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With the stability law 2017 new regulations about the university dues have been defined and are entering into force from the academic year 2017/18.

If you want to benefit from the reduction of the university dues for the academic year 2017/18, you have to ask for an ISEE for the facilitated services for the right to study by the 31^st August 2017.

The university will get the ISEE for the facilitated services for the right to study and will define the dues each student has to pay.

For further information, please ask Ufficio Tasse e Accertamenti. You can find the contacts on the website of the University.

Starting from next year, around 10 thousand students enrolled in Politecnico di Torino can benefit from the GTT Card and up to 22 thousand free Museums Cards.

All this is allowed by a booming balance of Politecnico di Torino: for this reason, starting from next year all the students who take the exams constantly can take advantage of two new free services.

This is what the board of directors of Politecnico have decided today. The first new aspect is the amount of the dues the students will have to pay to Politecnico: “We think that there will be 2,5 million Euros earnings less than the last years, and it is an advantage for our students to reorganise the dues system”, says the vice-dean Anita Tabacco.

The second new aspect is about the “welfare package”, in which Politecnico is going to invest 2,3 million Euros. The free yearly pass GTT will be given to all the students with a familiar income under 30.500 per year; there are no limitations upon the Museums Cards, instead. To benefit from any of these two services, the students have to make a specific request and award a minimum number of credits. These are the minimum requirements defined in the last stability law: the new enrolled students (both in Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees) can benefit from these two services immediately, while the students who attend the second year have to have gotten at least 10 credits and the ones of the third year at least 25 credits over the last 12 months.

“We had had the package “Vivitorino” for years and it was used only by a small range of students. After that experience, we have decided to extend this opportunity to all students, enabling them to live our city at best and to enjoy the museums of Turin”, explains the vice-dean Tabacco.

The Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) issued the decree that regulates the entrance requirements for the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree courses together with the dates when the entrance tests for the academic year 2017/18 take place.

The procedure and the content of the tests and the number of places available for the enrolment will be defined in the next decree.

On March 30^th at 5 p.m. a new exhibition is taking place at the former library Biblioteca Centro Civico in Corso Vercelli, 15, Turin. This exhibition will be followed by a debate about the urban renewal organised by Politecnico di Torino.

Around 60 students of the Sustainable Design Atelier at the department of Architecture, a course of study coordinated by professors Gustavo Ambrosini and Alezio Rivotti, worked together from October 2016 to January 2017 in order to design a new future for one of the most discussed areas of the city, where there are many urgent problems: the area Ponte Mosca.

Through this project the students have developed many potential renewal strategies: they developed a new design for the educational area and planned new educational activities, which can be an inspiration for discussions about the possible directions of growth of this area.

The professors and the students of the Atelier will present their projects at Circoscrizione 7, where Luca Deri (President of Circoscrizione 7) and Guido Montanari (Deputy Mayor of Turin) will be present as well. Many experts have been invited to this presentation: Marco Marocco (Deputy Mayor of Città Metropolitana), Giovanni Monterosso (Assessor of the City Heritage and City Planning – Città Metropolitana), Marta Levi (Edisu) and Giovanni Durbiano (Politecnico di Torino, Architecture and Design).

On March 21^st 2017 one of the topics of discussion at Politecnico was the challenges of the researchers and the obtained results, which make the university rank in the first places in Italy and in Europe as regards the funding per head. The quality of the scientific and technological research is the basis of the reputation of a university in Europe and in the world.

The obtained results and the future strategies were examined and explained to the city and the region, in order to show the challenges of the scientific research together with the strategies and the actions that were carried out thanks to the support of institutional and industrial partners; their collaboration fosters projects in different sectors of the fundamental and applied research. On this occasion it was possible to show the main results Politecnico obtained in this sector, which make the university rank in the first places in Italy and Europe as regards the funding per head: there are already 100 projects of the programme UE Horizon2020 and around 37 million euros have been given out in the last three years. All these factors enabled Politecnico to gain better positions both on a national and on a European level: it ranks 4^th in Italy and 58^th in Europe, overcoming other bigger universities. There are also 36 international projects, 112 national projects and 342 regional projects that have been obtained in the last five years and are worth 62 million euros. There are also important research contracts with agencies and businesses (about 19 million euros in 2016).

The university has started specific projects in order to encourage students to participate and to increase the project activities: the projects H2020@polito and ERC@polito offer professors and researchers tools that support the activities. There has also been an announcement (La ricerca dei talenti – The talents research) supported by Fondazione CRT, whose aim was to give value to the independence of young researchers.

In addition, many activities have been organised thanks to the partnership between Politecnico and Compagnia di Sanpaolo: as regards the internationalisation of research, new announcements have been introduced. Their objective is the development of partnerships with universities which rank in the first 50 positions of the international rankings or which are in strategic areas of interest for Politecnico; another goal is the creation of research projects in collaboration with international agencies of excellence, thanks to exchanges of doctorate students. Starting grants are also planned, in order to finance highly-qualified researchers who come from other universities or research agencies. Last but not least, Mettin in rete la tua idea di ricerca is a new initiative which allows the sharing of research ideas on the internet, which has been launched to give value to the collaborative research.

The vice-dean for research Stefano Corgnati and the director of the Research Area Laura Fulci have explained the actions and the projects that have been started. The researchers of the university have presented some of the projects of fundamental and applied research (individual or collaborative), showing videos where they talk about the various fields of research of Politecnico, the departments and the many financial sources which support the projects, the mobility and the career of the researchers. Important industrial partners the university collaborates with took the floor as well: among them Prima Industrie, which collaborates on a project about Technological Platforms – Intelligent Plant of Regione Piemonte; FCA, which has given its contribute for almost 20 years; ENI and GM, which have signed partnership agreements with the university.

Finally, a workshop introduced by the President of Compagnia Sanpaolo and the previous dean of the university Francesco Profumo enabled the discussion with institutional partners and businesses about the relationship between Politecnico and the socio-economic system of the region and of the country, in a background where new roles and new financial models are extremely requested from a technical university.

“Universities are requested not only to carry out scientific research, but also to contribute to promote the spread of new technologies, in collaboration with the socio-economic system and the institutions. They also have to be able to find solutions for the challenges they face. Politecnico has established itself as a Research University, which is recognised on an international level, as the most accredited rankings show: in fact, Politecnico has one of the highest positions in the world as regards Engineering and Architecture” said the dean Marco Gilli during his introduction.

“Politecnico must confront itself with an international research context which has become more and more competitive but which also offers unlimited resources” said the vice-dean for research Stefano Corgnati. “For this reason Politecnico has defined new strategies in favour of research, in collaboration with the most prestigious universities in the world and continuous exchanges of researchers and professors. We have also adopted specific policies for the promotion of multidisciplinary activities, since we want to put together the knowledge of different sectors in order to carry out complete research that make us competitive with the great international research groups. Finally, we have planned support actions for the young researchers who have to work in innovative and difficult fields, where a high scientific quality is necessary expertise on an economic, financial and management level”.

The University of Turin has developed a project to transform the university through a network system, in order to satisfy the requests for the reorganisation of educational and research activities, but also to meet the needs to decongest the present seats of the university.

Regione Piemonte, Comune di Grugliasco and University of Turin have defined the content of the agreement for the placement of a Scientific Campus in Grugliasco. The agreement is signed on Thursday March 16^th 2017 at Sala Riunioni of Giunta Regionale in Piazza Castello 195, Turin, at 12.30.

The agreement is signed by the Region President Sergio Chiamparino, the Mayor of Grugliasco Giuseppina De Santis and the vice-dean for Building of the University of Turin Bartolomeo Biolatti.