and contacts

UniTO representative: Prof. Sergio Scamuzzi, Vice-dean of Communication at the University of Turin

FRidA is managed by Centro Agorà Scienza – Via Po, 18 – 10123 Torino

+39 011 6702744

frida@unito.it

GUIDANCE CONFERENCE FOR DEGREE PROGRAMMES OF THE SCHOOL OF HUMAN SCIENCES

Department of Humanities

(Degree programmes: Modern Cultures and Literatures; DAMS (Music, Performing Arts, Cinema and New Media); Literature; Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa; Communication Studies).

Department of Historical Studies

(Degree programmes: Cultural Heritage; History).

Department of Philosophy and Education Science

(Degree programmes:  Philosophy; Education Science; Childhood and Primary Teacher Education)

When?

JULY 13, from 10 AM  to 1 PM

Where?

Aula Magna – Cavallerizza Reale
Via Verdi 9, Torino

*Reservation is not needed*

For further information, write to: orientamento.scienzeumanistiche@unito.it

To know about guidance initiatives and Open Days of other Schools and Departments of the University of Turin, read the  2017/2018 Catalogue of guidance activities for future first-year students (Catalogo 2017/18 delle attività di orientamento per le future matricole).

The two-year Master in Journalism “Giorgio Bocca” of the University of Turin has recently ended. The Master, among the 11 accredited Journalism schools in Italy, started in 2004 from the initiative of the Ordine dei Giornalisti (Italian Order of Journalists), and is the main reference for students in Piedmont, Aosta Valley and Liguria who want to become professional journalists.

The activities included in the Master, highly educational and professional, are held in collaboration with a professional Order. That’s why the Master replaces the two-year traineeship provided for by the law to take the State exam and obtain the professional qualification. There will be internships and collaborations with important daily newspapers, such as La Stampa and La Repubblica, as well.

The 20 students who were selected in the 2016 call have finished a program which trained them on the different types of journalism: data-journalism, immersive journalism, fact-checking and debunking. A programme oriented to multimedia and innovation, with social media managing and brand-journalism workshops. This video relates the programme that recently ended.

Now that a generation has done its course, the Master re-opens selections for 2018-2020.

On the Master’s website you can see the call(bando) and submit your application.

You can apply until July 23.

The Politecnico has opened the 2018/2019 call for student mobility (Summer Call) (Bando di concorso per mobilità degli studenti all’estero (Bando Estivo) a.a. 2018/2019 ) published with the Approval of the Executive Director n.858 of 21/06/2018 (Determina del Direttore Generale n.858 del 21/06/2018)

From: June 22, 2018 at 4 PM

To: September 12, 2018

The Call offers scholarships for the following opportunities:

• C (Courses), CFP (Courses and Final Project), DD (Double Degree), in partner universities with which there is a specific agreement;
• FP (Final Project) in universities, institutions, companies, research and training centres with a mobility agreement, or a proposal from the candidate;
• TR (Traineeship) in universities (partners or others), institutions, companies, training and research centres by proposal of the candidate, in European Union countries;
• PHD (Study during PhD) in partner universities or institutions found by the candidate (with which an agreement will be made);
• SPECIAL PROJECTS launched for the University and public or private institutions to support specific mobility initiatives. To have the opportunity of a study, traineeship and/or final project period abroad, the student must have the requirements precisely listed in the call.

List of Attachments of the Call 

Allegato A (Attachment  A) – Table of European destinations participating in the ERASMUS+/PROGRAMME COUNTRIES Programme

Allegato A – VERSIONE AGGIORNATA (Attachment A – UPDATED) The table of ERASMUS+/PROGRAMME COUNTRIES destinations has been updated . For Territorial, Environmental, Petroleum and Mining Engineering Courses, the columns “Orientation/Address/Notes” e “Course” have been modified for the following destinations:

• Universidad de Huelva
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid – Etsia
• Aalto University
• Miskolci Egyetem (University Of Miskolc)

Allegato B (Attachment B) – Table of extra-European destinations participating in the ERASMUS+/PARTNER COUNTRIES Programme

Allegato C (Attachment C) – Table of extra-European destinations NOT participating in the ERASMUS+ Programme

Allegato D (Attachment D) – Table of SPECIAL PROJECTS

Allegato E (Attachment E) – Academic rules for mobility

Allegato F (Attachment F) – Academic rules for mobility – Double Degree

Allegato G (Attachment G) – Summarizing table of different deadlines for all mobility initiatives

Modulo approvazione Final Project [Final Project approval form] (to be used only in the cases listed in the 3.6.1 paragraph of the Call)

Learning Agreement for studies (to be used only in the cases listed in the 3.6.2 paragraph of the Call)

Modulo richiesta crediti aggiuntivi per tirocinio [Additional credits for Traineeship request form] (to be used only in the cases listed in the 4th chapter of the Call)

Free Microsoft Office for students and professors in

The University of Turin, the  Politecnico di Torino and the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED)

Students and professors are eligible to use Office 365 Education.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and all of the Microsoft Office programmes are available to download for free.

It’s not a free trial version!

To have it, you need to write a valid academic e-mail address in the form linked here (link)

On this link you can find the complete list of Italian universities to which Microsoft allows for the free download of the Office Service Pack.

To find other resources, templates, tools for studying, training and online courses from Microsoft, visit the website (sito).