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Next Salone dell’Orientamento (orientation fair) by the Politecnico di Torino will take place on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th April. It will be held on-site in the Aule R classrooms in via Borsellino, where there will be stallspresenting Bachelor’s Degrees and a rich schedule of thematic meetings and open lessons.

While waiting for the two days schedule details, the Politecnico di Torino has activated a free orientation virtual classto which you can connect from February to May 2024 to meet professors and ask them your questions about the educational offer of the following courses:

Environmental and Land Engineering Bachelor’s Degree
Civil and Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree
Environmental and Land Engineering Master’s Degree
Georesources and Geoenergy Engineering Master’s Degree
Agritech Engineering Master’s Degree.

There will be no additional exam session in June to catch up on the time lost due to Covid-19. Constitutional Affairs and Budget Committees denied the amendment which demanded an extension of the 2022/2023 academic year until 15th June. Such extension was aimed at giving more time to about-to-graduate students whose university career was affected by Covid-19, introducing an additional exam session from 15th June without having to pay university taxes during a whole year.

On Sunday 3 March 2024, the eleventh edition of JUST THE WOMAN I AM will officially start.
New for the 2024 edition: the run will start from Piazza Vittorio Veneto and will finish in Piazza San Carlo. The Prevention and Wellbeing Village will also be set up in the evocative Piazza San Carlo in Turin on 1, 2 and 3 March. The Village is an opportunity for meeting, dialogue and celebration between
the academic world, Italian healthcare excellence, citizens and schools. An event within the event that will offer free prevention visits, consultations and presentation of non-profit associations, conferences and informative webinars. The village will be implemented thanks to the support of the University of
Turin, the Politecnico di Torino, the Fondazione Collegio Universitario Einaudi, Edisu Piemonte, the ASL Città di Torino, the A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino and the several associations that have been participating in the event for years.

JTWIA has grown edition after edition and keeps evolving every year! A journey that has led it to be more sustainable, innovative and eco-friendly. It has expanded its communication platform, reproposing the traditional Meeting Space in the square with a new look: an evocative transparent dome in Piazza San Carlo. Moreover, it is now a globally popular event. All this without ever betraying its ideals: free prevention, healthy lifestyles, inclusion and gender equality. JTWIA has always been taking place strictly in the first week of March, around International Women’s Day.

R101 is the official radio station of the 2024 edition. It will be there in Turin to entertain people with its music and with a special focus on solidarity and inclusion, distinctive features of the radio station.
The latest edition broke all records: more than 22,000 people registered for the 5-kilometre non- competitive walk/run in 2023. A minimum donation of 20 euros per person is required to participate in JTWIA. It will be possible to take part in the event either In person, starting at 4 p.m. from the amazing Piazza Vittorio Veneto in Turin, or in Virtual mode, choosing your own 5 km route and sharing your experience on social media. The Virtual mode is confirmed again for the 2024 edition, as an additional possibility for registered individuals and JTWIA Teams from all over the world to participate.

The JTWIA Teams have always been the beating heart of the event, the best way to support university research and to live the JTWIA experience more intensely from the very first step, that of registering, with the possibility of customising the back of the T-shirt with a logo of your choice at no extra cost after registering a minimum of 20 participants. Each participant in the event will be able to choose the registration method (in Presence/Virtual, Individual/Group) on the dedicated page of the https://jtwia.org/iscrizioni/ website and will receive the registration kit and Welcome Bag directly at home (with a 3 euro surcharge for the delivery service) or opt to purchase the registration kit at the pick-up points throughout the Turin metropolitan area, thanks to the partnership with DECATHLON ITALIA.

Since the 2024 edition, the Gattinoni Group is the main supporter of the event. But there are also many other partners supporting JTWIA: Lauretana, Decathlon, ITT, Boella e Sorrisi, Nova Coop, Iveco Group, Larc, Yogi Tea, Mercatino, Iren, Pastiglie Leone, Fantolino, Tecnocasa, Battaglio, ESCP, the
Organising Committee of the Turin 2025 Games and R101 itself.
Finally, the programme of the Prevention Village on Friday 1 March is dedicated to schools.
Supported by the Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per il Piemonte (Piedmont Regional School Office), the project will explore, among others, two of the issues closest to Generation Z: addictions and eating disorders. Young people and teachers from primary and high schools can participate in a real “student friendly” educational pathway that has them as protagonists in debates and meetings
(https://jtwia.org/scuole/).

admissions tests

Registration for the TIL test at the Politecnico di Torino is now open. There are 3 types of tests, namely TIL-I (Engineering), TIL-D (Design) and TIL-(Planning).

NEWS
 there is not a specific Call for applications for non-EU applicants living abroad and requiring a
visa
 TIL test is to be taken in-person only
 The minimum threshold for admission to TIL-I, TIL-D, TIL-P has been raised to 30/100
 Under the section called “Select your programme”, applicants wishing to take the TIL-I must choose up to 5 degree courses in the Engineering area, including the professional degree course in Technologies for the Manufacturing Industry, and rank them in order of preference.

The TIL is to be held in-person at the computer labs of the Politecnico di Torino campus. In order to register for the TIL test, you must register on the Apply@PoliTO platform.
Applicants have 1 hour and a half to answer 42 questions. Questions are divided in 4 sections covering 4 different disciplines. The number of questions and the time limits are organized as follows:
 16 Mathematics questions – 36 minutes
 10 Reading comprehension and logical reasoning questions – 20 minutes
 10 Physics questions – 22 minutes
 6 Basic technical knowledge questions – 12 minutes

For the academic year 2024/25, for the admission to degree courses with a limited number of studentsv the minimum and guaranteed thresholds are required, as detailed below.
The minimum threshold for being included in the ranking list is 30/100.
The guaranteed admission threshold is 60/100. This score enables applicants to enrol in thevBachelor’s degree programme they have chosen as their first preference.

The online calls for applications to the regional fee refund for the “Right to University Study”, for the academic year 2023/2024, are open from 15 January to 30 June 2024.

The regional fee
is a sum that students are required to pay, in compliance with Legislative Decree 68/2012 and Regional Law no. 53 of 1 August 1996, when matriculating or enrolling in undergraduate, postgraduate, research and single-cycle specialisation degree courses or in Higher Education Schools.

How to pay it
You pay it directly to your university when you enrol. You can find out how to do this on your university’s website or by contacting the offices in charge.
You can apply for a refund of the regional fee for the “Right to University Study” (EURO140.00) only, but not for any additional costs such as virtual stamp duty or other charges.
Students who have only paid a fee of EURO 16.00 do not have to fill out the refund application.

IMPORTANT
The application for refund does not have to be submitted by grant- winners or eligible applicants, as in their case the refund of the regional fee is made automatically.

Two events of two days each to create new partnerships and collaborations among researchers from 11 universities of the UNITA Alliance: this is the aim of the 2 nd edition of the UNITA research matching events.

On 12 and 13 December, more than 40 teaching and research staff from 6 countries active in the field of “Cultural heritage and tourism in a digital world” gathered in Turin; on the following two days, an equal number of participants attended the second event on the topic “Renewable energy mixes and materials for a more sustainable world”.
The model, already tested during the first UNITA research matching event in October 2022, consists of a series of face-to-face meetings, of 20 minutes each in rotation, between professors and researchers active in related scientific fields in order to get to know each other and discuss new international
projects and initiatives.
Matching between professors is created through a platform that collects participants; scientific profiles and takes into account the matching preferences expressed by all the participants over the days

preceding the event. Moreover, during the matching days each participants had the opportunity to introduce themselves and present their field of research in a short session of elevator pitches.
At the end of the two events, each participant had the opportunity to hold 8 face-to-face meetings with colleagues from other countries, and thus consider the possibility of activating joint research projects and initiatives.

The first day of the event led to the creation of a project for joint PhD theses between the University of Turin and the University of Zaragoza in the field of linguistics. In the upcoming weeks, UNITA staff members in all participating universities will monitor the development of projects resulting from the
matching, so that they can provide administrative assistance where necessary and keep track of the initiatives created after the event.
At the event, Mario Giacobini, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Relations with European Institutions, announced the imminent publication of a call for research grants within UNITA.

During the academic year 2023/2024, UNITO supports the right to education and the sustainable mobility with a new initiative aimed at reimbursing the annual or multi-
monthly GTT pass.

WHICH PASSES ARE INCLUDED (AND WHICH EXCLUDED)
The reimburse is valid only for the annual and multi-monthly passes, lasting between 10 and 12 months, that were purchased between 1 July 2023 and 31 January 2024 exclusively on
the website e-commerce della GTT or at the ticket vending machines in the metro stations.
Other tickets, such as weekly passes, are not reimbursable.

REIMBURSE AMOUNT
The reimburse is reserved for students from Università di Torino enrolled in the academic year 2023/2024 in a first or second-cycle degree and free of debts to the university. The
80% of the fare, up to a maximum of 400€ per capita, will be reimbursed.

DEADLINE
The application for reimbursement must be sent by 12 p.m. on 31 January 2024.
The application can be sent exclusively by filling in the online form included in the notice.

CIRSDe, the Research Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, will organise the conference “Beyond Genders”. Intersectionality between theory and practice. Interdisciplinary gazes” on Friday, 24 November and Saturday, 25 November at Luigi Einaudi Campus.

This concept was born within the Anglo-American legal discourse and coined by the American jurist Kimberlé Crenshaw to highlight how the law is often inadequate to address the discrimination based on several factors and how even inadequate the anti-discrimination policies are to interactions, such as those in the situation of black women. The concept of intersectionality underlines the existence of social hierarchies and compartmentalization by describing oppression and discrimination caused by belonging to multiple groups and/or categories such as sex, gender, class, ethnicity, religion, age, disability, or sexual orientation.

Nowadays, it is transversally used as theoretical orientation in gender and women’s studies to analyse how the indicators of difference intertwine with majority and dominant structures. Over the years, its scope has extended beyond the abovementioned disciplines, including the social, pedagogical, psychological, medical, or linguistic field, to name a few. An increasing number of people working in the academy and interested in inequalities, social injustices and discrimination is aware of the need to overcome binarism and dichotomies that simplify the complexity of multiple belongings. Together with the multidisciplinary branching, the concept of intersectionality became the object of different divergences. It is the object of heated debates and epistemological and ideological controversies between those who believe in its ideological nature that cannot be limited to a mere methodological approach, and those who claim the need of an analysis based on a class struggle, crucial for any social injustice.
Moreover, while in some disciplines, such as gender studies, the concept of intersectionality is well known both from a theoretical and practical point of view, in others it is a nebulous concept searching for a well-defined identity, especially in its practical effects. Given the plural nature of the current debate and the diagonal nature of its application, the conference intends to be an opportunity for dialogue between the different disciplines to explore the “state-of-the-art” of research and considerations on this topic. What are the perspectives through which it has been analysed for years? What are its applications? What makes its implementation complex and what are the pitfalls in its actual applicability? Why do some
fields of study seem to dialogue more fluently with this concept and others to be resistant?
Which are the most popular research methods, and why? How was the concept of intersectionality analysed and discussed among the various disciplines? How can an
intersectional perspective be developed in global contexts that deal with a past of colonialism and oppression?
For further information
www.cirsde.unito.it
beyondgenders@unito.it

Eureka, the new unified access point to bibliographic resources of Università degli Studi di Torino, is coming on Monday, 6 November.
Eureka replaces the current services Tutto , Trova and Bibliopass , and integrates all search and resource access functions into a single tool.

Eureka is the ideal starting point for bibliographic search. In Eureka there are books, magazines, articles, databases, websites and much more material owned or made accessible by the University.
Eureka makes ‘Search and Find” easier!
For further information please visit the dedicated website SBA – Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo , which is constantly updated.

Are you graduating or have a degree and want to enter the world of work?
AlmaLaurea is organising next Thursday, 26 October from 9.20 a.m. a free event dedicated to undergraduates and graduates from Turin and Northern Italy: AL Lavoro Torino .
Undergraduates and graduates will have the opportunity to meet the companies and take part in workshops to improve their own skills. Registration is mandatory to attend the meeting.

WHAT YOU CAN DO BEFORE SECONDARY-SCHOOL DIPLOMA
 4 th -year secondary-school students, again this year, can take the entrance exam for the five-year master’s degree courses in Medicine and Surgery, Dentistry and Prosthetics in Italian and Veterinary Medicine. Since the secondary-school diploma is a mandatory requirement for enrolment, in any case you will need to have obtained it to complete your enrolment. How many times can secondary-school students take the entrance exam? Each candidate can take the TOLC-Med and TOLC-Vet twice a year: one per each exam session. Therefore, 4 th -year secondary-school candidates can attempt the exam 4 times: twice in 2023 and twice in 2024.

  As regards the other TOLC exams, i.e., the online test by CISIA consortium, you can participate through any exam delivery method even if you are still a 4 th -year secondary-school student. It must be considered that, according to the Rules TOLC , a TOLC exam is valid at least in the year in which you take it. Therefore, students will have to check the validity period of the exam in the notice of admission of the relevant degree course.

 Politecnico di Torino gives students who are in their final year of secondary school the opportunity to take the entrance exam for a maximum of 3 times and only once per exam session. These are three different exams, i.e., the TIL-I test (to access to all Engineering degree courses of Politecnico), TIL-D test (to access to Design and Communication degree courses) and TIL-P (to access to Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning degree course).

 Free online courses of start@unito – available here  – will be useful both to choose the course and prepare for the entrance exam.
 CONSERVATORY: preparatory courses are very useful to access three-year degree courses without any fail in the core subjects, info and regulation

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