All posts in News

Home/Archive by Category "News" (Page 49)

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.

 

The research of the University of Turin excels in the World

12 March 2018 / in News / by
Ricerca Unito

After the recent acknowledgments obtained by the 23 Departments of the University of Turin as Departments of Excellence from Miur, and from the international ranking THE, that rewards the University for the Clinical and Health, the Arts and Humanities, the Life Sciences and the Physical Sciences, the University of Turin is a world excellence in all 5 broad subject areas even according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2018, the ranking that evaluates the performance of Universities in different areas of research.

The University has in fact obtained excellent results (among the first 500 in the world) in all 5 macro categories “broad subject areas”: Humanities, technology and Engineering, Life Science and Medicine, Nature Science and Social and Economic Sciences. In particular, the best result was achieved in Life Science and Medicine, where UniTo ranks 189th in the world.

The University of Turin excels in 12 of 48 subject areas of  research: Agriculture, Languages, Pharmacy, Law, Medicine, Physics, Sociology, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Mathematics e Computer Sciences.

The number of universities considered in the ranking list of excellences are only a few hundred (top500) among the 1100 that were in the ranking among the 4000 university in the world evaluated for the ranking.

The methodology used by QS in order to do a ranking combines some bibliometric indexes (quotes for the publoication on scientifics journals and H-index, an international index which measures the impact and productivity od researchers) and the results of some reputational questionnaires given to academicians and employers carried out by QS. These last factors, that usually are only a 10% of the final score, have different importance according to different areas, as for example for some scientific or economic sectors where it is the 30% of the final score.

For more info visit: : https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/by-subject

For more details about universities world rankings visit the web page: http://politichediateneounito.it/it/ranking-internazionali/

 

“Fuori Corso”: the project of UniTo which supports students that have some exams left

9 March 2018 / in News / by
Progetto "Fuori Corso"

The initiative, thought by some professors of the University of Turin aims to contrast the university dispersion through the “rescue” of off course students (studenti fuori corso), in order for them to “get back on track” and finish their academic studies.

E-mails, phone calls and registered mails with acknowledgment of receipt are the new methods with which the University of Turin, starting from the Department of Law, tried to get in touch with more than a thousand off course students. Of these, almost half of them have been found and invited for an individual interview in which tools and services to help them have been presented.

The results were immediately apparent: almost 146 students started to go to class again, and one third of these has done the exams with success.

In particular, for the academic year 2017-2018, the Department of Law has set up some useful options to help off course students that need to take the last exams in order to achieve the university degree in a short period of time:

  • Remote lessons (online): a way of teaching that allows to have interactive and personalized lessons, that meet the needs of working students that can’t attend classes at the University.
  • Teaching tutor: off course students can ask for the help of a teaching tutor; according to the number of students that take part in the project; UniTo will assess the possibility of having tutors that will have to give ad hoc teaching materials (slides, lecture notes, audio and video recordings, faq, wiki, forum) and weekly self-evaluation exercises.
  • Personalized courses: if the exams that you have to take are not present in the list of the education provided for the academic year 2017-2018, there is the possibility to have some personalized courses, even through the acknowledgment of equivalences.

Shape Energy: the energy sector takes advantage from the integration of social and humanistic sciences

9 March 2018 / in News / by
Shape Energy

In the energy agenda the technical results are more important as compared to consideretions about important human and social aspects. The European project Shape Energy tries to change this attitude promoting a better integration of social and humanistic sciences in projects about energy and transport financed by Horizon 2020 and others.

In February 2018 the Polytechnic of Turin organized two workshops for the coordinators committed to the innovation through collective projects. The participants of the two events have recognized the the added value generated by the integration of social sciences and humanistic subjects in projects about the energy sector finaced by the EU.

Through different innovative methods for the implementation of these workshops called “sandpit”, including storytelling and live-drawing, participants had the opportunity to formulate concrete ideas to imporve the impacts on society, talk about innovative methods for the interdisciplinary collaboration in the area of projects about the energy and transport sector, share the best procedures with a group of multidisciplinary experts from all Europe in a stimulating context in which it is possible to propose ideas for future projects on energy topics.

“It is necessary to look at energy politics from a financial point of view without forgetting their social, environmental, technical, decision-making aspects. To do so, it is pivotal to establish a dialogue between STEM researchers and SSH researchers” explained Professor Patrizia Lombardi, who is in charge of the project for the Polytechnic of Turin.

Among these key matters, that must absolutely be integrated in the Horizon 2020, there are some problems between qualitative and quantitative results, linguistic differences arising from interdisciplinary projects, energy efficacy and users involvement. In particular this last aspect puts into light how important it is to talk to a wider audience in order to make sure that the social impact of the projects in the energy sector is perfectly clear.

Participants have also underlined the importance of social acceptance, of user’s experience and of market researches, which are pivotal elements for the success of the projects. Their implementation from the early stages of the projects adds an additional level of difficulty, but it also makes it possible to increase the efficacy.

“We have to be open to different models of efficacy in order to show the impact that socio-economic sciences and humanistic subjects have on societies” said Andrea Bonaccorsi, lecturer of the keynot speech, of the University of Pisa, Senior Research Fellow at FBK-IRVAPP of Trento.

More than 100 representatives of institutions attendend the two sandpits. They came from 15 Countries: Blegium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Spain and Hungary.

The participants represented a wide and diverse range of projects financed by Horizon 2020 and by the 7th PQ: Ambition; BestRES; Bio-HyPP; BIOROBURplus; BRISK2; CEMCAP; CONSEED; E2District; EMPOWERING; enCOMPASS; ENERGISE; ENLARGE; EnPC-INTRANS; ENTRUST; ESA 2.0; FLEXMETER; GEMex; interGRIDy; IRON; ISABEL; LIMPET; MAGIC-NEXUS; Mobility4EU; MOBISTYLE; NATCONSUMERS; PEMs4Nano; PVSITES; RenGen; ShaleXenvironmenT; SHAPE ENERGY; SHAR-Q; START2ACT; STOREandGO; SWInG; THOMSON; UPGRADE; ZERO-PLUS.

 

PoliTo climbs the international rankings: 33rd in the world for Engineering and Technology

9 March 2018 / in News / by
PoliTo scala le classifiche dei ranking

The path recorded in recent years by the Polytechnic of Turin in international rankings is a path that is constantly growing. The University is also among the best technical universities in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2018, one of the most accredited international rankings, which highlights the areas of excellence in training and research. The ranking, which is already at the seventh edition, analyzes over 1100 universities and scientific institutions around the world: among these, the Polythecnic ranks 33rd university in the world for the macro-area Engineering & Technology.

An evident growth in the last three years: in 2016, in the Engineering & Technology area, the Polytechnic ranked 66th and the following year it registered already a significant improvement reaching the 52nd place; in 2018, then, a leap forward of almost twenty positions, up to the 33rd, which follows the excellent world ranking in the ranking, again of the QS agency, Graduate Employability Ranking of last September, which saw the Polytechnic at 1st place in the world for Graduate Employment Rate.

In the Ranking presented on 28th February  2018, the University confirms excellent placings in all its business secrtors, ranking among the “Top Universities” of the world in 10 subjects and 3 of the thematic areas (Engineering & Technology, Natural Sciences and Arts & Humanities) present in the QS World University ranking. The parameters taken into consideration concern the Academic Reputation and Employer Reputation, estimated through a statistical survey conducted by QS, the number of quotes present in scientific publications and some bibliometric indexes including the H-index. The performance of the Polytechnic of Turin has significantly improved in particular in the Employer Reputation, where the University earns 10 points, confirming the increased international consideration among companies and factories.

As for the individual areas, the Polytechnic improves its ranking in all three disciplines in which it is part of the Top 50 universities of the world: for Civil & Strucutural Engineering it ranks 34th in the world, gaining a position with respect to the last year; for Architecture / Built Environment moves to position 41 from the 46th in which it was in the 2017 ranking; finally, for Electrical Engineering it earns the 50th place, while in 2017 it was more than in the 50th position. Even in History of Art, a subject introduced in the ranking only this year, the Polytechnic obtained an excellent result, ranking 24th, thanks to its high performance in the Academic Reputation.

Good results also in Computer Science & Information Systems, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences, in which the University ranks among the 100 best Universities in the world; and in Art & Design, Chemical Engineering and Mathematics, which find the University ranked in the group of the best 150. The other discipline in which the University ranks among the 200 best Universities in the world is Physics & Astronomy.

“I am extremely satisfied with these results, which confirm how in recent years our University has consolidated and considerably increased its international reputation”, underlines dean Marco Gilli, who continues: “The fact that a serious agency as QS has one more time given such gratifying recognition to our Polytecnnic, after the excellent result on the employment status of the graduates who saw us first in the world, confirms that by now the quality of our research and training activities is recognized and appreciated in all our fields of activity , from Engineering, to Architecture and Design “.

Voters on the road: all the facilitations for 4th March

7 March 2018 / in News / by

Universities

On the occasion of political and administrative elections scheduled for Sunday 4th March 2018, in order to make the right to vote easier in the Municipalities of residence of all out of town students, the Universita degli Studi di Torino and the Politecnico di Torino order the suspension of the educational activities in all Universities for Monday 5th March.

 

Special transportation fees for voters

 

Trains

For those who will take the train to go to vote, there will be discounts for the trains Trenitalia, Italo and Trenord. For Trenitalia, the discounts correspond to 70% of the basic price of the average and long-distance national trains, in second class, both for the outward journey and for the return. In this category are included: Frecciarossa, Frecciargento, Frecciabianca, Intercity and IntercityNotte.

For those traveling with regional trains, a 60% reduction is expected. The outward journey must be done not before 23rd February 2018 and the return trip not later than 14th March.
Trenitalia also provides an ad hoc fare for international trips to and from Italy on the Eurocity Italy-Switzerland trains, named “Italian elector”. For more information and for all the details on ticket purchase visit www.trenitalia.com, in the Information section.

Italo, on the other hand, offers a 60% discount on the price of Flex or Economy tickets which is valid for all those traveling from 23rd February to 13th March in a Smart or Comfort environment. For more information visit the website www.italotreno.it.

Trenord, operating in Lombardy, has announced that the special electoral fares will provide a reduction of 60% on regional fares on round-trip tickets, in second class. For more details, you can visit the website www.trenord.it.

For all companies, you will be asked to show on board the electoral card and the identity document on the first way trip and the electoral card with the stamp of the voting on the return trip.

 

Airplanes

Among the airlines, however, Alitalia is the only one that, thanks to an agreement with the Ministry of the Interior, provides electoral facilities. Specifically: for national flights a maximum discount of 40 euros is possible on the basic price of return ticket, excluding taxes and surcharges. The departure date must be between 24th February and 4th March and the return flight between 4th and 10th March. The verification procedures, which will take place at the check-in, require the same documents of the train journey.

 

Other means of transport

The Circular 13/2018 issued by the Ministry of the Interior provides other benefits for voters for trips by sea and motorways. For further information visit the website of the Department for Internal and Territorial Affairs.

 

PoliTo: extension of the NO-TAX area for the academic year 2018/2019

7 March 2018 / in News / by
Indagine AlmaLaurea 2018

Yesterday, 27th February 2018, the Administration Board of the Polytechnic has established the extension of the NO-TAX area, expanding the contributory bracket exempted from the payment of University fees. The decree will involve almost 4200 students, with a cost, by the Polytechnic, of more than one and a half million euros.

This measure has met the efforts of AlterPolis, the student representative list that brought this goal among the points of their electoral program. “The main suggestion on the topic of taxation was exactly the extension of the NO-TAX area”,  explain the students of AlterPolis, adding: “it is a political and social resolution of historical importance: with this measure more than 4 thousand students extra will be exempted from the payment of the fee to the Polytechnic”.

The Brackets  

The Isee brackets exempted from the payment will no longer be of 13500 euros but of 25500 euros. “The Administration Board today approved the proposal that gives a turning point compared to past trends” – explains Marco Rondina, member of the Cda for AlterPolis – “this is a one of a kind event in one of the European Countries where the highest University fees are registered”.

The political Debate

Yesterday, the topic of the right to education was also addressed in political terms: University students, in fact, organized a debate that involved the candidates in the upcoming elections. The debate on the problems and critical aspects of Italian Universities saw the positions of Forza Italia, Partito Democratico and Movimento 5 Stelle at odds with Liberi e Uguali and Potere al Popolo. The first ones have focused of issues such as meritocracy and utility and necessity of supporting school-work alternation system; while the second ones have underlined the risk of creating new generations of unpaid workers. 

 

 

Info Days at the IAAD: orientation time

26 February 2018 / in News / by
INFO DAYS allo IAAD di Torino

Get to know IAAD

For the IAAD, Institute of Applied Art and Design of Turin, it’s orientation time. What better time than the Info Days to visit the new facilities and to get to know better the offered courses of studies?

The Info Days will be a precious opportunity to understand if the design path is the right one for you. Info Days is not only information, it is also dialogue and meeting: with professors, students and professionals of the design world. A moment to come in contact with the design made in IAAD, see the projects done by the students and the collaborations with partner companies.

During the Info Days, the representatives of the orientation, the professors and the students will be available to participants in order to give more information and explanation about the courses of studies, enrolment requirements, internship and job opportunities.

INFO DAYS Schedule:

  • Friday 2nd March
  • Wednesday 11th April
  • Friday 11th May
  • Wednesday 18th July
  • Friday 7th September

 

Book now your Info Day!

Fabriano Creative City 2019: online the announcement for the logotype

23 February 2018 / in News / by

Fabriano has been appointed UNESCO Creative City, and in 2019 will host the 13th Annual Meeting of the Creative Cities Network, a network that brings together Bologna, Pesaro, Rome, Carrara, Milan, Turin, Parma and Alba. The project has been approved by the UNESCO, and it aims at creating connections and interchange between the cities that have made the cultural creativity a cornerstone of their economic development.

The Network operates on seven different cultural areas: Crafts, Arts and Folklore, Cinema, Design, Gastronomy, Literature, Media Arts and Music. Precisely on these topics, cities will be able to debate, share their own experiences and enhance their cultural products increasing their diffusion on the national and international markets.

In anticipation of the Annual Meeting UNESCO Creative Cities, in 2019, the Aristide Merloni Foundation, in cooperation with the Comune di Fabriano, has established a competition announcement for the design of the official logotype (coloured, free technique) for the event.

The logotype will be present on the notice, signage, editorial production, website and any other material that has the communicative intentions proposed in it.

It is possible to send your own project until 6th April 2018.

The regulation and more information are available on the website of the event, in the page dedicated to the details of the announcement.

Alliance Française and MSF in the shelters and on the routes of migrants with photos and 3D viewers

16 February 2018 / in News / by
Bruno Fert - fotografia di un interno di tenda di migrante

The exhibition of Bruno Fert “Percorsi interiori. Fotografie e raccolta di testimonianze”, will be inaugurated today, Thursday, 15th February, at 6pm, at the Alliance française of Turin (Via Saluzzo 60). Fert, French photojournalist, will give a voice to the stories of men and women who are fleeing from poverty and war with a photographic project achieved in collaboration with Medici Senza Frontiere. Fert tells the stories of migrants, takes photos of the interior of the tents and temporary facilities in which they found shelter. They are portraits of men and women, of the places in which they live: dwellings furnished with few things brought to the camps in Greece and France as memories of previous lives.

“I decided to meet migrants that cross the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe, photographing the interiors of their refuges in villages – or “jungles” – both in France and in Greece, and I collected their stories thanks to the collaboration with MSF”, explains Fert. “Dwell is something that we all have in common. Temporary shelters of migrants reflect their personalities in the same way our houses reflect us. I would like people to relate to this common denominator, to enter the house of someone else observing where he/she lives”.

François Dumont, manager of Communication and Advocacy of MSF, will participate at the inauguration to present the commitment of the organization on the topic of migration and to share the testimonies of the people that were helped thorough the migratory route, from the countries of origin to the European borders. The Group of Turin of Medici Senza Frontiere will also offer the try of the viewers at 360 degrees of the Milionidipassi Experience, experience of the exhausting trips of migrants on land and sea, and of the terrible conditions of the refugee camps.

“ We want to put people in the shoes of people that are forced to hit the road, often putting their own life at risk, with the omen that this experience will involve people in helping vulnerable people that we meet every day even in our cities”, explains François Dumont of MSF.

The exhibition can be visited from 15th to 22nd February with the following timetables:

  • Monday-Thursday: 12am – 8pm
  • Friday: 12am- 6pm
  • Saturday: 9am – 1pm
Prev1…4748495051…81Next

Events

  • Non ci sono eventi

RSS IAAD News

  • An error has occurred, which probably means the feed is down. Try again later.