The worry about the production and dissemination of misinformation and fake data is widespread in democratic societies, so much so that a number of problematic political events and processes are seen as the consequences of citizens’ resulting distorted beliefs.

From Brexit to Trump’s election in the US, from the rejection of refugees to the objection to vaccines across Europe: all these are taken as instances of the effect of distorted information on citizens’ behaviour and attitudes.

The research project sets out to analyse the processes and conditions that can facilitate or, on the contrary, penalise forms of participation and identity construction by young children, particularly migrant children, in education and healthcare.

This project investigates the role of the European Unione in the global era, focusing on some of the most important challenges of our time:

The project is designed to create a network for the study and diffusion of tools for crime prevention, with particular emphasis on organised crime and solutions offered by recent European legislation.

The network includes the University of Mannheim (Germany), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Porto (Portugal).

Prevention measures, veering between penal law (substantive and trial) and administrative regulations, are deft tools, although less reliable than a criminal trial, able to strike the financial interests of organised criminal networks.