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Yesterday January 30^th 2017 the multi-year Partnership that allows and regulates important collaborations between the University of Turin and SMAT (Water services society of Turin).

This partnership will be focused mostly on those sectors linked with water services like the production and distribution of drinkable water, the recycling of wastes through sewers and the sewage disposal through purification plants.

Taking part in international projects means also an advantage in the placement politics of both agencies. SMAT and the University of Turin want to act together in the creation of partnership networks at an international level and in the organization of institutional events to promote the scientific, technologic and business culture at a local level.

This partnership is one of the initiatives about the environment organized by the University of Turin, which has dealt with the Rapporto di sostenibilità (Report about sustainability) about wastes, water and energy since 2014 and with researches and formative activities about environmental objectives the University is following for the sustainable development and the management of the local area.

The partnership between the two agencies will help focus on environmental questions and develop the broadcasting of this information to the citizens.

35 students of the University of Turin are taking part in the national project “Promemoria_Auschwitz”: they’re leaving to Krakow and to the old concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau.

This project is supported by the University of Turin and more than 300 students of all the courses had applied.

UniTo is the first Italian university that, in partnership with collettivo Studenti Indipendenti  (Indipendent students organization) and l’Istituto piemontese per la storia della Resistenza e della società contemporanea “Giorgio Agosti” (Institute for the History of the Resistance and the History of the Contemporary Italian Society), supports this trip, not only from an economic point of view, but also through courses of study and research.

“A trip is a shared moment”, so Elena Bisacca, vice president of Deina Torino – “This is a trip through which everybody goes back to their own life looking at it in a different way. It is important to understand how to tell and make understand this experience to the local people that supported this trip”.

The Open Day ESCP Europe is scheduled for Thursday, January 19, 2017, from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm.

The event will give the opportunity to potential students to discover something more about ESCP Europe, which is the oldest business school in the world, it was founded in 1819. With its six campuses, based in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Turin and Warsaw, the school has a European identity with a global perspective. The Italian campus of ESCP Europe was founded in Turin in 2004. It offers a wide range of intercultural and multi-campus courses: first level degrees, 5-years degrees, Masters, MBA and Executive education.

During the Open Day each candidate will have the opportunity to speak individually with staff, professors and alumni, and to discover all the courses of the Campus of Turin.

The event is free, but reservation is recommended via email to: info.it@escpeurope.eu

Like every year in January, Creative Days IED Torino are about to start. The Istituto Europeo di Design offers a great chance to students , who are attending the 4th and 5th year of high school and are interested in creative professions, to find the best course of study for their passions. The first appointments will take place from January 2017: they will present every single IED Torino course in Design, Fashion and Visual Arts and make creative aspirants work in designer clothes!

During Creative Days, IED organises free workshops with a limited access, which allow students to work in a team building a real project in the areas of interest, under the guidance of professors and experts in the field. At the end of the workshop, IED Turin will also release a certificate of participation for school credits.

The first workshops will be those of Visual Arts.

The Photography workshop will be inaugurated on 31st January 2017, followed by those of Graphic Design, Illustration and Animation and Advertising Communication in February and April.

It will be then the turn of the laboratories of the School of Design, which in February will explore the world of Interior, Product Designers or Transportation.

As for Fashion field there will be workshops in Fashion Design and Jewellery Design and Accessories in April.

For those who want a 360 ° panorama on the world of design, creativity and design methodology, IED will also organise Design Thinking workshops.

All activities will take place at IED Torino, in Via San Quintino 39, from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm.

If you want to attend the Creative Days IED TURIN, you must reserve your place by a web registration.

The community of the University of Turin, both students and staff, is invited to participate in MobilitaUniTO, the first survey on home-university trips. The survey, which involves most of the Italian university realities, aims to provide an overview of the ways in which users of the University move from home to the place of study or work.

The aim of the survey will be then to encourage and facilitate future choices related to the mobility, in order to make the university a sustainable place that is also easy to reach by public transport, bike sharing, car pooling, etc.

The questionnaire is organized by UniToGO, the Green Office of the University of Turin, the new coordination structure and project on environmental policies in collaboration with the National Coordination of Mobility Manager of Italian Universities.

If you want to participate in this survey, you can fill in the questionnaire until 27^th January 2017.