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Conference: “The forgotten slaughter”

25 January 2018 / in Events / by

From 18 June 1931, after the publishing of the decree number 773 that authorized “cleaning measures” against all those who threatened the public morals and the public decency, there were almost seventy thousand deaths and other tens of thousands of people were deported to camps where they were imprisoned. These numbers, difficult to estimate, are the ones of the Homocaust, a still hidden page of the Nazi extermination against homosexuals.

Homocaust has been studied very late and much less than other deportations. This is due to the personal difficulties of the people that had to reveal their sexual orientation but, above all, due to the fact that homosexuality was considered a crime.

Even today, in about one-third of the countries in the world, homosexuality is considered a crime, sometimes punishable even with death.

The conference “The forgotten slaughter” of the Homocaust will take place on Wednesday, 24 January.

Lucy will participate in video conference together with some researchers and journalists. Lucy, born Luciano in 1924, is the last Italian survivor of the Homocaust, a “different” teenager of the Fascist Bologna, that was deported to Dachau.

Speakers:

Lorenzo Benadusi – The persecution of homosexuals in the Fascist Italy.
Maya De Leo – Homosexuality as an historic problem.
Giovanni Dall’Orto – The persecution of homosexual in the 1900s.
Claudio Vercelli – Deportation of homosexuals. The European framework.

Moderator:

Silvano Bertalot, journalist.

The initiative comes from the collaboration of Coordinamento Torino Pride with the Comitato Resistenza e Costituzione del Consiglio Regionale and the Università degli Studi di Torino.

When and where: from 9.30 am, Cavalleria Reale, Via Verdi 9.

Here you can find the poster of the event.

Six Characters in Search of an Author – Archive Alive Teatro

25 January 2018 / in Events / by

On the occasion of the play “Six Characters in Search of an Author” directed by Luca De Fusco, on stage at the Teatro Astra from 24 to 28 January 2018, the television edition of the play of Luigi Pirandello is proposed. Selected by the Archivio Rai and interpreted by the Compagnia dei Giovani of Giorgio de Lullo, was broadcasted in 1965.

The recording is preceded by a testimony of Romolo Valli, interviewed by Mario Raimondo, about the importance of a television production to recreate the link between stage and empty parterre which is present in Pirandello’s play.

The show will take place on Monday, 22 January, at 5 pm, at the Mediateca Rai, in Via Verdi 31, Turin.

Free admission, booking compulsory: 011 8104858 – mediateca.torino@rai.it

 

Unito: online the Erasmus announcement for the year 2018-2019

19 January 2018 / in News / by

The Erasmus announcement for the year 2018-2019 is online. It is dedicated to all the students that are interested to do, in the year 2018-1019, a period of studies of a minimum of three months and of a maximum of twelve months in another Institute of one of the foreign Countries that has signed a bilateral agreement in the field of the program Erasmus+ with the University of Turin.

The application form must be submitted by 1 pm of Wednesday, 31 January 2018. The application form is available only in electronic form.

The announcement and all the details are available in the dedicated section of the portal of the University.

More info:

Sezione Mobilità e Didattica internazionale – Direzione Attività Istituzionali, Programmazione, Qualità e Valutazione

Phone: (+39) 011 6704425

Email: internationalexchange@unito.it

Zero Robotics: three Italian schools have been awarded!

19 January 2018 / in News / by

On Thursday, 11 January, the finale of the Zero Robotics came to an end. It is a contest that brought to the Polytechnic of Turin more than 150 students of high schools from eight different European Countries: Italy, Russia Federation, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Rumania, Great Britain.

One of the two winning teams of this edition, BeachPin1701, is entirely Italian, it is composed of students from ITIS “Pininfarina” of Moncalieri (To), ITIS “Galileo Galilei” of Livorno and “Leonardo da Vinci” High School of Treviso. The team won the first place together with the American team Naughty Prions and Lions.

The students of the High School “Cecioni” of Livorno and the High School “Agnelli” of Turin were also awarded. They won the Virtual Final, the finale of the second category of the championship.

The competition, born in 2009 in the Space System Laboratory of the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology di Boston (MIT), this year involved almost 70 European Institutes, 100 American Institutes and 50 Australian Institutes, for a total of almost 2000 students.

The finalist students could attend live the last part of the competition that took place on the International Space Station and in video conference with the MIT of Boston and the University of Sydney, where all the students from America and Australia got together to watch the finale.

The finalists competed in the programming of SPHERES (Synchronised Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites), space robots of the size of a bowling ball, already used by NASA inside of the Space Station to test instruction cycles, to carry out autonomous rendezvous and docking operations. These machines are also experimentally used for the maintenance and assembly of satellites and for formation flight.

Every team is composed of 5 to 10 students and is coordinated by a teacher of the school, that is a programming expert.

Every year the teams have a mission. This year the students had to deal with the research of primordial life forms (bacteria) on the Encadalus moon of Saturn, drilling samples to bring them to Earth.

At the end of the first phase, the teams were allowed to ally and work together to achieve a more efficient program. The next phase consists of preliminary elimination competition, that only 42 teams passed; the programs of these teams have been directly uploaded for the finale on the robotic spheres present on the Space Station, where the programs of the winning teams have been carried out under the supervision of astronauts.

ESCP Europe: a new academic year for the headquarter of Turin

19 January 2018 / in News / by

The inauguration of the Academic Year 2017-2018 of the Business School, took place on Friday, September 22, with 10% more students enrolled. The Business School is acknowledged as one of the best schools worldwide not only for its interdisciplinary and multicultural educational approach but especially for the international education provided, which is unique, with six establishments in six big European cities: Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Turin and Warsaw. Year after year, the number of students attending classes in the headquarter of Turin continues to increase. After a strict selection, the admitted students are 261, of 24 different nationalities, from Albania, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Kosovo, Lebanon, Morocco, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia and USA. The overall percentage of internationality is 34%, with a great part of Asian students (6%), reaches its peak in the IFBM class with 63% of foreigners of 30 students studying for a master’s degree. In Italy ESCP Europe is distinguished by the speed of making a career and for the placement offered by its Master’s programs: in fact, the percentage of placement through internship is of 100% within a month and a half after the end of the lessons. 97% of students (Career Office data) is employed before the end of the course of studies, finding employment in different areas of work: from Finance to Consultancy, from the industrial sector to the tertiary sector.

The most lively party that exists: Torino Mapping Party

19 January 2018 / in Events / by

On Saturday, October 14, “Torino Mapping Party – Collaborative mapping for a better mobility” will take place. It is the first mapping party of the City of Turin, organized by 5T and ITHACA  under the program of Torino Design of the City, a week of meetings, exhibitions and workshops about design.

The mapping party is an event in which experts meet less experienced users, citizens and whoever wants to participate and contribute to the sharing of maps and gain a shared and wide knowledge of the territory in which we live.

The aim of the first Torino mapping Party is to involve the citizens and the ones who live in the city to contribute to the OpenStreetMap maps, used by the information service Muoversi a Torino, with the collection and input of data and information of public interest for the benefit of all those who live, work or visit Turin. The district Barriera di Milano will be the first area to be mapped for this first edition.

For more information and to sign up (until October 12) please visit: www.muoversiatorino.it/mapping-party

Save the date: the European Researchers’ Night comes back on September 29

19 January 2018 / in Events / by

The European Researchers’ Night comes back, simultaneously all around Europe, on September 29. It is a big event promoted by the European Commission to show the researchers’ work in an informal and fun context. Piedmont and Aosta Valley host the twelfth edition of the event thanks to the two-year project CLoSER- Cementing Links between Science&society toward Engagement and Responsibility, which in 2016 passed the selection carried out by the European Commission within the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizont 2020. The complete program can be found at the following link: http://nottedeiricercatori.piemontevalledaosta.it/programmi/torino

THE POLYTECHNIC HOSTS THE OPEN EDUCATION TRAINING WEEK

19 January 2018 / in News / by

From 25 to 29 September the Polytechnic of Turin will host the “Open Education Training Week”, the week of training proposed in the field of the international project Erasmus + “OpenMed – Opening up Education in South-Mediterranean countries” coordinated by the Unione delle Università del Mediterraneo – UNIMED. Five European partners and nine University institutes from four different countries of the Southern Mediterranean are committed to the project, intended to stimulate and promote what are known as Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP), which are resources and open educational practices, teaching material in digital format made available with licenses enabling them to be reused, modified and distributed. The aim is to offer a growth opportunity to the higher education sector thanks to the sharing of knowledge and teaching tools in partner countries: Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan.

The week of meetings at the Polytechnic of Turin – partner of the project – will be focused on fundamentals and approaches to the “open” education. Educators, researches, teachers and students in training or just people that are interested in the subject can attend the meetings. Introductory classes, illustrations of basic principles and group works will provide information and will anticipate the second part of the training journey, which will be completed online in the coming months. In addition to the partner institutions of the project, eight more universities from Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Lebanon, for a total of 80 people and 8 countries (3 EU countries and 5 countries of the southern shore of the Mediterranean), will take part in the meetings of the week.

The Open Education Training Week represents the first stage of the “Open Education: fundamentals and approaches. A learning journey opening up Teaching in Higher Education” course. At the end of the week, the online stage of the course will begin, during which participants will be able to access the online teaching modules and develop their own project idea of Open Education.

The aim of the project OpenMed is to analyze the good practices with regard to the open education that have already been implemented in the Mediterranean region and to increase the adoption of these models in higher education, also through courses and workshops meant for trainers, like the one that will take place in Turin. The ultimate goal of the project is to protect education as a public good and fundamental human right and promote the role of universities as knowledge centers not only towards student but also beyond institutional limits, especially towards the weaker and disadvantaged groups of the society, such as low-income households, students with disabilities, inhabitants of rural areas and refugees.

An App for citizens and rescuers in case of urban floods

19 January 2018 / in News / by

ACED-Io T (Safe cities through Cloud and the Internet of Things) project of the Alta Scuola Politecnica, an excellent course created by the Polytechnic of Milan and Turin, promises to enhance the exchange of information between emergency coordinators, operators on the field and citizens in case of floods in the urban environment. The problem of urban floods affects Italy due to the peculiar morphology of the territory. The implementation of the project showed that the main problems are to be found in the communication with the Rescue Coordination Centre, in the integration of information – heterogeneous and often redundant – in possession of different organizations, and in the possibility to receive geo-synched contents by rescuers on the field.

The solution proposed by ACED-Io T consists of a web platform based on cloud technologies that gather and integrate data that comes from different sources such as “open data”, geographic informative systems, semi-structured information in possession of different organizations, putting them together with monitoring data that derives from “Internet of Things” detectors placed in risk areas.

The platform is thought as a support instrument for decision-makers in the comprehension of general evolution of events. In addition to the contribution during emergencies, ACED-Io T allows the collection of data that can be analyzed after the event and that is precious for future planning.

Teatro Stabile Torino: ultimo giorno di biglietteria al CLE!

15 December 2017 / in News / by

Oggi, venerdì 15 dicembre, dalle 10 alle 16, è l’ultimo giorno di apertura della biglietteria temporanea del Teatro Stabile Torino situata nella biblioteca Norberto Bobbio del CLE – Campus Luigi Einaudi, Lungo Dora Siena 100.

Il Teatro Stabile Torino propone agli studenti universitari un abbonamento a tariffa ridotta per la Stagione 2017/2018 – Playlist: 5 spettacoli a scelta, di cui 1 produzione Teatro Stabile Torino, al costo di € 45.00 (in biglietteria) o € 40.00 (on line – escluse commissioni). Inoltre, è possibile acquistarli anche con 18app.

L’abbonamento resta comunque in vendita presso la Biglietteria del Teatro Stabile di Torino (Teatro Gobetti, via Rossini, 8 – Torino – orario 13.00-19.00, da martedì a sabato).

www.teatrostabiletorino.it

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