Summer School – Thinking Together to Think Better
- 24 June 2024 - 26 June 2024
- University of Padua | Meeting Room of the Beato Pellegrino Library | Via E. Vendramini, 13 – Padua
BEGIN:VCALENDAR … BEGIN:VEVENT TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240627 UID:323_evento_otr DESCRIPTION:Summer School – Thinking Together to Think Better // University of Padua // Meeting Room of the Beato Pellegrino Library // Via E. Vendramini, 13 – PaduaSTATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:1 X-APPLE-TRAVEL-ADVISORY-BEHAVIOR:AUTOMATIC SUMMARY:Summer School – Thinking Together to Think Better DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240624 BEGIN:VALARM X-WR-ALARMUID:323__event_alarm UID:323_otr_event_alarm TRIGGER:-PT15H X-APPLE-DEFAULT-ALARM:TRUE ATTACH;VALUE=URI:Chord ACTION:AUDIO END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
It is a philosophical journey that experiments with the critical and transformative power of collective thinking.
The project comprises 5 meetings divided into 3 days. Each meeting is dedicated to a key word: communicating, reasoning, deciding, imagining, sharing. The meetings are designed in progressive order: each session takes up the practices and concepts learned in the previous one.
The workshop form of the summer school is based on the dialogical and learning-by-doing method. Collective discussions, practical, playful and small-group activities are planned.
Thinking Together to Think Better is conceived as a training in active citizenship. It is a small step to probe how the ways we think are important building blocks in the construction of the society of which we are part.
Organisers
Progetto Giovani and Europe Direct Padova in collaboration with Giovanna Miolli and Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology – FISPPA of the University of Padua) and the Philosophical Association Verifiche.
Educators
- Giovanna Miolli (FISPPA, University of Padua)
- Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (FISPPA, University of Padua)
Beneficiaries
Students of secondary schools in the Municipality of Padua (third to fourth year).
Research projects involved
InRatio Project (European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101025620; PI: Giovanna Miolli); and DIGIT project (agreement No 2022LRH5XY; PI: Cosimo Marco Scarcelli), both based at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology of the University of Padua.

Programme
June 24, 2024
Meeting Room of the Beato Pellegrino Library; Via E. Vendramini, 13 – Padua
- 9:30 | Gathering of participants
- 10:00-10:40 | Welcoming words
Presentation of the Progetto Giovani Office and the University of Padua’s Student Services Office - 11:40-13:00 | Group formation
Connections and construction of shared practices - 13:00-14:00 | Lunch
- 14:00-17:30 | Communicating
What does it mean to handle digital relationships?
June 25, 2024
Meeting Room of the Beato Pellegrino Library; Via E. Vendramini, 13 – Padua
- 9:30 | Gathering of participants
- 10:00-13:00 | Reasoning
How to use logic without being tricked - 13:00-14:00 | Lunch
- 14:00-14:45 | Visit to the Beato Pellegrino Library
Library of Literary, Linguistic, Educational and Performing Arts Studies - 14:50-17:50 | Deciding
What do our choices have to do with discrimination?
June 26, 2024
Meeting Room of the Beato Pellegrino Library; Via E. Vendramini, 13 – Padua
- 9:30 | Gathering of participants
- 10:00-13:00 | Imagining
How can we transform the world we live in? - 13:00-15:00 | Sharing
Shared reflection on the summer school experience and lunch - 15:00-16:30 | Closure of activities
Progetto Giovani Office: Presentation of ESC and Erasmus+ projects, evaluation questionnaire, certificates awarding