PRO3 Project: Theories and Toolkit for the Ecological Transition: Philosophical, Mathematical, Ethical and Legal Profiles of the Carbon Budget Sustainability Challenge

Duration of the project: March 2022 – February 2024

Funding: (Grant Number: PROGMIURC21_23AP). Consortium: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Scuola Normale Superiore, IUSS Pavia.

Cripto-exia: un approccio etico alle cripto-valute e alla “Blockchain” 

Brief description: The Project is developed in a multidisciplinary perspective (Public Ethics, Cryptography engineering and Economics) aimed to study the issues related to cryptocurrencies.

Duration of the project: November 2022 – October 2023.

This project is developed by Public Ethics Research Area of Sant’Anna Dirpolis, financed by the Bank of Italy.

“Collaboration agreement (ex art. 15, Italian Law 7 August 1990, no. 241) for the development of the Advanced Course “Ethics, Law and Legality. Public Procurement Management from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR)”

Brief description: The Project is developed in a multidisciplinary perspective (Public Ethics, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Ethics) aimed to study the administrative issues related to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). The research is focused in framing a teaching course for training public officers (especially Mayors of cities).

Duration of the project: July 2022 – December 2022.

This project is developed by Public Ethics Research Area of Sant’Anna Dirpolis and the Prefecture and Province of Pavia.

'PartecipiAMO! Pisa città per i Giovani’

Brief description: Coordination of a group of public and private stakeholders aiming at elaborating proposals to increase the commitment of young people in the political and institutional activities of the city of Pisa. Writing a report and presenting the results at a public conference hosted by the municipality of Pisa.

Duration of the project: November/December 2021

This project is developed by Public Ethics Research Area of Sant’Anna Dirpolis and CAFRE. Centro Interdipartimentale per l'Aggiornamento, la Formazione e la Ricerca Educativa, University of Pisa.

Law, Ethics, Inclusion (LEI): for an efficient and participatory system of corruption prevention in Public Administrations

Brief description: The Project is an example of multidisciplinary research (Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Ethics), which moves from two different ways: one Empirical based on Case Studies (Trial Sentences), another Theoretical focused on Values and Duties analysis. The main focus is to investigate possible administrative gap in providing services to citizens, both form a Legal and Ethical point of view.

Duration of the project: August 2020 – August 2021.

This project is developed by Public Ethics Research Area of Sant’Anna Dispolis and the National School of Administration.

RESPIFIN - Corporate social responsibility and ethical finance: Reconceptualising the relation between values, companies and territories – in collaboration with Fondazione Finanza Etica (Banca Etica) and CrossThink - LAB (Florence)

Brief description: The aim of the RESPIFIN research is threefold: theoretical, methodological and empirical. 
From a theoretical point of view, the aim is to substantiate the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), not simply by illustrating what a company must do to act ethically, but also by trying to explain why a company must act in this way in the first place, thus bringing to the forefront the philosophical-normative question of the origin of a company's social obligations towards external stakeholders. 
The second, methodological objective is to conduct a qualitative analysis of how individual companies interpret CSR, i.e. which prioritisation principle they use to regulate the implementation of pursuable values (many times, structural market reasons imply that the realization of certain values by a company can only be achieved if other values are sacrificed). 
Finally, the empirical objective of the first cycle of the project was to test the 'RESPIFIN method' on a sample of companies from the network of Banca Etica.

Members of the research area involved: Alberto Pirni as scientific coordinator and Fausto Corvino as research grant holder and

Duration of the project:  18 months(26/07/17 – 24/01/19)

Funding: “Fondazione Finanza Etica” – Gruppo Banca Etica.

Collaboration agreement for the development of conceptual and theoretical models on issues of public and institutional ethics (ex art. 15, Italian Law 7 August 1990, no. 241)

Brief description: Research on the state of the art related to Codes of conduct for Public Official, in particular Public Safety Officers (Police). This collaboration implied deep research on theoretical root of common values for creating a shared new Code of conduct. A Code of Conduct will enforce trust between citizen and Public Safety Officers (Police).

Duration of the project: May 2019 – May 2020.

This project is developed by Public Ethics Research Area of Sant’Anna Dispolis and the General Affair Central Department of the Internal Affair Ministry.

Codes of Conduct Guidelines Reform for Public Administration Employees 

Brief description: Research focused on the Codes of conduct written and introduced in public Administrations compared to the general Code of conduct released with the Italian Presidential Decree 62/2013. The compared study is aimed to discourage the copy of the general Code of conduct and to discover and underline the specific problematic areas related to public officers’ behavior and their relationship with the citizens. 

Duration of the project: January 2018 – July 2019.

This project is developed by Public Ethics Research Area of Sant’Anna Dispolis and ANAC – Anticorruption National Authority.

Intergenerational justice and ethical sustainability in the context of the development of electric power transmission networks

Brief description: Creation of a capability-based method for evaluating and compensating the ethical damage caused by energetic infrastructures.

Members of the research area involved: Alberto Pirni as scientific coordinator, Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini as research grant holder, and Fausto Corvino as external collaborator

Duration of the project:  12 months(01.08.2017 – 30.07.2018)

Funding: RSE – Ricerca Sistema Energetico (Public Research Company entirely controlled by GSE – Gestore Sistema Elettrico – Italian Ministry of Economic Development).

GIUSTEL - Le diverse declinazioni del concetto di giustizia nelle procedure di pianificazione e autorizzazione delle infrastrutture elettriche

Duration of the project: 3 months (11/01/17-10/04/17)

Funding body: RSE – Ricerca Sistema Energetico (Public Research Company entirely controlled by GSE – Gestore Sistema Elettrico – Italian Ministry of Economic Development).

INTERMORES – Call PRIN 2022

Brief description: INTERMORES aims to investigate the value and rights of future generations and of more-than-human nature (i.e., non-human nature, both living and nonliving) and operationalise them in the assessment of climate mitigation and adaptation policies. INTERMORES is interdisciplinary, involving moral philosophers, lawyers, geographers and physicists, and it proceeds in three phases, addressing the following objectives. 
A) Moral and political analysis of issues of intergenerational equity/responsibility and rights/value(-s) of more-than human nature within climate policies (both adaptation and mitigation). 
B) Legal analysis of how the litigation model and the regulation model are addressing the climate challenge (both mitigation and adaptation) in a number of countries, both European and non-European, selected on the basis of reasons relating to their legal system and exposure to climate damages. 
C) Given A and B, developing an ethical toolkit containing criteria of intergenerational and more-than-human climate-justice and testing the toolkit in three case studies: the draft climate law of the Lombardy Region, Italy’s First Climate Lawsuit (“The Last Judgement”) filed against the Italian State in 2021, the Priolo Saltmarsh (Human and more than human values at a Petrochemical Oasis), Salento Km0 (a participatory experience of territorial agroecology in which symbiotic practices with the non-human are manifested through the culture of the so-called right to “restance” - i.e., the right to continue to reside in the place of origin).

Scientific consortium: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (coord. Prof. Pirni), Università dell’Insubria, Università di Palermo.

JUSTUS-JUST, UNIFIED, SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE TRANSITION

JustUs is motivated by the need to operationalize the term ‘Just Transition’ into an applied research agenda to  create  policy-ready recommendations  for a just and effective transition  to a climate-neutral Europe.  A successful transition requires that all people feel they are a part of this transition and that it moves all people towards a life filled with opportunities. We are all together on one planet, and it is just us as a species who together can solve the climate crisis. 

INTERJUS - INTERgenerational JUStice Facing Challenges on Climate, Welfare and Energy Policies

The project INTERJUS aims to create and establish an interdisciplinary training network of excellence with the ultimate goal of forming a new generation of socials scientists capable of formulating public policies to protect future generations that are both effective in the long-term objectives and accepted as fair, and therefore implementable, at the intragenerational level. The goal is articulated thanks to a network of excellence related to the specific topic. Each academic partner represents an internationally acknowledged point of reference in its specific field, and is used to focalize its research activities at a ground-breaking and interdisciplinary level, hosting several disciplinary lenses and strong international experience in terms of scientific network and achievements.