Briefs, Data Cards and Windows

Data Card - Cohesion policy and waste. Composting plants to reduce unsorted waste

On the occasion of the 2021 edition of the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR), scheduled between 20 and 28 November, and endorsed among others by the EU Commission and the CoR, OpenCoesione is editing a Data Card focused on cohesion policy investments to strengthen the plants for the waste organic fraction management, financing the construction or revamping of plants for the production of compost, biogas and biomethane.

The projects chosen are almost exclusively located in the southern regions and in particular 3 in Sardinia Region, which - thanks also to the cohesion policies - in the period of the last two programming periods has achieved a significant increase in the % of organic waste intercepted and treated efficiently, no longer disposing them in the landfills or thermoelectric plants based on incineration.

Data Card: Cohesion policy and audiovisual heritage

October 27 is World Audiovisual Heritage Day, established in 2005, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Recommendation for the Safeguarding of Moving Images by the General Conference of UNESCO.
In 2021, the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage theme is "Your Window to the World". This definition fits audiovisual materials which, as objects of documentary heritage, provide a window from which to observe events that we cannot witness, we listen to voices from the past that can no longer speak and we create stories that inform and entertain.

After having dedicated a Data Card in 2020 to cohesion policies and cinema, or to the creation and production of films and film-TVs and the digitization of cinemas, this year OpenCoesione explores other types of projects relating to the audiovisual heritage.

Data Card - Inclusive tourism and cohesion policies

Le Nazioni Unite hanno deciso di dedicare il World Tourism Day 2021 - che si celebra il 27 settembre - al “turismo per una crescita inclusiva”. Il 2020 e il 2021 rappresentano due anni senza precedenti per l’industria del turismo. La pandemia di COVID-19 ha avuto un enorme impatto sociale ed economico, che ha colpito le economie sviluppate e quelle in via di sviluppo. In Italia le politiche di coesione nazionali e comunitarie hanno offerto ingenti risorse e ampie opportunità per promuovere l'attrattività turistica del Paese. L’analisi degli investimenti effettuati nei cicli di programmazione 2007-2013 e 2014-2020, indica tre principali ambiti tematici di intervento indirizzati alla valorizzazione delle dotazioni di capitale naturale e culturale territoriale e al potenziamento della capacità di accogliere il turista, anche nelle aree interne del Paese. La Data Card è dedicata a questi progetti di "turismo inclusivo".

Data Card - Cohesion policies in the Mediterranean Sea

The International Day of the Mediterranean Sea is celebrated on 8 July: it represents an opportunity to raise awareness of the state of health of what the Romans called Mare Nostrum and the dangers that threaten it. On this occasion, OpenCoesione dedicates a Data Card to describe the projects of cohesion policies for the Mediterranean.

Data Card - Cohesion policies and confiscated assets

Twenty-five years ago, on 21 March 1996, the 'Day of Memory and Commitment in Remembrance of All Victims of the Mafias', promoted by the association Libera, was celebrated for the first time in Rome, in the Campidoglio square. In March 2017, a bill was passed establishing and recognising the same date as a national day.

This year, 21 March, is the occasion for OpenCoesione to take stock with a Data Card on cohesion policy initiatives concerning the re-use of confiscated assets, starting with the "National strategy for the valorisation of confiscated assets through cohesion policies". As of 31 December 2020, 415 projects with a net public funding of EUR 273.21 million are monitored on the portal.

Data Card - “At the School of OpenCohesion”: European project

The 24th January is marked as International Education Day: the United Nations celebrates its key role in setting up the conditions for peace and sustainable development. In 2021 this Day takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic which has led to the closure of schools, universities, other learning institutions and programmes.OpenCoesione publishes a Data Card highlighting a response to the ongoing health emergency by the EU project At the School of OpenCohesion (ASOC): launched in 2013 in Italy, it involved over 30 thousand secondary school students from 6 European countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal) in civic monitoring activities on projects financed by cohesion policy.

Data Card - Hydrogeological instability

On Tuesday 13th October is celebrated the United Nations International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, dedicated in 2020 to the theme of governance, and therefore to the ability of countries to prepare "strategies for reducing the risk of disasters at national and local level".
On this occasion, the OpenCoesione Data Card underlines the cohesion policies as a mean to contain and reduce the hydrogeological instability in Italy. 
In the 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 programming periods, in particular, our country has promoted through the cohesion policy 7,250 interventions against instability, with a total public cost of 7.8 billion euros (payments amount to 3,5 billion euros, according to the data updated at 30th June 2020).

Data Card - Renewable energy

EUSEW - the European Week dedicated to renewable energies is an initiative of the European Commission scheduled between 22 and 26 June. This year, also following the corona virus outbreak, the chosen theme is "Beyond the crisis: clean energy for green recovery and growth" dealing with the issue of overcoming the crisis, and how clean energy can be a tool for recovery and sustainable growth. The European Week is the reason for this Data Card, dedicated to OpenCoesione projects that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Data Card - Biodiversity

World Environment Day is a holiday proclaimed in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly, on the occasion of the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme. Since 1974 it has been celebrated every year on June 5th. World Environment Day 2020 is dedicated to the theme of biodiversity, "the infrastructure that supports life on Earth and the development of the human being" underline the United Nations.
On the occasion of WED 2020, OpenCoesione thus publishes a Data Card dedicated to the interventions of cohesion policies to protect and enhance biodiversity in Italy.

Data card - Museums for Equality

On May 18 is celebrated the International Museum Day 2020 this year dedicated it to the theme "Museums for equality: diversity and inclusion". An even more significant day for Italy, where museums and monuments will be able to reopen to the public whether the safety protocols established by the authorities for flattening down the Covid-19 emergency have been adopted. OpenCoesione publishes a Data Card to underline the role of cohesion policies in supporting culture and cultural sites, and in particular of museums, with a focus on a small but representative selection of places where cohesion policies have financed various types of interventions favouring accessibility and inclusion: the Royal Palace of Carditello, the Verrucole Castle and several UNESCO sites in the Adriatic area.