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Zero Robotics: three Italian schools have been awarded!

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19 January 2018 / in News / by

On Thursday, 11 January, the finale of the Zero Robotics came to an end. It is a contest that brought to the Polytechnic of Turin more than 150 students of high schools from eight different European Countries: Italy, Russia Federation, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Rumania, Great Britain.

One of the two winning teams of this edition, BeachPin1701, is entirely Italian, it is composed of students from ITIS “Pininfarina” of Moncalieri (To), ITIS “Galileo Galilei” of Livorno and “Leonardo da Vinci” High School of Treviso. The team won the first place together with the American team Naughty Prions and Lions.

The students of the High School “Cecioni” of Livorno and the High School “Agnelli” of Turin were also awarded. They won the Virtual Final, the finale of the second category of the championship.

The competition, born in 2009 in the Space System Laboratory of the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology di Boston (MIT), this year involved almost 70 European Institutes, 100 American Institutes and 50 Australian Institutes, for a total of almost 2000 students.

The finalist students could attend live the last part of the competition that took place on the International Space Station and in video conference with the MIT of Boston and the University of Sydney, where all the students from America and Australia got together to watch the finale.

The finalists competed in the programming of SPHERES (Synchronised Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites), space robots of the size of a bowling ball, already used by NASA inside of the Space Station to test instruction cycles, to carry out autonomous rendezvous and docking operations. These machines are also experimentally used for the maintenance and assembly of satellites and for formation flight.

Every team is composed of 5 to 10 students and is coordinated by a teacher of the school, that is a programming expert.

Every year the teams have a mission. This year the students had to deal with the research of primordial life forms (bacteria) on the Encadalus moon of Saturn, drilling samples to bring them to Earth.

At the end of the first phase, the teams were allowed to ally and work together to achieve a more efficient program. The next phase consists of preliminary elimination competition, that only 42 teams passed; the programs of these teams have been directly uploaded for the finale on the robotic spheres present on the Space Station, where the programs of the winning teams have been carried out under the supervision of astronauts.

THE POLYTECHNIC HOSTS THE OPEN EDUCATION TRAINING WEEK

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19 January 2018 / in News / by

From 25 to 29 September the Polytechnic of Turin will host the “Open Education Training Week”, the week of training proposed in the field of the international project Erasmus + “OpenMed – Opening up Education in South-Mediterranean countries” coordinated by the Unione delle Università del Mediterraneo – UNIMED. Five European partners and nine University institutes from four different countries of the Southern Mediterranean are committed to the project, intended to stimulate and promote what are known as Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP), which are resources and open educational practices, teaching material in digital format made available with licenses enabling them to be reused, modified and distributed. The aim is to offer a growth opportunity to the higher education sector thanks to the sharing of knowledge and teaching tools in partner countries: Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan.

The week of meetings at the Polytechnic of Turin – partner of the project – will be focused on fundamentals and approaches to the “open” education. Educators, researches, teachers and students in training or just people that are interested in the subject can attend the meetings. Introductory classes, illustrations of basic principles and group works will provide information and will anticipate the second part of the training journey, which will be completed online in the coming months. In addition to the partner institutions of the project, eight more universities from Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Lebanon, for a total of 80 people and 8 countries (3 EU countries and 5 countries of the southern shore of the Mediterranean), will take part in the meetings of the week.

The Open Education Training Week represents the first stage of the “Open Education: fundamentals and approaches. A learning journey opening up Teaching in Higher Education” course. At the end of the week, the online stage of the course will begin, during which participants will be able to access the online teaching modules and develop their own project idea of Open Education.

The aim of the project OpenMed is to analyze the good practices with regard to the open education that have already been implemented in the Mediterranean region and to increase the adoption of these models in higher education, also through courses and workshops meant for trainers, like the one that will take place in Turin. The ultimate goal of the project is to protect education as a public good and fundamental human right and promote the role of universities as knowledge centers not only towards student but also beyond institutional limits, especially towards the weaker and disadvantaged groups of the society, such as low-income households, students with disabilities, inhabitants of rural areas and refugees.

Master of “Energy efficiency and sustainability in the industry” at the Politecnico di Torino

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10 November 2016 / in Events, News / by

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.

Startup Creation Lab 2017: the world of student-friendly start-ups

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10 November 2016 / in Events, News / by

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.

The fight against climate change at the Politecnico di Torino

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28 October 2016 / in Events, News / by

The Centre for Sustainable Futures dell’Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia was founded in collaboration with the Politecnico di Torino as a result of the decisions taken at the COP21, which took place in Paris in December 2015 and to which 195 countries joined. The Centre aims to develop innovative and sustainable technologies in order to prevent global warming.

One of the challenges of this Centre is to capture CO2 and reuse it as a raw material, but also to develop production technologies that are based on renewable sources.

On Thursday, November 10, 2016, in the Great Hall at the Politecnico di Torino, in Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, the Director of the Centre, Guido Saracco, will explain the main targets of the Center to combat global warming: goods and services based on renewable sources, use of carbon dioxide and organic waste as a raw material, development of photo-electrochemical and bio-mimetic systems, storage and reuse of low temperature heat.

There will be also a round table to discuss climate change with professionals in the world of research, industry and economy, to formulate a message that can bring us closer to the solution.

If you want to attend this event, you need to confirm your attendance to: eventi@polito.it

Expanding the frontiers of internships: more training opportunities abroad

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28 October 2016 / in News / by

The Chamber of Commerce, the Confindustria of Piedmont and the Politecnico di Torino signed an agreement for the inclusion of students and graduates in companies with principal or secondary offices abroad, because they think that an internship abroad could be a training period that further qualifies the studies at Politecnico.

The agreement also aims to increase the employment opportunities in international companies, to promote and support the launch of research projects and collection of materials for the development of master or doctoral thesis and to promote career guidance paths.

Minister Stefania Giannini and Chinese Minister of Education and Research Wan Gang are going to visit the Politecnico di Torino

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28 October 2016 / in Events, News / by

On 28th October 2016, at 10 am, there will be the inauguration of the new university residence “Carlo Mollino” in C.so Peschiera 90. It is the first residence in a university campus in Piedmont. It has been built thanks to the funds from Politecnico and MIUR (Ministry of Education, Universities and Research). Minister Stefania Giannini, Chancellor of the Politecnico Marco Gilli and Mayor Chiara Appendino will attend the inauguration.

In the afternoon, at 4:30 pm, there will be a meeting between the two Ministers, Chinese students of the Politecnico and some Italian students who did part of their studies in China thanks to the university’s collaboration projects with prestigious Chinese universities. The appointment is in the Lecture Hall of the Politecnico, in C.so Duca degli Abruzzi, 24.
There will be also a presentation of the Politecnico and the I3P projects, moreover it will be also possible to visit the laboratories of General Motors Global Propulsion Systems in the Cittadella Politecnica.

The day will end at 5:30 pm in the Boardroom (Sala Consiglio di Facoltà) with the seminar “New Energy Vehicle”, that has been organized by JAC Automobile Co. and Polytechnic to present different experiences and projects in the field of new energies, applied to the intelligent vehicle, mobility and Smart Cities, with reference to the collaborations between Italy and China.

For organizational reasons, it is necessary to register online at: relazioni.media@polito.it


APPLICATION TO THE POLITECNICO DI TORINO

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28 May 2015 / in News / by

Admission tests for academic year 2015/16 is open for students application.

You can take the tests to attend the Bachelor of Science courses in Engineering, Architecture, Design and Visual Communication, Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning in July or September 2015 sessions. Keep Reading →

Competition MOMOWO visual identity

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24 January 2015 / in News / by

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION FOR MOMOWO VISUAL IDENTITY INCLUDING THE LOGO AND ONE PROMOTIONAL OBJECT.

CLARIFICATIONS
Participants can submit their projects for MoMoWo visual identity (including logo) and one promotional object until 11.59 pm on March 14th. The registration form should be sent attached to the project proposal.

LAUNCH 26th January 2015 – DEADLINE 14th March 2015

Description: the activity is devoted to the conception of MoMoWo visual identity and to the design of one promotional object.

The winners will be announced at the “Festival dell’Architettura” in Turin 2015.
The promotional objects manufactured will be disseminated during Public Presentations and the carrying-out of project activities.
Logo will be published on all publications, thus remaining visible beyond the term of the project.

 

See more at MOMOWO website.

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