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.
On July 9th, the city of Naples will host the third stage of the Roadshow to promote knowledge and the use of innovative tenders.
What are the opportunities related to the use of innovative contracts? What are the tools to make the most of them? To what extent can these procedures represent an opportunity for public administration, companies, start-ups and the research world?
After the events held in Rome and Milan, the roadshow AgID –Confindustria-Conference of Regions and Autonomous-ITACA Provinces will stop off in Naples on Tuesday 9th of July, at the headquarters of the Unione industriali di Napoli (Sala d’Amato) welcoming protagonists of public and private innovation who will deepen the advantages, and resources allocated for innovative tender procedures.
During this day of work, the new collaboration agreement signed by the Mise (Ministry of Economic Development) and the AgID for the implementation of public calls for “imaginative projects to answer public demand” will be presented before an audience of business representatives, administrations, innovation procurement brokers, public research institutions and universities.
It will be the occasion for the Mise to start the program with the launch of the first call.
The day will be divided into two sessions:
9:30 am – 12:30 pm: Policies to support public demand for innovation will be addressed and a discussion will be held on the way to enhance innovative procurement within the planning of purchases and needs;
2.30 pm -17.00 pm: “We do innovation procurement: a laboratory for PA (the Public Administration), companies and research” by AgID: the theme of open innovation, will be explored through its links to innovation contracts. The innovation needs of some of the most important public subjects will also be presented.
The event is part of the process initiated by AgID, Confindustria, the Conference of Regions and Itaca, to promote the knowledge and use of innovative tenders.
Detailed program available in italian here:
How to participate:
Those wishing to participate in the event can send a confirmation email to this address, specifying name, surname and organization: ricerca&innovazione@unindustria.na.it
The 4th edition of the Capital Business Forum will take place at Luiss University, room 200 viale Romania 32, Luiss University from June 18th 9am to June 19th 5.30 pm.
The Rome Forum follows the successful events in Beijing (2016 and 2018) at Beijing Normal University and in Washington D.C. (2017) at the American University and offers opportunities to share research and insights on the special business issues in Capital Cities around the world. Discussion topics: • Industry and innovation clusters • Business and industry relationships with government • Smart capital cities • Education, training and skill development
Program
Welcome address Fabiano Schivardi Vice Rector of Research Luiss
Session 1 – Chair: Fabian Homberg Tomasz Mroczkowski – Unrelated diversification in an economic region: the crucial role of innovation capabilities Richard Tee – Innovation Ecosystems Zheng Feihu – R&D allocation paradox and IP protection: China’s new discovery
Session 2 – Chair: Zhang Pingdan Robert Grant – Leadership in Capital Cities: the role of wisdom Christian Iaione – Collaborative city-making: the co-city approach Kase Kimio – Bipolarity Tokyo-Osaka and Madrid-Barcelona
Session 3 – Chair: Richard Tee Li Kun – Corporate Social Responsibility and Company Performance: A Big-Data Study from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Erran Carmel – Capital Cities, but not business capitals Fang Fang – GDP manipulation and livelihood investment Iftekhar Karim – Entrepreneurship themes around Ethnic Enclave in capital cities
Session 4 – Chair: Erran Carmel Yang Chengyu – How big is the income inequality in China Kathryn Walters-Conte – Science City: US federal government technologies in Washington D.C. foster innovations for startups Yu Jiajie – Corruption and the pattern of trade
Closing remarks: tbc
Conference Chair Fabian Homberg Associate Professor HRM & OB Luiss
