Events

The Spoke 3 of the NODES Innovation Ecosystem – Digital and Sustainable North West, coordinated for the University of Eastern Piedmont by Professor Stefania Cerutti, professor of the Department for Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition, has organized an important exhibition that explores the complex interrelationships between culture, imagination and environmental sustainability.   ''NODES on display. Images of sustainability'', the result of a collaboration between the Department for Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition (DISSTE) and the Department of Humanistic Studies (DISUM), will be hosted from 1 to 20 December 2023 in the Spazio Gioin of the Municipality of Vercelli ( via Laviny, 67) with the opening hours: 10:00 - 16:30 from Monday to Friday and 10:00 - 17:00 Saturday and Sunday (closed every Monday and 8 December).   The exhibition, which enjoys the patronage of the Municipality and the Province of Vercelli, will address issues of great relevance and current affairs, contributing to enriching the cultural, educational and tourist offer of the area and will present 32 posters from the International Poster Biennial in Mexico, an important event which, in collaboration with the United Nations Office for the Environment (UNEP), deals with issues related to environmental sustainability and the conservation of biodiversity. These posters, created by artists and graphic designers from all over the world, will be used in an innovative way to promote a reflection on the relevance of culture in the transition towards a more sustainable society.   Exhibition and catalog are curated by Annalisa D'Orsi, NODES research fellow at the Department of Humanistic Studies of the UPO. The catalog will link the displayed posters to interdisciplinary scientific contributions written by teachers and researchers members of the Spoke 3 research group of the UPO and by other experts. This interdisciplinary approach is fundamental to addressing the climate and ecological challenges of the present.   As a corollary to the exhibition, 2 conferences will also be organized by the Province and the Ecomuseo delle Terre d'Acqua focused on tourism, landscape and biodiversity protection and agriculture.   The conferences will be held at the Gioin Space on 6 and 14 December 2023, from 5pm to 7.30pm, and will have the title respectively “Tourism, agriculture and biodiversity. Sustainable and complementary actions” and “Biodiversity in rice fields. Study and protection".  

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.