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ENJOY THE DIFFERENCE: cohabitation between peers

18 June 2018 / in News / by Michele Covolan

WHAT IS “ENJOY THE DIFFERENCE” (ETD)?

ENJOY THE DIFFERENCE is a project which started in 2011 from the collaboration between a group of students and professors of the University of Turin, Comune di Torino – Servizio Passpartout and some organizations.

The primary aim of ETD is combining students’ need to find accommodation at a reasonable price with the need of promoting independent life for disabled people, through providing accommodation and improving the social network. The people involved, university students and young people with motor or sensory disabilities, will be housemates on equal terms for a year, during which there won’t be any specific schedule to stick to. The project is for students of the University of Turin and for young disabled people, forming mixed groups of housemates.

WHY “ENJOY THE DIFFERENCE”?

The challenge is to show difference as an opportunity:

Because each person has the right at an independent life based on equality, as it is stated in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Because acknowledging differences must be a starting point, where everyone can find opportunities for improvement.
In order to grow, to have new experiences, to put oneself to the test while meeting and getting to know other people.

ETD wants to promote a change of perspective: students and disabled young people together to overcome stereotypes and clichés. Disabled young people wanting to have fun and live their life instead of suffering because of their limitations, and students with a sense of responsibility, ideas for the future and the ability to invent new ways of participating, instead of listless and passive people who drag themselves from one classroom to the next.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

All university students and young people with motor or sensory disabilities who are looking for accommodation can apply to become future housemates!
It’s easy, just fill in the form online here: https://www.centrostudidivi.unito.it/progetti/etd

Murazzi Student Zone Re-Start

18 June 2018 / in News / by Michele Covolan

After being closed for 558 days, shovelling hundreds of kilos of mud, and uncountable hours of work, Murazzi Student Zone is reborn, with a Re-Start that presented the completely renovated study room.

A Re-Start after the flood

A year and a half ago, the Po River burst its banks, flooding the Murazzi arches. It was November 24, 2016, after days of torrential rain, when the Murazzi Student Zone was submerged: the big wooden gate was unhinged and tables, chairs and furniture were carried away.

Since its first opening on May 10, 2013, the Murazzi Student Zone has been a reference point for the student community of Turin and for freelancers, having a large number of talks, book presentations, exhibitions and courses, alongside the study room.

The new Murazzi

After being closed for 558 days, shovelling hundreds of kilos of mud, and uncountable hours of work, the Murazzi Student Zone is reborn, with a Re-Start that presented the completely renovated study room. Since November 2017, in fact, renovation work has restored electrical systems and plaster, as well as entrances, furniture and bathrooms.

Last Wednesday, June 6, 2018, the area was given back to the citizens, or rather, to those “special citizens” who are the students, as councillor Marco Giusta defined them. “I’m dedicating this day to everyone who made this place become a reference point again, for studying and having fun, and the next exam session makes it an even more important area for all students”, he added. At the presentation press conference there was also Sergio Scamuzzi, vice dean for University Communication of the University of Turin: “If the Murazzi Student Zone didn’t exist, we would have to invent it”, he said.

A part of the city reopening, a place for studying, concentrating and sharing for many students who are getting ready to face the summer exams. An area of 650 square meters, coloured and lively, with a capacity of 270 people and free wi-fi. Everything located under ancient arches, along the constantly-flowing river and the vegetation of city parks.

Murazzi Student Zone is a project promoted by Città di Torino and the service for university guidance StudyinTorino.

Study well!

WASTE MOB: a clean-up event to raise awareness about littering

4 June 2018 / in Events / by Michele Covolan

The WASTE MOB competition to raise awareness on littering is back. A clean-up event along the Po River organized by City of Turin, University of Turin, Politecnico, CUS Torino and Amiat Gruppo Iren

This year, during the “Festival of sustainable development” and the initiative “Let’s clean up Europe”, Città di Torino, Università, Politecnico, CUS Torino e Amiat Gruppo Iren will team up to make the embankment of the Po River more beautiful and safe, starting from Piazza Vittorio Veneto. In fact, the embankment is one of the most important areas of Turin’s landscape;

Where and when?

May 27, 2018

Meet-up in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, in the area between Lungo Po Armando Diaz and via Alfonso Bonafus, at 2.00 PM.

Ends at 5.30 PM.

Last year, 150 participants collected 140 kg of waste in 5 kms. This year, we hope to exceed the number of 500 participants. Everyone is free to register: you can participate in a team as well as individually, by registering on the website www.letscleanuptorino.it (minors must be accompanied by a parent). Each participant will receive a welcome kit with a t-shirt and bags for the clean-up.

Program:

2.00 PM: Meet-up in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, in the area between Lungo Po Armando Diaz e via Alfonso Bonafus. Distribution of t-shirts and bags

2.30 PM: Start of the competition

5 PM: Arrival in Piazza Vittorio Veneto

5.30 PM: Final speech by authorities

Chiara Appendino, Mayor of the City of Turin

Riccardo D’Elicio, CUS Torino

Guido Saracco, Dean of the Politecnico di Torino

Egidio Dansero, Green Office Unito – Representative of the Dean of Sustainability

Patrizia Lombardi, Green Team Polito – Dean representative

Christian Aimaro, President of Amiat Gruppo Iren

Get your books ready…Murazzi Student Zone is reopening!

4 June 2018 / in Events / by Michele Covolan

It’s time. Here we go again. Get your books ready… Murazzi Student Zone is reopening!

Inauguration: Wednesday, June 6

Program:
11 AM- 12 PM Press conference
12.30 – 6.30 PM Back to studying!
7 – 10 PM Re-Start Party, with food, drinks and DJ Set!

Follow the event on Facebook!

Thanks to the allocation of over 50 thousand euros, the Murazzi Student Zone will be a reference point again, a welcoming and pleasant space along the Po River where young people and students can meet and study.

Following the disastrous effects of the 2016 flood, which made the building condemned, on November 25, 2017, an exact year later, renovation work began. Today, it finally ended. The electrical systems have been restored, as well as plaster; entrances; furniture and bathrooms.

Making the study room available is a part of the redevelopment of the arches of Murazzi del Po, where especially university students often hang out.

Follow Murazzi Student Zone on Facebook.

International University Challenge 2018

25 May 2018 / in Events / by Michele Covolan

The international university challenge is back on the Turin university sport fields.

The event, dedicated to sport competition among students from Unito and Polito, will be held from Tuesday 22^nd May and Saturday 9^th June 2018, at the CUS Torino di Via Panetti 30.

The competitions will involve different kinds of sport, starting from women’s and men’s five-a-side football, to beach volleyball and to mixed volleyball (4 vs 4). From men’s basketball (3 vs 3) to women’s and men’s tennis. Each team may enter a tournament of its choice.

With an enrolment fee of 15 euros, students will be allowed to take part in a tournament and in the conclusive cocktail party and they will receive as well the official T-shirt of the event for free.

Please, download the enrolment form here (qui) and send it to the email address tornei@custorino.it. You can also take it in person to the CUS info points in Unito and Polito or to the reception desks Braccini and Panetti.

Digital Education: when Storytelling becomes a part of the treatment

7 May 2018 / in News / by Michele Covolan

Digital Education, quando lo Storytelling è parte della cura

The convention: Digital Education: a new paradigm for the future challenges that took place in April in the Auditorium Cavallerizza Reale of the University of Turin emphasised the potential of Storytelling. In the age of Big Data, the narration has been rediscovered as important means for organising the chaos, the big numbers and the large amount of information that we find on the Web… but not only. In fact, the narration becomes fundamental also in the fields of public health and education.

The Storytelling, a British term that means both narrative and narration understood as act of telling a story, emerges in today’s world with a new vitality, even if it has very long-standing roots: since ancient times, narration has been the instrument through which humankind structured reality. It has always been the most practical, socially adaptable, immediate and direct form to structure human experience. The novel and the short story offer what is not visible for essays and academic writings, they expand the kingdom of what can be told, they dive in particulars but at the same time they underline the universality of some human condition.

Lo Storytelling si fa Digital

The Digital Storytelling, the digitalised form of the short story that combines the potentialities of the digital medium with the value of narrative, applies today to many disciplines: creative writing, sociology, psychology and medicine. One of the assets of the DS, in fact, is the ability to involve both at cognitive and emotional level. On the occasion of the convention Digital Education: a new paradigm for the future challenges and of the workshop leaded by Barbara Bruschi and Vincenzo Alatra, these particular abilities of Digital Storytelling have been discussed. The digital narration becomes a new instrument for those who operate in the field of Public Health and Education.

Barbara Bruschi , professor for Education and Learning technologies at the University of Turin underlined that narration, integrated with the use of voice, pictures and an audio support, are particularly important in the treatment of a patient. In fact, Digital Storytelling allows to highlight one’s fears, by showing them to the other and to oneself.

Benefits deriving from Digital Storytelling are not limited to patients but involve also health workers and educators. As Bruschi explains: “With 15 educators from the education services of the City of Turin we gave a new sense of the educational profession. People that had completely forgotten 40 years of professional life could find again the dimension of professional resistance also thanks to the pictures”.

Are you an international student? Here’s how you can enrol in UniTO

6 April 2018 / in News / by Michele Covolan

international student Studenti internazionali Unito

If you have a qualification obtained abroad and you want to enrol for the first time for a degree course at the University of Turin (Università degli Studi di Torino), you have to apply in advance through the application on line Apply@UniTo, no later than 30^th April 2018.

The application must be filled in personally and the included data, as well as the attached documents, must be true.

Starting from the registration for the academic year 2017-2018, the University of Turin deems suitable for registration only foreign qualifications obtained after a school period of at least 12 years and released after having attended at least two years of course of the foreign school system.

Further information is available on the Internationality section (Internazionalità) of UniTo portal.

We suggest to go to the University Infopoint in order to receive further detail and to control the documentation required for the enrolment.

Address: Palazzo degli Stemmi, Via Po, 29 – 10124 Torino

Tel: (+39) 011 6703020-3021

Infopoint’s opening hours:

Monday and Friday: from 9.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday: from 9.00 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Moreover, the University makes available a contact point for international students (sportello per studenti internazionali) having a foreign qualification.

Address: vicolo Benevello 3A (I floor) – 10124 Torino

Tel: (+39) 011 6704498-4499

Fax: (+39) 011 6704494

Email: internationalstudents@unito.it

The contact point for international students has the following opening hours:

From Monday to Friday: 9.00-11.00 a.m.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday also: 1.30 p.m.-3 p.m.

Warning: students can access the contact point only once they have got one of the tickets with progressive numbers distributed by the Totem in the entry hall. It is clarified that the distribution of tickets is limited to 50 people a day.

Museum subscription: huge success among UniTo students

3 April 2018 / in News / by Michele Covolan

The initiative of the Student Senate of the University of Turin in cooperation with the Museum Subscription Association enabled the distribution of more than 3000 discounted Museum Subscription cards to university students.

Huge success for the initiative of the Student Senate in collaboration with the Museum Subscription Association (Associazione Abbonamento Musei): from 19^th to 26^th March, more than 3000 special discount coupons of the Turin-Piedmont Museum Subscription card have been handed over to the students attending the Università degli Studi di Torino.

The distribution of the card took place in all the faculties and study hubs of the University of Turin. Hundreds of students from the faculties of Agricultural sciences, Economics, Physics, Jurisprudence and Human sciences have patiently stood in line for hours in order to get one of the Museum Subscription Voucher for the discounted price of 11,50 euro for buying a new subscription.

Once they have got the voucher, students will have to load or to renew the subscription directly on their university Smart Card or on the Pyou card within 3 months from the distribution in one of the points of sale of the Museum Subscription network.

The original initiative focused once more the attention on culture and promotion of the local areas, thank to a card that allows the access to the rich artistic heritage of Turin and Piedmont. In fact, there are more than 200 cultural sites which can be visited for 365 from the moment of the subscription: a product already chosen by 130 000 subscriber, who have been joined by this young university students.

I am not afraid: the Festival of Psychology is back

22 March 2018 / in Events / by Michele Covolan

I am not afraid, the fourth edition

From Friday, 6^th to Sunday, 8^th April 2018 the Festival of Psychology, that reached already the fourth edition, will take place once again here in Turin.

The Festival, organized by the Psychologists Association of Piedmont under the patronage of the Piedmont Region, the Regional Council of Piedmont, the University of Turin and the City of Turin, will have Massimo Recalcati as the leader of the scientific management.

During the weekend of 7^th and 8^th April an international multidisciplinary Festival will take place in the Cavallerizza Reale of Turin, where psychologists, psychoanalysts, Italian and foreign writers and philosophers will be present and will talk about the theme: I am not afraid, the topic chosen for this edition. The program includes conferences, dialogues and shows that are all free of charge and have the aim of involving an heterogeneous audience of all ages, education and interests.

The fear today

“Our time lives in a condition of stress in front of the anarchic and unpredictable terrorist violence” explains Massimo Recalcati “What are its origins? What are the ideologies and ghosts that nourisg the spirit of terrorism? How can one live without giving up life in this environment of insecurity? Are there ways to think individually and collectively about possible prevention of violence? At these and other questions about the daily work of psychologists will try to answer, in addition to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, also professors, philosophers and writers”.

“The itinerary of the Festival of Psychology of Turin continues with this fourth edition,” adds Alessandro Lombardo, president of the Psychologists Association of Piedmont and director of the organization of the event “A festival that wants to bring psychology, and psychologists, closer and closer to people’s life. After talking, in the past editions, about happiness, trust and stories, this year we will talk about one of the darkest emotions of human soul: fear. As always, our goal is to find a way that will allow us to deal with the fears that we will have to face”.

Schedule of the events

6th April – 6 pm – Cavallerizza Reale – Via Verdi 9 – Turin

Religions and Violence

Dialogue between Enzo Bianchi and Elzir Izzeddin. Introduction by Mauro Grimoldi

6th April – 9 pm – Cavallerizza Reale – Via Verdi 9 – Turin

Who are and what do terrorists want

Lectio Magistralis by Lucio Caracciolo

7th April – 10 am – Cavallerizza Reale – Via Verdi 9 – Turin

Inside the head of a terrorist

Dialogue between Maurizio Balsamo and Marco Belpoliti

7th April – 12 pm – Cavallerizza Reale – Via Verdi 9 – Turin

Inheritance of violence and terrorism

Dialogue between Federica Manzon and Francesco Stoppa

7th April – 2 pm – Cavallerizza Reale – Via Verdi 9 – Turin

The concept of borders

Dialogue between Rocco Ronchi and Simona Forti

7th April – 4 pm – Cavallerizza Reale – Via Verdi 9 – Turin

Traumatic experience and Forgiveness

Conversation between Clara Mucci, Aldo Becce and Mauro Grimoldi

7th April – 6 pm – Cavallerizza Reale – Via Verdi 9 – Turin

Violence and Terror

Lectio Magristralis by Massimo Recalcati

7th April – 9 pm – Casa del Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani Corso Galileo Ferraris, 266 – Turin

Edipo King

Show cured by Archivio Zeta. Introduced by Federico Condello

8th April – 10 am – Cavallerizza Reale – Via Verdi 9 – Turin

Hospitality: conditioned or unconditioned?

Dialogue between Bruno Moroncini and Simone Ragazzoni

8th April – 12 pm – Cavallerizza Reale – Via Verdi 9 – Turin

Terror explained to children

Dialogue between Uberto Zuccardi and Elisabetta Biffi

8th April – 4 pm – Cavallerizza Reale – Via Verdi 9 – Turin

How can we prevent violence?

Conversation between Federico Condello, Gad Lerner and Jole Orsenigo

8th April – 5.30 pm – Cavallerizza Reale – Via Verdi 9 – Turin

Women, Islam and Violence

Lectio Magistralis by Houria Abdelouahed

#Prendinota Reload: 5 concerts with the Rai Orchestra

22 March 2018 / in Events / by Michele Covolan

#Prendinota Reload: 5 concerti con l’Orchestra Rai

#Prendinota, the subscription dedicated to the students of UniTo, PoliTo and of the Conservatory, returns with the new formula #Prendinota Reload, a promotion that will be active from 15^th March and will include 5 concerts of the Rai Symphony Orchestra at a total price of 15 euros. Each student can purchase up to two booklets.

To access the promotion, valid until 28^th March, it is necessary to go to the “A. Toscanini” Rai Auditorium in Via Rossini 15, in this time slots:

Tuesday and Wednesday (10 am – 2 pm)
Thursday and Friday (3 pm – 7 pm)

You will have to show the smart-card or any other document certifying the enrollment at the University or at the Conservatory.

Schedule of concerts

Wednesday, 28^th March, 2018, 8 pm

Friday, 13^th April, 2018, 8 pm

MARK ELDER director | STEPHEN HOUGH piano | Music by Antonín Dvořák, Sergej Rachmaninov, Edward Elgar

Thursday, 26^th April, 2018, 8.30 pm

Friday, 18^th May, 2018, 8 pm

JAMES CONLON director | Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Camille Saint-Saëns, Richard Strauss

Saturday, 26^th May, 2018, 8 pm

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