CIVIC ACTIVISM

Partnership's analysis and evaluation. The partnership's analysis and evaluation is a recurrent topic on the debate regarding the relationship between civic organizations, companies and public administration. During the last three years Active Citizenship Network and FONDACA have been working on this issue promoting two European research projects. The result of these two initiatives is a set of tools useful for evaluating the partnerships since their first steps. Go to the website dedicated to the project.

Transparency in Public Administration. In last months FONDACA has been working with Cittadinanzattiva for the implementation of some of the activities provided by the Memorandum of understanding that Cittadinanzattiva Movement and the Italian Department for Public Administration signed on March 2009. The aim of this memorandum is to fight against the corruption and to promote civic evaluation process on Public Administration. This collaboration is included in the framework of the Civil Society Index project and in particular it contributes in implementing a case study on the impact which Civil Society initiatives have on the Public Administration transparency.

GOVERNANCE

Citizens in Europe. The role of citizens in the European democratic experiment. The book Citizens in Europe. The role of citizens in the European democratic experiment written by Giovanni Moro has just been published by Carocci. The book analyses how the citizens are the protagonists of the European democratic experiment, consider not in the realization of a model, but rather as an attempt to build up a democracy differing from those built and experimented by national states. The book was presented on December, 1 in occasion of the seminar on “European Citizenship” that was held at University of Bari. The speakers of the seminar were Giuseppe Cotturri (University of Bari) Giovanni Moro (University of Macerata) e Ennio Triggiani (University of Bari).

The mayors: sheriffs or leading citizens? The conference entitled “The mayors: sheriffs or leading citizens”, organized by the Roma Nuovo Secolo Association and Cittadinanzattiva Lazio Movement, was held on December, 3 at the Waldensian Community in Rome. The seminar was an occasion to discuss on the tools and the guidelines with which the municipalities have to measure as determined by the 2008 decree law on the issue of local safety. Speakers of the seminar were Giuseppe Scaramuzza, Maurizio Fiasco, Pio Marconi, Carlo Troilo, Alberto Benzoni and Roberto Ranucci who presented the research report on “Civic resources for urban safety: a survey on the role of active citizenship organizations” that FONDACA carried out in March 2009 and commissioned by the Municipality of Genova. Read the research report

CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP

Global Compact Network Italy SMEs meeting. The meeting, organized by FONDACA as focal point of the Global Compact Network Italy, will take place on January, 28 at 2.30 p.m. in Rome. It will gather representatives of most of the Italian SMEs that participate to the initiative. They will have the opportunity to deepen the knowledge of the ten Global Compact principles and to discuss different interpretations and peculiar methods of implementation of the principles within the SMEs specific context. More detailed information will be available soon on the Global Compact Italy website

Exploring the link between Competitiveness and Corporate Social Responsibility: call for papers. The follow up conference of the COSMIC Project, “CSR oriented supply chain management to improve Competitiveness in the textile/clothing sector” that will take place on April, 29 in Pisa, is open to scholars, doctoral, students and researchers. Theoretical contributions as well as case studies are welcome. Proposals should be sent in Word or PDF format to Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo. no later than March 15. For more information about the conference and further questions please visit the project website or contact Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo.

Next February the Fifth Edition of the Master's Degree in Corporate Citizenship - Integrated strategies of social responsibility, which FONDACA has led since 2005, will finish. In this last module the project ideas created by the participants of the course will be presented. Go the section website dedicated to the master

One of the meetings of the “Europe is in town” project, promoted by the European Parliament and the European Commission, was held on December, 18 in Rome. The project aims at drawing a comparison between the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and the civil society on eight relevant topics. Further details are available on the website dedicated to the project.

The first Justice Area of the Cittadinanzattiva Movement Report was presented on November, 10 in Rome. The report is the result of a survey of two thousand cases carried out by the Justice Area of Cittadinanzattiva Movement that has provided free support and advice for one year.

The experimental course on active citizenship was postponed to February 2010 for organizational reasons. Further details will be available on the Foundation website as soon as possible.

BOOKS. The book Citizens in Europe. The role of citizens in the European democratic experiment written by Giovanni Moro has just published by Carocci. Go to the books section

PRESS REVIEW. A selection of newspapers and reviews articles have been published on the Foundation’s website. They apply to events carried out in the last period. Read more on press review.

FONDACA POINTS OUT. National and international conference, seminar and workshop. Read more about the events

OPPORTUNITIES. The Foundation points out new updates in the section related to call for applications, call for papers and grants.

7-8 JANUARY, RENNES - SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE COMMON GOOD

10-11 FEBRUARY, ROME – CSR FORUM 2010, ABI

26 FEBRUARY, MILAN – 6TH POLITEIA FORUM "BUSINESS ETHICS AND CSR IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY"

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