# DISABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY
#EXPERIMENTAL SERVICES AND INNOVATIVE DISABILITIES

Digital hub for innovation and higher education – DIGITAL HUB

Proposing party: UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA
Durata (in mesi): 36 mesi
Partner:

  • Council Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
    National Research Institute (Istc – Cnr);
  • Institute for Educational Technologies of the National Council Of
    Research (Itd-Cnr);
  • University of Bari “Aldo Moro”;
  • Adisu Puglia;
  • Apulia Film Commission Foundation.

Amount of the investment: € 21,000,000
Location: FOGGIA – MIALE BARRACKS LOCATED IN PIAZZA ITALIA N. 2

The objective of the project idea sees the Miale barracks as intended and is configured as a radical regeneration and re-functionalization of the entire urban area, disconnected for years from both most other urban areas and the educational and training activities that take place in the buildings. surrounding and neighboring areas (Department of Law, Department of Economics, Management and Territory, Department of Economics, Palazzo degli Studi, the “La Magna Capitana” Library, “Altamura – Da Vinci” Technical Institute, seat of the CdS in Logistic Systems Engineering for agro-food and management engineering).

The project for the regeneration and re-functionalization of the Miale Barracks is a declaration of the future, in the sense that it constitutes a reappropriation of urbanity, a new public communication channel that gives voice to the entire city and to the entire Dauno territory.

Caserma Miale would become a hub of excellence for innovation, technology transfer, research and higher education, a place in which to build a virtuous relationship between research, cultural growth, innovation, economic development and social well-being; a space in which the University, together with its partners, makes human resources and knowledge available to the territory dedicated to a plurality of activities in support of: companies operating in the area, contributing to technology transfer and digitalization; of young people to support and encourage them to create start-ups and spin-offs and higher education for trainers, companies and local stakeholders. Inside the barracks, the project of the Living & Creative Hub for the Right to Education, dedicated to the research “Puglia University Region: studying and living in welcoming and sustainable cities” stands as a spatially and functionally articulated place, integrated with the Digital Hub, and at the same time independent and highly recognizable, dedicated to the activation of processes of a new participatory right to study based on a virtuous relationship between university and city, extended to the whole regional territory. The spatial and distributive articulation of the Living & Creative Hub for the Right to Education determines the necessary autonomy of its research spaces (individual studies for researchers, laboratories for working groups, offices) but also a strong physical and functional connection with the space urban public, through the large Co-working space, on the Ground Floor open to the city.