Emergency remote education and smart working at three European higher education institutions

Due to the threat posed by COVID-19, many colleges and universities around the world opted to switch to online courses and smart working to keep their students, professors, and staff safe during the pandemic emergency. Face-to-face classes, including labs and workshops, have been canceled and substituted with online activities. New administrative procedures have also been established to support the emergency remote education. This article analyzes these changes in light of the experiences of three higher education institutions in different countries, namely Latvia, Poland, and Italy. From this analysis, some aspects have emerged that have stimulated a deeper reflection on the use of digital technology in higher education. .

Smart Working and villages regeneration: towards new resilient practices at the time of Covid-19

The paper addresses the issue of agile work (smart working) and sustainable development as an innovative response to the (social, cultural, labor) restrictions imposed by Covid-19. With the Serrone Farm Hospitality project we intended to promote a model of social sustainability in a small village in Lazio to understand how the use of agile working practices and the active participation of the subject to informal and non-formal activities can allow the creation of regenerative poles in small villages, that is a container of social and working practices activities, sharing of skills and common participation to the economic, cultural and social design for the revitalization of the territory. Smart Working e rigenerazione dei borghi: verso nuove pratiche resilienti ai tempi del Covid-19. Il contributo affronta il tema del lavoro agile (smart working) e dello sviluppo sostenibile come risposta innovativa alle restrizioni (sociali, culturali, lavorative) imposte dal Covid-19. Con il progetto Serrone Farm Hospitality si è inteso infatti promuovere un modello di social sustainability in un piccolo borgo del Lazio per comprendere quanto il ricorso alle pratiche di lavoro agile e la partecipazione attiva del soggetto alle attività informali e non formali possano consentire la creazione di poli rigenerativi nei piccoli borghi, ovvero un contenitore di attività di pratiche sociali e lavorative, di condivisione delle skills e di partecipazione comune al disegno economico, culturale e sociale per il rilancio del territorio.

Pogled na nekatere anglicizme v italijanskem jeziku v času Covid-19

Pandemija Covid-19 je nepričakovano vstopila v naša življenja, povzročila velike družbene spremembe in pustila sledi tudi v jeziku, in sicer z besedami, ki so tako silovito in nenadoma vstopile v naša življenja kot sam virus. V italijanskem jeziku je večina teh besed anglicizmov, ki so od 20. stoletja najštevilčnejše izposojenke. V tem prispevku smo se osredotočili na anglicizme, kot so Covid hospital, hub, lockdown, smart working, distanziamento sociale, delivery, rider, green pass in recovery fund, ki so bili po našem mnenju v medijih pogosto uporabljeni za opis obdobja pandemije na škodo njihovih italijanskih različic. Analiza se je osredotočila na pogostost anglicizmov in njihovih italijanskih ustreznic v elektronski različici časopisov La Repubblica in Corriere della Sera ter na razloge za njihovo široko razširjenost. Rezultati potrjujejo njihovo prevlado v novinarskem jeziku in kažejo na njihovo uveljavitev nad italijanskimi različicami. Razloge za ta pojav je potrebno iskati tako na jezikovnem kot zunajjezikovnem področju. Sprva je dotok verjetno spodbujala hitrost in naglica dela. Njihova uveljavitev pa je bila posledica različnih dejavnikov: v primeru hub, delivery in rider zaradi njihove kratkosti in zgoščenosti; v primeru Covid hospital zaradi bolj omejene semantike; v primeru lockdown in distanziamento sociale, ker gre za krovna izraza, ki se nanašata na sklop ukrepov za zmanjšanje okužbe in sta vezana izključno na pandemijo; v primeru smart working zaradi prestiža, ki ga ima angleški jezik v italijanski družbi; v primeru green pass in recovery fund, ker sta bila izraza uvedena v italijanski novinarski jezik neposredno prek tujih medijev.

HOME OFFICE SPACES FOR SMART WORK. IMPACT OF COVID-19 LOCKDOWN ON ARRANGEMENTS OF RESIDENTIAL INTERIORS

The Covid-19 pandemic has encouraged a shift to smart-working both for companies as well as their employees. Work-related activities once performed in dedicated offices had to be moved to private spaces of individual homes, severely influencing how people use their residential space. Living and working conditions have been modified and the balance between them – interrupted. In this paper the authors present a study of the changes in the use of residential space based on questionnaires addressed to respondents in five age groups (up to 25, 26-35, 36-50, 51-65, more than 65), and living or studying in and around Milan (Lombardy), an area affected severely by Covid-19 between March and May 2020. The obtained questionnaire results have allowed the authors to create a set of apartment design requirements, which improve the performance of space. Research has led to a model-case study apartment.

Smart Working and Well-Being before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

The purpose of this scoping review focused on the relationship between smart working, a conception of job centered on the flexibility and autonomy of the worker, and well-being/illness in an organizational context before and during COVID-19. The literature review, conducted using the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis for qualitative synthesis) method for qualitative synthesis, considered studies published from 2014 to 2020. From the analyses conducted by three independent coders, three main areas of interest in the literature emerged: (1) smart working and work engagement, (2) smart working and technostress, and (3) mediators of the relationship between smart working and well-being. The review highlights the need for an organizational culture increasingly oriented towards agile working practices in conjunction with organizational support and training.