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The 2nd level Master of “Energy efficiency and sustainability in the industry” aims to train professionals who are able to manage efficiently the energy. It is aimed at recent graduates in Engineering or in other academic technical-scientific disciplines and managers.

15 out of 80 applications were successful. The students selected come from Politecnico di Torino, Università La Sapienza di Roma e from the Universities of Bologna, Padova, Parma and of Calabria region, 14 of them will be awarded a scolarship.

The way in which we produce, provide and consume energy, affects the success of a company. For this reason, it is fundamental to train professionals who are able to use energy resources in an efficient way.

This 1-year Master, which consists of 500 lecture hours and 250 hours dedicated to an internship, will deal with all the technical, planning, management, price-related and normative aspects that the professionals of the Energy Management must be acquainted with, both from an efficient and sustainable point of view, together with a knowledge in the reduction of carbon-dioxide emissions.

The Conference INCOSE on Systems Engineering (CIISE’ 16) will take place in the Aula Magna Lingotto, in Via Nizza 230, on 14th and 15th November 10, 2016 at 8.30 am and will be about the management of the complex systems. The Italian Association on Systems Engineering (AISE) created this conference together with the Politecnico di Torino.

The program of the conference will offer the opportunity to researchers, professionals and Italian and international organizations, which use the Systems Engineering, to meet, debate and have an exchange of views. There will be also: an introductory tutorial, many presentations of articles on both academic and industrial studies and applications, a session dedicated to the tools, a session on Technical Leadership, a poster session dedicated to the students of the Italian University Masters in Systems Engineering and workshops of the working groups of AISE-INCOSE.

The program also includes a visit of the research laboratories of Virtual Reality and Robotics of Thales Alenia Space.

More information and registration to this website.

The World Usability Day (WUD) of Turin will take place in the Aula Magna of the Campus Luigi Einaudi of Turin University, on Thursday, November 10, 2016, from 9:00 am.

It is an annual event, promoted by the User Experience Professional Association (UXPA) and a community of professionals, who work in different fields to ensure that the technology works as a factor in the promotion of the people, the expression, the personal fulfillment and the active citizenship.

The theme of this edition is sustainability, or Green UX. Sustainability, regeneration and sharing are the three key words of the new economic, social and productive models. These have launched a conversion from consumption to re-use, from property to sharing and circularity. At the same time those, who design and offer products and services, are redefining the design in terms of sustainability, sharing and circularity of the future.

The WUD TO 2016 is an opportunity to try out the (re)design with and for people, and new ways to provide services and regenerated, sustainable, circular products, that are able to bridge the physical gap and to create physical a social impact .

The event is open to everyone, but you must be registrated.

For more information, visit this website
Contacts: siepiemonte@gmail.com

The Cultural Association Piemonte Mese organizes the 10th edition of the ‘Piemonte Mese Award’ – the youth describe the Piedmont region. It is open to young people aged between 18 and 35 years old and is only for unpublished articles, written in Italian.

These articles will have to present the region of Piedmont from 2 points of view:

  • Culture. Any topic that is related to history, literature, art and architecture, music, theatre, science, customs and traditions.
  • Economics, Tourism, Environment. Business, craftsmanship, innovation; typical products and productions; landscape, nature, ecology, food and wine.

The aim is to help train young students of the communication sciences and to promote the region of Piedmont, by highlighting how unique it is, in terms of culture, creativity and entrepreneurship.
The deadline for the presentation of the articles is 20th November 2016.

Free participation.

For the regulation and all details: www.associazionepiemontemese.org

You can find online the call for participation for ‘Start Creation Lab 2017’ of the Business Club of the Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de’ Martiis”.
The project has been realized in cooperation with the Collegio Universitario di Torino “Renato Einaudi” and  “La Stampa”, the media partner that will follow the whole initiative.

It is an initiative of the University of Turin that allows students to explore the world of start-ups and develop their own business idea. They will present their idea to national and international investors.

If you want to find out all the details, you can find the call on the website of the Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”.

You can send your application by 11.59 pm on Tuesday, 15 November 2016, by filling out the application form.

You can now submit your application for admission to the second edition of the Master in Healthcare and Hospital Management of the University of Turin, which will be held at SAA School of Management.

The Master aims to provide high-quality skills and to satisfy the constant need of updating and of professional qualification of health workers: the participants will gain a detailed knowledge and technical expertise regarding the ‘hygiene, the organization and hospital management.

If want to apply for the Master, you must have a degree in Medicine and Surgery and a Postgraduate Diploma in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine or a proven ten-year experience in Health care and Hospital management.

Application deadline: Friday, November 18, 2016 at 4.00 pm.

Further details are available on the Master website.

You will find online on the website of the ‘University of Turin’ the new call for part-time collaborations of 200 hours.

Each year, the University offers its students the opportunity to work part time for its various administrative structures, for a maximum of 200 hours per short-listed student per academic year.

The deadline to submit applications is set for Friday, November 18, 2016, 12 pm

For all information related to how you can apply for collaborations, visit the website.

Club to Club, the most important Italian festival of electronic music, returns to Turin for its sixteenth edition. If you want to stay informed about new trends and new pop music, Club to Club is the right occasion.

It will be hosted from Wednesday, November 2 to Sunday, November 6, in the most beautiful places of Turin: from the Reggia di Venaria to Lingotto Fiere, from the Marriott Hotel to Xplosiva in Via Goito.

After the previous successful editions with extraordinary performances by Thom Yorke and Franco Battiato, this year, more than 50 artists, from 15 countries around the world, will meet in Turin to create a unique experience: 20 acts exclusively for Italy, including the amazing dJ set by Nick Murphy (Australian singer, known as Chet Faker, already a guest at Club to Club in 2014), dJ Shadow (one of the key names in the electronic scene), whose set will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the album Endtroducing…, the Venezuelan producer (who made significant contributions to studio albums of Björk and Kanye West) Arca and Autechre, the British duo of Warp Records.

There will be 14 world premier performances: among these, the place of honor undoubtedly goes to Junun, the project of Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead with the Israeli musician Shye Ben Tzur and the Indian ensemble The Rajasthan Express, headliner on Saturday night, November 5, at Lingotto.

The Grand Opening will be held on November 2, at the Reggia di Venaria, in cooperation with Unsound, another international festival based in Krakow. Many artists will play from 9.30 pm: the Gang of Ducks, Soundsystem, Elysia Crampton, the Chino Amobi, Olivia.

The closure party is entrusted to Dance Salvario: a block party that will take place along the streets and squares of San Salvario district of Turin.

Check out the full program on the official website of Club to Club.    

Cover the grief with a colour, not to forget, this is the initiative, promoted by the City of Turin in collaboration with the Street artist Fabio79, to remember the 13 Erasmus students who lost their life in a coach crash in Tarragona last March.

A canvas 14 meters long will be displayed in Piazza Castello on Saturday from 10 am, as a synonym of the monochromaticity that pervades the soul after a grief. Anyone can leave their thumbprint on the canvas, choosing among seven colors, in order to express the closeness to the parents of these students and to colour the wefts of the existence.

On the same day, at 9:30 am, Fabio Versaci, the Chairman of the City Council of Turin, will meet some of the parents of the seven Italian victims in the Sala dell’Orologio of Palazzo Civico, including Serena Saracino’s parents, she was a student of the Department of Science and Pharmaceutical Technology of Turin.

After the great success of the first edition, Ventana Academy is organizing an Open Day on 23rd November, at Oval Lingotto, to present the program of the second edition of the Event Manager course.

The course will allow you to become an event manager, a professional who works within companies that are specialized in organizing great events. This skill allows you to access and therefore to work in other important fields:

  • in the Communication and Marketing field of large and medium-sized companies, that deal with the productive sector and services and that use Events (such as Meetings, Incentives, product launches, road shows, Conventions) to communicate with their network and with the market;
  • Within public, scientific, cultural or sport institutions, that organize great events to communicate and interact with the general public;
  • In medium and large-sized companies that host delegates who participate in events such as hotels, conference centers, exhibition centers, Location.

If you want to participate, you must register to this form http://www.ventanacademy.it/open-day/

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