From 21st to 23rd of September 2022 the first meeting of PROPHET was held in Rome at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC). The project has been funded by the European Commission's Horizon Europe programme, cluster 1- destination 1: “Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society" and is part of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed). Read more
Here you will discover project updates, behind the scenes knowledge and partner insights.Watchthe interview with Sabina Magalini from the Italian University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and check out the highlights from the first NIGHTINGALE tabletop exercise. This took place at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm. Apart from the videos, a new NIGHTINGALE publication is out! Education, training and technological innovation, key components of the ESTES-NIGHTINGALE project cooperation for Mass Casualty Incident preparedness in Europe. Read more
A lot has happened along 2022: all the objectives have been reached and due deliverables sent to IHI, research activities are ongoing, legal, ethical, and regulatory studies are underway, internal meetings are held regularly, and expert decision-making committees have been set up. All this progress was successfully discussed at the first General Assembly meeting, which has been held in Modena, Italy last November 2022, under the banner of optimism and awareness that the project is growing and making progress within all work packages. A first public webinar – “Let’s FACILITATE” has been held last 27 January 2023.
Nudging is a soft push, that can make people act or react — and consume less energy — because they are told their neighbours or peers do so for instance or by changing the default settings of energy devices. The different kind of nudges are presented here, gathered by the NUDGE project, funded by the European Horizon 2020 programme, aiming at investigating the potential of behavioural interventions towards achieving higher energy efficiency, paving the way to the generalized use of such interventions as a worthy addition to the policy-making toolbox.
On December 15 and 16 in Rome, the kick-off meeting was held to officially launch the BLISS project, funded by the European Union within the Erasmus+ program. In addition to Cittadinanzattiva and Egina for Italy, the project involves universities and student associations from Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Romania and Belgium, partners who will work together to address the need for tools to find, analyze and understand news about health. The project will run for 24 months and will include training on "digital health literacy," initially involving teachers and then benefiting secondary school students from 6 European countries, and then expanding to an even broader context through the planned project outcomes. BLISS is intended to contribute to the development of Digital Health Literacy in Europe through targeted training, documentation and piloting actions in the school sector. Read more (IT)
What role can citizens play in disaster management? During disasters, citizens react in various ways. Some will try to flee the situation immediately while others will wait for help or indications from the authorities. In many cases, there are also citizens that spontaneously try to help others. They can form a valuable resource in disaster management. However, they can also aggravate the situation. In ENGAGE we have been looking at case studies in which different citizen actions were analysed and evaluated on various levels. Sometimes citizen actions were the key to mitigating a situation and sometimes they were actually hindering the work of first responders. This makes the topic of citizen involvement during disaster risk management a controversial one. The question is, can citizens help or are they putting themselves in danger, which consequently increases the pressure on first responders? When is it good to help and what kind of help is needed? How can citizens be a resource in disaster situations, helping first responders resolve the imminent danger quicker? Read more
More than 78 participants from 24 different EU and non-EU countries were connected in occasion of the EU Webinar: “Waiting for the next Council conclusions: focus on adult vaccination”, organized by Active Citizenship Network (ACN) last 6th of December 2022. Our multi-stakeholder online event, hosted by the MEPs Interest Group "European Patients' Rights & CrossBorder Healthcare, was the first EU policy dialogue initiative to discuss the Council Conclusion, officially adopted under the Czech Presidency of the European Council by Health Ministers at the EPSCO Council on 9 December.
Supported by Active Citizenship Network andendorsed the MEPs Interest Group on "European Patients' Rights & Cross-Border Healthcare", the European Parliamentary event titled “Driving Collaboration in the Fight against Antimicrobial Resistance: Going Further, Aiming Higher” was held at the EU Parliament in Brussels last 15 November 2022 with the aim to create awareness of the urgent need to leverage current EU policy developments in the fight against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). In particular, the EU Parliament hybrid event - organized by Weber Shandwick - reinforced the call for policy change and implementation to urgently address one of the world’s leading health threats.
2022
European Mobility week & Cittadinanzattiva’s commitment at the national level
In coherence with its multi annual commitment on the topic of sustainable mobility and as associated partner, for the 2022 European Mobility Week Cittadinanzattiva launched in Italy an online guide and a telephone number available to citizens and appealed to institutions and companies to promote a new urban mobility culture. The guide includes information on how the public transport service is provided, practical information on the various benefits of the so-called shared mobility, what the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) provides, and advice for ecological driving. For citizens wishing to report disservices regarding public transport, Cittadinanzattiva provided a national telephone desk active on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. To know more & download the guide, click here (IT).
2021
In September 2021, Cittadinanzattiva, in collaboration with Unipolis Foundation, launched the first Sustainable Mobility Manifesto by Italian schools to Enrico Giovannini, Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, in Rome.
The Manifesto was part of the“O.R.A. – Open Road Alliance” multi-annual project on sustainable mobility in Italy promoted by Cittadinanzattiva in 2019 during the annual European Mobility Week.
The Manifesto is the result of an educational and workshop-based course attended by almost 2,000 students from 57 Italian schools which imagined and sketched out the possible ways in which mobility and the communities of the future will work.
It comprises four sections: Decisions, Changes, Proposals and Future. Its aim is to define the concept of sustainable mobility; show the desirable changes that should be made in the various towns; set out the actual proposals that will be created by providing a number of ideas for the future describing tomorrow’s mobility. The ideas of the students show that they are very mindful of environmental issues, sharing transport, safety, and a strong leaning towards multimodality and interoperability in addition to a more sustainable approach to the world of local public services.
To read about Cittadinanzattiva’s commitment on the topic, please check out the article here.
For further information about the Sustainable Mobility Manifesto, visit the dedicated website (IT language), watch a brief video here for a quick overview and download the communication material here (IT language).
If you would like to watch the final event presenting the Manifesto, click here and here (IT language).
2020
Local Public Transport: Cittadinanzattiva’s information campaign
In occasion of the 2020 European Mobility Week, Cittadinanzattiva has launched an information campaign raising citizens’ awareness of local public transport. The campaign aims at improving citizens’ knowledge of the local public transport services available in their cities and regions, as well as to inform them about the rights and duties of each passenger and of the possibility of reporting service inefficiencies. The inititative is part of the italian “Più sai, più sei” project.
To download “5 consigli per muoversi in città” (“Five suggestions to move across the city”), which is the small guide on local public transport realized by Cittadinanzattiva, click here (IT Language).
Local Public Transport in Italy: rising costs for monthly and annual subscriptions
Always in occasion of the 2020 European Mobility Week, and in accordance with the information campaign above mentioned, Cittadinanzattiva has also carried out an investigation on the prices of local public transport throughout Italy. Indeed, Cittadinanzattiva’s Observatory Prices and Tariffs has released data concerning the price of local public transport. In particular, the investigation reported that in the last 15 years there was a remarkable increase in the rates of both the monthly and annual subscriptions for local public transport. Overall, in Italy in the last 15 years the cost of the monthly pass for local public transport has grown on average by 22% while the cost of the annual pass of about 18%.
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To read about our commitment as associated partner of the European Mobility Week, click here.
2019
“O.R.A. – Open Road Alliance” project launched
During the annual European Mobility Week, Cittadinanzattiva renewed its commitment in spreading a sustainable mobility culture. On 19th September, in Rome, it was officially presented the new multi-annual project on sustainable mobility in Italy. The initiative is promoted by Cittadinanzattiva and Fondazione Unipolis aims to:
strengthen a new mobility culture through education and in line with the UN Agenda 2030 goals; to make urban mobility sustainable, starting from younger generations and involving all the stakeholders; to define a new "Sustainable Mobility Manifesto" for the 14 Italian Metropolitan Cities.
To know more about this initiative, please click here, watch the official video and visit the dedicated website (IT language). For some clippings and press articles (IT language), click here:
Italy: “#Mobilità sostenibile” started at the regional level
In the Emilia Romagna region, the regional body of Cittadinanzattiva is engaged in a new initiative on mobility started during the European Mobility Week and realized in the framework of the project "Formiamo consumAUTORI del futuro". The initiative encourages citizens to be better informed and more active towards sustainable mobility. To do so, citizens are invited to download a leaflet, the guide for the citizens and to fill an online questionnaire (IT language).
To know more about this initiative, please visit the dedicated website (IT language).
2018
Also in 2018 Cittadinanzattiva took part in the European Mobility Week, now in its 17th edition, with meetings and awareness initiatives in several Italian cities. This year's theme is multimodality with the slogan "mix and move" and the aim of underlining how important it is to rethink everyone's habits in terms of mobility, preferring the use of less polluting vehicles that can integrate or replace cars. To know more click here and watch the video (IT language)
2017
During the annual European Mobility Week Cittadinanzattiva renews its commitment to contribute to spreading a culture of sustainable mobility in Italy. Under the motto "It's time to move!", Cittadinanzattiva has launched "MOBILITIME", an awareness campaign consisting of three initiatives:
To know more, please click here (IT – EN language)
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(Update: October 2021)