Briefs, Data Cards and Windows
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This section includes:
- OpenCoesione briefs: providing information and food for thought on cohesion policies and specific aspects related to ongoing projects, as well as updates to published data.
- Data Cards: a selection of projects dedicated to specific issues or events for the purpose of highlighting the contribution made by cohesion policies, while promoting the initiatives financed and related content in a clear manner supported by charts and figures.
Data Card - Cohesion Policies and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2024, celebrated by the United Nations on 3 December, highlights the theme of disability leadership. In Italy, according to the National Institute of Statistics data (2023), 21.2% of the population experiences either severe or less severe limitations in their daily activities. Over 3 million people in Italy, or 5.2% of the population, have disabilities. Cohesion policies aim to address this situation.
Data Card - Cohesion policies and Road Safety
OpenCoesione publishes a Data Card dedicated to cohesion policy interventions to promote road safety, in the face of statistics that in our country show a number of 3,039 people were killed in road accidents in 2023. In addition to motorists, those who lose their lives include many ‘weak users’ of the road, like pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. The Data Card anticipates the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, which the United Nations adopted in 2005 as ‘a fitting recognition for road accident victims and their families’ and which falls on the third Sunday in November.
Data Card - Cohesion policy and the World Cities Day
Giovedì 31 ottobre è la Giornata mondiale delle città, l'evento che conclude l'ottobre urbano delle Nazioni Unite, celebrata per la prima volta nel 2014. Nel 2024, il tema del World Cities Day è legato ai giovani che guidano l'azione climatica e locale per le città, Youth Leading Climate And Local Action For Cities. In Italia, le politiche di coesione prestano un'attenzione particolare alla aree urbane: con il ciclo di programmazione 2014-2020 è stato avviato il Programma Operativo Nazionale (PON) “Città Metropolitane”, conosciuto come PON METRO. I cinque progetti raccontati in questa Data Card sono finanziati nell'ambito del PON METRO. Sono interventi chiamati a contribuire alla realizzazione dell'Agenda urbana nazionale, che declina in Italia i 12 i temi dell’Agenda Urbana dell’UE.
Data Card - Cohesion Policies and Sign Languages
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 23rd September as the International Day of Sign Languages in order to raise awareness of the importance of sign language in the full realization of the human rights of deaf people. The Day represents an opportunity to support and protect the linguistic identity and cultural diversity of all deaf people and other sign language users: during the celebration the world is called to highlight the unity generated by our sign languages. In Italy, cohesion policy has also been able to support projects over the years to develop interaction through sign language and thus make spaces and services accessible: in our country, in fact, there are 7 million people with hearing problems, corresponding to 12.1% of the population.
Data Card - World Population Day and Cohesion Policies
On July 11, 1987, the world population reached 5 billion people for the first time. Since 1989, two years later, by decision of the United Nations, this day has been commemorated as World Population Day and celebrated since 1990 in over 90 countries.
On the occasion of World Population Day 2024, OpenCoesione is publishing a Data Card that illustrates some projects financed by cohesion policy in Italy to harmonize economic development and reduce inequalities related to ongoing demographic changes.
Data Card - Cohesion policies for a more efficient public service
June 23rd is the United Nations Public Service Day, established in 2002 by General Assembly Resolution A/RES/57/277 with the aim to “celebrate the value and virtue of community service”. The Day objective is to highlight the contribution of public service to the development process, recognize the work of public servants and encourage young people to pursue careers in the public sector.
On the occasion of the UN Public Service Day 2024, OpenCoesione publishes a Data Card to demonstrate how the public administrations in Italy, also with the support of cohesion policy, are a fundamental actors for "promoting innovation among global challenges", which is the dedicated theme of the UN Forum on Public Service 2024, scheduled from 24 to 26 June in the Republic of Korea.
Data Card - Cohesion policy and research on multiple sclerosis
Una diagnosi precoce è fondamentale per permettere di affrontare meglio la malattia. La politica di coesione supporta la ricerca medica e scientifica impegnata in questo ambito, attraverso numerosi progetti finalizzati a garantire una migliore qualità di vita per i malati di sclerosi multipla. Cinque vengono raccontati in occasione del World MS Day del 30 maggio
Data Card - Cohesion policy and skills development
The European Year of Skills, promoted by the European Commission and running until May 2024, aims to strengthen the capacity of Member States' citizens to participate in the labour market and give new impetus to the achievement of the EU's social objectives for 2030, which call for the involvement of at least 60% of adults in training activities and employment for at least 78% of the adult population. The Data Card describes 5 projects related to the acquisition of digital skills but also to upskilling and reskilling, i.e. aimed at those individuals in search of new opportunities, through training courses capable of bringing into the present professional skills that may have been developed in the past. Focus also on the National Operational Programme Youth Employment Initiative, for combating youth unemployment in the 2014-2020 programming cycle.
Data Card - #PONGOV, a series of innovation and cohesion paths
The NOP ERDF ESF GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY 2014 – 2020, the #pongov, has financed and made possible in Italy a series of innovation and cohesion paths that have seen about 100 administrations as protagonists, with the aim of accompanying the growth of a PA that is more efficient, effective and close to territories, citizens and enterprises. On the occasion of the #pongovexpo on 19 March 2024, the event that represents the final stage of the programme's activities, OpenCoesione dedicates it in a Data Card, starting from 6 projects.
Data Card - Cohesion policies and wetlands
The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, signed in Ramsar (Iran) on 2 February 1971, recognizes “the interdependence of man and his environment”. These are the elements that, from 2022, the United Nations will also celebrate on World Wetlands Day, to underline the importance of the Convention. Even cohesion policy is caring about the conservation of wetlands and promotes knowledge of them, by financing projects relating to multiple themes, Environment, Culture and tourism, Transport and mobility.