PhD Students
PhD students registered with the University of Pavia are admitted once a year through a call published on the University website. Students interested in PhD studies at Pavia should monitor the relevant web page on the University web site for updates. Under existing rules, the call is published early in the summer with a deadline in July, admission tests in September and start of the PhD on 1st November.
Prospective PhD students interested in a placement at Collegio Volta should submit an application through the offices of EdISU (http://www.isu.pv.it/), the College governing body. EdISU publishes calls each year in late spring early summer inviting applications for College placements and for bursaries but only undergraduates and MSc students are eligible for bursaries as PhD students are expected to hold a PhD studentships. Applicant PhD students are advised, nevertheless, to submit financial papers to EdISU as discussed below because if they win a placement in College they may find that that they are entitled to reduced College fees. The Student's Guide to the EdISU application downloadable here conatins valuable information for this process especially forforeign students. Students who apply to EdISU and indicate Collegio Volta as their first preference may be invited by College to complete a questionnaire about their general and extra-curricular interests. The questionnaire is available in English and in Italian, it can be downloaded as a Word file, completed and should be returned as to the office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
College welcomes informal enquiries about admissions and prospective PhD students interested in studying at Collegio Volta may write to College. Academic enquiries should be addressed to the Office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Financial enquiries about fees, payments, etc should be addressed to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. PhD students living at Collegio Volta, according to College rules, are expected to take a direct role in undergraduate supervisions (typically 24 hours of teaching per year). Visiting PhD students, namely PhD students registered with a University different from Pavia, who plan a period of study and research in Pavia and who would like to live at Collegio Volta during their time in Pavia, should contact directly the Office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
MSc Students
The majority of 3 year Courses at the University of Pavia leading to BA/BSc degrees also offer subsequent, 2year MSc Courses (see the relevant University web page http://www.unipv.eu/site/en/home/academics/courses-organization.html for an overall scheme).
Admissions
Admissions of MSc students to Collegio Volta are through the offices of EdISU (http://www.isu.pv.it/), the College governing body. EdISU publishes calls each year in late spring early summer inviting applications for bursaries College placements. Applicant students can, in fact, use the same application in order to request four types of benefits: a bursary, a College placement, a card enabling reduced charges at a number of University restaurants and cafeterias and a prospective reduction in University fees. All these benefits are mean-assessed and, accordingly, students need to submit evidence of their financial status as part of the application process. The Student's Guide to the EdISU application has been written at Collegio Volta in order to help freshmen in this process. The guide is specially useful to foreign students. Additional and general information about EdISU bursaries and College placements is available on the relevant web pages. The College welcomes informal enquiries about admissions from prospective undergraduate students, including students from abroad. Academic enquiries should be addressed to the office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Financial enquiries about fees, payments, etc should be addressed to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Students who apply to EdISU and indicate Collegio Volta as their first preference may be invited by College to complete a questionnaire about their general and extra-curricular interests. The questionnaire is available in English and in Italian, it can be downloaded as a Word file, completed and should be returned as to the office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Confirmations
Resident undergraduates who seek a placement for the following year will receive instructions from College on the requirement. Briefly, this will involves submission to the Office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in mid July of three files: (i) the course layout - whether standard or personalised - with details of each examination, including exam codes and credits, (ii) full exam records with dates and marks of individual exams. Both the Course study plan and the exam records can be accessed from the main Univerrsity students and exam databes (Esse3) to which all students have access and exported as pdf and, for students who need this, (iii) a dichiarazione sostitutiva di certificazione for Italian students or its English translation, a self certification form, for foreign students both of which can be downloaded from ths page, that enable students to confirm to College that they have cleared exams not yet logged in Esse3. This infornation has to be submitted to the Office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.by a date communicated to College students each year in June. Students who submit a dichiarazione sostitutiva di certificazione also need to send proof that the makrs of the relevant exams have been logged onto their career records.
Resident College undergraduates will be informed of their College placement for the following academic year before the College closes the last Friday in July although, for some students, confirmation may be conditional to submission of additional exam records before the 10th of August.
Undergraduates
The University of Pavia offers a variety of first degree Courses, the majority of which lasts 3 years and lead to BA/BSc degrees. Exceptions are the Pharmacy, Architecture and Construction Engineering and Law Courses (lasting 5 years) and the Medicine (lasting 6 years) (see the University web page for details).
Admissions
Undergraduate admissions to Collegio Volta are through the offices of EDiSU, the College governing body. EdISU publishes calls each year in late spring early summer inviting applications for bursaries College placements. Applicant students can, in fact, use the same application in order to request four types of benefits: a bursary, a College placement, a card enabling reduced charges at a number of University restaurants and cafeterias and a prospective reduction in University fees. All these benefits are mean-assessed and, accordingly, students need to submit evidence of their financial status as part of the application process. General information about EdISU bursaries and College placements is available on the EDiSU main web page. The College welcomes informal enquiries about admissions from prospective undergraduate students, including students from abroad. An informal questionnaire has been prepared for foreign applicants in order to enable College to undestand individual cases and help out. Foreign applicants are encouraged to fill this questionnaire, read a separate set of informal guidelines written by College and address any further question to to the office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Financial enquiries about fees, payments, etc should be addressed to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Confirmations
Resident undergraduates who seek a placement for the following year will receive instructions from College on the requirement. Briefly, this will involves submission to the Office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in mid July of three files: (i) the course layout - whether standard or personalised - with details of each examination, including exam codes and credits, (ii) full exam records with dates and marks of individual exams. Both the Course study plan and the exam records can be accessed from the main Univerrsity students and exam databes (Esse3) to which all students have access and exported as pdf and, for students who need this, (iii) a dichiarazione sostitutiva di certificazione for Italian students or its English translation, a self certification form, for foreign students both of which can be downloaded from ths page, that enable students to confirm to College that they have cleared exams not yet logged in Esse3. This infornation has to be submitted to the Office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.by a date communicated to College students each year in June. Students who submit a dichiarazione sostitutiva di certificazione also need to send proof that the makrs of the relevant exams have been logged onto their career records.
Resident College undergraduates will be informed of their College placement for the following academic year before the College closes the last Friday in July although, for some students, the confirmation may be conditional to submission of additional exam records before the 10th of August.
Admissions
Collegio Volta can admit students who register at the University of Pavia for any type of degree (first degrees, MSc, PhD) as well as mature post doctoral fellows and visitors. The procedures for admission, however, differ for different categories of College membership and are explained here in order to offer guidance and support, especially to applicants from abroad. For general enquiries prospective applicants should contact the office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
May Barbecue
A group of College students organised a large College barbecue on May 1st (12.00 noon to 10.00 pm, € 10.00 per person including food, drinks and music).
The party was attended by a large number of current and former members of Volta, students living in other Colleges and their guests and represented an excellent display of the ability of College students to promote and run a highly successful University-wide social event.
Camille Pissarro
The College has received notice from M Rostan, deputy Chancellor for Students’ Welfare at the University and from Paolo Benazzo, EdISU President, that the University and EdISU have secured a special entrance ticket price (€ 10.00 instead of € 15.00) for students of the University of Pavia wishing to visit the Camille Pissarro’s exhibition currently at Castello Visconte in Pavia (The soul of impressionism, 21 February – 2 June 2014).
The exhibition has been organised by Alef, an art/science/events company based in Milan, and includes 22 paintings by Camillo Pissarro, 3 paintings of his son Lucien and additional work by V van Gogh, P Gaugin and JBC Corot.
This is a major opportunity for the members of Volta to take sight of the work of one of most influential painters of the French impressionism and thus College students are warmly encouraged to take advantage of the reduce entrance fee and and visit the exhibition (Monday to Friday 9.00 am to 7.00 pm and Saturday/Sundays 9.00 am to 8.00 pm).
Can the youth rebuild the economy
The seminar will take place in the College lecture theatre at 9.00 pm. The poster can be downloaded here. IYoung people are the key to our future but which job opportunities do they have ? And what will the companies of the future look like ? In a historic moment of desertification of skills and businesses, the natural desire of young people to explore and build their future, ie their entrepreneurship - must be encouraged. Entrepreneurship is needed for producing new business ideas or new products but is also needed in order to produce known goods in simpler or cheaper or more environmentally friendly manner. Thus, entrepreneurship is an essential route by which the youth can turn around the current financial crisis and rebuild a strong economy. Actions promoting entrepreneurship among young people constitute a pressing duty and will entrust young generations with the right to build tomorrow’s world.
Marco Salvadeo is the President of Young Entrepreneurs at Confindustria Pavia and is also District Manager Manpower Group Pavia Area. As President of Confindustria Pavia, he aims to increase the opportunities to meet with other youth organisations both nationally and internationally, help local companies to expand abroad, promoTE the creation of new companies and offer practical support to young people involved in these processes.
The enterprising youth
On Monday 12th May Marco Salvadeo, President of the Young Entrepreneurs at Confindustria Pavia and District Manager of the Manpower Group (Pavia Area) will give a seminar at 6.00 pm in the College Lecture Theatre entitled Can the youth rebuild the economy. The poster of the seminar can be downloaded here. The topic is one of general significance since the majority of the world economies have been hit by the latest financial crisis and is specially reevant in Italy where current youth unemployment exceeds 40%.
Marco Salvadeo will highlight his vision of how a new generation of entrepreneurs may exert a crucial role in gettng the economy back on track.
HIV and AIDS. The hidden truth.
The seminar will take place in the College lecture theatre at 6.00 pm. The poster can be downloaded here. In spite of unquestionable scientific evidence linking the infection of HIV-1 to the development of AIDS, still the opinion survives among the general public that AIDS is not caused by a viral infection, but rather is a consequence of malnutrition, sexual behaviour, drug abuse and antiretroviral drugs. These ideas are being perpetuated through media and Internet and pose a risk for those patients who succumb to them, refusing treatment and committing themselves to a painful life and unavoidable death. By reckoning the origin and development of the AIDS denialism movement and the faulty, pseudoscientific logic behind it, this seminar will also review the scientific foundations of our current knowledge of AIDS and the future perspective for a possible elimination of this scourge, still threatening the lives of millions of people worldwide.
AIDS: la verità negata. Come l'HIV causa l’AIDS e perché dall'AIDS si potrà guarire.
Giovanni Maga, Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore. Marzo 2014. 132 pp. € 16.00
Giovanni Maga is the Head of the Molecular Virology laboratory at the Institute of Molecular Genetics IGM-CNR in Pavia. His work is focused on the study of host-virus relationships and the development of novel therapeutic approaches to human viral diseases (AIDS, influenza, Hepatitis). He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications on international journals and is interested in bringing Science to the general public, giving frequent lectures in secondary schools and public venues, especially aimed to raise awareness of the lay public towards the problem of AIDS.
HIV and AIDS
On Monday 5th May Giovanni Maga of the Institute of Molecular Genetics IGM-CNR in Pavia will give a seminar at 6.00 pm in the College Lecture Theatre entitled AIDS: la verita' nascosta. Come l' HIV causa l' AIDS e come dall' AIDS si potra' guarire (AIDS: a hidden truth. How HIV causes AIDS and how it will be possible to be cured) . The seminar will be based on Giovanni Maga's new book (same title) published by Il Pensiero Scentifico Editore, Rome, March 2014. The poster of the seminar can be downloaded here. Details of the book can be found here on the publisher's web page.
This new book by Giovanni Maga, a scientist actively engaged in research on HIV, aims to dispel a number of myths about AIDS and its causes and is aimed at the lay Italian reader interested in understanding how HIV, the agent causing AIDS, succeeds in impairing the host's immunity and how new drugs and vaccines may halt this process.
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Essential Medicines
On Monday 28th April Hans Hogerzeil of the University of Groningen and former Director of Essential Medicines at WHO in Geneva will give the third seminar of the series Ethics & Medicine entitled Ethical dilemmas in achieving universal access to new essential medicines at 9.00 pm in the College Lecture Theatre. The poster of the seminar can be downloaded here.
A vaste fraction of the world population has little or no access to medicines, including basic, life-saving ones. The reasons for this are multiple and include poverty, problems with the supply stability and and storage of certain types of treatment, lack of financial incentives for developing new treaments, for example new antibiotics. Tackling these problems by health policy makers require not only resources but open discussion and a number of critical choices.
Tthroughout his working life, Hans Horgezeil, has been actively engaged in broadening access to medicines across the world with successive roles at WHO and the UN. He has been a Directror of the Department for Access to Medicines for a number of years, has edited several WHO books and has published over 80 scientific papers on access to essential medicines policies.
Ethical dilemmas in achieving universal access to new essential medicines
H Horgezeil, University of Groningen and former Director of Essential Medicines, WHO, Geneva.
The seminar will take place in the College lecture theatre at 9.00 pm. The poster can be downloaded here. About one-third of the world’s population has no regular access to basic essential medicines. But a much larger proportion has no access to new essential medicines, such as second-line anti-retroviral medicines, products against multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, and anti-cancer medicines. There are hardly any childrens’ fixed-dose combinations for the treatment of AIDS, and there are no heat-stable insulin or oxytocin formulations for rural areas without refrigerators. For several infectious diseases, such as leishmaniasis and African sleeping sickness, no safe and effective treatments exist at all. These problems are not limited to low- and middle-income countries: in the western world there are insufficient financial incentives to develop new antibiotics. There are many ethical dilemmas facing health policy makers, health workers, scientists, pharmaceutical companies and others working towards universal access to new essential medicines. Should research priorities be based on free market principles? Should poor patients contribute to the costs of research and development of the life-saving medicines they need? What is the first responsibility of a medical doctor: the individual patient asking for advice, or society as a whole? Do human rights represent universal values, or are they just a Western philosophy? Although clear answers are not always possible, a description of the facts and factors underlying these important questions may help to structure the discussion and facilitate the development of practical responses.
Hans V. Hogerzeil, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCP Edin is Professor of Global Health and the Right to Health at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). He was a mission doctor in India and Ghana. In 1985 he joined the essential medicines programme of the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then he has advised the governments of over forty low- and middle-income countries, including S-Africa, India and China, on the development of their national medicines policies and programmes. From 2004 to 2011 he was Director for Essential Medicines, being responsible for all WHO's global policies, nomenclature and standards on medicines, the WHO/UN prequalification programme, and all technical support to Member States. From 2001 to 2011 he was the Chair of the Interagency Pharmaceutical Coordination Group of all major UN agencies, the Global Fund, the World Bank and UNITAID. Since 2011 he is Chairman of the Board of the Access to Medicine Foundation, which every two years assesses the policies and practices of the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies in relation to access to essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries. Prof Hogerzeil (1951) is the editor of several WHO books and wrote over 80 scientific papers on essential medicines policies. His recent interests include universal access to essential medicines as part of the fulfillment of the right to health, and essential medicines for reproductive health and for non-communicable diseases. In 1998 he received a honorary doctorate of the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (Scotland)
New Room Numbers
The College is moving steadily toward the opening of the North Wing, also known as the Green Wing, which will house the Graduate students of Volta. EdISU have placed the order for the furniture of the North Wing and are currently assessing proposals for a full re-wiring of the College that will finally solve the problem of a number of black spots currently failing to capture useful wifi signals.
The College will organise an Open Day after the delivery of the furniture to the North Wing in order to enable Volta students to take sight of their future rooms and the communal facilities of the North Wing. The date of the Open Day will be communicated by Easter once the delivery of the new furniture will have been confirmed.
The College is also proceeding with the re-numbering of students' rooms in order to implement a single numbering system across the South and North Wings. Students seeing their room number changing in the coming days therefore need not worrying. They also need be aware that new room numbers will be preceded by a letter that defines the floor: G for ground, F for first floor, S for second and T for third..
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