Briefs, Data Cards and Windows

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.

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.

Data Card: Cohesion policy and audiovisual heritage

October 27 is World Audiovisual Heritage Day, established in 2005, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Recommendation for the Safeguarding of Moving Images by the General Conference of UNESCO.
In 2021, the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage theme is "Your Window to the World". This definition fits audiovisual materials which, as objects of documentary heritage, provide a window from which to observe events that we cannot witness, we listen to voices from the past that can no longer speak and we create stories that inform and entertain.

After having dedicated a Data Card in 2020 to cohesion policies and cinema, or to the creation and production of films and film-TVs and the digitization of cinemas, this year OpenCoesione explores other types of projects relating to the audiovisual heritage.

Data Card - Inclusive tourism and cohesion policies

Le Nazioni Unite hanno deciso di dedicare il World Tourism Day 2021 - che si celebra il 27 settembre - al “turismo per una crescita inclusiva”. Il 2020 e il 2021 rappresentano due anni senza precedenti per l’industria del turismo. La pandemia di COVID-19 ha avuto un enorme impatto sociale ed economico, che ha colpito le economie sviluppate e quelle in via di sviluppo. In Italia le politiche di coesione nazionali e comunitarie hanno offerto ingenti risorse e ampie opportunità per promuovere l'attrattività turistica del Paese. L’analisi degli investimenti effettuati nei cicli di programmazione 2007-2013 e 2014-2020, indica tre principali ambiti tematici di intervento indirizzati alla valorizzazione delle dotazioni di capitale naturale e culturale territoriale e al potenziamento della capacità di accogliere il turista, anche nelle aree interne del Paese. La Data Card è dedicata a questi progetti di "turismo inclusivo".

Data Card – Cycling mobility in projects monitored by the ASOC2021 team

The 3rd of June is World Bicycle Day, established by the United Nations to celebrate the “uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle”, which is used all nations. In 2021, the awards ceremony for the 20-21 edition of At the School of OpenCohesion (ASOC) is to be held on 4 June, so OpenCoesione has chosen to dedicate a data card to cycling-related projects that have been the subject of civic monitoring by teams of students who took part in the ASOC educational programme.

We have focused our attention on 5 projects promoting urban mobility and cycle tourism in the Italian regions of Lombardy, Veneto (2), Umbria and Sicily. 

Data Card - Cohesion policies and landfills

Cohesion policies are participating in the Italian government's effort to clean up landfills that are subject or potentially subject to EU infringement procedures. In particular, resources from the Fund for Development and Cohesion (FSC) are financing interventions to secure and adapt sites affected by the presence of waste causing environmental damage.
OpenCoesione dedicates a DataCard to the issue of landfills: 38 interventions related to the securing of 36 landfills subject to infringement procedures are monitored on the portal: since 2017, the resolution of environmental problems related to these sites is entrusted to an Extraordinary Commissioner.
The total public cost for the 38 projects is EUR 50.25 million and the progress of the activities involves payments of EUR 17.92 million at 31 December 2020.

Data Card - Cohesion policies and confiscated assets

Twenty-five years ago, on 21 March 1996, the 'Day of Memory and Commitment in Remembrance of All Victims of the Mafias', promoted by the association Libera, was celebrated for the first time in Rome, in the Campidoglio square. In March 2017, a bill was passed establishing and recognising the same date as a national day.

This year, 21 March, is the occasion for OpenCoesione to take stock with a Data Card on cohesion policy initiatives concerning the re-use of confiscated assets, starting with the "National strategy for the valorisation of confiscated assets through cohesion policies". As of 31 December 2020, 415 projects with a net public funding of EUR 273.21 million are monitored on the portal.

Data Card - Cohesion policy investments in museums

OpenCoesione dedicates a DataCard to the investments of cohesion policies on museums and similar institutions, financed by European structural funds and the national Development and Cohesion Fund, starting from the data linkage activity that led to data match of the operations of the focus "Culture" (updated to 30th June 2020) with the repository of the 4,908 museums, galleries, collections, archaeological areas and parks, monuments and monumental complexes (state and non-state) detected by Istat with reference to 2018. The results of the matching are: 1,195 projects - both infrastructural and intangible - for a cost of about 1.76 billion euros (equal respectively to 11% of the projects and 23% of the investments recorded in the field of Culture at the reference date). A total of 653 institutions are involved, 7 of which are the protagonists of the stories described in this Data Card.

Data Card - Biomass, At the School of OpenCohesion & AzzerCO2

On February 16, 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force, the first global agreement to combat climate change. It was published in December 1997, as part of the 3rd meeting of the United Nations Conference of the Parties on the climate (UNFCCC) and became operational following the signature made by 55 countries. On the occasion of the anniversary, OpenCoesione is publishing a Data Card dedicated at highlighting the result of the partnership signed in November 2019 with AzzeroCO2, an organization that promotes environmental awareness campaigns, and focuses on several projects financed by cohesion policy and related to the energy production from biomass.

Data Card - “At the School of OpenCohesion”: European project

The 24th January is marked as International Education Day: the United Nations celebrates its key role in setting up the conditions for peace and sustainable development. In 2021 this Day takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic which has led to the closure of schools, universities, other learning institutions and programmes.OpenCoesione publishes a Data Card highlighting a response to the ongoing health emergency by the EU project At the School of OpenCohesion (ASOC): launched in 2013 in Italy, it involved over 30 thousand secondary school students from 6 European countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal) in civic monitoring activities on projects financed by cohesion policy.