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The DITES Research Centre is an emanation of a fruitful research collaboration started in 2016 on themes related to digital transformation and its implications on people, organizations and territories, with the aim to accompany people, educational systems, organisations and communities towards the adaptation of the challenges posed by the current digital transformation. The Centre was officially established at the end of December 2018 as a research and experimentation space dedicated to Education issues, intended as an integrated macrosystem involving education-training-work-guidance and transition support services.
In 2020 was established an Observatory and in 2021 was founded the magazine Quaderni di Comunità. Persone, Educazione e Welfare nella società 5.0..
The primary objective of the research centre is to promote digital culture from a "human-centred" perspective, with a view to individual, organisational and community empowerment empowerment, by activating collaboration networks among different sectors/environments of the society. The aforementioned networks allow the possibility to address the complexity of the current digital ecosystem by bringing together different skills and knowledge.

VISION

Our vision places the person at the centre, recognizing the value of human relationships and the principles of reciprocity and sharing that are essential to promote the well-being of each individual and to generate value for communities.

MISSION

The Centre wants to take on the role of an "innovator-integrator" working to create paths of intersection between social research and other disciplines, with the aim to encourage the creation, valorisation and transfer of knowledge, starting from the recognition and valorization of differences and complementarity.

VALUES

The DITES Research Centre values diversity and inclusion as drivers of innovation, sees participation, stakeholder engagement and networking as the levers of an essential pathway for sharing knowledge and promoting territorial social capital, oriented towards the ethics of co-responsibility.

STRATEGIC PLAN (https://dites.unilink.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Dites-Piano-Strategico-2024-2028.pdf)

The following are the most important objectives that the research centre aims to pursue in the next four-year term 2024-2028

• RESEARCH

  1. Promoting Inter Trans & Multidisciplinary Research Pathways
     Consolidating the systemic perspective in the analysis of contemporary problems in order to effectively impact the complex, fragmented and territorially dispersed organisational realities that characterize our digital ecosystem.

     • Consolidation of the founding research themes

     • Development of new research lines

     • Dissemination of research results in academia and society

     • Participation in and promotion of scientific events

     • Scouting for funding channels

     • Participation in national and international research projects

• INTERNATIONALIZATION

  1. Developing social capital
     Build trusting, cooperative and reciprocal relations to consolidate and build new virtuous connections and synergies, following a "supply chain approach", among university, school, work, services, territory and research.

     • Increasing the network of direct and associated partners

     • Expansion of geographical and territorial coverage of permanent partners

  2. Activate social and cultural innovation processes
     Promoting and maintaining international networks for innovation through the promotion of opportunities for the exchange of good practices and the activation of shared and co-constructed processes of social change

     • Building international strategic partnerships

     • Building network agreements between universities for international mobility and collaboration on the Centre's research topics

• THIRD MISSION

  1. Empowerment of people, organisations, communities
     Favouring the formation of the awareness required to respond responsibly to the human and social challenges of the complexity posed by the digital society, promoting the human person in his or her constitutively relational and interdependent nature.

     • Dissemination of digital culture in schools

     • Involvement of civil society in the activities of the centre (NGO, associations, etc.)

     • Empowerment of people, organisations, communities

     • Participation and promotion of dissemination events in civil society

     • Development of interdisciplinary communities of practice between schools, universities, NGOs for knowledge networking and personal empowerment

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