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Interview with Daniele Archibugi on his latest essay, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, published by Luiss University Press

Andrea Bettini, from RaiNews24, interviews Daniele Archibugi on his latest essay, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Advice, Tricks, and Spells for Aspiring Scholars” published by Luiss University Press.

A narrative and a guide to navigating the rules and rituals of the academic and scientific community.

“Those who observe everything and do nothing. This is how Adam Smith defined philosophers and, by extension, scholars in general. They are university professors, engineers, and researchers working in corporate laboratories, and scholars in public institutions and non-profit organizations.

Aspiring to become a scholar is a desire for many, but there are always many contenders and few available positions.

How can one make their way in this universe? Giving free rein to one’s ingenuity is a necessary condition, but often not sufficient.

An apprentice scholar must also learn how to apply to a prestigious university and request a scholarship, how to benefit from a PhD and choose the right mentors, how to submit their work to authoritative journals, and how to navigate conferences. This book explains, in a direct and irreverent way, the implicit rules that govern the republic of knowledge.”

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Emotion Classification from Speech and Text in Videos Using a Multimodal Approach

In the journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction published on April 14, 2022, an article appears written by Maria Chiara Caschera, Patrizia Grifoni, and Fernando Ferri titled “Emotion Classification from Speech and Text in Videos Using a Multimodal Approach“

“Emotion classification is a research area in which there has been very intensive literature production concerning natural language processing, multimedia data, semantic knowledge discovery, social network mining, and text and multimedia data mining. This paper addresses the issue of emotion classification and proposes a method for classifying the emotions expressed in multimodal data extracted from videos. The proposed method models multimodal data as a sequence of features extracted from facial expressions, speech, gestures, and text, using a linguistic approach. Each sequence of multimodal data is correctly associated with the emotion by a method that models each emotion using a hidden Markov model. The trained model is evaluated on samples of multimodal sentences associated with seven basic emotions. The experimental results demonstrate a good classification rate for emotions.“

The article is in Open format

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In post-Covid Italy, cradles remain empty. If the country does not have children

In the Buone Notizie column of Corriere della Sera on July 26, journalist Paolo Riva interviewed our researcher Angela Paparusso on the long-standing problem of the declining birth rate and the further gap created after the pandemic compared to Northern European countries

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W20 Sumatra

Recover Together Recover Strong

July 19 – 21, 2022

Sumatra

From July 19 to 21, the Women 20 summit will meet in Sumatra, Indonesia. This is an Engagement Group of the G20, representing the world’s 20 most industrialized countries, organized around the slogan used by Indonesia for the G20: Recover Together, Recover Stronger.

Dr. Sveva Avveduto from the CNR will lead the Italian delegation. The W20 group, which addresses all G20 themes from a female perspective, will present the results of a year’s work in the form of a Communiqué. This will be delivered to the G20 at the end of the Summit so that world leaders can incorporate gender equality and female empowerment into the conclusions of the G20 to be held in November.

The W20 has identified five priority areas, the first concerning non-discrimination and equality in every sector—from education to work, entrepreneurship, health, technology, and energy—as well as in public and private life.

In particular, world leaders are asked to take concrete measures to close the gender pay gap. An important area is education for boys and girls, aimed at eliminating gender stereotypes and the difficulties girls face in pursuing scientific studies and careers.

Communiqué W20 Sumatra

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Trame. Social theatre and the training of social and health workers

July 18, 2022 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM

“Falcone and Borsellino” Council Chamber

Palazzo Farnese – Piazza Giovanni XXIII

Castellammare di Stabia

The City of Castellammare di Stabia, Social Plan of Area N27, the IRPPS Institute of the CNR, and the Order of Social Workers of the Campania Region are organizing a day of work to present the project

Trame. Social theatre and the training of social and health workers

Opening and introduction by: Maria Rosaria Astarita – Coordinator of Social Assistance Services activities

Speakers: Tiziana Tesauro and Francesco Campanile will report on the project “Trame. Social theatre and the training of social and health workers”

Social workers from the Municipality of Naples: Simona Cappella and Gaetano Balestra will present their direct experience in the project “Trame. Social theatre and the training of social and health workers”

Closing remarks: Gilda Panico – President of the Council of the Order of Social Workers of the Campania Region

Due to limited seating, it is necessary to send a participation email to servizi.sociali@comunestabia.it

by 2022-07-14, which will be followed by a confirmation email

A farewell to Pino

It is with shock and sadness that we announce the passing of Giuseppe Ponzini, Senior Researcher at IRPPS. He was a point of reference for the Fisciano office, having been among the first to settle in the original Penta headquarters, and was esteemed by the entire Institute for his scientific and human qualities.

Pino carried out his research and lived for a long time in Fisciano, making a fundamental contribution to welfare studies that were included in the Annual Report on the Welfare State in Italy, until his transfer to the Brindisi branch.

He was a brilliant and versatile researcher. Curious and intuitive, he would delve into new topics, putting his extensive erudition to good use.

He was a kind and generous person toward his colleagues and friends.

He was an excellent teacher whom many had the opportunity to appreciate, both at the university and in various training courses.

He leaves behind a great void and deep regret. Our thoughts are with his family.

A final embrace from all of us

Landownership concentration and human capital accumulation in post-unification Italy

This is the title of the article published by Vitantonio Mariella in the June 2022 issue of the journal Journal of Population Economics published by Springer

“This paper contributes to the debate on institutions and economic development by assessing the relationship between landownership concentration and education. Using historical data at both the district and province levels in post-unification Italy from 1871 to 1921, I find evidence of an adverse effect of land inequality on literacy rates. Instrumental variable estimates using malaria pervasiveness as a source of exogenous variation rule out concerns regarding potential endogeneity. Exploration of the panel dimension of the data reveals that several shocks during this period affected the relationship between land inequality and literacy rates. In addition, this paper provides insights into the mechanism behind this relationship by analyzing the impact on intermediate outputs, such as enrollment rates in primary school, child-teacher ratio, school density, child labor, and municipality expenditures. Land inequality may have adversely affected literacy rates not only by influencing schooling supply through the political process but also through the private demand for education.”

Towards Quality Digital Learning: Lessons Learned during COVID-19 and Recommended Actions—The Teachers’ Perspective

An article co-authored by Tiziana Guzzo, Stefano Boffo, Fernando Ferri, Francesco Gagliardi, and Patrizia Grifoni has been published in the Special Issue of the MDPI Open Access Journal

“The research focuses on identifying challenges and lessons from distance learning experiences in Italy during COVID-19, on opportunities emerging from a more digitalized school in the post-COVID-19 crisis, and on preparedness for potential future emergencies. The study aims to analyze different teachers’ experiences, […] “

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Spaces of inclusion and democracy

July 13, 2022

Rome – Palazzo Merulana

Theory and practice of the concepts of inclusion and democracy in educational contexts is the theme of the ’22 edition of Officina, an #IRPPS project of the CNR National Research Council in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.

A discussion between the scientific and educational communities and social actors on transformative teaching, transversal, multicultural, and citizenship skills.

The 2022 edition addresses the theme of “Spaces of inclusion and democracy”; the working groups will offer an interpretation of the theme based on the practices implemented by the participants, the main findings, and the issues that emerged.

Among the experiences of inclusion and democracy, the practices promoted and tested in the European project Include: Integrated Content and Language via a Unified Digital Environment, funded by the Erasmus plus Program, will be shared.

The first part of the event will be broadcast live on Facebook on the Officina educazione futuri page from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM.

The materials from the working groups and the full recording of the plenary presentation of the results will be published by the summer here: https://www.officinaeducazionefuturi.it/it/

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From the theory of social regressivity to a rethinking of remote work, between gender stereotypes and work-life balance needs

This is the title of the article that Antonio Tintori, Loredana Cerbara, Giulia Ciancimino published in issue 9 of the biannual journal I quaderni published by “Fondazione Marco Vigorelli“.

The title of I quaderni no. 9 is: “Parental responsibilities and work: the future of Europe at stake” (edited by Nicola Speranza),