Funds TOgether 2024 edition
The third edition of Funds TOgether concluded in December 2024.
The five selected projects achieved their goal, raising a total of 99,590.00 euros.
GaIA – Let’s manage Artificial Intelligence consciously and creatively
The goal of the campaign is to teach children how to approach Artificial Intelligence in a conscious and creative way.
The educational program, aimed at pupils from three primary schools in the outskirts of Turin, takes place at the LIFE Laboratory of the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences and offers immersive virtual experiences and educational robotics activities.
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BRIGHT: Brain Research in Interactive Game-based HyperTraining
A group of professors and researchers from the University of Turin, passionate and knowledgeable about role‑playing games, aim to demonstrate how these games can support learning and help players develop soft skills. To do so, they plan to use fNIRS technology to monitor players’ brain activity during gameplay.
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Citizen Salad – The invisible life on salad leaves
We are all aware of the importance of gut microbiota, but we do not have an in‑depth understanding of the microorganisms we ingest every day along with the food we eat.
The Citizen Salad research team aims to conduct a participatory experiment in which participants/donors can offer their garden or balcony to grow small lettuce plants to be analyzed.
The results will make it possible to discover how soil and leaf shape influence the bacterial communities living on salad plants.
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Toward the Virtual and Beyond: a safe social space for autism
People with autism face major challenges every day. A simple conversation, gesture, or noise can become a difficult obstacle to manage, generating stress, anxiety, and social and emotional isolation, and limiting opportunities for personal and professional growth.
The team at the Social Interaction Lab has an ambitious goal: to promote inclusion and well‑being for autistic individuals through personalized and safe interventions using cutting‑edge technologies such as virtual reality.
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CultMeat – for a more sustainable future
The goal of the campaign is to raise funds to improve the production of cultivated meat using an experimental technique that allows stem cells to be maintained and grown at low cost.
This study, already carried out on human stem cells for researching muscle diseases, aims to test the same technology on pig cells through the use of specific equipment designed for maintaining animal cells in culture.