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Open Data, Civic Monitoring,

Cohesion Policy for the high-school students

Raccontare la ricerca

Ninja Turtle
Turtles in action

Our class decided to choose the project "CASCADE" which stands for Coastal and marine waters integrated monitoring system for ecosystem protection and manegement. A project in collaboration with Croatia that aims to develop a series of actions concerted and coordinated to increase knowledge levels, assess the quality and define the vulnerability of inland, coastal and marine ecosystems in Italy and Croatia with the aim of protecting endangered species and supporting integrated management.

The project will:

-repair ecosystems

-assess the impact of extreme events.

-define tools to avoid conflict and develop synergies

-consolidate long-term research capacity through a dialogue with stakeholders and the participation of agencies, research centers and universities.

The project is led by the Puglia region with many other partners such as the University of Molise, University of Bologna, Marche region, etc.

The class chose this project in collaboration with the Croatian team because they believe it is important to protect marine species especially endangered ones.

And it has about 5,817,547 euros as its budget.

The class chose this project because they believe it is important to protect marine species especially endangered ones. And that's why the class decided to choose the name "Ninja turtles" since turtles are one of the many endangered marine species.

First Lesson: In this lesson, the team begins to design a civic monitoring research study, gathers information and data on the chosen project (from the administrative history that led to its implementation to data and contextual information on the issue to which it pertains), delves into the territorial and thematic context in which the chosen project fits (to understand what the reasons are for choosing to fund it, who decided it, and according to what procedures), learns secondary data research techniques (to document properly using official and reliable sources).

What are the steps involved?

-learn the path of ASOC, the "rules of the game," and the objectives

-understand what cohesion policies and public policies in general consist of, what they are for, and why it is important to deal with them with ASOC

-understand what OpenCoesione is and what its activities and goals are

-learn how to navigate OpenCoesione and reconstruct the administrative history of the chosen project from the project sheet

-understand what open data are and why they are important for nosta research and delve into the main research techniques

for collecting secondary data (from artistic productions to open data)

-hunting for data: how government publishes its data and where to find it

- data expedition: in 90 minutes, divided in groups, develop at least two research proposals related to your territory starting from the OpenCoesione portal  

-decide with the teacher which proposal to pursue throughout the ASOC course and divide into roles

-confront each other on what they have found and do their homework.