In the Third Mission/Social Impact strategic area of focus, the University operates alongside schools in the region. To promote territorial socio-cultural development, the University intends to enhance interaction with the social fabric through initiatives, activities, meetings, and debates dedicated to cultural and scientific dissemination, organized in collaboration with schools.
In particular, UNINT has planned paths to raise awareness of sustainability in schools, not only from an environmental point of view, but also related to cultural and social aspects, active citizenship, and the opportunities and implications of digital culture, from privacy protection to the prevention of bullying, cyberbullying and derived phenomena.
Innovate, learn, educate
The University offers secondary schools in Rome and Lazio meetings or a series of meetings on topics related to the enhancement of civic responsibility, also linked to digital citizenship.
Through the detailed interdisciplinary study and the discussion of issues of significant social and educational impact, such as those relating to the right to privacy, the protection of personal data, and the fight against cyberbullying, we intend to promote forms of Social and Emotional Learning based on the skills indicated by UNESCO/MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development). Innovating digital pedagogies and promoting social-emotional skills (SEL - awareness, empathy, kindness, critical inquiry) help students strengthen conscious participation in their emotional development, which is essential to achieve adequate results in disciplinary and/or academic learning. However, it is now known that, to address current global problems and challenges, young people need to acquire knowledge and be aware of its potential social impact, thus aiming to achieve quality education to build peaceful and sustainable societies (Goals 4 and 7 of the UN 2030 Agenda).
Contact details
Representatives of the interested schools can send an e-mail to the following address: ctm@unint.eu
