Research:

PROMOTE – Promoting and Validating Key Competences in Mobility and Traineeships in Europe

PROMOTE aims at setting up holistic, needs driven and competence oriented open learning environments to promote and validate key competences at the interface of academic education and learning in practice business contexts. The project will focus on the following key competences (KC) relevant in students’ mobility and traineeships and continuous professional development (CPD) of employees in parallel:

• KC6: social and civic competences
• KC7: sense of initiative and entrepreneurship and
• KC5: learning to learn

Reference frameworks are inexistent when it comes to validate mayor key competences, even though they are essential for our societies. PROMOTE aims at closing this gap by using one of the most effective ways of learning – learning in mobility – and validate the learning outcomes in regard to those key competences.

Project Leader: Prof. Andrea de Guttry

Research Team: Enrica Pautasso, Daniela La Mattina

Website: http://promote-eu.org

Funding Institution: European Commission, Erasmus+ Programme

Timeframe: 12/2014-11/2016

CBRN – INTEGRATED RESPONSE ITALY: STRENGTHENING CBRN-RESPONSE IN EUROPE BY ENHANCING ON-SITE COOPERATION BETWEEN SAFETY AND SECURITY ORGANISATIONS: AN ITALIAN PILOT.

The project is a starter measure as it aims at building and testing an integrated CBRN response capability of first responders and law enforcement agencies in Italy, with a view to transfer the approach to other member States in a transnational project, envisaged for 2013 with Estonia, France, Netherlands and Finland.

At the same time it is also a complementary measure as it aims to integrate the lessons learned from the EU CREMEX 2011CBRN exercise, organized by Estonia, with Italian practice.

Project Leader: Prof. Andrea de Guttry

Project Manager: Enrica Pautasso

Output: (a) mapping of differences in CBRN practices of law enforcement agencies and first responders (b) organisation of two table top exercises to exchange practices and identify critical points (c) gap analysis (d) development of CBRN response guidelines to be integrated into existing HSN Guidelines (e) delivery of an outline of training curricula on ‘CBRN security incidents’ for Italian law enforcement agencies and first responders.

Timeframe: 2013 – 2015

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Conferences:

SSSUP-CUPL INTERNATIONAL LAW CONFERENCE

Addressing recent challenges in Public International Law: Responses from Italy and China

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, 4-5 July 2016

The DIRPOLIS Institute, with the support of the Confucius Institute of Pisa, is organizing a joint conference with the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) to take place on 4-5 July 2016 with the title “Addressing recent challenges in Public International Law: Responses from Italy and China”. The event focuses on international law issues that are of concern for both Italy and China with the aim of exploring the avenues followed by the two countries to face current challenges. Thematic panels are dedicated to the following issues: immigration policies and human rights; the legal and institutional frameworks governing cybersecurity; disaster prevention and response; international conflict resolution mechanisms and the Law of the Sea. The contribution of distinguished scholars from China and Italy will help clarify how the approaches of the two countries differ and how they are influenced and shaped by local values, cultural specificities and legal traditions.

FIRST MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON SOCIAL CONTRADICTIONS AND RESPONSE

“Social conflict resolution and prevention: comparing experiences from different countries”

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, 27 May 2016

The first meeting of the International Forum on Social Contradictions and Response is taking place at the premises of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna on May 27, 2016. Founded by the Beijing Institute of Letters to Government, the Forum includes as members the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (DIRPOLIS Institute), the University of Vienna, the Nanyang Technological University and the Deakin University and provides a global platform for academic exchanges on social conflicts in societies ruled by law, social contradictions and responses thereto among university and research institutes from PR China, Italy, Austria, Singapore and Australia. The Forum’s overall objective is to promote comparative analyses of how countries of differing cultural, historical and political backgrounds tackle the issue of social conflict resolution in their legal-institutional systems, with a view to highlighting strengths and weaknesses of different systems and drawing lessons from each national experience. Participants will include members from each partner institution, and attendance of the seminar will be open to students (post-graduate and Ph.D) and researchers who have an interest in the topic of the meeting.