Posts by Michele Covolan

 

Mon 18th April, the photographic competition “Uno scatto per lo Sport” has started and this year it is in its 11th edition. The expiry date for uploading your works in www.unoscattoperlosport.it is Sunday, May 15th 2016.

The competition is organised by CUS Torino. The 2016 edition, which falls in the year of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of CUS Torino and Centro Universitario Sportivo Italiano (CUSI), focuses its attention on sport world strength, through the collection of photos able to share sports ethics and values. This is a perfect comparison between past and present, done through photos able to describe sports growth, change and development in the last 70 years. “70 years of History, 70 years of Sport” is the topic of its 11th edition, which becomes an occasion to catch people, places, situations of Italian and international sport history in a photo, able to represent the high social and educational values in the best way.

www.unoscattoperlosport.it

 

Fri, 22nd April will be the first National Women’s Health Day, officially established by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Minister for Health Beatrice Lorenzin in 2015. Together with Just The Woman I Am, CUS Torino decided to organize a day completely dedicated to physical activity as a mean of prevention, with Dance and Wellness classes (Nebiolo room), Fitness, Weight room, Group room.

Torino che legge is a project organised by the city of Turin and Forum del Libro, in collaboration with ilMIUR and Centro UNESCO, promoted on the occasion of World Book Day, which was established by UNESCO on April 23rd.

From April 18th these places are becoming a special stage for events, meetings with authors, readings, debates, shows for adults and children. The most important initiative of the week is the event Una ROSA di libri.

Portici di carta per Sant Jordi is scheduled for Sat, 23rd April under all the arcades in Piazza San Carlo.

 

http://www.torinochelegge.it/

Announcements “Talents for Fundraising”: nominations by 30th April 2016

“Talents for Fundraising”, a new announcement of Fondazione Fondo Ricerca e Talenti, has been launched in collaboration with Fondazione CRT.

The project provides some work and learning tools:

  • to those who work in non-profit field and want to enrich their knowledge in fundraising field.
  • to those who are interested in developing their skills to come into the field more professionally, even though they have no experience in the field

The project offers 98 hours of free high-interaction training and 20 scholarships, which will be given to the best participants.

To get one of the 50 available places, download and fill in the registration form available in Fondazione Fondo Ricerca e Talenti website by April 30th 2016:

www.ricercaetalenti.it/tpf/

Summer School “The political economy of the Middle East: resources, strategies and politics”

As part of TOMidEast project initiatives, the Università di Torino’s Department of Cultures, politics and Society organizes the third edition of Summer School “Understanding the Middle East”, dedicated to Middle- East countries economic policy this year.

To give a response to the growing interest in Middle East, the third edition of Summer School focuses on the transformation of strategies and ecomomic stake holders in the region, in particular after the 2011 riots. Summer schools lessons will be held in English. Participation is open to students and experts interested in exploring critically the complex facets of political dynamics in Middle East.

Registrations are open from March 7th to May 24th 2016.

 

MAYDAY- Scholarships for Bachelor’s Degrees

IED is making its laboratories and staff available for supporting those who are interested in winning one of the 110 Scholarships at stake for three-year and two-year courses (Professional Training Program).

Participants to Mayday Scholarship program will be able to benefit not only from technical support but also from some teachers’ advice and supervision.

In Turin, Thu 28th April from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm

Fill in the form available in the website, writing your name and surname, email, city, where you can participate and the course, for which you want to compete.

“Scritture” cycle: « Genre narrative between literature and cinema »

Thu 14th April 2016 at 6.00 pm at Auditorium “Guido Quazza” (Palazzo Nuovo, Via Sant’Ottavio, 20 – temporary entry in the hall, at Biblioteca Tabacco), Francesco Colombo (Einaudi Stile Libero editor) will intervene discussing «Genre narrative between literature and cinema »

topic.

The meeting is part of the interdisciplinary “Writings. Intersections among cinema, literature and media” workshop, cured by Giaime Alonge and Giulia

ChinaMed Business Program
(Beijing, July 15 – August 27, 2016)
 
The ChinaMed Business Program (CMBP) is an advanced set of crash courses for graduate students and dynamic future manage pursuing an effective business career with China. The fourth edition takes place in Beijing, from July 15th  to August 27th, 2016.
Here you will learn how to operate in international markets, how to apply your knowledge of Chinese language and culture – or start developing an understanding of it – and how to transform you international mindset into a game changing tool for an ambitious career across the Euro-Mediterranean region and China.
It’s a 250+ hour intensive program, focusing on international management, business finance & strategy and entrepreneurship with China. Over 6 weeks of training with a world class faculty you will acquire strategic business skills through team project work, case study analysis, start up business plan simulations and company visits. By the end of the program you will be truly competitive in both the Euro-Mediterranean and Chinese job markets.
Through the TOChina Alumni network, the ChinaMed Business Program keeps in touch with outstanding participants from previous editions, and helps you with targeted mentored activities, career days and strategic networking, with HR talent scouts, from key global companies.
Over 90% of our Alumni find a job within 3 months of graduation. Thanks to our partners, select participants are offered scholarships which significantly reduce tuition fees.
Applications are open until June 6th, 2016.
It’s time to go East. Take the right path to China.
TOChina Summer School
(Torino, July 4-15, 2016)
 
The TOChina Summer School, a partnership of the Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Torino, and the Torino World Affairs Institute (T.wai), has been running with the support of Fondazione CRT since 2007 to help outstanding students, young scholars and engaged professionals reflect on the complexity of China’s development and return to global prominence from a plurality of perspectives.

In 2016 the School is proud to acknowledge the Australian Center on China in the World (CIW), the“L’Orientale” and the Department of Political Science of the University of Rome “Roma Tre” as associate partners.

Based at the “Luigi Einaudi” campus of the University of Torino, the Summer School welcomes participants to a vibrant international environment, where an informal work style allows for free, in-depth discussion on critical issues that lie at the’s long-term structural transformations and global current affairs.

Confirmed faculty members for the 2016 TOChina Summer School are:

Daniele Brigadoi Cologna, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
Chen Zhimin, Fudan University
Kent Deng, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ben Hilmann, Australian National University
Jean François Huchet, INALCO
Jia Qingguo, Peking University
Kairat Kelimbetov, Governor of the International Finance Center Astana
Sarah Kirchberger, University of Hamburg
Niu Xinchun, China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations
Francesco Sisci, Renmin University
Patricia Thornton, Oxford University
Luigi Tomba, Australian National University

Participants are selected through a highly competitive process, strictly based on academic merit, professional individual potential.

Online applications are accepted through to May 29th 2016.
www.tochina.it/summerschool

 

Scuola di Management ed Economia has scheduled an open day for the students of the 4th and 5th year of High school, to help them to choose the education right for their future. The event includes meetings with teachers and guided tours of the Polo didattico building, in Corso Unione Sovietica 220.

Participation can be single or in group.

During the event it is possible:

  •      to join the ongoing lessons scheduled for the day
  •      to join the presentation of Scuola di Management e di Economia and of its Bachelor degree courses
  •      “living” for one day in the Scuola di Management e di Economia building
  •      get information from teachers of the Departments about the different courses taught in this educational career
  •      share opinions with Scuola di Management e di Economia students

Program scheduled for the Open Day 2016-2017

  •    April 20th 2016  9 am –1 pm and 2 pm-6 pm
  •    May 11th 2016  9am –1 pm and 2pm- 6 pm

To join the Open Days, students have to send the registration through the special form available on the Scuola di Management ed Econo

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