New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

Email user
projects@mairetecnimontfoundation.com

Basic information
Initiative title
Training new humanistic engineers

Full initiative Title
Orienteering high school female students to new professions related to energy transition

Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
Together with Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy & Sustainable Economic Development and within National Campaign “Italia in classe A” promoted by the Ministry of the Environment to respond to the national decarbonization challenges of European Green Deal we developed a 80 h course for 17y old girls, to introduce them to the role of engineers for the energy transition in the future paradigm of a sustainable and circular economy. The project responds to SDGs 4 5 7 13

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
National

Where was your intiative implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Italy

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security

Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
Mainly urban

Does your initiative refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your initiative benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your initiative won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Does your initiative has a minimum level of maturity? The minimum level of maturity is exemplified by stakeholder/ initiative promoter commitment to implement the initiative in practice and a clear methodology /approach.
Yes

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As a representative of an organisation
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project)
- Name of the organisation(s): Maire Tecnimont Foundation
  Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation
  First name of representative: Ilaria
  Last name of representative: Catastini
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: Italy
  Function: General Manager
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Piazzale Flaminio 9
  Town: Rome
  Postal code: 00196
  Country: Italy
  Direct Tel: +39 3270663447
  E-mail: director@mairetecnimontfoundation.com
  Website: https://www.mairetecnimont.com/en/sustainability/evolve-maire-tecnimont-foundation
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maire-tecnimont-foundation-evolve/posts/?feedView=all
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): Maire Tecnimont Foundation
- URL: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/mairetecnimontfoundation/
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): Maire Tecnimont Foundation
In case my initiative is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my initiative in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
New European Bauhaus or European Commission websites

Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
The initiative is the first edition. Held in 2022, it is composed of 80 hours of training to 5 young female students to orientate them to the new professions for the energy efficiency and transition, matching the growing need for experts to reach the climate goals and the growing need for gender inclusion. The training included technical and humanistic themes, with the aim to transmit the complexity of the challenge and the need for having a broad view, networking and social engagement capabilities, knowledge of environmental and social issues, vision for beauty, culture and respect for the communities, together with the technological and technical tools to find innovative solutions for the sustainable and circular economy of tomorrow. The initiative had a broader impact through the engagement of the schools of provenience of the students, workshops and use of social media. The initiative was promoted by ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development in cooperation with Liceo Artistico Statale G. C. Argan Roma and Liceo Statale Farnesina Scientifico e Musicale.

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with 5 key words.
Humanistic engineering

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Energy transition

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Gender parity

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Training for changer

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Sustainable economy

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of sustainability and how these have been/will be met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The initiative aims at training the future actors of the energy transition. Great relevance was given to the notions related to climate change and decarbonization, environmental protection, circularity, energy use and efficiency, waste recycling, production of biofuels and low carbon fuels, production of hydrogen, green fertilizers, capture and valorization of CO2. Other themes were environmental communications and stakeholder engagement, impact of infrastructures on landscape and the communities, social inclusion, diversity. The richness of speakers and presentations gave the students a wide and deep idea of the complexity of the challenge and the need for new-shaped technical and humanistic actors of this epochal change. This initiative will be replicated in 2023 with a target of 20 students and presented in conferences and exhibitions to become a model for similar initiatives in Italy and abroad. Moreover, the project aims at overcome the gender gap through training in STEM.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
Future humanistic engineers need to pay maximum attention to the aesthetical impact of infrastructures on the landscape, both in a physical and a cultural meaning. Landscape is made by culture, history, traditions, in addition to nature and human presence. This sensibility must be created starting from the importance to put the human being and its wellbeing at the center of the actions. This is the reason why we call this “humanistic engineering”. The students were very involved, reactive, during the training, they gave many suggestions and said at the end of the course that understood the importance of this vision for the future of humanity. We will follow their future schools’ developments and will use them as testimonials for the future groups of students that we will involve. Multidisciplinarity is also the strength of the project.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
This initiative is totally dedicated to female students, as from studies and researches held by ENEA, there is a key demand for a growing women presence in this sector, to assure a sufficient expert workforce for the realizations of all actions and projects necessary for the energy transition and the climate mitigation and adaptation in the next 25 years. We have composed the student panel with attention to the representation of the society composition and in the next editions will try to operate also an inclusion of other diversity clusters.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the initiative and civil society have been/will be involved in the initiative and what has been/will be the impact of this involvement on the initiative
The initiative concurs to the growth of expertise of future professionals who are requested for the ecological, circular and energy transition. It aims at creating the bases for an increase in occupation of young people and to improve the gender parity and the presence of women in the sector of energy efficiency. The schools have been involved as a whole, with an indirect impact on teachers and peer students. An association of women dealing with the themes of gender parity is on board in the project. A blog will transfer the students’ experience to other girls at a national level. In the next edition of the project in 2023, students will be 20 to 25, with the engagement of 4 schools.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
The initiative has been promoted by ENEA and has the partnership of the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security. It has involved the Italian representation of the European Commission,

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your initiative. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
The initiative included: learning how a company works, learning what engineering is and what do we mean for humanistic engineering, the role of communications and digital transformation, energy efficiency, renewables, climate change and decarbonization, European regulatory frame between Fit for 55, RePower EU and RED, the New European Bauhaus goals and movement, what is the energy transition and the technologies that are necessary for green chemistry, circular economy, production of bio and low carbon fuels and hydrogen, carbon capture and utilization; our model of green circular district, NIMBY and PIMBY and public debate; Diversity, equality, inclusion and role modelling. All the themes interacted with each other in laboratories, active exercises and case stories. Added value is the very wide and broad horizon that we want to transmit to these girls to let them understand how challenging but also fascinating this job and sector might be.

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
The initiative is innovative for the following reasons: it is tailored for 17 years old girls; students came from different kind of schools (both scientific and artistic); the course was held within the Group’s premises the Foundation is part of; the students interacted with professionals, engineers, many women in key roles, who described their own experience. At the end of the course the students meet the chairman of the Group and of the Foundation, who tells them his own experience as entrepreneur. The students are testimonials towards their peers through speeches within the class and larger meetings involving all school’s students. A video is under production that will be distributed through social media.

Please describe which elements of your initiative could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
The format of the 2022 course will be replicated and improved (in participants) in 2023 and used as a bases for other initiatives that our Foundation will promote either independently or with the same partners. Both methodology and contents may be exported in other European countries (course contents are already in English); methodology and results may be used as a model to be presented to other organizations within NEB; the video might be shorted and translated to be circulated with NEB community; we might host a webinar to explain details of the initiative to other organizations that could replicate it. Students might be invited to talks and might interact with peers of other European countries. In the future we might include in our future courses also one of two European students creating an interaction by remote or in presence.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
The methodology is an 80 hours course – 10 days, 8 hours per day – with a program that is a journey within the world of engineering for the energy transition, with lessons in presence, slides, videos, laboratories, exercises, discussions. Speakers and trainers are professionals from Maire Tecnimont Foundation and Group’s companies, and from ENEA. Students are selected by the heads of the schools, together with the teachers, with the participation of the families and, of course, the interest of the students themselves. Students of different schools are living this experience together.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
The new paradigms of the circular economy and the transition from fossil to renewable energy and feedstocks are global challenges necessary to respond to a global issue that is related to global warming and consequent climate change. Economic systems and production and energy infrastructures will need to change everywhere and the deployment of what is necessary to act this transformation will be at local level and will run together with national mitigation and adaptation plans. Every country needs to improve number and quality of the people who will deal with these tasks in the future 27 years, having in mind the 2050 carbon neutrality European targets. This initiative gives a contribution on a concrete way to this goal, and with the recognition of the NEB Prize could attract more attention from national and international institutions, business and civic communities, in order to improve the impact of future initiatives.

Please detail the scope of progress in the implementation of the initiative. This can include already demonstrated results/outputs related to the chosen Prizes category, and the already achieved benefits from the initiative for direct and indirect beneficiaries. This can also include a development plan of the initiative, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application, and including envisaged results and benefits from the initiative
The 2022 edition of the course closed last December. In the next months it will be delivered the blog with the videos of the “5 steps as an engineer” journey and meetings will be organized to enlarge the impact of the initiative to all the schools’ students. In the meanwhile we will get in touch with the 2023 edition new schools, engage them in the project and select the new students, who will be up to 25. The 2023 edition will take place in October-November. as a Partner of the New European Bauhaus Community, we will spread the values and the messages of the New European Bauhaus to all the target audiences of the project. According to the fund raising, we will enlarge the scope of this work also in 2024 and 2025.

Please provide documents that demonstrate the maturity level of the initiative and commitment to implement the initiative in practice (e.g.: evaluation report, final or mid-term initiative report, certification, publications, building permit, grant agreement, letter of support, partnership agreement, etc.)
PDF
PDF
- pdf-1-8589.pdf
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
The initiative is strictly coherent and contributing actively and concretely to the development of new competences in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability. Among the themes that have been and will be discussed there are, in fact, climate change and decarbonization paths and related technologies, efficiency in use of energy and resources, recycling and circularity, social inclusion and diversity, health and safety, prevention of pollution, innovation for sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, sustainability reporting and ESG Agenda, transparent governance and responsible consumer behavior.
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- ENEA House Organ October-November 2022.pdf
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