Action Program Research Articles

Perspectiva crítica de la innovación educativa desde las metodologías activas de aprendizaje

The complexity of the challenges posed by the 21st century calls for innovation, especially in the field of education, due to its presence, relevance and potential for the generation of solutions, forms of action and education that can be assumed by citizens, mainly those who are immersed in their educational process. For this reason, the aim of this work is to propose active methodologies as suitable means for implementing educational innovation centred on social processes, which place people at the centre of the phenomenon, as beings in formation and, likewise, as creators and maintainers of innovations that promote well-being. Initially, it outlines the difficulties of the pedagogical renewal effort, in some of its fundamental texts and moments, to respond to the challenges and threats faced by contemporary societies, discussing some relevant notions of theory and Philosophy of Education. This contribution then attempts to add to the ongoing reflections on the Philosophy of innovation, as a discipline in germ, which must in turn be linked to a proposal for a Philosophy of educational innovation. The aim is then to problematise, under these theoretical premises, pedagogical creativity and action programmes linked to the tradition of activism and the recent proposals of Active Learning Methodologies, through the contribution of the social approach to educational innovation.

CE in corporate sustainability reporting – general insights based on Polish companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange

The circular economy (CE) represents a new paradigm in management. The introduction of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the accompanying delegated acts (European Sustainability Reporting Standards, ESRS) highlight that CE is also an integral part of legal requirements at the European Union level. The primary objective of this study is to assess the CE indicators that are covered in the ESG reports of Polish companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. In the the present study, the sustainability strategies of selected companies were also reviewed in terms of CE objectives, policies and action programmes. The findings suggest that despite a growing trend towards circularity in the economy, analysed companies do not demonstrate impressive consistency and standardisation. The analysis concluded that some enterprises approach circularity comprehensively and thoughtfully, implementing actual actions and investment expenditures. In contrast, others merely mention CE by proposing a single, selective indicator whose definition is unclear. Within the framework of this article, groups of indicators were proposed that could serve in analysing dual materiality, one of which is the indicator for reducing material and energy costs.

Use of the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) by mental health volunteers in the UK: examples from South Asian diaspora charities.

The Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2008 to scale up services for mental, neurological and substance use disorders for low- and lower-middle-income countries. Subsequently, an updated mhGAP intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG 2.0) was released in 2016. This study explores the use and effectiveness of mhGAP-IG 2.0 by mental health volunteers of two South Asian charities in the UK. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with eight volunteers. The core themes identified were mental health awareness, mental health education, empathy and care, social perception and bias within the South Asian community, and personal development. The study identified mhGAP as a tool with transformative potential. Although the WHO originally planned the mgGAP-IG as a tool for low- and middle-income countries with limited mental health resources, this study demonstrates its usefulness even in high-income countries, as a foundation to educate volunteers working in mental health.

Integrating Mental Health into Primary Health Care Settings in Ogun State: An Example of a Sustainable Mental Health Project in Nigeria

Introduction: In developing countries with shortage of mental health professionals, non-physician primary health care workers are trained and supported to provide mental health services. One of the major challenges with mental health integration into primary health care (PHC) is the long-term sustainability of such services. This paper reports on a primary care mental health service that has been continuously sustained over a decade. Method: Aro Primary Care Mental Health Programme was developed and rolled out across 40 designated PHC centres in Ogun State in November 2011. Initially, 80PHC workers were trained using the adapted WHO mental health Gap Action Programme- Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) document covering 5 priority mental conditions: (Psychosis, Depression, Epilepsy, Anxiety Disorders & Other Significant Emotional Complaints and Substance Use Disorders). Over the years, above 400 PHC workers had been trained with commencement of mental health service delivery in the designated PHC centres. The field psychiatric nurse supervisors and consultant psychiatrists have provided a solid framework of support and supervision. Caseload of patients treated by the trained PHC workers was reviewed since commencement of the programme in November 2011 using descriptive statistics. Results: In the 11 years 6 months period (November 2011 – April 2023), the caseload of patients was 2,910 with an average of 254 new cases per annum. About 90% of the cases were Psychosis and Epilepsy. Attrition of trained PHC workers remained a major challenge with only 18 trained PHC workers remaining on the programme. Follow up cases of patients showed an average of 279 follow-ups per month. Conclusion: The Aro Primary Care Mental Health Programme has shown that it is feasible, practicable and cost effective with relevant stakeholders’ participation to scale up mental health services at primary care setting in Nigeria using the adapted mhGAP-IG document. Also the factors responsible for sustaining the services for over a decade are dynamic and deserved to be better understood

Protection of the Right of the Child to Lineage and Application of Alternative Care Mechanisms by the Members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

INTRODUCTION. According to the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, during the international cooperation in the field of protection and promotion of human rights, national and regional particularities and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds of States should be taken into account. The international law acts adopted under the auspices of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC, Organisation) enshrine the connection between protection and promotion of the rights of the child and the preservation of social systems of the Members of the Organisation. The present article aims to discover the effect of historical, cultural and religious backgrounds of OIC Members underlying “the right of the child to lineage”, as enshrined in the decisions of the Organisation, on the international protection of the rights of the child and application of mechanisms of alternative care for children deprived of family environment by these States.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The article applies the system and comparative method to universal international legal acts, decisions of the OIC and national legislation of its Members. It focuses on legal measures taken by OIC Members aiming at protection of the right of the child to lineage and providing alternative care to children deprived of family environment. The research traces the impact of these measures on interpretation and application of the universal human rights norms.RESEARCH RESULTS. Islamic law provides for protection of lineage which is defined as a permanent legal relationship between the child and his or her biological parents. The general doctrinal concept of “lineage” is applied in national legislation of OIC Members using the normative terms “ ” and “ ” which are commonly translated as “lineage”, “descent”, “filiation” or “parentage”. OIC Members refer to protection of lineage in their international legal positions but lack coordination in assertion of their arguments in international organisations and organs of the UN system. The term “right to lineage”, as enshrined in the 1994 Declaration on the Rights and Care of the Child in Islam and the 2020 Draft Jeddah OIC Convention on the Rights of the Child, indicates the right of the child to a permanent legal relationship of lineage towards his or her biological father. The right to lineage is unknown to the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child and differs in its scope from any right enshrined in the Convention.DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS. Protection of lineage should be regarded as a national and regional particularity of certain, but not all, OIC Members. No uniform approach to its implementation exists among OIC Members. Their standpoints with regard to the protection of lineage affect the legal regulation of the mechanisms of alternative care for children deprived of family environment. One should distinguish States allowing full adoption, States allowing simple adoption, States allowing several forms of adoption and States prohibiting adoption. OIC Members assert different international legal positions concerning interpretation and application of universal treaty norms governing the right of the child, as far as possible, to know and be cared for by parents, as well as the right of a child temporarily or permanently deprived of the family environment to special protection and assistance. Given that the approach to interpretation and application of the provisions of universal treaties on the rights of the child concerning adoption differs from State to State, their implementation should be considered a matter within domestic jurisdiction of States.

Anticipatory actions: lessons from the storm Ana in Mocuba district, Mozambique

In January 2022, the Mozambique Red Cross provided non-food items to people who were forecasted to be impacted by flooding from the tropical storm Ana in the district of Mocuba, Zambezia province, Mozambique. This was an activation of their anticipatory action protocol, an innovative mechanism for forecast-based action. While anticipatory action is growing rapidly around the world, there is a lack of evidence on the effectiveness of different anticipatory actions across hazards. In this study, we compare reported health outcomes and asset losses from a survey of beneficiaries of an anticipatory action program in Mozambique, implemented by the Mozambique Red Cross. Given the short warning time, Mozambique Red Cross was able to provide non-food items, namely early warning messages, buckets, cups, mosquito nets, soaps, and COVID-19 masks to 855 number of people 24h before the flooding occurred. Using propensity score matching, we did not find statistically significant differences in health outcomes loss of assets or personal documents during the flood event, between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries (comparison group). The lack of observable statistical differences between the groups could be due to either the late timing of intervention or a lack of tangible utility of the non-food items for the intended objectives. Our findings suggest that early warning and action need to be backed by proper and timely logistical and organizational investments and tailored to local contexts if they are to bear significant results. Further investment in anticipatory action systems should ensure that actors have the infrastructure and personnel ready to act quickly enough based on the forecast.

Soft Biometrics for Authentication and Identification Hand Based on the Use of the Keyboard

Relevance. Nowadays, technological systems, artificial intelligence, the general availability of the Internet and penetration into the systems of banks, institutions and social networks have become a studied science and are accessible to all groups and ages. One of the main tasks was to provide a system for protecting confidential information from hackers, as well as easy access to authentication and identification of users. Biometric systems came to the fore, including mouse movement dynamics and keystroke dynamics, which reveal the typing style and mouse movement of each person. Soft biometrics is an interesting and inexpensive biometric method that does not require additional equipment. The system identifies a person based on the input information they enter in a special column. Hand identification dynamics falls into the category of behavioral soft biometrics, that is, the user's patterns reflect the individual program of actions that he follows when using the site.The goal of this article the purpose of this work is to improve the security level by creating a function that will strengthen the authentication system and improve the iron gate Методы исследования. In carrying out the work, methods of analysis and synthesis, theories of algorithms, laws of kinematics, neural networks, keystroke dynamics and soft biometrics were used.Results. A method for extracting dynamic characteristics of keystrokes is described. A neural network is created and a threshold value is determined for identifying the type of typing hand.Scientific novelty. Unlike known authentication methods, the proposed method is used to determine the typing hand on the keyboard through a neural network using the laws of kinematics, soft biometrics and extracting the dynamics of keystrokes in order to determine the value and accuracy of determining the type of typing hand.Significance. The proposed solution allows to increase the security of user authentication, increase the speed of implementation and reduce the cost. The results obtained in the work are positive and can be used in the near future. In turn, soft biometric measurements depend on human behavioral patterns, which complicates user falsification. It is difficult to imitate typing behavior, since it is ballistic (semi-autonomous), which makes behavioral information valuable as a soft and sensitive biometric method.

Development of a rehabilitation programme for young adult cancer survivors using co-production

BackgroundYoung adult cancer survivors, defined as individuals aged 18–39 who have completed primary curative treatment, face numerous age-specific biopsychosocial late effects that impact health-related quality of life negatively. Rehabilitation can enhance participation in life roles, work, leisure activities and health-related quality of life. However, there is a lack of age-specific cancer rehabilitation for this population, leaving many young adults with diminished self-efficacy in managing their challenges, resulting in unmet needs. This study aimed to co-produce and develop an age-specific, municipality-based cancer rehabilitation intervention programme to improve young adults’ self-efficacy and health-related quality of life.MethodsThe development process was completed between September 2019 and June 2023 and followed Hawkins et al.’s three-staged framework for co-production: (1) A literature review and stakeholder consultations; (2) four workshops with 2–6 young adult cancer survivors, 3–4 professionals, and two researchers and one workshop with 20 young adult cancer survivors and two researchers to co-produce the name, component content, delivery methods and potential outcomes; and (3) Refinement of the programme and its programme theory. Key findings from each stage informed the subsequent stages.ResultsThe Young Adults Taking ACtion programme was developed. It applies a person-centred approach and is grounded in social cognitive theory and experiential learning theory. It comprises one mandatory component, a needs assessment and goal setting that tailor which of the following seven components the young adults will receive: (1) everyday life, (2) physical activity, (3) psychological issues, (4) education and work, (5) sexuality and relationships, (6) funds and grants, and (7) family and friends. The programme is primarily group-based and will be delivered by an interdisciplinary team over 16 weeks.ConclusionsWe co-produced a comprehensive, goal-oriented, and peer-based rehabilitation programme for young adult cancer survivors. The engagement of young adults and professionals ensured that the programme aligned with the population’s needs and preferences and was context specific. Thus, it is likely that the programme will be more realistic and feasible to implement in clinical practice.

Accelerating Progress in Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Decision-Making: Trends in 32 Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Future Perspectives.

In 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action established the empowerment and autonomy of women as fundamental to achieving sustainable economic and social progress. Three decades later, significant strides have been made in enhancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). However, deep-rooted gender inequality continues to impede substantial progress for many. We assess the advancements made under the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically through indicator 5.6.1, which measures women's SRHR decision-making. Using data from 76 Demographic and Health Surveys and 1 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey in 32 low- and middle-income countries from 2006 to 2022, the study analyzed trends in women's SRHR decision-making and its subcomponents of autonomy on reproductive health care, contraceptive use, and sexual relations-among married or in-union women aged 15-49 years currently using contraception. The analysis also examined trends in decision-making disparities related to household wealth quintiles, women's education levels, and area of residence, using disaggregated population-weighted percentages. Analysis revealed a generally positive trend in women's SRHR decision-making, with gains observed in Eastern and Southern Africa and notable declines in West and Central Africa. Subindicator disparities showed variations in autonomy across health care, contraception, and the ability to refuse sex. An inequality analysis highlighted that while some countries saw a narrowing wealth gap in decision-making, others faced growing disparities. Educational and urban-rural divides also shifted, reflecting a complex landscape of progress and challenges in improving women's SRHR decision-making. The analysis underscores a patchwork of progress in women's SRHR decision-making while also exposing deep disparities. These data suggest a critical need for interventions tailored to cultural and socioeconomic contexts, particularly in countries and subnational areas lagging behind. Forward-thinking strategies must prioritize enhancing women's reproductive agency, ensuring interventions are informed by community-tailored priorities and global human rights standards.

A journey of sustainable TBLT curricular development

Abstract Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT), introduced in the early 1980s, has significantly matured through the integration of theories and research from instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) and educational practice, effectively addressing the growing need for efficient programs. Although many initial criticisms have been treated as non-issues using evidence from empirical research (Ellis, 2017; Long, 2016), program-wide adoption of TBLT is less widespread than might have been expected by now (Long & Ahmadian, 2022). The three areas that I see as needing improvement are (1) long-term collaboration with various stakeholders for different roles, (2) producing TBLT ambassadors through teacher education, and (3) documenting TBLT programs in action. This paper begins by reviewing different collaboration models for developing and maintaining TBLT curricula and sharing sample TBLT programs in action. I then present a sample case study demonstrating work with various stakeholders, particularly focusing on novice teachers, and fostering TBLT ambassadors. The paper concludes by suggesting six principles for developing and maintaining sustainable TBLT curricula at the programmatic level.

STRATEGIC ASPECTS OF TALENT MANAGEMENT IN A BUSINESS ORGANIZATION

The workforce shortage in the market, combined with the lack of important competencies and the high personnel mobility, are becoming a critical factor in the development of business organizations around the world. The lack of highly qualified personnel for domestic business organizations that operate under conditions of military aggression from Russia is particularly painful. Strategic talent management is a response to the need to increase the efficiency of intellectual resources usage in order to solve a wide range of organizational tasks, in particular, developing innovative products, optimizing management decisions, achieving competitive advantages and creating additional value. Developing a talent management strategy is considered as the starting point in talent management. A talent management strategy aims to improve business efficiency and is a step-by-step program of actions to optimize the performance of high-performing employees through the application of various management tools in the process of attracting, adapting, developing, motivating and retaining talent. The purpose of the article was to establish the principles of construction and a general algorithm for developing a talent management strategy in a business organization. Based on the defined principles, a three-stage scheme for developing a talent management strategy was formed. The initiation stage establishes the key parameters of the strategy development process, taking into account strategic goals and resource constraints. The activation stage determines measures to attract and adapt talents to reach a stable level of productivity. The integration stage refers to measures aimed at ensuring the long-term life cycle of talents, their deep awareness of their role, the achievement of optimal productivity and valuable results for the company. As a practical tool, a template of nine blocks is offered that reflect the specific management actions needed to develop a sound talent management strategy. This allows to provide analysis of the current situation in talent management and develop a reasonable program of actions regarding further measures of effective interaction with them to achieve the organization's strategic business goals.

Using concept mapping methods to evaluate overdose data to action program efforts in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

The Pitt Public Health evaluation team used a mixed-methods, community-based participatory research method of concept mapping to evaluate factors affecting the Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) opioid overdose surveillance and prevention project outcomes for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. In June 2021 we developed the focal prompt: "What factors work to help or limit OD2A program outcomes at the individual, community, and or/system level?"Community partners participated in three phases: Brainstorming, Sorting and Rating, and Interpretation. Using concept mapping software, we applied multidimensional scaling to visualize a point map displaying factors and their relative relationships, and hierarchical cluster analysis to generate concept maps displaying clusters of factors. During the brainstorming phase community partners (N = 18) generated 69 unique statements describing factors impacting OD2A work and community partners (N = 16) sorted and rated statements using concept mapping software. In the interpretation community partners (N = 26) selected the 10-cluster map as the most salient cluster solution. Using this cluster map and cluster ratings, we identified Stigma, Criminalization and Marginalization, and Racial Equity as factors of highest importance to overdose prevention success but lowest in success thus far. Using concept mapping to evaluate factors affecting OD2A outcomes was a successful method of engaging community partners in considering opportunities to strengthen OD2A and future overdose prevention efforts.

From birth control to pronatalism: Population policy and women’s reproductive rights in China since the 1980s

Abstract China began to implement a draconian population policy in the early 1980s. This policy has experienced many adjustments, as well as amendments, since then, and even a policy overturn since the 2010s from birth control to natalism. This study examines Chinese women’s reproductive rights in the trajectory of China’s population policy in the last four decades. It applies the analytical framework made up of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Conference on Population and Development Program of Action, and the Beijing Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women to critically review the impact of the relevant Chinese laws and policies on women’s reproductive rights, including the Chinese Constitution, the Law on Population and Family Planning, and the Law on the Protection of Women’s Rights and Interests, and their amendments. It reveals that these policy shifts are the result of the assemblages of the longstanding proactive policy interventions by diverse subjects and actors, including policy makers/party state, demographers, technocracies, international development agencies and donors, sexuality education advocates, and local and transnational feminists. The women’s bodies, and their critical roles both in production and reproduction, have always been, and continue to be, at the centre of political debates and the main sites of negotiation, contestation, and intervention, globally and locally.

Taking responsibility responsibly: looking forward to remedying injustice

ABSTRACT What does it mean to be responsible for structural injustice? According to Iris Marion Young, the ongoing and socially embedded character of structural injustice imposes a future-oriented obligation to work with others toward creating remedial, institutional change. Young explains, ‘Political responsibility seeks less to reckon debts than to bring about results’ (Young, 2003, p. 13). This paper conceptually develops how the goal of remediation bears on responsibility in relation to structural injustice. Does the attribution of responsibility in this context call upon individuals to simply do anything in efforts to affect progressive change? If not, then to what extent are these attributions of responsibility action guiding? On what basis do they direct agents to effectively intervene on relevant conditions and processes rather than act in ways that exacerbate the injustice? I explore the role of etiological explanation in the attribution and acceptance of corrective responsibility, which refers to diagnosis of the operative causation of unjust outcomes. After probing tensions within prominent models of corrective responsibility, I offer my own model attempting to resolve those issues. I argue the forward-looking nature of the call to participate in remedying social problems includes a demand for agents to do so in a way that is itself responsible. I theorize a framework of taking responsibility responsibly. This framework accounts for the moral difference between a conscientiously formulated program of remedial action and a quixotic exercise in reckless delusion.

Women’s Health Under Sustainable Development Goal 5: A Neglected Discourse

Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) contemplates minimizing the gap between men and women and achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls by the year 2030. It categorizes the goal of gender equality and empowerment of all women into nine more sub-divisions. Target 6 talk about to “Ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.” As per the World Health Organization, right to health must be ensured to every person, it states that "the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political beliefs, economic or social conditions.” However, research has shown that how this basic human right is being denied to women in the name of socio-religious & cultural beliefs which are responsible for deterioration of women’s health altogether. Socially, women are considered powerless and weaker sex. Culturally, they have to be at all times in the service of every member of the household and as such, are the last person to be bothered about. And biologically, as the structure of women’s body does not remain as static as of men rather it undergoes to drastic change with the growth of their age where a woman has to face myriads of health related issues owing to her sexual and reproductive organs, instead of addressing these health issues medically, people often choose to overlook it as their mind consider such issues as “women’s problem” about which one cannot do anything as if she is destined to develop these health problems just because she is a woman. This paper critically analyzes the health status of women in India and also suggests for a good healthcare system to achieve the goal of gender equality as given in Sustainable Development Goal 5.

Constitutional Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in India

Abstract India is home to a comprehensive affirmative action program that reserves a fraction of positions at governmental institutions for various disadvantaged groups. While there is a Supreme Court-endorsed mechanism to implement these reservation policies when all positions are identical, courts have refrained from endorsing explicit mechanisms when positions are heterogeneous. This lacuna has resulted in widespread adoption of unconstitutional mechanisms, countless lawsuits, and inconsistent court rulings. By formulating mandates from the landmark Supreme Court judgment Saurav Yadav vs The State of U.P. (2020) as technical axioms, we show that the 2SMH-DA mechanism is uniquely suited to overcome these challenges.

Unveiling Discriminatory Structures Against Social Minorities: An Examination of Some Governmental Structures of Discrimination and Abatement in the United States

This paper examines the enduring structures that sustain discrimination in the US. It analyzes historical precedents, contemporary practices, and efforts toward its elimination. It begins by exploring legislative frameworks and highlights how policies such as the War on Drugs and immigration acts have disproportionately negatively targeted marginalized populations. It discusses how administrative practices, including law enforcement tactics and implicit bias, perpetuate differentially unequal treatment of people by categories within the criminal justice system. The study discusses how judicial precedents, notably the Supreme Court decisions, have also reinforced discriminatory structures, and how interpretations of civil rights laws have shaped policies affecting marginalized populations. Despite formal structures to combat it, persistent bias, institutionalized barriers, and power dynamics perpetuate discrimination. Lastly, the study examines how efforts towards the elimination of discriminatory structures have included legislative reforms aimed at addressing systemic disparities, affirmative action programs, and diversity and inclusion policies. The understanding of the intersectionality of multiple factors of discrimination is analyzed to be crucial in understanding the complexities of discrimination, as individuals experience multiple layers of oppression based on intersecting social identities.

Conceptualization of state policy regarding economic security and sustainable development of the economy

The article clarified that the state policy in the field of economic security can be considered as a process of adopting legislative acts or management decisions regarding stable and significant economic growth; effective satisfaction of economic needs; state control over the movement and use of national resources; protection of the country’s economic interests at both the national and international levels and further control over the implementation of such strategic directions, which is determined by the state leadership and implemented by the authorized subjects of the public administration, as well as organizing the purposeful influence of the authorized subjects of the public administration on public relations in the field of economic security with the help of normatively determined forms and methods. The goal of state regulation is to optimize the level of economic security, which involves achieving a balance between savings and investments, as well as ensuring macroeconomic stability. This includes supporting sustainable economic growth and creating favorable economic and legal conditions for business entities. In accordance with the tasks of state policy in the field of ensuring the economic security of the state, its subspecies are regulatory and institutional policy, policy of ensuring the economic rights of citizens, policy of the development of the national economy and economic relations, policy of digitization of economic relations, ensuring economic and financial literacy of the population, as well as law enforcement policy in the field of economic security. It is emphasized that the principles of the state policy of sustainable development of the economy are divided into general principles that can be applied to most spheres of socio-political and socio-economic life of the state, as well as organizational principles that characterize the subject and spatial components of the formation and implementation of state policy in the sphere of ensuring economic state security. It was established that the existence of the Ukrainian economy in a state of crisis requires the implementation at the state level of a system-complex program of actions, an institutional concept of economic security in the system of the updated economic strategy of Ukraine, aimed at the sustainable development of the state economy, revival of economic potential, increasing the level of national security and its economic component, determination of destabilizing factors, localization of their negative impact, implementation of preventive measures, timely compensation of deviations from the normal state, which necessitates further scientific developments in this direction.

I like participatory museums but, how much? Embedding demand-side value in assessing strategies

In contrast to traditional models of unidirectional management, new governance strategies of cultural institutions based on participatory models –grounded on the active involvement of multiple actors in management, programming, production and innovation– have gained importance over the last few years. Our aim is to evaluate a participatory approach action programme for a sample of museums, embedding the value allocated by the museum community (users and beneficiaries) to the whole model and to the different participatory strategies. We first identify four main areas of participation (collaborative co-governance, creative co-production, social co-innovation, and technological co-innovation), which in turn are divided into four specific options ranked from the highest to the lowest degree of engagement. We also add a fifth dimension –a price vector– which serves as a payment vehicle to estimate the willingness to pay for the model and options. Non-market goods valuation techniques –contingent valuation and discrete choice experiment– are used to estimate the value allocated by the museum community to participatory strategies. Results show that citizens still rely more on cultural management and programming led by museum managers, rather than being involved in their design and guidance, although they do appreciate the possibilities of being involved in the dimensions of social actions and technological innovation.

Future Low-Cost Urban Air Quality Monitoring Networks: Insights from the EU’s AirHeritage Project

The last decade has seen a significant growth in the adoption of low-cost air quality monitoring systems (LCAQMSs), mostly driven by the need to overcome the spatial density limitations of traditional regulatory grade networks. However, urban air quality monitoring scenarios have proved extremely challenging for their operative deployment. In fact, these scenarios need pervasive, accurate, personalized monitoring solutions along with powerful data management technologies and targeted communications tools; otherwise, these scenarios can lead to a lack of stakeholder trust, awareness, and, consequently, environmental inequalities. The AirHeritage project, funded by the EU’s Urban Innovative Action (UIA) program, addressed these issues by integrating intelligent LCAQMSs with conventional monitoring systems and engaging the local community in multi-year measurement strategies. Its implementation allowed us to explore the benefits and limitations of citizen science approaches, the logistic and functional impacts of IoT infrastructures and calibration methodologies, and the integration of AI and geostatistical sensor fusion algorithms for mobile and opportunistic air quality measurements and reporting. Similar research or operative projects have been implemented in the recent past, often focusing on a limited set of the involved challenges. Unfortunately, detailed reports as well as recorded and/or cured data are often not publicly available, thus limiting the development of the field. This work openly reports on the lessons learned and experiences from the AirHeritage project, including device accuracy variance, field recording assessments, and high-resolution mapping outcomes, aiming to guide future implementations in similar contexts and support repeatability as well as further research by delivering an open datalake. By sharing these insights along with the gathered datalake, we aim to inform stakeholders, including researchers, citizens, public authorities, and agencies, about effective strategies for deploying and utilizing LCAQMSs to enhance air quality monitoring and public awareness on this challenging urban environment issue.