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Call for Papers – Welfare & Ergonomia

The new call for papers from the journal Welfare & Ergonomia, edited by Alberto Pesce and Veronica Valenti, is dedicated to “Investing in the care of social reintegration for incarcerated individuals: trends and new perspectives of Italian welfare.”

Proposals may be submitted by March 29, 2024, by sending an abstract of approximately 3,000 characters (including spaces).

All information is available in the call.

Welfare & Ergonomia is a Class A journal (Anvur), published by Franco Angeli, based on an editorial project and direction by IRPPS (thanks to researcher Antonella Ciocia).

By way of example, contributions for this edition may cover:

social and health aspects resulting from overcrowding at both collective and individual levels;
the importance of maintaining emotional and family ties in prison to gather suggestions for reform perspectives;
the mutual relationship between forms of restorative justice and social reintegration;
the importance of educational paths and professional training in prison;
the analysis of Italian or European best practices aimed at promoting training, placement, and employment;
the analysis of traditional welfare models and their implementation regarding persons deprived of liberty, with attention also to new models or policies concerning inmates or former inmates;
the analysis of legislation and jurisprudence regarding the social and professional reintegration of inmates;
a critical analysis of the role of local authorities, social private organizations, and the private sector in ensuring training, placement, and employment;
the analysis of local best practices or those piloted in individual penal institutions;
the analysis of factors leading to recidivism:
the analysis of state and regional spending aimed at promoting social and professional integration paths;
the treatment of inmates nearing release at the end of their sentence;
the impact of new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence or neuroscience, on the social and professional reintegration of incarcerated individuals.

Sport and Women’s Inclusion

March 7, 2024 – h. 8.30

Sala Marconi – CNR Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 – Rome

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Read the event description on the CNR portal.

IV Report on Research and Innovation in Italy

January 18, 2024 – h. 11.30

CNR Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 – Rome

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Institutional greetings:
Maria Chiara Carrozza, President of the National Research Council
Salvatore Capasso, Director of the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Cultural Heritage

Presentation of the Report’s contents:

Competitive funding for research and development in Italy for social and technological challenges
The international experience of PhD graduates
Italy’s position in patenting activity
Technology transfer at the frontier of scientific research
Visions of science and trust in vaccines

Round Table:

Nicoletta Amodio, Head of Industry and Innovation, Confindustria and Member of the Board of Directors of the CNR
Roberto Antonelli, President of the Accademia dei Lincei
Maria Savona, Professor of Economics of Innovation, LUISS University of Rome and University of Sussex

CNR “ATENƏ” Award

IRPPS, through the “H2020 MINDtheGEPs” project, is launching a competition for the CNR scientific network for three prizes of €1,500 (one thousand five hundred) each for the best products (articles, proceedings, protocols, etc.) that have significantly contributed to scientific innovation by integrating a gender perspective into research questions, design, and results.

The objective of the competition is to promote the so-called gendered innovations, an approach that uses methods of analysis of sex, gender, and intersectionality variables to create new scientific knowledge, making it rigorous, reproducible, socially relevant, and responsible. This approach can and should be applied to every field of scientific knowledge.

The Award is coordinated by the MINDtheGEPs project research group, which has already promoted several initiatives aimed at implementing gender equality within the CNR.

As part of the competition, three works will be awarded, one for each ERC sector (2021-2022 revision):

– Physical Sciences and Engineering
– Life Sciences
– Social Sciences and Humanities.

The competition is open to CNR researchers, technologists, technicians, and research fellows, both as individuals and as research groups, and concerns works published between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2022.

The deadline is September 25, 2023. To submit your application, write via Certified Email (PEC) to protocollo.irpps@pec.cnr.it.

The evaluation committee was appointed on December 28, 2023. The document is available as an attachment.

Attachments and links:

Evaluation committee (updated January 9, 2024)
Call for proposals (PDF file)
Call for applications (PDF file)
Application form (English version)
MINDtheGEPs
Gendered Innovation
Other projects of the Knowledge Society Group

For information:
Nicolò Marchesini
Cnr-Irpps
nicolo.marchesini@irpps.cnr.it
Cnr-Irpps Communication Office, email: comunicazione@irpps.cnr.it

The news was published on the cnr.it website on July 25, 2023, and on the IRPPS website on August 7, 2023. Updated January 8, 2024

The open educational resources of the OLA project

The European project OLA – Open Learning for All, coordinated internationally by the research group “Social Studies on Science, Education, Communication” of IRPPS, was selected by the Erasmus+ National Agency INDIRE as a good practice and considered a Best Practice for the use of participatory action research methodology and for the systematization of scenario-based teaching.

Available to anyone who wishes to use them, the OLA project provides a set of interdisciplinary educational scenarios and a freely accessible online MOOC course, developed in collaboration among several European countries.

The OLA-Include repository offers hundreds of scenarios produced by teachers from the European countries involved in the project, tested in classrooms, and evaluated. These scenarios provide educational staff with free and open teaching pathways that can be implemented in their own classrooms. The content follows the interdisciplinary STEAM approach (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Humanities, Mathematics) and is designed to pursue, among other objectives, the countering of stereotypes in teaching.

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), the result of coordinated work by research and training institutions from Italy, Greece, Spain, Cyprus, and Romania, offers a free and modular pathway on the topic of educational resources. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of this type of course, especially in the university context, but they are often not based on theoretical reflection on the subject.

The course comprises 5 macro-contents, divided into several modules. The topics allow for in-depth exploration of what OER (Open Educational Resources) are, how they are created, evaluated and reused, the principles of open pedagogy and blended education, and the world of Creative Commons licenses.

The various modules are not only theoretical but also have practical objectives. They consist of various Learning Units, with slides, subtitled videos, bibliography, and tests. The material is available in open and reusable formats according to context. The content and the very methods by which the course is constructed and delivered follow the principles of the OLA project: particular attention is paid to the inclusiveness of teaching resources, with technical choices ranging from file size to the presence of subtitles, to respect different needs and different learning styles.

Attention is also focused on the critical analysis of texts and images, the promotion of digital skills aimed not only at technical ability but at developing the capacity to evaluate the reliability of different tools and platforms.

OLA is making a significant contribution to the dissemination of the “open” approach in education promoted by UNESCO, in line with the philosophy of open science in the scientific field, with the development of open educational resources to improve teaching in a more inclusive way and to promote an evolution of the concept of digital skills that considers, beyond purely technological abilities, the critical and responsible use of platforms and online information sources, as a prerequisite for the exercise of informed citizenship.

The Development of Suicidal Thoughts in Adolescence – Article by the MUSA Group for Scientific Reports – Nature

According to a study by the MUSA research group (Social Change, Evaluation and Methods), suicidal thoughts now affect approximately half of Italian adolescents.

The article The developmental process of suicidal ideation among adolescents: social and psychological impact from a nation-wide survey – just published in Nature’s Scientific Reports journal – investigates the mechanism that leads to the development of such thoughts.

From the survey conducted by Antonio Tintori, Loredana Cerbara and Giulia Ciancimino, IRPPS, with Maurizio Pompili, UniSapienza, and Gianni Corsetti, ISTAT, the psychological distress that fuels suicidal thoughts does not constitute the origin of the problem, which is instead found in particular dynamics of social interaction and specific socio-demographic characteristics.

Antonio Tintori’s interview for Rai Radio1

The interdisciplinary epistemological approach adopted has also made it possible to show how factors usually considered influential, such as tolerance to the use of alcohol and psychotropic substances in general, are in fact only secondary in explaining the phenomenon.

Read the CNR press release and the article The developmental process of suicidal ideation among adolescents: social and psychological impact from a nation-wide survey.

Media coverage:

La Repubblica

AdnKronos
InSalute News
PanoramaSanità
Radio beckwith evangelica

November 25 – Second national survey on centers for men who use violence (CUAV)

IRPPS, with the Viva project, has published the results of the national survey on centers for men who use violence (CUAV). The Viva project represents an important piece of the socio-cultural change necessary to combat gender-based violence.

DinamicaMente

December 5, 2023 – h. 09.30

Conference Hall, CNR Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 – Rome

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How can digital technologies be used in an authentically pedagogical way? How can technology support the educational pathway of students with vulnerabilities?

Watch the interviews

Antonella Ciocia, DinamicaMente – Technologies, welfare and
social citizenship

Filippo Gregoretti – Amrita: Artificial Emotions and Sensibilities, a new way of creating

Matteo Martignoni – Cultural design strategies and participatory methods

Tiziana Tesauro – TRAME

Anna Milione – What lifelong learning?

How can digital technologies be used in an authentically pedagogical way? How can technology support the educational pathway of students with vulnerabilities?

To discuss this, the Conference will bring together experts from various fields (from pedagogy to computer science) alongside direct involvement of the student community.

The morning sessions offer constructive reflection on the nature of welfare, namely, how to use ICT and AI to overcome social inequalities, provide digital welfare tools to address vulnerabilities and promote shared participation in community empowerment, how to substantiate learning, how to address the relational challenge that the use of AI and ICT is expected to pose, and finally how educational institutions use these tools.

In the afternoon, audiovisual performances are scheduled exploring the relationship between human and artificial, artificial and vulnerability, artificial and art, facilitating the process of emotional and creative learning. The aim is to experiment with educational and training pathways suitable for everyone while respecting their uniqueness, unpredictability and irreproducibility.

A workshop focused on the environment is planned to stimulate imagination regarding possibilities in urban regeneration, along with a participatory workshop on Miro, aimed at promoting design thinking and critical thinking to address environmental and social challenges. Both initiatives aim to demonstrate the effectiveness of technology-based cultural strategies in urban regeneration and the fight against climate change, involving the local community and promoting sustainable territorial development.

The event qualifies as professional development for teachers under MIUR directive 170/2016 (art.1/5).

Curated by Monia Torre

Page updated on December 21, 2023

TRAME for the training of educational staff

The Trame workshops are resuming, a method that uses theater for professional training, created by IRPPS researcher Tiziana Tesauro with director Francesco Campanile.

The meetings, which begin on November 10, 2023, at the council chamber of the Municipality of Fisciano, are part of the “Cose Mai Fatte” project funded by the European Union under NextGenerationEU: a strategic alliance between institutions and the third sector to combat educational poverty. The 15 sessions, which will continue until the end of March, are aimed at teachers and social workers.

As examined in Theatre and professional training: The Trame method, published by Tesauro for the British Journal of Social Work, the Trame method is based on a reflection that intertwines theories on learning as a situated and collective activity (according to which knowledge is the result of the subject’s relationships with the context and its members) with pedagogical approaches that frame theater as an educational tool: individuals acting as if they were actually in a certain situation develop skills that they can then transfer into practice.

In this way, Trame is configured as a method that aims to train body awareness to develop self-awareness and reflexivity on one’s own actions in those professions centered on relationships and care, which over time has been addressed to doctors, nurses, and social workers initially, and now to teachers and social workers.

Find out more about the Trame project on the IRPPS website.

Scholars at Risk

IRPPS, together with CNR, adheres to Scholars at Risk, an international network that promotes protection activities for scholars in danger, advocacy, and training for academic freedom. A course on “Guidelines for the reception of scholars at risk,” necessary for those wishing to actively participate in the network, is scheduled.