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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.

Following the success achieved during the training day dedicated to the teachers of the Piedmont schools, entitled “A Scuola di Futuro. L’impatto della rivoluzione digitale sul sistema educativo”,
that was organized by the Convitto Nazionale “Umberto I” of Turin on the 30 th of September 2022, leader in Piedmont of the project Avant-garde Education: https://www.riconnessioni.it/eventi/a-
scuola-di-futuro/, SMaILE has continued to propose its activities, having been present on several events throughout the entire autumn:

1) SMaILE was the protagonist of two workshops on the 13 th of November 2022 during the
Biennale di Tecnologia (10 th -13 th of November 2022), organized by the Polytechnic of
Turin:
–      Survey Game SMAILE. Discover with SMalLE your profile in the universe of Artificial
Intelligence (https:///www.biennaletecnologia.it/survey-game-smaile-discoverer-small-
your-profiling- in the universe of artificial intelligence
–    SMalLE App. Imagine the city of the future created with the help of Artificial Intelligence
(https://www.biennaletecnologia.it/smalle-app-imagina-thecity-of-the-future-creata-con-
laiuto- of artificial intelligence

2) at the Science Festival Rome (21 th -27 th of November 2022):
https://festivaldellescienzeroma.it/eventi/la-gamification-and-powerment-per-teach-
artificial lintelligenza-artificiale/ A Webinar was held at the Festival on 21 th of November
focused on the theme: “Gamification and empowerment to teach artificial intelligence” by
the Professors involved in the project.

3) Sottodiciotto Film Festival of Turin (14 th of November – 19 th of December 2022):
https:///www.sottodiciottofilmfestival.it/programma-scuole-2022/ Thanks to the SMaILE
App project and the local partner Aiace, SMaILE actively participates in the Festival Schools
Program with two activities:

Città visibili e Animate" which consists in building a city through the
animation technique. Children will design and animate their ideal city, the one where they
would like to live without risks for the environment and where they can make new friends.
The goal of this activity is to observe the space where they live and stimulate them to
describe it with the support of the SMaILE APP.

–       “Scuole Secondarie di I Grado La Città a Fumetti” consists of 4 meetings to study in
depth the language of comics and also audiovisual. Thanks to the SMaILE app, participants
will be able to look up in the archival materials of Sottodiciotto Film Festival and invent
new stories with their cities (real, imaginary, visible or invisible) as their protagonist.

The Ministry for University published the decree regarding the traditional TOLC medical admission test: the exams will take place in April and July in presence. As explained in the decree, the exams will take place in presence and each candidate will choose an institute during the application.

The exams will be completed on the digital platform CISIA in designated positions, which will be arranged by each institute according to a later decree that will be published by the general Management of the Ministry.
The new medical admission test 2023 will have a duration of 90 minutes and will take place in presence in April and in July. All students at the fourth or fifth year of high school can participate. You can apply for the TOLC exams on the website of CISIA www.cisiaonline.it.

You can attempt 4 times and use your best results out of all.
The questions of the new medical admission test, the TOLC-MED, will be split as follows:
 7 reading comprehension quizzes about topics studied in schools – 15 minutes;
 15 biology quizzes – 25 minutes;
 15 chemistry and physics quizzes – 25 minutes;
 13 mathematics and logical reasoning quizzes – 25 minutes.

The procedure for the refunding of the transport fare and/or the bike sharing service started yesterday, on Thursday, September 1, 2022, and is addressed to all students of the Politecnico di Torino. The procedure is to be started by December 21, 2022 in the section “Abbonamenti studenti” (Students’ subscriptions) that you can find in the Portale della Didattica.

The requirements for the refund are:
 Full time registration to the academic year 2022/2023;
 A specific number of ECTS that are not part of your academic curriculum and were achieved between August 10, 2021 and August 10, 2022.

The refundable subscriptions are both transport fares used to reach the Politecnico and bike sharing services, purchased between July 1, 2022 and December 21, 2022, and have
a duration of at least 90 days.
The percentages of the refund are different based on your ISEE (an indicator of the economic conditions of families seeking financial aid from the government), from a minimum of 10% to a maximum of 97.5 %.
The refunds will start in February 2023.

InformaGiovani in Turin organises an orientation meeting about the ITS, highereducation curricula that require a High School diploma and prepare students for the real-world requirements of professional life.

Have you ever heard of ITS?
You have a High School diploma but you are seeking something different from a university?
Would you like to learn more about innovative post-high school curricula with high employment rates?
You finally obtained your high school diploma and you are at a crossroads: university or not?

There are free two-year curricula financed by Regione Piemonte through European funds and by the Ministry of Education, University and Research that allow you to obtain a technical level qualification: They are called ITS, Higher Technical
Institutes (Istituti Tecnici Superiori), top-class centres, highly specialised in technology. There are many options and all of them are in line with the
requirements of the job market.

The InformaGiovani Centre, in collaboration with the ITS system of Regione Piemonte, organises an orientation meeting at the Biblioteca Civica Centrale in via della Cittadella 5, on Monday, September 12 at 3:00 p.m.

How to participate
The meeting is free for everyone.
On TorinoGiovani you can find mor information about:
 Higher Technical Institutes
 Post-high school education possibilities, excluding universities
 Orientation services

The meeting is part of the so-called Settembre della Formazione, a venture started by the InformaGiovani Centre in Turin that organises meetings and workshops to help you decide how to go on with your education path.