How we work
In the last ten years, FMD has developed a rich and innovative platform with content, activities tools, and projects that permit many of the most urgent challenges to be faced with greater reassurance.
FMD adopts an approach based on complete cycles of action-research, development and implementation (ARD&I) that produces theoretical work at the academic level, the development of online platforms, assorted instruments and knowledge objects, and the implementation of various projects in the worlds of education, digital inclusion, and the development of local communities and the territory at large.
FMD operates with companies, schools, non-profit organizations, local, regional and national authorities, and through partnerships at European level. Activities cover the length and width of Italy and various nations in Europe and around the world.
We are currently working in different areas of digital inclusion with projects in various stages of completion: some are in the planning phase, others are already considered pilot actions, and many have been recently launched or are already at mid-course or nearing completion. From the Global Junior Challenge – now in its 6th Edition – to the 12th Edition of Grandparents on the Internet, the projects we re-propose year after year are constantly renewed. Completed projects are subjected to an accurate assessment of the results achieved that can also be consulted online. A number of projects have become authentic models of reference replicated in other Italian regions and even exported abroad.
Intervention strategy diagram
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INNOVATION
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EDUCATION
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E-INCLUSION
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FUNDAMENTAL VALUES
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General approach
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Action Research Development and Implementation(ARD&I) for social innovation and lifelong education
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Theory (Research)
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Social Innovation (the dynamic multi-sectorial hybrid wheel of Governance)
Technological development (creation and alignment of socio-technological skills) 21st century educational structure – Personalized and two-way education
Learning-oriented non-profit organizations
Real-time Assessment
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Instruments and platforms
(Development)
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Knowledge management, multimedia learning (video, case studies, manuals, video lessons, fivems, books, academic papers, etc.)
Phyrtual platform for innovation, learning, and community building for the establishment of “real and virtual” innovation movements
Strategic innovation instrument
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Projects
(implementation)
(local, national, support for European authorities and companies, support for communities and NGO)
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Educational innovation in learning processes and lifelong training
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Inclusion (the elderly, immigrants, political refugees, diversely-enabled students, equal opportunities)
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Development of the community and the territory through the promotion of the culture of creativity, innovation, and enterprise
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