COURSE - Social 4 productive employment

Social innovation for productive employment and decent work (2 -20 December 2024)

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course description

This course aims to explore the intersection between social innovation and the creation of decent jobs. It focuses on how social innovators significantly influences the reshaping of productive employment by fostering new competencies, opening up new markets, and ultimately leading to the emergence of new job opportunities. Through this lens, the course aims to elucidate the role of social innovation in addressing employment challenges and promoting the development of meaningful and sustainable work.

course description

Identify strategies for fostering sustainable and socially impactful workplaces in a rapidly changing labour market.

Learn from real-world examples of worker-led enterprises and understand their contribution to labour rights and job retention.

Analyse the potential of mutualism and cooperatives as models for fair and inclusive employment.

Explore the role of social innovation and solidarity economy practices in promoting decent work.

Understand the evolving concept of productive employment and its relevance in today’s economy.

learning objectives

Adelina Brizio

Leonard Mazzone

Bernd Muller

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Vincenzo Fucci

Francesca Gabbriellini

LECTURERS

Adelina Brizio is a Contract Professor in the Master's Program in Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Turin and holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience (Cognitive Science). She pursued a fellowship at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, exploring her growing interest in psychotherapy. She collaborated with the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano, teaching Communication Psychology and Social Psychology. Currently, she works with the Human+ Foundation in Turin, focusing on human capital and innovation.

Vincenzo Fucci has been working for the ITCILO since 2019. He is currently Research and Programme Officer at the Employment Policy and Analysis Programme in the areas of social innovation, development economics, sustainability and the impact of technological innovation on society, the economy and the environment. He is the activity manager of the Masters in Social Innovation for Sustainable Development and Technology and Public Policy, as well as other courses focused on economic policies, structural transformation, and development economics. He is a PhD Researcher in Development Economics and Ecological Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) at The Hague, under the aegis of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. His research focuses on eco-social development policies and instruments, particularly structural transformation associated with fossil fuel and mineral extraction and their role in the development process in Latin America.

Francesca Gabbriellini is a doctoral fellow in History Culture and Civilisation at the University of Bologna and currently a visiting student at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations - Sciences Po (Paris), she graduated in History Culture and Civilisation at the University of Pisa. She is currently focusing her research activity on the history of consumption in Italy and how it is connected to environmental history and political ecology, in order to understand convergences and divergences between the reorganisation of productive work, the narratives of business and public subjects around the theme of ecological transition and the change in consumption habits connected to these transformations.

Leonard Mazzone is Research Fellow in Social and Political Philosophy at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Studies of Florence. After having spent some periods of his research in England at the London School of Economics, in Germany at the University of Bremen and in Bulgaria at the Elias Canetti Internationale Gesellshaft, he achieved the Doctorate in Philosophy with a dissertation on the works and the life of Elias Canetti. He has taught some lessons in Moral and Political Philosophy at Department of Cultures, Politics and Society at the University of Studies of Turin and at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Florence, where he is currently teaching a course in Political and Moral Philosophy.

Bernd Mueller is Manager of the Employment Policy and Analysis Programme (EPAP) of the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO). Previously, he was the Senior Employment Specialist based in ILO Pretoria, where he was responsible for providing seasoned technical advice and support to the organization’s African member states and constituents with regard to designing and implementing employment creation policies and initiatives.He has over 15 years of experience as development practitioner, policy advisor, researcher, university teacher, and consultant, and has authored a multitude of peer-reviewed articles and reports on the topic of labour markets and employment promotion. He is Diplom-Volkswirt (MSc Economics equiv.) from the University of Muenster, Germany, and holds a PhD in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.