Cooperation for Development

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Cooperation for Development _at_ Politecnico di
Milano Emanuela Colombo (presented by Giancarlo
Spinelli)
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Cooperation4Development overview

• Cooperation for Development
• External Context Challenges and needs of
  cooperation
• The Eight Goals of the Millennium
• Logics of global Interdependence
• Main Actors
• University competences
• Internal Reasons university cooperation
• Cooperation and University
• Vision and value added
• mission
• paths
• Coordination
• Cooperation for Development _at_ Politecnico di
  Milano
• Mandate, Vision and Mission
• Reasons and shared Rationale
• The opportunity of collaboration Partners

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Cooperation4Development overview

• Cooperation for Development
• External Context Challenges and needs of
  cooperation
• The Eight Goals of the Millennium
• Logics of global Interdependence
• Main Actors
• University competences
• Internal Reasons university cooperation
• Cooperation and University
• Vision and value added
• mission
• paths
• Coordination
• Cooperation for Development _at_ Politecnico di
  Milano
• Mandate, Vision and Mission
• Reasons and shared Rationale
• The opportunity of collaboration Partners

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Cooperation4Development _at_POLIMI

• Cooperation4Development challenges and needs
• The 8 Goals Millennium MDGs and the frontiers of
  global development
• multidisciplinary and complex tasks, challenge
  for all Mankind
• strong partnerships are required

• The interdependency principle states that our
  World is a single Nation Brandts Report (1978)
• Economic total convenience for the global
  market
• Environmental mankind actions and impact on
  environment
• Social interrelations between culture and
  societies in order to keep peace

An INNOVATIVE model of Development able to
preserve and integrate local culture and support
Mankind in the path towards the growth of a
sustainable civil society is needed
Development Issues concern everybody!
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• The 8 Goals of the Millennium s MDGs
• Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education
• Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women
  
• Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
• Goal 5 Improve maternal health
• Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
  diseases
• Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
• Goal 8 Develop a Global Partnership for
  Development

The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets
contained in the Millennium Declaration that was
adopted by 189 nations-and signed by 147 Heads of
State and Government. It contains specific
commitments to fight poverty, - It recognises
that there are needs relevant to all countries
the poor and especially the rich ones - It
fixes the deadline
2015
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Cooperation4Development _at_POLIMI

• Cooperation4Development challenges and needs
• The 8 Goals Millennium MDGs and the frontiers of
  global development
• multidisciplinary and complex tasks, challenge
  for all Mankind
• strong partnerships are required

• The interdependency principle states that our
  World is a single Nation Brandts Report (1978)
• Economic total convenience for the global
  market
• Environmental mankind actions and impact on
  environment
• Social interrelations between culture and
  societies in order to keep peace

An INNOVATIVE model of Development able to
preserve and integrate local culture and support
Mankind in the path towards the growth of a
sustainable civil society is needed
Development Issues concern everybody!
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Cooperation4Development preliminary remarks

• Cooperation4Development Challenges and needs
• Transversal multidisciplinary approaches are
  required for programs
• Inspired by shared objectives and agreements -
  Governance
• Focused on local capacity building, knowledge
  transfer, local contest and human factor
• Centered on appropriate technology transfer and
  environmental preservation
• Able to operate for the benefit of stakeholders
• Strong Partnerships, Network capabilities are
  needed and required
• With capable and motivated actors for covering
  the multitasking needs

Professionals need to be trained for acting in
this field
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Cooperation4Development _at_POLIMI

• Cooperation4Development Universities as proper
  partners
• The academic mission stands on three pillars
• 1. teaching and education
• represents the foundation of the capability of
  spreading knowledge
• research activities
• represent the way for updating our knowledge,
  keep a dynamic teaching, develop a critical
  capability in the young generations.
• technology transfer within the relations with
  industrial companies
• represents the way in which the academic culture
  demonstrates to be effective for the social and
  economical development of the Nation and its
  market.

We have to play a role
Professionals need to be trained for the global
world
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Cooperation4Development at Polimi the vision
The vision _at_ Politecnico di Milano
Technology Innovation have always represented
key advantages for great competitive
performances.
Technology Innovation alone are not enough
anymore. Only driven by Human factors and coupled
with the principle of Social Responsibility They
may build a good set of instruments and values
able to support our civil society in the
challenge for global Development and human
promotion
The problem of development concerns the whole
world
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Cooperation4Development _at_POLIMI the vision
The vision _at_ Politecnico di Milano
Learning principles of Cooperation4Development
creates positive values that may be useful in any
global frame where people will work
These values may lead to a generation of
responsible individuals (North South) able to
truly act in that worldwide challenge for
global Development
All Universities need to prepare the Citizens of
The Global World
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Cooperation4Development at Polimi the mission
Serving and Supporting the Social Development

• A. Set up of a program of education training,
  dissemination, spreading,
• training professionals able to operate in the
  social transformation
• Taking care of Social, human and environmental
  factors
• Able to identify appropriate model of development
  and technologies
• B. Building strong partnerships for empowering
  project effectiveness
• Institutions, NGOs, international/Non profit
  organizations, Private companies, Universities
• Empowering projects capabilities
• C. Using research and relationships to become a
  reference/support
• to Identify new models and methods
• to understand better the cause/effect mechanisms

We foster cooperation with existing international
networks
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Cooperation4Development at Polimi
Objectives, Methods and Approach

• Objectives
• Knowledge Transfer for innovation and economic
  development (joint training starting from
  research and interaction with the territory)
• Creating/strengthening culture and competence
• Strengthening institutional context starting from
  universities
• Training researchers
• Improving quality of Professors skills and
  competences
• Developing better study curricula and promoting
  student mobility
• Evaluating the opportunities of staff exchanges
• Increasing intellectual and human capital

• Method and Approach
• Involvement for knowledge sharing and decision
  making processes
• Continuous monitoring
• Attention paid to complexity (State, Civil
  Society)
• Strengthening links between Italian and local
  universities
• Supporting the creation of transversal local
  networks
• Involving institutions, private sector and NGOs
• gtgt Ethic vision of civil society (as a goal, not
  as a mean)

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Cooperation4Development _at_POLIMI

• In the previous years we have focused our
  activities on dissemination and training and we
  have experienced many opportunities in term of
  partnership and project development
• Dissemination
• Cultural Road map for MDGs under the U.N.
  patronize
• Seminars and Workshops on Development and
  Intercultural Aspects
• Training
• Course Engineering and Cooperation4Development
  First _at_POLIMI (2.5 Credits)
• Within Alta Scuola Politecnica a Project for
  Ecuador has been proposed
• Projects opportunities
• Africa (Kenya, Tanzania)/Latin America
  (Ecuador)/Middle Est (Lebanon) support to the
  autonomy development (Local institutions , local
  universities, local ONGs)
• UNIDO Faculty Chair on Innovation
• Institutional Relations
• Coordinators Universities Network _at_NORTH Italy
  (by Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• Working group School Voluntaries (by Ministry
  of Education Lombardy office)
• Research and Technology Transfer
• Agency/ Observatory on best practices, models
  targeted to cooperation for development

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Cooperation4Development _at_POLIMI
Transversal Partnerships in Cooperation
International Organizations ONU, ILO, UNIDO
ONGS and Organisation ASVI AVSI, Frères des
Hommes Mani Tese, OCCAM, OpenCity Engineers
Without borders Soleterrae, Cooperative Chico
Mendes, Medecines Sans Frontières AIAT,
Corridoio Zero CIRPS, Combonian
Missionaries Namaste EADI
Universities Coordinamento Universitario per la
Cooperazione e lo Sviluppo (23 Universities),
other Universities Roma, Perugia, Siena,
Palermo, Calabria, Napoli, Lecce Finnish
Norway Network of Univ.Delft Gratz Universities
Partners
Institutions DGCS-MAE, Regione Lombardia, ICE
Private Sector Assolombarda, Sodalitas Foundations
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Cooperatio4Development_at_Polimi an example
Program of Partnership within the EAC EDULINK
ExC3ITE Project
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITIES
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Program of Partnership within the EAC EDULINK
ExC3ITE Project
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITIES
POLIMI fosters cooperation with local
Institutions to support the scientific and
Technological upgrading of the local Higher
Education Institutions
Overall Objective Boosting the contribution of
Engineering Technology to the socioeconomic
development of the East African Community
Specific objectives To build capacity in
delivering relevant and effective training
programmes, preparing an enabling environment to
carry out research activities and foster
community service through a Network of Higher
Education Institutions (HEIs)
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Program of Partnership within the EAC EDULINK
ExC3ITE Project
Expected Results the project is built around the
ideas of Capacity building and Networking that
cross over the specific objective of the
program 1. A regional network (RN) of HEIs in
Engineering Technology consistent with national,
regional strategies for reinforcing generation of
knowledge and innovation. 2. A common strategic
approach for generating synergies with
Stakeholders and contributing to the fulfillment
of the HEIs missions. 3. Teaching and Support
staff development focused on capacities
(innovative teaching and training
methodologies), technical competences and
facilities. 4. A common pilot approach to quality
control system for improving and monitoring
teaching and learning 5. Enhanced capacity
for governance and management in the partner
institutions
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Program of Partnership within the EAC EDULINK
ExC3ITE Project

• Strategic Relevance
• The Project proposed by the Consortium is
  aligned with the Edulink vision and presents the
  following strategic relevance
• Regional integration for effecting the
  socioeconomic development
• Engineering Technology and Focus on Innovation in
  line with the EAC strategies
• Response to the current EAC HEIs strategic plans
• Governmental involvement and political goodwill
• Capacity building
• Regional and International Networking
• Participatory process and PCM
• Attention to gender and brain drain issues
• Quality control and assurance in teaching and
  learning
• Local ownership
• ....to have an ExC3ITing project in hand

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Program of Partnership within the EAC EDULINK
ExC3ITE Project
EDULINK II CALL (European Project on Higher
Education) Title EXC3ITE Elimu (Education) For
Common Creative Capacity in Innovation,
Technology and Engineering. - Applicant
Politecnico di Milano - Partners The Mombasa
Polytechnic University College, The Kenya
Polytechnic University College, Kenya The Dar
Es Salaam Institute of Technology, Tanzania -
Associates Ministry of Science and Technology
Kenya AVSI Foundation (Italian NGO),
Italy Fondazione Politecnico, Italy Italian
Embassy in Nairobi, Italy Ingegneria Senza
Frontiere Milano (Volunteers) , Italy
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Cooperatio4Development_at_Polimi an example
PERU PROJECT
SECTORIAL INNOVATION SYSTEM
Institutional Capacity Building and Competences
for innovating the Textile sector
APPLICANT
PARTNER
UNIDO Politecnico di Milano Scuola Superiore di
SantAnna
Ministerio de la Producción Ministerio de
Comercio Exterior y Turismo, Ministerio de
Educatión, Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del
Empleo, Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae
(UCSS), Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI),
Consejo Nacional de Competitividad (CNC)
FUNDING
Ministero degli Affari Esteri Cooperazione
Italiana attraverso Ufficio Cooperazione di
Nairobi CAF comunità andine
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Cooperation4Development _at_POLIMI pre-conditions
Pre-conditions to be addressed
Scientific Method, Quality Assurance, Process
Innovation and Partnerships need to be the
driving force for strengthening our potential
our impact and building a high quality network
able to act in a network of networks for global
development.
Every shared approach has a cost-benefit
balance for individuals
It is time to effectively confirm our choices