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CREIAMO

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CREIAMO  
Centre for Research, Education, Innovation, Managerial and Organisational Action

CREIAMO is a Centre that promotes, sparks, supports and implements Research processes, as the production of relevant, valid, usable and shared knowledge; promotes Education, as generator of processes of evolution and positive growth; promotes Innovation, as orientation towards the configuration and implementation of transformative actions; promotes Managerial and Organisational Action, as attention to the concrete implementation of ideas and interventions that impact on the sustainable management of organisational, institutional, socio-economic and cultural processes.

The current processes of globalisation and the unprecedented rise of technological possibilities, when intertwined, exert a pervasive influence at all scales of human coexistence and irreversibly transform the forms of everyday and associated life of individuals and communities. The radical changes taking place in the political, social and cultural scenarios require decision-makers, professionals and citizens not only and not so much to find new solutions to traditional problems, but also and above all to implement a paradigm shift involving a reformulation of the problems that humanity is now obliged to deal with. All human communities are now called upon to formulate their problems in a systemic and planetary dimension that favours the links between local actions and their global outcomes. Hence the need to identify strategies and solutions that go in the direction of environmental and social (but also, at the same time, cognitive and mental) sustainability, and that are capable of conceiving economic, political and social developments starting from the centrality of human development as a fundamental value. The element at stake is the possibility of developing ideas and active networks to promote experimentation with different ways of conceiving and realising economic, social and civic participation relations.
CREIAMO aims to support subjects, organisations and managers willing, available and oriented to bring to life original experiences, capable of weaving thought, subjects, technology, ethics, bonds and wisdom.

Where we operate

CREIAMO proposes to operate within different project contexts and networks - international, national, regional, local - in the belief that today one of the most fruitful aspects of globalisation consists in the possibility of sparking virtuous circles between global and local.
Any local experience must be informed by a global scope and vision, attentive to interactions with experiences of different places and kinds.  At the same time, such local experiences - in their specificity and their adherence to individualised needs and contexts - are capable of generating innovations and good practices to be proposed as examples of local heritage to be translated and circulated globally.

Our Activities

We are determined to intervene in different contexts and with different types of action, in no pre-defined order.
Our main activities include:

  • research activities within academic and professional networks of national and international scope;
  • training, intervention design and delivery activities for companies and public and private institutions. These activities can also configure innovative forms of public-private partnerships, which the university can benefit from at such a critical and yet also decisive time for its future;
  • scientific support activities for companies and institutions that are engaged in the re-signification of their territory and their sector of business.

Moreover, given the location of the University of Bergamo, special attention is paid to:

  • the reconversion of Bergamo's industrial economy in the perspective of the green economy;
  • the reconversion of the Milan and Lombardy urban area from industrial to post-industrial;
  • the renewed question of Italian identity as a hinge between the various areas of Europe and between the European and Mediterranean worlds;
  • the question of European identity as a connecting space between world cultures. 
Themes of relevance

The most urgent problem areas that we intend to address, and which today require both theoretical research and a new project orientation in the perspective of the new human sciences and the sciences of complex systems, are:

  • political globalisation processes; 
  • the new complexity of individual and collective identities;
  • migration circuits with a global reach;
  • ideological and cultural globalisation processes; 
  • the population explosion and its consequences;
  • transformations of urban spaces;
  • globalisation of the energy question;
  • the artificialisation of climate, habitats and natural ecosystems;
  • the new appreciation of human and natural diversity;
  • the new frontiers of corporeality.