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Are you an international student? Here’s how you can enrol in UniTO

6 April 2018 / in News / by
international student Studenti internazionali Unito

If you have a qualification obtained abroad and you want to enrol for the first time for a degree course at the University of Turin (Università degli Studi di Torino), you have to apply in advance through the application on line Apply@UniTo, no later than 30th April 2018.

The application must be filled in personally and the included data, as well as the attached documents, must be true.

Starting from the registration for the academic year 2017-2018, the University of Turin deems suitable for registration only foreign qualifications obtained after a school period of at least 12 years and released after having attended at least two years of course of the foreign school system.

Further information is available on the Internationality section (Internazionalità) of UniTo portal.

We suggest to go to the University Infopoint in order to receive further detail and to control the documentation required for the enrolment.

Address: Palazzo degli Stemmi, Via Po, 29 – 10124 Torino

Tel: (+39) 011 6703020-3021

Infopoint’s opening hours:

Monday and Friday: from 9.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday: from 9.00 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Moreover, the University makes available a contact point for international students (sportello per studenti internazionali) having a foreign qualification.

Address: vicolo Benevello 3A (I floor)  – 10124 Torino

Tel: (+39) 011 6704498-4499

Fax: (+39) 011 6704494

Email: internationalstudents@unito.it

 

The contact point for international students has the following opening hours:

From Monday to Friday: 9.00-11.00 a.m.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday also: 1.30 p.m.-3 p.m.

Warning: students can access the contact point only once they have  got  one of the tickets with progressive numbers distributed by the Totem in the entry hall. It is clarified that the distribution of tickets is limited to 50 people a day.

UniTo: deadline for payment of the third university fee

6 April 2018 / in News / by
Scadenza pagamento terza rata unito

Are you attending the University of Turin (Università degli Studi di Torino)? You have until 4 p.m. of Friday 6th April to pay the third university fee, which will cover the remaining part of the contribution.

In order to pay, you have to log in to your personal page MyUniTo with your credentials and print the MAV (payment by advice) module, which will be available under the section “fees”.

For further information, please consult the section “fees” (Tasse) of the university portal and the Regulation about fees and contributions for the academic year 2017/2018.

Museum subscription: huge success among UniTo students

3 April 2018 / in News / by

The initiative of the Student Senate of the University of Turin in cooperation with the Museum Subscription Association enabled the distribution of more than 3000 discounted Museum Subscription cards to university students.

Huge success for the initiative of the Student Senate in collaboration with the Museum Subscription Association (Associazione Abbonamento Musei): from 19th to 26th March, more than 3000 special discount coupons of the Turin-Piedmont Museum Subscription card have been handed over to the students attending the Università degli Studi di Torino.

The distribution of the card took place in all the faculties and study hubs of the University of Turin. Hundreds of students from the faculties of Agricultural sciences, Economics, Physics, Jurisprudence and Human sciences have patiently stood in line for hours in order to get one of the Museum Subscription Voucher for the discounted price of 11,50 euro for buying a new subscription.

Once they have got the voucher, students will have to load or to renew the subscription directly on their university Smart Card or on the Pyou card within 3 months from the distribution in one of the points of sale of the Museum Subscription network.

The original initiative focused once more the attention on culture and promotion of the local areas, thank to a card that allows the access to the rich artistic heritage of Turin and Piedmont. In fact, there are more than 200 cultural sites which can be visited for 365 from the moment of the subscription: a product already chosen by 130 000 subscriber, who have been joined by this young university students.

CaPuS: Unito preserves the urban art

3 April 2018 / in News / by

That of Turin is the leading University of the project CAPuS – Conservation of Art in Public Spaces, which involves 7 universities, 4 companies, 1 association, 1 museum, 1 research centre and 2 municipalities throughout Europe. Totally, there are 16 European partners, located in Italy, Germany, Croatia, Poland and Spain. A further one is located in the USA.

The project, developed within Erasmus+ “Knowledge alliances”, has been financed by the European Commission and aims at establishing a preservative protocol for urban art, a precious way for regenerating the city. Somewhere in between the spontaneity and the commissioning, urban artworks are becoming more and more important on city walls. However, because of their nature and of the prolonged exposure to adverse weather conditions, this artworks are more likely to deteriorate and their preservation causes some problems.

With the collaboration of companies, universities, art restorers and artist, CaPus will map the deterioration, identifying the suitable products and preservation methods (like the creation of digital archives). Moreover, in order to define a shared operational protocol, CaPus will afect also the courses on offer at University: it will be proposed a lesson plan to be inserted into the academic records and an international master on the subject. In addition, students will be actively involved in the activities of the project, thanks to internships in the partner companies.

Partners of the project will actively analyse alteration processes, define preservation strategies and deal with project communication. Also the Centro Conservazione e Restauro La Venaria Reale (centre for the preservation and the restoration La Venaria Reale) will play an important role, particularly as to regards the analytical part of characterisation of the materials of the artworks, offering a leading contribution to the creation of a training module on the preservation of the urban art. The Italian group is completed by the University of Parma, which will supervise the quality, and Medhiartis ,a communication agency which will curating the visual identity and manage the socials. The Municipality of Reggio Emilia and the Municipality of Turin are associated partners and will cooperate on identification and enhancement of the artworks chosen for the experimentation.

“The CaPus project” says Dominique Scalarone, professor of Materials for preservation and Restoration at the University of Turin and project manager of the whole project “is a unique occasion for facing in an organic, multidisciplinary and innovative way the open question about the preservation of the urban art. Starting with the creation of an international and heterogeneous by vocation partnership, totally in line with the Europeans guidelines in the field of higher education, the project aims at enhancing the cooperation between Universities and private companies in order to develop new knowledge, working opportunities and innovative products. It also aims at raising the awareness of Institutions and general public about the need of enhancing and preserving public artworks. The analysis of the materials which the artists use to realise their works, the study on their deterioration, the characterisation of the products which can be used for their restoration will be important phases of the project, functional to the achievement of the two main goals, that is the definition of a preservation protocol specific for urban artworks and the realisation of a multidisciplinary and innovative training module for university students and art restorers, also available on a digital platform”

Ilaria Saccani, president of CESMAR7, says that :”the ambition of the project is to create permanent alliances within the partnership, in order to combine the experience of art restorers and analytical groups with the knowledge of constituent materials and restoring products of companies involved in the definition of an operational innovative protocol for the preservation of urban art. This will converge into the activation of a training module in the Universities and Academy involved in the project. In this way, the contents and the project methods will enrich and innovate the courses on offer, making them more updated on the new needs of the preservation. Ultimately, the CaPus projects strives for raising the awareness of the institution, but above all of general public, about the sensitive issue of the preservation of urban art: the project will start with the involvement of the artists, in order to clear the borders of the ethic of preservation of an art which in lots of its various forms has an evanescent nature as intrinsic feature”.

G. PEANO: maths becomes accessible for blinds and people with visual impairment

3 April 2018 / in News / by
G. Peano: matematica accessibile a ciechi e ipovedenti

Researchers from the Math Department G:Peano (Dipartimento di Matematica G. Peano) of the University of Turin have developed the first system that allows the automated creation of pdf texts with mathematical formulae which can be read by blinds or people with visual impairment. The research team is leaded by professor Anna Capietto, who teaches mathematical Analysis and who is the contact person responsible for disabilities of the Department.

This “Made in Unito” invention will be presented next July in Austria, on occasion of the most important event about the subject (International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs – ICCHP), as it is an important breakthrough regarding the access to texts containing formulae. In fact, currently the digital material made available by screen readers and Braille displays is almost non-exhistent. This limitation prevents people with visual impairments from attending scientific studies or choosing some careers.

In the context of LaTex, the most common Markup language, used for the preparation of scientific texts, researchers succeeded in realising an additional package which enables the creation of pdf documents with an accessible mathematical content. By adding a simple line of code to their work, be it didactic, professional or educational, authors of texts containing formulae (even without specific knowledge of assistive technology) can make their work accessible.

Within 2018, the first accessible texts of Mathematical Analysis 1, Linear algebra and Analytic Geometry will be made available for people with visual impairment. Moreover, it expected to improve the accessibility of the entrance texts at University and of the mathematical software Maple and MatLab. The project, which has been carried out since 2012 by 12 people (among them, researchers and research techs of the University, professors of secondary school and professionals from private companies), has been made possible thanks to the contribution of 7 voluntary collaborators with visual impairment, who operate as indispensable experimenters.

APEnet: the new Italian network of the Universities and Research Institutes for the Public Engagement

26 March 2018 / in News / by
Apenet

Friday, 16th March 2018, APEnet, the Italian network of the Universities and Research Institutes for the Public Engagement, has been presented in the “Sala degli affreschi” (Fresco Hall) of the CRUI (the Conference of the Deans of the Italian Universities). The occasion was the Workshop “Destination Public Engagement #2”, which has been organized in cooperation with the ANVUR, the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems.

The network has been developed from a proposal made during the first step of the Workshop, which has been organised by the Università degli Studi di Torino in December 2015 and which involved 100 representatives from 28 Universities and Research Institutes from all over Italy. In February 2017, the university of Turin implemented the proposal, launching the endorsement to APEnet, which now includes 36 universities and 2 research institutes.

Similarly to what happened in other European countries, APEnet has been created in order to support Universities and Research Institutes as long as the sharing and the enhancement of programs, aims and initiatives for the Public Engagement are concerned. The Public Engagement is an internationally recognised new and effective didactic method, based on the sharing of the research results and on the involvement of researchers, industries, policymakers, school students and citizens.

The challenge which the University has to address as a place of knowledge is to ensure that the production of knowledge and innovation becomes an inclusive process shared with the community.

The so-called “Terza Missione” (third mission) is now structured around a strong commitment to social responsibility and to the focusing on the land.

In particular, APEnet aims are:

  • contributing to the enhancement and the evaluation of the initiatives of Public Engagement, in cooperation with the different institutional players of the Italian university system (MIUR, CUN, CRUI, ANVUR, etc.)
  • sensitising, training and briefing the (research and technical-administrative) staff of the Universities and the Research Institutes
  • sharing and promoting national and international experiences
  • developing a common and shared platform for promoting, monitoring and evaluating the initiatives of the Public Engagement
  • enhancing and developing the presence of the Public Engagement in the university programmes (degree courses and doctorates)
  • fostering the research about the themes of the Public Engagement

Here you can find the list of the universities and of the research institutes which are members of APEnet elenco degli Atenei e degli Istituti di Ricerca membri di APEnet.

For further information: Andrea De Bortoli

Università di Torino – Resp. Valorizzazione Della Ricerca e Public Engagement – Agorà Scienza.

Tel. 011 6702738

Email: publicengagement@unito.it

ROOMTASTIC: the virtual platform for searching or offering living arrangements

26 March 2018 / in News / by
Roomtastic, cerco e offro alloggio

Are you a student far from home and are you searching for a place to live? Have you already got a flat and are you looking for a flat mate?

Roomtastic will do the job!

It is a digital platform which allows the contact between supply and demand of flats for university and transfer students.

Once you have chosen the city in which you are interested, you can place an ad in order to immediately rent a room or a flat or you can see the available offers.

Roomtastic has been created in 2015 by four digital-enthusiast young friends and, in February 2017, it has became a partner of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

The purpose of its creators is to reduce more and more the real estate brokerage and allow students throughout Italy to access to a transparent, reliable and totally free research-and-offer service. The portal provides a service which meets the needs of the young people. “We believe that this project will bring benefits to all those students, who, like us, have often had to look through messy ads and leaflets, which were often unclear and which did not include a proper and reliable description of the room they advertised”.

The search and the  publication of the ads, as well as the support services, are free for all the users of Roomtastic.

Moreover, you can receive and consult free of charge up to 5 preventives for your transfer, thanks to the free service provided by Fazland.

Orientation Guide 2018: PDF file available online

12 March 2018 / in News / by
Guida all'Orientamento 2018

The moment of choice is approaching: what to do after high school diploma?

The Città Universitaria service of the Municipality of Turin has decided to create an orientation guide that can be an efficient help in the delicate transition from the world of high schools to the university one.

The guide presents the educational offer in the area of Turin, explains how to access the degree courses and how the Universities are organized. The University services, websites and infromation booths of the City of Turin that deal with orientation are also listed.

The guide wants to be only a first useful tool for orientation: it is a starting point, for then deepen the information on the sites and tahnks to the online guides of the individual bodies, entering more into the merits of the training offer, the procedures and deadlines for enrollment and of all the news concerning the next academic year.

In the boxes To find out more, you will find all the useful references to access more detailed information.

Download the 2018 Orientation Guide pdf here or consult the #Orientati section of the site.

6 million euros for UniTo research at the service of the territory and of the company

12 March 2018 / in News / by
Fondi ricerca Unito - Regione

There are 5 research projects of the University of Turin that will be financed with about 6 million euros by the INFRA-P that the Piedmont Region has activated for “the construction, strengthening and expansion of public research infrastructures”, to enhance investments and the creation / enhancement of laboratories open to the use by multiple users (research centers and companies) and to develop relevant applications in industry and in the system of businesses.

Thanks to new fundings, the researchers of the University will be able to enhance their research on Artificial Intelligence, Materials Study, Nanotechnologies, Molecular Imaging for Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Humanities, Social Sciences and Humanities.

“The funding of the Region rewards once again the research of the University of Turin”, declares Dean Gianmaria Ajani “and confirms the recent recognition obtained by the MIUR Departments of Excellence. A research that is at the forefront in sectors of the highest value and competitiveness for local companies. In fact, the University has for some time played a decisive role as an engine for the development of the regional production system and commits its researchers to projects at the service of companies. With the awarding of these new funds, the University will make available to the territory its capabilities for the construction of the new Competence Centers within the IMPRESA 4.0 plan. Thanks to a strong synergy with the Polytechnic, the Piedmont Region, the companies and the other institutions, it will be possible to create infrastructures and services that offer great impact in terms of production for the development and the future of our territory “.

“The production methods of the future need new technologies”, says Vice-Dean Silvio Aime, “based above all on the digitalisation of production processes, new economic models, innovative work organization and new internal and external corporate relations. University and Polytechnic, working together can combine their specific skills to find competitive answers to complex needs of great relevance for the business world and for the development of the country “.

The projects awarded by the competition, all characterized by strong multidisciplinarity and technical-scientific innovation, are:

  • HPC4AI – Center of High Performance Computing Competence and Artificial Intelligence Turin

The project wants to build a high performance computing competence center for open and scalable Artificial Intelligence with applications centered in the S3 strategy: health, agri-food, mechatronics, automotive, aerospace. The center is made up of a distributed federation of ODRs that complement the enabling technologies for the operation and sustainability of the center. These include High-Performance Computing (HPC), IoT, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics.

The infrastructure (IR) of the center, consisting of 4 federated green data centers, will be easily accessible through cloud services. To maximize technology transfer, the center will operate by co-designing applications and technological solutions. The center will offer highly specialized support to foster innovation and develop skills in local companies, thus stimulating the expansion of market opportunities.

Total project cost 4.5 million euros.

Funded 1.5 million University of Turin (Coordinator)

Project realized in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Turin (co-beneficiary)

  • SAX – Advanced instruments for complex systems

The SAX project provides for the extension and expansion of services for companies and research bodies of the NIS Interdepartmental Center of UniTO (www.nis.unito.it), in partnership with DISAT of PoliTO (www.disat.polito.it) through the acquisition of multi-accessory FEG-SEM instruments, for digitized RX microtomography and RX diffractometry, to constitute an innovative instrumental pool at regional and national level for the study of materials and systems of interest for the innovation areas of the production system identified by the regional strategy S3.

The realization of the project extends already existing networking perspectives between the Universities of Turin and their Business Incubators, and opens a new one towards a future regional Competence Center.

Total project cost 2.5 million euros

Funded 1.05 million euros University of Turin (Coordinator)

Project realized in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Turin (co-beneficiary)

  • PiqueT – Piemonte Quantum Enabling Technology

In the field of enabling technologies (KET), the emerging quantum technologies, evolution of nanotechnologies and photonics, are a strong opportunity for industries to grow and innovate on a wide range of sectors, strategic for the S3 of Piedmont. PiQuET is a technological facility that rationalizes and enhances existing facilities, makes them a common factor in the territory, and acts horizontally on strategic industrial supply chains for competitive growth and productivity. IR operates on synergistic sectors: development of materials, micro / nanostructured devices and sensors, microfotonics and quantum fiber communication, developing innovative systems for the industry and also allowing advanced and safe sensor networks. The OdR share their instruments, complete them with a new and significant investment and place them in a new laboratory with avant-garde plants located at TNE in Turin in Corso Settembrini 178. The IR will be one of a kind in Italy, because it creates a new IR at the state of the art, it creates a critical mass of the skills and tools of the OdR and begins a permanent collaboration between OdR and industry, supporting the industrial take-up, the patents paths and an industrial plan that creates new jobs.

Total project cost 6 million euros

Funded 200,000 euros University of Turin (co-beneficiary)

Project realized in collaboration with the National Institute of Metrological Research Inrim (coordinator) and Polytechnic of Turin (co-beneficiary)

  • EuBI-NodoIM-TO – Strengthening of the Italian Euro-BioImaging Node for Molecular Imaging, Turin Office

The Hub for the Medical Imaging of the European Euro-BioImaing Infrastructure (EuBI) will be based at the Institute of Translational Medicine (IMT, P.zza Nizza, Turin). Connected to the Hub, there will be the Italian Node for Molecular Imaging, dedicated to pre-clinical investigations with the different in-vivo imaging modalities, coordinated by the University of Turin. The investment project involves the acquisition of a scanner for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) operating at 7 Tesla and a PET (SPECT) / CT instrumentation for small animals for the Turin site of the Italian Node of Molecular Imaging (NodoIM-TO). MRI and PET (SPECT) / CT represent the most important imaging techniques in terms of spatial resolution (MRI) and sensitivity (PET). The EuBI Node will use model animals available at the facility of the Molecular Biotechnology Center (MBC-1 and -2).

Total project cost 3 million euros

Funded 1.5 million euros University of Turin

  • 0 – Research infrastructure of humanities, social sciences and humanities for the digital transformation of companies and markets

The project meets the challenge of the multidisciplinary integration of research in the HSSH field in favor of the plurality of processes linked to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, identifying an innovative contribution of the operational research of human, social and humanistic sciences.

The investment project involves the construction of a research hub in the Palazzo Nuovo campus, which guarantees the networking of laboratories and technological equipment of the latest generation for human, social and humanistic research relevant to the business system.

The flexibility of the spaces and equipment provided and the plurality of actors involved in the design (9 departments) guarantee a wide and efficient use of IR and a wide range of services to companies, also through joint planning, maximizing results and minimizing risks, both in economic terms and in relation to the results of research and innovation for growth. https://innovazione.unito.it/hssh-with-and-for-industry-4-0

Total project cost 2.87 million euros

Funded 1.44 million euros University of Turin

PoliTo Chinaday: the new Silk Road crosses Turin

12 March 2018 / in News / by
Polito ChinaDay

Learn Today, China Tomorrow

It is called PoliTO ChinaDay (Learn Today, China Tomorrow) and it is the biggest Italian- Chinese event scheduled at the Polytechnic of Turin, tomorrow, 7th March 2018 at the Sala Consiglio di Facoltà and Aula Magna (at 10 am). The Association CSSA Polito (Association of the students and Chinese students of the Polytechnic of Turin), which is the organizing body, has organized a rich program of initiatives and meetings dedicated to the Chinese culture and the topic of internationalization.

The new Silk Road

The day is part of the “New Silk Road” (Belt and Road Initiative , BRI), a strategic plan of China for improving the links and the cooperation between the countries in Eurasia. The land routes, that cross the Asian continent, and the sea ones, that from Indochina pass through Africa and then reach the Mediterranean, are part of the new Silk Road. The aim of the meeting will be to disseminate and make China better known to Polytechnic students, professors and researchers. The research possibilities and educational offers of Chinese universities will also be presented.

For the Polytechnic of Turin, which ha some relations with the most important Chinese universities, will be the perfect opportunity for sharing and for cultural and academic exchange, the day will also include artistic performances and cultural ceremonies, such as the Tea ceremony.

Schedule of the day

10 am – 10.40 am China, a look at the future. Curated by Pan Zuoke, vice president
of the CSSA association
10.40am – 11pm PoliEtnico Choir Exhibition
11 am – 11.40 am PoliTO in China, challenges and opportunities. Organized by the Area
Internationalization
11.50 am – 12.30 pm Tea ceremony. Organized by the Confucius Institute
12.30 pm – 1 pm Study in China, testimonies and experiences
1 pm – 2 pm LUNCH (Catering offered by CSSA) at the Sala
Consiglio di Facoltà
2 pm – 2.20 pm China, a look at the future. Cured by Pan Zuoke
2.20 pm – 3.20 pm Issue of visas for China. Speech of the Consulate
Chinese in Italy
3.15 pm – 4.05 pm Exhibition of Tai Ji. Organized by the Confucius Institute
Musical performances. Chinese students of the Conservatory
4.10 pm – 4.30 pm Living in China. Speech by the Students Associations
4.30 pm- 5.00 pm Conclusion done by CSSA

Information material will be available at the Hall of the Sala Consiglio di Facoltà
about the most important Chinese universities and on the various mobility opportunities e
collaboration with China.

 

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