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Europe whata Passion cinema tour EUROPEAN CINEMA EVENTS

Between November 2017 and May 2018, CesUE, together with several Italian and European partners, produced a new version of European Awareness Day format, focused on the projecting of the film "Europe: what a Passion! The tale of a stormy love affair" directed by Daniela Martinelli and Claudia Cipriani, conceived and produced ad hoc by the authors, Daniela Martinelli and Francesco Pigozzo, in five different versions: Italian, French, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The movie of the show will project, in the 11 Italian cities where eCampus (winner of the Jean Monnet Project EUAct) has its headquarters. It will be the main activity of every event composed by a range of free activities of high innovation and consequence of high level practice recognized by the Ministry of Education and the European Commission.

With the other AwarEU project partners, however, CesUE will launch the incoming multilingual European civic education platform (VLEU) for France, Spain, Scotland and Portugal with events realized in cinemas of the respective capital cities.

PRODUCED EVENTS

MADRID: on 17 October 2018 at the Faculty of Economics of CEU University San Pablo in Madrid, European Awareness Day with the screening of "Europa: ¡qué Pasión!" and an interactive debate with the public, chaired by prof. Maillo-Gonzalez Orus;

CASCAIS: on 13 October 2018, at the Casa das Historias of Cascais (Portugal) in collaboration with the Municipality of Cascais and the Nova Universidade de Lisboa, among the events of the European Youth Capital 2018, the screening of "Europa: que Paixão!" took place, followed by a round table with young Portuguese researchers of the Faculdade de Direito of the Nova Universidade de Lisboa;

PARIS: on 22 September 2018 at the FIAP Jean Monnet in Paris in collaboration with AEDE-France the screening of "Europe: those Passion!" took place, followed by a debate with the authors and the participants which took part in a national assembly of AEDE-France;

NOVEDRATE: on 19 July 2018, in the evening, a European Awareness Day took place at the headquarter of the eCampus University in Novedrate (CO), as the inauguration event of the Summer School of European Studies (in addition to the three days of planned works);

ROME: on 10 July 2018 a European Awareness Day took place with the screening of "Europa: che Passione!" for citizenship and university students from several Rome's campus (including students of the University eCampus in Rome);

GALLARATE: on June 15, 2018 a European Awareness Day took place with the screening of "Europa: che Passione!" for students and teachers of the Da Vinci-Pascoli High School in Gallarate (Varese);

MILAN: on 28 May 2018 a European Awareness Day took place with the screening of "Europa: che Passione!" for several students and teachers of the Tenca High School in Milan;

NEAPLES: on 4 May 2018 at the Cinema Metropolitan, via Chiaia 149, the screening of "Europe: what a Passion!" took place, from 10:00 to 13:00, followed by a debate with the authors, for the Neapolitan high schools' students;

BARI: on 23 April 2018 at the Cinema Splendor in Bari, via Buccari 24, the screening of "Europe: what a Passion!" took place, from 10:00 to 13:00, followed by a debate with the authors, for the high schools' students of Bari;

PADUA: at the Multiplex Cinema Pius X, in via Francesco Bonporti 22, on 21 March 2018 two projections of "Europe: what Passion!" took place followed by a debate with the authors, the first in the morning from 10:00 to 13:00 for the student of high schools of Padua and the second in the afternoon starting from 18:30 for university students and citizens;

ROME: 19 March 2018, at the Cinema Farnese, Piazza Campo de'Fiori 56, from 10:00 to 13:00, the screening of "Europe: what a Passion!" followed by debate with the authors for the students of the high schools of Rome;

PALERMO: the Cinema Lux, in via Di Blasi Francesco Paolo 25, hosted two events, the first on the evening of 14 March (9:30 pm) and the second, a matinee for high schools' students on 15 March 2018 (from 10:00 to 13:00) with the screening of "Europe: what a Passion!" followed by a debate with the authors;

GENOA: on 6 February 2018 from 10:00 to 13:00 at the Auditorium of the Liceo Lanfranconi, in via ai Cantieri 2, the screening of "Europe: what a Passion!" was held, followed by a debate with the authors;

ROME: on 30 November 2017, the eCampus University in Rome, in via Matera 18, organized an open-day at its campus in which two projections of "Europe: what a Passion!" took place, followed by a debate with the authors, one from 10:00 to 13:00 for the students of selected high schools of Rome and one in the afternoon free for all citizens;

FLORENCE: on 22 November 2017 at the Spazio Alfieri in Florence, in via dell'Ulivo 6, two projections of "Europe: what a Passion!" took place, followed by a debate with the authors, one from 10:00 to 13:00 for the Florence high schools' students and one in the afternoon starting from 16:00 pm free fo all citizens;

CAGLIARI: the Cinema Odissea in Cagliari, in viale Trieste 84, hosted the screening of "Europe: what a Passion!" followed by a debate with the authors in an evening event(9.30 pm) on 20 November and in a matinee for schools on 21 November 2017 (from 10:00 to 13:00);

TURIN: on 16 November 2017 at the Cinema Due Giardini in Turin, in via Monfalcone 62, two projections of "Europe: what a Passion!" took place, followed by a debate with the authors, one from 10:00 to 13:00 for the high schools' students of Turin and one in the afternoon free for all citizens;

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

temi1 1 The idea that Europe does not represent just a territory, but a community of destiny is quite old.Yet it is just after the two world wars that this idea was implemented through a political project oriented towards European unification. Indeed, after the Second World War, a process of increasing economic and institutional integration starts in Europe.

However, while furthering the cooperation in the field of monetary and economic integration, European policy-makers left behind the institutional, social, cultural and political dimension of integration. For this reason, the goal of a united Europe is far to be achieved in the short-term. So, let’s work together for it!

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

temi2 2 Individuals – either on their own, or aggregated in groups – continuously take choices. If a constitutionally legitimized government exists, collective choices are delegated to elected representatives, who lead the government on people’s behalf. If a democratic system lacks a binding system of rules through which people might come to collective decisions, some mechanisms of “governance” should be established.

Governance is a complex of non-binding rules, whose aim is to take collective choices, even in the absence of a legitimate government. Governance is needed at international level, given the absence of a supra-national government. Global governance is thus the result of attempts aimed at taking global collective choices whereby international norms are missing.

ACTIVE MULTI-LEVEL CITIZENSHIP

temi3 3 The relationship between individuals and public powers has been changing throughout History. In the last centuries, because of the monopolization of power by national states, individuals have been deemed “subjects”. Subjects are people who, in exchange for the payment of taxes, receive state military and social protection (such as, respectively, public defense, and provision of certain public goods such as schools, health care, and the administration of justice).

Yet the growing inter-dependence and complexity characterizing the current globalization era makes somewhat obsolete the univocal relationship between individuals and national states. Indeed, the individual is part of a multilevel system of collective decisions, affecting both local and supranational organization. The citizenship status and democratic participation thus go beyond the national dimension, since they entail a multilevel one. Hence, so as to make citizens’ participation in this new global environment possible, it is necessary to create, develop, and implement new political and institutional mechanisms.

METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM

temi4 4 Traditionally, Social and Human Sciences have deemed the national state the “natural” key actor of political, economic, cultural, and historical processes. However, because of that, essential aspects of these processes are today ignored or misunderstood. This is why many have criticized such a nationally-based approach. For example, Ranke and Dehio believed that a national history was impossible, given that national and international system evolutions are inextricably linked. In Economics, Robbins criticized those liberals who adopted a national perspective, instead that a global-federalist one. Similarly, Gellner disapproved the use of nationalist approaches within Sociology. In the field of political philosophy, Albertini highlighted the need to overcome the nation-state paradigm. But it was only with Ulrich Beck that this critic has been generalized and popularized through the concept of “methodological nationalism”. He also attempted to develop the idea of “methodological cosmopolitism”; yet this concept is still open.

The concepts of “methodological nationalism” and “methodological cosmopolitism” are coherent with the complexity of contemporary world, which is characterized by a plurality of levels and areas of analysis, which ask researchers to identify, each time, the most relevant levels and actors. This perspective – which recalls Norbert Elias’s studies - is embedded in the research activity carried out by CesUE.

EUMAN Arts and humanities for an inclusive EU

EUMAN è il primo progetto unilaterale che CesUE (Centro studi, formazione, comunicazione e progettazione sull’Unione Europea e la global governance) presenta nell’ambito del programma Erasmus+ dopo anni di esperienza nel campo dell'educazione civica europea maturata attraverso prestigiose collaborazioni con Atenei italiani ed europei.

EUMAN è un progetto che mira a sperimentare un modello virtuoso di educazione alla cittadinanza europea, realmente basato sulla didattica per “compiti di realtà” o “autentici” e sull’acquisizione di competenze come obiettivo formativo sinergico all’acquisizione di conoscenze, facendo tesoro della best practice di comunicazione europea chiamata Giornate di Consapevolezza Europea.

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European Awareness Days are a multiplier of initiatives and synergies in favor of European unity and active participation of European citizens in its development.

They involve heterogeneous targets in a variety of different events over a single day, with a major event that is suitable for attracting large audiences of all ages and usually celebrated in the host cities most prestigious and wealthy locations.

The main event program is also suitable for radio-television broadcasting.

The format of the "European Awareness Day" derives from the synergy between the music recital "Europe: what a Passion! The tale of a stormy love affair" an original work by Daniela Martinelli and Francesco Pigozzo performed live by Paolo Barillari and Davide Magnabosco - young and brilliant performers of the Italian music scene. The recital involves "emotionally" the public placing it on the side of the ideal of European unity overcaming in a boost the negative vision of Europe offered by the media and now widespread among citizens. The music recital introduces the second part of the event which provides data and scientific tools to understand "rationally" the need to complete the process of the European integration. This part of the event may be focused on several topics specifically related to Europe and be declined in various forms - guided discussion with the audience in the room, brilliant conference on a specific topic followed by debate, direct debate starting from the show contents and typically touching the main current issues regarding the EU and its future, TED Talk, round table with selected speakers (representatives of culture and politics) open to answer questions from the audience etc.

As a corollary to the main event, normally scheduled in the evening (for events targeting general public) or in the morning (for events targeting students and teachers), EADs can include a wide range of afternoon activities focused on specific beneficiaries and participants: teachers, civil society organizations, think tanks and academic partners, local administrators. These activities aim to activate synergies and good local and multi-level practices and become an effective multiplier of the results achieved with the main event.

Last European Awareness Days:

GROSSETO: 13 april 2018 at Teatro Moderno, for the conclusive event of the project “EUNews – How Europe is described?”;

MILAN: 20 february 2018 at Teatro degli Arcimboldi, for the conclusive event of the project "EUMAN – Arts and Humanities for an inclusive EU";

PARIS: 5 february 2018 at l’Odéon, Théâtre de l’Europe;

STIRLING (Scotland): 13 - 14 june 2017 at the Stirling's Albert Halls;

MADRID: 24 april 2017 at the Teatro de la Luz Philips Gran Vía;

ROME: 22 february 2017 at the Teatro Olimpico;

LISBON: 14 february 2017 at the Teatro Tivoli;