Turin is a city oriented towards the future and avant-garde realities. Its social and productive fabric has always cultivated and encouraged this propensity for tomorrow with enthusiastic interest and pragmatic organisation.

The increasilingly active collaboration between the public and private sectors marks an important and positive moment for the life of the city. In order to follow and fuel its vocation, Turin has now developed consolidated and extensive accomodation facilities, as well as a modern and diversified structure for the congress, trade fair and tourism sector. Plans involving a co-ordinated approach by the city's various political parties, companies and businesses, have given life to a great conference and exhibition centre, on a European scale. In a ferment of creativity, the city is alive and ready to propose an adequate organisation: the Lingotto Conference Centre, the Torino Incontra complex, the Unione Industriale Centre and a number of smaller facilities, are all in a position to offer flexible, high quality services for every type of event: The result is the possibility of seating more than 5,000 people in fixed structures, and the possibility of accomodating over 10,000 participants.

The Multipurpose Lingotto Centre is situated inside what was the first FIAT plant for the mass production of cars. It has been spectacularly restructured by the architect Renzo Piano and can compete with Europe's most renowed congress centres and trade fairs.The Congress Centre is the hearth of this huge complex. It offers an array of opportunities: extremely versatile trade fair facilities, elegant hotel rooms directly connected with the Centre, a prestigious shopping area, open spaces, underground car parks for up to 3,500 cars and a private helicopter landing pad.

Turin's propensity for the future and its status as a city of innovation are particularly evident, as regards the fields of research and work, from the many projects emerging from two major centres of excellence: the Polytechnic and the International Training Centre.

In the various departments of the Polytechnic, the area of research offers innumerable opportunities, on a international scale, in the fields of information technologies, telecommunications engineering and business management. Other horizons have opened up at the International Training Centre that, during its 33-year-old history, has provided mainly technical courses to nearly 60,000 scholarship students from 173 different countries. In particular, the Centre has developed priceless support to the neediest nations.

Thanks to this function a Staff College has been opened in Turin that acts as a training centre for United Nations personnel.