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Girls Football 2012

Girls football has remained popular during the 2012/13 academic year. Sixteen Volta girls have been involved including some with previous football training as well as several newcomers. The Volta girls have shown great spirit and pride throughout the year and a strong commitment to training and socialising. This is a strong foundation on which results will come in a near future and the College awaits confidently for these.

From November 2012 the girls of Volta trained twice a week with the coach, Federico Moretti, a University student, and Giorgio Badessi, a member of the College and gradually a team emerged with goalkeeper Giulia Bonaretti as captain and defender Alessia Spera as deputy. During the tournament, Volta had its moments of glory, but often succumbed aggressive and well trained teams. The most important results thus far, therefore, have been the birth of a team spirit: the pre-match speeches, the jokes, the songs …. The results on the pitch have not materialised (the team came last in its group and last overall) but, all in all, a positive year for the Volta football girls and a strong determination to continue and improve.

Figure: a line-up of the 2012/13 girls foot all team: first row left to right: Francesca Lattere, Benedetta Broggi, Luana Biondo, Morena Miriello, Beatrice Lena, Michela Arnaudo. Second row (standing) left to right: Giulia Bonaretti, Alessia Spera, Ylenia Messana, Monica Passannante, Rossella Scibetta, Mariacristina Cimbalo, Francesca Melia.  The full 2012/13 list of Volta football girls included: Michela Arnaudo, Francesca Barbaro, Luana Biondo, Giulia Bonaretti, Benedetta Broggi, Maria Cristina Cimbalo, Miroslava Kissova, Francesca Lattere, Beatrice Lena, Francesca Melia, Ylenia Messana, Jessica Milesi, Morena Miriello, Monica Passannante, Rossella Scibetta and Alessia Spera.

Results:
21 May 2013, Nuovo vs Volta: 4–0, 23 May 2013, Maino vs Volta: 2–1, 4 Jun 2013, Marianum vs Volta: 3-1, 6 Jun 2013, Castiglioni vs Volta: 2–0, 11 Jun 2013, Borromeo vs Volta: 1–0, 19 Jun 2013, Griziotti vs Volta: 2–0  (Beatrice Lena)

 

Visiting Fellows

Collegio Volta welcomes applications from senior visiting fellows (tenured staff at other Universities spending a sabbatical year or part of it in Pavia). Prospective applicants interested in a placement at Collegio Volta should contact directly the College by submiting a full cv and a letter of intent 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 confirmed by the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Visiting fellows of Collegio Volta are expected to offer seminars about their work in Pavia and take a direct role in undergraduate supervisions (typically 24 hours of teaching per year).

Post Doctoral Fellows

Collegio Volta welcomes applications from post doctoral fellows who are involved in research projects in Departments of the University of Pavia. Prospective applicants interested in a placement at Collegio Volta should contact directly the College by submiting a full cv and a letter of intent 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..

Post doctoral fellows living at Volta have a very active role in the work of a number of College Clubs & Societies.  According to College rules, post-doctoral fellows also take a direct role in undergraduate supervisions (typically 24 hours of teaching per year).

Medical Graduates

Medical graduates admitted to postgraduate studies in Pavia, namely to one of the local Specialty Schools and interested in a placement at Collegio Volta should contact directly the College. Applicants should submit a full cv and a letter of intent 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..

Medical postgraduates living at Collegio Volta are a key component of the Volta community and very active in College life, for example through the activity of the Volta Medical Society.   According to College rules, medical graduates living in College are expected to take a direct role in undergraduate supervisions (typically 24 hours of teaching per year).

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.

Can the youth rebuild the economy

12tth May 2014. 
Marco Salvadeo, President of the Young Entrepreneurs at Confindustria Pavia and  District Manager of the Manpower Group (Pavia Area)

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.

 

HIV and AIDS. The hidden truth.

5th May 2014. 
Giovanni Maga, Institute of Molecular Genetics IGM-CNR, Pavia

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.

 

 

Ethical dilemmas in achieving universal access to new essential medicines

28th April 2014. 
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)

 

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