Category: Philosophy
Duration: 15 hours
Language: Italian

The course introduces students and interested members of the public to an understanding of the meaning of “doing justice”. The main social approaches are examined, including commutative justice, distributive justice and retributive justice, as well as the specific features of the “restorative” justice paradigm. The course also explores the principal practices for resolving conflicts and harms associated with restorative justice, with particular reference to the criminal justice context.

Author: Giovanni Grandi

Category: Data science, statistics
Duration: 18 hours
Language: Italian

The course offers an introductory and interdisciplinary overview of digital data. It addresses the main issues concerning their nature, collection, organisation, analysis and representation, beginning with a reflection on different types of data and measurement processes. The course also introduces the fundamental concepts related to data management through databases and visualisation tools, with particular attention to ethical aspects, personal data protection and the current regulatory framework (GDPR). The aim is to provide participants with conceptual and practical tools to understand and use data correctly, critically and responsibly, also through examples and exercises accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Authors: Luca Bortolussi, Adriano Peron, Alejandro Rodriguez Garcia, Alessandro Fabris, Teresa Scantamburlo

Category: Physics
Duration: 12 hours
Language: English

This course provides a comprehensive overview of X-ray computed tomography (CT). It covers the historical development of the technique and its main applications in medicine, research, and industry, introducing the fundamental principles of X-ray interaction with matter, including attenuation and beam hardening. The course describes different CT system configurations—medical CT, microCT, and synchrotron-based systems—and presents the mathematical foundations of image formation through the Radon transform. Both analytical reconstruction methods, such as filtered back-projection, and iterative approaches (e.g. SART, SIRT) are explained. Finally, techniques for interpreting and visualising volumetric data, including tomographic slicing, segmentation, and isosurface rendering, are discussed.

Author: Pierre Thibault

Category: Health and medicine, anthropology, translation
Duration: 10 hours
Language: Italian

The course addresses the issue of contemporary migration, driven by war, poverty and critical health and political conditions. Particular attention is devoted to the management of healthcare aspects, which cannot be separated from linguistic, cultural and religious dimensions. In this context, the course emphasises the importance of adequate training for healthcare professionals, enabling them to interact appropriately with both the interpreter and the patient, thereby promoting effective and culturally informed communication.

Authors: Federico Berton, Caterina Falbo, Roberta Altin, Giuseppe Grimaldi

Category: Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Duration: 1 hour
Language: Italian

The course introduces the ISLE approach (Investigative Science Learning Environment), a teaching philosophy developed by Eugenia Etkina, David Brookes, and Gorazd Planinsic. Originally developed for physics education, ISLE can be applied to any discipline because its fundamental principle is universally relevant: the process through which learning takes place is itself part of the content being learned.

The course draws on a study conducted at the G. Oberdan Scientific High School in Trieste, involving 24 classes, over 500 students, and 12 teachers. The findings show that even a single ISLE-based laboratory activity can improve students' awareness of their own scientific abilities.

Through practical examples, interactive branching scenarios, and ready-to-use tools, the course guides teachers and educators from all disciplines in rethinking their teaching practices: from the six phases of the ISLE process to scientific abilities, from formative assessment using rubrics to critical thinking as an inherent outcome of the learning process.

Authors Francesco Longo, Valentina Bologna

Category: Business and Economy
Duration: 3 hours
Language: Italian

The course provides university governance bodies and administrative staff with the conceptual and practical tools needed to understand and manage international student recruitment. Starting from the global context – nearly 7 million internationally mobile students in 2023, a 30% increase since 2018 – the course explores the risks and opportunities of internationalisation, including the demographic decline that makes it a structural necessity for Italian universities.

Drawing on practical frameworks developed through direct field experience, the course covers the key trends reshaping the international higher education market (the legacy of COVID-19, university branding, rankings, and artificial intelligence), governance and funding models, the fundamentals of international marketing (the 7Ps model, recruitment funnel, and target market selection), and practical recruitment tools (education agents with conversion rates of approximately 80%, education fairs, and digital channels).

Each module includes concrete data, real-world conversion rates, and frameworks that can be readily applied within participants' own institutions.

The course is aimed at university staff holding governance and/or administrative roles and offers a range of tools and best practices to increase international student enrolment, with a particular focus on admissions processes and marketing.

Authors: Enrico Sartor

Category: Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Duration: 2 hours
Language: Italian

STACK (System for Teaching and Assessment using a Computer Algebra Kernel) is an open-source Moodle plugin that enables the creation of parameterised exercises with automatic grading and personalised feedback based on the type of error made.

The course introduces university lecturers to the use of STACK for continuous assessment: each student receives different numerical values through parameterisation, while the Potential Response Tree (PRT) provides targeted feedback – not simply a "right/wrong" response, but a diagnosis of the error.

The University of Trieste is the first university in Italy to adopt STACK, which is currently used in courses in Linear Algebra, Geometry, Mathematical Analysis, Probability, and Physics. Data collected between July and December 2024 show that students who regularly complete weekly quizzes perform significantly better in their final exams.

The course is aimed at all UniTS lecturers teaching subjects that involve exercises with computable answers. In just 60 minutes, participants will discover what STACK is, how it works, and how to start using it immediately, without having to learn a new platform – because STACK is integrated into Moodle, which lecturers already use.

Authors: Danilo Lewanski