Giammarco Frattoli In the run-up to the European Parliament elections in 2024, it is inevitable to try elaborating new strategies and good practices aimed to encourage more and more people to participate. First of all, it is fundamental to take into account the past elections results and observe how European citizens’ voting behaviour has changed…
Read articleFrom 5th to 6th of October, 2022 the consortium of the YOUCAN project has met in Milan (Italy) for the second Transnational Partner Meeting (TPM). The consortium of the YOUCAN project is formed by the following partners: YOUCAN (Youth with migrant drop-out tackling: capacity building) is a KA2 Erasmus project co-funded by the European Union, and its aim is to contribute…
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Elena Di Martino To begin with, Italy condemns in the strongest possible terms Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, which is a blatant violation of international law and humanitarian principles.So far, out of the 8 million people who fled from Ukraine more than 120 000 people have arrived in Italy. Almost 94 000 have…
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Martina Monti 1. EU regulations lethargy At the national level, judicial authorities had already started establishing a regulatory framework on platform economy before it did at the supranational one. As a matter of fact, the European Union (EU) lapsed into a substantial institutional inertia prior to developing a unitary set of rules. The question of…
Read articleMy name is Elena Di Martino and I’ve participated to the short-term training held in Silves (Portugal) at the beginning of September.During the first week of September, NGOs and school boards gathered from Italy, Poland, Portugal,Spain and Belgium in the area of Silves, Portugal in a short-term training to discuss how and whythe ethnic, religious…
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Nicoletta Carotenuto The war against Ukraine that Vladimir Putin started is already having considerable economic and social consequences in his country and in all Europe. Indeed, on one side, Russia’s economy is expected to shrink by at least 15% this year and the EU must face the third asymmetric shock, as economists call it, experienced…
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Martina Monti 1. DEFINITION AND OPERATIVE MODE OF PLATFORM ECONOMY The digital revolution has drastically changed the pace at which information is exchanged. This shift in paradigm has been the breeding ground for new ways to think about work in our age, for mainstream economics had to familiarize with terms such as platform economy, digital…
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By Martina Monti Assessing Ukrainian refugee wave in numbers On 24 February 2022, Russia forces stormed Ukraine, carrying out attacks in the north and south-eastern part of the country[1]. Inevitably this brought about two subsequent effects; on one side, it launched an all-out military offensive in a supposedly post-conflict continent. This was accompanied with the…
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EU Support to Ukrainian Students, Young People, Teachers and Educators Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, has announced EU measures to support Ukrainian students, young people, teachers and educators in these extremely challenging times. How is the European Union supporting Ukrainian pupils, teachers and people fleeing from Ukraine? Let’s have a look at the initiatives. The Cohesion’s…
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Transnational Cooperation Between Universities in Europe Interested organisations can now apply for a new Erasmus Plus call to pilot a joint European degree label and test institutionalised EU cooperation instruments, such as a possible European legal status for alliances of higher education institutions, in the perspective of facilitating deeper transnational cooperation between universities in Europe. Topic 1: Pilot a joint European…
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