Category: co-design

The CASPER project successfully concludes by suggesting three scenarios for a future European gender equality certification in Research and Innovation

Posted by msangiuliano in co-design, Gender, Gender Equality Plans, inclusive innovation, institutional change, NEWS, research

We have recently brought to its conclusion the CASPER project after a three months extension granted by an amendment, and sealed by a final public (online) event last March. CASPER’s key goal was to study the feasibility of establishing a European certification system for gender equality in Research and Innovation.The Smart Venice team of researchers,…Read more »

New Year New Project! Kicking off the FIT project

Posted by msangiuliano in co-design, digital platforms, Education, Gender, inclusive innovation, NEWS, STEM

We have been very happy to kick-off the newly approved FIT-Fairness in Teaching project. Funded in the framework of the ERASMUS+ project, it aims at extending the competencies framework and assessment tools of fairness in STEM teaching from gender to an intersectional approach including both primary and secondary school levels, and developing training sessions (online…Read more »

FAMILIES SHARE: (NOT) THE END OF A JOURNEY…

Posted by msangiuliano in co-design, digital platforms, inclusive innovation, NEWS, work life balance

The H2020 “Families Share” project has been keeping us busy since January 2018 and it has recently concluded its project life-cycle. As you could read in our previous posts already,  Families Share offered a bottom-up solution to facilitate work-life balance, piloted in 6 cities in Europe (Bologna, Gyor, Kortrijk, Thessaloniki, Trento, Venice) in the form…Read more »

Families_Share City Lab Venezia

Posted by Smart Venice srl in co-design, digital platforms, Gender, inclusive innovation, work life balance

Che cos’è Families Share è un progetto di innovazione sociale che mira al raggiungimento di un maggior equilibrio vita privata-lavoro, proponendo modelli di cura all’infanzia basati sull’auto-aiuto e la solidarietà tra famiglie. Il progetto si sviluppa in 6 diverse aree (City Labs): Bologna, Trento e Venezia in Italia, Kortrijk (BE), Gyor (HU), Thessaloniki (GR). Il…Read more »

Families_Share. Socializing care in neighborhoods through digital social innovation and co-designed OS technologies

Posted by Smart Venice srl in co-design, inclusive innovation, NEWS

Work life balance is always difficult and for parents in particular, engaged into ‘acrobatic’ efforts to combine two domains with often diverging rythms and needs, and in a socio-economic context featured by unstable job conditions and welfare cuts. We are proud of being one of the promoting partners of the  Families_Share project which was recently…Read more »

The new Gender4STEM project kicked off! Participatory co-design of an on line learning platform for STEM teachers.

Posted by Smart Venice srl in co-design, inclusive innovation, NEWS, STEM

Laying down the building blocks of innovation means also to inspire youngsters to pursue scientific and technological studies and careers. Inclusive innovation is the goal of the Gender4STEM, aiming at creating  digital tools to overcome gender gap in STEM (Science Technology Mathematics & Engineering), nurturing girls’ interest towards these fields and ultimately increase the number…Read more »