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Today, talking about citizenship education means dealing with examples of multiculturalism and intercultural education. In this regard, the sense of belonging to a community through an effective contribution to its construction is very important. In the pluralist European Union therefore, promoting the civic sense of belonging to the social body is possible if we start from an awareness of being an active part of it. Through a targeted training project in schools, it is possible to identify the substantial resources and opportunities that derive from an awareness of being part of the same community body. ; Parlare di educazione alla cittadinanza, oggi, significa confrontarsi con le molteplici istanze della multiculturalità. Di fondamentale importanza, in tal senso, si rivela il senso di appartenenza a una data comunità in base al fattivo contributo alla sua edificazione. Nell'Europa pluralista si tratta, dunque, di promuovere il senso civico di appartenenza al corpo sociale a partire dalla presa di coscienza di esserne parte attiva, mediante una mirata progettualità formativa che sappia individuare i nodi problematici ma anche le straordinarie risorse e opportunità derivanti dalla consapevolezza di essere inseriti nel medesimo corpo comunitario. Una consapevolezza che passa attraverso la scuola e la progettualità formativa ivi realizzata.

European Union recognizes the need of migrants for a dignified life, in which they can exercise the fundamental right to education and work. For this reason, among the pedagogical and didactic tools aimed at reconstructing professional biographies often fragmented and made untraceable by the devastation of wars and famines, the European Union recognizes and promotes, today, the portfolio of skills as a tool for recognizing qualifications. and professional qualifications. In this context, the University of Bari has fielded significant pilot experiences. In this case a research project will be presented, still in progress, in which University of Bari is involved together with the Universities of Akureyri (Iceland), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Patras (Greece). It is called "APELE - Accreditation of Experiential Learning Experiences". Through this Project we intend to answer important research questions including: How do the processes of continuous training change over the time of Mediterranean migrations? How does school and professional training change for migrants who arrive in Italy without the possibility of demonstrating their previous school and work training? How does citizenship education change in a logic of proximity to migrants, with their fundamental rights to education and health? How to train in intercultural dialogue and planetary citizenship in the European Union, involved by an epochal migration of peoples? ; Il presente contributo si propone di tratteggiare, nelle sue linee fondamentali, la valenza pedagogica del Portfolio delle competenze in quanto strumento di promozione della dignità e del benessere individuale e sociale dei migranti in Europa e, nella fattispecie della presente trattazione, in Italia. Sarà presentato, in tale contesto, un Progetto di ricerca, tutt'ora in fase di svolgimento, in cui è coinvolta l'Università di Bari assieme alle Università di Akureyri (Islanda), Copenhagen (Danimarca) e Patrasso (Grecia), dal titolo "APELE – Accreditation of Experiential Learning Experiences". ...

The paper proposes a reflection on the meaning of the construct "organizational well- being", starting from the definitions given by the psychologists of work, indicating the need to contextualize its framing within broader horizons of meaning that make it more widely intelligible social, political and economic determinations, avoiding the reduction and banalization of the phenomenology of subjective experiences of discomfort and malaise in the workplace. The text proposes two frames of reference for this contextualization that concern the role of the economy in its relationship with society (and politics), and their effects on the structure of subjectivity as it has unfolded in recent decades. Finally, some indications are proposed that the organizational actors can adopt to promote actions and relationships based on "taking care of oneself and others" as a key not to succumb to an adaptive-passive representation to generalized malaise; trying to understand the phenomena of the relationship with work in the context of the overall economic-financial dynamics in order to be aware of those spaces of "local" responsibility within which it is still possible to carry out gestures of care that, without changing the world, allow us to reduce unnecessary discomfort. ; Il contributo propone una riflessione sul significato del costrutto "benessere organizzativo", a partire dalle definizioni date dagli psicologi del lavoro, indicando la necessità di contestualizzare il suo inquadramento entro più ampi orizzonti di senso che ne rendano più ampiamente intellegibili le determinazioni sociali, politiche ed economiche, evitando la riduzione e la banalizzazione della fenomenologia dei vissuti soggettivi di disagio e di malessere nei contesti di lavoro. Il testo propone due cornici di riferimento per questa contestualizzazione che riguardano il ruolo dell'economia nel suo rapporto con la società (e la politica), e le ricadute sulla struttura della soggettività così come si è dispiegata negli ultimi decenni. Infine, vengono proposte alcune indicazioni che gli attori organizzativi possono far proprie per promuovere azioni e relazioni improntate al "prendersi cura di sé e degli altri" come chiave per non soccombere a una rappresentazione adattiva-passiva al malessere generalizzato; cercando di comprendere i fenomeni del rapporto col lavoro nel contesto delle dinamiche economico-finanziarie complessive per avere consapevolezza di quegli spazi di responsabilità "locali" entro i quali sono ancora possibili gesti di cura che, senza cambiare il mondo, consentono di ridurre il malessere non necessario.

The paper proposes a reflection on the meaning of the construct "organizational well- being", starting from the definitions given by the psychologists of work, indicating the need to contextualize its framing within broader horizons of meaning that make it more widely intelligible social, political and economic determinations, avoiding the reduction and banalization of the phenomenology of subjective experiences of discomfort and malaise in the workplace. The text proposes two frames of reference for this contextualization that concern the role of the economy in its relationship with society (and politics), and their effects on the structure of subjectivity as it has unfolded in recent decades. Finally, some indications are proposed that the organizational actors can adopt to promote actions and relationships based on "taking care of oneself and others" as a key not to succumb to an adaptive-passive representation to generalized malaise; trying to understand the phenomena of the relationship with work in the context of the overall economic-financial dynamics in order to be aware of those spaces of "local" responsibility within which it is still possible to carry out gestures of care that, without changing the world, allow us to reduce unnecessary discomfort.

As part of the strategies to promote health in urban areas, the Italian Society of Hygiene (SItI) has updated its recommendations for "healthy, safe and sustainable housing". They were issued by an ad hoc SitI working group on the basis of the best available evidence retrieved from a review of the scientific and legal literature on the topic and in line with World Health Organisation, European Union, and other international bodies statements. SItI document includes recommendations for environmental comfort, mental and social wellbeing, environmental protection as well as the safety of people who dwell houses. In addition to typical issues (such as relative humidity parameters, ventilation, and safety rules), SItI recommendations address innovative aspects such as building compatibility between different functions, building safety management and green area design. In this context, SItI recommendations emphasise the need of a strengthened interaction between architects and public health experts to ensure the complete wellbeing in houses where people spend more than 50% of their lives.

As part of the strategies to promote health in urban areas, the Italian Society of Hygiene (SItI) has updated its recommendations for healthy, safe and sustainable housing. They were issued by an ad hoc SitI working group on the basis of the best available evidence retrieved from a review of the scientific and legal literature on the topic and in line with World Health Organisation, European Union, and other international bodies statements. SItI document includes recommendations for environmental comfort, mental and social wellbeing, environmental protection as well as the safety of people who dwell houses. In addition to typical issues (such as relative humidity parameters, ventilation, and safety rules), SItI recommendations address innovative aspects such as building compatibility between different functions, building safety management and green area design. In this context, SItI recommendations emphasise the need of a strengthened interaction between architects and public health experts to ensure the complete wellbeing in houses where people spend more than 50% of their lives.

Dottorato di ricerca in Economia e territorio ; La presente ricerca rientra nell'ambito degli studi socioeconomici di carattere territoriale e si pone lo scopo di riuscire a sviluppare una metodologia capace di arricchire la fase di studio e di analisi preliminare alla progettazione degli interventi politici ed economici che mirano al miglioramento del benessere nella popolazione. L'interesse per un simile argomento deriva dalla constatazione che in tempi recenti la parola "benessere" ha assunto un ruolo centrale nel dibattito politico ed economico. Lo schema teorico di riferimento è il modello stock e flussi (SeF), proposto da Mauro Bonaiuti, come rivisitazione del modello fondi e flussi con cui Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen ha riletto la teoria della produzione in chiave bioeconomica. Il modello SeF servendosi della teoria dei sistemi complessi, ha definito in modo più approfondito le caratteristiche dei fondi, rinominati stock, e dei flussi coinvolti nei sistemi di produzione e consumo. L'impostazione peculiare di un'analisi basata sul SeF è quella di valutare come le caratteristiche strutturali relative alla sfera ambientale, sociale ed economica (stock) riescano a trasformare entità fisiche, materia ed energia (flussi in input), in benessere e scarti (flussi di output). Il modello parte dall'ipotesi che i soli flussi di beni e servizi non siano in grado di produrre alcun benessere ma che è l'insieme di stock e flussi, e soprattutto la loro interazione, a originare il godimento della vita individuale e il benessere della collettività. Con questo lavoro, seguendo l'approccio proprio dell'economia territoriale, si è voluto procedere a una prima verifica di quanto teorizzato con il modello stock e flussi e verificare quanto le caratteristiche economiche, ambientali, sociali e valoriali di un sistema territoriale siano in grado di contribuire alla generazione di benessere per la comunità locale. Da tale approccio scaturisce il carattere fortemente multidisciplinare dell'analisi che, oltre a connotarsi come ricerca economicopolitica, si serve di contributi provenienti da discipline quali la sociologia e la psicologia. La ricerca propone una metodologia capace di individuare strumenti e procedure adatte a rilevare i diversi livelli di benessere eudaimonico prodotti da un sistema economico locale per poi metterli in relazione con le dotazioni delle differenti strutture di produzione e consumo (stock). La metodologia proposta è stata testata e validata con un'applicazione empirica che, per motivi di ordine conoscitivo ed interpretativo, è stata condotta sui sistemi locali del lavoro circoscritti dai confini amministrativi della provincia di Viterbo. I risultati dell'applicazione empirica hanno confermato la validità del modello teorico, la correttezza della metodologia e allo stesso tempo hanno offerto una serie di nuovi spunti per ulteriori ricerche future in merito alla progettazione di interventi di politica economica finalizzati al miglioramento dei livelli di benessere duraturo nelle comunità locali. ; This research enters in the socio-economic studies with a territorial perspective, and it has the objective to develop a methodology capable of enriching the study phase of preliminary design and analysis of political and economic interventions aimed at improving the welfare population. The interest in such an argument stems from the fact that in recent times the word "welfare" has assumed a central role in the political and economic debate. The theoretical frame of reference is the stock and flows model (S&F), proposed by Mauro Bonaiuti, an adaptation of the funds and flows model with which Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen has interpreted the theory of production in a bio-economic key. The S&F model, using the theory of complex systems, describes in detail the characteristics of the funds, renamed stocks, and of the flows involved in the systems of production and consumption. The unique setting of an analysis based on the S&F is to assess how the structural features related to the environmental, social and economic sphere (stock) are able to transform physical entities, matter and energy (input flows), in welfare and waste (output streams). The model assumes that the flows of goods and services are not able to produce any well, but that is the set of stocks and flows, and especially their interaction, that gives rise to the enjoyment of life and wellbeing of the individual community. The intent of this work, following the specific approach of local economy, is to conduct an initial review of the stocks and flows model in order to verify how the economic, environmental, social and value characteristics of a territorial system are able to contribute to the generation of wealth for the local community. From this approach arises the strongly multi-disciplinary feature of the analysis that, in addition to brand itself as an economic-policy research, makes use of contributions from disciplines such as sociology and psychology. The research proposes a methodology able to identify tools and procedures adapted to detect different levels of eudaimonia produced by a local economic system and then put them in connection with the allocations of the different structures of production and consumption (stock). The proposed methodology has been tested and validated with an empirical application that, for cognitive and interpretive reasons, has been carried out in the local employment systems of the province of Viterbo. The results of the empirical analysis has confirmed the validity of the theoretical model, the correctness of the methodology and at the same time offered a number of new ideas for further research on the future design of economic policy measures designed to improve long-term welfare in local communities.

L'articolo di questo numero dedicato al tema CULTURA, SALUTE, BENESSERE / CULTURE, HEALTH, WELLBEING presenta e analizza il progetto Dance Well pensato per praticare la danza contemporanea con i malati di Parkinson insieme ai loro familiari e terapeuti ma anche danzatori e coreografi professionisti. Finanziato dalla Comunità Europea e inserito nel tessuto sociale e culturale di Bassano del Grappa il progetto ha avuto e sta avendo un notevole successo inserendosi in una programmazione culturale stimolante e in un tessuto sociale capace di rispondere a questi stimoli grazie a un investimento mirato sul territorio sostenuto sul lungo periodo da curatori, operatori del settore e esponenti della politica locale.

The gender gap that traverses the planet is one of the most blatant democratic failures, and it is no longer an additional or accessory issue but one that is crucial to the wellbeing of both men and women. The strategies of intervention mapped out in international programmes (gender mainstreaming and empowerment) underscore the commitment and the responsibilities of educational processes. The aim of the book is to stimulate reflection on the role of education in the establishment of gender identities and in fostering the human rights of women in contemporary society. With a view to an interdisciplinary feminist and feminine analysis, which is essential to the development and interweaving of gender issues and points of educational interest, the question is posed as to whether a new sensitivity and a more widespread gender culture could successfully trigger daily practices of gender-oriented education.

Smart Working (SW) is a new form of work based on the use of digital devices allowing people to work anywhere and anytime, which has developed in the last decades, but only recently has become the object of studies, discussions, and attention of several organizations, companies and governments. SW rises from the digitalization of the work and the spread of mobile technologies, but is more than flexible working or teleworking. It reorganizes completely the world of work and shapes the private life of the workers. The present study is aimed at giving a theoretical background, and through an empirical analysis, studying the possible implications of the use of ICTs and the degree of mobility of the workers on their working conditions and wellbeing conditions. Despite the increasing interest in this topic, there are only few empirical studies that address the above issue. Therefore, this study tries to contribute to fill this gap through an analysis of secondary data from the 6th European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, EC 2015), on a sample of more than 43.000 European workers. The first part of this work is a review of the literature on the digitalization of the work, its impact and consequences on the world of work and on the new forms of work. Then, SW is described and the analysis covers the traits, the advantages and the drawbacks for the smart workers, the roots and the levers of this new form of work, the fields of adoption, and finally an eye to the future. In the second part of this study, the research hypotheses are tested through the analysis of data from the 6th EWCS. In particular, the sample is divided in five groups of workers based on the intensity of the use of ICT and on their degree of mobility. For each group descriptive statistics are computed in order to describe them. Then, on the whole sample, measures of association are produced to find relationships between ICT use intensity and degree of mobility, and between these and working conditions and wellbeing conditions. Finally, regression analyses are computed in order to find some predictors able to explain the consequences of the adoption of SW. In the final part of the study, the implications of the main findings are discussed.

Health and education are fundamental aspects of human and social development, which we will analyze through the lens of the Socio-phenomenological approach applied in both health promotion and education. Health is constitutively related to education, and it cannot be intended just as a psychobiological condition. Self-determination of our own health requires assuming responsibility and active citizenship. The right of deciding about our own health cannot be automatically accomplished through an «innate» capacity, but it requires education, metaphorically intended as a flywheel that initially allows the individual to acquire awareness of his/her health needs/desires and, later, to assume a political position in the community, in order to make those needs/desires acknowledged. How can we avoid to reduce health promotion activities in schools and community to tandardized practices, which do not consider the embodied needs/desires of the individuals? The Socio-phenomenological approach calls to the «human» component of preventive activities, connecting the individuals' need for wellbeing with the common good.

Nowadays inequality still increases inside countries and it is possible to observe the phenomenon in cities. There are some areas in the towns where services and wellbeing of the population are very different. Usually areas with lack of services, building degradation and zones where the population have critical socio-economic conditions are considered peripheral. This analysis tries to explore an urban marginalized area in Pisa called Sant'Ermete, exploring factors that allow the birth of a peripheral area, how they change in times and which were the institutional strategies to face the problem and try to relieve the social suffereces of people. In particular that area was targeted by the local administration in 2008 for a project of urban regeneration, a project not finished yet. During my analysis, using participant observation, I have explored the everyday life of people that live in the social housing neighborhood, the solidarity born in the neighborhood and all the relationships that have contributed to increase the social community's welfare. I have also analyzed the relationships between institutions and Sant'Ermete people, tring to understand if the local administration is able to grasp and support the active citizens present in the area, including them to create and implement political strategies that could effectively provide benefits for the zone.

La tesi oggetto di discussione è che lo sviluppo di forme di Economia sociale e solidale nella regione EU-MENA sia indispensabile a: comporre il conflitto di rappresentanza tra istituzioni pubbliche e società civile; innalzare i livelli di benessere delle persone più colpite dagli effetti negativi del cambiamento climatico; gestire gli impatti negativi ed imprevisti della globalizzazione. La tesi proposta ha una natura transcalare, dunque se ne illustrano le implicazioni geopolitiche con riferimento alla posizione dell'Italia, al posizionamento europeo a livello internazionale e all'evoluzione dello scenario globale prospettata dall'Agenda 2030 delle Nazioni Unite. ; This paper illustrates how the empowerment of the Social and Solidarity Economy in the EU-MENA region might be of the utmost importance to: narrow, when existing, the political gap among public institutions and the civil society; raise the wellbeing of those most affected by the negative impacts of climate change; manage the negative and unpredictable impacts of globalization. This hypothesis has a multilevel nature, and the main geopolitical implications are discussed with respect to the Italian position within the Euro-Mediterranean region, the EU external policy and the evolution of the global scenario fostered by the UN 2030 Agenda.

In the coastal area of Benin, the vodu is a widespread religious practice. In the last years, a vodu cult, called tron kpeto deka, has achieved an outstanding success. Its leaders and adepts define it a "modern" vodu, because it appears suitable to cope with the contemporary society dynamics: it is clean, tidy, its rituality is more simple, speedy and efficient. This vodu elaborates its own discourse of modernity that, in the local sense, speaks of desire of social progress and of confidence in a future of success and wellbeing. The history of tron kpeto deka started in Gold Coast, during the period of the anti witchcraft cults' widespread. During its geographical and historical path, that brought it from the Northern savannah region to the coastal area, the cult embedded signs, practices, symbols and objects evoking the universal religions and a vague and unpredictable idea of North. The post colonial Benin and the ambivalent relationship between politics and vodu, that was developed in that period, contributed to build a favourable ground for the tron kpeto deka. Its modernity and alien origins cope with the demands for a renewal of local religions: people who are no more comfortable with "archaic" vodu practices, who are more involved with contemporary dynamics and look at the universal religions as means to "enter the world", seem to find in the tron kpeto deka a suitable religious alternative. ; In the coastal area of Benin, the vodu is a widespread religious practice. In the last years, a vodu cult, called tron kpeto deka, has achieved an outstanding success. Its leaders and adepts define it a "modern" vodu, because it appears suitable to cope with the contemporary society dynamics: it is clean, tidy, its rituality is more simple, speedy and efficient. This vodu elaborates its own discourse of modernity that, in the local sense, speaks of desire of social progress and of confidence in a future of success and wellbeing. The history of tron kpeto deka started in Gold Coast, during the period of the anti witchcraft cults' widespread. During its geographical and historical path, that brought it from the Northern savannah region to the coastal area, the cult embedded signs, practices, symbols and objects evoking the universal religions and a vague and unpredictable idea of North. The post colonial Benin and the ambivalent relationship between politics and vodu, that was developed in that period, contributed to build a favourable ground for the tron kpeto deka. Its modernity and alien origins cope with the demands for a renewal of local religions: people who are no more comfortable with "archaic" vodu practices, who are more involved with contemporary dynamics and look at the universal religions as means to "enter the world", seem to find in the tron kpeto deka a suitable religious alternative.