The characteristics of the phenomenon of civic activism and on the various forms of training about active citizenship. There is a continuing collaboration between FONDACA and the Faculty of Psychology of "La Sapienza" University of Rome. Last year, Monica Ruffa and Alessia Sabbatino of FONDACA held a lecture on the relationship between active citizenship organizations and the business community. This year, FONDACA in collaboration with Adriana Bizzarri, head of the School of Active Citizenship, held a lesson focused on “The characteristics of the phenomenon of civic activism and on the various forms of training about active citizenship” which took place on May 23rd 2011 at the Faculty of Psychology. Approximately 30 students attended the lecture.
Cycle of meetings and seminars on the issue of Community Organizing. FONDACA promoted and coordinated a cycle of meetings and seminars on the issue of “Community Organizing” held at the Faculty of “Scienze della Formazione” at the “RomaTre” University. Mattia Diletti, Professor of Political Sciences at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome, and Alessandro Coppola, of the Architecture and Town Planning Department of the Politecnico of Milan, attended the workshops as experts of community organizing and its relation to community development. Representatives of the scientific community, of public institutions and civic organizations as well as scholars interested in the issue participated in the meetings.
GOVERNANCE
Europe for Citizens: creating the structure and architecture from 2014.On June 20th and 21st FONDACA participated in the Active European Citizenship Group’s consultation meetings in Brussels regarding the Europe for citizens program, managed by the Executive Agency of Education, Audiovisual and Culture, under the supervision of the Directorate-General for Communication of the European Commission. This program is aimed at promoting and supporting activities and organizations that deal with active European citizenship, along with the involvement of citizens in the European integration process. These meetings, characterized by the participation of various stakeholders from all over Europe, provided an important opportunity to confront priorities, objectives, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the program, in order to identify its development strategy after 2013.
Representation and representativeness of civic organizations: discussions and reflections on the topic. FONDACA activated a reflection and study program dealing with the topic of representation and representativeness of civic organizations, a problematic issue of great relevance. Giovanni Moro presented and enlivened a series of encounters that created the opportunity for further study and reflection on this topic: “The voice of the voluntary sector. Who represents the voluntary sector in the current systems of governance?”, organized by the center for volunteering services of the province of Bologna on April 12th, “Towards a statute of European association”, organized by the European Civic Forum in Brussels on April 28th, “CSR and consumers in Italy and Europe” promoted by the Consumers Forum and held on June 7th, lastly “Representation and representativeness of civic organizations in the health services”, thematic session of the “Quality and sustainability through participation”, seminar held on June 10th and 11th at Riva del Garda in collaboration with the national coordination of the Association of the chronically ill of Cittadinanzattiva, of the provincial agency of health services of Trento and of the Trento Province.
CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP
The new Global Compact Network Italy web-site. A new version of the Global Compact Network Italy web-site has been launched. New possibilities of contact and information sharing between the supporter companies have been strengthen, trough personalized pages with initiatives, communications on progress and best practices; a new announcement on demand section; a new supporters' reserved area with institutional documents and related to the network meetings; a calendar of the next appointments; the links to the new Linkedin group and to Skype and, eventually, a new graphic format with videos, cards and information. The site, by the way, allows the linkage to the main Global Compact European Networks and to the UN sister initiatives web-pages. Visit the new web-site
Stakeholder Engagement and Business Value: the challenges of the future. On Wednesday 22nd June, the workshop: “Stakeholder Engagement and Business Value: the challenges of the future” took place at the Swiss Center in Milan. The event has been organized by Barilla, with the scientific support of FONDACA and it has been structured into two sessions: the first one focused on the possibility to create business value through the stakeholder engagement; the second one oriented to outline the new challenges of the stakeholder engagement in the future. Academics, firm and civil society representatives participated as speakers and discussants in order to compare different theoretical and operative opinions regarding the stakeholder engagement. Read the program of the event.
The new Working Papers Series, which gathers together the most important publications produced within FONDACA, with the dual aim of promoting and disseminating the results of the study and research carried out by the Foundation, is available on-line. For further information, click here
FONDACA is engaged in the periodic realization of training modules on the GRI Sustainability Reporting Process. The modules, lasting a total of 16 hours, are aimed at reporting managers and professionals, who are part of businesses, civil society organizations, universities and research institutions, public institutions and local administrations. Upcoming dates are July 21st and 22nd 2011. For further information and to register for courses, e-mail:
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The new web-sitededicated to "The Other Side of the Coin. The Single Currency and European Citizenship", the research and dialogue program which FONDACA is implementing on the issue of the single currency and its connection with the construction of European citizenship is now on-line. To view the web-site, click here
The seminar “Civil society and Europe. Italian experiences in comparison” was held on June 24th, at Certosa di Pontignan. Giovanni Moro, President of FONDACA took part in the meeting as expert. The seminar was organized as part of the PRIN research project on the “Italian civil society's contribution to building Europe”. This project, funded by the Ministry of Education, University and Research and coordinated at national level by Prof. Vincenzo Cesareo, from Cattolica del Sacro Cuore University of Milan, aims to investigate forms, trends and guidelines of the Europeanization process of the Italian civil society.
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