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On the occasion of the 12^th edition of Paratissima, IAAD presents the contest YOUNG CREATIVE TALENT NIGHT on Friday, November 4, 2016, from 7 pm to 9 pm, at Torino Esposizioni, in corso Massimo D’Azeglio, 15.

This year the theme of the Young Creative Talent Night is “To the Stars“, an ambitious journey to the stars where the ideas and projects of twelve best IAAD students are going to compete.
The projects will be rated by a jury – chaired by IAAD Director, Laura Milani, and made up of designers, representatives of design-oriented companies and the world of culture, journalists of the field and artists.

The winner will win an internship in one of the partner companies of the contest.

On the occasion of its tenth birthday, Mirafiori Motor Village organizes a non-competitive race of 8 km, open to all citizens, to finance the project “Onda su onda” of the Foundation of Regina Margherita Children’s hospital.

In fact, some of the proceeds will go to charity and will help the implementation of non-invasive neurophysiological monitoring in the pediatric ICU.

The project provides for the possibility to get an emplacement of combined neurophysiological monitoring, which should be composed by a Transcranial Doppler and an Electroencephalograph.Also two scholarships will be funded, one for a technician of Neurophysiopathology dedicated to monitoring and data collection and the other one for a children’s neuropsychiatrist dedicated to the clinical evaluation of patients undergoing monitoring and analysis of the collected data.

The race will start at 10 am on Sunday, Oct. 23, and competitors will race in Fiat historic plants and on the test track. At the end one lucky winner will be drawn lots and will go home driving his or her new Fiat 500.

Registration is open online or at official registration points.

The presentation of the Galileo Galilei exhibition was on Tuesday, October 18 from 5.30 pm, at the Reading Room of the Central Library of the Politecnico, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24.

The displayed material showed some of the most important discoveries of the great Tuscan scientist Galileo Galilei, together with those of his successors. A journey through the technology of scientific instrumentation, which has continued to evolve over years, following every step of the discovery of the world, from the stars to the atom.

Also tools for teaching and research of the historic collections of DISAT – Department of Applied Science and Technology at Politecnico di Torino was on display: electrometers, galvanometers, ammeters, voltmeters and tools used for studies on polarized light, used from 1920 to 1960.

The University of Turin is one of 1500 bodies that was selected to participate in the “Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition“, the most important European innovation fair, which took place from 14^th to 16^th October.

Among 7000 candidates, the University of Turin was chosen to present five projects:

1. Agrisu, an instrument created by the incubator of the University 2I3T that provides real-time environmental quality indices in connection with their physiological parameters;
2. Carioca, an innovative project of the inter-departmental Centre of Innovation of University ICXT, which aims to create an architecture for monitoring and management of industrial machinery in optic smart factory;
3. First Life, the ‘neighbourhood’ social network created in UniTo that allows you to share information, create groups and co-produce services from the bottom through an interactive map;
4. #hackUniTO for Ageing, the UniTo’s project to enhance the research for the ageing;
5. MCS and WHC, the tools designed by the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food sciences to measure the constriction and the water holding capacity of meats.

“Non amo che le rose
che non colsi. Non amo che le cose
che potevano essere e non sono state…”

Guido Gozzano, Cocotte.

On the occasion of the centenary of the death of Gozzano, the Study Centre “Guido Gozzano-Cesare Pavese” of the University of Turin is organizing, in collaboration with other cultural institutions of Turin, the film festival “The cinema at the time of Gozzano“, which will take place from 4^th to 25^th October at the Cinema Romano, Subalpina Gallery.

The Study Centre is organizing a program of events to talk about his work as a poet, travel writer, author of short stories, fairy tales and Turinese prose, of essays on photography and cinema, of a film script; an occasion to discuss the figure of the author, who was often considered a provincial and not at all international poet. Moreover there will be also the projection of silent films of the collections of the National Museum of Cinema in Turin to recreate the atmosphere of Turin at the beginning of the 20^th century .

The movies are Free entry to all the projections until there are available seats. For full and detailed program of the festival, visit the Study Centre “Guido Gozzano-Cesare Pavese“.