ITALY-ISRAEL PROJECT – Gorizia joins “Start learning cities up”

The collaboration between the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Israel has just become stronger thanks to the participation of the city of Gorizia who now takes part in the project “Start learning cities up.” The initiative was launched in 2019 and it involves the city of Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut, some thirty kilometers south of Tel Aviv. The purpose of the project is to create an exchange network between the cities in the fields of research, higher education, and technological innovation, to increase the quality of services provided to citizens, inspired by the concept of “smart cities.”
The project, funded for the three-year period 2023-2025, has five goals: to create an international centre of expertise between Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Israel in order to support the spread of the Learning City-Learning Region model; to encourage the exchange of good practices by fostering cooperation; to develop new learning tools and models based on the use of new technologies, AI included; to carry out a research and study project on antisemitism in cooperation with the University of Trieste and the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem; and, last but not least, to promote intercultural exchanges among schools in Italy and those in the city of Modi’in.
“The “learning cities” project provides people with skills that are useful for sharing ideas, keeping up-to-date, and adjusting to an ever-changing world. It creates a lifelong learning pathway through which people can feel truly included in their social and professional environment,” said the president of Friuli Venezia-Giulia Massimiliano Fedriga.

Translated by Martina Bandini, revised by Annadora Zuanel, students at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of the University of Trieste, interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities – Pagine Ebraiche.