Briefs, Data Cards and Windows

This section includes:

- OpenCoesione briefs: providing information and food for thought on cohesion policies and specific aspects related to ongoing projects, as well as updates to published data.

- Data Cards: a selection of projects dedicated to specific issues or events for the purpose of highlighting the contribution made by cohesion policies, while promoting the initiatives financed and related content in a clear manner supported by charts and figures.

14/03/2024

Data Card - #PONGOV, a series of innovation and cohesion paths

The NOP ERDF ESF GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY 2014 – 2020, the #pongov, has financed and made possible in Italy a series of innovation and cohesion paths that have seen about 100 administrations as protagonists, with the aim of accompanying the growth of a PA that is more efficient, effective and close to territories, citizens and enterprises. On the occasion of the #pongovexpo on 19 March 2024, the event that represents the final stage of the programme's activities, OpenCoesione dedicates it in a Data Card, starting from 6 projects.

31/01/2024

Data Card - Cohesion policies and wetlands

The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, signed in Ramsar (Iran) on 2 February 1971, recognizes “the interdependence of man and his environment”. These are the elements that, from 2022, the United Nations will also celebrate on World Wetlands Day, to underline the importance of the Convention. Even cohesion policy is caring about the conservation of wetlands and promotes knowledge of them, by financing projects relating to multiple themes, Environment, Culture and tourism, Transport and mobility.

10/11/2023

Data Card - Cohesion, science and our future

On November 10, the United Nations celebrates World Science Day for Peace and Development. Proclaimed in 2001 by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), it aims to highlight the significant role of science for the development of society and the need to involve a wider public in debates on emerging scientific issues. On the occasion, OpenCoesione publishes a Data Card focused on projects financed by the european cohesion policy Programme PON FESR ESF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION.

16/10/2023

Data Card - Cohesion policies, water & agriculture

“Water is life, water nourishes us” is the message that the FAO, the United Nations food and agriculture organisation, has chosen to associate with World Food Day 2023, 16 October 2023. Cohesion policy, particularly in the 2014-2020 cycle, has financed projects to reduce waste and use water more efficiently in agriculture. In particular, it intervened to support research aimed at innovation, in the scientific and entrepreneurial fields, as well as supporting interventions to improve infrastructures to support irrigation. Some of the projects are described in this Data Card.

31/07/2023

Data Card - Cohesion Policies for Italy plastic free

OpenCoesione dedicates a Data Card to some specific interventions of the cohesion policy for the reduction of plastic production and plastic waste in the environment on the occasion of the Plastic Free July® initiative, promoted by the Plastic Free Foundation, which works to realize the vision of a world free from plastic waste. As of 2022, it has affected over 140 million people worldwide.
Over the last few years, the European Commission has developed an action strategy on plastics, part of the circular economy package. A key element is Directive (EU) 2019/904 on reducing the impact of certain plastic products on the environment. It's time to act, because the forecasts to 2060 contained in the OECD's Global Plastic Outlook highlight that global plastic use is expected to almost triple compared to 2019 levels.

26/06/2023

A Data Card on the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Day

Il 27 giugno è la Giornata mondiale delle micro, piccole e media imprese, istituita dalle Nazioni Unite in seguito a una Risoluzione adottata nell’aprile del 2017, che ne riconosce l’importanza “per il raggiungimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile, in particolare nel promuovere l'innovazione, la creatività e il lavoro dignitoso per tutti”. In Italia, le politiche di coesione svolgono un ruolo fondamentale nel sostegno alle piccole e medie imprese. Nel ciclo di programmazione 2014-2020, in particolare, ammonta a 18,9 miliardi di euro il costo pubblico associato a progetti in attuazione relativi all’ambito tematico “competitività delle imprese”, per un totale di oltre 130mila progetti. Sono 5 quelli selezionati e raccontati in questa Data Card.

22/05/2023

Data Card - Cohesion Policies and protection of the Biodiversity

May 22 is International Biodiversity Day. The initiative is promoted by the Convention on Biological Diversity, signed by 150 government leaders at the Earth Summit organized by the United Nations held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and dedicated at promoting sustainable development. In the framework of the Convention ratified in 1994, Italy has developed a National Strategy for Biodiversity.

This year the theme of the International Biodiversity Day is "From agreement to action: rebuilding biodiversity" and implies the idea that it's not too late ("it's not too late to") to start concrete actions. Cohesion policy projects in Italy described in this Data Card focus on five projects financed to support the entities that manage five different national parks, from North to South.

21/04/2023

Data Card - Cohesion Policies and Mother Earth

Sabato 22 aprile è l’Earth Day. Il tema della Giornata della Terra 2023, Invest in our Planet, vuole indicare la necessità di “agire (con coraggio), innovare (in modo ampio) e attuare (in modo equo)”, come spiegano i promotori della manifestazione, l’Earth Day Network, che riunisce organizzazioni ambientaliste di oltre 190 Paesi nel mondo. Il contributo della politica di coesione europea e nazionale agli obiettivi dell’Earth Day è trasversale ai diversi temi di intervento, come dimostrano i sei progetti raccontati in questa Data Card, che riguardano Ambiente, Cultura e turismo, Reti e servizi digitali e Ricerca e innovazione. Sono tutti progetti oggi conclusi e realizzati nel corso degli ultimi due cicli di  programmazione della politica di coesione.

22/03/2023

Data Card - Cohesion policy and right to water

Il 22 marzo le Nazioni Unite celebrano la Giornata mondiale dell'acqua, quest'anno finalizzata ad accelerare il cambiamento per risolvere la crisi idrica e igienico-sanitaria. Per l'occasione, OpenCoesione pubblica una Data Card che racconta alcuni progetti sul servizio idrico finanziati dalle politiche di coesione in Italia. "Poiché l'acqua riguarda tutti noi, è necessario che tutti agiscano" scrive l'Onu promovendo il World Water Day 2023, invitando "famiglia, scuola e comunità" a "fare la differenza cambiando il modo in cui utilizzate, consumate e gestite l'acqua nella vostra vita". Dal 22 al 24 marzo a New York si tiene la UN 2023 Water Conference da cui scaturirà anche un'Agenda d'azione per l'acqua.