CIVIC ACTIVISM

"Through the Mirror" - Experimental Course on Active Citizenship. The Experimental Course on Active Citizenship entitled "Through the Mirror" was organized by FONDACA, in Rome, on the 18th, 19th and 20th of February. The training was planned with the aim of analyzing the active citizenship phenomenon and verifying the adequacy of some teaching methods and tools in order to facilitate the learning process of the participants. Some representatives of civic organizations, who are active in the local and national level, together with a group of multistakeholder participants were involved in the course.

Research on the state of the Italian civil society. Cittadinanzattiva movement is going to organize, since the beginning of March, some focus groups in different Italian regions in order to discuss the first results of the research on the state of Italian civil society that FONDACA is going to finish by the middle of this year. Other news about the focus groups will be soon published in the web site.

GOVERNANCE

Civic Evaluation on Public Administrations activities and services. The Department for Public Administration has started an experimental project on civic evaluation concerning citizens' involvement in the evaluation of municipal services. The project involves 14 public administrations and is carried out in partnership with the Cittadinanzattiva movement and FONDACA in the framework of PON-Governance 2007-2013. The project aims at verifying the programming mode and the improvement of the public services from the citizens’ perspective. The results of the experimental project will be present and discuss in June.

European Union information and participation policies. According to EU institutions, local civic organisations are considered to be amongst the most relevant subjects for the achievement of EU objectives and policies. FONDACA is carrying out research in this field that deals with the impact of EU participation and information policies on civic organisations that operate at local level in Italy. The research project, commissioned by the Representative of the European Commission in Italy, envisages the use of a questionnaire that draws data from the 60 local civic organisations that make up the reference sample. Activities will be completed in April, with the analysis of the results that emerge from this study and with the draft of the final report.

CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP

Master in Corporate Citizenship. In February, the 5th edition of the Master in Corporate Citizenship - Integrated Strategies of Social Responsibility, organized by FONDACA in collaboration with the Pisa Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and Boston College, came to an end. 6th edition planning is already in progress and, as usual, it will be designed for people working on or intending to engage in programs and activities related to corporate social responsibility. FONDACA is working on defining a new training course, which will be characterized by the organization of a timetable which is more favourable to people committed to full-time activities and also by the centrality of “know how” in the field of CSR. A communication campaign about the next edition will start in the coming weeks.

COSMIC Project: CSR oriented supply-chain management to improve competitiveness in the textile/clothing sector. On April, 29th the international conference “Exploring the link between Competitiveness and Corporate Social Responsibility” will be held at Pisa Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. On that occasion, the results of the European research project “COSMIC - CSR oriented supply-chain management to improve competitiveness in the textile/clothing sector” will be presented. The project has been coordinated by Pisa Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, while FONDACA has participated as research partner, together with the Agency for Development Empolese Valdelsa and the Centre of Innovation and Conceptual Development of New Products (CID) of Girona University.
Read the programme of the conference

FONDACA has just got an Multi Annual Grant by the European Commission – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) in order to support the Foundation’s activities. Download the list of successful projects

The paper entitled “Democrazia partecipativa e democrazia deliberativa: un confronto” written by Lucia Mazzuca has just been published on Labsus’ website. The paper analyses the crisis of the representative and democratic model, which up till now seems limited and does not meet the needs of modern times. Download the paper

The issue n.28 of the EAST – Europe and Asia Strategies journal has just been published. FONDACA has been collaborating with the journal since 2004 through the production of materials on the Foundation main programmes and through the participation of Giovanni Moro, president of the Foundation, in the journal’s Scientific Committee. Read more

FONDACA points out the addition of the voice “Civic Action” on the International Encyclopedia of Civil Society (New York 2009) and the article entitled “Cittadini e guerra” published on Umanizzare l'umanitarismo. Limiti e potenzialità della comunità internazionale (Marina Calloni, UTET Turin 2009), both written by Giovanni Moro.

BOOKS. The book Judicial Accountabilities in New Europe written by Daniela Piana has been published by Ashgate. 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.

8-9 APRIL , UNITED KINGDOM - WELL-BEING, HAPPINESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT, IN STIRLING

7-10 MAY, MELLIEHA - SOCIAL CAPITAL IN PRACTICE

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