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The
long tradition of solid relationships between the Tuscan society
and the Latin America goes back to the first half of XIX century,
and the remarkable involvement of the Tuscany Region in United
Europe, has pushed the Department of Economic Development and
International Relationships (RT) to participate as Applicant
to the demonstration project "SKILL SHORTAGE" (SK-SH) of the
European program called @lis, in e-learning of cultural diversity
section, to contribute in promoting the Europe and Latin America
(EU-LA) alliance.
The SK-SH Demonstration project is proposed by the Laboratory
of Educational Research of the University of Florence, in co-operation
with the Pole of University of Florence -PIN in Prato; the last
will directly collaborate at the local level with the RT, as
well as SK-SH Consortium Member.
RT sees in program @LIS a performance necessary to promote and
to support the innovation of "e-educational" methods and models,
enabling changes in the labour supply and demand policy and
to enhance and facilitate a Life Long Learning in the scenario
of an extension of the need of socio-economic assessment of
Information Society in the Digital Age.
The key factors of RT contribute to the @LIS SK-SH proposal
will be developing a common EU-LA perspective recognizing that
a) the SKILL SHORTAGE intellectual asset are the key competitive
advantage for the IS future development,
b) stressing the importance of adapting the assumptions of the
community principle of 1998 in the treaty of European Union
(art. 6), with a bi-phasic bottom-top policy which will favour
a more complex approach that needs of many dimensions of participation
for its wide integration that will become true through an EU-LA
alliance for sustainability approach through the realization
of the engagements along with Agenda XXI and eventually others,
national and European.
As a matter of facts RT is strongly interested to the Regional
political promotion of Information Society (IS) within the Agenda
XXI in order to activate the realization of the Knowledge Society
and favour the comparison of the RT experience of information
society in an extended EU-LA alliance between the governmental
local administrations, Universities and SME 's working in digital
networking economy.
Through the previous experiences of the last three plans of
regional development, RT has consolidate frameworks of the fundamental
characters of the regional networked participation for the dissemination
of premises and the best practices for socio-economics sustainability
along with Agenda XXI, in sight of the interregional plans of
Communitary program INTERREG III - MEDOC.
For these reasons RT means to consolidate its engagement in
order to realize trans-national EU-LA long-term partnerships,
for the innovation of ITC based "Net-Learning" goal to model
to a trans-national societal discourse on IS technological and
economic changes, and in particular to stimulate the development
of the Knowledge Management of SME 's for the IS, through exchanges
of experiences and best practices between EU-LA regions for
anticipating the needs of human capital "Skill Building" of
the future Knowledge Economy.
The agreement of RT to develop these strategies is reflected
in the fact that a third party of the world has relationships
with Tuscany, its local communities, its industrial Districts
as well as its schools and Universities "e-educational system"
until hospitals and associations that operate on its territory.
The international co-operation of RT is active in 68 countries
of the 190 States members of the United Nations (21 States in
Africa, 16 in Latin America, 11 in central-oriental Europe,
9 in Asia, 6 in South-eastern Europe, 5 between the Mediterranean
basin and Middle East). The total budget the RT 's destined
to the co-operation amount to 4.833.515 Euro for the year 2002.
Moreover RT it is considered an advanced Region in Europe, that
promotes the innovative field of "ETHICAL BUSINESS", clarifying
the essence of "Business Ethics" and conduce an open dialogue
on corporate responsibilities among Universities and SME 's
Industrial participants in providing a comprehensive overview
on the relevance and impact of ethical and social codex of business
in relation to the future IS sustainable development. Recently
RT has signed an agreement with Bank Ethics for the development
of the micro-credit in the area of the Balkans within the period
2001-2005, with possibility to extend the initiative also to
the Countries not yet fully developed.
"Business Ethics" involves the "practical values in relation
to ethical values" therefore needs to take into a carefully
account "Common sense feelings" of citizens in a cultural diversity
scenario. Therefore, RT will support the SK-SH initiative to
facilitate a shared trans-national premise for stimulating the
development of innovative and multilingual courseware, designing
in an EU-LA equal balanced partnership, IST based educational
programs towards an ethical framework for "e-education" models
and units that can play an important role in the progress of
"Ethical Economy" in the global market for innovative knowledge
intellectual activity (e-brain work)
RT, as applicant of SK-SH proposal, will be the partner in the
Membership Consortium that would promote the management of the
quality of "e-education models" in relation to the main beneficiary,
the future IS citizenship aiming to stimulate the open dialogue
of all the IS citizens on the "BUSINES ETHICS", to overcome
the dramatic issue of the economic, social and political rights
of populations that live in non-humane conditions of poverty,
in the context of strengthening the Alliance between Europe
and Latin American Countries
ROLE of the RT:
- Favouring new cognitive opportunities of the networking e-learning
in a cultural diversity
- Stimulate conscious e-educational models to the needs of promoting
Knowledge Economy
- Facilitating a transparent cross-border open dialogue on the
prevalent issues of IS advancement.
- Enhancing Life Long e-learning outside of formal education
settings, including the IS potentially socially excluded citizen.
- Co-working with the membership of SK-SH project and the Stakeholder
network to implement the quality of long distance e-education
models, of IS knowledge management in the field of "Business
Ethics" holistic approach to IS sustainability.
In particular RT is oriented to develop an approach based on
the principles of the total quality management, in order to
favour the culture of transparency, to supply answers to specific
requirements, to create new roles regarding the e-education
in the field of Knowledge Management
- Previews quality of the SK-SH consortium membership's complementary
arrangement
- Plans quality of shared knowledge methodology perceived in
a context of cultural diversity
- Compares quality between Consortium, member 's organizations
and the stakeholder network
In these functional role, for monitoring the SK-SH project,
the RT will adopt a model for the continuous improvement of
the system of management of the quality in which the SK-SH will
be observed through a dynamic system approach for the Total
Quality management
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