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Tuesday March 21st is a day completely dedicated to research at Politecnico di Torino. On this occasion there will be an accurate description of the strategies for research of Politecnico. Witnesses are the vice-dean for research Stefano Corgnati together with professors and researchers of the university, who will talk about the strategies and the actions carried out in partnership with the institutional and industrial partners of Politecnico.

After that there will be a workshop where one of the topics of the discussion is the relationship between Politecnico and the socio-economic system of the region and of the country, in a background where new roles and new financial models are extremely requested from a technical university.

The European Research Council celebrates its 10th anniversary and on this occasion there will also be the “ERC Cafè” starting from 3.30 p.m. This informal event is open to students, doctorate students and researchers, to give them the opportunity to talk with the winners of the prestigious ERC Grants.

Programme of the day:

9.15 a.m. Registration

9.30 a.m. Relaunching research: the role of the universities today –Marco Gilli, dean of Politecnico

10.00 a.m. The fundamental, collaborative and industrial research of Politecnico di Torino: strategies, actions and funding – Introduction of Stefano Corgnati, vice-dean for research, Politecnico di Torino

The researchers speak: video-witnesses of researchers and research groups which talk about the many specialisation fields, the support of all departments and the various funding that supports the research projects.

The industry speaks: speakers are the delegates of great industrial groups which have signed partnership agreements with Politecnico di Torino.

11.30 a.m. Coffee break

12.00 a.m. Research results and technological transfer of Politecnico di Torino

12.20 a.m. Workshop – the future of the funding of research

Introduction of F. Profumo (President of Compagnia di San Paolo), moderator M. Ferrando (Journalist, Il Sole 24 Ore)

Delegates of the institutions and the foundations which support the scientific research in Italy, of CNR and other great agencies of the region will be present.

3.00 p.m. ERC Cafè

 

Salone d’Onore, Castello del Valentino – Viale Mattioli 39, Turin

On February 21st Piero Piumetti presents: “Vivere bene si può” (It is possibile to have a good life), 50 psychological recipes ready to be used (Effatà Editrice)

Piero Piumetti is psychologist-psychotherapist of Consorzio Socio-Assistenziale (Province of Cuneo), a teacher of “gerontologist psychology” at IUSTO and the scientific director of Corso di Perfezionamento in Psicologia dell’Invecchiamento at IUSTO.

Here you can find useful pieces of advice for your physical and psychological health. There are called “psychological recipes” and can be followed at the same pace or changed according to the “ingredients” everyone has, by choosing the best one for the occasion. In fact, he collected some techniques, coming from different psychological trends, which can prevent and heal many common problems anyone has in their lives: anxiety, stress, fear, depression, somatizing, tics, insomnia, phobias, obsessions, dependence, happiness, couple conflicts, calm, grief, perfectionism, mental schemes, ethics, creativity, motivation, concentration.

On March 21st Girolamo Guerrisi presens: “Lete e Mnemosine”, meetings in the mythology factories (96, rue de-la-Fontaine Edizioni)

Girolamo Guerrisi is an engineer and a writer. He gives us a little contribute of the knowledge of our society: a contribute to the defence of values which are deep in the DNA of our culture. Through this book he wants to get us in contact with symbols and the many sides of mythology, which mean freedom of art and of thought, in order to plant the roots of humanism, which is the greatest common good which is not present nowadays. A trip looking for Beauty, together with the great charm of the mythologist characters.

On May 2nd Maria Pia Venezia presents: “Le nuove forme del comunicare: genitori e adolescenti nell’era dei nuovi media” (The new means of communication: parents and teenager in the era of the new media)

Maria Pia Venezia is a psychologist-psychotherapis.

If the “language is the house of the soul”, then the behaviour a person has online is the new language through which this person shows themselves to the world. The virtual aspects of one’s personality are more and more important, so is important the way the virtual world influences the growth of a teenager. Through this book she wants to give you the instruments to act as parents able to educate their children in the best possible way.

 

The exhibition “Nativity. Masters and young artists of the Accademia Albertina interpret the theme of the New Start” will take place from 20th December, 2016 to 22nd January 2017 at the Pinacoteca Albertina.

The exhibition, curated by Luca Beatrice, Professor of art history and contemporary art Critic, is organized on the occasion of the Christmas period as an opportunity of confrontation between teachers of the main courses of the Accademia Albertina and some outstanding students. This year the Nativity is the theme that students have developed artistically.

Nativity is an exhibition of sixty works that want to interpret the theme of the New Start, taking account of the Catholic roots of our tradition, but also of a secular vision, that is open to cultural diversity and of faith, which is the foundation of civilization and tolerance. Different styles, techniques, languages ​​and means are used: from figurative painting to conceptual art, from video to installation, from sculpture to photography, from folk art to fine mental expressions and many other solutions, stimulated by varied and unorthodox interpretations of the subject, some more literal, other more free.

The exhibition enables visitors to enjoy the best creative works of the Accademia Albertina – which, particularly in recent years, has been hosting students from all over Italy and from abroad – in a truly international perspective, reflecting a variety of glances, visual creativity and cultures that are the revealers of our time.

The National Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) present its reports, which assess the quality of the Italian University and Research.

The University of Turin got the 12th place in the assessments, which have been made over a period of eight months and involved 118 thousand jobs, created between 2011 and 2014 by 60.000 teachers and researchers.

The rector Gianmaria Ajani says he is satisfied with the result, since the University of Turin is “one of the few universities in the North, that confirmed previous assessments.” In fact – he adds – “only our university and Trieste confirmed their ranking, while there is a great revival of universities of Central and South Italy, which had been penalized in previous assessments.” If someone asks the rector the secret to get the same rank, he answers that the result is due to the decisions taken in recent years: they worked on the selection of research products, asking departments to focuse their energies in their own best areas.

The Politecnico di Torino has been ranked 22nd, but Rector Gilli stresses “this type of ranking rewards especially generalist universities, active on several fields of research.” However, “we ranked 25th in the previous survey, so we have recovered three positions and if we consider only Polytechnics, we surpassed Milan, that stood before us, and that is now 25th”, he affirms proudly. For this reason, it will be important to examine the rankings, that are based on the evaluation of individual departments, which will be published by Anvur in the next few days.

 

 

Enrollments for the II Level Master in Design for Arts and Cultural Innovation are now open.

The master, offered by the Politecnico di Torino, deals with strategic and planning aspects in the fields of art and design and aims to train cultural mediatiors among workers in the field of architecture, of the art system and the public.

The master was created after a careful assessment of cultural and business characteristics of the area – Turin – that allowed to identify the multidisciplinary training needs of professionals, who, in addition to a solid humanistic background, can also develop projects for new business and cultural production models through the use of new technologies.

The Master in Design for Arts and Cultural Innovation offers a comprehensive and structured training course, which allows participants to address strategic and planning aspects, particularly in the arts and design sector. The course aims to train cultural mediators among professionals in the field of architecture, of the art world (artists, curators, gallery owners, journalists, technicians) and the public.

The deadline for applications is scheduled for 16th January, 2017.

For more information, please visit the website of the Master.

A seminar on “Urban Food Policies: research and cooper-action between North and South” is scheduled for Thursday, December 15, 2016, from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm, in the Room B3 of Campus Luigi Einaudi. The event is organized by the General Direction of development cooperation (MAECI) and the University of Turin as an initiative on the occasion of the World Food Day.

Urban food policies are a new possibility of development cooperation, of thought and political action, also in Italy, thanks to the incentive of international experiences and initiatives, as well as the launch and the spread of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact. Talk about urban food policies means connecting and stimulating a systemic vision of a plurality of actions and projects towards a more sustainable horizon. The seminar is an occasion to inform people about initiatives on this theme, which are organized by the Italian cooperation and by the most important international organizations, that deal with nutrition, confronting them with experiences and initiatives in Turin and Milan, with a view of local partnerships between North and South of the world.

Representatives of DGCS, FAO, World Food Program, CIHEAM of Bari, Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, University of Turin and institutional and social actors of food system in Turin and of development cooperation will speak during the meeting.

The University of Turin, in collaboration with the AXA Research Fund and Collegio Carlo Alberto, organizes the launch event of the AXA Chair on the socio-economic risks of the financial markets on the 6th December 2016. The event will be held in Sala Principi d’Acaja of the Chancellor’s Office (Via Verdi, 8 / Via Po, 17 – Torino), from 9.30 am to 12.00 pm.

The meeting will start with the speech by prof. Bernard Dumas, Chair holder: Is Investment Capital Fast or Slow-moving?. To follow, there will be a round table, where prof. Dumas will discuss the theme with Christian Thimann (Group Head of Regulation, Sustainability and Insurance Foresight, AXA), Elisa Luciano (Professor of Finance at the University of Turin and a fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto), Dario Focarelli (Director General of ANIA) and Carla Patrizia Ferrari (Chief Financial Officer of the Compagnia di San Paolo). Luca Fornovo will moderate the debate (La Stampa, Editor in chief Tuttosoldi).

The AXA Chair is a prestigious funding for scientific research, promoted by Axa Research Fund, which is a philanthropic initiative of the international insurance leader AXA that supports the excellence in basic research to understand and better prepare against risks related to environment, lifestyle and the socio-economic situation.

There will be a meeting with Alberto Angela and ‘the secret of the Mona Lisa’ on Thursday, December 1, at 5.45 pm at Teatro Colosseo.

Charm merges with mystery this Thursday: the most famous palaeontologist, writer and popularizer will deal with the mysteries of the most enigmatic painting by Leonardo. By analysing his work of art, you will understand the mind and the life of the painter.
You can watch the meeting live stream.

The Mona Lisa is a starting point to speak about the incredible inventions and machines designed by Leonardo. The landscape behind the Mona Lisa shows the aerial perspective, conceived by Leonardo, while Mona Lisa’s hands reveal his detailed anatomical studies.

CIRSDe (Research Center for Women and Gender’s Studies) of the University of Turin organizes a meeting to think about the state of the art of Gender and Women’s Studies.

The Center wants to celebrate its 25th anniversary with the event “CIRSDe. A project that goes on. Considerations and prospects after 25 years of Gender’s Studies”.

The meeting will be held at Campus Luigi Einaudi on 1st and 2nd December.

At the end of the meeting, there will be the projection of “Rebel Menopause”, a documentary film, directed by Adele Tulli, that is about Thérèse Clerc, a feminist activist of Paris.
On. Laura Boldrini, President of the Chamber of Deputies, will take the floor on the 2nd December.

The event Is free, until seats are available.

The first meeting of “The Days of the blue economy” will be held on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, at 11:00 am at Castello del Valentino, in Sala dei Gigli. The subject of these meetings is how to overcome the crisis by using the resources of the territory and by the imitating the nature. The systemic Approach, proposed by the Department of Architecture and Design of the Politecnico di Torino and the Consulta Europea Regionale, promotes a number of meetings to discuss these issues and to develop plans based on the Blue Economy.

The Days of the Blue Economy, organized a year after the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the DAD and the Consulta Regionale Europea, are created to compare different actors on current themes of environmental, economic and social sustainability, that involve and affect Piedmont.

The so-called Blue Economy, whose founder is the economist Gunter Pauli, is based on the imitation of nature and its ability not to generate waste. It proposes a model that allows to make profits, to create new employment, environmental quality and system culture; It enhances the quality of the territory and helps solve environmental and social problems. This economic theory includes the concept of systemic approach / design developed by the research group of Systemic Design of the Politecnico di Torino, founded by Professor Luigi Bistagnino. He says:”It’s a new way to approach the project, the production processes and get even sustainable products, where the output of a system is always the input of another. The main targets are the so-called “zero” emissions, the implementation of a new economic model of production and the creation of a community, that is strongly and consciously connected to the territory, and where the existence of the individual is related to that of others. All work together to create a vital network, that is highly active and resilient. The ensemble enhances the parties.”

The MoU also includes the application of a policy document of the Systemic Approach, that affects the territory, the community, the products and services. An economic and productive systemic model needs new assessment parameters, that must be based on the quality of processes and products, and not on quantity. The policy document provides the assessment criteria to evaluate the relationship between the various productive activities.

The production takes place in a local and network context, in a collaboration between production processes (agricultural and industrial), nature, local context and community. This combination created a broader and more complex project, which concerns both the entire production chain, and the activities related to it.

The application of the policy document of the Systemic Approach proposes that the whole process is assessed and regulated by a Scientific Committee composed of experts in the Systemic Design and members of bodies, who represent the productive system.

The final meeting is scheduled on December 19, at 2.00 pm, at the Great Hall of Lingotto, Gunter Pauli will also take part in the event. It will be also the occasion to present the book Micromacro, edited by Luigi Bistagnino with the contribution from other experts.

If you want to check the program, please visit the website: https://goo.gl/hfshKD

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