Link Campus University: Research and Projects

Research in collaboration with the Society of Diplomatic Studies on priority themes for italian foreign policy:

Title: BE-COMS - Building E-COMpetencies at School

Duration: 20 months

Start date: 01/04/2022

Finish date: 01/12/2023

Partnership:

Link Campus University;
Maude Studio S.L.
Entropy Knowledge Network s.r.l.
Darıca National Education Directorate (DIMEM)

Description:

The aim of BE-COMS is to create favorable conditions for the exchange of innovation and inclusion practices in the school environment, in support of an active and sustainable citizenship and of digital culture for life and labour. The main purposes are the following:

the diffusion of good practices at European level and the creation of a bridge between two countries valorizing the Mediterranean axis and dialogue;
the promotion of methodologies and competencies able to cope with the digital challenge.

BE-COMS will implement:

Good practice workshops for the exchange of good practices among teachers and trainers;
EDU HUB in order to favour the diffusion of various results of the project, involve the schools starting with the teaching community and promoting “calls for ideas”;
PEER LAB in order to encourage the exchange of good practices and innovative ideas on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) for an inclusive learning approach.
Contamination Labs, in order to promote the diffusion of practices, knowledge and competencies among the target groups involved.

The expected results are the following:

Improving digital culture and skills for the teachers, students and trainers involved;
Diffusion of good practices and strategic tools to monitor and improve corporate performance;
Growth of the european collaboration among stakeholders, educational centres and companies;
Development of sinergies among partners and countries for the purpose of a common european culture;
Promotion of the culture of integration at a global level;
Building networks for future projects.

LCU Activity:

Favouring the construction of the incubato of ideas and projects EDU HUB
Organization of Peer Labs aimed at the students
Activities of communication and management of the projects

Funds: European Union - National Erasmus+ Agency INDIRE

Title: Developing skills in Intellectual Property Rights Open Data for sustainability and circularity

Call: ERASMUS-EDU-2021-PI-ALL-INNO-EDU-ENTERP (Partnerships for Innovation: Alliances)

Duration: 36 months

Start date: 01/06/2022

Finish date: 30/05/2025

Partnerships:

FAKULTETA ZA INFORMACIJSKE STUDIJE V NOVEM MESTU (FIS) - Slovenia
NORD UNIVERSITET - Norway
VISOKO UCILISTE ALGEBRA - Croatia
LINK CAMPUS UNIVERSITY (LCU) – Italy
VALUEDO SRL – Italy
PANNON GAZDASAGI HALOZAT EGYESULET (PBN) – Hungary
LOGIKA zaloznisko podjetje d.o.o – Slovenia
ERRE QUADRO SRL – Italy
IZOBRAZEVALNI CENTER GEOSS DOO – Slovenia
HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY – Greece
Patentstyret – Norway
DRZAVNI ZAVOD ZA INTELEKTUALNO VLASNISTVO (DZIV) – Croatia
ENTREPRENEURIAL RISE Z.B.O. – Slovenia
RAZVOJNI CENTER SRCA SLOVENIJE DOO – Slovenia
PANEPISTIMIO PATRON – Greece
ZAVOD NEFIKS – INSTITUT ZA PROMOCIJO IN BELEZENJE NEFORMALNO PRIDOBLJENEGA ZNANJA – Slovenia
BUGNION SPA – Italy
ANSALDO ENERGIA SPA - Italy

Description: IPR4SC (Developing skills in Intellectual Property Rights Open Data for sustainability and circularity) is a Erasmus + Alliances for Innovation project aimed at innovation and sustainable development. The main purpose of the project is to enhance the IPR competencies of inventors, SME and european citizens, in paticular in the implementation of digital and green innovation for a circular and sustainable economy.

The project plans to determine the real needs of Europeans in dealing with IPR and thus have a targeted and concrete impact for the purpose of defining the parameters to maintain a real life perspective and evaluating the situation to suggest and implement the right decisions.

Scientific Managers: Stefania Capogna – Raffaele Longo

Funds: Erasmus+

Title: CIAK-EU! - EU-rope through films: History, Identity, and Policies

Duration: 36 months

Start date: 01/09/2022

Finish date: 31/08/2025

Description:

The Chair establishes a new mandatory university course on EU (history and politics) within the framework of the Bachelor's Degree Course in Film and Theatre Making at Link Campus University (LCU). Ciac-UE! is composed of various modules for research, teaching and communication. It is based on a multidisciplinary unit of research and experimentation and an articulate and innovative system aimed at teaching and communicating the history as well as the process of european integration and EU policies through the cinema and the audiovisual world. The JMC is experimenting a new direction in european studies, involving students from other degree courses through activities of training-seminars and a summer school, and collaborates with other universities involved in JM projects. CIAK-UE! brings together various fields of expertise through the language of film, TV series and documentaries to provide an original approach to the study of EU-rope by promoting academics and public debate on the future of the EU. The JMC is a combined research/teaching/communication system that will evolve through research and debate over three years, at the end of which it will become an integral part of the LCU curriculum, innovating teaching methods in EU studies. The JMC will involve various partners who share these interests in research, teaching and public debate, thus structuring a new narrative-communicative mode for EU history and politics. CIAK-EU! also aims to reach outside the LCU and its academic network of partners to interact directly with civil society, the world of entertainment, film and art in general, as well as the communication and policy sectors. Finally the JMC will organize a series of events on the topics discussed in order to disseminate the result of the research through various products, tools and collaborations with studies centres and agencies specialized in EU communication

Scientific manager: Filippo Maria Giordano

Funds: Erasmus+ Jean Monnet CHAIR

Title: FreeBeRI - Freedom of Belief and Right to Information

Duration: 36 months

Start date: TBD

Finish date: TBD

Description:

FreeBeRI aims to enhance EU studies in the curriculum of the Master's degree in Political Science and to introduce them for the first time as a compulsory teaching in the curriculum of the Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences at Link Campus University. Its added value lies in the fact that, in an innovative way, it will develop the transversal potential of EU Studies by showing their relevance in the fields of Religious Studies. Its main focus is on the mutual reliance between freedom of religion and freedom of expression and information, treating as two deeply intertwined topics: EU policies on misinformation and disinformation, with particular reference to the links between religion and conspiracy theories; EU international policies on the promotion and protection of freedom of religion, contextualising them within the global historical process of de-secularisation.

FreeBeRI strengthens critical thinking skills as fundamental tools of active European citizenship. Its teaching method is based on the analysis, contextualisation and interpretation of different types of sources and, in doing so, teaches the fundamentals of the 'historical craft' as tools for recognising, analysing and debunking conspiracy theories as well as understanding the reasons for their success.

FreeBeRI carries out a series of research and dissemination activities for which the students collaborate with key actors in the construction of a European research space within the field of religious study. Said actors not grant the high quality of the research and teaching activity, but also provide an international research network for FreeBeR, ensuring the impact on other european education and research institutes.

FreeBeRI efficiently promotes the dialogue between the academic world and the society through a series of seminars and workshops aimed at secondary school students with Cesue-Euractiv.

Scientific director:: Silvia Cristofori

Funds: Erasmus+ Jean Monnet MODULE

Title: GEMINI - Gender Equality through Media Investigation and New Training Insights

Duration: 24 months

Start date: TBD

Finish date: TBD

Partnership:

Foundation Villa Montesca
Universidade Do Algarve
Aalborg Universitet
Universitatea Din Bucuresti
National University Of Ireland Maynooth
C.L. Adult Education & Training Limited
Sdruzhenie Tcentar Za Obrazovatelni Initsiativi
National Inspectorate Of Education
Directorate For Digital Literacy And Transversal Skills

Description:

In line with the 2020-2025 EU strategy for gender equality and from an inter-sectional perspective, the GEMINI research-action project aims at tackling gender stereotypes creating gender inequalities and enabling young adults to create products for the purpose of transmitting positive gender equality messages.

The GEMINI project is aimed at secondary school teachers and european trainers/teachers in four different geographic areas and socio-cultural realities in Europe (Mediterranean, Northern, Eastern and Anglo-Saxon) and focuses on the representation of gender identities in TV series and on how to contribute to gender equality. The objectives of the project are the following:

1. Investigating the production and narrative strategies behind the representation of gender identities in TV series and how this representation influences the promotion of gender equality among target groups through in-depth interviews with key informants, textual/production analysis and content/sentiment media analysis on a selected corpus of TV series

2. Understanding target groups' awareness of gender equality and how they perceive the representation of gender identities on TV through focus groups, multilingual surveys, semi-structured interviews

3. Strengthening analytical, interpersonal and communication skills on gender equality practices and models through the development of the educational toolkit

4. Disseminating a gender equality-oriented culture through self-produced communication initiatives, such as audiovisual products and the screenplay competition

5. Providing guidelines and political recommendations on how to communicate gender equality aimed at EU and national institutions, as well as broadcasters and streaming platforms

6. Exploit the results of the project and disseminate them among target groups and the general public through the websites, communication activities, academic and promotional events and academic publications.

Funds: European Union – CERV

Title: Research with the Circolo di Studi Diplomatici. on priority themes for the italian external politics

Duration: 12 months

Partnership: Circolo di Studi Diplomatici.

Description:

The aim of the project is to contribute to the in-depth study of a number of priority themes for the formulation and conduct of Italian foreign policy, making use of the scientific contribution and knowledge of the Circolo di Studi Diplomatici.

The research provides for the realization of at least four Diplomatic Dialogues, which constitute one of the traditional forms of expression of the Circle's research activities. The activities will also involve representatives of the Administration and external personalities from the university, journalistic, military, diplomatic and business worlds, with introductory speeches and interactive interlocutions. Furthermore, the project provides for the production of at least 16 Diplomatic Letters, which are also traditional forms of expression of the Circle's research activities.

The topics covered in the Dialogues, conducted and published on schedule in accordance with developments in the international situation, are:

Renewed modalities of European integration in to deal with conflicts and changing global balances;
Security and cooperation in the African continent;
Cultural diplomacy and internationalisation of the Italian higher education system;
The state and geopolitical implications of energy transition and the evolution of globalisation;
A possible fifth dialogue depending on developments in the international situation.

The modality of research, articulated in Diplomatic Dialogues and Letters related to the thematic priorities indicated in the Ministerial Decree 2022, are mainly based on the contributes of the Ambassadors involved, who have a particular knowledge of said themes, for the experience and knowledge acquired in their professional activity at the head of bilateral and multilateral diplomatic missions, structures of the central Administration and proximity with the highest public officials.

Scientific manager: Giorgio Grimaldi

Funds: Contributi ex art. 23bis, DPR 18/1967 - Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (MAECI)

Title: Emergency theatre: the recovery of traditional acting techniques in the contemporary scene

Duration: 3 months

Start date: October 2022

Finish Date: December 2022

Description: Training project on the actor's practice of traditional popular theatre, which is currently almost lost in academic training, with acting centred entirely on action, where improvisation, pantomime and acrobatics coexist, where the actor's body once again becomes the centre of action, where improvisation and writing merge in the theatre of the living word.

The project aims to provide a response to the current limitations, which have led to a distancing between young people and theatres, and is developed through expressive, liberating, emotional workshops based on the techniques and tricks of the Commedia dell'arte, which became popular in a context of audience disruption and distancing.

In the light of the negative impact of COVID on the world of theatre and the actor-public relationship, the actor specialisation workshop based on interaction between theoretical, technical and practical moments is aimed at bringing young people closer to traditional folk theatre in order to create new ways of disseminating live performance within the community, despite restrictions.

The aim of the project is to create a modern profile of actor-spectator, capable of restoring live performances to their former status in the socio-cultural life, starting out from the past, precisely with the discovery of stage techniques and tricks and a comparative solid knowledge of the techniques of Commedia dell'Arte.

The courses are organized by professors specialized in the field of entertainment, in the cloister of Casale San Pio V.

Calendar (October - December 2022):

Comedy workshop (30 hours)
Basic techniques of commedia dell'arte (30 hours)
Dramaturgy of structured improvisations (30 hours)
Creative work on the character (40 hours)
Public speaking: improvisations (40 hours)
Stage Tension (30 hours)

Scientific manager: Desirèe Sabatini

Funds: Contributi allo spettacolo dal vivo Avviso 2022 – Regione Lazio

Title: Youth Community Leaders in rural areas of South Western Europe

Duration: 24 months

Start date: 01/10/2022

Finish date: 30/09/2024

Partnerships:

Fondazione Comunitaria di Agrigento e Trapani - coordinator
Link Campus University
Asociación LUG OPEN FACTORY
Caritas Portuguesa
Rosto Solidario - ASSOCIACAO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SOCIAL E HUMANO
Fundación Galicia Europa

Description:

The purpose of the YOULEADERS project is to involve young people from rural areas of South West Europe to become effective leaders within their communities through a community-based development and enhancement approach.

The project provides young people with the tools to develop customised and innovative solutions to life's challenges and promote the 2030 Agenda, encouraging participants to become change-makers, able to grow their ideas as recognised leaders in their communities.

Funds: European Union – National Youth Agency

Title: Monster High School – Digital Animation School

Call: Il cinema e l’Audiovisivo a scuola – Progetti di rilevanza territoriale (Avviso n. DG-CA/11/03/2022/DECRETO 863)

Duration: 10 months

Start date: 09/2022

Finish date: 06/2023

Partnerships:

Foundation Vigamus
Istituto Comprensivo Velletri Centro

Description:

The aim of the project is to Combine historical-critical and theoretical training on audiovisual language and storytelling (through the didactic pathway "Understanding images: Introduction to audiovisual language") with practical didactic activities and workshops aimed at familiarising secondary school students with and experimenting the phases of making an audiovisual and, more specifically, a videogame - through the workshop "Animating images: Introduction to CG animation" and the final project work "Let's create a videogame".

The project is develped within one of the most strategic sectors of contemporary audiovisual media, that of digital animation, digital effects and interactive narratives, which requires specialised training to make Italian products competitive on international markets, the project approaches audiovisuals and creativity from an up-to-date perspective, enhancing them in all their richness of contamination between cinema, television, web and videogames.

The project merges didactic and an educational offer designed specifically for teachers, extending the study of audiovisual language and digital animation techniques to other areas related to teaching subjects. The originality of the format lies in the assistance of an expert trainer and a university professor for each in-depth meeting of the cycle "Teaching cinema, teaching with cinema".

The activities will be developed and enriched through:

The organization of a tutoring and supervision system both for the training and workshop activities.

A multimedia and interactive platform ("toolbox") providing personalized pathways for students and teachers through digital and innovative resources, as well as materials and support exercises.

The educational activities will be integrated with events and special initiatives, for the purpose of extending the project to the world of the audiovisual professions, schools, universities and the general public. In particular, the project, will encourage the organization of:

La retrospettiva “Quattro passi nella storia dell’animazione digitale”, destinata sia agli studenti sia ai docenti con l’obiettivo di favorire la discussione critica e l’ampliamento delle conoscenze;

A masterclass with an international professional of the videogame industry.

At least three final promotional events, aimed at presenting the project works realized by the students, as well as the didactic platform.

Project activities will be supported by appropriate communication strategies through the project website and social profiles (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok), partner websites and profiles, and coverage in traditional news media.

LCU Activity:

Audiovisual language literacy activities;
Critical film analysis activities;
Participation in seminars/masterclasses with professionals in the field;
Screenplay writing and/or film analysis workshops;
Workshops on audiovisual production and/or post-production;
Use of audiovisual tools (films, documentaries, video games, etc.) for the teaching of curricular school subjects.

Funding: Ministry of Education (MUR) and Ministry of Culture (MiC)

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