Also this year the Inte Foundationsa Sanpaolo Onlus grants scholarships to PhD students e research projects in the humanities. Four projects selected for an amount of 280 thousand euros.
The choice concerns four young people who have chosen paths aimed at promoting and enhancing the Italian cultural heritage and its interaction with the European one. In particular, education in legality, the fight against anti-Semitism and finally against prejudice.
There were 32 Italian Universities involved and 67 projects were presented and then submitted to the Commission made up of president of Foundation Understanding St. Paul, Ferruccio De Bortoli, Elena Pontiggia, Elena Salen e Giancarlo Lucchini, who have thus selected the 4 projects closest to the aims and for an amount of 70.000 euros for each scholarship.
The doctorates and research projects in humanities will be developed over a three-year period, starting from the 2018-2019 academic year, in which the graduates will continue their research through studies and publications.
It should be remembered that the first edition of last year, the Intesa Sanpaolo Onlus Foundation launched the first 5 doctorates in humanities and awarding scholarships, which involved the Universities of: Padua, Camerino, Tor Vergata, Cassino and della Basilicata. In this regard, the projects concerned the protection and preservation of the territory and the promotion of human rights.
Also for the next cycle of studies, AY 2019/2020, the Board of Directors of the Intesa Sanpaolo Onlus Foundation has allocated a further contribution of 375.000 euros to guarantee other students a higher education path in the field of humanities.
The President of the Intesa Sanpaolo Onlus Foundation, Claudius Angelo Graziano, He declares:
“In ten years of activity, the Intesa Sanpaolo Foundation onlus has allocated over 4,2 million euros for the right to university study and post-graduate research, with the involvement and collaboration of 42 Italian state universities which, from southern Italy, have actively contributed to the success of the 74 announced initiatives.
We are convinced that investing in university education and in the higher education of young people means investing in the future of our country. In particular, with the support of doctorates and research projects in the humanities, starting last year we wanted to give a signal of attention to the richness of our humanistic culture, which in addition to being a great legacy, can also be an opportunity of growth and development".
Here are the Universities, the names and the winning projects:
University of Milan – Dr. Valeria Biasco – Organized crime studies. The doctoral program therefore aims to explore the history of the great collective educational commitment of our country, to grasp its virtues and weaknesses and to envisage new paths. The aim, in fact, is to help develop, starting from the schools, more effective pedagogical approaches aimed at promoting an advanced public spirit, capable of defeating the culture of corruption and the mafia mentality, initiating the training of new specialists in the education, to win the challenge with amoral familism and patronage cultures.
University of Palermo – Dr. Marta Rustioni – Human sciences: system dynamics, cultural heritage, cultural studies. The doctorate aims to train scholars capable of supporting the most advanced challenges in the fields of European cultural studies, archaeological research and historical sciences, valorisation and communication of cultural heritage, such as to lead to the formulation of "sustainable" policies, over time and in space; promotes investigative paths on cultural heritage and inheritances, prepares for studies on multicultural and multiethnic societies by deepening aspects of literary and artistic production, cultural identity as well as issues related to the theory and history of both ancient and modern European culture.
Sapienza University of Rome – Dr. Khadra Abdelmaksoud - Anti-Semitism and prejudice, origins and evolutions in the modern and contemporary age, in the Euro-Mediterranean context. The research project promotes the deepening of the themes of national identities and the consequent problems of socio-cultural integration between peoples, cultures, traditions, religions and institutions of Europe, with a historical and interdisciplinary approach that goes, for example, from Nazi anti-Semitism to Islamic anti-Zionism. These study perspectives are particularly important for the understanding and trends of contemporary racist phenomena.
University of Rome Tor Vergata - Dr. Ilaria Guadagnoli - From the Project to the Use of the Via Francigena: for a network of services and reception useful for enhancing its use. The project intends to provide opportunities to enhance the Via Francigena route, as a great Cultural Itinerary, from Rome to Brindisi (with the aspiration of extending this opportunity up to Jerusalem), and represents an opportunity for development from a socio-economic point of view , for the South and for the country system. The doctorate concerns, among other things, the enhancement of smaller towns and tourist attractions, with the involvement and participation of local communities and the coordination of the various organizations in the area.
