Erasmus+ Project BePart/PIF

ERASMUS+ PARTNER FORM

Participating Organisation

OID code: E10348672

Full Legal name: WIKIMEDIA ITALIA - associazione per la diffusione della conoscenza libera

Acronym

Country: Italy

Region: Lombardy

Post Code: 20144

City: Milan

Website: https://www.wikimedia.it/

Profile

Type of Organisation

No profit

BACKGROUNG & EXPERIENCE

Please briefly present the organisation/group (e.g. its type, scope of work, areas of activity and if applicable, approximate number of paid/unpaid staff, learners and members of the group)

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Wikimedia Italia – association for the spread of free knowledge – APS, is a social advancement association, operating since 2005 in the field of free culture. The association is officially recognized by Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (an American nonprofit organization founded in 2003, that manages and hosts, from a technical point of view, the websites linked to the Wikimedia movement), as part of the network of local chapters that operate in their own countries to promote free culture and the projects hosted by Wikimedia Foundation. Since 2016, the association is also the official chapter of OpenStreetMap Foundation. Wikimedia Italia’s job is to promote free content on online cooperation projects, such as Wikipedia in Italian, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and many more. Apart from the biggest and most famous projects (Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata), the Wikimedia universe has many other “sister” projects, each one focused on a specific aspect of free knowledge. These are joined by OpenStreetMap, of which Wikimedia Italia is the official Italian chapter. All their content is published with a free license, and it is built by the community of contributors; they are basically cooperatively developed by volunteers.

Wikimedia Italia works to facilitate improvement and spread of knowledge and culture. Specifically, Wikimedia Italia promotes production, collection and spread of open content, that is public domain works or works whose authors have released with a free license, allowing processing and / or free diffusion for any purpose, including for commercial purposes. The association is also involved in the spread of knowledge and awareness of social and philosophical questions related to the topics of free culture and public domain.

Wikimedia Italia is made of its members and volunteers (be them members or not) who act to contribute to its corporate purpose. The members share the values and scopes of the association and they contribute to its life, each based on their own availability, either with the annual fee or with volunteer work. Volunteers are those who perform their services for free in order to achieve the target of the association. The members are active participants of the association’s decisions, steering its actions with yearly meetings, commissions and workgroups, and with the discussions conducted through the association’s internal communication channels. Wikimedia Italia supports the integration between members and volunteers with different backgrounds, such as Wikipedia or other Wikimedia project users, OpenStreetMap mappers, free software developers and people who have never previously been involved on online free knowledge projects, while sharing their principles and founding values. Members and volunteers are encouraged to get organized, at a local level and with a wide degree of freedom, to carry out their activities more effectively. Some of the functions performed by the association are guaranteed by the staff. in detail:

Members: 354

Volunteers: 283 ca

Staff: 8

Wikimedia Italia’s corporate bodies are: the members’ General Meeting, the Board of Directors (elected by the members’ General Meeting and is composed of five unpaid members), the Board of Guarantors (composed by three effective elements and two deputies, unpaid), the Supervisory Body.

What are the activities and experience of your organisation in the areas relevant to this project?

What are the skills and/or expertise of key persons involved in this project?

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Iolanda Pensa:

Elena Marangoni:

Marco Chemello:

Ilaria Diterlizzi:

Would you like to make any comments or add any information to the summary of your organisation’s past participation? (This is a complementary and optional question in the application form that accompanies the automatically prefilled presentation of all Erasmus+ projects your organisation participated).

/ (first partecipation)

Has the partner organization participated in a European Union granted project in the 3 years preceding this application? Please indicate the number of granted project and related data and the number of project applications: Number of granted projects:

ASSOCIATED PERSON - Legal representative person: Maria Iolanda Isabella Pensa

ASSOCIATED PERSON - Contact person: Ilaria Diterlizzi

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

In what way is the project innovative and/or complementary to other projects already carried out by your organisation and/or in your country?

DISSEMINATION and IMPACT and SUSTAINABILITY

To whom will you disseminate the project results inside and outside your organisation at local/regional/national/EU level (approx. number of contacts, name/type of stakeholder organisations/institutions of your network)

Approximately how many people can you reach via your company’s website and social media?

Any international groups that are relevant and will enhance international networking?

How can you ensure that the project's results will remain available and will be used by others? (important question on sustainability)

What are the activities and results that your organisation will maintain after the end of the EU funding, and how will you ensure the resources needed to sustain them? (important question on sustainability)

SPECIFIC QUESTIONS

Specific question A, like.: What are the different target groups you are planning to engage with? Researchers? Students? Professors? Supporting staff? How do you plan to engage with each different target group?