Last week, on September 16^th 2023, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, ‘The Rebirth of Lizori’ and the ‘Hortus Lizori’ projects were presented at the event “International Best Practices for Sustainable and Inclusive Rural Evolution through Innovations in Higher Education, Science and Gender Equality” organized by the Antonio Meneghetti Scientific and Humanistic Research Foundation – Switzerland, as part of the SDGs Action weekend programme. https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023/SDG-Action-Weekend   The event was held at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room inside the UN Building and focused on identifying higher educational solutions to encourage sustainable development of rural areas as a response to SDGs 4,5,10,11,16,17. Lizori project was presented and delivered concrete action. https://www.fondazionemeneghetti.ch/sdg-action-weekend/   What is the SDG Action Weekend? To maximize the SDG Summit’s impact, the Secretary General has convened an SDG Action Weekend, which generated opportunities for stakeholders, UN entities, and Member States to convene inside the United Nations Headquarters and set out specific commitments and contributions to drive SDG transformation between now and 2030.   In partnership with: Permanent Mission of Latvia to the United Nations, AICESIS, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of University of Perugia, Berkeley University of California, UN International Telecommunication Union (UN ITU), Institute of Economics of the Latvian Academy Sciences, Latvian University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Peace Innovative Initiative, University for Peace, Peace Boat US, Hunt Hill Farm, Beijing Association for Mental Health, ESCP Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Society, Build it Up!    

https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/hortus-lizori Lizori in the world! The ‘Hortus Lizori’ project selected and published on the United Nations website on the SDG Action Platform for Sustainable Development! Project supported by the Antonio Meneghetti Scientific and Humanistic Research Foundation and conceived by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Perugia University, Italy.

Published by Maggioli Editore, in more than 350 pages the volume reports the results of the educational and experimental course proposed within the workshop held at Borgo “Lizori” in Campello sul Clitunno (PG). Aimed at doctoral students and supported by a group of teachers and designers, the activity was interested in the reading and interpretation of the historic village of Lizori. https://www.maggiolieditore.it/hortus-lizori.html   Here you can find the preview

Here is the video of the news  that reported on the Workshop “Lizori. Signs and Dialogues” that took place July 5-7, 2023  

A session of discussion and dialogue with leading national and international experts on landscape representation and village regeneration  It ended on Friday, July 7, in the Castle of Pissignano Alto – Borgo Lizori in Campello sul Clitunno (Pg), the workshop “Lizori. Signs and Dialogues,” a session of meeting and work among internationally renowned artists, professors and architects, which lasted three days and was organized by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Perugia, with the patronage of the Municipality of Campello sul Clitunno and the collaboration of the Antonio Meneghetti Foundation for Scientific and Humanistic Research. Concluding the workshop was a conference moment opened by Fabio Bianconi and Marco Filippucci who were responsible for the project from which the workshop originated and professors from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Perugia, who wanted to emphasize how the regeneration of rural villages and the enhancement of the landscape are the result of understanding the story, the history of the place. “We wanted to host architects and artists at Lizori,” said Fabio Bianconi, “to allow researchers that this would provoke a dialogue with the surrounding landscape. We believe that drawing, representing means knowing that is why we have placed the sign at the center of this path of work and knowledge, so as to be able to understand this place through the gaze and vision of architects and artists who here in Lizori are “seekers” of meaning, ready to grasp its essence, in its relationship between architecture and nature, with its complexities and contradictions.” The academic world is dealing with small rural villages and their recovery, as argued at the conference by the President of the Order of Architects of Perugia, also to be able to give input to politics so that there is a move toward greater valorization of these areas, because it is in the valorization of rural villages that there is a future. Explaining the reasons for the collaboration between the University of Perugia and the Scientific and Humanistic Research Foundation Antonio Meneghetti was Pamela Bernabei, president of the Foundation. ““The Foundation in 2019 acquired Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council for its activities in the public and social interest.  The Foundation’s work in promoting and supporting intellectual and humanities activities, encouraging contacts between scientists and experts of different nationalities, and facilitating the international exchange of information and dissemination of scientific knowledge is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, as a response to SDGs 4, 11 and 17, the Foundation promotes and supports initiatives and projects to identify higher education solutions to encourage the evolution, sustainable development and enhancement of rural areas and villages such as the Lizori Project, which involves the organization of events, workshops and summer sessions in which the medieval village becomes a large classroom/laboratory.” After the greetings of the presidents of the professional orders of engineers and architects of Perugia, there was an important moment of discussion with the artists and architects who participated in the workshop who recounted their observations, their experiences of the village of Lizori and presented studies of what will be their works. In fact, each participant was asked to create a representation of their experience in Borgo Lizori. The works resulting from the workshop will be the protagonists of an exhibition that will travel to different cities in Italy, before being set up at Palazzo Trinci in Pissignano Alto – Borgo Lizori

SIDE EVENT AT THE 2023 ECOSOC YOUTH FORUM organized by the Scientific and Humanistic Research Foundation Antonio Meneghetti Switzerland

25th of April 2023

Motivated by the theme of the 2023 HLPF on “Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels” the Antonio Meneghetti Scientific and Humanist Research Foundation F.A.M.(a Swiss no-profit organization in Special Consultative Status with Economic and Social Council of United Nations) organized a virtual Side Event during the 2023 Annual Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum, on 25 April 2023 to promote capacity-building initiatives connected to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) achievements, among young people. The side event “Three Erasmus+ projects: ‘Now I know how!’, ‘I am able2DO’ and ‘EQUALS-EU: Gender Equality for Youth leadership globally’ to foster entrepreneurship competences and creativity in young people starting from scratch” was organized around the need to ensure that younger generations are aware of the benefits of the implementation of SDG’s through cooperation, and to sustain and accelerate action for delivering them.

To achieve this, the courses focused on how to foster young people’s knowledge and ability to enter the job market as protagonists to help the contest where they live, concentrating mainly on the entrepreneurial sphere (and Made in Italy case study), in order to ensure a new economic and entrepreneurial renewal generation, particularly attentive to social issues, to the ethical aspect of work, sustainability, inclusiveness and gender equality.

The courses involved participants from 20 different countries.

www.nowiknowhow.eu This side event was organized in partnership with: Foilservice ltd, Marudo (Italy) Black Sea Center of Excellence (BSCE), Dobrich (Bulgaria) Institute of Economics of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga (Latvia) Baltic Ontopsychology Association (BOA) (Latvia)

 

https://www.un.org/ecosoc/en/2023-ecosoc-youth-forum

https://www.un.org/ecosoc/sites/www.un.org.ecosoc/files/documents/2023/side_events_schedule_-_25_april_2023.pdf

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