Fondazione Giovanni Goria

Fondazione Giovanni Goria (www.fondazionegoria.it) is a non-profit organization founded in 2004 and carrying out projects in the fields of education, research and training, with particular reference to issues surrounding the development of twentieth-century Italian society in a European perspective. In 2009, the Foundation has launched the "Talents of Civil Society Project", which is meant to award research grants to gifted young graduates from Piedmont and Val d’Aosta regions in the following areas: Environment and Landscape, Sciences of Antiquity, Philological Sciences, Legal Sciences, Literary Studies and Performing Arts, Philosophical and Historical Sciences, Pedagogical Sciences and Psychology, Political Science and Sociology. In addition to research, education is another field in which the Foundation has managed to acquire a referential position, by promoting innovative learning methods and active citizenship, and connecting policy makers, students and youth workers at the local, national and European level. In particular, the School Project provides educational programmes dedicated to students of the secondary schools. These are meant to stimulate critical thinking on societal challenges and to provide participants with extra-curricular, nonformal insights in their social and cultural environment: migration, democracy and freedom, fight against organized criminality are the main topics addressed in the recent years. In 2017, Fondazione Goria has led #ConnectingYouth, an Erasmus Plus K3, Structured Dialogue project focusing on multiculturalism and ICT as key strategies for the access of young people to the European labour market. The project has involved 55 participants among secondary school students, teachers, youth workers, ICT specialists and policy makers from Italy, Germany, Greece and Croatia.