HORIZON 2023 CONCILIARE-Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage
Call: HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01 (2024-2027)
Responsabile scientifico per Sapienza: Giovanna Leone
Abstract: CONCILIARE stands for Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage, aiming to explore the complex and often unsettling landscape of Europe’s colonial memory. At its core, CONCILIARE studies the ongoing transformations in colonial cultural heritage in six European countries: four with a long-lasting colonial tradition –Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and Portugal– and two without a direct historical connection to overseas colonial expansion: Croatia and Finland.
Different countries and different focuses. CONCILIARE develops its research across four specific domains: textbooks, public spaces, museums, and the cultural consumption of products and traditions. Therefore, CONCILIARE aims to travel across Europe’s vast cultural diversity, engaging with and alongside a wide range of ethnic, political, generational, and socioeconomic groups and stakeholders.
Finally, CONCILIARE is not only about research; it is also about action: about giving something back to the community, particularly to the most vulnerable groups and other ethnic and cultural minorities. In addition to developing its research on colonial memory and emotions, the project also aims to propose four different practical methods to build confidence in the ongoing cultural changes in colonial heritage.

HORIZON 2021 IANUS - Inspiring and Anchoring Trust in Science, Research and Innovation
Call: HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-44-Societal trust in science, research and innovation
Responsabile scientifico per Sapienza: Francesca Comunello
Abstract: The IANUS project focuses on cultivating appropriate trust in science and innovation at a systemic level through institutional participation and cooperative co-development processes. IANUS’ approach in this is unique: It challenges the assertion that trust needs to be rebuilt at all cost and instead asks: when is trust and distrust well-placed? While trust is a cornerstone of cooperation in science and innovation, trust can be damaging when misplaced, as is evident in the case of scientific misconduct. Furthermore, in a climate of increasing distrust in science and innovation, IANUS takes seriously that distrust is an active stance that has the potential to propel science and innovation forward, given that distrust is well-founded and appropriate.
To cultivate well-placed trust between science and society, IANUS looks both ways: 1) strengthening high standards of research integrity and open science fostered by conducive institutional governance arrangements and policy environments, and 2) strengthening citizen and civil society’s involvement and co-ownership in co-creating R&I in order to make research more relevant and responsive to society.
IANUS draws on the expertise of a diverse set of partners from multidisciplinary backgrounds in the social sciences and humanities. It seeks to produce positive change by engaging a broad range of societal stakeholders, including XYZ, in co-creation, developing policy guidance and recommendations, and implementing innovative means of communication and education. In doing so, societal stakeholders are empowered to deal with the uncertainties, incompleteness and epistemic pluralism inherent in scientific knowledge. Researchers are enabled to foster trust in science through radical methodological change, making research inclusive, transparent and responsive to societal needs and concerns, lowering barriers between researchers and societal stakeholder.
Sapienza is involved in several WP (WP 1, WP 2, WP 4, WP5, WP6) and is WP7 leader (communication and dissemination)

HORIZON 2020 Tipping+ - Enabling Positive Tipping Points towards clean-energy transitions in Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions
Call: H2020-EU.3.3.6. - Robust decision making and public engagement Topic LC-SC3-CC-1-2018-2019-2020 - Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) aspects of the Clean-Energy Transition
Responsabile scientifico per Sapienza: Mauro Sarrica
Abstract: The aim of TIPPING+ is to generate a unique transdisciplinary social science analytical framework to respond to the following intertwined questions:
• Why at one or several points in time Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions (CCIRs) flip into fundamentally different development trajectories and embrace low carbon, clean-energy transformations?
• What are the actual effects of such fundamental changes on the livelihoods and the sustainability of regional economies and social-ecological systems?
• How can the knowledge from the recent past about the multiple social-ecological processes leading to sudden and fundamental changes in these regions be used to identify the most effective tipping interventions that enact low-carbon, clean-energy transitions in other regions?
TIPPING+ produces a step-wise advance in the scientific understanding of the critical concept of Social-Ecological Tipping Points (SETPs) to show how a much more robust and empirically-grounded theory of SETPs can be applied to support successful clean-energy transitions in CCIRs.

Euromedia Ownership Monitor – EurOMo
Type of Project: Connect/2020/7319235
Partner: Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg (Austria), Ghent University (Belgium), NFNZ - Nadacni fond nezavisle zurnalistiky (Czech Republic), Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung │ Hans-Bredow-Institut (Germany), Roskilde University (Denmark), Tampereen korkeakoulusaatio sr (Finland), Ethniko Kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon (Greece), Budapesti Gazdasági Egyetem – Alkalmazott Tudományok Egyeteme (Hungary), Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas (Lithuania), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), University of Minho (Portugal), University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Univerza V Ljubljani (Slovenia), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
Description: The project aims to create a centralised database for information regarding media ownership in 15 member states of the European Union. Partner countries represent larger and smaller states, eastern and western countries, and include countries with known transparency issues for media ownership. Four groups of indicators (structural, economic, performance, technical) will feed into the centralised database, which will be scalable and accessible online. The theoretic approach will be based on structural ownership and on principal-agent theory.
Scientific coordinator for the project: Josef Trappel, University of Salzburg, Austria
Scientific coordinator for CoRiS: Christian Ruggiero 

ADVICE - Advancing Digital Competence in Higher Education
Type of Project: Erasmus K2
Partner: University of Northampton Higher Education Corporation (UK); Agricultural University of Athens (GRE)
Description: The ADVICE project is a joint initiative between institutes of higher education of four countries: Italy, Greece, The United Kingdom, and Poland which acts as a coordinator. Its aim is to offer support to teachers in higher education in terms of digital competencies, giving them a chance to learn by using an open platform that integrates an evaluation tool for their competences and a database composed of tools and free online resources. The project also aims to compose guidelines to support the commitment that institutional stakeholders give in order to make online learning more inclusive.
Scientific coordinator of the project: Krzysztof Kasianiuk, COLLEGIUM CIVITAS (Poland)
Scientific coordinator for CoRiS: Veronica Lo Presti 


e-BELONG: Sense of Belonging in Online Learning Environments
Type of project: Erasmus K2
Partner: Stockholms Universitet (Sweden); Universidad Autonoma De Madrid (Spain); Universite D'aix Marseille (France); Ethniko Kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon (Greece); Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen (Germany)
Description: Forced digitalisation of higher education has brought along many challenges. Innovative pedagogies are needed to foster learning in this new reality; the project focuses on two areas of this challenge/innovation: a) how to upkeep quality and guarantee equity, especially when learning activities concern vulnerable groups; b) how to make and maintain support services for education, which are necessary to ensure the right social and emotional conditions for learning.
Scientific coordinator of the project: Camelia Redulescu, Universitatea din Bucuresti (Romania)
Scientific coordinator for CoRiS: Giovanna Gianturco, Mariella Nocenzi

Commigration. Developing a complete approach for employees who communicate with immigrants and an effective communication strategy
Type of project: Erasmus+
Partner: Antalya Provincial Directorate of Migration Management (APDMM) e l'Akdeniz University (Turchia); Learning for Integration (LFI) (Finlandia); Satu Mare County Intercommunity Development Association, (ADJSM) (Romania)
Description: COMMIGRATION is a two-year European project funded by the European committee within the programme Erasmus+ Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices. The project is based on strategic partnering aimed towards education and professional formation. Its goal is to develop an effective communication strategy forthe relationship between migrants and public administration employees  and European services. This can be implemented by developing and delivering training courses for those who work in the field of immigration. During the first phase of the project CoRiS will  coordinate research that will analyse the needs and the contexts of the different countries involved in the partnership This phase  will be followed by moments of in-person and remote training. Finally, results will be shared and disseminated.
Scientific coordinator of the project: Antalya Provincial Directorate of Migration Management (APDMM)
Scientific coordinator for CoRiS:Marco Binotto

Professionalisation of teachers using digital technologies as support for autonomy and citizenship (PENSA)
Type of project: Erasmus+
Partner: Universidad autonoma de Madrid, Universitatea din Bucuresti, Universite libre de Bruxelles, Fundacio per a la Universitat oberta de Catalunya, Unicollaboration - La asociación internacional de telecolaboración e intercambio virtual, 3 & punt solucions informàtiques sleberhard karls Universitaet Tuebingen.
Description: The project focuses on two main issues within higher education and society. The need for a) training and infrastructure to provide mixed learning, namely remote and/or blended (in person teaching live-streamed to students online) and b)teaching young people the implications of using social network sites (Facebook, YouTube, etc.) in a psychological, sociological, economic and ideological sense. The body of the project is composed by 30 teachers and teacher-trainers from seven universities, mostly part of the European network CIVIS, one academic association and one company. Throughout the project we aim to train these teachers and reach 100 additional teachers through local training events. Moreover, PENSA will involve 400 students throughout Europe in the development of their digital and multi-lingual competences, as well as collaboration abilities and independence.
Scientific coordinator for the project: Marco Cappellini, Universite D’Aix Marseille
Scientific coordinator for CoRiS: Pierluigi Cervelli

CODES – Communication, cultural diversity and solidarity
Type of project: European Program ERASMUS +. Action-Clé2 coopération en matière d’innovation et d’échange de pratiques. KA203 – Partenariats stratégiques de l’ensignement supérieur
Partner: Lyon 2 Lumière University (Leader – France); Sapienza University of Rome (Italy); Flensburg University (Germany); Athens Panteion University (Greece); Coimbra University (Portugal); Bucharest University (Romania); Opens-Dsi (France)
Description: CODES – Communication, cultural diversity and solidarity is the trial phase of an international Advanced training course (both on and off-line) that aims to develop competences within the field of management and communication of diversity within companies and media. The project is characterised by a transdisciplinary approach that invites universities, companies, associations, media, citizens, young students, and researchers to work together.
Scientific coordinator for the project: Ingrid-Dana Popescu-Jourdy – Institut de la communication, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Scientific coordinator for CoRiS: Gaia Peruzzi