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How is Italy, the 2018 OSCE Chair, doing on the issue of recognising, combating and preventing racism, neo-racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism?

Read this week’s article by Dr. Giovanni Carlo Bruno based on the independent report: Implementation of Selected OSCE Commitments on Human Rights and Democracy in Italy Independent Evaluation Report on the occasion of the Italian OSCE Chairmanship 2018.

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February 13th, 2019

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Venerdì 15 febbraio 2019 dalle ore 10.00 nella sala convegni del CNR IRISS a Napoli, si terrà il convegno The Enhancement of Entrepreneurship in Sudan: Opportunities from the INSO Project, evento conclusivo del progetto INSO – “Innovazione nella società: percorsi formativi e valorizzazione del capitale umano in Sudan”.

Il progetto è stato finanziato dal Ministero dell’Interno-Dipartimento per le Libertà Civili e l’Immigrazione, nell’ambito del bando “Collaborazioni internazionali e cooperazione ed assistenza ai Paesi terzi in materia di immigrazione ed asilo” attraverso il quale si sostengono delle azioni dirette ad affrontare le cause profonde delle migrazioni.

Al progetto hanno partecipato, oltre al CNR IRISS in qualità di Coordinatore, due partner sudanesi, il Comboni College of Science and Technology (Khartoum-Sudan-CSST), il Ministero dell’Educazione Superiore e della Ricerca Scientifica della Repubblica del Sudan (MOHE) e l’Università di Bari (Centro Servizi di Ateneo per l’Apprendimento Permanente-CAP).

Per maggiori info visitare la pagina dedicata all’evento.

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February 10th, 2019

In the framework of the CLIC EU Horizon 2020 project, coordinated by CNR-IRISS, UCL Institute of Finance and Technology will host a symposium on innovative financial models and instruments to preserve and increase the value of both material and immaterial heritage assets, leveraging on their potential for increasing social cohesion and personal wellbeing, as well as on their pivotal role in building cultural identity and a sense of belonging across diverse communities.

Professor Francesca Medda (Director, Institute of Finance and Technology, UCL) will open the works introducing the CLIC project, dedicated to develop, test and validate innovative circular business, financing and governance models to place cultural heritage and historical urban landscapes adaptive reuse at the forefront for the implementation of a European model of circular economy and circular city-region centered on the regeneration of cultural and natural capital.

Leading industry practitioners will then provide the audience with insight and concrete examples of financial innovation in the cultural and creative sector.

Speakers include Adala Leeson, Head of Social and Economic Research and Insight at Historic England; Graham Bell, Director, North of England Civic Trust; Henrietta Billings, Director, SAVE Britain’s Heritage; Matthew Mckeague, Chief Executive, The Architectural Heritage Fund and Seva Phillips, Head of Arts & Culture Finance, NESTA.

The Symposium will be held on February 7th at UCL’s Christopher Ingold Building from 1:30pm and will be followed by a reception.

You can sign up for the event using this link: http://tinyurl.com/ucl-clic-symposium

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January 28th, 2019

The twenty-fourth ELA Doctorate Workshop will take place in Edinburgh (UK) from June 26thuntil June 29th 2019 at Heriot-Watt University.

Deadline for application: March 4th, 2019.

Aim of the workshop:

  • Help the students in progressing their research programme,
  • Establish a valuable pan-European network of doctoral students in the field of logistics and SCM,
  • Allow the participating students to improve their skills in managing and solving their research problems.

Format of the workshop:

  • During the workshop, each of the selected students will present their project in a “big group”,
  • After the presentation (15 minutes max.) there will be a discussion/questions session led by the moderator (10 minutes max.) and followed by questions from two students acting as discussants (5 minutes max.),
  • The ambition is to help each other in developing the research projects.

Moderators:

  • – Prof. Dr. Pietro Evangelista (Chairman), CNR IRISS (Italy),
  • – Prof. Dr. Jukka Hallikas, Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland),
  • – Prof. Dr. Simon Emde, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany),
  • – Prof. Dr. Violeta Roso, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden).

On Thursday 27thJune 2019, (from 11:00 until 12:30) there will be a session entitled “Moderators panel presentations on contemporary topics” in which each moderator is expected to make a 15-20 minutes presentation about his/her research followed by some discussions.

On Friday 28thJune 2019 (from 11:10 until 12:30) there will be an academic keynote speech by Prof. Phil Greening (Heriot-Watt University, UK).

On Friday 29th June 2018 night there will be the final dinner. During that dinner,Prof. Hans Christian Pfohl (Member of the ELA- Board and Chairman of the ELA-Research committee) will award certificate to all the participating students.

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  • Please note that updated information will be also available on the Facebook profile of the workshop: https://www.facebook.com/ELAdoctorateworkshop/?ref=bookmarks
  • For further information about the workshop, please contact the Chairman of the workshop: Pietro Evangelista – PhD – Senior Researcher in Logistics and SCM – IRISS CNR -Ph.: +39 081 2470982 – Fax: +39 081 7618265 – E-mail: p.evangelista@iriss.cnr.it
  • ELA PhD workshop_

 

January 16th, 2019

Venerdì 21 dicembre alle ore 23.50 su Radio RAI-RAI Parlamento andrà in onda la trasmissione “Qualità o quantità per il turismo nei luoghi di cultura?”
Intervengono Roberto Micera ricercatore del CNR IRISS e co-curatore del Rapporto sul Turismo Italiano, Maurizio Quagliuolo, Segretario Generale di Herity International e l’economista Pasquale Persico.

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December 20th, 2018

La Rassegna Internazionale del Cortometraggio MED-LIMES “Ai Confini del Mediterraneo” è un concorso cinematografico internazionale che pone, tra i propri scopi, la diffusione della conoscenza e la promozione nei Paesi del Mediterraneo dei 17 Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile delle Nazioni Unite adottati nel 2015.

Giovanni Carlo Bruno, ricercatore del CNR IRISS, fa parte del gruppo di esperti incaricati della selezione dei 25 cortometraggi da ammettere alla fase finale della rassegna, che si terrà a Salerno dal 24 al 26 maggio 2019.

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December 20th, 2018

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