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Humanities in a day – A look into humanistic research

19 June 2018 / in Events / by
Humanities in a day

The University of Turin invites you to the first day dedicated to humanistic research: on Wednesday, June 13, from 9AM to 6PM, at Palazzo Nuovo (via Sant’Ottavio – 20, Turin) researchers will tell you about their projects through scientific posters, talks and guided tours in the research centres.

Livestream on www.unito.it/media from the morning.

Below are the groups involved:

  • Department of Philosophy and Education Science
  • Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures
  • Department of Humanities
  • Department of Historical Studies
  • Atlante Linguistico Italiano
  • Centro Studi Gozzano Pavese
  • Centro Interdipartimentale Cinedumedia
  • Centro Interdipartimentale MeDiHum
  • Laboratorio di Fonetica Sperimentale “Arturo Genre” (Experimental phonetics lab)
  • Laboratorio Fotografico e Topografico del Dip.to di Studi Storici (Photographic and topographic lab of the Department of Historical Studies)
  • StudiUm Lab.

The initiative was planned by Research and Third Mission – Humanities centre and by Sezione Valorizzazione della ricerca e Public Engagement – Agorà Scienza, in collaboration with FRIDA – Forum della Ricerca di Ateneo.

  •  a 60-poster exhibition
  •  an area where PhD students will explain how to become researchers (…if you survive the PhD 😉
  •  a round-table discussion on the future of Humanities
  •   two sessions with #UniTo researchers
  •   five research centres open to the public

The detailed programme is available on the dedicated page of the UniTo website.

Follow the Facebook event “Humanities in a day”.

 

Start@UniTO Project: starting University on the right foot

19 June 2018 / in News / by
Progetto Start@UniTo

Are you going to start taking a degree and want to enrol at the University of Turin?
Whatever the degree course you may be interested in, UniTo provides 20 free online courses you can take while attending school, even if you still aren’t a university student.

The Project was made by the Departments of the University of Turin, contributed by the Compagnia di San Paolo.

You will be able to study at your own pace, to train with self-assessment tests and take the exam as soon as you’ll be enrolled. Registering is easy and quick: connect to the Start@UniTO platform and choose the courses you’re interested in, log in with a click and your credentials and start your new studies.

Courses are from first-year subjects of almost all UniTo degree courses – from physics to social science, from information technology to cultural anthropology, from law to languages, from maths to zoology – specifically thought for those who have to start university. They’re readily accessible because they are on a dedicated multimedia platform.

You will find multimedia content you can access at your own pace and you will be able to put yourself to the test through self-assessment tests. Once you complete the course and pass the final test, you will get a certificate of attendance for your first university corse, and you will be able to take the exam as soon as you’ll be enrolled, and your first credits will be registered on your exam transcript.

Start@UniTO helps you start University on the right foot: not only it helps you choose the best degree course for you but also gives you the chance to pass a university exam at the beginning of your career!

Dean Ajani presenting the Progetto Start@Unito.

2018 ResiDance Party

19 June 2018 / in Events / by
ResiDance party 2018

Friday, June 22: time for ResiDance Party!

The ResiDance Party is the annual party for students living in EDISU Piemonte halls of residence. There will be many activities this year as well: prize-giving after the tournament’s finals, exhibitions, dj-sets,   and a feast at “food&beverage”.

Place: Residenza universitaria Olimpia!

Lungo Dora Siena 104 – Torino

For further information:

e-mail: inforesidenze@edisu-piemonte.it

Facebook

See you there!

ENJOY THE DIFFERENCE: cohabitation between peers

18 June 2018 / in News / by
Enjoy-the-Difference

WHAT IS “ENJOY THE DIFFERENCE” (ETD)?

ENJOY THE DIFFERENCE is a project which started in 2011 from the collaboration between a group of students and professors of the University of Turin, Comune di Torino – Servizio Passpartout and some organizations.

The primary aim of ETD is combining students’ need to find accommodation at a reasonable price with the need of promoting independent life for disabled people, through providing accommodation and improving the social network. The people involved, university students and young people with motor or sensory disabilities, will be housemates on equal terms for a year, during which there won’t be any specific schedule to stick to. The project is for students of the University of Turin and for young disabled people, forming mixed groups of housemates.

WHY “ENJOY THE DIFFERENCE”?

The challenge is to show difference as an opportunity:

  • Because each person has the right at an independent life based on equality, as it is stated in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
  • Because acknowledging differences must be a starting point, where everyone can find opportunities for improvement.
  • In order to grow, to have new experiences, to put oneself to the test while meeting and getting to know other people.

ETD wants to promote a change of perspective: students and disabled young people together to overcome stereotypes and clichés. Disabled young people wanting to have fun and live their life instead of suffering because of their limitations, and students with a sense of responsibility, ideas for the future and the ability to invent new ways of participating, instead of listless and passive people who drag themselves from one classroom to the next.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

All university students and young people with motor or sensory disabilities who are looking for accommodation can apply to become future housemates!
It’s easy, just fill in the form online here: https://www.centrostudidivi.unito.it/progetti/etd

Great Open Day at IED Torino

18 June 2018 / in Events / by
big open day ied

IED Open Days are back during summer on Thursday, July 12, 2018 at the Turin branch in Via San Quintino 39.

 

IED Open Days are back during summer on Thursday, July 12, 2018 at the Turin branch in Via San Quintino 39.

The day will be dedicated to the presentation of IED courses. Labs, classrooms and project areas for students will be the stops of the orientation tour for everyone interested in studying at the European Institute of Design.

The range of courses includes Undergraduate Courses, Master Courses and Continuing Study Programs, in both English and Italian. The staff from fashion, design, communication and visual arts schools will be present, together with students and professors, to answer all questions and doubts of future students.

Programme

Undergraduate Courses

10 AM– 12.30 PM
Booked interviews

2 PM – 2.30 PM
Opening of the doors and Registration – Garden

For the following courses:

Fashion Design
Jewelry and Accessories Design
Transportation Design
Interior Design
Product Design
Graphic Design
Photography
Illustration
Communication Design

2.30 PM– 3 PM
Welcome speech by the Direction – Great Hall

4.30 PM – 6 PM
Booked motivational interviews

Masters

10 AM – 12.30 PM
Booked interviews

2 PM – 2.30 PM
Opening of the doors and Registration

2.30 PM – 3.00 PM

Welcome speech by the Direction – Great Hall

Possible interviews with the Coordinators of the following courses:

Marketing and Communication

Transportation Design

Specialisation Courses

10 AM – 12.30 PM
Booked interviews

2 PM – 2.30 PM
Opening of the doors and Registration

2.30 PM – 3.00 PM

Welcome speech by the Direction – Great Hall

Register for the Open Day here!

 

Murazzi Student Zone Re-Start

18 June 2018 / in News / by
Murazzi Student Zone Re-Start

After being closed for 558 days, shovelling hundreds of kilos of mud, and uncountable hours of work, Murazzi Student Zone is reborn, with a Re-Start that presented the completely renovated study room.

A Re-Start after the flood

A year and a half ago, the Po River burst its banks, flooding the Murazzi arches. It was November 24, 2016, after days of torrential rain, when the Murazzi Student Zone was submerged: the big wooden gate was unhinged and tables, chairs and furniture were carried away.

Since its first opening on May 10, 2013, the Murazzi Student Zone has been a reference point for the student community of Turin and for freelancers, having a large number of talks, book presentations, exhibitions and courses, alongside the study room.

The new Murazzi

After being closed for 558 days, shovelling hundreds of kilos of mud, and uncountable hours of work, the Murazzi Student Zone is reborn, with a Re-Start that presented the completely renovated study room. Since November 2017, in fact, renovation work has restored electrical systems and plaster, as well as entrances, furniture and bathrooms.

Last Wednesday, June 6, 2018, the area was given back to the citizens, or rather, to those “special citizens”  who are the students, as councillor Marco Giusta defined them. “I’m dedicating this day to everyone who made this place become a reference point again, for studying and having fun, and the next exam session makes it an even more important area for all students”, he added. At the presentation press conference there was also Sergio Scamuzzi, vice dean for University Communication of the University of Turin: “If the Murazzi Student Zone didn’t exist, we would have to invent it”, he said.

A part of the city reopening, a place for studying, concentrating and sharing for many students who are getting ready to face the summer exams. An area of 650 square meters, coloured and lively, with a capacity of 270 people and free wi-fi. Everything located under ancient arches, along the constantly-flowing river and the vegetation of city parks.

Murazzi Student Zone is a project promoted by Città di Torino and the service for university guidance StudyinTorino.

 

Study well!

Candiolo Institute: synthesis of a new protein against cancer

4 June 2018 / in News / by
Candiolo: sintetizzata una nuova proteina antitumorale

A new goal has been reached in the Candiolo Institute, a historic centre specialized in cancer treatment and located in the metropolitan area of Turin. The team of researchers of the University of Turin and the Institute has synthesized a new version of  Semaphorin, a human protein which plays the role of a signaling molecule (hence its name). It is also used in the neuronal differentiation at an embryonic level.

Semaphorin plays an active role in therapies against cancer thanks to its ability to normalize cancer blood vessels. However, its natural version is not perfectly suitable to therapies due to its side effects. Its synthesized version, Semaphorin 3A A106K, was presented and described by the reseachers in an article published on Science Translation Medicine, an important international magazine of this field.

Guido Serini, Enrico Girando and Luca Tamagnone, professors at the University of Turin and heads of three research labs at Candiolo Institute, FPO-IRCCS, have also demonstrated the ability of the mutant SEMA3A to inhibit the progression of cancer cells, improving chemotherapy effects on lab rats affected by pancreatic cancer.

WASTE MOB: a clean-up event to raise awareness about littering

4 June 2018 / in Events / by
WASTEMOB2018

The WASTE MOB competition to raise awareness on littering is back. A clean-up event along the Po River organized by City of Turin, University of Turin, Politecnico, CUS Torino and Amiat Gruppo Iren

This year, during the “Festival of sustainable development” and the initiative “Let’s clean up Europe”, Città di Torino, Università, Politecnico, CUS Torino e Amiat Gruppo Iren will team up to make the embankment of the Po River more beautiful and safe, starting from Piazza Vittorio Veneto. In fact, the embankment is one of the most important  areas of Turin’s landscape;

Where and when?

May 27, 2018

Meet-up in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, in the area between Lungo Po Armando Diaz and via Alfonso Bonafus, at 2.00 PM.

Ends at 5.30 PM.

Last year, 150 participants collected 140 kg of waste in 5 kms. This year, we hope to exceed the number of 500 participants. Everyone is free to register: you can participate in a team as well as individually, by registering on the website www.letscleanuptorino.it (minors must be accompanied by a parent). Each participant will receive a welcome kit with a t-shirt and bags for the clean-up.

Program:

2.00 PM: Meet-up in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, in the area between Lungo Po Armando Diaz e via Alfonso Bonafus. Distribution of t-shirts and bags

2.30 PM: Start of the competition

5 PM: Arrival in Piazza Vittorio Veneto

5.30 PM: Final speech by authorities

Chiara Appendino, Mayor of the City of Turin

Riccardo D’Elicio, CUS Torino

Guido Saracco, Dean of the Politecnico di Torino

Egidio Dansero, Green Office Unito – Representative of the Dean of Sustainability

Patrizia Lombardi, Green Team Polito – Dean representative

Christian Aimaro, President of Amiat Gruppo Iren

Get your books ready…Murazzi Student Zone is reopening!

4 June 2018 / in Events / by
Murazzi Student Zone

It’s time. Here we go again. Get your books ready…  Murazzi Student Zone is reopening!

 

Inauguration: Wednesday, June 6

Program:
11 AM- 12 PM Press conference
12.30 – 6.30 PM Back to studying!
7 – 10 PM Re-Start Party, with food, drinks and DJ Set!

Follow the event on Facebook!

Thanks to the allocation of over 50 thousand euros, the Murazzi Student Zone will be a reference point again, a welcoming and pleasant  space along the Po River where young people and students can meet and study.

Following the disastrous effects of the 2016 flood, which made the building condemned, on November 25, 2017, an exact year later, renovation work began. Today, it finally ended. The electrical systems have been restored, as well as plaster; entrances; furniture and bathrooms.

Making the study room available is a part of the redevelopment of the arches of Murazzi del Po, where especially university students often hang out.

Follow  Murazzi Student Zone on Facebook.

A different Saturday’s evening with the Nights of the Museums

25 May 2018 / in Events / by
Un sabato sera alternativo con la Notte dei Musei

The evening of tomorrow, Saturday 19th May 2018, will be different from what you are used to. In fact, the Nights of the Museums, an unmissable event for lovers of culture, comes back. Many museums of the city will open their doors in the evening and at night for the price of one euro. The initiative, now in its 14th edition, aims to promote the local cultural and museum heritage, disseminating it to new and ever different audiences.

 

Open museums:

  • Palazzo Carignano. Open from 18 to 21. The ticket office closes at 20
  • Villa della Regina. Open from 18 to 21. the ticket office closes at 20
  • Musei Reali: Giardini reali (Royal Gardens), Armeria Reale (Royal Armoury), Biblioteca Reale ( Royal Library), sale Chiablese (Chiablese Halls), Galleria sabauda (Sabauda Gallery), Palazzo Reale (Royal Palace), Museo di Antichità (Museum of Antiquity), Cappella della Sindone (Chapel of the Holy Shroud). Open from 20 to 23. the ticket offices closet at 22.
  • Fondazione Torino Musei: GAM-Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (City Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art), Palazzo Madama- Museo Civico di Arte Antica (City Museum of Ancient Art- starting from 18), MAO- Museo di Arte Orientale (Museum of Oriental Art- starting from 19), with entrance at concessionary fare of 1 euro up to 23 for permanent collections. Temporary exhibitions will have the ordinary tariff. The museums will close at 23, with the last entrance at 22
  • Museo Nazionale del Cinema (National Museum of Cinema) from 20 to 23, with entrance at 3,50 euro
  • Planetario di Torino (Planetarium of Turin) : the Planetarium will be open from 18 to 24 ( last entrance at 23), the visit is free of charge
  • Palazzo degli Istituti Anatomici (Palace of Anatomical Institutes): Museo di Anatomia Umana “Luigi Rolando” (Museum of Human anatomy Luigi Rolando), Museo di Antropologia Culturale Cesare Lombroso (Museum of Anthropological Criminology Cesare Lombroso), Museo della Frutta “Garnier Vallletti” (Fruit Museum “Garnier Valletti”. The visit will be free of charge during normal opening hours (10 to 18) and the extraordinary evening opening up to 24. Guided Tours will be available from 21 to 24.

 

 

Good visit!

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