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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Data Card - Cohesion policies and the COVID-19 emergency
Tre anni fa, nel marzo del 2020, l’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità ha annunciato che la diffusione del virus COVID-19 aveva le caratteristiche di una pandemia e anche in Italia sono state prese misure straordinarie per contenere i contagi. Già a partire dalla primavera del 2020, l’Unione europea ha predisposto anche una Strategia per il contrasto all’emergenza Covid-19 con le politiche di coesione, con l’introduzione prima di modifiche nelle regole di utilizzo dei Fondi che finanziano le politiche di coesione. È disponibile sul portale OpenCoesione un focus open data dedicato a questi progetti, da cui sono stati selezionati i 6 raccontati in questa Data Card.
Data Card - Cohesion policy and climate change research: projects of the CMCC Foundation
On the sidelines of COP27, the twenty-seventh U.N. Climate Change Conference that closed in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 20, OpenCoesione interviewed the CMCC Foundation, a multidisciplinary research center that carries out studies and models of the climate system and its interactions with society and the environment. In the 2014-2020 cycle of cohesion policies, in fact, two projects have been funded with the Foundation as a beneficiary. The first, worth nearly five million euros, was financed by the Fund for Development and Cohesion (FSC) under the PUGLIA PATTO, aimed at building the national facility for climate change data, i.e., the CMCC headquarters, in Lecce. The second, worth about 6 million euros, ensured the expansion, updating and upgrading of the JUNO Supercomputing Center (POR FESR FSE PUGLIA).
Data Card - Ten years of At the School of OpenCohesion: numbers and results
On 10th November 2022 the 2022-2023 edition of At the School of OpenCohesion (ASOC) kicked off with the introductory webinar. ASOC is the citizenship education path aimed at students who develop digital skills by means of a civic monitoring of projects financed by cohesion policies on the territories. Civic monitoring does not replace administrative monitoring or institutional investment verification mechanisms, but - in the spirit of all the activities connected to the OpenCoesione initiative - promotes collaboration, participation and transparency. At the School of OpenCohesion project has reached its tenth edition this school year: for this reason, on the occasion of International Students' Day, OpenCoesione dedicates a Data Card to "all the numbers" and the results of ASOC dated 17th November.