Massimiliano Smeriglio Professore associato

The city that learns, or Learning City, represents an emerging paradigm of sustainable urban development, based on lifelong learning, social inclusion and innovation. This paper explores how the concept of the Learning City intertwines with the Leaving No One Behind principle of the United Nations…

In November 2024, the European Migration Network published a study on the Temporary Protection Directive: Challenges and Good Practices in 2023.This article intends to analyse the data and reflections of the study by following two approaches. On the one hand, the thought of Abdelmalek Sayad and his…

In 2001 the World Health Organisation adopted the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health. Then in 2009 the United Nations ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This was a genuine revolution in interpretative categories, norms and language.…

One year after the start of the pandemic, each child and adolescent globally has lost seventy-four days of education: more than a third of the school year. One hundred and twelve billion days of education lost, especially among the world’s poorest children (UNESCO and Center for Global…

Among the factors contributing to educational poverty are not only the lack of adequate educational infrastructures at a local level, but also the lack of cultural, sports and leisure educational services, and poor access to digital platforms. From data available in the literature, this article will…

Italian public opinion has become familiar with guaranteed minimum. Concerning this measure, the discussion has gained momentum once again during the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic with the proposal on the so-called quarantine income. The debate concerns the very idea of society, and therefore…