Exemples of EUREGIO Mobility Fund Projects
The following reports give a brief description of the experiences and the activities that took place within the EUREGIO Mobility Fund Projects. These projects have been carried out by students and professors of the partner universities (Bozen/Bolzano, Trento, Innsbruck).
The educational activities of the project were carried out as a winter school, which was a single three-day event hosted in Trento, from the 4th to 6th of December, 2017. The winter school allowed for more in-depth presentation and discussion of design perspectives by invited speakers, more time for the students to interact and develop their design projects, and more time for the school tutors to mentor students individually or in groups.
The school theme was “Education as a Common Good”, which presumed the development of tools, methods or ecosystems for facilitating access to education and knowledge by communities sharing a set of education-related resources, with no involvement of commercial or governmental bodies. Students were split in teams and worked on a design project of their choice, but relevant to the school theme. Students presented their projects at the end of the school and received additional final feedback. At the end, we asked the students to provide an anonymous feedback about the school. The students were generally satisfied with the school, particularly mentioning their appreciation for the experience of working in teams, with team members having diverse educational backgrounds and perspectives on design problems.
INFRAstructures FUTURES. Scenarios and strategies for the development of infrastrucure systems towards a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient landscape
Two major activities of interaction between students, professors, and practitioners have been proposed. First, joint lectures and seminars organized both in Trento and in Innsbruck from April to September 2018 that collected national and international professors and scholars. Second, a numbers of field trips to visit renewed exhibition on related topics and to internationally present the results of the students’ projects experimentation.
The project addressed, through different scales and methodologies, the renewed relationship between infrastructures and landscapes, urban development and climate change, productive habitat and environmental systems, to offer advanced knowledge, new visions and strategies to rethink urban infrastructures for more resilient and adaptable cities.
On several occasions the Euregio cooperation offered the chance to share specific research expertise and teaching experience among the universities involved in order to keep active the on-going process that foresees the development of a common and sharable background in the fields of urban development, landscape valorisation, new technologies and the implementation of infrastructure in the common territory.
Link: FUTURINFRASTRUCTURE
Computer science and digital forensics
A final event took place in Innsbruck (22-23/03/2018). Students had the chance to present their work in front of their colleagues and the best performing teams have been awarded.
Moreover, we created a website, http://euregiommsec.info/2017-edition/, which contains information on the organized activities and a summary of the final event. During the final event we have also collected feedback from the students through a structured survey composed of closed and open-ended questions. The results were very positive.
Lean Startup Lab
The mail goals of the joint initiative have been represented by the following:
- To support the creation of an inter-campus community of start-uppers;
- To increase the number of graduate students (including PhD) who include entrepreneurship education in their study plan;
- To deal with the problem of critical mass that affects small and local initiatives;
- To organize joint events (e.g. Startup Weekend).
The collaboration was very well perceived and it helped spreading the awareness of the existence of a larger community of students at work on the same kind of education and to facilitate collaboration and best practice exchanges between faculties from different universities.
Graphic science and visual communication
The workshop had the goal of describing and applying the most qualified and common methods in the field of graphic sciences, digital representation and visual communication, as well as in the media, in order to enable participants to acquire basic knowledge for the design and implementation of digital images.
The second outcome lies in the launch of an innovative teaching. The e-Learning activity started with the support of the E-Learning Department of the University of Trento and it is still under development. The second edition of the project will be held in Trento and the corresponding workshop is scheduled for next January (2019). This will allow us to broaden and deepen the previous work, thanks to the involvement of the Department of Sociology and Social Research, the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science and the E-Library Division of the University of Trento, as well as the Faculty of Design and Art of the University of Bolzano/Bozen. The project crosses the different fields of scientific and humanistic knowledge and it focuses on methodological awareness as a fundamental tool for creating and spreading through image.
Law / Economics and management
In the first part of the conference has been underlined the persistent difficulty of reaching a global convention on terrorism. The current regulatory framework provides for sectoral or regional agreements (for example within the framework of the European Union or the Council of Europe). Moreover, it hasst been highlighted the procedural profiles of the sanctions and bodies involved in the adoption of sanctions. During the second session has been pointed out some of the critical issues of the UN system of sanctions. In the last session has been presented the theme of the action of the Council of Europe in the fight against terrorism.
The interdisciplinary approach and the collaboration between Professors and researchers of the Euregio Universities and of other Italian and European Universities was the added value of the conference. The initiative was quite successful considering the high participation of students but also of practitioners (different members of the Italian “Guardia di Finanza” and of the Carabinieri).
Link: International Conference
Bolzano-Innsbruck-Trento European Seminars
Altogether more than 40 students from the three Universities have been given the occasion to present and discuss the results of their final thesis or their seminar papers with their peers and their supervisors. Participants who had already intensively worked on their final thesis or on their seminar papers could broaden their views on these topics through the discussions in the workshops and had occasions for networking with their colleagues and teachers from the other universities. The working language was English.
The objectives of discussing European integration from different disciplinary perspectives and national backgrounds have been fully attained: all participants were highly motivated, enjoyed the discussion and interaction and were thus satisfied (according to the results of questionnaire surveys). The awareness for the potential of cross-border initiatives (and the role of the EGTC herein) raised and the opportunity for networking among students and faculty has been appreciated.
Link: Euregio: passi avanti nel progetto “Bolzano-Innsbruck-Trento European Seminars”