TOChina Summer School

Introduction

In June 2025, 54 PhD candidates, graduate students, young scholars and professionals gathered in Turin for the 19th edition of the TOChina Summer School: two high-powered weeks of advanced training in the politics, political economy and foreign policy of contemporary China.

The essence of the program lies in welcoming emerging China hands and China-literate practitioners from all over the world to one of Italy's most dynamic cities, whilst being exposed to valuable insights and cutting-edge research agendas by some of the world's most accomplished scholars on contemporary China.
As ever with TOChina activities, the aim is to work at the intersection between China’s long-term structural transformations in socio-political, economic and cultural terms, and those particularly salient trends that are currently informing international debates on China.

To ensure the pluralism of disciplinary and intellectual perspectives presented throughout the course, TOChina Summer School faculty members are academics and policy experts from a variety of fields, including Economics, Economic History, International Relations, International Political Economy, Political Philosophy and Culture, Political Science, and Sociology.

The 20th edition of the School will be held in Turin and Milan, Italy, from June 29 to July 10, 2026.
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Activities – including lectures, seminars, round tables, and extensive Q&A sessions – run Monday to Friday, 10.00 am to 5.30 pm CET.

The TOChina Summer School is suitable not only for participants wishing to study the domestic aspects of China’s politics, but also for those who intend to explore the rapidly evolving dynamics of Asian and global geopolitics and economics. For those looking for insights into future career options, the TOChina Summer School offers a unique opportunity to engage in lively debates with senior scholars who are often in charge of PhD programs in their country, and affiliated to a variety of organizations. The informal sessions participants join to acquire greater knowledge of the work of TOChina faculty members are a trademark of TOChina’s hands-on approach to the study of contemporary China.

The School is run by the TOChina Hub - a partnership between the University of Torino, ESCP Business School and the Torino World Affairs Institute (T.wai) - in collaboration with John Cabot University in Rome.

The TOChina Summer School was granted the patronage of the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation during previous editions and of SISP, the Italian Political Science Association, and its Standing Group in International Relations.
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Applications are open, and will be evaluated on a first-come, first-served basis.
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To apply for the TOChina Summer School, please fill the online application form:

Application Form

The intellectual salon is a rara avis among those outside China who would come to grips with that country’s complex socio-political, regional and economic topography. TOChina offers a unique educational salon for engaged young scholars and professionals from various backgrounds in which they can learn about, discuss and debate the presence of China on the global stage. A salon with edge and purpose like the TOChina Summer School prepares participants for the real world of China today and tomorrow.

Prof. Geremie Barmé

TOChina engaged me in dialogues with both leading experts and young scholars of China studies in a truly multicultural context, where I made lifelong friends who share my own vision and passion for this field of research. The TOChina Summer School is indeed an empowering experience.

MS. WANG GERUI 王格睿
(TOChina alumna 2012)

timetable

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time

Monday
29 JuNE

Tuesday
30 JuNE

Wednesday
1 JULY

Thursday
2 JULY

Friday
3 JULY

10.00
-
12.30

Giovanni B. ANDORNINO

Twenty years of TOChina Summer School: lessons in learning and adaptation

Patricia THORNTON

TBD

Mette THUNØ

Chinese transnational migration and Beijing’s diaspora governance

Florian SCHNEIDER

Digital China and the politics of truth: contested information flows in the Chinese-speaking world

Public Roundtable

Generating and publishing knowledge about contemporary China in our times

lunch break

lunch break in MILAN

15.00
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17.30

Public Roundtable

Researching and debating China in the Xi Era

Victor SHIH

TBD

Victor SHIH

TBD

FANG Kecheng

A re-examination of the golden age of journalism and liberal media in China

FANG Kecheng

Journalism, influence, and resistance in the Sinophone world: from local communities to transnational networks

Opening Aperitif

time

Monday
6 JULY

Tuesday
7 JULY

Wednesday
8 JULY

Thursday
9 July

Friday
10 July

10.00
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12.30

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

China’s role in the digital transformation of the MENA region

lunch break

FAREWELL lunch

15.00
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17.30

Timothy HILDEBRANDT

The authoritarian citizen and the tethered society: twenty years of learning what the China case teaches

WANG Horng-luen

Nationalist ideas and Cross-Strait relations: from historical narratives to contemporary politics

WANG Horng-luen

War and society in East Asia: theory, history and subjective experience

Kristin SHI-KUPFER

TBD

Mohammed
AL-SUDAIRI

China and the 2026 war in the Gulf: lessons learned and future perspectives

Faculty & Sessions

Giovanni B. ANDORNINO

UNIVERSITY OF TORINO & T.WAI - Torino world affairs institute

Giovanni B. Andornino is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Torino. He serves as President and Head of the "Global China" Program at T.wai, the Torino World Affairs Institute, and has been the Founding Editor of "OrizzonteCina", currently published by Il Mulino as part of the Politics section of its catalogue of academic journals. His research focuses on China’s domestic politics, foreign policy, and relations with Italy and the wider Euro-Mediterranean region. Since 2019 he has been serving as the founding General Secretary of the China-Italy Philanthropy Forum.

LECTURE: Twenty years of TOChina Summer School: lessons in learning and adaptation

Mohammed AL-SUDAIRI

Australian National University & King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Mohammed Alsudairi is currently a Lecturer of Politics and International Relations of the Arabic Speaking World at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University. Since 2015, he oversaw the development of the Asian Studies Program at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was recently awarded a 3-year grant by the Australian Research Council to work on an ongoing project on sectarianism in relation to the study of Islam in China.

LECTURE: China and the 2026 war in the Gulf: lessons learned and future perspectives

Camille BOULLENOIS

Rhodium Group

Camille Boullenois is an Associate Director with Rhodium Group’s China Projects team, where she works on the analysis of China’s economic system, industrial policy, and market reform. Camille has headed the Brussels office for Sinolytics, advising clients on market governance and data strategies, as well as the regulatory challenges arising from the Corporate Social Credit System. Previously, she worked as an analyst at China Policy and contributed to the EIU, Oxford Analytica, and the ECFR. Camille holds a PhD in international, political, and strategic studies from the Australian National University, where she wrote her dissertation on social mobility and entrepreneurship in the Chinese countryside.

LECTURE: TBD

Simone DOSSI

UNIVERSITY OF MILAN & T.WAI - Torino world affairs institute

Simone Dossi is associate professor of International Relations at the University of Milan, where he teaches International Relations of East Asia and War Studies. His research interests include China’s foreign and security policy, the doctrine and organization of the People’s Liberation Army, and civil-military relations in contemporary China. He is a non resident research fellow at the Torino World Affairs Institute and the editor of OrizzonteCina, an Italian open access journal on contemporary China.

ROUNDTABLE: Generating and publishing knowledge about contemporary China in our times

Tinhinan EL KADI

University of Oxford

Dr. Tinhinan El Kadi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre (TIDE), University of Oxford, where her work sits at the intersection of digital political economy, industrial policy, and the geopolitics of technology. Her research examines how AI value chains, digital infrastructure, and foreign investment shape development trajectories in the Global South.Her doctoral dissertation at the London School of Economics analysed the developmental implications of China's Digital Silk Road in North Africa, tracing how Chinese digital capital reconfigures ICT ecosystems, drives — or constrains — technological upgrading, and shapes the diffusion of technical standards in host economies. Prior to her doctorate, Tinhinan held research and advisory roles at the LSE and consulted for international organisations including the World Bank, Chatham House, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her work on North-South knowledge production and data-driven innovation has informed policy deliberations across several of these institutions. She has published book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and widely read commentary, and presents her research at conferences and policy forums globally.

lecture: China’s role in the digital transformation of the MENA region

FANG Kecheng

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Kecheng Fang (方可成) is an Associate Professor and Director of the M.A. in Journalism Program at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His research interests include journalism, political communication, and digital media. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining academia, he worked as a political journalist at the Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly. His work has appeared in New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Press/Politics, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, The China Journal, China Quarterly, and Journal of Contemporary China, among others. He received the Early Career Award from the Association for Chinese Communication Studies (ACCS) in 2024.

LECTURE: A re-examination of the golden age of journalism and liberal media in China

LECTURE: Journalism, influence, and resistance in the Sinophone world: from local communities to transnational networks

Evan FEIGENBAUM

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Evan A. Feigenbaum is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington, Beijing, and New Delhi on a dynamic region encompassing both East Asia and South Asia. He was also the 2019-20 James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he is now a practitioner senior fellow. Initially an academic with a PhD in Chinese politics from Stanford University, Feigenbaum’s career has spanned government service, think tanks, the private sector, and three major regions of Asia. He is the author of three books and monographs, including The United States in the New Asia (CFR, 2009, co-author) and China’s Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age (Stanford University Press, 2003), which was selected by Foreign Affairs as a best book of 2003 on the Asia-Pacific, as well as numerous articles and essays.

ROUNDTABLE: Generating and publishing knowledge about contemporary China in our times

LECTURE: TBD

Timothy HILDEBRANDT

London School of Economics and Political Science

Timothy Hildebrandt is Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development and Deputy Head of Department (Teaching) in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is co-editor of The China Quarterly. His research focuses on state-society relations, civil society, NGOs, and citizenship in authoritarian contexts, with China as his primary empirical site. He is the author of Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and co-leads the Civic Participation in China Survey (CPCS), a multi-wave longitudinal survey of urban Chinese residents. His research has been published in leading journals of numerous fields, including social policy, public administration, political science, China studies, nonprofit studies, and sexuality studies. He is a founding member of the governing council of the LSE-Fudan Centre for Global Public Policy.

ROUNDTABLE: Generating and publishing knowledge about contemporary China in our times

LECTURE: The authoritarian citizen and the tethered society: twenty years of learning what the China case teaches

Florian SCHNEIDER

Leiden University

Florian Schneider is Chair Professor of Modern China at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is managing editor of Asiascape: Digital Asia, academic director of the Leiden Asia Centre, and the author of several books, including: Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia - A Playful Approach (Amsterdam University Press, 2025), Staging China: the Politics of Mass Spectacle (Leiden University Press, 2019, recipient of the ICAS Book Prize 2021 Accolades), and China’s Digital Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2018). His research interests include questions of governance, political communication, and digital media in China and East Asia, as well as international relations in the region.

lecture: Digital China and the politics of truth: contested information flows in the Chinese-speaking world

ROUNDTABLE: Generating and publishing knowledge about contemporary China in our times

Kristin SHI-KUPFER

University of Trier

Kristin Shi-Kupfer is Professor for Contemporary China Studies at the University of Trier and a Senior Associate Fellow at MERICS. She previously worked as a research associate at the University of Freiburg’s Institute for Sinology. Dr. Shi-Kupfer is an expert on China’s digital society and politics, media policy, civil society and human rights. She earned her PhD from Ruhr University Bochum with a thesis on spiritual and religious groups in China after 1978. From 2007 to 2011 she was based in Beijing covering China for various German-speaking media like the Austrian magazine Profil, the German Protestant Press Agency epd or the public radio station Deutsche Welle.

lecture: TBD

Victor SHIH

University of California San Diego

Victor Shih is the Ho Miu Lam Chair in China and Pacific Relations, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Director of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. He is the author of Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation and Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability. His research focuses on elite politics, factionalism, and the political economy of China, and his work has appeared in leading academic and policy journals. He holds a B.A. from George Washington University and a PhD in Government from Harvard University.

ROUNDTABLE: Researching and debating China in the Xi Era

lecture: TBD

Patricia THORNTON

University of OXFORD

Patricia M. Thornton is a political scientist whose research interests span the political, socio-economic, and cultural history of modern China. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and previously served as the Director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She is an Associate Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Oxford.

ROUNDTABLE: Researching and debating China in the Xi Era

lecture: TBD

Mette THUNØ

Aarhus University

Mette Thunø, PhD, is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she lectures on contemporary China within the Department of Global Studies’ China Studies Section. Between 2006 and 2010, she served as Vice Dean of Research at the University of Copenhagen, and from 2010 to 2014, she was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University. She co-founded the “China-Europe Research Platform on Chinese Migration to and beyond Europe” (CERPE) with Professor Li Minghuan, Xiamen University. Her research primarily focuses on global China, specifically exploring China-Europe relations concerning migration and diplomacy, along with China’s recent diaspora policies. She has authored numerous works on Chinese migration and transnationalism, including co-authoring Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe, editing Beyond Chinatown, and she is the Editor-in-Chief of the Handbook of Chinese Migration to Europe. Her latest research projects involve using computational methods to study Chinese diplomacy on Twitter and ethnic Chinese media discourses on EU elections.

ROUNDTABLE: Researching and debating China in the Xi Era

lecture: Chinese transnational migration and Beijing’s diaspora governance

Emilie TRAN

Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Emilie Tran is Programme & Stream Leader of Politics and Public Administration at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Her research on global China spans health and digital diplomacy and China’s engagement with Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa, and has appeared in leading journals such as Journal of Contemporary China, Mediterranean Politics, China Perspectives, Global Media and Communication and International Migration. She is co‑editor of China in the Mediterranean: An Arena of Strategic Competition? and the Handbook of Chinese Migration to Europe, and has an extensive record of competitively funded projects supported by Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council, the EU, and French and European institutions. Since 2004, she has taught a wide range of courses in political science and international relations, China and European Studies at undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels, integrating transcultural experiential learning, transnational service‑learning and transdisciplinary inquiries into her teaching. An award‑winning teacher, she has been recognised for innovative, student‑centred pedagogy and internationalisation in higher education.

ROUNDTABLE: China’s role in the digital transformation of the MENA region

WANG Horng-luen

Academia Sinica

Horng-luen Wang received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is currently Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, as well as Adjunct Professor at National Taiwan University. His research interests include social theory, historical sociology, and cultural sociology, with a particular focus on nationalism and modernity. He edited War and Society: Theory, History and Subjective Experience and co-edited Ethnicity, Nation and the Modern State: Rethinking Theory and Experience in Taiwan and China, as well as At the Edge of Empires: Investigating Modernity in Taiwan.

lecture: Nationalist ideas and Cross-Strait relations: from historical narratives to contemporary politics

lecture: War and society in East Asia: theory, history and subjective experience

TOCHINA SUMMER SCHOOL - Previous editions

Key Dates (2026)

3 november 2025

The TOChina Centre begins accepting online applications for the 2026 edition of the TOChina Summer School.

Applications will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis.

8 june 2026

All complete applications received by the TOChina Program Manager by this date (CET) are evaluated. No late applications will be considered.

15 june

By this date the last successful applicants receiving an offer must formally accept it and send proof of fees payment (direct bank transfer, all banking expenses must be paid by the candidate) via email. Upon receiving these, the TOChina Program Manager will confirm the candidate’s enrollment. Applicants who should fail to meet this deadline will have their offer withdrawn.

29 june

The 2026 TOChina Summer School begins in Turin.

10 july 2026

The 2026 TOChina Summer School ends in Turin.

Admissions Criteria

The TOChina Summer School is designed for highly motivated students and professionals looking for one of the world’s best intensive programs focussing on the politics, society, political economy and foreign policy of contemporary China. A careful selection of up to 75 students is carried out in order to make sure that the School’s working environment is as dynamic and challenging as possible. The Admissions Committee focuses on the following factors in reaching its decisions:

1. the applicant’s capacity to make a credible claim for a proficient research/professional career with China;

2. sound academic credentials and fluency in English;

3. individual potential as expressed by the applicant’s CV;

4. the candidate’s motivation as articulated in the personal statement.

Applications are welcome from any professional or student who is in possession of the required qualifications. These are a Bachelor honours degree at 1 or 2:1 level (or an equivalent European title, such as the Laurea triennale for Italian students with a minimum grade of 100/110) and full command of the English language. Special consideration will be given to applicants who can demonstrate their English ability in the following ways:

1. being of a nationality where English is the first language;

2. having studied at university level in English as shown on the transcript uploaded in the Online Application form;

3. having studied English at school (e.g., GCSE, A-Level, International Baccalaureate…) and achieved good grades;

4. having taken an approved English Language test and met the following standards: IELTS – 6.5; TOEFL (Internet based) – 100 points; TOEFL (Computer based) – 250 points; TOEFL (Paper based) – 600 points; Cambridge Advanced English (CAE) – Pass; Cambridge Proficiency in English (CPE) – Pass.

Outstanding undergraduate students (i.e. students who will not yet have a degree at the start of the Summer School) who are enrolled in a university course with a strong China focus may also apply, provided that they have completed at least one year of course.

auditors

In order to render the TOChina Summer School at least temporarily accessible to students and professionals who are unable to attend the entire duration of the course (2 weeks), a maximum of 5 auditors will be admitted for each session.

Anyone can apply to audit one or more sessions. Unsuccessful Summer School applicants too may re-apply as auditors. There is no restriction on the number of sessions a single auditor may attend. The cost for attending each session as auditors is EUR 100.00.

Those wishing to apply as auditors should send an email with their updated résumé or CV to the TOChina Program Manager (summerschool@tochina.it) indicating which session(s) they would like to attend (day, time, lecturer).

fees (2026)

Tuition fees depend on the status of the applicant, as shown by the following chart:

Applicant status

FEES

Students from University of Torino
and from partner institutions:

John Cabot University
University of Naples "L'Orientale"
Inalco - Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
Nanyang Technological University
University of Trier
TOChina Alumni & Academic Network

EUR 790.00

All other students

EUR 1,190.00

Professionals

EUR 2,490.00

These amounts cover tuition and working materials only, and must be paid in full by all admitted participants ahead of joining the program.
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Application fees are non-refundable in all cases in which applicants withdraw from participation, regardless of their motive.

Selections of participants from specific partner institutions are regulated through ad-hoc agreements with such institutions.

scholarships

Students only may apply for the following type of scholarship:

• FREETORINO: scholarships covering accommodation and, partially, meals. Those who are awarded a FREETORINO scholarship will be lodged at one of Torino’s student halls (or similar kind of accommodation). A single or double (depending on availability) en-suite room and one meal per day (lunch) will be provided. These scholarships may be applied for by all School participants who are currently students (i.e. undergraduates who will not have completed their China-related degree at the time of the School, or applicants who either are studying at the postgraduate level or will be doing so in the next academic year).

Applicants must not be resident in the Province of Torino (IT).

To be awarded a TOChina Summer School scholarship, candidates must:
• be currently enrolled in a university course, either as postgraduate or undergraduate students. The latter need to be enrolled in a university degree with a strong China focus;
• be residing outside the province of Torino;
• send relevant application documents: copy of CV, copy of university enrollment certificate, copy of most recent academic transcript;
• have paid their fees in full;
• have attended a minimum of 45 hours of lectures/seminars;

If not all conditions are met, scholarship recipients will be asked to reimburse the expenses for accommodation and meals by Fall.

how to apply

Competition to secure a place in this program can be very intense: early application is strongly recommended.
Applications will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. No applications will be accepted beyond the deadline defined in the "Key Dates" section.

Applicants are requested to fill in the online application form.

Upon receiving candidates’ online application, the TOChina Program Manager will request supplementary documents (CV, enrollment letter, academic transcript, scanned copy of passport) via email, will check that compulsory requirements are met and pass their application package on to the Admissions Committee, which will be appointed by the Director of the Department of Culture, Politics and Society of the University of Torino, where the TOChina Hub is based.

Successful applicants receiving an offer must formally accept it and send proof of fees payment (direct bank transfer) via email to the TOChina Program Manager at summerschool@tochina.it by the set deadline (see the Key Dates section). Upon receiving these, the applicant will be officially enrolled in the program.

Applicants who should fail to send such confirmation and proof of fees payment by the set deadline will have their offer withdrawn. Any newly-available place will be offered to the highest-ranking applicants not selected in the first round.

Tuition fees range between EUR 790.00 and EUR 2,490.00, depending on the type of applicant (student, professional…). Please see the Fees section of this website for further information. All successful applicants must pay their full fees.

Applicants may be called for an interview before a final decision on their application is made.

All candidates will be notified of the outcome of their application at the earliest possible time.

Torino, Travel and Accommodation

Torino, the first capital city of united Italy in 1861, is an ancient place. Established by the Romans with a distinctive rectangular grid which mesmerizes visitors to this day, each moment in history has left its mark on the city, generating a legacy of culture, architecture and monuments. In 2012 and 2024 the New York Times devoted to Torino two of its “36 hours in…” pieces.

The Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games showcased a cosmopolitan city, still attached to its industrial tradition – the now global FCA car manufacture was founded here – while transforming into an Italian hub of technological and cultural innovation with a high quality of life. The UN System has its Staff College here (UNSSC), together with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITC-ILO). UNESCO has recently approved the creation of a centre for research on world cultural heritage to be based in the baroque Venaria Reale palace, one of several world heritage sites in the area.

World-renowned Juventus football club – one of Torino’s glories – has its brand-new Stadium in town, alongside the world’s second-largest Egyptian antiques museum after Cairo (Museo Egizio), the Automobile Museum, the Cinema Museum (few know that in the early days cinema was being developed here), and the Mountain Museum (Museo Nazionale della Montagna), aptly located on Torino’s hills overlooking the Alps. Torino’s region – Piedmont (Piemonte) – means “at the feet of the mountains” and Europe’s most charming peaks are within a couple of hours drive.

Sampling the local cuisine is a cultural must in Torino. Its informal trattoria, refinded top-end restaurants and exotic ethnic eateries make the city one of the undisputed world capitals of taste, including for its illustrious wine scene, whether one is looking for whites (Gavi, Arneis, Moscato), superb reds (Dolcetto, Grignolino, Barbera, Nebbiolo, Barbaresco and Barolo), or even sparkling wines, which, through Martini & Rossi, gave rise to the tradition of Asti Spumante.

Seemingly closer to the Northern European no-nonsense, hard-working style than it is to Italy’s Mediterranean allure, Torino transforms at sunset: by aperitif time the streets are lit up and buzzing with people enjoying live jazz, exclusive dj sets, the local philharmonic orchestra performances, theatre and opera, but also shows, cabaret, literary cafes, street festivals and crazy notti bianche, all night non-stop events that animate the city streets until dawn.

GETTING TO KNOW TORINO AND ITS REGION

Torino Piemonte

arriving in town

By plane (Milan)By plane (Torino)

MOVING AROUND

Public Transport Car-sharing

Trenitalia (Train)Italo (Train)Motorway

MOVING AROUND

Public Transport Bike sharing Trenitalia (Train)Italo (Train)Car Sharing

Accommodation in Torino

As explained in the “Fees and Scholarships” section, TOChina staff will provide accommodation for the applicants who qualify for the Freetorino scholarship. All other participants will have to organize their stay in Torino independently. TOChina staff will do their best to advise successful applicants as they seek adequate accommodation in town.

The following links may be a useful first port-of-call.

EDISU Student Dorms CX Vanchiglia Camplus Regio Parco Hotels in Turin

As for meals, all participants will be given a dossier during induction with a list of venues for all budgets, together with other useful tips.

For local transport information, best to log on to the GTT transport group. Please note that the venue of the Summer School – though located in the city centre – may not be within walking distance of your accommodation.

faqs and contacts

Please note that our FAQs are updated on a regular basis and the majority of enquiries tend to be answered there. The TOChina Program Manager may choose not to reply to queries that are clearly answered here.

Due to international time differences, we strongly advise you to contact the TOChina Program Manager by email. We answer email enquiries every day. Should you need to contact TOChina by telephone, please email the TOChina Program Manager to fix an appointment.

The email address for enquiries on the TOChina Summer School is
summerschool@tochina.it.

We will respond as soon as possible to your email enquiry. However, please be aware that during peak periods the office is very busy and there may be a turnaround time of approximately 48 hours.

The TOChina Summer School Program Manager is Mr. Kavinda Navaratne. Upon appointment, arranged via email, he may be reached at:

Room 1D325, “LUIGI EINAUDI” CAMPUS, LUNGODORA SIENA 100/A TORINO – ITALY

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