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Polito: a new master course for optical fibre experts

16 April 2018 / in News / by
Polito: il nuovo master per esperti di reti in fibra ottica

Photonics for Data Networks and Metrology, this will be the name of the new, innovative master course at Turin Polytech.

5G, HD videos, contents of virtual and augmented reality, growth of cloud services, synchronisation of networks and Internet of things: all these technologies are becoming more and more important in our daily life. However, due to their massive use , they will lead in the years to come to a huge increase of the data traffic and of the demand for networks synchronisation. That’s why photonic networks have to be more and more widespread and elastic and to offer innovative services, in order to meet this growing demand.

For this reason, professionals able to deal with this transformation will play a fundamental role. The new II level Master course Photonics for Data Networks and Metrology of Turin Polytech has been specifically created for these professions of the future. It has been created in collaboration with INRiM and other 17 institutions, like companies, research centres and consortia: AGH, Clonets, Cisco, ISMB, Juniper Networks, LPL, MenloSystems, Oclaro, PSNC, Seven Solutions, SM Optics, Synopsys, Syrte, TIM, Telecom Infra Project, Top-IX, Ustav..

The fact that so many partners are involved in supporting the initiative proves that there is a need for a vertical and multidisciplinary knowledge about these new issues. The program is also supported by the EU through the project H2020-INFRAINNOV-CLONETS and will offer both theoretical and practical lessons as well as a final stage in a European company or research centre.

The aim of the Master is to provide multidisciplinary competences and knowledge about transmission and photonic networks but also about the principles of metrology and of distribution of time/frequency connection on telecommunication infrastructures based on optical fibre transmission. The program is intended for students having different backgrounds, from ICT graduates to physics and metrology graduates and will create hybrid professional figures that will be able to develop and administrate cutting-edge photonic networks, in order to support a growing traffic that will also require the distribution of time/frequency connections from and within metrology centres.

The Master is leaded by Professor Curri from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni ) of the Turin Polytech in collaboration with Doctor Calonico from INRiM and is a full-time program lasting an academic year that will start on September 2018 and finish in November 2019.

Scholarships for internationals students for the academic year 2018-2019

13 April 2018 / in News / by
Scholarships for internationals students for the academic year 2018-2019 Borse di studio studenti internazionali

UniTo releases 15 scholarships lasting two years for international students who obtained a bachelor degree abroad and are willing to enrol to the first year of a master degree at the University of Turin for the academic year 2018-2019.

The ranking list for the allocation of scholarships is based on the result of GRE test (Revised General test). It means that those who are not in possession of a GRE certificate won’t be allowed to apply for a scholarship.

If you want to send your GRE test results directly to the University of Turin, you can use the code 7417.

The deadline for submitting the application is 30th April 2018 at 3 p.m. (Italian date and time).

Further information can be found on the specific page of the University portal: Scholarships for international students (English version).

You can also go to:

Sportello Studenti Internazionali (international students point)- Sezione Mobilità e Didattica Internazionale (International Mobility and Didactics division)

Vicolo Benevello, 3/a, Ist floor – 10124 Torino

Email: internationalstudents@unito.it

Office Hours:
from Monday to Friday: 9.00-11.00
from Thursday to Tuesday: 13.30-15.00

I Watt you. A docudrama on the founder of electronics

13 April 2018 / in News / by
I Watt You Galfer is Back

I watt you. Galfer is back!

Galileo Ferraris is back. Professors from the Electric Engineering College of the Department of Energy (Dipartimento Energia ) of the Turin Polytech launched the initiative of a day dedicated to  Galileo Ferraris, with the projection of a docudrama about his life. The movie will introduce the character of the electrical engineer, but in the current framework of the energy revolution. This is a framework in which electric engineering graduates can contribute to the safeguard of the planet, thanks to innovative energy solutions.

The movie will be projected tomorrow, Tuesday 10th April 2018, at 5.30 p.m. at the Sala Consiglio di Facoltà of Turin Polytech, in corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24.

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

6 April 2018 / in News / by
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 30th 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.

UniTo: deadline for payment of the third university fee

6 April 2018 / in News / by
Scadenza pagamento terza rata unito

Are you attending the University of Turin (Università degli Studi di Torino)? You have until 4 p.m. of Friday 6th April to pay the third university fee, which will cover the remaining part of the contribution.

In order to pay, you have to log in to your personal page MyUniTo with your credentials and print the MAV (payment by advice) module, which will be available under the section “fees”.

For further information, please consult the section “fees” (Tasse) of the university portal and the Regulation about fees and contributions for the academic year 2017/2018.

Museum subscription: huge success among UniTo students

3 April 2018 / in News / by

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 19th to 26th 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.

CaPuS: Unito preserves the urban art

3 April 2018 / in News / by

That of Turin is the leading University of the project CAPuS – Conservation of Art in Public Spaces, which involves 7 universities, 4 companies, 1 association, 1 museum, 1 research centre and 2 municipalities throughout Europe. Totally, there are 16 European partners, located in Italy, Germany, Croatia, Poland and Spain. A further one is located in the USA.

The project, developed within Erasmus+ “Knowledge alliances”, has been financed by the European Commission and aims at establishing a preservative protocol for urban art, a precious way for regenerating the city. Somewhere in between the spontaneity and the commissioning, urban artworks are becoming more and more important on city walls. However, because of their nature and of the prolonged exposure to adverse weather conditions, this artworks are more likely to deteriorate and their preservation causes some problems.

With the collaboration of companies, universities, art restorers and artist, CaPus will map the deterioration, identifying the suitable products and preservation methods (like the creation of digital archives). Moreover, in order to define a shared operational protocol, CaPus will afect also the courses on offer at University: it will be proposed a lesson plan to be inserted into the academic records and an international master on the subject. In addition, students will be actively involved in the activities of the project, thanks to internships in the partner companies.

Partners of the project will actively analyse alteration processes, define preservation strategies and deal with project communication. Also the Centro Conservazione e Restauro La Venaria Reale (centre for the preservation and the restoration La Venaria Reale) will play an important role, particularly as to regards the analytical part of characterisation of the materials of the artworks, offering a leading contribution to the creation of a training module on the preservation of the urban art. The Italian group is completed by the University of Parma, which will supervise the quality, and Medhiartis ,a communication agency which will curating the visual identity and manage the socials. The Municipality of Reggio Emilia and the Municipality of Turin are associated partners and will cooperate on identification and enhancement of the artworks chosen for the experimentation.

“The CaPus project” says Dominique Scalarone, professor of Materials for preservation and Restoration at the University of Turin and project manager of the whole project “is a unique occasion for facing in an organic, multidisciplinary and innovative way the open question about the preservation of the urban art. Starting with the creation of an international and heterogeneous by vocation partnership, totally in line with the Europeans guidelines in the field of higher education, the project aims at enhancing the cooperation between Universities and private companies in order to develop new knowledge, working opportunities and innovative products. It also aims at raising the awareness of Institutions and general public about the need of enhancing and preserving public artworks. The analysis of the materials which the artists use to realise their works, the study on their deterioration, the characterisation of the products which can be used for their restoration will be important phases of the project, functional to the achievement of the two main goals, that is the definition of a preservation protocol specific for urban artworks and the realisation of a multidisciplinary and innovative training module for university students and art restorers, also available on a digital platform”

Ilaria Saccani, president of CESMAR7, says that :”the ambition of the project is to create permanent alliances within the partnership, in order to combine the experience of art restorers and analytical groups with the knowledge of constituent materials and restoring products of companies involved in the definition of an operational innovative protocol for the preservation of urban art. This will converge into the activation of a training module in the Universities and Academy involved in the project. In this way, the contents and the project methods will enrich and innovate the courses on offer, making them more updated on the new needs of the preservation. Ultimately, the CaPus projects strives for raising the awareness of the institution, but above all of general public, about the sensitive issue of the preservation of urban art: the project will start with the involvement of the artists, in order to clear the borders of the ethic of preservation of an art which in lots of its various forms has an evanescent nature as intrinsic feature”.

G. PEANO: maths becomes accessible for blinds and people with visual impairment

3 April 2018 / in News / by
G. Peano: matematica accessibile a ciechi e ipovedenti

Researchers from the Math Department G:Peano (Dipartimento di Matematica G. Peano) of the University of Turin have developed the first system that allows the automated creation of pdf texts with mathematical formulae which can be read by blinds or people with visual impairment. The research team is leaded by professor Anna Capietto, who teaches mathematical Analysis and who is the contact person responsible for disabilities of the Department.

This “Made in Unito” invention will be presented next July in Austria, on occasion of the most important event about the subject (International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs – ICCHP), as it is an important breakthrough regarding the access to texts containing formulae. In fact, currently the digital material made available by screen readers and Braille displays is almost non-exhistent. This limitation prevents people with visual impairments from attending scientific studies or choosing some careers.

In the context of LaTex, the most common Markup language, used for the preparation of scientific texts, researchers succeeded in realising an additional package which enables the creation of pdf documents with an accessible mathematical content. By adding a simple line of code to their work, be it didactic, professional or educational, authors of texts containing formulae (even without specific knowledge of assistive technology) can make their work accessible.

Within 2018, the first accessible texts of Mathematical Analysis 1, Linear algebra and Analytic Geometry will be made available for people with visual impairment. Moreover, it expected to improve the accessibility of the entrance texts at University and of the mathematical software Maple and MatLab. The project, which has been carried out since 2012 by 12 people (among them, researchers and research techs of the University, professors of secondary school and professionals from private companies), has been made possible thanks to the contribution of 7 voluntary collaborators with visual impairment, who operate as indispensable experimenters.

APEnet: the new Italian network of the Universities and Research Institutes for the Public Engagement

26 March 2018 / in News / by
Apenet

Friday, 16th March 2018, APEnet, the Italian network of the Universities and Research Institutes for the Public Engagement, has been presented in the “Sala degli affreschi” (Fresco Hall) of the CRUI (the Conference of the Deans of the Italian Universities). The occasion was the Workshop “Destination Public Engagement #2”, which has been organized in cooperation with the ANVUR, the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems.

The network has been developed from a proposal made during the first step of the Workshop, which has been organised by the Università degli Studi di Torino in December 2015 and which involved 100 representatives from 28 Universities and Research Institutes from all over Italy. In February 2017, the university of Turin implemented the proposal, launching the endorsement to APEnet, which now includes 36 universities and 2 research institutes.

Similarly to what happened in other European countries, APEnet has been created in order to support Universities and Research Institutes as long as the sharing and the enhancement of programs, aims and initiatives for the Public Engagement are concerned. The Public Engagement is an internationally recognised new and effective didactic method, based on the sharing of the research results and on the involvement of researchers, industries, policymakers, school students and citizens.

The challenge which the University has to address as a place of knowledge is to ensure that the production of knowledge and innovation becomes an inclusive process shared with the community.

The so-called “Terza Missione” (third mission) is now structured around a strong commitment to social responsibility and to the focusing on the land.

In particular, APEnet aims are:

  • contributing to the enhancement and the evaluation of the initiatives of Public Engagement, in cooperation with the different institutional players of the Italian university system (MIUR, CUN, CRUI, ANVUR, etc.)
  • sensitising, training and briefing the (research and technical-administrative) staff of the Universities and the Research Institutes
  • sharing and promoting national and international experiences
  • developing a common and shared platform for promoting, monitoring and evaluating the initiatives of the Public Engagement
  • enhancing and developing the presence of the Public Engagement in the university programmes (degree courses and doctorates)
  • fostering the research about the themes of the Public Engagement

Here you can find the list of the universities and of the research institutes which are members of APEnet elenco degli Atenei e degli Istituti di Ricerca membri di APEnet.

For further information: Andrea De Bortoli

Università di Torino – Resp. Valorizzazione Della Ricerca e Public Engagement – Agorà Scienza.

Tel. 011 6702738

Email: publicengagement@unito.it

ROOMTASTIC: the virtual platform for searching or offering living arrangements

26 March 2018 / in News / by
Roomtastic, cerco e offro alloggio

Are you a student far from home and are you searching for a place to live? Have you already got a flat and are you looking for a flat mate?

Roomtastic will do the job!

It is a digital platform which allows the contact between supply and demand of flats for university and transfer students.

Once you have chosen the city in which you are interested, you can place an ad in order to immediately rent a room or a flat or you can see the available offers.

Roomtastic has been created in 2015 by four digital-enthusiast young friends and, in February 2017, it has became a partner of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

The purpose of its creators is to reduce more and more the real estate brokerage and allow students throughout Italy to access to a transparent, reliable and totally free research-and-offer service. The portal provides a service which meets the needs of the young people. “We believe that this project will bring benefits to all those students, who, like us, have often had to look through messy ads and leaflets, which were often unclear and which did not include a proper and reliable description of the room they advertised”.

The search and the  publication of the ads, as well as the support services, are free for all the users of Roomtastic.

Moreover, you can receive and consult free of charge up to 5 preventives for your transfer, thanks to the free service provided by Fazland.

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