The evidence and the questions of Vison's paper "The Politics and Economics of Happiness" will be discussed during the event "The Pursuit of Happiness", to be held in Rome in Villa Wolkonsky on May 13th, organized by the British Council and Vision in partnership with the American Embassy, the UK Embassy, the Canadian Embassy, Rena, TN2020. Whoever is interested in the project can write to milica.cirovic@vision-forum.org.

On February the 12th, in Birmingham, Vision took part to the English follow up of "the B factor". Click here to watch the conference.

On saturday the 20th, Vision has been interviewed within the programme "Giovani Talenti" ("Young Talents"), on Radio 24. Click here to listen.

On February the 12th Vision took part to "Prospects for Italy", the round table organized in Birmingham by Open University and Open Democracy. The "10 questions to the opposition" are the output. Click here to read the press coverage.

Vision will take part to the English follow up of "The B Factor" on February the 12th in Birmingham. The event is organized by Open University and in collaboration with OpenDemocracy.

Brainstorming on the new project: "The Politics and Economics of Happiness", tonight at 7 in Vision's office in Rome. You can send an email to info@vision-forum.org, should you like to take part.

Prestigious authors wrote on the last issue of Vision's e-magazine, about the "B factor". Vision starts with an interesting analysis about the politicians' quotations in the international media

These days we have one more contraposition about Radio-TV Italian system: “freedom of information” (with the demonstration in Rome) against “impartiality of information” (with the campaign against the Rai fee). Once more the contraposition appears to be about the distribution of information among political products. Vision’s approach on the Rai issue is different and focuses on the real nature of the Public Service.

The result of Irish referendum is an input to renew the debate about the future of Europe, but also about the sense of this project itself. Vision launch a preliminary, simple but amazing analysis on the correlation between money spent from Europe for a country and propension of the Country for Europe itself.

In the global market for innovation the future of Italian and European universities is closely linked to their ability to adjust to internationalization: Vision addressed this topic presenting its paper during its annual conference on universities, organized in conjunction with Nova, Air and Urania, and with the help of recent data provided, among others, by OECD and the Lisbon Council. Universities are the object of continuous assessments measuring their prestige and results. Moreover, universities can no longer be considered independently of the national, regional and thematic environment in which they operate. The conference was held in Rome on the 20th of April and explored these topics. Agenda

In the global market for innovation the future of Italian and European universities is closely linked to their ability to adjust to internationalization: Vision addresses this topic during the annual conference on universities, organized in conjunction with Nova, Air and Urania, with the help of recent data provided, among others, by OECD and the Lisbon Council. Universities are the object of continuous assessments measuring their prestige and results. Moreover, universities can no longer be considered independently of the national, regional and thematic environement, in which they operate. The conference to be held in Rome on 20 April will explore these topics. Agenda.

Vision has launched the "Kyoto of the Cities" (Agenda), a project with the objective to explore the possibility of engaging major cities in an international agreement on environment - related goals and explore strategies for CO2 emissions in housing, waste management and urban transportation. The core group of insight and expertise providers to date includes McKinsey & Co, The London School of Economics, Bocconi University and Demos- the UK leading think-tank.
The project's results will be delivered at a conference taking place in Naples on 26-28, March 2009. Anyone interested in the project or the upcoming conference can obtain further information by writing to kyotoofthecities@vision-forum.org

A Europe - Wide Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty? The debate on the future of Europe jointly organised by the think tanks Vision (Italy) and Prometheus (Belgium) will take place Friday, 5 December 2008 from 17h00 - 19h00 at the Belgian Federal Parliament, Le Palais de La Nation, Rue de Louvain, 1000 - Brussels. The event will host a debate among young leaders representing most of the EU 27 countries on the basis of the agenda, enclosed paper, opening presentations by Vision and Prometheus, and brief addresses by key note speakers.

From “Kyoto of the nations” to “Kyoto of the cities”. The paper proposed by Vision, suggests a different approach to the issues related to the environment and climate changes. Vision looks at the cities as the new protagonists of global government processes, and as chances to reach families and people. Next October, Reset journal will publish an inset on our proposal on Climate Change.

The virus of fear is spreading more and more. But, does an emergency really exist? And to what extent is it related to immigration? Political actions run the risk to produce negative effects, making people perceptions and feelings worse. Vision’s project has just been launched, and it will become one of the main initiatives during the next months.