The City
Science Initiative aims to strengthen how science and research can help address
the urban challenges and to develop a structured approach to evidence-informed
policy-making at cities’ level.
Recently,
the report reflecting on the CSI pilot phase has been finalized and published,
by the name of ‘City Science for Urban Challenges’. The report of the mission
board for climate-neutral and smart cities is accessible through this link.
“The
introduction of a Climate City Mission is a radical new way of achieving
climate neutrality – and of doing so faster, by 2030. The Mission aims to
promote system innovation across the value chain of city investment, targeting
multiple sectors such as governance, transport, energy, construction and
recycling, with support from powerful digital technologies. As such, it
requires a change in regulations, approaches and instruments combined with the
willingness to go beyond existing schemes and habits. The Mission also demands
a change of attitude towards practical aspects of implementation, but also as
concerns people and organisations working together: citizens, local
governments, central and regional governments, and European institutions. We
expect citizens, city administrations and political leaders to show commitment,
imagination and determination. We expect you to implement this Mission with the
same determination as the Americans did with their Moonshot. The climate minded
transformation of cities goes far beyond the idea of the Man on the Moon. This
is The Mission of our times!” (Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Chair of the Mission
Board for Climate Neutral and Smart Cities)
The third seminar aimed at (i) understanding how states may harness the potential of blockchain technologies through the presentation of different case studies (ii) and mapping the first forays of international organizations into these emerging technologies.
In the seminar, Prof. Iaione delivered a presentation, together with Prof. Sofia Ranchordas, on ‘Smart Public Contracts: Home for Future-Proofing Law?‘. The seminar gathered together experts of the field from all around the world. Concluding remarks from anthropological and sociological perspectives were given in the end to close the final seminar.
Find the detailed program inserted below with the speakers and the exact topics of their presentations or, alternatively here or here.
3rd Seminar: Blockchain Technologies at the Domestic and the International Levels
Opening Presentation
– Dr Lily Martinet, Dr Edouard Fromageau (MPI Luxembourg for Procedural Law)
States Harnessing the Potential of Blockchain Technologies
– Dr Lily Martinet (MPI Luxembourg for Procedural Law) Exercising Digital Sovereignty over the Blockchain – Dr Helen Eenmaa-Dimitrieva (University of Tartu) Sovereignty and Autonomy via Mathematics
– Ms Tian Lu (Maastricht University) The Implementation of Blockchain Technologies in Chinese Courts – Prof. Christian Iaione (Luiss Guido Carli University, LabGov.City), Prof. Sofia Ranchordas (University of Groningen) Smart Public Contracts: Home for Future-Proofing Law?
International Organisations Embracing the Blockchain
– Ms Emmanuelle Ganne (World Trade Organization) Blockchain and International Trade: From Tech to Regulation – The Need for an International Approach
– Dr Edouard Fromageau (MPI Luxembourg for Procedural Law) Uses of Blockchain by International Financial Institutions and their Legal Implications – Dr André Nunes Chaib (Maastricht University) What Role for the IMF in Regulating Virtual Currencies? – Prof. Nathalie Janson (NEOMA Business School and Sciences Po) Private Cryptocurrencies versus Central Bank Digital currencies: The War of Titans?
Concluding Remarks
– Prof. Antoine Garapon (Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice), Dr Jean Lassègue (CNRS)
MOTUS-E is the first Italian Association to bring together industries, the transport sector, the academia, consumer associations and opinion movements, to favor the transition towards a more sustainable model of mobility, in a context in which technologies and digital transformation play a crucial role.
LabGov’s strategic partner for various projects, MOTUS-E, has recently launched a call for papers and a best thesis award to prize the best research contribution in E-mobility. Both of the calls are open to everyone wishing to submit a paper, a research project or a thesis (discussed in years 2017-18-19), regardless of the country. Even papers already published in journals may be considered since there are no specific requirements on publication.
Universities, graduates, undergraduates, researchers and professionals are invited to present their own contribution about one of the clusters launched by MOTUS-E. The three selected papers and the winner of the Best Thesis Award will also have the opportunity to attend the MOTUS-E Event in Rome in 2020. The deadline for the submissions is 31st January and a Scientific Committee will evaluate the papers by 15th April. The papers can be submitted either in Italian or in English.
Find the more detailed rules, the application form and the topics through the following link: https://tree.it/motus-e-2020/
Luiss University will host the event “Civic-ness for social infrastructure” on September 25th 2019. The conference will take place in the LOFT located in the Luiss campus, Romania 32 and will start at 6pm.
Fondazione Italia Sociale and Luiss University have indeed started a dialogic process called “Civic-ness” aimed at identifying the cornerstones of a design collaboration to develop theoretical and empirical knowledge through didactic initiatives and applied research on the theme of civicness.
The latter is understood as a mentality oriented towards civic responsibility, sustainability for the production of civic value, legality and merit, implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
“Civic-ness” therefore aims to generate and spread a civic mindness to make the concept of civic responsibility the common heritage of the future ruling classes, also with the objective of updating or overcoming the concept of the so-called third sector and offer a response to the civic spread.
Program
Greeting address
Giovanni Lo Storto, Director Luiss
Introduction to the work
Andrea Prencipe, Rector Luiss
Moderator
Elena De Nictolis, Post-doc fellow Luiss
Keynotes
Enzo Manes, President of Fondazione Italia Sociale “The civic spread and social infrastructure”
Edoardo Reviglio, Head of International and European Projects of the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and member of the High Level Task Force on Social Infrastructure “The role of investment in social infrastructure”
Discussants
Esmeralda Valente, MIBAC – DG AAP
Federico Merola, CEO Arpinge SpA and member of the ASTRID Foundation Board
Christian Iaione, Professor Luiss and Co-Director of LabGov.City
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival aims at gathering initiatives that bring up new ideas to open administrations. It will take place from Friday 20th September 2019 (1.00 pm – 9.00 pm) to Saturday 21st September 2019 (10.00 am – 6.45 pm) in Klunkerkranich, Karl-Marx-Straße 66, 12043 Berlin.
The Festival will notably host the first international forum of the innovation agencies, as well as mindlabs and will welcome administration actors who have generated efficient solutions, from Germany and abroad.
The Festival will be the occasion to address questions including: What skills for the future bureaucrat? How to ensure more flexibility in the relationships between the bureaucracy and individuals ? What space for the digitalization to breed a citizen and socially-oriented public sector?
As part of this event, participants will be invited to discuss practical examples of modern leadership, professional-training programs, transformation processes and mechanisms to initiate change.
Eventually, a last part will consist in inviting representatives of leading national and international administrative universities to discuss about ideas and solutions concerning the scarcity of skilled labour, talent maturing, as well as the challenges of civil servants in the future.
