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This document constitutes the Policy Paper of the Precoll project-Policies for Regional Cooperation in Lifelong Learning, led by the Università degli Studi di Firenze-Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione e dei Processi Culturali e Formativi/University of Florence-Department of Educational Sciences and Cultural and Training Processes (Agreement nr 2008-11294), in partnership with Generalitat de Catalunya, Junta de Andalucía, Regione Toscana, Welsh Assembly Government, Jämtland County Council, NIACE Dysgu Cymru-National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, Provincia di Livorno Sviluppo Srl, subcontractor Melius Srl (www.mutual-learning.eu). This document has been endorsed by the Earlall General Assembly held in Brussels on 16th February 2010. Moreover Cedefop has been supporting the quality of the work thanks to the regular advice and suggestions delivered by Steven Bainbridge

Proceedings, Rome, 2004

Il mio progetto di ricerca vuole mettere in luce il mondo delle web tv e radio universitarie: mondo tanto affascinante quanto sconosciuto. Ogni web tv/radio universitaria è un universo a sé con caratteristiche specifiche e con esigenze particolari da soddisfare ma tutte rappresentano un esempio di passione, dedizione e creatività, di innovazione ed entusiasmante novità. L'ipotesi del mio lavoro di ricerca si basa sul concetto di media universitario inteso come strumento di comunicazione pubblico-istituzionale: partendo da questa supposizione si vuole studiare il fenomeno cercando di individuare delle tipologie di web tv/radio riconducibili al contesto della comunità universitaria. Un primo obiettivo fondamentale della mia ricerca è stato quello di dissipare la nebbia e la confusione che si manifesta intorno a questa tematica, in secondo luogo quello di far conoscere e apprezzare questi 'nuovi media digitali' e il contesto in cui vengono sviluppati, in un terzo momento capire lo scopo e la mission con cui questi nuovi strumenti prendono vita e come queste realtà risultano importanti per la comunicazione universitaria-istituzionale. Infine cercare di delineare le diverse tipologie di web tv/radio che scaturiscono dall'analisi e dalla ricerca è risultato indispensabile per stabilire l'incidenza che esse hanno nel panorama della comunicazione pubblica e la rilevanza che esse possono assumere sul piano teorico della ricerca sociale. I casi di studio trattati sono stati:  Extracampus tv [la web tv dell'Università di Torino];  LUISS tv [la web tv dell'Università LUISS];  Bocconi tv [la web tv dell'Università Bocconi];  Youcampus [la web tv/radio dell'Università di Pavia];  Radio Sapienza [la web radio dell'Università La Sapienza di Roma];  Radio Bocconi [la web dell'Università Bocconi];  Unis@und [la web radio dell'Università di Fisciano - Salerno];  URCa [la web radio dell'Università di Urbino];  UPV TV [la web tv/radio dell'Università Politecnica di Valencia];  UTV [la web tv dell'Università di Strasburgo];  CU TV [la web tv dell'Università di Cambridge]. La metodologia di ricerca utilizzata è stata quella qualitativa e precisamente l'osservazione partecipante, le interviste ai testimoni privilegiati e i Focus Group con gli studenti. In primo luogo, essendo la tematica tanto innovativa si è manifestata, fin da subito, la necessità di entrare a 'far parte' del contesto sociale in cui il fenomeno prendeva vita; per far ciò sono stata accolta in diverse realtà di web tv e radio in cui ho potuto osservare ma anche partecipare alle attività che giorno per giorno venivano programmate. In secondo luogo risultava indispensabile 'farmi un'idea' dal punto di vista ideativo e organizzativo di cosa fosse una web tv e una web radio universitaria, per questo motivo di grande auto sono state le interviste fatte ai responsabili delle web tv e radio sia per capire l'organizzazione che veniva adottata ma anche per comprendere l'idea di fondo che queste strutture comunicative si sono prefissate fin dalla loro nascita. Il terzo passaggio è stato il poter conoscere il punto di vista dei partecipanti che 'creano' giorno dopo giorno il fenomeno su cui intervenire attraverso format e rubriche; la maggior parte di essi sono gli studenti che con dedizione e passione lavorano incessantemente alla produzione e alla realizzazione di nuovi prodotti sempre più innovativi e competitivi. Per far questo ho utilizzato la tecnica del Focus Group in modo da far venir fuori dalle discussioni il clima collaborativo e la spontaneità indispensabile per la perfetta riuscita di un medium universitario. Dopo aver visitato le realtà considerate e aver raccolto dati e testimonianze, il mio obiettivo scientifico è stato quello di estrapolare e delineare delle tipologie di web tv/radio di riferimento che possano fungere da punto di partenza e da incentivo per ulteriori ricerche nell'ambito dei media universitari. ; The aim of this research is to highlight the fascinating and unknown world of web tv and university radio. Each web tv/university radio represents a microcosm with its own special features, quality and needs but all these realities are an example of passion, dedication, creativity, innovation and exciting news. My research is based on the concept of university media as means of public- institutional communication. Starting from this assumption I have studied this phenomenon trying to identify different types of web tv and university radio traceable back to the context of the university community. The first purpose of this work is to dissipate the confusion surrounding this topic in order to know and appreciate these 'new digital media' and the context in which they developed. The second step of this project wants to explain the purpose, the mission and the big importance of these instruments in the university-institutional communication. The last part of my research aims to introduce different types of web tv/university radio risen from the landscape of public communication and to underline the importance that they can take on a theoretical level of social research. The case studied were:  Extracampus TV (web TV, University of Turin);  Luiss TV (web TV Luiss);  Bocconi TV (web TV Bocconi University);  You Campus (web TV / radio, University of Pavia);  Radio wisdom (web radio, La Sapienza University of Rome);  Radio Bocconi (Bocconi University web radio);  Unis @ und (web radio from the University of Salerno-Fisciano);  Urca (web radio from the University of Urbino);  UPV TV (web TV / radio Polytechnic University of Valencia);  UTV ((web TV of the University of Strasbourg);  CU TV (web TV, University of Cambridge). The methodology used included qualitative approach, namely participant observation, interviews with selected witnesses and focus groups with students. Since from the beginning of my work. It was very important for me to become a 'part' of the social context in which the phenomenon took life; for this reason I was greeted in different web tv and university radio where I could observe and share the daily planned activities. That was essential to 'get an idea' of the conceptual and organizational establishment of this mean and first of all to met the vision and the work of all the people that 'makes real', day after day, this phenomenon. Most of them are students working tirelessly with dedication and passion to the production and development of new products more and more innovative and competitive. In order to reach this end I used the technique of focus groups as for to bring out the discussion on cooperative and natural atmosphere, essential to the success of a university medium. After visiting the realities studied and collecting data and evidence, my scientific goal was to outline the different and most important types of web tv/radio university as a starting point and an incentive for further researches in the field of media education. ; Dottorato di ricerca in Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale (XXIV ciclo)

In the last decades a growing awareness emerged of the relevance of corruption as an hidden factor which may negatively affect political and economic decision-making processes. In spite of a lively scientific debate there is no general consensus on a commonly accepted definition of what corruption is. The A. distinguishes three main paradigms, focusing on different (though not irreconcilable) variables. The first is the economic paradigm, which usually takes the principal-agent model of corruption as its founding pillar. In this paradigm corruption is considered the outcome of rational individual choices, and its spread within a certain organization is influenced by the factors defining the structure of expected costs and rewards. A second approach – the cultural paradigm – looks at the differences in cultural traditions, social norms and interiorized values which shape individuals' moral preferences and consideration of his social and institutional role. These are a leading forces that can push a corrupt public or private agent (not) to violate legal norms. A third neo-institutional approach considers also mechanisms which allow the internal regulation of social interactions within corrupt networks, and their effects on individuals' beliefs and preferences. Though the corrupt agreements cannot be enforced with legal sanctions, several informal, non-written rules, contractual provisos and conventions may regulate the corrupt exchange between agent and corruptor. The A. underlines that corruption is the outcome of a multitude of individual and collective choices which change public opinion towards corruption and its diffusion throughout the state, markets and civil society. There is no univocal recipe to deal with anti-bribery measures, since corruption is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. Reforms aimed at dismantling systemic corruption have to be finely tuned against its hidden governance structures, i.e. its internal regulation of exchanges and relationships. Otherwise, a vicious circle may emerge: the more an anti-corruption policy is needed, because corruption is systemic and enforced by effective third-parties, the less probable its formulation and implementation. Only when official rules are complemented by coherent informal institutions, bottom-up initiatives, they tend to produce the expected outcomes and make anticorruption regulation more effective.

This research examines the current institutional structures of the executive-legislative relationship in the EU from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. That is not just examining how the institutions are linked theoretically or even in the formal structural sense, but also their functional political and policy relationship in terms of what they actually do. The character and performance of the EU executive-legislative relationship is analyzed from a comparative perspective in light of the current reforms introduced both in the Lisbon Treaty and in the academic realm among scholars lobbying for institutional reform. The goal of the research is to achieve not just an empirically founded understanding of the current executive-legislative relationship in the EU, but also to obtain an empirical grounding for the current dialog regarding the need for institutional reform in the EU. The goal of this research is to build a bridge between the two parallel empirical and theoretical literatures regarding EU institutions that currently exist. Adapted from the source document.

The essay inquiries about the notion of law in Montesquieu's work considered in its relationship with the larger theme of regulation. For the full understanding of the notion of law, connected with the other fundamental concepts of Montesquieu's political thought (custom, institution, government), we have to start from the problem of regulation in society, taking in consideration the production process of an order and the experience of violation of the rule. In this way, even before being the expression of a legitimate command, the law shows an originally operational character.