Social Innovation Management for Smart Communities
Minor a.y. 2022/2023
What is a Minor
A Minor is a complementary path to a Bachelor’s Degree Programme which allows you to broaden your main study field by developing cross-cutting skills that are useful both for your further education and for your career.
A Minor is composed of three modules of 6 ECTS each. By passing the three Minor exams; you will get a certification and an Open badge.
Objectives and contents
The technological and economic progress of the past fifty years has not smoothed out the social gaps or solved the serious issues concerning the unsustainable development that were already known half a century ago. On the contrary, they get worse. Even in the most advanced western countries, social cohesion is undermined by the fact the attempts to answer to the demand for more sustainable lifestyles and, in general, for a better quality of life, lack effectiveness or have not found, to date, an adequate dissemination.
The changes in the social and economic ecosystem provide a key to understanding the increasing cases of governance failure, both among companies and institutions. While rethinking its own paradigms and its system of values, the management discipline must give up the traditional techno-centric approach and contaminate itself with contributions from the humanities and social disciplines, in order to put people and society at the centre of its own value system.
Within this framework, this Minor offers students three courses which, as a whole, have the following educational objectives: a) creating awareness about the social and environmental challenges that traditional management leaves unsolved; b) to provide basic notions about the development of entrepreneurship and leadership oriented towards social sustainable innovation; c) to describe the most recent models of social innovation, smart communities and smart cities, as well as the link between these models and the value systems of the communities; d) to teach basic theoretical and practical tools to study people’s behaviour, to understand the psychological determinants of choices and, consequently, to adopt the most suitable policies to spread the adoption of "smart" and sustainable lifestyles.
Each of the modules will include the description of case studies and one or more laboratory activities, aimed at improving the learning of the notions and tools explained in class.
Language
This Minot is taught in English.
Coordinator
Professor Andrea Stocchetti
Modules of the Minor
Academic year 2022/2023
Curriculum PERCORSO COMUNE (Students enrolled till 2022)
| Course | Subdiv. | Period | University credits | Professor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLOBAL AND LOCAL CHALLENGES IN THE AGE OF UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT [NM004A] | 2nd Semester | 6 | STOCCHETTI Andrea | |
| LEADERSHIP AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS MEANS FOR CHANGE [NM004B] | 2nd Semester | 6 | FINOTTO Vladi | |
| SMART COMMUNITIES: THE ROLE OF RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS [NM004C] | 2nd Semester | 6 | LANZINI Pietro |
Recipients and credits recognition
The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate and postgraduate students.
It is possible to enrol as an external user, with a charge of 496 euros (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp), reduced to 336 euros (320 euros + 16 euros duty stamp) if you are enrolled in another university.
If you are an undergraduate student at Ca’ Foscari, this Minor can be recognised in the elective course section of your Bachelor’s degree with the following exceptions: undergraduate students enrolled to Business Administration, International Trade and Tourism, Economics and Business, Digital Management (all the undergraduate programmes of the economic area). Final marks will not affect the average of your degree.
Enrolment, attendance and exams
This Minor is offered to a maximum of 24 participants. The call for application will be published in October - November 2022. Admitted students will proceed with the enrolment according to the timing defined in the call.
Ca’ Foscari undergraduate students
The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate students. Before enrolling you must have finalised your enrolment in your Bachelor’s Degree Programme, otherwise you will be charged a 496 euros fee (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp).
IMPORTANT: Withdrawing from Minor is possible. Please, be aware that enrolling again, after the withdrawal will be at your expense.
You can enrol in the Minor in the academic year you prefer: during the first, the second or the third year of your Bachelor’s Degree Programme. In order to attend the three modules, sign up and take the exams, you must enrol in the Minor path.
Enrolment lasts one year. It is mandatory to attend the three modules in the same year and take the exams in the four exam sessions available. You will not be allowed to complete the Minor path the following year.
By passing the three Minor exams you will get a certification and an Open Badge. The ECTS obtained may be recognised in the elective course section of your degree course once you have passed the exams: please check the website to understand if this applies to you and how to enrol.
If you fail one or more exams in your Minor, you will still be entitled to receive the certification for the exams you passed, but the credits of the Minor will not be recognised in the elective course section of your degree programme.
Ca’ Foscari postgraduate students
The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari postgraduate students, but it cannot be recognised in the elective course section of your Master's Degree Programme. Before enrolling you must have finalised your enrolment in your Bachelor’s Degree Programme, otherwise you will be charged a 496 euros fee (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp).
If you are regularly enrolled at Ca' Foscari university when you enrol in the Minor path, you can complete it even after your graduation, but you have to take the exams in the four exam sessions available. IMPORTANT: Withdrawing from Minor is possible. Please, be aware that enrolling again, after the withdrawal will be at your expense.
In order to attend the three modules, sign up and take the exams, you must enrol in the Minor path. Enrolment lasts one year. It is mandatory to attend the three modules in the same year and take the exams in the four exam sessions available. You will not be allowed to complete the Minor path the following year.
By passing the three Minor exams you will get a certification and an Open Badge. If you fail one or more exams in your Minor you will still be entitled to receive the certification for the exams you passed, but not the Minor certification nor the Open Badge.
External users
External users, not enrolled to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate or postgraduate programmes, can enrol to the Minor with a charge of 496 euros (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp).
If you are a student in another university, the fee is reduced to 336 euros (320 euros + 16 euros duty stamp). At the end of the enrolment process, stop before you make the payment and click on Request for assistance in order to get in touch with the Enrolment unit. Ca’ Foscari staff will contact you to explain how to get the reduction on the enrolment fee.
In order to attend the three modules, sign up and take the exams, you must enrol on the Minor path.
Enrolment lasts one year. It is mandatory to attend the three modules in the same year and to take the exams in the four exam sessions available. You will not be allowed to complete the Minor path the following year.
By passing the three Minor exams, you will get a certification and an Open Badge. If you fail one or more exams in your Minor you will still be entitled to receive the certification for the exams you passed, but not the Minor certification nor the Open Badge.