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Smart Venice Srl contributes to the Horizon-funded G-STEAM Academy project, which seeks to reshape how educators across Europe are trained to integrate gender-inclusive and intersectional approaches into STEAM subjects.
G-STEAM Academy adopts a comprehensive and innovative approach, combining participatory action research, arts-based methodologies, and a European Community of Practice (CoP) to rethink how educators are trained and supported in integrating gender-sensitive and intersectional perspectives into STEAM teaching.
Smart Venice Srl contributes to G-STEAM Academy through its expertise in gender equality, participatory methodologies, and community-building, supporting research, co-creation processes, and policy innovation to advance inclusive STEAM education across Europe. In addition, Smart Venice will implement the G-STEAM Mentors training programme and the European Community of Practice (CoP), ensuring active collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing among teacher trainers and educators.
Smart Venice Srl is part of the Horizon-funded YOU-DARE project, which examines the role of gender in shaping the ideologies and identities of far-right youth across eight countries (DK, ES, UK, FR, HU, IT, RO, SE). The project adopts an innovative intersectional approach, uncovering contradictions in far-right gender narratives and exploring their impact on youth identity and leadership, including the rise of online influencers.
YOU-DARE combines qualitative research, online mapping of “gender controversies,” and cross-national analyses to understand how far-right ideas on gender influence democratic values and policymaking. Through a Policy Lab, the project designs and tests local solutions to counteract these ideologies and strengthen democratic practices.
Smart Venice Srl supports this initiative by contributing to research and policy innovation aimed at reducing the appeal of far-right narratives among youth.
Smart Venice Srl acts as the project coordinator (lead partner) of INCLUDE, a Horizon-funded initiative promoting intersectional gender equality in the Biomedical Research and Innovation sector. The initiative supports institutional change by advancing Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in seven public and one private research organizations across Europe.
Through analysis of existing practices and capacity-building activities such as training, mentoring, and thematic hubs, INCLUDE develops inclusive pilot actions and fosters collaboration among partners. Sustainability is ensured through long-term plans, local partnerships, and tools like the INCLUDE toolkit and Community of Practice.
As project coordinator, Smart Venice Srl leads this effort to drive innovation and equality in biomedical research.
The BIAS project tackles the challenges of bias in Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools used in Human Resources Management (HRM). NLP-based systems, widely applied in hiring, training, and employee management, often reproduce biases embedded in their underlying models. This can lead to discriminatory outcomes, undermining principles like gender equality, equal opportunity, and decent work as outlined in the European Pillar of Social Rights and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The project focuses on developing a proof-of-concept for an innovative AI technology using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) to reduce bias in recruitment processes. By addressing these biases, BIAS promotes fairer and more inclusive labor markets, supporting ethical AI practices across Europe.
At Smart Venice, we are going to be in charge of setting up the BIAS co-creation methodology to give voice to business owners, employers and employees and civil society.
FITTER is a Horizon Europe project that aims to contribute to existing research on the origins, dynamics and determinants of inequalities and enable anticipatory governance to support a fair and inclusive twin (digital and green) transition in Europe. The project innovates by the development of an ecosystem (FITTER ecosystem) that pivotally includes a highly interactive and gamified Digital Platform powered by an Intelligent Predictive Decision Support System targeting policymakers. Smart Venice is the partner in charge of developing the engagement strategy for the expert groups and vulnerable populations that will sustain the participatory approach of the project and is leading on co-creation of intersectional mitigation plans and the related WP whose results will feed into the design of the interactive platform.
FIERCE aims at providing sound theoretical and practical knowledge and tools to revitalize alliances between the feminist movement, civil society and political decision makers so to contrast populist radical right anti-gender actors and discourses.
At Smart Venice, we are coordinating the set up of the FIERCE dialogue Labs and co-creation methods aimed at facilitating alliance with and among feminist civil society organisations and movements, and to run the project Winter Schools.
STEM Byte was a project funded by the Veneto Region and implemented in the Metropolitan City of Venice, led by the local confederation of industrialists and supported by a broad network of partners, including academic institutions, professional organizations, trade unions, fablabs, women’s NGOs, and municipal authorities. The project provided us with the opportunity to “act locally” and create a tangible impact on the territory where we operate through pilot capacity-building activities targeting parents and teachers from lower and upper secondary schools, aimed at addressing and countering gender+ stereotypes.
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This Erasmus+ project led to the design of an online platform based on a recommender system that supported STEM teachers in making their teaching practices more gender-sensitive and inclusive.
In addition to organizing engagement activities with teachers and stakeholders in Italy, we coordinated the production of learning contents for the entire platform.
We were the scientific coordinators of the H2020 CALIPER project, supporting 9 Research Organizations from all over Europe in designing and implementing Gender Equality Projects with an innovative approach based on intersectoral collaboration with Innovation ecosystems
CASPER(H2020) was a feasibility study for an EUlevel certification on gender equality for Research Organizations.
Smart Venice has coordinated a network of 33 national researchers for a omprehensive state of art study and was now in charge of a benchmarking report taking the new Horizon Europe requirement on Gender Equality Plans as a term of reference.
GE Academy (H2020) was a high-quality capacity building programme for research organizations on gender in research and innovation.
We have been in charge of monitoring and evaluation of the entire programme, and of the e-learning component, including webinars and the self-paced e-learning course, the GE Academy DOCC- Distributed online open course.
This Erasmus+ project has led to the design of an online platform based on a recommender system that supports STEM teachers in making their teaching practices more gender-sensitive and inclusive.
Besides organizing engagement activities with teachers and stakeholders in Italy, we have coordinated the production of learning contents for the entire platform.
A Horizon 2020 ICT-CAPS project aimed at codesigning a socially innovative model of socialized childcare and an app/platform to support it.
Smart Venice has coordinated the place-based pilot of the project in Venice, and led all partners in evaluating the digital-social innovation experiment in their own city pilots.
It has also been in charge of designin and developing the multilingual project toolkit.
Our expertise builds on a set of projects that our founders and core
team members implemented over the years
Our Research Director was scientific coordinator for the Gender Equality Plans design and implementation in this project, supporting the departments and faculties of Information Systems and Computer Sciences partners of the project along institutional change processes for gender equality, both in recruiting and teaching and in ICT research and design practices.
In this H2020 project, a supporting network for women web entrepreneurs was set up along with a series of services.
Our Research Director was in charge of designing and running a EU level survey targeting female-led companies in digital sectors,
and designing a Score Card. for innovation ecosystem actors and support structures to offer
gender sensitive services. Particular attention
This project piloted social innovation networks and activities in several cities in Europe. Our research director was then in charge of mainstreaming a gender perspective in social innovation and the gender toolkit of the project.
Our Research Director has coordinated a national campaign on digital skills in Italy in 2012, organizing national level events and multimedia products and videos on enhancing inclusive
digital capacities for the work force of the future, targeting women, migrant, youth.
Within the Urban programme our core team members have been part of the network of enterprises and ngos which re-opened an abandoned cultural centre in Venice, CZ95, on the Giudecca Island via a bottom up participatoryw process with local citizens.
Through the EQUAL – ESF programme our core team members have gained substantial experience in
designing and coordinating inclusive territorial innovation processes, and designed services for women and migrants economic empowerment.
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