Projects
Data inizio: 01/12/2021
Data fine: 30/03/2023
Ente finanziatore: MAECI
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Climate change, environmental risk, and social mobilization in the Balkans
The project aims to identify, analyze, and connect those entities in the Western Balkans engaged in environmental protection and responding to the effects of climate change, with a focus on air pollution in the major Balkan cities. Facilitating the strengthening of an international network, through the exchange of practices and peer-to-peer capitalization, represents an opportunity to ensure the region's environmental security, enhancing the role of existing entities and enabling them to collaborate.
The action-research is carried out by CeSPI and OBC Transeuropa and funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
Vedi la pagina: Cambiamenti climatici rischio ambientale e mobilitazione sociale nei Balcani
Data inizio: 01/12/2021
Data fine: 30/11/2022
Ente finanziatore: MAECI
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Human capital mobility in and from the Balkans: when innovation manages to curb brain drain
The aim of the project is to promote understanding of the issue and foster exchanges between actors, both Italian and from the region, in order to address the problem of human capital flight in the Balkans and ensure greater dialogue and security. Specifically, the project tackles the issue of low youth employment in the Western Balkans. This leads to a loss of human capital and increases the risk that unemployed young people may fall into forms of radicalization and violent extremism.
The project is carried out by CeSPI and OBC Transeuropa and funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
Data inizio: 01/12/2021
Data fine: 30/06/2022
Ente finanziatore: MAECI
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Le comunità di italiani nell’Europa sudorientale: status culturale ed economico, ruolo delle donne e sviluppo sostenibile
The project aims to investigate the identity and cultural dynamics of recent history and the current cultural status and economic role of Italian communities in lesser-known settlement areas of Southeastern Europe such as Slavonia and Moslavina (Croatia), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Romania, with particular attention to the role of women and within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The project is coordinated by the Institute for Minority Rights of Eurac Research and carried out with the contribution of the Unit for Analysis, Planning, Statistics, and Historical Documentation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, pursuant to Article 23-bis of Presidential Decree 18/1967. The partnership also involves, in addition to the Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa, the associations Bellunesi nel Mondo and Trentini nel Mondo.
Video recording of the webinar: "Le comunità di italiani nell’Europa sudorientale"
Data inizio: 22/11/2021
Data fine: 26/11/2021
Ente finanziatore: MAECI
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
EU-Balkan Youth Forum
In collaboration with the MAECI from 22 to 26 November 2021 we curated the EU-BALKAN YOUTH FORUM event dedicated to young people from the countries of the European Union and the Western Balkans: to discuss together proposals for the future of Europe and the integration of Balkans in the EU.">In collaboration with the MAECI from 22 to 26 November 2021 we curated the EU-BALKAN YOUTH FORUM event dedicated to young people from the countries of the European Union and the Western Balkans: to discuss together proposals for the future of Europe and the integration of Balkans in the EU.
Data inizio: 01/08/2021
Data fine: 31/12/2021
Ente finanziatore: Central European Initiative - Executive Secretariat
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Youth in the Balkans resisting the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought health systems to their knees all over the world, particularly affecting the elderly. But in the Balkans, the ensuing economic and social crisis has often had shocking – and hard to ignore – effects on young people as well. In this dossier, produced with the support of the Central European Initiative - Executive Secretariat , we take stock of the first year and a half of the pandemic, and explore the post-Covid recovery scenarios for young people in Central and South-Eastern Europe.
Data inizio: 01/10/2021
Data fine: 30/09/2023
Ente finanziatore: Unione europea
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Work4Future: Cohesion policy in Italy and South-East Europe
Cohesion policy, for decades now, has been one of the main instruments of the European Union for promoting economic growth and achieving a more homogeneous level of development across all EU territories, stimulating in particular less developed and depressed regions. The funds set aside for cohesion policy represent almost a third of the total EU budget (392 billion Euros for 2021-2027).
The territories supported by these funds are often vulnerable in a variety of ways, but that doesn’t mean they are not rich in opportunities. Quite the contrary. Thanks to the project Work4Future, we will have the opportunity, using a bottom-up approach, to explore and tell these territories and challenges they face in all countries of South Eastern Europe which are members of the EU, from the valleys of Slovenia to the islands of Greece, focusing particulary on the impact of cohesion policy on employment opportunities.
OBC Transeuropa contributes to the project Work for Future together with Il Sole 24 Ore and ISSiRFA/CNR .
See the pages::
Work4future -home The European islands from the margins to the spotlight Between Slovenia and Italy an area that rediscovers itself as a territory Cohesion goes East Cross border programmes starting over together Adriatic tourism and more Can work be green in the East too Connected and cohesive The Balkans at the forefront
Data inizio: 01/07/2021
Data fine: 30/11/2021
Ente finanziatore: InCE
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Youth and Civil Society in the Western Balkans
The project, co-financed by the Central European Initiative (CEI) and the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, explores the role of civil society and youth organizations in the EU enlargement process in the Western Balkans, analyzing developments since the 2017 Trieste Forum organized within the framework of the Berlin Process.
The project is conducted in partnership by OBC Transeuropa and CeSPI.
Vedi la pagina Giovani e società civile nei Balcani Occidentali
Data inizio: 01/07/2021
Data fine: 31/10/2023
Ente finanziatore: Open Society Foundations
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
DJAS
The DJAS project (Digital Public Sphere: Journalism in the Age of Surveillance) explores the impact of the surveillance society on Italian journalism. By involving institutions, bodies, and professional organisations as well as the public itself, DJAS intends to encourage the journalistic community to reflect on the changes being introduced by the surveillance society.
The project is funded by the Horizon 2020 European research programme and by the Open Society Institute in cooperation with OSIFE/ Open Society Foundations.
Data inizio: 01/12/2020
Data fine: 31/05/2021
Ente finanziatore: InCE
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
The Balkan Route 5 Years Later
The project aims to explore the main aspects of the so-called "Balkan route," focusing on the situation in the countries most affected by the transit of migrants and on the most exposed borders (Turkey/Greece; Turkey/Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia; Italy/Slovenia). The research, conducted in partnership by OBCT and CeSPI, will take a multi-perspective approach to examine the characteristics and evolution of the "Balkan route," and then investigate how migration is managed in the countries under study—from Turkey to the Italian-Slovenian border—and the impact of these policies both domestically and on international relations. This will be achieved by combining analysis of available sources with qualitative interviews of key witnesses.
Data inizio: 03/11/2020
Data fine: 27/04/2021
Ente finanziatore: WMI Wikimedia Italia
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
The Yugoslav Wars on Wikipedia
The project is the result of a collaboration between the Martino Martini Institute of Education in Mezzolombardo and the Balkan and Caucasus Observatory, and it has been realized with the support of Wikimedia Italia (Wiki-Imparare grant). Students are involved in writing several entries on Wikipedia in Italian about various topics related to the Yugoslav wars, with particular attention to the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Data inizio: 01/11/2020
Data fine: 31/03/2021
Ente finanziatore: Unione europea
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR) facilitating the Enlargement process of the Western Balkans
The study commissioned by the DG Regional and Urban Policy to OBCT and CeSPI aims to explore the complementary points and identify possible synergies between the EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region (EUSAIR) and the EU enlargement process in the Western Balkan countries participating in the Macroregion.
Data inizio: 14/12/2020
Data fine: 13/12/2022
Ente finanziatore: Unione europea
Unità operativa: CSG + OBCT
INGRiD – Intersecting Grounds of Discrimination in Italy
The aim of the project is to combat multiple discrimination using an intersectional approach. INGRiD aims to create a network of qualified anti-discrimination services in Italy, strengthen the assistance provided to victims, and raise awareness on how to combat discrimination. The project’s activities – which focus on consolidating a national anti-discrimination network and establishing a "branch" in Trentino – include research on hidden multiple discrimination, local training for public and private professionals (law enforcement, public transportation, teachers), as well as the exchange of best practices.
Data inizio: 31/12/2020
Data fine: 30/06/2022
Ente finanziatore: Unione europea
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
The Parliament of Rights – 3rd edition
IThe Parliament of Rights - 3rd edition aims at contributing to a better understanding of the role of the European Parliament, as the only institution directly elected by European citizens, in the democratic life of the Union, in defining European policies for fundamental rights, and on crucial matters for the future of our continent such as climate, the environment, migration, and digital. In this complex moment for our continent, now is the time to imagine post-pandemic Europe. We will be doing this by promoting an informed, open, and plural public debate that will involve MEPs, experts, journalists, students, teachers, and policymakers in debates, seminars, and workshops. We thus intend to make our contribution to the participation of citizens in the European decision-making process and civil society’s capacity for action at the transnational level, which is essential for relaunching the European project from below and promoting a Europe of rights.
Data inizio: 01/01/2019
Data fine: 31/10/2021
Ente finanziatore: CIVITATES
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Winning the Narrative. Reclaiming spaces, building new narratives
The project addresses the issue of the shrinking spaces of action for civil society with an approach focused on building "new narratives" on the themes of solidarity and reception.
In Italy, humanitarian organisations engaged in relief at sea in the Mediterranean and NGOs active in the reception sector have been subject to a defamation and criminalisation campaign to discredit them in the eyes of public opinion. Nonetheless, most Italians still experience feelings of empathy, compassion, and solidarity with foreigners.
Against this backdrop, how can the vision of an inclusive, open society be effectively conveyed and a new image restored to the world of solidarity and its protagonists?
The research (In Italian):
Leggi le ricerche:
La società civile italiana: da bersaglio ad antidoto alla crisi della democrazia? Riprendersi gli spazi: costruire nuove narrazioni, alcune riflessioni conclusive Riprendersi gli spazi: costruire nuove narrazioni. Il caso di Bari Riprendersi gli spazi: costruire nuove narrazioni per l’accoglienza. Il caso di Padova Riprendersi gli spazi: costruire nuove narrazioni per l’accoglienza. Il caso di Trieste Riprendersi gli spazi: costruire nuove narrazioni per l’accoglienza. Il caso di Ventimiglia Riprendersi gli spazi: costruire nuove narrazioni per la cooperazione internazionale. Il caso trentino
Data inizio: 01/11/2020
Data fine: 30/06/2021
Ente finanziatore: MAECI
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
The Italian communities in the Balkans: recent history and new trajectories
Research project aimed at exploring the recent history and current status of the historical Italian minority communities living in Southeastern Europe, while also examining the potential of Italy’s foreign policies as the "kin state" of these minorities and as a politically strategic actor in this area. Co-financed by the MAECI (pursuant to Article 23-bis) and conducted by OBCT in collaboration with the Department of History at the University of Rijeka, Eurac Research, and the Trentino Historical Museum Foundation (FMST).
See the page: Le comunità italiane nei Balcani storia recente e nuove traiettorie
Data inizio: 15/09/2020
Data fine: 30/06/2021
Ente finanziatore: Museo della Guerra
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Gli ultimi della Grande Guerra: memoria in rete
The project aims to bring to light a little-known story – that of Serbian and Russian prisoners of war used as forced labor on the Alpine front during the First World War – and to engage students in an active learning experience. Various activities will involve the proposing organizations, each at different times and with different roles: a historical research on Serbian and Russian prisoners in Trentino during the Great War; the creation of a photographic exhibition at the War Museum and of illustrative panels at Forte delle Benne; the development of an "interactive map" indicating the locations and employment sites of the prisoners in Trentino; the publication of a scientific article in the “Annals” of the War Museum; and a series of meetings and activities with local schools.
See the page: Gli ultimi della Grande Guerra memoria in rete
Data inizio: 01/01/2020
Data fine: 30/04/2020
Ente finanziatore: Open Society Foundations
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Looking beyond the borders
The Looking beyond the Borders project aims to strengthen the fundamental rights of asylum seekers and refugees in Italy within the context of current European and national strategies through constant monitoring on the ground, valuable collection of testimonies, and essential advocacy work. The lead organization of the project is the Italian Council for Refugees (CIR), and OBC Transeuropa is participating by producing three videos by filmmaker Paolo Martino.
Data inizio: 20/01/2020
Data fine: 30/04/2024
Ente finanziatore: ART-ER
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Analysis of the territorial challenges, needs and potentials of the Adriatic-Ionian Region and strategic options for post-2020 ADRION programme
The research assignment entrusted by the Emilia-Romagna Region to Soges, in partnership with OBC Transeuropa, provides for the realisation of a territorial analysis on socio-economic developments and on the territorial needs of the area affected by the European territorial cooperation programme ADRION (Adriatic-Ionian). The analysis will be used by the Emilia Romagna Region, ADRION's Managing Authority, to prepare the Interreg 2021-2127 cooperation programme. The main topics covered refer to the European policy objectives: A smarter Europe; A greener and low carbon Europe; More connected Europe; More social Europe; A Europe closer to citizens.
Data inizio: 01/11/2019
Data fine: 31/03/2020
Ente finanziatore: Ministero degli Affari Esteri italiano
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
The bilateral perspective between Italy and the Western Balkans: evolution and recommendations for the relaunch
The aim of the research is to understand the state of bilateral relations between Italy and a selected group of countries in the region (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia), in order to highlight the acquired background and the future potential for cooperation, renewed in the framework of the European project. The research will end with the elaboration of specific policy recommendations, also in a comparative perspective between the different countries under investigation. Project carried out in collaboration with the Center for International Political Studies (CeSPI). Funded by the MAECI pursuant to art. 23-bis
Registrazione del seminario online: Tra Italia e Balcani Occidentali: scambi economici e culturali in un quadro europeo
Data inizio: 01/11/2019
Data fine: 30/06/2021
Ente finanziatore: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Rijeka in Flux: Borders and Urban Change after World War II
Rijeka in Flux is a four-year international research project which aims to investigate the effects on the city of Rijeka of the displacement of the border between Yugoslavia and Italy after the Second World War. The scholars of the historical research team will share the results of their work both through traditional academic channels and using the interactive online map dedicated to Rijeka. The map is also designed as a crowdsourcing tool open to all researchers, witnesses, and citizens who wish to share their knowledge of the city.
Visit the page: Rijeka in Flux Borders and Urban Change after World War II
Data inizio: 01/09/2019
Data fine: 31/07/2022
Ente finanziatore: Erasmus+ program of the European Commission
Unità operativa: CSG + OBCT
DIGIT-AL – Digital Transformation in Adult Learning for Active Citizenship
Understanding how the digitalization of society impacts human rights, public policies, media, and daily life in order to develop appropriate educational proposals. The three-year "Digit-al" project, supported by the European Commission within the "Erasmus+" program, involves two units of the Center for International Cooperation (OBCT and CSG), along with six other civil society organizations from six European countries, in researching and identifying best practices to make "digital literacy" a common subject across Europe.
Data inizio: 09/09/2019
Data fine: 06/06/2020
Ente finanziatore: WMI Wikimedia Italia
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Yugoslav wars on Wikipedia
Students from Trentino take center stage in raising awareness about the Yugoslav wars. From January to April 2020, OBCT collaborated with the Library of the Edmund Mach Foundation, guiding a class from the Agricultural Institute of San Michele all'Adige (TN) in writing several Italian-language Wikipedia entries on various topics related to the Yugoslav wars, with a particular focus on the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Data inizio: 01/09/2019
Data fine: 31/10/2022
Ente finanziatore: AICS
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Pedakos
The quality of education in Kosovo is a source of serious concern and one of the country's main challenges. The international cooperation project PEDAKOS aims to improve the quality of educational services offered by public, private, and community-based early childhood schools (ages 3-5) in Kosovo by providing the Balkan country with an Italian excellence recognized globally in the educational sector: the Reggio Emilia Approach (REA). This educational approach was born and developed in the Schools and Infant-Toddler Centers of Reggio Emilia and is now an inspiration for over 35 countries worldwide. The NGO RTM, which coordinates the project, has tasked OBC Transeuropa with producing and disseminating a series of journalistic content on the project's themes.
Data inizio: 01/05/2019
Data fine: 31/03/2021
Ente finanziatore: Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo
Unità operativa: CSG + OBCT
In March with the Climate
The Centre for International Cooperation joins “In Marcia con il Clima”. Coordinated by Oxfam Italia, the project aims to provide support and resources to young people who, starting from 2018, have begun to make their voices heard regarding the fight against climate change and the protection of the planet.
The operational unit Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT) contributes to the activities of "In March with the Climate" within the EDJNet network, producing quality data visualisations, infographics, and journalistic contents that tell the phenomenon in the various territories involved in the project.
Data inizio: 01/02/2019
Data fine: 31/05/2019
Ente finanziatore: Unione europea
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Again Never Again
The project NeverAgain: Teaching Transmission of Trauma and Remembrance through Experiential Learning seeks to test new experiential methodologies to deal with traumas of the past present in our societies.
The project is coordinated by SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory of the University of Turku (Selma Centre) and cofinanced by the programme "Europefor citizens" in the European Union. Partners include both academic actors like the universities of Regensburg, Copenhagen, and Vilnius and NGOs like Patrir, Cluj, and TPO, Sarajevo.
Data inizio: 01/11/2018
Data fine: 31/10/2021
Ente finanziatore: Unione europea
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
PANELFIT – Participatory Approaches to a New Ethical and Legal Framework for ICT
The technical innovations connected to the exploitation of big data, along with new laws such as GDPR, are radically changing the ICT scenario inside and outside the European Union. PANELFIT is a European network of 13 organisations, operating in different fields – from technological consulting to research, from data protection to RI ethics, from citizens science to journalism – who work together in order to take advantage of the technological opportunities of these processes without compromising the citizens’ security and fundamental rights.
https://www.panelfit.eu/canal-youtube/ https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/data-protection-and-ict
Data inizio: 01/10/2018
Data fine: 31/12/2020
Ente finanziatore: OSIFE
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
ESVEI
ESVEI tackles structural issues that in recent years are increasing the vulnerability to external interference of democratic processes, taking Italy as a case study. It aims at increasing awareness, initiating policy debates, and providing sensible, forward-looking policy recommendations in three domains that are central to democratic processes in modern societies, but that, due to inadequate regulations and poor practices, needlessly expose such processes to meddling: social media and disinformation; transparency of funding and lobbying; cybersecurity.
See the pages:
ESVEI ESVEI Cybersecurity ESVEI Transparency of funding and lobbying ESVEI social media and disinformation
Data inizio: 01/10/2018
Data fine: 31/08/2021
Ente finanziatore: UE
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
EUWEBER-The European Union and the Western Balkans: Enlargement and resilience
The project aims to offer university students a better understanding of European foreign policy matters, with particular focus on Southeastern European and Eastern Partnership countries. It includes interactive seminars that are also streamed online for a wider audience, internship opportunities at Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT), and a students' blog. The project is promoted by the Jean Monnet Excellence Centre of the University of Trento in cooperation with Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa and with the support of the European Union.
Data inizio: 01/06/2018
Data fine: 30/03/2019
Ente finanziatore: MAECI
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
The Italian Presidency of the OSCE 2018: challenges and opportunities in priority areas
The joint OBCT/ CeSPI project aims to provide up-to-date, in-depth knowledge of some of the areas in which the OSCE operates directly, of particular relevance for the Italian Presidency. The project will focus in particular on two regions: the areas of long-term conflict (Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh) and the Western Balkans. The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Data inizio: 01/02/2018
Data fine: 31/12/2019
Ente finanziatore: European Union
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
ECPMF
Defending the right to freedom of information and promoting the transnational public debate on violations registered in the European Union as well as in the enlargement and Eastern Partnership countries are the objectives of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom - ECPMF , of which OBC Transeuropa is one of the founding members.
The services OBCT provides to ECPMF include the development and curation of the Resource Centre on Media Freedom in Europe and an ongoing work of information and in-depth analysis on key issues for European democracy, in network with numerous media partners in Italy and South-Eastern Europe.
