Events

From 9 November 2023 to 12 December 2023, Spoke 3 - Tourism and Culture Industry will hold a series of seminars entitled: " Sustainable tourism".   Specifically, 6 study meetings, which can also be followed online, on the topic of sustainability analyzed in its three dimensions: environmental, social and economic. In particular, the issues of sustainability in the tourism sector and for local development will be addressed.   Topics such as Lifestyle Tourism and Marketing used to encourage creativity, improve sustainability and digital content of companies operating in the tourism sector in a broad sense, taking into account new trends, lifestyles and consumer needs.   The mission of these meetings is to integrate the skills of students of the three-year and master's degree courses and to help stimulate interest and raise awareness among high school students, sector operators and citizens on the topic of sustainable development of the territory.   The event is organized by the professors of the Department of Law, Economics and Culture: Roberta Minazzi, Sebastiano Citroni and Valentina Albanese who will have the task of acting as discussants during the guest speeches; these include several managers and experts in the sector.   The second session of the seminar cycle will be held in April-May 2024. Clicca qui per partecipare online      

Edoardo Braccio, the Project Manager of Spoke 2 - Green Technologies and Sustainable Industry of the NODES Project, will participate with a speech entitled "Il PNRR per un Nord-Ovest Sostenibile" at the event "Io Sono Impresa Sostenibile". The event is scheduled for 1 December 2023 at Villa Nigra in Piazza Beltrami 5, Miasino (NO), as part of the Settimana del Sociale, a week of meetings organised by Confartigianato Imprese Piemonte Orientale and partners to discuss social welfare.

A round table to offer businesses the opportunities of open innovation Open Innovation strategies and practices for business success: this is the central theme of the event dedicated to businesses entitled Fostering the growth of SMEs of the future Open Innovation strategies and practices for business success  organised by Spoke 7 in collaboration with the University of Turin and the Piedmont International Foreign Centre.   The round table, introduced by Luisa Torri, scientific director of Spoke 7 of NODES, will begin at 2.30 pm and will see numerous guests discussing how open innovation can be an opportunity for the business world, in particular that linked to the issues of secondary agroindustry.   The event will be held on Thursday 30 November 2023, 2.30pm-5pm in the Blue Hall of the Rectorate of the University of Turin (Via Verdi 8 - Turin).    PROGRAM   2.30pm  Guest registration   2.45pm  Opening of works Luisa Torri, Scientific Director, Spoke 7 - NODES   2.50pm Introduction to Open Innovation strategies: Carlo Boccazzi Varotto, President, Hackability Francesca Montagna, Associate professor of Innovation Management, POLITO Luca Bolognini - Director of Digital Engineering and Innovation, AizoOn Technology Consulting   3.50pm Round Table: "Open horizons: success stories in open innovation from start-ups to SMEs Moderator: Omar Safi, Project Manager of Market Intelligence and Strategic Markets Development Area, Ceipiemont Giuseppe Pacotto, CEO, Tesi Square Lorenzo Picco, Founder, Vortex  Ibrahim Osmani, CEO, Origosat Felice Fulvio Faraci, President and CEO, Metroconsult   4.30pm Discussion and conclusions   To register click below:   SIGN UP HERE   

On 29 and 30 November 2023, Spoke 3 - Tourism and Culture Industry, will hold an event entitled: “Climate crisis and social movements: a meeting of perspectives” at the University of Insubria in Como Sant'Abbondio ” The NODES Ecosystem - Spoke 3 dialogues with COSMO Climate Change Observatory of Social MObilization. The event, organized by Valentina Albanese, Stefano Fanetti and Roberta Minazzi (part of the Spoke 3 research staff), will be divided into three moments.   The first session of the event will emphasize the theme of active citizenship and the ability to solicit political reflection on the sustainability of environmental heritage and natural conservation (archaeological and historical places, landscape) and will try to offer an idea on how active citizenship moves to improve educational, economic and cultural life enrichment processes. The works will be opened by the lectio magistralis of Prof. Farhana Sultana of Syracuse University in New York.   The second session will focus on social movements for environmental sustainability and will have the aim of promoting their knowledge and diffusion, also keeping track of their results and the critical issues that these movements face both in legal terms and as economic and environmental consequences following of their actions. This slot of the event will host, among others, the speech by Valentina Jacometti, researcher and contact person for WP3 Research activities for Spoke 3, entitled: "The financing of climate controversies".   The third session will see the succession of different work perspectives and will host, among other reports, that of Barbara Pozzo, Insubria teacher and ressearch & innovation project manager, entitled: "New Silk Road and decarbonisation: the role of NGOs in challenge of sustainability". Furthermore, the theme of digital space as a place for the analysis and diffusion of social movements for sustainability will be explored in depth. On the occasion of the event, enriched by the reports of academics and activists, the COSMO observatory will finally be launched which aims to collect bibliographic, visual and informative material on the link between social movements and climate change in Italy, monitoring the new cognitive territories in which the movements manifest themselves and tracing the way in which they face the challenges and problems that characterize environmental sustainability in Italy.  

Spoke 3 - Tourism and Culture Industry has organized an event entitled : "Sustainable and Circular Economy - The Case of the Textile Industry".   The day will be divided into two sessions (morning and afternoon).   In the first session, researchers from the University of Insubria will discuss together with researchers from other Italian (University of Milan) and foreign (University of Edinburgh - Scotland, Rutgers University - New Jersey-US) universities on various topics including: economics circularity, consumer ethics and ethical codes in the fashion sector.   During the morning, Prof. Barbara Pozzo, scientific director of Spoke 3, will give a speech entitled: "The challenges of sustainability for companies in the textile-fashion sector: the NODES Project"; while Prof. Valentina Jacometti, head of Nodes WP3, will talk about: "Circular Economy and the Fashion Industry: the case of waste".   During the conference, in addition to the NODES Project, two projects will also be presented: "Private international law and circular economy: the case of the fast fashion industry" and "Responsible contracting".   In the afternoon session, hosted at the Como Chamber of Commerce, stakeholders and local companies will present their experiences on sustainability, circular economy, traceability and gender equality in the textile sector.   Registrations must be received no later than November 24, 2023.   See the attached program Iscriviti all'evento    

Starting from 20 November 2023 until 11 December 2023, in Vercelli (VC) and Omegna (VB), there will be a series of meetings by Spoke 3 - Tourism and Culture Industry. The training event, entitled: Spoke3Young. Students meet enterprises and territories was designed with the aim of connecting third-year students of the Environmental Management and Sustainable Development degree course at the University of Eastern Piedmont with tourism companies, businesses, cultural and research institutions. The Spoke3Young training package is aimed at spreading direct knowledge of innovative and sustainable entrepreneurial realities in digital tourism and in the management of Piedmontese destinations, such as the case of Lake Orta. Through two seminars and a meeting in the field, some issues related to the focus of Spoke 3 will be addressed and declined in terms of promotion of historical memory, knowledge of material culture, environmental context favorable to business development, transfer of innovative skills for communicative sustainability and relational, mobility and sustainable tourism, as well as digital transition projects in the cultural and artistic spheres. The first seminar, scheduled in Vercelli on November 20, 2023, will be held by experts from the Ecomuseum of Lake Orta and Mottarone CUSIUS. Founded in 1997, the Ecomuseum aims to preserve and promote the historical memory of the traditions and material culture linked to the territory. Numerous projects have been proposed and supported which involve various targets (visits to museums, itineraries and walks, lessons and workshops, editorial activities, etc.). The Cusius Ecomuseum is the promoter of the Lake Contract, an important governance tool for local development processes which involves all interested parties in the management and/or use of the water resource and related basins, and which today has 120 members, both private and public (including UPO). Students will have the opportunity to interact with experts focusing on possible career orientations in the cultural and environmental sector.   The second appointment will be an "in the field" meeting to be held in Omegna (VB) on November 27, 2023, at the Fondazione Parco delle Arti e della Cultura. It will be structured in two parts. During the morning there will be a succession of speakers who will involve the students with interventions regarding their activities and experiences; the common thread will be creativity as a driver of development. In addition to the Mayor of Omegna and the President of the Pa.R.C.O. Foundation, the Director of the Foundation, the managers of the Navigazione Lago d'Orta company, the Alessi company and the Tormet company will speak. In the afternoon, the students will be accompanied on a narrative walk in the city of Omegna through which a "territorial mediator" will introduce them to some focal points of the history and geography of this territory.   In the spaces of the multipurpose structure of the Pa.R.C.O. foundation, they will also be guided to discover the Permanent Collection of household objects coming from companies that have made Italian and world history and that were born in the Cusio area - Alessi, Calderoni, Girmi, Lagostina, La Nuova Faro, Irmel, Tracanzan and Piazza, reliving the industrial history from the 19th century to the present day. The meeting with cultural realities and active entrepreneurs who have made environmental sustainability and digitalisation their strong point will allow students to explore internship, thesis and research opportunities, to develop ideas and receive advice for the development of entrepreneurial ideas, to apply to participate in future projects. The third seminar, which will be held in Vercelli on 11 December 2023, will see the participation of experts from the Joint Research Center of the European Commission. The JRC is the EC's science and knowledge service, providing scientific and technical support to the design, development, implementation and monitoring of European Union policies; in Italy it is located in Ispra (VA). Students will have the opportunity to listen and dialogue with the Head of Events, Outreach and Youth Program and the Leader of the Smart Mobility project. They will therefore have the opportunity to learn about the centre's activities, in which sustainability and digitalisation are expressed in many ways and with particular sensitivity to the repercussions of European policies. The seminar therefore presents itself as an opportunity to explore post-graduate internship opportunities and professional collaborations in the context of European science-based sustainability policies.   The two seminars scheduled for 20.11 and 11.12 are open to students of the Spoke 3 partner universities and can be followed by connecting  qui:  

Design Sprint Workshop “Learning by Food Designing” On 6 November, the Cittadella Politecnica del Design e della Mobilità Sostenibile hosts Diesamina, the Design Sprint workshop “Learning by Food Designing” intended for students of the three-year degree in Sustainable Design for the Food System.   Diesamina is organized by the research group of the Polito Food Design Lab of the Department of Architecture and Design of the Polytechnic of Turin.   Between Design, Circular Economy and Food, participants will be involved in project activities - creative and practical - aimed at identifying new concepts of innovative food products, capable of valorising the surpluses and by-products generated by the local agro-industry.   Using food as a "material for design" the students involved will put into practice the skills learned during their training, reflecting on the connections between the principles of economics circular for food, food design and social and environmental sustainability.   The workshop activities integrate with the themes of Spoke 7, in particular with regard to the ability to apply the principles of the circular food economy - such as reuse and recovery: starting from surpluses or by-products that can be intercepted in the agro-industrial sector fruit-bearing secondary plant in the area, we will try to define new concepts of edible products.

In St. Marcel, seminar meeting on the regeneration of communities, territories, and architectures. The meeting aims to initiate a multidisciplinary reflection on the enhancement of local production chains (particularly those related to the forest resource) as a possible engine for urban-architectural, social, and economic regeneration of the territory. The morning seminar will be a meeting point for experts who will discuss the potential and issues related to the need to integrate the enhancement of local production resources, constructive cultures, and the redevelopment of spaces serving communities. In the afternoon, through an excursion in the woods of Saint-Marcel guided by industry professionals, there will be an opportunity to delve into the theme of the local forest resource in relation to the development of future scenarios. The meeting will take place in St. Marcel on October 27, 2023, starting at 9:00 AM. Event promoted by the Polytechnic University of Turin - Department of Architecture and Design - research center Institute of Mountain Architecture. With the patronage of the Municipality of Saint-Marcel, GAL Valle d'Aosta, Consortium of Local Authorities of Valle d'Aosta – CELVA

In the heart of the Monferrato hills, and more precisely in the Borgo Castello (monastic complex - old church region) of Ponti (AL), on 14 October 2023 at 3.30 pm, the fourth edition of the Prized White Truffle Day will be held. Within this event, a conference will be held organized within the Spoke 3 - Tourism and Culture Industry projects entitled: "SUSTAINABLE AND NEARBY TOURISM IN NODES: The case study of the white truffle of Monferrato" which aims to explore the importance of one of the most prized local treasures, in the context of sustainable and local tourism in the region. This conference is an important moment to reflect on the importance of preserving and promoting the white truffle as a sustainable resource for local tourism. The event will host a series of leading experts and speakers who will address crucial issues related to the world of truffles and sustainable tourism. Among the scheduled topics: • The authentication of prized white truffles: Lucia Decastelli of IZS Piedmont, Liguria and Valle D'Aosta, will share information on analytical methods to guarantee the authenticity of truffles. • Food safety and controls in the truffle sector: Domenico Monteleone of the Ministry of Health will provide an overview of the rigorous controls necessary to guarantee the quality and food safety of truffle-based products. • Post-pandemic gastronomic tourism: Stefania Cerutti of the University of Eastern Piedmont will discuss the importance of the gastronomic element in motivating tourists after the end of the pandemic and the factors that drive quality tourism. • The importance of the prized white truffle in the Monferrato area: Roberto Cerrato, Director of UNESCO wine-growing landscapes, will explore the history, traditions, biodiversity and protection of the natural landscape linked to the white truffle. • Research on the traceability of the quality White Truffle of Monferrato: Maurizio Aceto, Guido Lingua and Vito Rubino of the University of Eastern Piedmont and Raffaella Balestrini, Fabiano Sillo and Elisa Zampieri of the CNR will present updates on the ongoing research relating to the analytical traceability of the Truffle White. The day will culminate with the conclusions of Franco Novelli of the ATS Comuni del Monferrato, followed by the award ceremony of the guest of honor and 2023 testimonial of the prized white truffle of Monferrato. Finally, all participants will be able to enjoy refreshments.  

Online Matching Event for agrifood companies Are you a supplier and do you want to offer specialist services for innovation?   Are you a company that operates in the food processing sector and do you intend to invest in consultancy to innovate your business?   I bandi Linea B di NODES possono essere una risposta alle tue esigenze!   The Spoke 7 - Secondary Agroindustry of NODES is organizing an online matching event, with the aim of causing to meet demand and offer of services/consultancy for innovation in the agrifood field.   REVIEW THE EVENT:   Here are the rules: Fill in the form with your details and sign up Prepare a presentation (you will have 3 minutes available, we will provide the template) Save the date: October 9th at 4.30pm   If you don't have a presentation you can still participate in the event to discover the opportunities available, simply register.   Spoke 7 will contact you in the following days to evaluate together the possible response to your needs.   info: info.Spoke7@ecs-nodes.eu    

On October 6th, in the Foscolo Auditorium, the University of Pavia is ready to present funding opportunities available through cascade funding calls, with a special focus on LINE B, and the services offered to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the North-Western region of Italy.   This event is primarily dedicated to SMEs with operational headquarters in Piedmont, Valle d'Aosta, or in the provinces of Pavia, Como, Varese, Bergamo, Brescia, Milan, Lodi, Piacenza, Cremona, and Mantua, as well as their suppliers. This event will provide a unique opportunity to understand how businesses can benefit from the funding provided by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).    The detailed agenda includes the following key sessions:    10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Welcome coffee and registration   11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Introduction to the NODES Ecosystem and Spoke 6 activities  11:15 AM – 11:30 AM: "Cascade Calls for Businesses." Presentation of funding opportunities for companies, with a particular emphasis on Line B  11:30 AM – 1:00 PM: Practical examples of financeable services – Brief presentations by NODES researchers involved in Spoke 6, interviewed by Carlo Gariboldi  1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Networking lunch  2:00 PM – 3:00 PM: "Line B – How to Submit Your Application?" – Information on attachments, financial eligibility, and the practical use of the Telemaco system, with the involvement of Unioncamere   3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Personalized one-on-one meetings with the Technology Transfer Office of the University of Pavia, aiming to provide tailored support for accessing funding within the PNRR NODES framework.    Participation requires registration.     The event will take place in the Foscolo Auditorium, with the entrance located at Corso Strada Nuova 65, Pavia."   Sign-up