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“Become entrepreneurs” is an entrepreneurship introduction course addressed to students, graduate students and doctoral students.

It is an introductory course, (9 classes), minded to stimulate and to increase the entrepreneurial attitudes of the participants. It is also useful to introduce the places of innovation of the university and of the territory, where it is possible to develop entrepreneurial ideas. The aim of the course is to enhance the employment prospects motivating students to acquire an entrepreneurial mentality and the ability to put ideas into practice, providing skills.

The course is proposed in several editions during the academic year, reaching more than one science education areas of the University, in order to facilitate the students’ participation.

The second edition, mainly dedicated to the students of the Agricultural and Veterinary Medicine Courses began on 25th January. They are 9 meetings on a weekly basis: every Thursday from 4 pm to 7 pm at the Palazzina Aule-Direzioni – Aule A e C – Largo Braccini, 2 – Grugliasco (TO).

In the academic year 2017-2018, a third edition is scheduled, addressed to the University of Humanities and to the University CLE.

It will start on Thursday 5th April 2018, from 4 pm to 7 pm, it will still consist of 9 meetings that will take place at the Palazzina Einaudi – Aule 2 e 7 – Lungo Dora Siena, 68/A – Torino.

The course is free, the attendance is compulsory and it will give college credits.

For more information:

Direzione Ricerca e Terza Missione – Staff Progetti innovativi di Ateneo
progettinnovativi.ricerca@unito.it – 0116702420

All the information and the registration forms are available at the dedicated section of the University portal.

Here you can find the flier of presentation of the course.

After almost a year of waiting, Archeo-Physics researchers at the Polytechnic University of Turin have finally obtained the green light from Egypt for the decisive geo-radar measurements from inside the Tomb of Tutankhamun (code number: KV62) in the Valley of the Kings a Luxor. The measurements will be conducted between January 31 and February 6, 2018 with the objective of verifying the presence of empty spaces and/or corridors hidden behind the walls of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. According to a theory proposed by the English Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves, the KV62 tomb could be, in fact, part of a larger tomb belonging perhaps to Queen Nefertiti.

According to Professor Franco Porcelli, main investigator of the research group coordinated by the Polytechnic University of Turin, three different last-generation radar systems will be employed for this research. In this way, the possible existence of hidden structures of relevance archaeological site adjacent to the tomb of Tutankhamun can be established with a 99% degree of confidence. One of the tasks will be to cross-check the geo-radar measurements with data obtained last May using a different non-invasive technique, based on the three-dimensional mapping of the electrical resistivity of the subsoil around Tutankhamun’s tomb. The May data suggested the presence of suspicious cavities in the rock a few meters away from KV62. The geo-radar measurements from the inside of KV62 will help understand whether these suspicious cavities are indeed real and directly connected with KV62.

For this research, a team of experts has been put together, belonging to two departments of the Politecnico di Torino (the Department of Applied Science and Technology and the Department of Environmental, Territory and Infrastructure Engineering), in collaboration with a professor from the University of Turin (Department of Earth Sciences) and two private companies, 3DGeoimaging of Turin and Geostudi Astier of Livorno. Terravision, a British company, is also involved in the research, as well as the Egyptian Archaeological Center in Cairo in the role of Egyptological consultancy. The project also enjoys the collaboration of experts from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities under the guidance of former Minister Mamdouh Eldamaty. The research project, supported by the Turin Polytechnic, is sponsored by the Novara Sviluppo Foundation, Geostudi Astier and National Geographic.

 

There’s an enrollment growth at the University of Turin. New enrollment figures confirm the positive trend with an increase of 8,32% compared to the last academic year 2015/2016.

There are 15.365 new enrolled students in 3-year or 5-year degree courses, but their number is bound to grow. In fact, the repêchages for Medicine, Health Professions, Veterinary Medicine and Primary Education are still underway.

There’s a high increase especially in the number of students enrolled in the economic and juridical field, with 3630 new students (+ 13,7%) and in the humanistic courses, with a growth of 6220 students (about + 11%). They are followed by the scientific field, with 3853 new freshmen (about +4,7 %), while the health field remains stable with 1662 enrollments.
The elimination of limited enrolment from a number of university courses and the introduction of new courses in the ICT (Information Communication Technology) field certainly helped to raise enrollments.

The figures, which are constantly growing, confirm the commitment of the University to foster courses, that fit into the changes in the society and in the labour market. These figures are paying back the effort, made to eliminate the limited number in many courses and to ensure more access and right to education”, says Chancelor Gianmaria Ajani. “New freshmen have found in the University of Turin a way to come into contact with the most innovative companies, which are active in international markets and in sciences and technologies. The significant increase in new students enrolment and the good response to the activation of new courses, also in English, are a positive and concrete answer to the assessment of the policies on education that have been implemented“.

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