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Peace initiatives at PoliTO

Updates on the peace initiatives of Politecnico di Torino

DAUIN meets industry | Research, Innovation, PhD

An opportunity for dialogue and exchange between the research community and the industrial world

Energy Center - Politecnico di Torino - Via Paolo Borsellino 38/16

Coding 3D Gaussian Splatting: From Theory to Real-Time Rendering

A seminar held as part of the ‘Ellis Turin Talk’ seminar series organised by the ELLIS Unit in Turin

Sala riunioni (III piano) - Dipartimento di Informatica dell’Università di Torino - Via Pessinetto 12 - available online

Call for contributions | Poster session at the Rural Heritage Landscape Conference

Call for poster contributions within the International Conference “Rural Heritage Landscape: Study, Observation and Development”

Call for papers | Special Issue “Navigating Climate Challenges in Modern Heritage”

Call for Papers for the Special Issue in the Built Heritage /Springer on Navigating Climate Challenges in Modern Heritage

Call for Papers | Beauty as a Public Category: Aesthetics, Politics, and Urban Space

Call for Papers for the European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes (CPCL), Vol. 9, no 2

Women in Mathematics Day 2026

Women in Mathematics Day event focused on the gender gap in STEM across academia and industry

Auditorium Energy Center - Politecnico di Torino - Via Paolo Borsellino 38/16

Percorsi: concert by the Sedicetto of the Coro PoliEtnico

A musical journey through centuries and repertoires with the Sedicetto of the Coro PoliEtnico, conducted by Matteo Gentile

Salone d'Onore - Villa della Regina - Strada Comunale Santa Margherita 79, Torino

Animal Farm Seminar Series - Spring 2026 | 1 - Andrea Bagnato

A seminar series about the architectural history of animal farming in Europe and North America

Sala Mollino - Castello del Valentino - Viale Mattioli 39, Torino - available online

Cultural Heritage and Climate Justice

Book launch of The Routledge Handbook on Cultural Heritage and Climate Justice, edited by Mesut Dinler and William Megarry

Sala dello Zodiaco - Castello del Valentino - Viale Mattioli 39, Torino - available online

STMicroelectronics Day

STMicroelectronics meets PoliTO students for an afternoon of tech talks, interactive demos, and career opportunities

Sala Emma Strada - Politecnico di Torino - Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24

Comunicare IT - Computing services for research

Workshop presenting IT services supporting research, including HPC, Cloud, Storage, and AI solutions

Sala Emma Strada - Politecnico di Torino - Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24

Job Quality in a Turbulent Era: Understanding, Measuring and Improving Job Quality in a Changing World of Work | #Theseus Colloquium

A seminar on how job quality is evolving in a rapidly changing world of work shaped by digitalization, AI and new labour market dynamics

Centro Theseus - Corso Montevecchio 38, Torino

Alumni back to PoliTO

Annual Degree Parchment Ceremony of the Alumni PoliTO Association

Aula Magna "Giovanni Agnelli" - Politecnico di Torino - Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24

IEEE PoliTO Start-up Connect - III Edition

An event bringing together students, researchers and start-ups to explore innovation, entrepreneurship and technology transfer

Sala Maxwell - DET - Politecnico di Torino - Corso Castelfilardo 42/a

Toward an Amazonian Relational Urbanism

The lecture examines the Belén neighbourhood in Iquitos (Peru) to develop a theory of Amazonian relational urbanism

Sala dello Zodiaco - Castello del Valentino - Viale Mattioli 39, Torino - disponibile online

Unite! Visiting Professorship Programme at TU Darmstadt

An international programme offering teaching opportunities at TU Darmstadt for scholars from Unite! partner universities

Environmental contaminants: become the experts | Summer School

Environmental contaminants Summer School in Grenoble with interdisciplinary activities and funded places for selected Master’s and PhD students

International University Challenge

The sports event organized by CUS Torino and dedicated to all university students in Turin is back

CUS Torino - Via Modesto Panetti 30, Torino

Call for Application | AI-Enhanced Studio

The Summer School will immerse students in professional concept methodology and evolving project workflows, focusing on AI-driven processes

ESONN (European School on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies)

The 23rd edition of ESONN is a two-week summer school in Grenoble offering advanced training in nanosciences and nanotechnologies with lectures, seminars, and hands-on lab activities

Space start-up ecosystems: Luxembourg meets Turin

An international meeting bringing together startups, companies, and institutions to explore collaboration opportunities in the Space Economy

Sala Agorà - Corso Castelfidardo 30/A, Torino

Animal Farm Seminar Series - Spring 2026 | 2 - Mariachiara Ficarelli

AnimalFarm explores the architectural history of animal farming, from Palladian villas to automated factory farms

Sala Mollino - Castello del Valentino - Viale Mattioli 39, Torino - Available online

Fire safety in photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging infrastructures

Fire safety for photovoltaics and electric charging: expert lecture

Aula Albenga - Politecnico di Torino - Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24

CoMAS26 - Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems | Summer School

Summer School for PhD students on control, data-driven methods, and estimation in dynamical systems

Career Days 2026

Career Days Polito are back

Piazzale Duca d'Aosta, Torino

Discover vitrimer materials through the BIOMAPS project

A webinar dedicated to innovations in PHA-based vitrimer materials, with a focus on sustainability, biodegradability, and industrial applications

Online

Special screening of the documentary "Giulio Regeni - Tutto il male del mondo"

Event organized as part of the initiative “Universities for Giulio Regeni"

Aula Magna "Giovanni Agnelli" - Politecnico di Torino - Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24

Unite! Sustainable Mobility Forum

An international online forum on sustainable mobility, featuring lectures and contributions from Unite! partner universities

Online

Call for papers | Thematic track AI for Architecture, Engineering and Construction - EPIA 2026

The conference will take place at the University of Madeira - Colégio dos Jesuítas do Funchal

Tri-City SLW Hackathon | Crafting Future Cities

A hackathon on rethinking public space through sustainable, inclusive, and human-centred urban solutions

Online

DAD A+ Spring Lecture Series “The New Challenges in the Field of Architecture” | Lecture 7 - Neil Leach

The A+ Lectures series of seminars, dedicated to new challenges in the field of Architecture, is back again this year, featuring important international guests

Room 1V - Castello del Valentino - Viale Mattioli 39, Torino

Call for Participation | Designing the Open Museum - International Design Workshop

Apply for the international design workshop Designing the Open Museum, exploring sustainable design through the concept of Satoyama

Cosmologies | #03 Talk - Víctor Muñoz Sanz

Cosmologies, a series marking the 10th anniversary of the China Room research group

Stanza della Caccia - Castello del Valentino - Viale Mattioli 39, Torino - available online

PoliTO Cinema | Pride

The University Film Series

Aula Magna "Giovanni Agnelli" - Politecnico di Torino - Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24

The Unite! Widening Training Series 2026

A three-day training programme in Barcelona designed for PhD candidates and early-career researchers, focusing on ethics, inclusion, and international collaboration

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Barcellona

Call for applications | A summer school on AI, control and tactical opacity

Applications are open for a summer school exploring artificial intelligence as a structure of power through creative and critical approaches

Call for applications | Summer BIP: Safety of Underground Transport Infrastructure

An international summer course on the safety of underground transport infrastructure, focusing on sustainable mobility and new energy carriers

Open Call | China Beyond Exception - Spatial entanglements across Architecture and Urban Studies

Call for contributions marking the 10 years of activities of Polito China Room

Call4Fellows

Call4Fellows is the new track dedicated to researchers, postdocs and PhD candidates aimed at bringing frontier scientific research closer to industrial applications

Call for abstracts | FORTMED 2027

Open call for abstracts for FORTMED 2027, an international conference on fortified heritage to be held in Valencia

Trustworthy AI Agents for Human-Centered Social Impact

Advanced course on trustworthy, human-centered AI systems, combining real-world applications, hands-on activities and reflections on ethical and regulatory challenges

Lab 8 - DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino - Corso Castelfidardo 39

Unite! Networking Hub

A virtual space where Faculty and Staff can exchange best practices on a specific topic or issue

Online

Call for participation | Unite! Language Tandems

Practice foreign languages through peer-to-peer exchanges with students from Unite! partner universities

The Study Method Enhancement and Study-Related Anxiety Management courses are back

Second Edition of the Courses designed to support students throughout their academic journey

21th UIT Summer School. Pushing the frontiers of thermal-fluid simulations

A one-week intensive Summer School aims to equip PhD students and young researchers with a perspective on CFD methodologies

MechaTwing Summer School

The MechaTwing Summer School will bring together international experts to explore advanced approaches to aircraft wing morphing and aeroelastic control

Online Language and Cultural Competence Courses

Online courses open to all students enrolled at any of the Unite! partner universities

Online

Space It Up! PhD Forum

Event dedicated to the presentation of doctoral research and interdisciplinary exchange in the space sector.

Alba

IRGA Call – Initiatives de Recherche Grenoble Alpes

Call launched by the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Cosmologies. Rethinking Anomalies in Urban and Architectural Research on China and Beyond

The first in a series of events marking the 10th anniversary of the China Room research group

Sala Ciribini - Castello del Valentino - Viale Mattioli 39, Torino - available online