This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from/to third countries not associated to Erasmus+. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.

"This project aims to provide students with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge on the relationship between public opinion, the media and European integration. The course will be structured in two modules. In the first module, students will analyze the historical evolution of attitudes of public opinion on European policy issues and the reasons for this development. The second module will focus on analyzing the contents of the ""European discourse"" and the image of the EEC / EU presented by the national media (newspapers, television, websites) and the Community (through its information policy). Particular attention will be paid to the analysis of ""misrepresentation"" (i.e: the identification between the Euro and the EU; the EU as a threat to the well-being of Europeans; the EU as an entity only bureaucratic) that spread a distorted image of the EU, its institutions and its policies. Teaching activities will be based on the lectures, the seminars and the organization of round tables. The seminars provide for the participation (among others) of journalists who will explain to students what are the empirical and normative rules they use in the selection of European issues they bring to the public's attention. The seminars will also include the participation of officials from EU institutions that will explain the methods and objectives of the EU information policy. Also scholars and experts in European Studies will participate in the seminars envisaged by the project. Roundtables include the participation of MEPs and national MPs dealing with European issues. They will explain to students how the activity of EU institutions can be influenced by the attitude of public opinion. They will also explain what they ""expect"" from the citizens in terms of their participation and in terms of citizen involvement in European issues."

Narratives – the stories people formulate to make sense of the world – contain at their core cause and effect relationships that people use to connect the events they observe. These relationships are crucial for interpreting data, forming expectations, and evaluating policy proposals. This project aims at improving our understanding of the role of economic narratives, their interaction with policy proposals, and how they can be manipulated by economic actors. The ultimate goal of this project is to suggest strategies to follow when faced with contexts in which struggles over policies might generate polarized views of how the world works. The project is divided into three areas and combines ideas and methods at the intersection between economics, sociology, psychology, and computer science. The first area of research involves behavioral experiments in which I will study how narratives react to the cost of policies available to agents. In particular, I will investigate whether agents tend to adopt narratives that are self-serving, that is, compatible with the policies they find least costly. The second area of research focuses on the role that narratives played in shaping political preference in the second half of the XX century. I will consider labor unions to study the factors behind the emergence in the United States of a narrative highlighting their mischiefs. These results could highlight the magnitude and importance of the consequences generated by those that become prevailing narratives in a society. The last area of research will involve a methodological study on how to measure narratives from text. I will work to extend the available methods with the goal of explicitly capturing causal relationships. This contribution could favor the emergence of new work in the field by other researchers who could easily analyze large corpora of text.