Understanding reality with data

20/06/2025

2 min.

Breaking Barriers, an educational opportunity for informed teachers

How can we use data to understand the world around us? How can open data become a tool for promoting informed digital citizenship and strengthening students' cross-curricular skills?

In the latest instalment of the Breaking Barriers project, two experts take teachers on a training journey to explore the educational potential of open data: an opportunity to acquire practical tools to integrate into everyday teaching.

Trainers

Roberto Raspa
Engineer and teacher, he works with schools and national organisations on educational robotics and methodological innovation. Author of Domatori di Coding, he was selected by Indire as one of Italy's best practices in educational robotics.
Francesco Piero Paolicelli (Piersoft)
An expert in open data and university lecturer, he has been working with public administrations and schools for years to promote transparency, digital culture and the civic use of data.

This is an opportunity for teachers interested in enriching their educational programmes with contemporary approaches that combine technology, critical analysis and active citizenship.

Details of the meeting

Title: Data and open data. Understanding reality through data
Trainer: Roberto Raspa and Francesco Piero Paolicelli
Date and time: 2 July 2025, from 5pm to 7pm
Format: online, live
Target audience: teachers of all school levels
Registration: online form

Certificate of attendance

All participants can download a certificate valid for recognition of training hours completed by accessing the FMD Academy platform.

Find out more

Open Data (or open data) is data that is accessible, available online and can be freely reused and distributed without any restrictions. The technical requirements for availability and accessibility require that data must be downloadable in formats that are not only readable but also editable. Open Data helps to make public administrations more open and transparent, while complying with privacy legislation, which protects the right to confidentiality.

Open Government is the strategy of “openness” of government, and therefore also of public data, launched in 2009 by former US President Barack Obama and subsequently adopted by other countries, including Italy, with the aim of making public processes and decisions more transparent and open to citizen participation.

OpenCoesione is an open government initiative that promotes the principles of transparency, collaboration and participation in the field of cohesion policies in Italy. On the portal www.opencoesione.gov.it, you can browse data published in open format relating to individual projects funded throughout the country with national and European cohesion policy funds, from which you can start a civic monitoring search. With the launch of the 2021-2027 programming cycle, OpenCoesione has been confirmed as the single portal for transparency in cohesion policies.

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Understanding reality with data