EVENT NAME: National Festival of Civil Economy 

EVENT PLACE: Social Sciences Campus

EVENT DATE: From 3 to 6 October 2024

EVENT PRICE: free entry 

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Appointment at the Social Sciences campus on October 3rd. The event opened with a student hackathon and a speech by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.

Urban areas occupy 3% of the earth's surface, but are home to half of the world's population: for this reason they must be considered the starting point for measures aimed at tackling the climate crisis, the pandemic or the digital transition. The National Festival of Civil Economy, now in its sixth edition, opens its proceedings on 3 October at the Social Sciences campus of the University of Florence to talk about cities and their young inhabitants and how to be protagonists in designing an increasingly more people-friendly. The model for an inclusive and supportive European city works on three different social or environmental problems, as proposed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, guest of this edition of the Festival, for the equitable development of local communities: zero exclusion, zero unemployment and zero pollution.

The civil economy, through the Florence Charter, undertakes to act to promote diversity and social inclusion, support the value of work and people, cultivate respect and care for the environment.

In collaboration with the Florentine University, which is celebrating 100 years since its foundation, the National Festival of Civil Economy is increasingly open to students by offering a day dedicated to their ideas for the growth of a society on a human scale and respectful of the environment and communities. Unifi students and doctoral candidates will be able to participate in a hackathon on October 3 and present projects to transform Florence into a "Civil and Social Business City".