Interview with Daniele Vimini, deputy mayor and councillor for culture in Pesaro
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Interview with Daniele Vimini, deputy mayor and councillor for culture in Pesaro
The city of Milan is confirmed as being in the forefront and projected towards the major realities in Europe and the world.
The ‘New University Campus in the MIND Area’ project aims to create a new campus for the scientific faculties of the State University of Milan. It will consist of a total of five buildings, including classrooms, teaching and experimental laboratories and the library. Inside, 23,000 people including professors, students and researchers will be able to work closely together in an environment full of cutting-edge equipment.
The area chosen for the construction of the campus is the MIND Area (Milan Innovation District), already famous for hosting Expo 2015. Not only a university: over the next few years, the MIND Area will also see other projects and realities spring up within it, such as the IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio, the Human Technopole Research Centre, as well as numerous companies and start-ups. The concentration of all these realities within a single area is very important both for the movement of citizens and for the communication and collaboration of the companies present.
At the end of 2022, the Board of Directors of the University of Milan approved the project for the University’s Science Campus with the aim of making the campus functional from 2026.
The entire project will cost approximately € 174 million. 81 million comes from the 2014-2020 Development and Cohesion Fund, co-financed by the European Commission. The remaining sum, approximately 48 million from the Lombardy Region (‘Patto Lombardia’), and the remaining 41 million from private entities.
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Aosta, a city in north-western Italy, is known for its rich history and beautiful Alpine scenery. Recently, the city has undergone a transformation with the help of MCA, an architectural firm specialising in the preservation of historical buildings and the introduction of modern design elements.
This also includes the project for the construction of the Aosta university campus. This project is destined to become a landmark of contemporary Aosta and it is designed to revitalise an entire area of the territory while maintaining the original layout intact.
The aim of the project is to preserve and enhance the existing structures, while creating new spaces for education, community engagement and modern life.
In fact, with works began in 2013, the project involves the construction of three new buildings that will house the common areas and classrooms of various faculties for around 2,000 students, for a funding of approximately 36 million euros.
Find out more about Aosta’s new university campus by listening to the “EU with YOU” podcast: https://podcast.areanews24.it/podcast/areanews-eufactor.htm
“EU with YOU” is the Eu Factor Next podcast realised by Raduni, the Association of Italian University Radio Operators, to tell the public at first hand how European funding is spent. In each episode the podcast will tell the story of a project funded by the European Union and its Cohesion Policy on the national territory.
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In recent days, MEPs have given the final green light to the European Media Freedom Act, which aims to protect EU journalists and media from political or economic interference. The new regulation, approved by 464 votes to 92 with 65 abstentions, obliges member states to protect the independence of the media and prohibits any form of interference in editorial decisions.
Protecting the work of journalists
The use of arrests, fines, searches, intrusive surveillance, software installed on electronic devices and other coercive methods to pressure journalists and editors and force them to reveal their sources will be prohibited. Parliament has introduced severe restrictions on the use of spy software, which will only be permitted on a case-by-case basis and with the authorisation of a judicial authority in the investigation of serious crimes punishable by imprisonment. Even in these circumstances, however, the persons concerned will have to be informed after the surveillance has taken place and will then be able to challenge it in court.
Editorial independence of public media
In order to prevent public media from being instrumentalised for political purposes, their managers and board members are to be selected for a sufficiently long term on the basis of transparent and non-discriminatory procedures. Dismissal before the end of the contract will only be allowed if professional requirements are not met.
Funding for public media should be sustainable and predictable and follow transparent and objective procedures.
Ownership Transparency
In order to allow the public to know who controls individual media and what interests may lie behind the ownership, all newspapers, from the largest to the smallest, will be required to publish information on their owners in a national database and indicate whether they are directly or indirectly owned by the state.
Fair distribution of state advertising
The media will also have to report on the funds they receive from state advertising and financial support from the state, even if these come from outside the country. The criteria for allocating these funds to media or online platforms will have to be public, proportionate and non-discriminatory. Finally, information on state advertising expenditure, including the total annual amount and the amount per newspaper, will also have to be published.
Protecting media freedom from large platforms
Another important step: a mechanism has been introduced to prevent very large online platforms, such as Facebook, X or Instagram, from arbitrarily restricting or removing independent media content. After distinguishing independent media from non-independent sources, platforms wishing to take such measures will have to inform those concerned, giving them 24 hours to respond. Only after this time has elapsed will platforms be able to decide to restrict or remove content that does not comply with their conditions. The media will be able to appeal to an out-of-court dispute resolution body and seek the opinion of the European Media Services Board, a committee of national regulators provided for in the new law.
Rapporteur Sabine Verheyen (EPP, DE) said during the debate: “The importance of media plurality for a functioning democracy cannot be emphasised enough. Freedom of the press is under threat all over the world, including in Europe: the murder in Malta, the threats to press freedom in Hungary and many other examples clearly demonstrate this. The European Media Freedom Act is our response to this threat and a milestone in European legislation. It values and protects the dual role of the media as businesses and as guardians of democracy”.
By adopting this legislation, Parliament is responding to citizens’ expectations of the EU, as expressed in the conclusions of the Conference on the Future of Europe: to introduce legislation that addresses threats to media independence and enforces EU competition rules in the media sector in order to prevent large media monopolies and to ensure pluralism and media independence from undue political, corporate and/or foreign interference.
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