This section presents all past projects related to Ca' Foscari's Global Challenges. To discover the on-going projects, please visit the page Projects.
Families_Share: bottom-up solutions to work/life balance
Families_Share offers a bottom-up solution to work/life balance by supporting families with childcare, parenting advice and after-school activities. The project is developed in 6 Pilot Cities in 4 countries and involves parents of children aged 3-11 that live in the same neighbourhoods in the 6 Pilot cities (Bologna, Gyor, Kortrijk, Thessaloniki, Trento, Venice). Besides the initial pilot cities, Families_Share application is also being used by Families in Rome, Pescara. In addition, Families_Share application has been adopted by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice as a way to support the personnel families taking care of their children in the emergency situation due to Covid-19.
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Researcher: Agostino Cortesi
Duration: 01/01/2018 - 31/10/2020
Funding: Horizon 2020 Industrial Leadership: Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
ECOMOBILITY - Ecological supporting for traffic management in coastal areas by using an intelligent system
Mortgage loans in Europe are equivalent to around 46% of the European Union’s GDP. Facilitating the transition to Green Mortgages is crucial to the realisation of a climate-neutral economy. Likewise, consumer expectations and financial sector best practices must meet. The mortgage industry is an essential player in efforts to tackle climate change through its funding of the home renovation programmes needed to improve the energy performance of the EU’s building stock. Since its inception in 2015, the EU Horizon 2020 funded Energy Efficient Mortgages Initiative (EEMI) has been the catalyst for the growth of a new, integrated, multi-stakeholder energy efficient mortgage ecosystem. The EEMI seeks to introduce a greener, more sustainability focused means of buying, renovating and living in our homes.
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Researcher: Andrea Gambaro
Duration: 01/01/2018 - 30/06/2019
Protection, promotion and touristic valorisation of Adriatic maritime heritage
Arca Adriatica project, coordinated by the Primorje-Gorski Kotar region, will work on the valorization and dissemination, also for turistic aims, of the maritime cultural heritage of the Italian and Croatian coastal regions. Centres of excellence will be created for the documentation, conservation of the traditional boats and for the knowledge, also with digital tools, of the traditional boat-building techniques.
The team of Ca’ Foscari, composed by Francesco Casarin, engaged in the elaboration of a master plan for the development of this form of tourism, and Francesco Vallerani, as expert of inland waterways landscapes, is coordinated by Carlo Beltrame.
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Researcher: Carlo Beltrame
Duration: 01/01/2018 - 30/06/2021
From Ancient Maritime Routes to eco-touristic destinations
The territories involved in the project "APPRODI" hosted in the past ancient harbors who have been always considered marginal to cities’ development, thus scarcely attractive for visitors. APPRODI aims to promote and valorize cultural heritages in ADRION area by enhancing management and promotion of ancient harbors sites as touristic destinations and by improving the involvement of local communities. Five pilot sites will be valorized as new potential destinations linked to such ancient, by applying innovative techniques such as geo-archeological investigations, whose findings will be exposed in Museums exhibitions.
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Researcher: Elisabetta Zendri
Duration: 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2019
Enhancing touristic development through culture: ArTVision+
The tourist promotion is usually directed towards more popular/ bigger destinations, thus the need arises for a quality promotion of less popular destinations, through the prism of culture. With this project, less popular destinations will be included, presenting their cultural heritage to tourists and realise a quality cooperation between artists and organisers of the touristic offer. An IT platform will connect artists and organisers of tourist manifestations to create a quality cooperation, to present the tourist product and will be the base for a promotion campaign.
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Researcher: Fabrizio Panozzo
Duration: 01/01/2018 - 30/06/2019
BIORIMA - BIOmaterial RIsk MAnagement
The project BIORIMA aims to develop an integrated risk management (IRM) framework for nano-biomaterials (NBM) used in Advanced Therapeutic Medicinal Products (ATMP) and Medical Devices (MD). The BIORIMA RM framework is a structure upon which the validated tools and methods for materials, exposure,hazard and risk identification/assessment and management are allocated plus a rationale for selecting and using them to manage and reduce the risk for specific NBM used in ATMP and MD. BIORIMA will deliver a web-based Decision Support System to help users, especially SME, evaluate the risk/benefit profile of their NBM products and help to shorten the time to market for NBM products.
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Researcher: Antonio Marcomini
Duration: 01/11/2017 - 31/10/2021
Funding: Horizon 2020 Industrial Leadership - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Advanced materials
REDUNE - Restoration of dune habitats in Natura 2000 sites of the Veneto coast
Despite their valuable attributes for both human society and nature, dune ecosystems share a history of exploitation and mismanagement. Environmental problems associated with coastal misuse include loss of natural habitats and loss of the natural pattern of landscape, alien species spread, threats to native species, and decreased resilience of plant communities. Tourism is nowadays considered one of the principal cause of degradation, in particular intense tourism pressure coupled with a general lack of ecological consciousness of the value of these ecosystems may compromise not only the natural value and the ecological functionality of these systems, but also the quality of the recreational experience itself, raising the issues of environmental management and sustainable use. In light of this, the general purpose of this project is to re-establish and maintain over time the ecological integrity of habitats 2IIO|2L2O, 2130*, 2250* e 227 0+ and of Stipa veneta* populations, as a means to guarantee the ecological functioning of the entire coastal dune mosaic, in 4 Natura 2000 sites of the North Adriatic coastline, making use of an ecosystem approach that considers all ecosystem components (e.9. human activities, habitats and species, and physical processes) and applies well developed methods.
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Researcher: Gabriella Buffa
Duration: 01/09/2017 - 31/03/2022
SIGN-HUb: Preserving European Deaf Signing Communities
The project SIGN‐HUB ‐ Preserving, Researching and Fostering the Linguistic, Historical and Cultural Heritage of European Deaf Signing Communities with an Integral Resource ‐ aims to provide the first comprehensive response to the societal and scientific challenge resulting from generalized neglect of the cultural and linguistic identity of signing Deaf communities in Europe.
This Horizon 2020 project will provide an innovative and inclusive resource hub for the linguistic, historical and cultural documentation of the Deaf communities' heritage and for sign language assessment in clinical intervention and school settings.
To this end, it will create an open state‐of‐the‐art digital platform with customized accessible interfaces.
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Researcher: Chiara Branchini
Duration: 01/04/2016 - 30/04/2020
Funding: Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges - Europe In A Changing World
Green Organic Agents for Sustainable Tanneries
Leather manufacturing is classified as water, energy and waste intensive and, according to European Directive 96/61EC, is considered to be an activity demanding for integrated prevention and control of pollution. Tannery effluents, if not properly treated, cause significant damage to soil and water bodies. Environmental concern clearly emerges from the European IPPC Bureau report 2013: at present over 85w% of the world leather production is chrome tanned and only 20-25w% of raw bovine hides processed are transformed in final leather goods. The current use of chrome poses serious environmental and health problems due to the formation of carcinogenic Cr (VI) in finished articles, prompting users to find innovative solutions. According to the EU directives, sustainable industrial processes and waste management are fundamental for ensuring a low level of risk and high environmental protection. LIFE GOAST project, with a LCA-LCC “cradle to grave approach”, will aim at demonstrating sustainability of the overall production chain from manufacturing of leather articles to treatment of solid and liquid wastes: the implementation of LIFE GOAST technology on a semi industrial scale will be demonstrated to be more environmental friendly than Traditional Chrome Tanning Process (TCTP). The ultimate aim is to obtain comparable/better quality leather product with lower environmental impact and costs, no concern substances disposal rather than TCTP.
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Researcher: Michela Signoretto
Duration: 01/07/2017 - 30/06/2020