The University of Turin has developed a project to transform the university through a network system, in order to satisfy the requests for the reorganisation of educational and research activities, but also to meet the needs to decongest the present seats of the university.

Regione Piemonte, Comune di Grugliasco and University of Turin have defined the content of the agreement for the placement of a Scientific Campus in Grugliasco. The agreement is signed on Thursday March 16^th 2017 at Sala Riunioni of Giunta Regionale in Piazza Castello 195, Turin, at 12.30.

The agreement is signed by the Region President Sergio Chiamparino, the Mayor of Grugliasco Giuseppina De Santis and the vice-dean for Building of the University of Turin Bartolomeo Biolatti.

Polito Techshare 2017 takes place on Tuesday March 14^th 2017 at 11.45 a.m. at Sala Consiglio di Facoltà of Politecnico di Torino: more than 100 businesses have been invited and 300 one-to-one meetings between inventors and businesses are scheduled. This initiative has been organized by Politecnico di Torino and Intesa Sanpaolo to improve the collaboration between universities and businesses, in order to develop the transfer of the research results and the relationships with the Small and Medium Enterprises of the region. Politecnico and TIM, which entered this project this year, supported by Intesa Sanpaolo, Confindustria Piemonte and Unione Industriale di Torino, will offer the Italian Small and Medium Enterprises a series of licenses and technologies together with their competence, in order to accelerate the innovative projects and improve the ability of competing on an international level.

Each participating business will have the opportunity to create their daily agenda, by planning one-to-one meetings with the inventors of technologies of interest for their own business.

In addition, there will be a workshop about “Technologies Transfer and Industry 4.0”. Here you can find the program of the day:

PROGRAM

8.30 a.m. – One-to-one meetings with the inventors

11.45 a.m. – Welcome meeting

Emilio Paolucci  Vice dean of Technologies Transfer of Politecnico di Torino

Fabio Spagnuolo  Network and Innovation Culture, Intesa Sanpaolo

12.10 a.m. – Technologies Transfer and Industry 4.0

Speakers:

Stefano Corgnati  Vice dean for research at Politecnico di Torino

Dario Gallina  President – Unione Industriale of Turin

Fabrizio Gea  Delegate of Agenda Digitale, Confindustria Piemonte

Luca Calò  Regional Direction of Piedmont, Liguria and Aosta Valley – Intesa Sanpaolo

Pierpaolo Marchese  Responsible for Standard Coordination and Industry Influecing

1.00 p.m. – Networking buffet

2.00 p.m. – One-to-one meetings with the inventors

5.30 p.m. – Closure

The inauguration of the Academic Year 2017 of Turin School of Development takes place on March 6^th at 11.30 a.m. at Centro Congressi “Piemonte” of ILO (Viale Maestri del Lavoro 10, Turin). TSD is a program of the International Training Centre of ILO that puts together all the masters organized by the University of Turin and Politecnico and realized thanks to the support of Compagnia di San Paolo.

Participants in the ceremony are around 200 students enrolled in excellence courses of ILO. Many important figures will take the floor: among them the Ambassador Maurizio Enrico Serra, head of the Permanent Delegation at ONU in Geneva, Councilor Benedetto Giuntini, from the Directorate General for Italian Citizens Abroad and Migration Policies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Professor Francesco Profumo, President of Compagnia di San Paolo, and the dean of the University of Turin Gianmaria Ajani.

Experts of innovation and technologies transfer from Italian universities will gather in the Hotel des Geneys in Bardonecchia from 6^th to 8^th March 2017 during the Netval Winter School 2017, organized by Netval (Italian Network of Technologies Transfer Offices of Universities and Public Research Organizations) and supported by the University of Turin, Politecnico di Torino and the University of Eastern Piedmont.

Netval was founded in 2002 and today includes 56 universities and 6 research organizations; its objective is to give value to the university research in front of the economic and business sector, by building bridges between the public research and the businesses which are interested in improving their competitiveness through innovation.

Netval’s schools are always organized in different Italian cities and are a great opportunity to take stock of the situation of the relationship between university innovation and businesses. Participants in this event are professors, researchers, doctors, experts of technologies transfer, entrepreneurs, sponsors, experts who will present incubators and businesses’ accelerators, experts of this sector and other interested figures (not business partners of Netval as well).

The main topic of this Netval Winter School will be the “student entrepreneurship”. It is clear that nowadays universities and research organizations are able to support professors, researchers and doctors in creating start-up and spin-off companies thanks to businesses’ incubators.

Both in Italy and abroad there are more and more businesses which are founded by young students who haven’t got their degree, yet; these businesses are likely to generate successful enterprises.

The question is: how can Italian universities make the innovative potential of the students emerge? And how can they help them realize it, so that they are able to create real businesses?

The vice-deans of scientific research and technologies transfer of the organizing universities, professor Silvio Aime (University of Turin), professor Emilio Paolucci (Politecnico di Torino) and professor Roberto Barbato (University of Eastern Piedmont), are satisfied with the positive effects this event could have on the region. They are also very proud of Netval’s choice of welcoming the offer of the three Piedmont’s universities: this shows its great interest in innovation and in collaboration for the realization of common projects of Piedmont’s universities.

The course Social Media Analysis & Big Data starts on March 2^nd at the University of Turin, in the Culture, Politics and Society campus. This course will teach the students of the Master’s degrees of Communication and Media and of Public and Politic Communication how to analyse the content of the web and the social media; this course will focus on calamities.

Giuseppe Tipaldo, director of the course and researcher at the Culture, Politics and Society campus, says: “The most recent development in the market of technologies for communication have improved a lot the quality of information available to each part of society. Transforming this huge quantity of rough material into reliable data has become a competitive advantage which determines the success of a brand, the victory of an election or the government of a region. I have been insistent on wanting this course to start, since it is important to wean people who work with passion and expertise, by helping them becoming professional but creative workers who follow the methods of Data Science.”

This course is mainly practical, also thanks to the support of Quaerys, an innovative start-up of the University of Turin which works in the field of Big Data, and to the collaboration with two excellent partner companies: CELI, innovative PMI which in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, which will make available Sophia Analytics, the platform Text and Data Mining, in order to educate the students about the automatic analysis of the chats online about calamities; Blogmeter will guide the students towards the Media Listening, in particular towards the analysis and the interpretation of useful methods to measure the performances on the main social networks.

The students will be involved in the laboratory “Politica, media e scienza: fisica per cittadini” (“Politics, media and science: physics for the citizens”), which starts on March 1^st in the Culture, Politics and Society campus of the University of Turin and wants to focus on the social and political importance of scientific themes and contents, by using science as an example.

Professor Lorenzo Magnea says: “The students will make practice and will unmask pseudo-scientific hoaxes which are spread in social networks. They will analyse how some scientific pieces of news are hidden by the media and learn how to spread scientific news in the correct way”.

The centre Arnold-Regge for algebra, geometry and physics was inaugurated on February 27^th. It is an advanced laboratory for all the advanced scientific studies in the fields of theoretical physics and mathematics, which wants to attract many young talents.

This centre was created thanks to the collaboration between the University of Turin and the University of Eastern Piedmont; its seat is in the Physics campus of the University of Turin. Researchers of both universities are involved and there is an Advisory Panel of 30 well-known scientists, above all from Italy and Russia.

This centre is dedicated to Tullio Regge, a famous physicist and mathematician of the University of Turin, and to the Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold: two great personalities who made an important contribution to algebra, geometry and physics, and who influenced the following generations, too.

The study of theoretical physics and mathematics is the basis of the development of applied sciences in the fields of chemistry and biochemistry, civil engineering, electronic engineering, informatics, astronomy and geology.

Tullio Regge was born in 1931 and studied at the University of Turin, where he afterwards taught. In 1963 he became a member of the Princeton University, where he stayed for about 20 years. He spent the last 30 years of his life in Turin, before in the University and then at Politecnico. He was an important personality for Italy and Europe, and was also part of the Parliament during a whole legislature.

Vladimir Arnold was a Russian mathematician who spent the last 30 years of his life in France. Both Arnold and Regge awarded important prizes, among them the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (Regge got it in 1964 and Arnold in 2001).

The centre Arnold Regge was created as a new research centre where scientists and young recipients of scholarship (after their doctorate) can work together on physics and mathematics to encourage the exchange between scientists from Italy, Russia and many other countries, who work in the field of algebra, geometry and theoretical physics. Another objective is to promote the scientific collaboration, to organise workshops and conferences and to attract international visiting professors and young talented scientists to Turin.

In the working team there are highly qualified scientists, 5 researchers who have finished their doctorate and awarded a two-year scholarship and 12 experts from the University of Turin, the University of Eastern Piedmont, Politecnico and INFN.

The activities of this centre start in September-October 2017 and are supported by private citizens who are particularly sensitive in front of the theme of scientific, cultural and economic development: this is a particular feature for this centre, which deals with theoretical studies and not with applied sciences.

The influence of Tullio Regge in Piedmont in the field of physics and mathematics led to the creation of a strong group working on algebra, geometry and theoretical physics. This group is part of an internationally acknowledged School for Advanced Studies, which deals with Supergravity, Superstring Theory, Cosmology, black holes, relationship between Gauge and Gravity, Quantum Theories which can be integrated.

The University of Turin has collaborated with Russia since 1970s. Tullio Regge was well-known in Russia and visited that country many times.

The Aula Magna of the Physics campus of the university is dedicated to Tullio Regge; on March 1^st the work is moved to Alessandria, at the University of Eastern Piedmont; the workshop about the themes the centre is about finishes on March 2^nd with an open lesson of Eugenio Coccia at Teatro Colosseo of Turin.

“#hackUniTO for Ageing: project for the matching between research and institutes” takes place on February 27^th at 4 p.m. at Sala Lauree Rossa in Campus Luigi Einaudi of Turin (Lungo Dora Siena 100 A). This is the second event about the evaluation of research on healthy and active ageing promoted by the University of Turin and supported by Compagnia di San Paolo.

On this occasion the partners of this initiative show the results of their analysis on the matching between research and institutes and their 284 projects, uploaded by 825 researchers on the operating system.

Partners who speak are: Fabrizio Conicella (BioPMed) Laura Morgagni (Cluster) Riccardo Rosi (Mesap), Massimo Rusconi (Federmanager Torino) and Gian Paolo Zanetta (A.O.U.). Deans and delegates are present as well.

Before the meeting you can take part in the workshop “La regolamentazione della collaborazione tra ricercatrici/ricercatori e imprese” (Collaboration between researchers and institutes) from 2 to 3.45 p.m., where there are the representatives of the evaluation of research and technological transfer, coming from the 29 universities which in April 2016 joined the mission/network #hackUniTO for Ageing. The objective is to set new action politics and legal support, which can be shared by academies, public administration, institutes and supporters of research, according to the innovative model of Knowledge Interchange.