Beyond the ethnic niche: migrant entrepreneurship between innovation, digital and new skills. The results of the HUMUS E.T.

The WWELL Centre is pleased to announce that H.E. Rev.ma Msgr. Corrado Lorefice, Archbishop of Palermo, has been elected by the General Assembly of the Italian Bishops' Conference to lead the Episcopal Commission for Migration and the Migrantes Foundation, succeeding Monsignor Gian Carlo Perego, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio. Msgr. Lorefice, among others, will be among the speakers at the final round table of the next edition of the Summer School "Human Mobility and Global Justice", which will take place in Palermo on August 27 at the Aula Magna of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sicily "St. John the Evangelist" and which will be entitled "Christian identity in a Europe in an identity crisis". For further information and for the complete program, please consult the page of the WWELL Center website dedicated to the Summer School: https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/wwell/it/Summer-schools/mobilita-umana-giustizia-globale.html. At the following link, however, the news of the appointment published in Vatican News: https://bit.ly/3RNWNqO

Yesterday, Tuesday 7 July at 3:00 p.m. in Aula Bontadini, at Università Cattolica, the final conference of the project HUMUS E.T.: Beyond the ethnic niche: migrant entrepreneurship between innovation, digital and new skills. The works, coordinated by Alessandro Baroncelli and Laura Zanfrini, opened with the Keynote Speech by Prof. Jan Rath (University of Amsterdam), and then put the empirical evidence of the research in dialogue with the gatekeepers of the association, employer and third sector system. The HUMUS E.T. research project analyzes the skills, support ecosystems and training tools needed to foster the development of migrant entrepreneurship in the service sectors, with particular attention to the retail and catering sectors. The aim is to provide operational evidence to design tailor-made policies and training courses, capable of reducing inequalities and promoting social and economic sustainability.

On the Nunc – Network Università Cattolica platform and on PodCatt – Università Cattolica, the podcast channel of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore on Spotify, the podcast series entitled "(Im)perfect strangers. A transdisciplinary study on adult men who (don't) work and (don't) want to work", which accompanies the volume of the same name edited by Laura Zanfrini, Scientific Director of the WWELL Center, and dedicated to the results of a transdisciplinary research conducted between 2023 and 2025 by researchers from multiple disciplinary fields (from economic history to social statistics, from occupational medicine to economics, from sociology to labor and social security law, from work and family psychology to philosophy, from pedagogy to political science, up to the field of communication sciences and film studies) with the common goal of finally bringing to light the phenomenon of adult male inactivity. The series was edited by Sara Franceschini and Fabrizio Marelli who conducted interviews with the members of the research team. Starting from the first episode entitled "The shadow of the adult male" already available online, and which sees the participation of Laura Zanfrini and Erika Uberti, a new episode will be published every week dedicated to specific aspects of the volume and the research from which the series originated. You can subscribe to the channel for free to receive a notification every time a new episode is published at the link below: https://nunc.it/podcast/imperfetti-sconosciuti (by clicking on "Save on Spotify" starting from the link of the first episode).