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On Friday, July 12, Politecnico di Torino and Camplus (housing provider for university students in Italy and Spain) inaugurated the new student residence dedicated to Cesare Codegone.

The new residence is financed 50% by MIUR funds and the remaining 50% by project financing from ATI SECAP s.p.a (construction) and Fondazione Ceur-Camplus (management). It is a new building located in Via Paolo Borsellino 38, in a strategic position, a few minutes’ walk from the Politecnico, the city center and Porta Susa railway station. The residence building is comprised of nine floors for a total of 132 rooms and 144 beds. Ten rooms in the residence will be reserved for new students enrolled in an engineering course, as part of an agreement between the University and Camplus regarding the “WeareHERe” program for the promotion of female enrollment in courses in the area of engineering. All rooms will be fully furnished and will include a study area and a refrigerator for the exclusive use of the student. The services offered by the facility have been designed to meet every need: laundry, common kitchens, study rooms, a recreation room with TV, a large terrace and a garden will be available to all students.

The new residence offers around 58 beds at a free market rent and more than 86 beds at controlled prices, together with an all-inclusive package that includes the use of all the facilities, air conditioning, utilities and Wi-Fi, with prices that vary according to the type of room chosen and the period of stay.

Are you interested in a course of study in Design or Graphics? Turin offers a wide choice of courses in this field. There are two main types of courses, one in public universities and one in private schools.

Public Schools

The Politecnico offers a three-year course in Design and Communication:
To enrol you must take the entrance test at the Politecnico.
The professionals trained in the Bachelor’s Degree course will be working as product designers and graphic and virtual designers.

Accademia Albertina of Fine Arts offers a three-year course in Graphics and Artistic Design for Business.
To register you must take an entrance exam.
The Graphics course is intended to provide a wide range of languages and technical innovations of contemporary life.
The course in Artistic Design for Business has the objective of providing adequate technical training, particularly with regard to methods and content in the fields of Graphic Design, Advertising Communication, installations, Product Design and Fashion Design.

Private Schools

The European Institute of Design (IED) is offering highly specific training in design.
It offers three three-year courses: Product Design, Transportation Design (which is held in Italian and in English), Interior Design.
In addition, IED offers a three-year course in Graphic Design.
To access the course, you will need to undergo a motivational interview and/or language test in accordance with the specific procedures described in the admission process.

The Institute for Applied Art and Design (IAAD) has a training program that focuses on design.
The Bachelor’s degrees available include: Transportation Design, Interior design, Product design, Communication design, Digital Communication design, Textile & Fashion design, Social Innovation design.
To register you must pass the entrance test

In September, the Politecnico of Turin will inaugurate a new Bachelor’s Degree in Technologies for the manufacturing industry. The course lasts three years and has a maximum of 50 participants, you can register until September 20 to take part in the admission test that will take place on September 24.

The aim of this course is to train high-profile professionals who can immediately be employed in the manufacturing sector, thus fully responding to the needs of companies, especially SMEs, which are interested in multi-skilled professionals, who have been trained to solve complex problems through “learning by doing”, learning by thinking" strategies, in which knowledge is mainly transmitted through
workshops and projects rather than through lectures. A special feature of the course will include the relationship with companies: from the first year the student will undertake a course of in-depth study of methods and knowledge specifically aimed at the production process sector with internships during all three years of the course, which in the last year will have a more oriented connotation to deal with real cases and experiences of the world of work.

For information on enrolment click here.

The admission tests for the Original course (five tests) and the Academy course (one test) will be held at the Holden School on July, 13th.
The test will take place In the morning and there will be individual interviews in the afternoon.
For further information

Saturday, July 6 at 10:00 a.m. IUSTO – Istituto Universitario Salesiano Torino Rebaudengo is organizing an Open Day for the three-year course in Educational Sciences.
To sign up, visit the website

Students enrolled at the University of Turin or at the Politecnico will be offered the opportunity to speak at a conference alongside great lecturers and experts in scientific communication. The event will be dealing with how to communicate with the public about the results of scientific research, which is a fundamental component of contemporary science. In fact, scientific dissemination to amateurs differs from the
dissemination to people who are doubtful about a project that concerns them and is also different from the dissemination to public or private financiers.
To participate, send your abstract by September 1st.§
For all information visit the website

DigiTO, the online magazine of the Youth Policies Service, has created a new section in English,  “Discovering Turin” for those who want to know the city. You can find articles dedicated to the museums of Turin, a guide for university students and many other articles. This is the perfect magazine for a student who decides to move to Turin.

EDISU 2019/2020 has now been published, this year's edition includes:
– A single deadline for the application for scholarship and housing service, which will be on 29 August at 12:00.
– Only university ISEE certificates whose DSU was signed between 16 January and 29 August 2019 will be taken into consideration for participation.
– The supplementary contribution for international mobility, which can be requested from 29 April 2020 to 29 May 2020, has been included in the call for applications.
To see the call for applications, visit the website

You can apply for the AGON Scholarship until 19 July. AGON scholarship aims to guarantee access to the highest levels of academic education to deserving young athletes from all over Italy and abroad, by giving them to opportunity to practice sport in an excellent environment. Politecnico and the University of Turin offer 24 scholarships: 14 cover food and lodging and university fees for athletes, while the other 10 cover the payment of university fees.
For the application you must present a certificate of academic achievement and sports curriculum.
For all information visit the website

The Almalaurea 21 st report on the graduates’ profile in 2018 in Piedmont. The statistic analyzed the performance of over 280,000 graduates in 2018: more specifically, 160,000 bachelor degree graduates, 82,000 master degree graduates and 37,000 single-cycle degree program graduates. 30.0% of the graduates comes from other Italian regions, 6.1% of the graduates is international. As regards the success of university studies as a whole, the average age of graduates is 25.3 years old. The average final score is 101.1 out of 110. 57.0% of the graduates did an internship accepted by their degree course, whereas 13.3% has completed a study experience abroad which was accepted by their degree course. As regards the fulfillment for the university experience, 89.8% of graduates is satisfied, also concerning the relationship with professors and the infrastructures that the university provides.
And how many people would enroll again to university? 73.6% of graduates would choose the same degree course and the same university again, whereas 11.5% of graduate would enroll again in the same university but would change the degree program.
One year after graduating, the employment rate is 78.4%, more specifically 56.4% of the employed considers the degree course very useful for their job. The employment rate of engineers from Politecnico is a record: one year after graduating 89% of them have a job contract with a higher salary compared to graduates from other universities. 73% of the graduates from Università degli Studi have a job one year after graduating. This report awards Piedmont, especially the two universities of Turin with students who have more
stable contracts and significant paychecks once they enter the labour market.