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THE PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH APPROACH TO THE TEST OF SOUTHERN INERTIA. Comparing experiences to broaden Boundaries of Action in the Environmental and Community Planning Field

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA    more  Organization address address: PIAZZA UNIVERSITA 2 city: CATANIA postcode: 95131 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Agata Cognome: Pappalardo Email: send email Telefono: 390957000000 Fax: 39095330309
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	239˙604 €
EC contributo	239˙604 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IOF
Funding Scheme	MC-IOF
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-01-12   -   2014-01-11

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA  Organization address address: PIAZZA UNIVERSITA 2 city: CATANIA postcode: 95131 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Agata Cognome: Pappalardo Email: send email Telefono: 390957000000 Fax: 39095330309	IT (CATANIA)	coordinator	239˙604.70

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The research project aims at exploring potentialities offered in the Environmental and Community Planning field by the direct involvement of university faculty, staff and students in promoting social and economic development in long-term underdeveloped areas. The research will be conducted through the direct involvement of the researcher in Participatory Action Research experiences in the host and return phases of the project, in two geographic areas that – even characterized by significant differences in culture, history, economy, etc. – share the status of lagging regions, especially if compared with their countries of belonging: the Mid-South (USA) and Sicily (Italy). The aim of the research is to implement and compare at least two high quality case studies, at the neighbourhood scale (one in the city of Memphis during the host phase and the other in the city of Catania during the return phase), evaluating the effectiveness of planning strategies adopted in practice and highlighting how community-University partnerships can have transformative impacts as sustainable development and research organizations in difficult contexts like those mentioned above. Such an outcome will give a significant contribution to the European debate on how spatial planning can address territorial cohesion among regions with different status of development. Moreover, addressing a longer project of collaboration between the two institutions involved, with the possibility of establishing in the future a 'Promoting Community Environmental Participatory Planning' Italian-American Consortium, the project will significantly contribute to the advancement of the researcher's career, allowing her to achieve fundamental skills and steps to fulfil her academic curriculum such as: excellent international records in her fields of interest together with full responsibility in the fund-rising and organizing activities of the possible consortium.'