This section presents all past projects related to Ca' Foscari's Global Challenges. To discover the on-going projects, please visit the page Projects.
Cross-sectoral cooperation in culture and creative industry
The Culture and Creative Industry (CCI) sector lacks a transnational and cross-sectoral shared vision on what could be its contribution to economic and social growth in central Europe, along with a cooperation system to foster innovation processes. COCO4CCI project (Culture and Creative Industries Cooperation Collider) will build capacities for cross-sectoral cooperation in advanced manufacturing (AVM), by mapping CCI potentials aimed to create a transnational CCI collider network. A training programme will accompany facilitators in technology development, future trends setting and a mind-set definition in advanced manufacturing.
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Researcher: Giovanni Vaia
Duration: 01/04/2019 - 31/03/2022
Time Machine: Big data of the past for the future of Europe
The project Time Machine will give Europe the technology to strengthen its identity against globalisation, populism and increased social exclusion, by turning its history and cultural heritage into a living resource for co-creating its future. The FET Flagship will develop a large-scale digitisation and computing infrastructure mapping millennia of European historical and geographical evolution, transforming kilometres of archives, large collections from museums and libraries, and geo-historical datasets into a distributed digital information system. To succeed, a series of fundamental breakthroughs are targeted in Artificial Intelligence and ICT, making Europe the leader in the extraction and analysis of Big Data of the Past.
Time Machine will bring a new era of open access to sources, where past and on-going research are open science. A dissemination programme aims to further strengthen the rapidly growing ecosystem, currently counting 95 research institutions, most prestigious European cultural heritage associations, large enterprises and innovative SMEs, influential business and civil society associations, and international and national institutional bodies.
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Researcher: Dorit Raines
Duration: 01/03/2019 - 29/02/2020
Funding: Horizon 2020 Excellent Science: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Nano-region: innovation through nanotechnologies
Leveraging from the belief that the great scientific and technological expertise can enhance industrial activity, the project Nano-Region ("Una rete aperta per l'innovazione attraverso le nanotecnologie") creates a network of research centers and nanotechnology laboratories and opens them to small and medium-sized enterprises. The final goal is to develop an effective action of technology transfer from the research to the industry centers operating in this Interreg macro-region that can enhance competitiveness, occupation and economic impact of the local productivity system in the medium and long term.
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Researcher: Alvise Benedetti
Duration: 01/02/2019 - 31/03/2022
Funding: Interreg V-A ITALIA SLOVENIA 2014-2020
MEDREGION - Marine strategy framework
MEDREGION - Support Mediterranean member states towards implementation of the marine strategy framework directive new GES decision and programmes of measures and contribute to regional/subregional cooperation
The project aims to provide the necessary support to the CIS for the coordinated implementation of the New GES Decision and to provide a useful platform for the necessary Regional and Sub-regional cooperation, in order to support the further development of the Programmes of Measures. It is precisely under this strategic perspective that the involvement of the UNEP/MAP system (UNEP/MAP member of the Advisory Board, INFO/RAC, RAC/SPA, PLAN BLUE partners) plays an essential role, taking into account the regional and cross-border aspects that involve both the EU context and the third Countries.
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Researcher: Antonio Marcomini
Duration: 01/02/2019 - 31/01/2021
NETCHER: Stopping illicit trade and protection of endangered cultural heritage
The last decades have witnessed a variety of initiatives promoted by a diverse set of actors engaged in the protection of endangered cultural heritage and in stopping illicit trade, initiatives that have tried to bring solutions, remediation, methods and approaches to tackle looting and trafficking. NETCHER (NETwork and digital platform for Cultural Heritage Enhancing and Rebuilding) seeks to address the complex challenge of harmonising and bringing together these worthy, but often disconnected initiatives by using a participative approach that will result in the establishment of a structured network (defined as a Social Platform) drawing together a broad range of players such as international bodies, umbrella organizations, national governments, researchers, public policy makers, NGOs, as well as public and private foundations. The Platform will take charge of the systematizing and framing of all the emerging best practices in order to enhance and capitalize on the experiences of the partnership members at an international level for building a joint action plan with shared toolkits and a research and innovation roadmap.
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Researchers: Cristina Tonghini, Arianna Traviglia
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2020
Fundinig: Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges: Europe In A Changing World
SSHOC - Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud
Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) is a project funded by the EU framework programme Horizon 2020 and unites 20 partner organisations and their 27 associates in developing the social sciences and humanities area of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). During the 40-month lifespan of the project, SSHOC will transform the current social sciences & humanities data landscape with its disciplinary silos and separate facilities into an integrated, cloud-based network of interconnected data infrastructures.
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Researcher: Agar Brugiavini
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 30/04/2022
Funding: Horizon 2020
SASPAS - Safe Anchoring and Seagrass Protection in the Adriatic Sea
The overall objective of the project is to improve seagrass preservation and restoration through laying safe anchorage innovative systems, performing pilot transplantations, carrying out monitoring activities and by defining an integrated management system for seagrasses in Adriatic area. The project will spend 30 months on three research sites: Panzano Bay, Monfalcone (IT), National Park Kornati (CRO) and Brindisi Coast in the Dune Costiere Natural Park of Torre Canne to Torre San Leonardo (IT). The SASPAS project is financed by the European Foundation for Regional Development under the Interreg V-A Program IT-CRO CBC (Priority Axis 3- Environment and Cultural Heritage). The lead partner is the Municipality of Monfalcone, and the project also includes seven (7) partners from Italy and Croatia. CoNISMa applied with the Local Research Unit of Trieste.
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Researcher: Adriano Sfriso
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/03/2022
SIforREF – Social policies for refugees integration
The challenge that SIforREF addresses is combating the risk of marginalization of refugees after the reception phases, which are different in each country, through the design and implementation of social innovation methodologies. The project aims to facilitate refugees’ autonomy by enhancing or launching refugee integration policies at regional and local level (countries involved: Italy, Germany, Austria and Slovenia). To achieve this objective, refugee integration should be included in the decisional agenda both at local and transnational level and policy-makers should adopt inclusive measures in governance. The complexity of this issue requires a mutual learning among central European regions, especially neighbourhood regions like those involved in the project.
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Researcher: Francesca Campomori
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2021
ECOS4IN ‐ Cross‐border Ecosystem for Industry 4.0
The final goal of the project is to contribute to the organizational and technological culture within micro, small and big enterprises in all the economic-productive sectors, raising awarness on the potential of the digital progress. More specifically, ECOS4IN looks at the sustainable transnational cooperation through a consortium made of seven central-European partners bringing together professionals coming from research centers, universities and companies to cooperate on common challenges. The starting point is the belief that the forth industrial revolution is the new reality that is challenging all the industrial sectors, whose benefits will depend on the local and regional entities to accept, apply and manage the necessary changes.
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Researcher: Vladi Finotto
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2021
Funding: Interreg Central Europe