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Croatian “Megaphone for Democracy” Gong interviews Multiscale EU coordinator Francesco Pigozzo about civic education in Italy and the vocational education field
Today, 2 July 2024, Iris Knežević interviewed Francesco Pigozzo in the framework of an Erasmus+ project coordinated by Croatian civil society organization Gong and titled “IMPROVING CIVICS IN VET” , whose contents and main objectives are perfectly consistent with the Jean Monnet Teacher Training project MULTISCALE EU, promoted by our Research Centre.
The overall goal of the project is to contribute to a higher level of civic literacy and participation among young people. Specific objectives include increasing the knowledge of youth organisations and NGOs working with young people on the topic of civic education in vocational schools and strengthening the capacity of NGOs to advocate for improvement in the field of civics in vocational schools.
Gong and its partner are currently conducting a comparative analysis of seven countries (Croatia, Germany, Romania, England, France, Norway and Italy), which, in addition to desk research, also includes contributions from so-called key informants: prof. Pigozzo being the one chosen for Italy.
This cooperation is part of a wider cooperation that prof. Pigozzo and Martinelli are developing with Zagreb University as a main Croatian associate partner in Multiscale EU project and beyond.
Citizenship education: policy brief discussion hosted by the Italian Ministry
Europe: what a Passion! Online workshop for pupils, kids and teachers. 22 May 2024, h10.30 CET
Multiscale EU: first Massive Open Assembly – “Tutti presenti!” with ScuolaZoo
Tomorrow at the Benedetto Varchi High School in Montevarchi (Arezzo), more than 1100 students and teachers will participate in the Assembly organized by ScuolaZoo together with School Representatives and as part of the collaboration with the Jean Monnet Teacher Training project “Multiscale EU.” Guests of the assembly will be Francesco Pigozzo and Daniela Martinelli, who will speak on the contents of the project, dedicated to the development of a critical pedagogy of multiscale European citizenship. Below is the poster containing the topics that will be touched upon in the talk.
International conference “La Francophonie dans toutes ses perspectives”
On March, 20th 2024 a second edition of the international Conference organized by Marilena Genovese, with the support of Francesco Pigozzo and our Research Centre and the “Excellence in Linguistic Training” Centre at eCampus University, took place online. Below you can find the conference schedule and its whole video recording (each participant approved its publication by written message sent to Dr. Genovese).
ID PLUS – final dissemination events about the didactic experimentation results
On 31 March, the small-scale cooperation project (Erasmus+) Cittadinanza multiscalare e identità dinamiche/Citoyenneté à plusieurs échelles et identités dynamiques officially ends, through whose work programme primary and secondary schools/Collège of Parabiago, La Colle-sur-Loup and Milan have carried out a structured experimentation of some didactic activities qualifying the Civic Education curriculum elaborated by Francesco Pigozzo and Daniela Martinelli in the perspective of their research for a critical “multiscale” pedagogy of citizenship.
Today, 19 March 2024, at 5 p.m., the Research Centre will hold a videoconference to disseminate the project results open to teachers from schools in the European Union (participants from Greece, France, Portugal, Poland, Spain have registered). To get the access link, simply write to citoyennes@uniecampus.it.
Thursday 21 March 2024 will be the turn of the project’s lead institute, the ICS Viale Legnano in Parabiago, as per the poster published here. To obtain the access link, simply fill in the form by clicking on the link in the poster itself.
Both initiatives are open to all interested persons.
Multiscale EU: 2024 Summer Training scholarship winners
We publish here the list of the first 30 selected scholarship recipients for the 2024 summer edition of the Multiscale EU training initiative for teachers from any EU country (an activity of the Multiscale EU Jean Monnet Teacher Training project co-funded by the EU). Please read here for all details about the Training School editions and the related call for application.
2024 Summer edition scholarship winners, as listed below in alphabetical order (by name and surname), have already been notified by email and had to officially confirm their participation by Monday, 29th January 2024. We are now checking all confirmations received. In the event of vacating scholarships, we will reassign them follwing the applicants’ ranking and we will publish the updated recipients’ list on this website.
Anastasia Sourlantzi
Anastasia Zirziri
Andreas Lolis
Andreia-Maria Demeter
Antonia Nikou
Athanasia Balomenou
Chris Hatziconstantis
Chrysanthi Tziortzioti
Costel Neicu
Daniela Spiru
Daniela Dinculescu
Elena Dougia
Elissavet Kalemou
Helen Michalatou
Kiriaki Dimiza
Kyriaki Iliadou
Maria Machika
Maria Dalamitrou
Maria Efthymiou
Maria Emmanouilidou
Maria Grammatikopoulou
Maria Madureira
Maria Nomikou
Matina Venetiadou
Nektarios Farasopoulos
Panagiota Kountouritou
Paula Correia
Sofia Christidou
Theodora Toli
Vaia Manoli
Vasso Moschouri
European Citizens Radio on Multiscale EU and citizenship education
An interview by Ulrike Guerot, German political scientist and scholar who is among the most important EU specialists in the academic domain today, where Francesco Pigozzo tells and explains the many faces of his and Daniela Martinelli’s pedagogical research and action. The interview is part of the European Democracy Lab series that you can find on Spotify.
Policy Brief. Civic education and teacher training: a building site to keep open
We have published here our paper (in Italian) on educational policies regarding Civic Education in the Italian school system, edited by Daniela Martinelli and Francesco Pigozzo. The paper is part of the activities envisaged by the Multiscale EU project and is part of the debate following the experimental implementation phase of Law 92/2019 by which Civic Education became a “subject” of the curriculum of schools of all levels. A public presentation of the policy brief will be organised in Rome.