Michele Bertani

La diversit\ue0 culturale, etnica e religiosa, che caratterizza sempre pi\uf9 le societ\ue0 dei Paesi europei, \ue8 il risultato di profondi e veloci cambiamenti che hanno segnato la storia recente del Vecchio Continente. Il progressivo aumento della diversit\ue0 in tutti i contesti della vita quotidiana genera nuove sfide e opportunit\ue0 a livello politico, sociale, economico e educativo. Nel campo dell\u2019educazione, una sfida decisiva sar\ue0 quella della promozione di strategie che siano in grado di cogliere e gestire la diversit\ue0 in modo costruttivo. Tolleranza, apertura mentale, rispetto dell\u2019altro diverso da s\ue9 sono valori che per le giovani generazioni europee e italiane rappresentano gli elementi base per favorire la costruzione di una societ\ue0 coesa e inclusiva. Minoranze nazionali, etniche o religiose che manifestano sentimenti di esclusione e scarso senso di appartenenza generano marginalit\ue0, alienazione, estremismi e, in alcuni casi, atteggiamenti radicali e violenti. La scuola, intesa nel senso pi\uf9 ampio di istituzione educativa, ha tra i suoi vari compiti anche quello di evitare per i giovani dei gruppi pi\uf9 svantaggiati situazioni di discriminazione, intolleranza ed esclusione che, se non adeguatamente gestite, si potrebbero protrarre nella vita adulta con conseguenze pi\uf9 negativ

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a political participation scale for youth, considering both traditional and digital political participation (DTPP). The research was conducted using 458 participants from Turkey, Italy, and Romania, aged between 15 and 29 years. Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were performed to test the structural validity of the scale. EFA results illustrated that scale consisted of three factors and the total variance was 61.23%. These factors were labeled as “digital political support”, “traditional political support” and “digital political following”. During confirmatory factor analysis, the three-factor structure was tested, and the resulting model produced an acceptable goodness of fit The scale consists of 39 items and the reliability coefficients for each subscale vary from .92 and .95. The results show that the scale is valid and reliable to measure traditional and digital political participation o...

This WP is the result of a work that has been aimed at outlining the current scenario related to the increasingly relevant socio-economic aspects embedded in the culture of social impact assessment and, more specifically, to offer an innovative tool, still under a test phase, to measure the aptitude to generate social impact by Third Sector bodies. A comprehensive analysis is then presented, identifying the main references to social impact assessment, starting with the recent reform of the Third Sector in Italy. Further point of analysis is the open debate among scholars on the most suitable definition to describe what is to be understood as 'social impact' and what are currently the most widespread models and techniques for its measurement. In the final part, a questionnaire is introduced by the research team which is a tool to measure the degree of propensity to generate 'social impact' by Third Sector bodies, through a reconnaissance of the following categories: D...

Lo studio di fenomeni particolarmente complessi, tra i quali rientra l'esperienza di homelessness, richiede talvolta una diversa esplorazione attraverso una prospettiva che consenta di analizzare dimensioni nascoste, o poco note. In questo libro presentiamo i risultati di una nostra ricerca in cui abbiamo cercato di comprendere in che modo le persone con diversi gradi di disagio abitativo sentono e vivono, nella loro quotidianit\ue0, il rapporto con la citt\ue0. Abbiamo dato la possibilit\ue0 e la libert\ue0 a queste persone di raccontare, con immagini e parole, la loro relazione con la citt\ue0 di Verona, una relazione che ha acceso luci di conoscenza anche sulla loro identit\ue0, sui loro valori, bisogni, emozioni, paure, speranze e aspettative

This article aims to explore, using a qualitative approach, the relationship between \u2018homelessness\u2019 and \u2018city\u2019. The empirical work took place during 2016 in Verona, a middle-size town in Northern Italy and involved 13 participants with different profiles of housing deprivation. Our methodological approach gives \u2018voice\u2019 to homeless and involves them as active social actors in the fieldwork and in the data collection. We adopt participant-driven-photo-elicitation technique (PDPE). Participants received a mandate to describe the relationship with Verona city, using a disposable camera. Results suggest that the relational, symbolic, emotional and material aspects of the city emerge from the photos and from the words of the participants. Our research underlines the importance of place identity concept: it can be used as a framework for understanding homelessness in a wider perspective and for designing effective and innovative public policies

National welfare regimes in Europe are rapidly evolving and diversifying. Changes are influenced by not always well defined elements, depending by dynamics that are both internal and external to the system, making it difficult to define the characters of the new scenario. The Italian welfare regime is strongly connected within this process, posing new challenges in a country where the intervention of the state in the welfare sphere is limited, and the family has always played an important role in the care work.  Based on the national and international debate on this topic, this article explores the factors that characterize the Italian welfare regime, and the challenges posed by globalization. With reference to the category of familialism, it will be discussed the typical Italian attitude “to do all-at-home” in relation to the care work. Using empirical evidence, it will be analyzed if this typical Italian attitude is the result of the persistence of a traditional and rural model of...

The aim of this article is to monitor the outcome of professional training courses programmed in the Veneto Region, the potential, positive repercussions on the labour market and, consequently, on the wellbeing of the community. By means of the human capital concept, it can be evaluated if those students, who successfully finished their professional training courses, were able to see if their training curriculum had been suitably valorised, which was achieved by being able to start work in line with their qualifications, both quickly and positively, they had obtained. Using the data derived from the widespread network of training agencies present in theVeneto, the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the courses have been analysed, subsequently identifying the profiles of those who qualified and their outcome in gaining access to the labour market.

Il welfare state, così come si è sviluppato nei paesi occidentali a partire dagli anni Cinquanta del secolo scorso, ha rappresentato fino a pochi decenni fa una fonte di benessere collettivo e di protezione sociale. Oggi questo modello è in piena crisi di identità. I suoi principi ispiratori sono messi in discussione dalla progressiva riduzione delle risorse pubbliche e da una serie di fattori demografici e politici che ne minano la sopravvivenza. In questo ambito, la famiglia ha rappresentato e rappresenta tuttora uno dei pilastri nell'architettura del welfare state e l'attuale situazione di incertezza ne mette a dura prova la tenuta come cellula base della società. Ha ancora senso oggi pensare di mantenere l'impianto del welfare state così come è stato concepito più di mezzo secolo fa? Dovrebbe essere allargata la sfera di azione del mercato e del terzo settore, oppure sarebbe più efficace aumentare l'intervento dello Stato? Quale ruolo assegnare oggi alla famiglia che, rispetto ad altri paesi europei, in Italia ancora rappresenta il perno centrale nella produzione del lavoro di cura? Il volume analizza i cambiamenti avvenuti nei modelli di welfare in Europa fino alle recenti strategie di innovazione proposte in ambito comunitario. Relativamente all'Italia, vengono inquadrate opportunità e limiti delle nuove forme di governance che dovrebbero garantire alla famiglia la sua riproducibilità culturale e biologica. Sono infine prese in esame le diverse modalità di accesso e le valutazioni sulla qualità dei servizi pubblici di welfare familiare in Italia, Spagna, Germania, Francia, Svezia e Danimarca, per descrivere e commentare la tipica tendenza della famiglia italiana a farsi carico in prima persona del lavoro di cura e sostegno.

This paper aims at monitoring and evaluating family policies in the Veneto Region, during a long period of time (2003-2013) in order to have an overview of regional welfare state approach. We analyse aims and social areas covered by family measures using legislative sources and financial data given by the Veneto Region. The total amount paid for different regional family policies is about 370 million Euros in eleven years. The paper presents also a focus on regional policies for childcare. The Region Veneto recognized childcare services as one’s of the main measures for the work-life balance and equal opportunity. This macro area of family policies is the main recipient of regional funds, with over 270 million Euros, in total of grants and contributions during the period 2003-2013. The measures adopted by the Veneto Region have contributed to the opening of 600 new structures and to the growing of childcare services offered by private sector. In 2013, the Region Veneto partially sub...

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This WP is the result of a work that has been aimed at outlining the current scenario related to the increasingly relevant socio-economic aspects embedded in the culture of social impact assessment and, more specifically, to offer an innovative tool, still under a test phase, to measure the aptitude to generate social impact by Third Sector bodies.
A comprehensive analysis is then presented, identifying the main references to social impact assessment, starting with the recent reform of the Third Sector in Italy. Further point of analysis is the open debate among scholars on the most suitable definition to describe what is to be understood as 'social impact' and what are currently the most widespread models and techniques for its measurement.
In the final part, a questionnaire is introduced by the research team which is a tool to measure the degree of propensity to generate 'social impact' by Third Sector bodies, through a reconnaissance of the following categories: Democratic governance; Employment and inclusion; Community and territory; Innovation and Economic Dimension.

Object of this paper is a general reflection on the European welfare state models, seen through the concept of social capital. The starting hypothesis is that in the presence of adequate and effective public social expenditure, it will be visible not only an increase for the individual well-being, but also for the whole society. Focus of this analysis are the possible connections between national social expenditure and the different level of social capital of European citizens

This paper aims at monitoring and evaluating family policies in the Veneto Region, during a long period of time
(2003-2013) in order to have an overview of regional welfare state approach. We analyse aims and social areas
covered by family measures using legislative sources and financial data given by the Veneto Region. The total
amount paid for different regional family policies is about 370 million Euros in eleven years.
The paper presents also a focus on regional policies for childcare. The Region Veneto recognized childcare
services as one’s of the main measures for the work-life balance and equal opportunity. This macro area of
family policies is the main recipient of regional funds, with over 270 million Euros, in total of grants and
contributions during the period 2003-2013. The measures adopted by the Veneto Region have contributed to the
opening of 600 new structures and to the growing of childcare services offered by private sector. In 2013, the
Region Veneto partially subsidies the operating costs of about 24,000 places of childcare services (more than
50% offered by private structures).

Il welfare state, così come si è sviluppato nei paesi occidentali a partire dagli anni Cinquanta del secolo scorso, ha rappresentato fino a pochi decenni fa una fonte di benessere collettivo e di protezione sociale. Oggi questo modello è in piena crisi di identità. I suoi principi ispiratori sono messi in discussione dalla progressiva riduzione delle risorse pubbliche e da una serie di fattori demografici e politici che ne minano la sopravvivenza. In questo ambito, la famiglia ha rappresentato e rappresenta tuttora uno dei pilastri nell'architettura del welfare state e l'attuale situazione di incertezza ne mette a dura prova la tenuta come cellula base della società.
Ha ancora senso oggi pensare di mantenere l'impianto del welfare state così come è stato concepito più di mezzo secolo fa? Dovrebbe essere allargata la sfera di azione del mercato e del terzo settore, oppure sarebbe più efficace aumentare l'intervento dello Stato? Quale ruolo assegnare oggi alla famiglia che, rispetto ad altri paesi europei, in Italia ancora rappresenta il perno centrale nella produzione del lavoro di cura?
Il volume analizza i cambiamenti avvenuti nei modelli di welfare in Europa fino alle recenti strategie di innovazione proposte in ambito comunitario.
Relativamente all'Italia, vengono inquadrate opportunità e limiti delle nuove forme di governance che dovrebbero garantire alla famiglia la sua riproducibilità culturale e biologica. Sono infine prese in esame le diverse modalità di accesso e le valutazioni sulla qualità dei servizi pubblici di welfare familiare in Italia, Spagna, Germania, Francia, Svezia e Danimarca, per descrivere e commentare la tipica tendenza della famiglia italiana a farsi carico in prima persona del lavoro di cura e sostegno.

... revealed the number of foreign prostitutes in the range of 15,000 to 20,000, of which half were in the north, 35% in central Italy and 15% in the south and the islands.10 The evolution of the phenomenon can be reconstructed retracing the first migratory waves, characterized by ...

The cultural, ethnic and religious diversity, which increasingly characterizes the societies of European countries, is the result of profound and rapid changes that have marked the recent history of the Old Continent. The progressive increase in diversity in all contexts of everyday life generates new challenges and opportunities at the political, social, economic and educational levels. In the field of education, a decisive challenge will be to promote strategies that are able to manage diversity constructively. Tolerance, openness of mind, respect for diversity are values that for the young European and Italian generations represent the basic elements for the construction of a cohesive and inclusive society. National, ethnic or religious minorities that manifest feelings of exclusion and a lack of sense of belonging generate marginalization, alienation, extremism and, in some cases, radical and violent attitudes. The school, intended in the broadest sense of educational institution, has among its various tasks to ‘protect’ young people of the most disadvantaged groups from situations of discrimination, intolerance and exclusion that, if not adequately managed, could be prolonged in adult life with more negative consequences.This essay focus mainly on the Italian context, focused primarily on the issue of interreligious dialogue as a positive factor for inclusion in the educational context. A comparison between European curricula on religion is also discussed.