My latest innovation projects

European co-funded projects

• 2018-2020 Multinclude Ideas for inclusive Education
• 2017 -2019 – CyberViolence – addressing the lack of knowledge and awareness about cyberbullying especially among young people, educators and teachers.
• 2017 -2018 – Teach -D Diversity Management at school, focusing on the teachers as key actors in the process of transfer of knowledge, values, skills and competences
• 2016 -2020 Smartspace The SMART-SPACE project intends to strengthen cooperation within the innovation system in order to promote smart digital solutions in traditional industrial sectors envisaged in the various regional S3 strategies.
• 2016 -2018- BIG-Iot establish interoperability by defining a unified Web API for IoT platforms.
• 2015 -2019 – Responseable is mapping European marine research and knowledge to further our understanding of complex human-ocean relationships and the economic benefits that we derive from our seas and the ecosystems they support.
• 2015-2018 The4Bees THE4BEES focuses on the behavioural changes of users in public buildings needed to achieve reduction of energy consumption. Such changes will be originated by the use of innovative ICT applications developed by a transnational ecosystem. Those applications will be used by the target groups in the demonstration sites (schools, houses, factories) to encourage behavioural changes for energy efficiency and carbon footprint reduction.
• 2014 – EMMA The European Multiple MOOC Aggregator called EMMA for short, is a 30 month pilot action supported by the European Union. It aims to showcase excellence in innovative teaching methodologies and learning approaches through the large-scale piloting of MOOCs on different subjects.
• 2014 – JamToday JamToday supports the creation, implementation and deployment of educational games by creating methods and tools and by providing a central learning hub for participating organisations that will ensure that stakeholders maintain a balanced understanding of the main issues, and the implementation hurdles that need to be overcome.
• 2013 Safety kids@school – an initiative by Assosecurity, to encourage greater awareness in the use of social media for students, teachers and families. Assosecurity appointed CSP and CNR-IIT to implement the programme.
• 2012 BOO-Games The aim of the BOO-Games project is to support regional development authorities in understanding the importance of the games industry for the European economy.
• 2010 – Laboratory for the University of Turin on CitizenMedia
• 2010 MEDEA2020 “MEDEA2020” builds on and further exploits the work of the MEDEA Awards. MEDEA2020 will expand the reach of the awards to include Italian, Spanish and Polish speaking practitioners.
• 2005 EDOS: Environment for the Development and Distribution of Open Source Software
• 2003 Estream and Integra

2007 CSP WEB Corporate TV

The experience of creating the first web videoportal was invaluable for the creation of the CSP corporate TV, devising specific formats and designing a schedule of a few minutes a day.

My presentation on “Community TV

2007 – ORSO WEB TV

With the project RDD, Reduce Digital Divide, within the WI-PIE programme, which is creating a broadband infrastructure in the Orco and Soana Valleys, work has also begun on the integrated multi-channel communication system for the valleys, which envisages the creation of a community TV, broadcast on digital terrestrial, mobile and web, a digital radio and a valley blog. The web broadcasts of the community TV started in October 2007.

My presentation on slideshare at the e-lara conference – February 2008

2004 – RIUSA Recycle and Learn in URBAN 2 with the Computer Equipment Exchange

RIUSA, whose acronym stands for Recycle and Learn in URBAN 2 with the Computer Equipment Exchange, is a pilot project carried out by LISEM aimed at reducing the economic and social inequality created by the difficulties in accessing new technologies and at educating users on the correct re-use of computer equipment.

An important objective is also to promote the use of software without licence fees (Open Source).

RIUSA acquires obsolete computers from public and private organisations and, after an appropriate technological reconditioning and the installation of Open Source software, it delivers them to the associations of the URBAN 2 area that have requested them.

The activity, which began at the end of 2003 under the coordination of CSP, ended in 2005 with important results:

• the reuse of more than 100 PC from a total of more than 250 obsolete PCs made available by the Politecnico di Torino, COREP, CSP, Istituto Edoardo Agnelli and the Province of Turin;

• the setting up of a computer room at the Istituto Agnelli (Corso Unione Sovietica, 312 Torino ) open to the public since February 2004, where users found assistance in approaching the computer, writing documents, sending e-mails and surfing the Internet;
• the supply of 20 computer computers to the Ferranti Aporti Juvenile Penal Institute of Turin, for training activities for the young people in the Juvenile Institute;
• the participation of the Province of Turin in the project, with the donation of 200 PCs.

At the end of the pilot phase, LISEM carried out a study on RIUSA issues, to analyse the economic convenience of a public-private initiative dedicated to recycling computers for both profit and social benefit.

2001-2004 Dschola

Dschola – or the network of Animation and Experimentation Service Centres – is a project started in 2001 and concluded in 2004, as an action foreseen by the ICT project of Fondazione CRT. Since 2004, the schools participating in the project have founded an association.
The Dschola model envisaged the establishment of schools that were service poles for other schools: this model was also reproposed in an international context, through the INTEGRA project in the @lis framework (Europe-Latin America collaboration).

Video and the Internet have been a topic of interest since the start of the Dschola project: video conferences on IP, educational use of Hyperfilm, video interviews with teachers, video monographs presenting schools.

The basic idea was to use video to document experiences.

With the eStream project (a Minerva project co-funded by the EU) we went deeper into the topic of video streaming in schools: a number of methodological and technological manuals (downloadable online) were produced.

By participating in the first edition of the Extracampus tv project – the Turin University TV for schools, broadcasting on digital terrestrial TV, we built a first video portal, for on-demand consultation of the programme schedule.

The schools’ programme schedule was a first attempt to create an archive of videos produced by the schools that could be viewed online. The topic of video streaming was the focus of an event organised by the Vercelli-based Adverteaser agency entitled “Direct or on Demand”, which saw the participation of Mauro SACCHETTO (CEO Pirelli Broadband Solutions), Eleonora PANTO’ (CSP Turin), Salvo DELL’ARTE(ADVOCATE, I.A.C.C.E.), Giacomo FERRARI (Dean of the University of Eastern Piedmont) and Maurizio AUDONE (President of Adverteaser), led by journalist Roberto Rasia dal Polo.

The arrival of YouTube, and the sad story of videobullying, prompted us to give voice, or rather video, to all the positive experiences of using video at school and we started with Dschola TV