Training on Active Citizenship at “Roma Tre” University. Starting in October, Monica Ruffa, FONDACA’s Manager for advanced training on active citizenship, is holding a cycle of lessons on the issue within the President of FONDACA Giovanni Moro’s course, on “Theories and practices of active citizenship” at the “Roma Tre” University. The course will be devoted to the theories that describe and explain the practices that characterize active citizenship organizations, conceived as actors of the utmost importance of welfare systems, both as promoters and managers of services, and as political interlocutors of public administrations engaged in designing and implementing welfare services.
New collaboration with the organizing Committee of “Se Non Ora Quando?". FONDACA has recently activated a scientific collaboration with the organizing Committee of the civic movement "Se Non Ora Quando?", deeply committed to issues about the representation of women and their social and working conditions in Italy. This new partnership comes as part of a path of study and research that the Foundation is carrying out on the new forms of civic action implemented through the instruments connected to Web 2.0 (such as, for example, blogs, social networking photo and video sharing web sites), whose ability to influence public arena is increasing both locally and internationally. The collaboration, in this first phase, will develop into a scientific supervision that the Foundation will provide to the organizing committee of the movement for a research on the characteristics of the participants in "SNOQ", to be held throughout the country.
GOVERNANCE
Publication of the new book by Giovanni Moro “La moneta della discordia”. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the introduction of the euro, the book “La moneta della discordia”, written by Giovanni Moro with the collaboration of Lucia Mazzuca and Roberto Ranucci has just been published by Cooper. The text is a journey through the "hidden side" of the single European currency, constituted by the cultural, social, political and everyday life economic aspects connected to its introduction and use, which are less thematized in the political and scientific debate, where the greater part is a matter of macroeconomic and financial issues. Considering that introducing a new currency is not a transaction that concerns only governments and banks, but is rather a change that affects all citizens and creates new identities, relationships, material and immaterial values, symbols, cultural patterns and life styles, rights and powers, the book aims to deeply examine the interconnection between the euro and European citizenship, an interconnection upon which the fate of Europe, including its economic one, depends. Moreover, in the final part of the text an interview with Romano Prodi is presented. See the book’s index
The Other Side of the Coin: on-line the €-Database. The €-Database, the main output of the documentary research conducted by FONDACA between 2010 and 2011 in the framework of its program “The Other Side of the Coin. The Single Currency and European Citizenship”, and aimed at describing the world of policies and thematizations on the single currency and, in particular, on political, social and cultural factors and those of the economics of daily life connected to its introduction and use, is now available online. Through the use of this online tool, which currently gathers together about 300 publications of various kinds mainly produced by: European and national institutions, central banks, the media, consumers’ organizations, think tanks and the scientific community, the Foundation provides subjects interested in the topic with a large and diverse amount of bibliographic material for in-depth examination, study and research purposes, which could be periodically increased through the suggestion of new documents of interest by the users. Consult the database
CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP
Sustainability reporting: present and future scenarios. The course "Sustainability reporting: present and future scenarios", organized by FONDACA as part of the project FONDACA LAB - School of Advanced Studies on Citizenship, will be held on December 15th, 16th and 17th in Rome. The course, lasting a total of 20 hours, is mainly aimed at organizations and professionals involved in sustainability reporting processes and people interested in a discussion of the issues. The main objective of the course is to engage participants in a critical analysis of the phenomenon and a deepening of understanding of its more innovative aspects. For further information, click here
European Global Compact Local Networks Meeting. The Global Compact European Local Networks Meeting was hosted by the Global Compact Network Italy in Rome on 26-28 October 2011. The event, focused on “Public-Private Joint Efforts Towards Rio+20” was organized by the Italian Network in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On October 2010, indeed, the European based Global Compact Local Networks signed a Declaration of Intent (DOI) in Brussels with the joint objective of increasing communication and collaboration among themselves and undertaking initiatives to confirm the Global Compact as a strong and attractive sustainability initiative. The European UNGC Local Networks agreed to annually organize with this target a regional conference hosted at the location of a different Network each year. The Italian Meeting was the first one organized after the DOI. To have more information, click here
A new training module on the GRI Sustainability Reporting Process, organized by FONDACA and aimed at reporting managers and professionals, who are part of businesses, civil society organizations, universities and research institutions, public institutions and local administrations, will be held on December 1st and 2nd in Rome. The module, lasting a total of 16 hours, is aimed at providing participants with the knowledge necessary for the development and improvement of the sustainability reports according to GRI Guidelines. For further information and to register for courses, e-mail:
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The "Cycle of Seminars on Business Creation", organized by the Province of Alessandria and focusing on the themes of innovation, social responsibility and public-private relationship, was held on October 10th, 17&th and 24th. Giovanni Moro, President of FONDACA, took part in the second meeting day, providing an important contribution on the benefits of a socially responsible management for SMEs.
The Final Meeting of the Project "Educating Citizenship", sponsored by the Federation SCS/CNOS with the aim to train operators and the entire internal network of the Federation to develop new ways of promoting civil and social values, was held on September 29th and 30th in Rome. Monica Ruffa, Manager of educational projects on issues of civic activism for FONDACA, took part in the first meeting day, contributing to the Working Group on "Citizenship and Politics".
BOOKS. The book La qualità della democrazia in Italia, written by Marco Almagisti, has been published by Carocci editore. Go to the books section
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2011 - EUROPEAN YEAR OF VOLUNTEERING
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2011 - CITIZENS FOR UNITED EUROPE, SERIES OF MEETINGS ON "EUROPE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE"
NOVEMBER 10, ROME - PRESENTATION OF XIV PIT SALUTE REPORT
DECEMBER 12-13, MILAN - VIII POLITEIA FORUM ON "BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS"
JANUARY 26-27, ROME - FORUM CSR 2012
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