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The University of Padova, Italy
The University of Padova – Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World has been the coordinator of the international research project Company towns in the world - origins, evolution and rehabilitation (16th-20th centuries), which was funded by the Italian Cariparo - Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo fund for excellence projects and has led to a general virtual database and catalogue (virtual Atlas) of company towns. The research has aimed at reconstructing their origin and evolution, considering company towns and villages as a phenomenon central to the social, economic and spatial analysis of modern industrialization. Several themes were investigated in a comparative approach and the research has truly proved to be interdisciplinary, offering the opportunity to study the workers settlement both from a historical, architectural, urbanistic and social – economic as well as anthropological point of view.
Please note that the Summer School Programme is worth 6 ECTS credits, which will be awarded by the University of Padova.

The Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
The Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) – Facultad de Ciencias Economicas | FCE and Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseno y Urbanismo | FADU, have focused on the study of the social organization of company towns, oral history and migration studies as well as their interactions with industrial landscapes and urban planning. Lecturers from the University of Buenos Aires intervened in the 2014 Summer School in Patrimonio, Identidad y Desarrollo Local: para un analisis comparativo y multidisciplinario (Heritage, Identity and Local Development: for a comparative and multidisciplinary analysis), which the University of Padova offered in association with UNICEN, the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (UNICEN) – Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento De Antropologia Social. Researchers from the University of Buenos Aires have participated in the 2006 project Company towns in the world - origins, evolution and rehabilitation (16th-20th centuries), coordinated by the University of Padova, whose impact and research results are still growing and engaging several Universities and Institutions in South America and the world.
Please note that the Summer School Programme is fully recognized by the University of Buenos Aires as a Professional Training Course | CURSO DE ACTUALIZACIÓN PROFESIONAL, Curso C.A.P.

Supporting Institutions
Lecturers from the following Institutions participate in the realization of the Summer School: Universidad Nacional de la Republica, Uruguay; University of Caxias do Sul, Brazil; Fondazione Tenaris Dalmine, Italy; Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (UNICEN), Argentina; Fondazione NordEst, Venice, Italy; the University of Ferrara, Italy; the Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

 

See also the Summer School TEACHING STAFF | PROGRAMME DETAILS