Prato Circular City wants to contribute to the transition towards the city's circular economy. Within the urban system, that is the interconnection of the inhabited area, the commercial and industrial area, the agricultural area, policies can be implemented and experiments can be initiated that facilitate the transition from linear to circular activities and behaviors. The [...]

The Coronavirus pandemic has affected the lives and livelihoods across the world and disrupted the ways in which we experience our capabilities everyday. In these times of the pandemic, researchers and practitioners who are using participatory approaches,  have had serious implications for the quality and the validity of the participatory inquiries and outcomes of our [...]

European social citizenship means creating a feeling that people, especially groups at risk of maginalisation and social exclusion, have something to gain from being members of the EU. Strengthening social citizenship is the central aims of EUROSHIP a three-years project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and implemented by a [...]

Circular transition at urban level Cities are the main drivers of economic development and the production districts introduce a bio-uniqueness principle among the urban and industrial dimension at a territorial level. The circular economy offers great opportunities for innovation and sustainability of cities and their production systems. Allowing companies to identify and exploit these opportunities [...]

L'appel à candidature est désormais terminé. Les candidats selectionnés seront contactés par email avant 22 juin pour prendre rendez-vous en vue d'un entretien. Pour le projet triennal « Social business et développement innovant de la filière agro-industrielle de la Région de Thiès (SB-AGROIN) » financé par l’Agence Italienne  pour la Coopération au Développent (AICS), a [...]

Nowadays companies are more and more under the spotlight as for the impact they generate affecting communities and their territories. We are assisting to a growing demand for greater transparency regarding non-financial reporting coming from civil society, regulatory bodies, socially responsible investors, international organizations and also from national and international legislations (such as the groundbreaking [...]

In recent years, the world economic system has welcomed rich people but has pushed away poors. The pecular times we are living, offer the opportunity to challenge this system and transform the unsustainable development model. These considerations were the starting point of the meeting "Increasingly rich, increasingly poor: the analysis of the dynamics of poverty [...]

The restrictive measures imposed by the COVID-19 emergency, which exploded while the Monitoring & Evaluation and Impact Assessment Unit was engaged in data collection for some projects in Italy and abroad, made it necessary to re-consider evaluation strategies to respond to changing needs of field. Determined not to give up the participatory approach - which [...]