The University of Rhode Island Gender and Women’s Studies Program has a commitment to creating a feminist world, free from sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia via discourse and activism. The Gender and Women’s Studies Program at URI has developed a genuinely interdisciplinary curriculum informed by the most advanced scholarship and by feminist pedagogical principles. Having offered an undergraduate degree program for over 25 years, the Gender and Women’s Studies Program now offers a graduate certificate program that will allow students to pursue interdisciplinary study in this flourishing field and thereby enhance their educational background and career opportunities.
EUMade4ll aims to design, implement and test a transnational joint syllabus that integrates multimodal digital literacy and English for international communication. It will also produce data to develop a Common Framework of Reference for Digital Literacy (CFRDiL). 6 higher education institutions are part of the initiative: Università di Messina (Italy); University of Leeds (UK); Università di Firenze (Italy); Aarhus Universitat (Denmark); Università di Roma-Tor Vergata (Italy); LUH-Hannover (Germany). The project aims at:
(1) the creation of an open access online environment for e-learning and for storing and sharing the learning materials and students’ anonymised assignments;
(2) the development and implementation of a joint syllabus that includes (a) a common set of core notions, reading materials and learning activities, (b) a series of workshops, each focused on a specific digital text type and carried out through teachers’ mobility among the participant organizations, (c) assignments that enable the assessment and peer-assessment of students’ learning outcomes, and (4) evaluation of the course effectiveness;
(3) the evaluation of the outcomes of the joint courses and refinement of the joint syllabus;
(4) students’ mobility within the dissemination of the project’s results;
(5) the development of a Common Framework of Reference for Digital Literacy (CFRDiL).
The Stitching Group for European Development aims at developing talents through internships and apprenticeships for young adults (18+) on the international labour market by boosting European integration / youth exchanges. The above primary objectives of the foundation are used to support European depopulated areas, through organizing internships and work experience places for middle and higher vocational students, university students and young graduates.
The activities promoted by ESTIDIA have three main objectives: 1. TRANSCULTURAL DIALOGUE: ESTIDIA facilitates dialogue and promotes collaboration across geographical, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries in Europe and beyond by organizing training courses, summer schools, meetings, and events in different parts of Europe, contributing to raising awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity beyond national and international borders; 2. INTERDISCIPLINARITY: ESTIDIA promotes cutting-edge research and best practices in dialogue-based education, oral and written literacy, multilingual learning, and transcultural curricula across disciplinary and academic traditions. The goal is to stimulate educational innovation and synergies within and between communities of scholars and practitioners. ESTIDIA’s goal is to share research and experiences, identifying common and diverse approaches and perspectives, successes, and challenges. 3. MENTORSHIP: ESTIDIA encourages the development of informal mentoring relationships in which professionals and experts share their knowledge and skills with junior colleagues in order to help them grow and excel. Particular attention is paid to improving critical thinking skills in relation to evolving learning cultures, communication, and socialization. In order to assist junior scholars in preparing bachelor’s or doctoral theses, as well as presentations of articles to international journals, special conference sessions will be dedicated to works in progress, where students and young researchers will have the opportunity to present their work and receive constructive feedback from senior scholars.
The Bottega della Comunicazione e della Didattica (Communication and Education Workshop) designs cooperative educational experiments using ICT (Information and Communication Technology), with a particular focus on children in difficulty. It is an association of teachers and training professionals that began with a laboratory project against early school leaving developed in Naples (Italy) in the early 2000s. It aims to bring to the fore a humanistic dimension to the use of digital technology, helping to highlight scenarios, proposals, and experiences that move towards establishing a relationship between technology and schools focused on the centrality of educational values.
i Ken O.N.L.U.S. promotes the overcoming of differences in social, religious, economic, and cultural backgrounds through educational and socio-cultural initiatives. In particular, it aims to carry out educational, informational, developmental, and support work related to the dynamics and issues, both individual and social, connected to belonging to the LGBTIQ+ community. In pursuing this goal, i Ken pays particular attention to rights concerning education, instruction, and training, and promotes educational, training, social, recreational, cultural, and sporting activities aimed at young people, adults, the elderly, minors in situations of personal, family, social, cultural, educational, physical, and psychological distress, and their families. i Ken protects and promotes the rights of citizenship of people in situations of hardship through active and informed participation.
