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.

From 13^th July to 27^th August 2017 it is possible to register online for the admission tests for first-level degree courses (three years) and second-level degree courses (two more years).

Important! Before registering online you have to make the following payments:

• 15.13€ to be paid into the CCP 1016 account (Postal Current Account) registered to: AGENZIA DELLE ENTRATE – CENTRO OPERATIVO DI PESCARA – TASSE SCOLASTICHE. REASON FOR PAYMENT: ESAME AMMISSIONE A.A. 2017/2018 + [Name and Surname of the future student] (NOT for future foreign students).
• 50.00€ to be paid by bank transfer to: “Accademia Albertina di Torino” IBAN: IT82Q0623001001000041239789 CARIPARMA Via Giolitti, 1 – TORINO. REASON FOR PAYMENT: TASSA DI AMMISSIONE A.A. 2017/2018 + [Name and Surname of the future student] (In case of payment made by a third party, please write the name and the surname of the future student). IMPORTANT: users are requested to register and pre-enrol at the same moment, bringing the receipts for payments with them.

Access the www.isidata.net website on “Servizio Studenti” and select the item “Accademie”.

Access requirements: – In order to be admitted to a first-level degree course you must hold an upper secondary school leaving certificate or another certificate obtained in a foreign university that has to be approved by the Academy in compliance with international agreements. – In order to be admitted to a second-level degree course you must hold a first-level degree certificate or a certificate awarded by another University.

How to give a copy of the documents issued by the Embassies to non-EU students and Foreign Students from the European Union.

Non-EU students: only from 4^th September to 8^th September at the Albertina Academy – Via Accademia Albertina, 6 – TORINO from 10a.m. to 1p.m. at the Secretary’s Office. Bring a copy of the documents issued by the Embassy or the Consulate (Original copy of the Domanda di Preiscrizione (Pre-enrolment Application), Dichiarazione di Valore in Loco (Certificate of Equivalence of Qualification), Translation of your Diploma, Photocopy of the Passport with a Certified Photo, copy of the residence permit, fiscal code (that you can require at any headquarters of the Agenzia delle Entrate (Revenue Agency)).

Foreign Students from the European Union: only from 4^th September to 8^th September at the Albertina Academy – Via Accademia Albertina, 6 – TORINO from 10a.m. to 1p.m. at the Secretary’s Office. Bring the certified copy of your Diploma with the official translation by the Embassy or the Consulate of your country of origin, together with the Certificate of Equivalence of Qualification and the photocopy of your ID card.

Only the future students who will enrol within the foreseen deadlines and as explained above will be admitted to the admission tests.

The students who will be admitted will have to register online from 18^th September to 30^th September 2017 as follows: – Access the www.isidata.net website on “Servizio Studenti”, select the item “Accademie”, then select the item “Selezionare il punto 3” and follow the procedure indicated to you.

The deadline for the enrolments to the admission tests to the courses with a restricted number of places for the academic year 2017/2018 with local ranking is Thursday 10^th August 2017. You have to fill in the application for the admission test only online, on www.unito.it website, where you will find information about each course with a restricted number of places and the related admission test.

You can find the list of the courses in the section “Corsi di studio”, while the instructions about the enrolment procedure are in the section “Corsi ad accesso programmato con graduatoria locale”. The matriculations for these courses will start from 22^nd September 2017.

In order to know the dates of the tests and the modalities of the admission tests for the Department of Medicine and Surgery, the Department of Odontology and Dentistry and the Department of Veterinary Medicine, you have to visit the MIUR website, selecting the item “Calendario delle prove di ammissione e Modalità e contenuti delle prove di ammissione”. The matriculations for these courses will start from 3^rd October 2017. The modalities about the admission tests can be found in the section “Corsi ad accesso programmato con graduatoria nazionale”.

From 1^st September to 5^th October 2017 it is possible to fill in online the matriculation form for the academic year 2017/2018 for First-Level Degree Courses and Single-Cycle Degree Programmes with an unrestricted number of places. All the courses with an unrestricted number of places are subjected to a compulsory Test for the Assessment of Minimum Requirements (TARM). For some courses with an unrestricted number of places, TARM test is a prerequisite for enrolment. For further information about TARM test visit the webpage “Immatricolazione corsi ad accesso libero”.

For all the students enrolled to any of the courses, the enrolment fees for the years following the first one have to be paid by 5^th October 2017. Payments made after that date will be subject to a surcharge. The payment of the fee represents the enrolment to the new academic year.

The full list of the administrative deadlines (payment of the fees, transfers from and to other universities, teaching instruments) for the academic year 2017/2018 and all the pieces of information about matriculations and enrolments can be found on the webpage “Immatricolazioni e iscrizioni”.

Turning an idea into an innovative business in three weeks, thanks to the support of the main experts of the most important universities and international technology companies, under the supervision of representatives of Venture Capitals and Investment Funds: this is the aim of the 600 people who will take part in EIA Turin 2017, the European Innovation Academy that will take place in the Polytechnic of Turin from 10^th to 28^th, for the second time in Italy.

In fact, thanks to an agreement signed between the Polytechnic and EIA, and to the engagement of the whole town and regional system, Turin is home to this StartUp Extreme Accelerator of high international prestige since 2016. EIA Turin 2017 has received the support by FCA and Intesa Sanpaolo and it has been warmly welcomed by the City, the University of Turin and by the world of companies, incubators and training, and with the special support by the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts of Turin.

For twenty days, the areas of Lingotto and the Polytechnic of Turin will turn into a creative lab where young talented people from all over the world will have the opportunity to discuss new ideas. There will be engineers, marketing and economics students, coming from the most prestigious universities in the world, but also people who are already working in companies and want to seize the opportunity provided by the Academy in order to “speed up” innovation. EIA innovators will meet mentors and investors from the Silicon Valley and the regional and national territory: they are very important experts of the academic and entrepreneurial world who will make their experience available as an instrument to promote technology-based entrepreneurship. Some of the mentors are: Ravi Belani (Alchemist, Stanford University), Ken Singer (UC Berkeley), Martin Omander (Google), Danny Lange (Unity) and Klaus Busse (FCA).

The participants to the Academy come from the best universities in the world: UC Berkeley, Tsinghua University, UTC, Sorbonne Paris, University of Texas in Austin, and there are also 50 Turinese students coming from the Polytechnic and other students from the University of Turin, the University of Trento, Scuola di Alta Formazione al Management (SAFM) and IUSTO.

EIA will bring in Turin the methods that have been created in the Silicon Valley that turn ideas and technologies into start-ups, through mentoring activities and entrepreneurial tutoring. The participants, divided into small multidisciplinary groups, will have to develop a business starting from an original idea. During the first week, the innovators will identify the idea and the products, in the second one the basic product will be created, while in the third week there will be the market test that will verify the product’s attractiveness to consumers. The students will be supervised on a daily basis, and they will be supported by the experts in the field. In the morning there will be meetings with the mentors, while in the afternoon they will continue to work on their products.

The areas in which the participants will work on will be: mobility, food and design. These sectors are benchmarks of excellence of the Italian entrepreneurial culture, and those people will have to design projects related to these areas that will allow them to turn their ideas into a business. We tend to consider mobility, food and design as “traditional” sectors, but they have a lot of innovation to offer. The best ideas developed during the event will be financed by international Venture Capitalists and will be supported when they enter the market.

In addition, EIA is also an opportunity for businesses. Thanks to an agreement signed with the Chamber of Commerce of Turin, as part of the Alps Enterprise Europe Network, EIA Turin 2017 provides two opportunities to the Piedmontese businesses:

– the free participation for 50 managers of innovative businesses, with more than 6 years of activity, to a higher education day, the Executive Innovation Day, on 14^th July

– the free access to 5 start-ups (each one with 3 participants) to three sessions as part of the Keynote Session programme

The response to these proposals by local businesses has been excellent: high quality businesses with their innovative and high-tech skills applied to different sectors (automotive, environment, chemistry, energy, aerospace, logistics, biometrics, data management, etc…) decided to take part in it. The businesses that have been admitted have been selected by the Chamber of Commerce and by EIA experts themselves on the basis of a number of criteria such as: rate of innovation, growth potential, possession of patents or very innovative high-tech products, propensity for internationalisation and awarding of European call for tenders.

Alar Kolk, EIA President, said: “Europe can grow only through innovation, it’s our duty to experiment with unique ideas to restructure our economies. EIA accelerator provides unprecedented opportunity to anyone who is willing to take the challenge to change the world and bring new products and services to global market in record 15 days. Make no mistake, it’s gonna be hard – many failures on road. The journey will test our brightest minds and willingness to build the future”.

Marco Gilli, the Dean of the Polytechnic, added that: “Being able to host in our campus such a prestigious event like the European Innovation Academy for the second time is a great opportunity to make our ability to offer innovation grow and to create businesses, giving a new dimension to the traditional way in which these issues are faced at university. We therefore believe that not only this is an excellent opportunity for our students, but it is also very positive for the whole regional system that makes Turin a prestigious international place for entrepreneurial development and technology transfer”.

“We are very happy to be partners on this project. Our Group has been pursuing an innovation-oriented path: multi-channels, digitalisation, big data, as well as the Innovation Centre created in Turin. We firmly believe that one of the ways of addressing the new global challenges is fostering a virtuous relationship between the academic world and the working world. It is necessary to create the right conditions so that the new generations can develop their ideas and provide their innovative skills to the market. For this reason, besides supporting this kind of projects, years ago we launched a programme that aims at fostering the creation of start-ups and supporting businesses in the exploration of technologies and new solutions”, said Enrico Bagnasco, Responsible for Information Systems at Intesa Sanpaolo.

“Fiat Chrysler Automobiles – explained Gilberto Ceresa, Responsible for Information & Communication Technologies of EMEA and LATAM regions of FCA – has decided to collaborate with the ‘European Innovation Academy 2017’ because we believe that the development of an innovative ecosystem (that the European Innovation Academy can encourage) is a great opportunity for the development of some competences and professionalisms the Automotive Industry needs. In particular, the development of the Mobility concept and the Industry 4.0 can encourage entrepreneurship and the development of new ideas and solutions”.

Vincenzo Ilotte, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Turin, added that: “As the Chamber of Commerce of Turin we take advantage of the EIA in Turin to provide real opportunities to our businesses. Compared to last year, we wanted to add one more thing: besides the free participation to the keynote sessions offered to 5 start-ups, for this European Innovation Academy we wanted to offer a new event dedicated to the existing businesses, with at least 6 years of activity, that are turning their innovative ideas into reality, and for this reason we created the Executive Innovation Day. Our aim is that these small and medium-sized businesses learn to innovate themselves as fast as start-ups do and that they speed up their growth on the international markets”.

The student H2politO Team of the Polytechnic of Turin celebrates its first 10 years with a presentation of its prototypes and of the students who, over the past years, have obtained excellent results in international competitions.

In fact, the Team won the Shell Eco-marathon 2017 in Le Mans and London: the IDRAkronos prototype ranked 2^nd in the competition that took place from 25^th to 28^th May at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London and ranked 1^st in the competition that took place in Le Mans from 23^rd to 25^th June.

In these races, high-energy efficiency futuristic vehicles that are designed by the students of high schools and Universities of the whole of Europe don’t compete on speed but on the ability of designing prototypes able to travel as much as possible on the equivalent of a litre of fuel or a kWh or a m3 of energy.

The second prototype designed by the H2politO Team, called XAM, ranked 10^th out of the 26 internal-combustion vehicles that took part in the competition and belonged to the Urban Concept class, and it ranked 4^th out of 7 in the ethanol vehicles class, with a consumption of 110 km/L in the race that took place in London.

In addition, in the Shell Eco-marathon of London, H2politO Team also won the Communication Award, the special award given to the Team that is best able to communicate the features of their projects both on social networks and to traditional media, and that is also able to promote the competition thanks to the collaboration with companies and the participation of students and young people. That’s not news to the Team, since it has already won this award 4 times: in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014.

Over the past 10 years, the Team has won many awards and has achieved many goals with a lot of passion. All this has been mentioned by the Team’s Faculty Advisor, Massimiliana Carello, together with the students, who have shown all the vehicles they have designed over the past 10 years: IDRA08, IDRA09, IDRApegasus, XAM 2.0, IDRAkronos and XAM.

“10 years ago, when I created H2politO Team, I would have never imagined that I would get this far and that I would make H2politO Team become a “top Team”. The results we have achieved this year are the product of hard work and a lot of time, of people who “teamed” when facing problems and finding solutions, without giving up. Maybe this is exactly what made us achieve excellent results both in London and in Le Mans”, says Professor Massimiliana Carello, the Team’s Faculty Advisor.

On this occasion, Michelin Italia assigned 10 scholarships to the students who distinguished themselves in the design and creation of the vehicles that took part in the competition, in order to support all the activities of H2politO Team.

Michelin is the technical sponsor and the only tyre supplier of the Shell Eco-marathon, and also IDRAkronos is fitted with Michelin tyres that provide a rolling resistance six times lower than the MICHELIN Energy Saver road tyre.

Simone Miatton, Michelin Italia Personnel Director, said: “We have been following H2politO Team for five years with great passion. It has achieved many important goals, that lead them to the winner’s podium in the Shell Eco-marathon of Le Mans thanks to the IDRAkronos vehicle, a prototype fitted with Michelin’s low rolling resistance tyres. It’s the spirit of innovation that unites us with H2politO Team and with its amazing low energy consumption vehicles. From our first “green” tyre launched in 1992, Michelin’s commitment in the field of continuous innovation is at the service of a safer, efficient and sustainable mobility. This year, H2politO Team’s 10^th anniversary provides us an even happier opportunity to celebrate together our common vision on the mobility of the future”.