Posts by Luca Cipriani

The master’s degree programme in Cybersecurity offered by Politecnico di Torino – one of the very first application of the education plan proposed by the European Cybersecurity Organisation – aims to fulfil the growing need for specialists equipped with advanced skills in the field of cybersecurity, especially since this deficiency represents a serious threat to our economic development as well as to national and European security.

This curriculum includes four different courses of study related to the distinct job title the students will obtain: Cyber Analyst, Cyber Designer, Cryptography expert and Cyber Legal and Compliance Officer. The four tracks share the first year of the curriculum, while starting from the second year the student will be able to achieve the expertise and skills in a particular area of cybersecurity by attending courses that will characterise his or her professional roles in the cybersecurity domain.

Cybersecurity is an extremely complex area that requires advanced technological skills, but also juridical, economic, and social expertise. The decision to offer a new master’s degree course is driven by the need to combine interdisciplinary skills in the legal-economic field with a solid technological foundation in the field of Computer Engineering. In addition to solid scientific and technological foundations, nowadays cybersecurity experts must also be equipped
with legal skills in civil law – for example the management of the General Data Protection Regulation, which is the European privacy legislation –, criminal law – to carry out forensic analyses properly – and they must have expertise in business economics, in order to manage a cyber risk appropriately, also from the economic point of view.

The students will become cybersecurity experts, a multidisciplinary professional figure capable of operating in the design, development, and management of the cybersecurity of complex information systems, in line with the most important
international standards and frameworks. From a technical point of view, this master’s degree course aims to provide students with the essential skills necessary to cover all cybersecurity phases: plan, protect, monitor, respond and recover.

Since 1998 AlmaLaurea has been carrying out annual surveys on Graduates’ Employment status.

The survey analyses Graduates’ Employment status one, three and five after they have completed their degree and provides a broad snapshot of graduates’ entry into the labour market, the characteristics of the jobs they found (including salary) and the actual use in their work of the skills acquired at university. The 25 th report involved 670,000 interviewees from 78 different universities.

As regards the University of Turin, the survey on employment status involved a total of 26,166 graduates. The University of Turin informs that the data focus on the analysis of the performances of graduates holding bachelor’s degree and master’s degree, interviewed one year after they obtained the degree in 2021, and on those holding master’s degree who graduated in 2017, interviewed after five years.

In addition, for graduates with bachelor’s degree, who have never enrolled in a subsequent university course, the employment rate one year after graduation increased from 76.2% (according to the 2022 Report) to 76.4% (according to the
2023 Report).
The other indicators were also good: the unemployment rate dropped from 10.3% to 9.1%, part-time employment decreased from 21.4% to 19% and wages rose from 1,304 to 1,331 euros per month after tax.
The University of Turin shows a positive trend compared to the Italian national average. Indeed, the employment rate of bachelor graduates at the University of Turin
is 76.4% compared to the Italian average of 75.4%.
The employment rate for graduates with a master’s degree, one year after graduating, compared to the results of the previous report, has increased from 75.4% in 2022 to 77.9% in 2023. In addition, in 2023, the unemployment rate has fallen from 11.6% to 9% and part-time employment has decreased from 18.7% to 14.4%.

The employment rate one year after obtaining a master’s degree at the University of Turin is 77.9% compared to the national average of 77.1%.
The employment rate five years after completing a master’s degree has maintained at the same level of the previous year. On the other hand, the monthly net salary (after
tax) has increases from 1,641 euros in 2022 to 1,696 euros in 2023, the unemployment rate has decreased from 3.8% to 3.3% and part-time employment has fallen from 9.4 % to 8 %. The employment rate five years after obtaining a master’s degree at the University of Turin is 90% compared to the national average of 88.7%.

As regards the employment profile of graduates at Politecnico, the survey reveals that most of them (86.6%) continue studying after their bachelor’s degree, so they enter the world of work only after completing their master’s degree. Among graduates holding a bachelor’s degree, who have never enrolled in a master’s degree course and therefore entered the world of work, the employment rate is 74.6%, compared to the
national Italian average of 75.4%.

However, the most significant figure, concerns the employment rate of graduates one year after receiving their master’s degree, which keeps rising compared to previous years and is significantly higher than the national average: the 90.7% of master’s graduates at Politecnico di Torino are employed, a figure which is much higher than the national average of 77.1%. Compared to the last year, the employment rate one year after completing a master’s degree in engineering has increased to 95.1%; the employment rate of graduates holding a master’s degree in architecture has also been rising consistently, reaching 87.7%.

According to the latest AlmaLaurea data, the percentage of employed people increases further five years after graduation, when it reaches 94% compared to the
national average of 88.7%.
The type of employment of Politecnico graduates is also interesting: 41.7% of them have a permanent employment contract. In addition, there is a significant difference in terms of salary between those who graduated from Politecnico and the Italian average: a monthly net salary (after tax) of 1,632 euros compared to an average salary of 1,366 euros one year after their graduation and 2,013 euros compared to 1,1697 euros five years after graduating. Both figures have been increasing since the previous survey.

The next student elections for the University of Turin (UNITO) will be held by e-voting, according to the following schedule:

● 28th of March 2023, from 9 am to 9 pm.
● 29th of March 2023, from 9 am to 9 pm.
● 30th of March 2023, from 9 am to 4 pm.

Each voter will vote with the electronic device that they have at their disposal.
By entering the SCU (Unified System of Credentials) credentials in the university portal, the voter has access to the e-voting service. After the access to the service, the voter will have the lists of all the candidates.

Voters can express their preferences up to the maximum number provided for each list.
Once the voting is completed, the voter has to confirm the vote and close the voting session.
Voters without suitable electronic devices can vote by using the computer stations (the location of the latter will be indicated on this page).
There will be a space dedicated to the publication of electoral lists. Only after the publication of the election poster and the verification of the eligibility of candidates by the Electoral Commission, will it be possible to send the electoral lists to the address votazioni@unito.it by Thursday, 23rd of March 2023 at
12.

Students, in possession of the requirements indicated in the NOTICE, have until the 24th of February at 24:00 to comply with the Declaration of Interest regarding the free allocation of 200 beds, at the Turin office, by the residential service for the second semester of the 2022/2023 a.y.

The DECLARATION OF INTEREST has to be properly filled and sent by the 24th of February 2023, at 24.00. It has to be sent by email to assegnazioniresidenze@edisu-piemonte.it and submitted by the adults concerned, accompanied with a photocopy of the (valid) identity document and the fiscal code of the applicant.

To participate, University students, at the time of submission, have to meet the following requirements:

1. Have an ISEE (Indicator of the economic condition of Italian families) University certificate (Italian Ministerial Decree of the 5th of December 2013 No. 159), valid at the time of submission, less or equal to 60,000 euros;

2. Being regularly enrolled, in the 2022/23 a.y., at any course of the University of Turin, the Polytechnic of Turin, other Universities and AFAM (Academic Diploma of Higher Education in Art, Music and Dance) or being a student of the first year of a PhD (Third level course of study) in the
2022/23 a.y.

3. Have obtained, in the first years, at least 5 ECTS at the time of submission or, for the following years, the requirements of the Annex 1 of this call by the 31st of October 2022.

The National Day of Energy Saving and Sustainable Lifestyles, “M’Illumino di Meno”, organized annually by Rai Radio2 with Caterpillar since 2005, will be back on Thursday, 16th of February. The aim of this event is to spread the knowledge of environmental sustainability and resource saving.

For this occasion, the University of Turin organized the event. Le Comunità Energetiche Rinnovabili (CER): una bella opportunità… ma veramente per chiunque?”, at the Sala Laurea Rossa Grande of the Campus Luigi Einaudi, from 5 to 7 p.m. The role of UNITO (University of Turin) is to support a
possible energy transition. The event is organized by UniToGO’s Energy Group and the Informal Group on Energy Communities.
It is open to all the people who want to better understand how CER (Renewable Energy Communities) works and what are the advantages and disadvantages in adopting this model.
It will be based on community and energy and how the scientific community of UNITO could use this kind of model, both from a scientific research and operational point of view.

The event will be divided in two phases: the first one will present the principles underlying the CER model, highlighting the good reasons for creating and being part of it, but it will also focus on the many critical aspects of technical, economic, legal, political and social nature of the construction process. In
the second part, there will be a discussion, among all the participants, to understand together the reasons for building an energy community and the practical problems that may arise from it, as well as the advantages of having the University of Turin among the promoters of the project.

The system of access to teaching in middle and high school, defined by the Italian Legislative Decree No. 59/2017, in implementation of the Law No. 107/2015, as amended by the Law No. 145/2018 and the Law No. 79/2022, includes a new model of initial recruitment and training.

Those holding a master’s/post-master’s degree or a degree from the previous system can enter to the competition, on the condition that they have obtained a consistent degree with the specific competition class of Table A – MIUR and 24 ECTS in the anthropology, psychology, pedagogy disciplines and teaching methodologies and technologies achieved by the 31 st of October 2022.

The 24 ECTS Training Course will be replaced by a university course of initial training and teacher qualification of 60 ECTS. For details, refer to this site https://www.tfa-piemonte.unito.it/do/home.pl and the appropriate Ministerial Decree.

CERN Summer Student Programme 2023, organised by the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the training programme paid for up to 3 months for university students that are enrolled in Physics, Mathematics, Informatics and Engineering.

During this period, students will have the opportunity to work on an advanced technical project as part of an experimental team, in engineering or informatics fields.
It is also possible to attend a series of seminaries and online lessons by scientists and experts from all over the world. Founded in 1954, CERN mainly studies the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces acting between them. It was a site of important scientific discoveries such as the Higgs boson, a particle whose existence had been theorized by the British physicist Peter Ware Higgs in 1964, that was observed for the first time during experiments conducted at CERN in 2012. Nowadays, the European Organization for Nuclear Research has 23 member countries. CERN also involves other States in its surveys and activities, both European and non-European, in order to encourage the
international scientific cooperation and the development of the next generations of scientists.

REQUIREMENTS
To participate in the CERN Summer Student Programme you have to meet the following criteria:
 being a student of a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (non-doctorate) in Physics, Engineering, Informatics or Mathematics, who will complete at least 3 years of studies by the summer 2023. Participation is also open to those who will graduate within the summer period (from May);
 have never worked at CERN for more than 3 months and have never participated in the Organisation’s summer programmes;
 good knowledge of English. Any knowledge of French is considered a plus.
Applications are open until 30 th of January 2023 at 12.00

As already foreseen, TOLC-MED will be the exam that allows the enrolment for single circle master’s degree course of Medicine and Surgery, Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics.
The first session is scheduled between 13 th and 22 th of April 2023. The second one is scheduled for 15 th and 25 th of July. The Italian Ministry of University explains that the sessions of this exam were scheduled in order not to affect the Baccalaureate exam. For the academic year 2024-2025, sessions will take place in February and April 2024.

As part of these sessions, each university will detect dates and shifts of the exam. Candidates will be able to register to the TOLC-MED through the CISIA website
(www.cisiaonline.it).
After they have taken the exam, candidates will be able to choose the best score among those achieved in the two sessions for the purpose of registration – within the time available – so that they can indicate the university, in order of preference, for which they intend to apply for.