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🙌 Take a look now at our recent published article "Bridging the Digital Divide: Insights from the "Digitali senza Frontiere" Pilot Course" on the Digi-Inclusion Website! 🌐 In today's interconnected world, digital literacy is not just a skill but a fundamental requirement for participation in society. However, access to digital resources and the ability to utilize them effectively remains uneven, with certain demographics facing significant barriers. Addressing this issue, our DIGI-INCLUSION network italian partner Lepida ScpA, organized a pilot course named "Digitali senza Frontiere: A Guide to Inclusive Digital Literacy" was conducted, marking a significant step towards bridging the digital divide, particularly in the Apennine region. 🌍 📍 Led by Alessandro Borri from Centro Provinciale per Istruzione Adulti Montagna, the pilot course shed light on the stark reality of the digital divide, emphasizing gender inequalities in access to online services. Collaborators Mariangela Di Carolo and Fernanda Lozano Garcia of Bolab association highlighted the importance of empowering migrant women through co-designed pathways for acquiring computer skills. 👩‍💻 📅 Taking place between October 17th and 27th, 2023, the pilot course represented a successful model for future initiatives and showcased its effectiveness in promoting inclusive digital literacy. 🤝 👀 Take a look at the full article on our website: https://lnkd.in/dT68eVcc URBACT #URBACT #DIGI_INCLUSION #LeavingNoOneBehindInaDigitalWorld #DigitaliSenzaFrontiere #Pilotcourse

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The Associations of Italian Researchers Abroad promote collaboration with foreign organizations and institutions in order to have Italian universities and research centers participate in the research programs and activities of major international bodies working in science and technology, providing expertise and knowledge for the definition of technical standards.

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https://lnkd.in/dX-FFRdf MICROAREA MACROPROJECT Strong associations between social determinants and several health outcomes in different populations have been well documented. Collaboration between public health workers and clinicians, developing health-promotion strategies, can improve the health outcomes for socially disadvantaged populations and can add more understanding of the mechanisms by which social determinants influence health. Despite the compelling evidence on the social determinant of health, very few large community interventions have been conducted worldwide. The landmark health initiatives conducted in Trieste (urban area at extreme northeast of Italy) over the past 50 years, afford a comprehensive approach to these issues, along with mental and paediatric health.  In Trieste, since 2006, there are well-defined neighbourhoods known as ‘Microaree’, with 500 up to 2500 inhabitants, characterised by a high prevalence of social housing, economic and social hardship and poor environment quality. To improve the health status and the social capital of these deprived communities, the local health authorities, in conjunction with the voluntary and public social housing sectors and private citizens, implemented a proactive joint intervention programme called ‘Habitat Microaree’ (HM). It was designed to act both at the individual level, ensuring proper access to health facilities and social services, as well as improving the coordination of services; and at the community level, supporting hospital discharges. The HM project was conceived as a joint intervention delivered in people’s life setting and designed to act on multiple levels, health, social and housing, through a paradigm shift: services no longer as a set of a priori defined activities, but coproduced with people in order to engage them. (Cogliati-Dezza et al. Measuring the impact of a social programme on healthcare: a 10-year retrospective cohort study in Trieste, Italy. BMJ Open. 2020)

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🔹 AMIL Project: Cluster for the Economic Integration of Migrants (MEIC) - Meeting in Rome🔹 As part of the AMIL project, the Italian working group met to promote, extend and strengthen the Cluster for the Economic Integration of Migrants (MEIC) in our country. #migrantintegration #InclusioneLavorativa #EC #EuropeanCommission #Integrazione #MercatoDelLavoro #ProgettoAMIL #MEIC

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👉 Restorers and illicit trafficking of works of art: research tries to define the problem and provide solutions PersLab AUTH ENIGMA EUProject https://lnkd.in/dPgDp_Y2

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Every level of Italian conversation skills is welcome

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The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic: more than 34,900 people have died and more than 1.5 million have been displaced. The population is in dire need of humanitarian assistance due to the lack of access to all basic services and the consequent risk of famine. We have been present in Gaza since 1997. In the last 7 months, we have responded to the ongoing crisis with immediate and life-saving interventions, in particular for people who have been forced to move within the Strip to seek refuge from the bombings. We are committed to ensuring access to drinking and domestic water, providing personal hygiene and sanitation solutions to protect people's health and dignity. Overall, we have reached more than 400,000 people so far and we will continue to work alongside the population and call for a ceasefire and the entry of humanitarian aid. Find out more about our intervention: https://lnkd.in/d7z5xTbk

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Today this news came from Italy, where a dozen of people were arrested with the accusation of torture, ill treatment, and attempted sexual violence against children in the juvenile facility "Cesare Beccaria", in Milan. In Italy, where the child justice system for long time has been considered as 'advanced' in Europe, and where this specific institution was for long considered a "flagship" of this advanced, child-centred system. Just to say that clearly (and we were not waiting for this kind of news to prove it) we are still very far from that ideal, and safeguarding children in detention facilities from violence is an issue, violence against children in detention does exist, and no country - no, not even in Europe - is exempted. And for this we are all responsible, the whole system that looks away (because after all who wants really to look at what happens in a detention facility?); that does not allocate the necessary resources to support and train staff and professionals working in the penitentiary; that does not provide children with accessible ways to seek justice; that punishes and stigmatizes the single individual without looking at the systemic, overall failure, and thus without looking for systemic solutions; that does not invest in education, prevention, and communities' wellbeing. In moments like this more than ever I feel the work we are doing is needed and worthy, and that we should continue the fight against #VAC in all settings:  https://lnkd.in/eQgv28kS #violenceagainstchildren #childrensrights #justiceforchildren #DataMOSAIC  #childrenindetention #VAC https://lnkd.in/gDQ87kfJ

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Back from an eye-opening experience at Casa di reclusione di Bollate, made possible by Impact and bee.4 altre menti. This visit underscored the profound importance of embracing a positive culture of error, where "un-success" is not a hard stop and can even set you up for further winning. I witnessed how acknowledging and learning from mistakes can lead to personal growth through many inspiring stories from inmates, who bravely owned their past and transformed it into a brighter future with work and dedication. This experience reinforced in me the idea that, even in day-to-day life, creating an environment where mistakes are seen as opportunities for improving rather than failures is crucial. Let’s continue to support and build cultures that allow for growth through error, paving the way for more resilient and empathetic communities! #cultureoferror #PersonalGrowth #Impact #Bee4 #Inspiration #Bollate

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Europe between the Apennines and the Mediterranean, Storytelling and the human landscape. A pioneering European #research applied to the case of Portico di Romagna (Italy) to discover the emotions that the relationships between empathetic narration and matter arouse in citizens, verifying how art can improve people's "well-being". The path highlights the co-planning, co-creation, co-care of the places we identify as home and draws on new epistemologies of the public sphere of the new citizenship. A few words, some #stories, like that of the Portico Gecko, and many facts invite us to reflect on the future vision of the European Union. This marks the completion of a key step in the collective journey “Where To?” the European project of Lignin Stories & Centro Italiano Storytelling that Flavio Milandri talks about, on page 14, of SR (The Sense of the Republic) of May with "Europe in the middle ground between the #Apennines and the #Mediterranean".

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Here an older piece about democratic innovations that I published in 2016 in in "Comunicazione politica, Quadrimestrale dell'Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica" 3/2016, pp. 373-392, doi: 10.3270/84679. Input, output and political communication. Fields of democratic innovations along different democratic theories (Markus Pausch) Abstract: Democratic innovations are usually described as improvements of democratic procedures in terms of citizens' participation in decision making, although they can be more than that. Given the variety of democratic theories and indicators, innovations can focus on a wide range of aspects like electoral laws, social inclusion, citizenship education, control mechanisms or transparency etc. This article wants to show that democratic theory can enrich the study of democratic innovations. It suggests a theoretical classification of innovations along the categories input, output and political communication and relates them to existing theories. The main argument is that input-innovations can contribute to the quality of a democracy as well as output-innovations and innovations in political communication. According to different democratic theories, the quality of a democracy depends on systemic or structural conditions, the democratic behavior of the citizens and on democratic communication which must not be reduced to strategic persuasion of citizens, but needs to include contestation and deliberation in transparent public spheres and information about input- and output-innovations. Thus, political communication is at the same time an object of innovation and a translator or mediator of innovation. With an overview and a categorization of different types, the article wants to widen the specter of democratic innovations and relate them to democratic theories. #democracy #innovation #democratic #input #output #communication https://lnkd.in/dPaEqyU

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📣 #IRCrES #Contribution Third International Conference of the journal Scuola Democratica “Education and/for Social Justice” 📍3-6 giugno all' Università degli Studi di Cagliari 🎤valentina Lamonica e Maddalena Bartolini sono state le Chairs della sessione: K.05. The role of informal and non-formal education in fostering youth agency a 📚Emanuela Varinetti  ha partecipato con il contributo “Beyond Resilience: Assessing the Effectiveness of Third Sector Educational Support Strategies in favour of Foreign Students in the Post Pandemic“ 🔎https://lnkd.in/dyVRfXZm #education #research #postcovid

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📆 13/06/2024-15/06/2024 📍L'Aquila - Italy 🎤 Virtual Event EU Sparks for Climate: Citizen Hackathon Championship is looking for committed citizens and researchers to join forces and participate in this virtual competition for the valorization of knowledge and the development of technological and social innovation solutions to address climate challenges and support two of the missions established by the European Union: the EU Mission on Climate Change Adaptation and the EU Mission on Climate Neutral and Smart Cities. Sign up Now! We are looking for citizens and researchers to collaborate in a virtual championship of European citizens' hackathons aimed at developing new solutions to climate challenges. The three winning teams in the final will receive a prize of 5,000€ per team and other benefits such as tailored mentorship, support for a crowdfunding campaign, access to the angel investor network, and assistance in scaling up their solution. hashtag #icons hashtag #climaquila hashtag #eusparksforclimate hashtag #eumission hashtag #eumissionadaptationtoclimatechange hashtag #twincities

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Last week's #G7Summit took place in Apulia, Italy. Among many other important issues, the G7 leaders' discussed #Health, notably: ✅ promoting a #OneHealth approach, bolstering #prevention and #healthsystems ✅ the importance of life-long prevention for healthy and active #ageing ✅ promoting healthy #lifestyles ✅ promoting science-based #diet models based, to the extent possible, on locally grown products, beneficial for both human health and the environment (launching an Apulia Food Systems Initiative) ✅ tackling #healthdeterminants and non-communicable diseases #NCDs, particularly #mentalhealth, and #cancer ✅ advancing #UHC and investing in resilient health systems, primary healthcare service delivery #PHC, and a skilled #healthworkforce ✅ strengthening the #GlobalHealth Architecture via improved collaboration between #finance and health ✅ promoting comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights #SRHR for all, and to advance maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, especially for those in vulnerable circumstances. Further, via commitments made in the Social Determinants of Health #SDH & #HealthEquity areas: 🔆 achieving #genderequality and the empowerment of women and girls, eliminating sexual and gender-based violence #GBV 🔆 ensuring affordable and quality #childcare and #longtermcare services for all #LTC 🔆 supporting parenthood protection, promoting work-life balance #WLB, and equal sharing of care responsibilities, to promote women’s equal rights and to take a whole-of-society approach to address the demographic challenges faced by ageing societies #careeconomy 🔆 promoting job quality and decent #work as well as the fundamental principles and rights at work, including the right to safe and healthy working environments #OccupationalHealth 🔆 working for resilient labor markets and to promote active and #healthyageing, addressing obstacles to labor market participation, especially of the underrepresented groups, and will promote solutions to improve working conditions in the care sector 🔆 furthering efforts on the #economicgovernance and #taxation frameworks (via a current #GDP-lens and productive #growth narratives). https://lnkd.in/ezdWKV8T

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International Labour Day is celebrated on May 1 to spread awareness of the contribution that workers and the working class make to society. The Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, on his social media accounts: "Fight against exploitation, pact with companies and trade unions". "Happy Workers' Day to all! May Day is a time to reflect on the importance of work and the centrality it must have in our society, to celebrate the workers' movement and its struggles, which have been and continue to be a fundamental factor in social and civil progress. And that is why it must be defended, created and protected from all forms of exploitation. In Rome, we are doing our utmost to create quality work and to fight the scourges of precariousness and unemployment. That is why we have signed a major pact between trade unions, companies and the administration, which puts workers and safety first and fights wage dumping. The economic growth that our city is experiencing, also thanks to the major investments we have made and the many building sites that are transforming Rome, is also a good result in terms of employment and encourages us to do even more, especially for young people and women, to improve the quality of work and the rights and dignity of workers. A special thank you to those who are still working today to guarantee basic services to citizens. Long live May Day".

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