Cooperation for Development @ Politecnico di Milano
Emanuela Colombo (presented by Giancarlo Spinelli)
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Cooperation4Development:
overview
Cooperation for Development
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External Context: Challenges and needs of cooperation
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Internal Reasons: university cooperation
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The Eight Goals of the Millennium
Logics of global Interdependence
Main Actors
University competences
Cooperation and University:
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Vision and value added
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mission
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paths
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Coordination
Cooperation for Development @ Politecnico di Milano
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Mandate, Vision and Mission
Reasons and shared Rationale
The opportunity of collaboration: Partners
The Challenge: renewing project making
Intervention Scopes, Methods and Results (2006 and 2007)
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Dissemination, Training, International and local Projects
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Relationships and Partnerships: Institutional Committments
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Research and Technology Transfer
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Cooperation4Development:
overview
Cooperation for Development
•
External Context: Challenges and needs of cooperation
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•
•
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Internal Reasons: university cooperation
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•
The Eight Goals of the Millennium
Logics of global Interdependence
Main Actors
University competences
Cooperation and University:
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Vision and value added
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mission
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paths
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Coordination
Cooperation for Development @ Politecnico di Milano
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Mandate, Vision and Mission
Reasons and shared Rationale
The opportunity of collaboration: Partners
The Challenge: renewing project making
Intervention Scopes, Methods and Results (2006 and 2007)
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Dissemination, Training, International and local Projects
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Relationships and Partnerships: Institutional Committments
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Research and Technology Transfer
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Cooperation4Development: challenges and needs
The 8 Goals Millennium MDGs and the frontiers of global development
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multidisciplinary and complex tasks, challenge for all Mankind
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strong partnerships are required
The interdependency principle states that our World is a single Nation
Brandt’s Report (1978)
• Economic: total convenience for the global market
• Environmental: mankind actions and impact on environment
• Social: interrelations between culture and societies in order to keep peace
An INNOVATIVE model of Development able to preserve and integrate local culture
and support Mankind in the path towards the growth of a sustainable civil society is needed
Development Issues concern everybody!
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The 8 Goals of the Millennium s MDGs
Goal
Goal
Goal
Goal
Goal
Goal
Goal
Goal
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Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a Global Partnership for Development
The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the
Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-and signed by
147 Heads of State and Government.
It contains specific commitments to fight poverty,
- It recognises that there are needs relevant to all countries: the poor and
especially the rich ones
- It fixes the deadline
2015
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Cooperation4Development: challenges and needs
The 8 Goals Millennium MDGs and the frontiers of global development
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multidisciplinary and complex tasks, challenge for all Mankind
•
strong partnerships are required
The interdependency principle states that our World is a single Nation
Brandt’s Report (1978)
• Economic: total convenience for the global market
• Environmental: mankind actions and impact on environment
• Social: interrelations between culture and societies in order to keep peace
An INNOVATIVE model of Development able to preserve and integrate local culture
and support Mankind in the path towards the growth of a sustainable civil society is needed
Development Issues concern everybody!
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Cooperation4Development :
preliminary remarks
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Cooperation4Development: Challenges and needs
• Transversal & multidisciplinary approaches are required for programs
• Inspired by shared objectives and agreements - Governance
• Focused on local capacity building, knowledge transfer, local contest and human factor
• Centered on appropriate technology transfer and environmental preservation
• Able to operate for the benefit of stakeholders
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Strong Partnerships, Network capabilities are needed and required
• With capable and motivated actors for covering the multitasking needs
“Professionals” need to be trained for acting in this field
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Cooperation4Development: Universities as proper partners
We have to play a role…
The academic mission stands on three pillars:
1. teaching and education
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represents the foundation of the capability of spreading knowledge
2. research activities
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represent the way for updating our knowledge, keep a dynamic teaching, develop a
critical capability in the young generations.
3. technology transfer within the relations with industrial companies
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represents the way in which the academic culture demonstrates to be effective for the
social and economical development of the Nation and its market.
“Professionals” need to be trained for the global world
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Cooperation4Development at Polimi:
the vision
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The vision @ Politecnico di Milano:
Technology & Innovation
have always represented key advantages
for great competitive performances.
Technology & Innovation alone are not enough anymore.
Only driven by Human factors and coupled with the principle of Social Responsibility
They may build a good set of instruments and values able to support our civil society
in the “challenge for global Development and human promotion”
The problem of development concerns the whole world…
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Cooperation4Development @POLIMI:
the vision
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The vision @ Politecnico di Milano:
Learning principles of Cooperation4Development creates positive values
that may be useful in any global frame where people will work
These values may lead to a
generation of responsible individuals (North & South)
able to truly act in that worldwide “challenge for global Development”
All Universities need to prepare the
Citizens of The Global World
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Cooperation4Development at Polimi:
the mission
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Serving and Supporting the Social Development:
A. Set up of a program of education & training, dissemination, spreading,
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training professionals able to operate in the social transformation
• Taking care of Social, human and environmental factors
• Able to identify appropriate model of development and technologies
B. Building strong partnerships for empowering project effectiveness
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Institutions, NGOs, international/Non profit organizations, Private companies,
Universities
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Empowering projects capabilities
C. Using research and relationships to become a reference/support
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to Identify new models and methods
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to understand better the cause/effect mechanisms
We foster cooperation with existing international networks
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Objectives, Methods and Approach
Objectives
• Knowledge Transfer for innovation and economic development (joint training
starting from research and interaction with the territory)
• Creating/strengthening culture and competence
• Strengthening institutional context starting from universities
– Training researchers;
– Improving quality of Professors skills and competences;
– Developing better study curricula and promoting student mobility;
– Evaluating the opportunities of staff exchanges
• Increasing intellectual and human capital
Method and Approach
• Involvement for knowledge sharing and decision making processes
• Continuous monitoring
• Attention paid to complexity (State, Civil Society)
• Strengthening links between Italian and local universities
• Supporting the creation of transversal local networks
– Involving institutions, private sector and NGOs
>> Ethic vision of civil society (as a goal, not as a mean)
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In the previous years we have focused our activities on dissemination and training and
we have experienced many opportunities in term of partnership and project
development
1. Dissemination
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Cultural Road map for MDGs under the U.N. patronize
Seminars and Workshops on Development and Intercultural Aspects
Training
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Course “Engineering and Cooperation4Development” – First @POLIMI (2.5 Credits)
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Within Alta Scuola Politecnica a Project for Ecuador has been proposed
3. Projects opportunities
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Africa (Kenya, Tanzania)/Latin America (Ecuador)/Middle Est (Lebanon): support to
the autonomy development (Local institutions , local universities, local ONGs)
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UNIDO Faculty Chair on Innovation
4. Institutional Relations
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Coordinators: “Universities Network @NORTH Italy” (by Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
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Working group “School & Voluntaries” (by Ministry of Education – Lombardy office)
5. Research and Technology Transfer
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Agency/ Observatory on best practices, models targeted to cooperation for
development
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Transversal Partnerships in Cooperation
ONGS and
Organisation
ASVI
AVSI,
Frères des Hommes
Mani Tese,
OCCAM,
OpenCity
Engineers Without
borders
Soleterrae,
Cooperative Chico
Mendes,
Medecines Sans
Frontières
AIAT, Corridoio Zero
CIRPS, Combonian
Missionaries
Namaste
EADI
International Organizations
ONU, ILO, UNIDO
Universities
Partners
“Coordinamento Universitario per
la Cooperazione e lo Sviluppo”
(23 Universities),
+ other Universities:
Roma,
Perugia,
Siena,
Palermo,
Calabria,
Napoli,
Lecce
Finnish & Norway Network of Univ.
Delft & Gratz Universities
Institutions
DGCS-MAE, Regione
Lombardia, ICE
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Private Sector
Assolombarda, Sodalitas
Foundations
Cooperatio4Development@Polimi:
an example
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Program of Partnership within the EAC:
EDULINK ExC3ITE Project
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITIES
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Program of Partnership within the EAC:
EDULINK ExC3ITE Project
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PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITIES
POLIMI fosters cooperation with local Institutions to
support the scientific and Technological upgrading of the
local Higher Education Institutions
Overall Objective
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Boosting the contribution of Engineering Technology to the socioeconomic
development of the East African Community
Specific objectives
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To build capacity in delivering relevant and
effective training programmes, preparing
an enabling environment to carry out
research activities and foster community
service through a Network of Higher
Education Institutions (HEIs)
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Program of Partnership within the EAC:
EDULINK ExC3ITE Project
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Expected Results
the project is built around the ideas of Capacity building and Networking that cross
over the specific objective of the program
1. A regional network (RN) of HEIs in Engineering Technology consistent with
national, regional strategies for reinforcing generation of knowledge and
innovation.
2. A common strategic approach for generating synergies with Stakeholders and
contributing to the fulfillment of the HEIs’ missions.
3. Teaching and Support staff development
focused on capacities (innovative teaching
and training methodologies), technical
competences and facilities.
4. A common pilot approach to quality
control system for improving and monitoring
teaching and learning
5. Enhanced capacity for governance
and management in the partner institutions
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Program of Partnership within the EAC:
EDULINK ExC3ITE Project
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Strategic Relevance
• The Project proposed by the Consortium is aligned with the Edulink vision and
presents the following strategic relevance:
1. Regional integration for effecting the socioeconomic development
2. Engineering Technology and Focus on Innovation in line with the EAC
strategies
3. Response to the current EAC HEIs strategic plans
4. Governmental involvement and political goodwill
5. Capacity building
6. Regional and International Networking
7. Participatory process and PCM
8. Attention to gender and brain drain issues
9. Quality control and assurance in teaching and learning
10. Local ownership
11. ....to have an ExC3ITing project in hand
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Program of Partnership within the EAC:
EDULINK ExC3ITE Project
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EDULINK II CALL (European Project on Higher Education)
Title:
EXC3ITE
Elimu (Education) For Common Creative Capacity
in Innovation, Technology and Engineering.
- Applicant : Politecnico di Milano
- Partners:
The Mombasa Polytechnic University College,
The Kenya Polytechnic University College, Kenya;
The Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology, Tanzania
- Associates
Ministry of Science and Technology – Kenya
AVSI Foundation (Italian NGO), Italy
Fondazione Politecnico, Italy
Italian Embassy in Nairobi, Italy
Ingegneria Senza Frontiere – Milano (Volunteers) , Italy
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Cooperatio4Development@Polimi:
an
example
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PERU PROJECT
SECTORIAL INNOVATION SYSTEM
Institutional Capacity Building and Competences
for innovating the Textile sector
APPLICANT:
UNIDO
Politecnico di Milano
Scuola Superiore di
Sant’Anna
FUNDING:
Ministero degli Affari Esteri
Cooperazione Italiana
attraverso Ufficio
Cooperazione di Nairobi
CAF: comunità andine
PARTNER:
Ministerio de la Producción
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo,
Ministerio de Educatión, Ministerio de Trabajo y
Promoción del Empleo, Universidad Católica
Sedes Sapientiae (UCSS), Universidad Nacional de
Ingeniería (UNI), Consejo Nacional de
Competitividad (CNC)
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Cooperation4Development @POLIMI: pre-conditions
Pre-conditions to be addressed
“Scientific Method, Quality Assurance,
Process Innovation and Partnerships
need to be the driving force
for strengthening our potential & our impact
and building
a high quality network able to act in a
network of networks
for global development”.
Every shared approach
has a cost-benefit
balance for individuals
It is time to effectively
confirm our choices
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