EeC
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The project aims to promote human development in Burkina Faso by reconciling social inclusion, innovation, and environmental responsibility. The functions and project activities assigned to the University for Foreigners of Perugia, as a partner, through the Warredoc center, in order to achieve the objectives and results expected from the project, are as follows:
- workshops, round tables, and joint reflection sessions at the level of university cooperation between Italy and Burkina Faso, as part of a research project—including focus groups and mapping—dedicated to building models of growth based on participatory approaches that encourage the active involvement of young people, women, and rural communities, for an active and democratic citizenship that ensures forms of inclusive development;
- research activities and a publication aimed at developing more inclusive and sustainable governance processes for development, from the perspective of knowledge and practice sharing and in coordination with the Burkina Faso Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation (MESRSI), which will involve five already selected national universities: Université Kizerbo of Ouagadougou, Université Norbert Zongo of Koudougou, Université Nazi Boni of Bobo-Dioulasso, Université CU-Gaoua, and Université de Dédougou.
Attività / Fasi del progetto:
Second year:
- The University for Foreigners of Perugia supported the partner Burkinabe Universities, coordinating the scientific and research aspects by relying on the expertise of its own internal staff;
- A research grant was awarded on the topic: Integrated territorial systems and conscious multi-level governance for the empowerment of local communities in sustainable development processes.
Third year:
- A research grant was awarded on the topic: Digital mapping for community welfare systems in Burkina Faso;
- Laboratory activities related to the EEC project were carried out within the University by students attending the “New Forms of International Cooperation for Development” Laboratory (2nd year of the Master’s Degree in “International Relations and Cooperation for Development”);
- Organization of three multidisciplinary round tables, with colleagues from the five Burkinabe partner universities of the EEC project and invited colleagues, to share the results of the action-research aimed at reflecting on models of sustainable, inclusive, and participatory development by civil society, from a perspective of circularity of knowledge and practices.
Risultati attesi:
Research activity focused on mapping governance practices for sustainable development in rural areas and on conscious multi-level governance for the empowerment of local communities in sustainable development processes. Reflections on sustainable, inclusive development models, with the participation of civil society, in a perspective of circularity of knowledge and practices will be summarized in a collective, open access volume published by Stranieri University Press.
Risultati raggiunti:
On mapping and governance practices for sustainable development in rural areas and on informed multi-level governance for the empowerment of local communities in sustainable development processes. Collective volume, which collects the proceedings of the three round tables, currently being published
Pubblicazioni:
The link between agriculture and renewable energies and the challenges of training. Reflections on the project "Energies in Connection" (Stranieri University Press, 2026)
Coordinatore:
Team:
Prof. Chiara Biscarini; Prof. Francesco Asdrubali; Dr. Tommaso Pacetti; Dr. Antonella Mondello; Dr. Luca Percalli.