Data limită a inscrierii: 25 martie 2013

Teme:

1. Erasmus for all. (The European Commission has announced its new programmes for culture and education: 2014-2020. “Erasmus for all” and “Creative Europe” group together and unify the seven programmes currently active. Collect information and using interviews, write a report on several specific projects that are being activated by associations, institutes and youth groups in your area.)

2. Landscape, Constitution and Cement. (Salvatore Settis, archeologist and art historian, launches an appeal to consider our landscapes and cultural patrimony as common resources. A strategic choice to “educate towards beauty”. Analyse legislation and functioning projects in other European countries.)

3. Startup. (Are Startup programmes necessary to stimulate employment?
Examine the recent statute of the Ministry of Economic Development, and the document “Restart Italy”, and reflect on the different types of other European experiences. Interview young startuppers in your territory and underline the objectives, benefits and difficulties they have experimented.)

4. Europe as antidote. (The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the European Union can be seen as recognition for the past, strict warning for the present and encouragement to do better, so that Europe can return to its role of bulwark against any populist and anti-democratic leanings.  Using this declaration by Emma Bonino for your analysis, study and write about growing populism and xenophobia in one or more European countries.)

5. Non-places. (The French anthropologist Marc Augé has given particular attention to places of transience, “non-places”, those areas where people meet without real contact. Report on Italian and European experiences and projects aimed at enlivening and stimulating participation in the use of urban spaces.)

6. The end of the world? (In this book La fine del mondo. Guida per apocalittici perplessi, Telmo Pievani, philosopher and scientist, introduces an interesting journey to describe how every culture has ineffectually predicted its end, and we ourselves are the children of others’ catastrophes. Science teaches us that unpredictable cataclysms can reopen the ”evolutionary game”. After collecting information, write a newspaper article of no more than 10.000 letters.)

7. Women in administration. (Microcredit for women has been defined as a true social revolution, key to the development of many countries in the southern hemisphere. In northern Europe many women hold important positions in economy and in public administration. After research, describe different experiences and compare them with the situation in your country.)

8. Balkan “contamination”. (Study some of the works of the mitteleuropean intellectual Dzevad Karahasan, one of the most influential writers of the Balkan area, representative of the contemporary literary movement of “contamination”.)

9. Young agriculturists grow up. (Recent data shows new interest and real chances of employment for young people in the agro industrial sector, in agriculture, and in green tourism. Study your territory and take into consideration the proposals that emerged from Il Salone del gusto/Terramadre and which were presented to the European Commission, which is defining the New Common Agricultural Policy.)

10. The quest for truth. (In his novels, the Spanish author Javier Cercas studies the unresolved problems of his country’s past, an obsessive quest for truth that reflects on the value of the ethics of memory.  After reading one or more works by this author, who will be protagonist of the Festival Dedica 2013 (Pordenone 9-23 March 2013), express your thoughts and feelings.)

Lucrările pot fi scrise în limba italiană sau în orice altă limbă nativă. Fiecare participant sau grup de participanţi poate trimite o singură lucrare. Lucrările trebuie să ajungă la birourile IRSE (Via Concordia, 7 – 33170 Pordenone – Italy) înainte de data de 25 martie 2013, însoţite de o bibliografie a lucrărilor/site-urilor consultate..

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