The project investigates the performativity of space considering it a condition in building inclusive multicultural societies, becausespace is a very relevant medium in the building of social equity and sustainability. Instead of dealing with museums, libraries orpiazzas, the focus is on specific places not yet taken into account in their relevance for the question, i.e. cemeteries. The sacred anddeath are archetypal themes of space; around them the very meaning of the process of human civilisation revolves and the originalmeaning of architecture with it.Contemporary societies remove the theme of death, due to their “overriding interest in self-preservation and domination” (Scherer).Even though the images of wars and pandemic seem to urge society to take it seriously, the “homo technologicus” model removeseverything it cannot control (and death is one of them). The project considers that new reflections on finitude and placeness ofhuman beings can open new ways for living together. The project takes an interdisciplinary point of view, but by working in aphilosophical horizon. Philosophy considered death most of all from a temporal perspectives, therefore cemeteries were neglected.Ministero dell'Università e della RicercaMUR - BANDO 2022However, the project highlights that a spatial consideration effects the temporal one (Foucault, Baudrillard-De Certeau et.al.) andcontributes to thinking about death in a concrete rather than abstract way. Because also “time can be read in space” (Schlögel),architecture is very relevant for the project, even if in the twentieth century it underwent a big change, suffering consideration onlybecause of its usefulness and strength. A re-designed architectural point of view allows the project to interweave aesthetic, culturaland practical considerations.Moreover, the project questions any reduction (for example of the city of dead to the city of living, of use value to exchangevalue…). Instead of a reduction paradigm it proposes a co-presence paradigm, and points to cemeteries as complex co-presence ofdead and living, different cultural and religious traditions, representations and worships. Thus it shows a way to rethink the veryform of public space, freeing it from the univocity of the “homo technologicus” and opening it up to the anthropological complexityof the human existence. Cemeteries concern all human beings but differently, they are very paradoxical places – between life anddeath, private and public, differences and things in common, natural and cultural, past and future – so they offer a complex point ofview which is very generative for thinking and innovative for social practices.Therefore the project emphasises cemeteries as diaphragms that help to discover conditions of possibility for performing moreinclusive, fair, sustainable societies

The main aim is to create a unified digital corpus (and a searchable online database) of scientific-didactic works, in both the fields of Neo-Latin literature and Italian vernaculars. Three different kinds of textual product will be considered: manuscripts and editions of ancient and medieval Latin or Greek works published during the 15th and 16th Centuries; translations into vernacular of ancient and medieval scientific works, carried out or published in the same period; literary works in verse of scientific-didactic content written in the 15th and 16th Centuries. This line of work is to be entrusted to young researchers specially hired for the project.Together with this aim, we will initiate a methodological reflection, starting from the study of some exemplary texts chosen within three specific literary fields, that is the astronomical, the Georgic and the medical (“Bombyx” by Ludovico Lazzarelli and “Commentationes in centum sententiis Ptolemaei” and the “Meteororum libri” by Giovanni Pontano, the vernacular version of the “Tractatus de spera” by Joannes Sarobosco and the the Filelfo’s translations of De flatibus and of De passionibus by Hippocrates).Working on the critical edition of these works will allow us to discuss and test the methodological instruments normally used for editing these particular kinds of texts. Seminars dedicated to these specific lines of research will be organized by the different research units.In addition, we intend to organize an International Conference, to engender a discussion on the research methodology in this field and on the different forms of reception that these texts received over time by literary and 'scientific' scholarship. The occasion will facilitate the creation of a working group, opened up to scholars from different scientific fields, whose contributions could offer benefit to possible future developments of the project.In fact, the nature of the project is multidisciplinary, considering that it is based on the interplay of different scientific fields: philology and digital humanities, palaeography, and librarianship, history of science and philosophy.

Programma di finanziamento: Interreg Italy-Croatia

Ente finanziatore: The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

Responsabile scientifico: Roberto Perna

Ruolo UniMC: partner

Durata: 30 mesi

Partners: Comune di Macerata (IT) Coordinator, Active Archaeological Park of Sepino Italia (IT), Municipality of Omišalj Hrvatska (HR), Active Kastela City Hrvatska (HR), ETT spa (IT), Juraj Dobrila University of Pula (HR), Forum of the Adriatic and Ionian Chambers of Commerce (IT).

Croatia and Italy are rich of archaeological sites of priceless historical and cultural value, sometimes located near seaside destinations, more often in inland areas. In both countries, this heritage shares an extraordinary potential to generate significant tourism flows, nevertheless exploited in a very limited way. Indeed, current ways of preservation and valorisation still rely on elitist practices, able to attract essentially archaeology lovers and school classes, thus excluding many categories of potential visitors. ARCHAEODIGIT will respond to the need of modernising current management practices, by producing an innovative and effective Methodology of preservation, interpretation and valorisation of archaeological areas. The Methodology envisages an integrated strategy – involving all stakeholders from the territorial tourism ecosystem - to attract new visitors: online promotion of off-season itineraries with on-site interactive exhibits and applications; use of appealing interactive and immersive technologies (e.g Metaverse, AR); creation of digital cultural path combining archaeological goods with intangible assets and tourist information. The project also foresees activities providing (future) cultural and touristic operators with the advanced skills needed to effectively use the Methodology and the other main project outputs (digital Platform and Joint Strategy). The adoption of the new Methodology will lead to the growth of visitors to archaeological areas, fostering cross-border archaeological itineraries, thus contributing to: 1) enhance the competitiveness and resilience of the tourism sector; 2) sustain its recovery from the Pandemic; 3) mitigate the high seasonality pressure characterizing the coastal tourist areas, diverting tourism flows to neighbouring inland areas and promoting off-season itineraries. Cross-border collaboration and co-creation approach ensures immediate applicability and replicability of outputs in other territories.

Programma di finanziamento: ERASMUS+ KA220-HED 2023

Ente finanziatore: Commissione Europea

Responsabile scientifico: Giulia Baratta

Ruolo UniMC: partner

Durata: 24 mesi

This proposal aims at the development of the educational platform ArchaeoPills, which will allow university lecturers to carry out actions aimed at explaining practical content for subjects with archaeological contents in the fields of Art and Humanities in the EHEA. These subjects are very difficult to explain in the classroom without the help of external support. With the platform we aim at developing, we will be able to display explanatory videos of approximately 10 minutes' on different archaeological topics (archaeological method, types of archaeological sites, research techniques, recording techniques, laboratory practices, land management techniques, conservation and restoration procedures, analysis of archaeological material, etc.) and with the help of virtual reconstructions (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR). Its approach as a classroom project constitutes a transversal educational activity between technological sciences and historical sciences.

Digital reconstructions and recreations of archaeological sites and their use in fixed and/or mobile devices have become consolidated as heritage interpretation tools for didactic use. Therefore, this is not a new topic; the innovation of our proposal is to present a new mode of virtual learning based on practical tasks for archaeological content integrated in Higher Education. The learning tool will be realized with an LMS platform. With external support for technical issues, archaeological documentation and creation of materials, high quality results can be achieved. Unlike traditional platforms, which are limited to a content repository, our proposal is conceived as a tool for collaborative work and active participation. This means that the environment to be developed will present new elements and functionalities.

This project unveils a key issue in the teaching-learning process: the creation of technology-based education programmes. Learning is more effective if it is integrated in active methodology projects. With the design of this platform, we will cover the objective of promoting networking and alliances between EHEA education centres. It is a tool designed to be freely accessible and free of charge, which will allow interactive consultation of didactic content and the establishment of online debates and forums between members of the EHEA academic community. We will also cover the objective of improving the digital competence of teachers and creating materials for emerging activities enriched with ICT, which can be shared openly, and will allow an active role of students.

Ente finanziatore: MUR

Responsabile scientifico: Roberto Lambertini

Ruolo UniMC: coordinatore

Durata: 12 mesi

The main objective of the project is to investigate truce, understood as suspension of violence, whose actors are aware of its limitation in time. In the Latin of medieval sources, such a suspension is very frequently called “treuga”, although other expressions designate it too. Truce is not war, but not peace either. It is a temporary settlement allowing to stop violence for a while, eventhough the causes of conflict are not overcome yet. Truce has an open-ended character: it may be the favourable moment to find the paths to peace, or a pause that precedes the resumption of hostilities. At the same time however, it fulfills at function of its own limiting - at least for a while - the human and environmental damages caused by warfare. Historians of the Middle Ages are familiar with the phenomenon of the “treuga Dei”. This project wants to begin its research in the time following the heyday of truce of God and aims to give a first answer to the question: «How did the languages, actors and practices of the truce change after the season of God's “treugae”?». To achieve this objective, the project will perform the following tasks: 1) analysizing doctrinal and normative texts concerning truce and investigating in particular the relationship between truce and crusade. In medieval sources, the term “treuga” is used both in reference to the suspension of armed confrontation between 'regular' armies and to the interruption of conflicts between urban factions. In addition to 1), the project plans, therefore, to work on two “case-studies” which together cover both wider meanings of “treuga”; 2) investigating language, actors, and the wider social and economic context of the truces which punctuated the Sicilian VespersWar; 3) examining truces between conflicting urban factions, especially in connection to the preaching activity of Franciscan Observants in the Quattrocento (focusing one area corresponding to nowadays Marche and Umbria) Each research unit will focus on one task while pursuing the common goal. The units will collaborate in each stage of the project, meeting on a monthly basis, sharing results. Dissemination activities will include: a) journal articles, a volume and a collection of relevant sources in translation published open access; b) interaction with secondary schools; c) sustainable knowledge site open to contributions of other researchers. The project counters the widespread prejudice of the Middle Ages as a period of unrestrained violence. On the contrary, at the beginning of the Europe making process, the last centuries of the Middle Ages did develop practices, such as truces, moderating violence and reducing its damages. This project can therefore claim to be of immediate relevance to our times, where capacity of defining spaces and times free from violence, in which negotiations can have better chances of positive results, seems to be drastically weakened.

Ente finanziatore: MUR

Responsabile scientifico: Angela Bianchi

Ruolo UniMC: partner

Durata: 24 mesi

The framework of our research conceives grammar as a meeting point for knowledge and reflection on language, as a training ground for measuring metalinguistic awareness to increase the dimension of 'national language' as language of use and linguistic system. The period of study will be mainly the 16th and 17th centuries, starting from some premises rooted in grammars of the 15th century. We trace three main lines of research: 1) the elaboration of a specific metalanguage in grammars elaborated in ameta linguistic database, 2) theories and elaboration of syntactic concepts as a hidden inheritance of the medieval Modistae and grammarians, 3) their intertwining with rhetoric, pursuing the codification of the syntax of subordination from Thomas of Erfurt until the end of the 17th century. This connects the research with that of the PRIN 2001 on the development of grammatical concepts in Europe and the origin of the definition of subordination, continued in the research started in PRIN 2017. The Verona unit deepens the studies of grammar and history of syntactic concepts in the Renaissance and 17th-century grammars, completing the investigation path on the origin and development of syntactic theories. In particular, the unit will deal with subordination, including the role of punctuation on syntax, as well as the study of the functions of conjunctions, participles and embedding structures, and of metalinguistic aspects. Furthermore, the study of rhetorical treatises is foreseen, which include theoretical parts on the structure and definition of sentences, dependent and coordinated. The Macerata unit mainly deals with thePort-Royal School, in continuity with the previous speculative reflection and with Modism, based on results and topics of the research carried out in Prin 2017 project, by continuing the studies on rhetoric that are intertwined with the research of the unit of Verona. Inline with the contrastive studies between the Latin model and the Eurocentric grammar and its terminology -started in PRIN 2017-the Palermo unit deals with the study of national and extra-national grammars, in particular those of both educational and descriptive nature (for national and classical languages) written in the context of Jesuit proselytizing activities, as well as the more theoretical ones, which accompany the formation of the concept and linguistic (national) awareness that the Jesuits certainly supported. The research unit will focus on the systems applied to the description of the grammars of European languages, in both Romance (Spanish) and Germanic area (Middle English), and of the first grammars of non-European languages, such as Quechua andAymara. This line intertwines with the aspects studied by the other units, with the metalinguistic and theoretical innovations and peculiarities and in general with the grammars of other traditions and their influence on European ones, to compose the building blocks of the concept of linguistic awareness.

Ente finanziatore: MUR

Responsabile scientifico: Laura Melosi

Ruolo UniMC: coordinatore

Durata: 24 mesi

As part of the innovation process that affects cultural heritage in relation to the increasingly advanced development of digital technologies, these resources are also being used in the field of literary studies to improve not only conservation but above all the research potential and the possibility of disseminating knowledge. As in many international contexts, also in Italy - but on the strength of our specific philological tradition - "author portals" have been identified as a very effective tool for proposing a “dynamic” organization of data and for gathering the mass of information in a unified access point. There are several recent examples of such applications, often realized thanks to PRIN funding, such as the portal dedicated to Manzoni (www.alessandromanzoni.org), or those being published dedicated to Petrarca (http://petrarca-fe.netseven.it) and Tasso (www.torquatotasso.org): they constitute a whole, whose coordination and development is planned within specific PNRR lines of action. For Leopardi, in 2017 at the request of the National Centre of Leopardian Studies (Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani CNSL) in Recanati, the Biblioteca Digitale Leopardiana (Leopardi’s Digital Library) initiative was prearranged and undertaken. The National Library of Naples and the Giacomo Leopardi Chair of the University of Macerata, together with the ICCU, collaborated to have a single and integrated access point to the different data related to Giacomo Leopardi’s works and their dissemination (biography, works, manuscripts, editions, library, bibliography, iconography).

The project is intended to be the first nucleus of the Biblioteca Digitale Leopardiana, calibrated within the limits set for the PRIN 2022; however, within these limits, we can create a complete whole that would be integrated into a broader structure. The focus is on a specific type of document: the letters, outgoing and incoming, that make up the correspondence of Leopardi, only partially cataloged and digitized in the initial phase of the Biblioteca Digitale Leopardiana. The intention is now to acquire the entire corpus of letters following the Epistulae standard, an elaborate structure already welltested by the University of Lausanne, made available to the project, that will be adapted to Leopardian specific needs. In this way, not only the catalog of Leopardi’s corpus of letters will be completed for the first time, but the information available to date will been riched and systematized. Starting from the censuses collected in Manus OnLine, we will integrate what has not been considered, giving priority to the letters of Leopardi’s correspondents, which constitute a large and essential part of the research. The digital reproduction of all the manuscripts will form the basis for a new digital scientific edition of Leopardi's letters.

Ente finanziatore: MUR

Responsabile scientifico: Federico Paolini

Ruolo UniMC: partner

Durata: 24 mesi

In the last decade, "overtourism", identified as an unbearable massification of tourism concentrated on some "hotspots", has emerged as urgent in the debate on tourist policies. Earliest studies suggested that this idea resulted from the perception of the inhabitants rather than from empirical analyses. However, more refined quantitative indicators and statistical arguments have grown later in support of an overflow of tourists in some specific destinations.What made this evolution of tourism, and its side effects, happen in some places rather than in others? Previous research has questioned the role of destination policies aimed at capturing the interest of the global tourist industry, but a detailed analysis is still missing on which specific strategies created the conditions for overtourism in some destinations and for abandonment in others. A retrospective study of political and technical discussions on tourism is essential to understand which interpretive frames underpinned the choice of specific measures and actions. This project identifies three different case studies to be compared as representative of extreme conditions of tourism, in the context of the evolution of the national tourist policies. Venice is the most renown city suffering from tourism overflow and monoculture. Its history as a tourist destination marks a turn in 1980 with the sudden and sustained expansion of Winter tourism. The in-depthstudy of the public debate in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s focuses on the role of the seasonal volatility of arrivals and the distinction between "proper" tourists and excursionists in framing destination policies. The case of the Cinque Terre concerns a coastal cluster of five villages located along the East coast ofLiguria, which has become one of the most popular Italian tourist destinations worldwide. However, due to the rapid growth of tourism flows, concentrated in a limited and fragile territory, this destination has reached a saturation level, with a relevant problem of overtourism. The research will focus on exploring the destination policies that transformed the villages into successful tourist attractions and led them to  over exploitation. The new National Parks established during the 1990s contrast with the previous destinations because of the opposite effect of cultural and "green" tourist policies, which did not attain the expected economic results, starting a depopulation trend. The research aims to verify whether the Park of the Foreste Casentinesi and the historic villages that persist in the area are 'victims' of the narratives of mass tourism: the area, in fact, intercepts a deadly fraction of the flows attracted by Florence (56 km away) and Siena (98 km) and ongoing policies seem unable to change the situation. The result of the historical analyses will be useful to assess the appropriateness of present-day interpretive models of tourism and their time- and place-related limiting scope conditions.

Ente finanziatore: MUR

Responsabile scientifico: Roberto Perna

Ruolo UniMC: coordinatore

Durata: 24 mesi

Gortyna, on Crete, is one of the main historical settings of Italian archeology in the Mediterranean. After nearly 150 years of excavations and research, conducted by dozens of the most distinguished Italian archaeologists, Gortyna is today one of the most extensively investigated ancient, late-antique and early-Byzantine cities in the entire Mediterranean world. Nevertheless, an effective global knowledge of such an extraordinary site is still far away: in fact, we do not yet have sufficiently detailed knowledge of the environmental context and the urban fabric of the ancient city; the information derived from previous research is dispersed within a vast and often difficult to find bibliography; a great deal of data is still "buried" in the unpublished archives of the Italian Archaeological School of Athens. To overcome this problem, within the research program on the Gortyna site, coordinated by the Italian Archaeological School ofAthens, the proponents of this project have started - thanks to two PhD projects currently in progress - a study of feasibility and a first operational experimentation for the realization of an archaeological Geographic Information System for the ancient city. Having successfully completed the experimental phase, this project focuses on the concrete implementation of the system, with the systematic insertion of information already available in literature and in the archives, and on its development in three directions:

Ente finanziatore: MUR

Responsabile scientifico: Francesca Raffi

Ruolo UniMC: partner

Durata: 24 mesi

The aim of UNITE is to explore the applications of Dialogue Systems (DS) as AI-powered agents to practice English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The objective is to produce evidence-based teaching and learning materials which might favour the uptake of DS in Italian university courses and, in general, as tools for autonomous learning by university students, including those with disability and specific learning disorders ("studenti con disabilità e DSA", as coded in the Italian university system) (ANVUR and CNUDD 2020). Thanks to recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), DS have improved considerably in terms of their ability to engage in plausible interactions in the written and/or spoken channel, and research hasshown their effectiveness in EFL contexts as a way to let students practice English outside the classroom, making them feel less anxious about their linguistic abilities, especially at lower levels of proficiency. Yet, evidence is still scarce as to the ability of DS to respond adequately to users interacting with them in English as a foreign language, their effective integration in formal education courses,as well as the degree to which they are designed to ensure that learners can access and participate in meaningful learning opportunities (CAST 2018). In view of the vital role played by technology in English language education, especially in the aftermath of COVID-19, there is an urgent need to mitigate the negative effects of remote learning on studentswith special needs, as UNESCO and GLAD Network (2020) denounced. Although the topic of university inclusion is today at the centre of national and international debates, most online educational appsare not designed to be inclusive to the greatest extent possible. In addition, no study has been carried out so far on the normative discourses activated by AI-powered DS as mediators of realities inhuman-machine interactions, unveiling potential biases which affect the interaction between DS and their users. The specific objectives of UNITE over the two years of project duration include: 1) providing an overview of available DS which could be integrated in EFL courses, considering features related to engagement, representation, and actions/expression (CAST 2018); 2) assembling empirical evidence of how Italian university students interact with DS, including an investigation of their level of perceived usefulness/satisfaction; 3) creating corpora/datasets of DS-learners written interactions; 4) analysing (4a) normative discourses in the interactions between DS and users which may generate asymmetries of opportunities and social exclusion, and (4b) errors in learners’ production which might lead to failure of the interactions, and which might point to the need for further linguistic reinforcement on the part of lecturers; 5) guidelines and teaching materials for the successful integration of DS in English language courses and for autonomous learning.

Ente finanziatore: MUR

Responsabile scientifico: Antonella Nardi

Ruolo UniMC: partner

Durata: 24 mesi

The project consists of three actions balanced with each other and combines objectives of theoretical research on the acquisition process with concrete operational applications for the practice of teaching/learning German. Starting from an objective survey through the collection of data on the number of learners and teachers of German language in Italy, on the average skills generally obtained and on the demands of language skills in German for the labor market, the project then branches out into two tracks of qualitative research that question, respectively, i. the factors that create difficulties in achieving the minimum level of language survival (Level B1 according to the CEFR) and ii. the overcoming oft his level to ensure high skills, beyond B1 (B2, C1, C2). While quantitative research is based on the collection of data transmitted by the specific institutions, which have here the function of informants, qualitative research is oriented towards two objectives of theoretical research, which however have a strong applicative value. In these two qualitative actions, the researchers ask themselves the following research questions, each corresponding to a phase: does the didactics of German oriented towards the attainment of B1 take into account, in the teaching manuals used, the phases of acquisition hypothesized by the acquisitional research, in particular of the German language? What are the difficulties of the transition from average competence (B1) to high competence, of excellence? While the answer to the first question will serve to improve the offer of teaching manuals, making the more consistent with the results of research and therefore making B1 more accessible and secure for learners of German, the answer to the second question will allow us to focus on the elements that can improve the development of skills of excellence, necessary for personnel employed in professional fields of good level. The expected products of the project are, in addition to the research answers to the questions posed, two: the creation of a database of Italian German in high schools and universities(resulting from the first action); a platform on which to upload materials, teaching paths and proposals for the transition from B1 to B2-C1 in different areas of professional German (economic, academic, commercial, medical, tourist and scientific).

Ente finanziatore: MUR

Responsabile scientifico: Michele Paolini Paoletti

Ruolo UniMC: partner

Durata: 24 mesi

Literary texts are a fundamental component of cultural heritage. However, literary studies and criticism tend to be highly fragmented. For instance, the different approaches to criticism, each one embodying its own epistemological culture, only seldom interact to compare results or elaborate common methodologies. In addition, even when literature is approached by scholars from other fields, a prominent case being that of philosophers, there is scarce interaction between disciplines. This lack of cross-fertilization has a negative impact for both research and education, for even when similar challenges are identified, each community tackles them from what are perceived as contrasting and non-overlapping approaches. The core aim of this project is to propose a modeling framework allowing agents involved in interpretation practices to document their interpretations by getting profit from the methods for ontological analysis and formal modeling which are common in analytic philosophy and applied ontology. By putting literary scholars, critics, and students at the heart of the framework, the project aims at valorizing their practices by providing them with tool boxes supporting the documentation and comparison of interpretations, as well as by making explicit meta-information of interpretations like their sources, methods, promoted literary and cultural values, etc. To better frame the research scope, the project takes the study of (interpretations of) fictional entities (ficta), i.e. the fictional characters populating the worlds of literary texts, as a promising starting point. The choice of focusing on ficta depends on that, first, they are predominant within literary texts. Second, ficta are at the core of multiple studies, hence their analysis is fruitful for an interdisciplinary investigation. Third, ficta occupy a central role in almost every interpretation practice, from the most intuitive to the most complex and cultivated interpretations. In current research, ficta are often characterized with respect to either their authors' intentions or metaphysical positions of different sorts. Our goal is to conceptualize them with respect to interpreters in the criticaldiscourse. This will be done by means of case studies from Medieval Italian literature focused on the interpretations of some of the most stimulating female characters in Dante and Boccaccio. Our project is innovative in three main respects: first, for its theoretical and methodological aspiration to overcome certain epistemological barriers between analytical philosophy, hermeneutics, and critical discourse; second, because it proposes an ontological theory of ficta grounded on critical interpretation practices; third, because it sets up a modeling framework that can serve as the ground for a computer application (to be implemented in future developments of the project) to document and compare texts' interpretations by taking into account different critical approaches.

Ente finanziatore: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri - Dipartimento per le Politiche Antidroga

Responsabile scientifico: Paola Nicolini

Ruolo UniMC: partner

Durata: 12 mesi

#LIFEADDICTED vs #Drugaddicted. Non è un gioco di parole ma nasconde dietro una filosofia che punta sulla prevenzione e sull’informazione come strumenti fondamentali per contrastare l’incidentalità stradale connessa all’uso di droghe e alcol. Il progetto si snoda su azioni tra loro correlate che metteranno in campo tutti gli attori della prevenzione: operatori comunali, delle scuole ed università cittadine, operatori socio-sanitari così come il mondo del terzo settore. Una task force di soggetti che debitamente formata andrà in strada, con i ragazzi e si confronterà con loro con un approccio di ascolto. Ci saremo anche noi, con voi, per aiutarvi ad evitare incidenti e per farvi riflettere sui danni dello “sballo”. Il progetto punterà infatti ad aumentare il numero di Lifeaddicted contrastando con forza tra i giovani l’idea che senza le sostanze non ci sia divertimento. In particolare il progetto punta a: 1) Sviluppare un sistema condiviso di intervento sull’incidentalità basato sul potenziamento delle competenze e del controllo su strada. Fondamentale per incidere sul territorio è valorizzare quello che già c’è, promuovere le buone prassi e sperimentare nuovi approcci. Il tavolo di lavoro multi stakeholders sarà la regia di un nuovo approccio alla prevenzione dell’incidentalità:tutti gli attori del territorio avranno modo di confrontarsi, di condividere, di trovare soluzioni al fine di arrivare a linee guida condivise per il monitoraggio dell’incidentalità. Il personale dei vari enti sarà formato su un approccio di strada, basato sulla prevenzione e sull’informazione. La formazione estesa al personale degli altri 8 comuni dell’ATS 15 sarà occasione per moltiplicare le competenze e creare nuove sinergie tra territori limitrofi. Il potenziamento delle attività di controllo nel Comune di Macerata, unito al supporto dei presidi mobili del terzo settore, sarà occasione per sperimentare un approccio misto prevenzione-controllo su strada. #LIFEADDICTED punta poi a 2) favorire l'individuazione di strategie comunicative finalizzate alla prevenzione e all'aumento della consapevolezza prima di mettersi alla guida. Never drive when you are high. Come intervenire prima che si mettano alla guida? L’uso di sostanze, lo sballo, iniziano sempre prima, si segnala che già alla scuole medie i ragazzi hanno il primo incontro con le sostanze. La somministrazione di alcol ai minori purtroppo è sempre più diffusa. La movida non è solo legata agli universitari, ma in orari e forme diverse interessa anche molti ragazzi della fascia 14-18 che escono, magari con il motorino, e fanno“serata”. Il progetto quindi sviluppa due filoni, quello informativo/formativo che vede il coinvolgimento delle agenzie educative (scuola ed università) dove saranno promossi seminari ed incontri con testimonial per promuovere messaggi e valori sui comportamenti responsabili e quello preventivo di strada, dove operatori qualificati presidieranno il territorio con controlli (es test rapidi)affiancati da volontari del terzo settore. Filo conduttore sarà una campagna mediatica che interesserà i principali Social Media.

Programma di finanziamento

Ente finanziatore: Commissione Europea

Responsabile scientifico: Tommaso De Robertis

Supervisore: Guido Maria Giglioni

Ruolo UniMC: Host institution

Durata: 36 mesi

JOPHIL will provide the first systematic study into the origins of our modern conceptions of space and void. As people living in the21st century, we give for granted that objects are tridimensional and that void space exists in nature (or it can be produced artificially).Yet, this was not always the case. Aristotle, the great ancient thinker whose worldview remained dominant in Europe well into the 17th century, thought otherwise. He understood objects as having two dimensions only, and he resolutely rejected the idea that void space could possibly exist. The first thinker to take exception to Aristotle’s views was John Philoponus, a 6th-century Egyptian scholar writing in Greek. Unknown in the Middle Ages, Philoponus’ works were rediscovered and translated only in 15th-century Italy. Once available, they had a seismic impact on Renaissance natural philosophy and science: they provided Renaissance scholars with the tools to rethink crucial aspects of the physics of the time, and they laid the foundations of the ‘new science’ which would emerge in the 17th century.Challenging the dominant Eurocentric narratives about the origins of the Scientific Revolution, JOPHIL will map for the first time the rediscovery and progressive assimilation of Philoponus’ innovative ideas of space and void into 16th-century Europe. It will do so by examining the material recovery of Philoponus’ texts in Renaissance Italy and by exploring their impact on five European thinkers who between 1520 and 1604, read and discussed Philoponus’ works. JOPHIL contributes to re-orient the origins of modern science in two  different ways. First, it re-evaluates the role played by non-European thinkers in the shaping of European science, thus fostering a new idea of Europe as the historical product of a variety of different cultures and traditions. Second, it broadens the canon of the protagonists of modern science, thus contributing to more inclusive research and educational practices in the future.

Ente finanziatore: Commissione Europea

Responsabile scientifico: Edith Cognigni

Ruolo UniMC: partner

Durata: 24 mesi

This project aims at improving efficacy in language and literacy tuition of LESLLA learners. LESLLA is an acronym for Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults, and it refers to the second language and literacy learning of adult migrants who have had, previous to migration, no or very limited access to education. Education is a human right (UNESCO, 2013), and for LESLLA learners, this right has been violated. We feel that as members of high income countries and as educational practitioners and researchers, it is our responsibility to contribute to the question how to serve this group of learners in the best possible way. We believe that these learners bring their own funds of knowledge to the classroom and we need to take their contributions into account. We believe that it is important to support this groups in improving their language and literacy skills, as these skills are related to participation in social life and on the labor market, as well as to health and wellbeing.