The University is involved in an EU project entitled ‘Euro-South Hub’ aimed at creating a centre for research, exchanges, services and initiatives of social entrepreneurship. It will be replicating a model already adopted in almost 30 cities in all the five continents, through the ‘Hub network’ (www.the-hub.net/). The project is being financed under the Italia-Malta 2007-2013 European Commission programme.
‘The Hub’ is a global network of physical spaces where people and ideas get in touch and merge, where social innovators and any kind of professionals can get access to resources, get inspired from and create innovative ideas, establish connections and partnerships and respond to the increasing demand of a more sustainable future.
The University’s faculties of Information and Communication Technology, Science, and Education, and the Edward de Bono Institute are all involved in the project, which is led by Catania University’s Architecture Department. Other partners include the Municipality and Cooperative Association of Syracuse, Sicily, and Luigi Pirandello school of Lampedusa.