Relationship with the Master

Short courses do not replace the International Executive Master in Civic Humanism, Territorial Leadership and Human-Centred Project Design, with a total duration of 180 hours (96 + 84). They serve a different purpose: they enable holders of different responsibilities to acquire operational knowledge, a common language and shared criteria within a limited period.

Methodological principle

Effective short-form education should not accumulate notions. It should enable participants to ask better questions, distinguish what is documented from what still requires verification, recognise the limits of their own competences and know what step should be taken next.

RC-01 Entering the Continuing Renaissance

Indicative duration: 4 hours. Participants: Consuls, Fellows, new members of the network

Purpose. To provide a rapid but substantial understanding of the community into which the person has been invited and of the meaning of contemporary Medici service.

Core contents. Manifesto of the Continuing Renaissance; Florentine Community; nobility as quality, generosity and service; internal, cultural and honorary nature of the Missions; Humanistic Districts and Villages; role of Consuls, Ambassadors and Vicars; relationship among culture, relationships, investment and patronage.

Learning outcome. The participant can present the project correctly, understand their role and navigate the main institutions and tools of the network.

RC-02 The Applied Method of the Continuing Renaissance

Indicative duration: 8 hours — two 4-hour sessions. Participants: all operators of the Missions, Districts and Villages

Purpose. To learn to use the Manual of the Applied Doctrine as an instrument of judgement and project design, without turning it into a mechanical checklist.

Core contents. The grammar of action: principle → question → knowledge → criterion → project → work → verification → new knowledge. True, good, useful, beautiful and enduring. Generativity. Principle of the double work. Questioning Grid. Intensity Map. Three concluding questions and the essential question.

Learning outcome. The participant can question an idea or opportunity, recognise its generative strength and identify issues that require further knowledge or competences.

RC-03 From opportunity to humanistic project — The grammar of the Renaissance applied to Bulletin categories

Indicative duration: 8 hours. Participants: Consuls, Ambassadors, Vicars, Magistracies and project operators

Purpose. To show how a simple opportunity can be examined before becoming a project, avoiding the premature imposition of a function upon it.

Core contents. Workshops on cases relating to the categories of the Regulations and Bulletin: heritage and regeneration (HER), businesses and equity interests (BUS), energy (ENE), tourism and hospitality (TOU), agriculture and agri-food (AGR), culture and research (CUL), infrastructure and territorial services (INF), as well as the other categories provided for. For each case: identity, memory, people, freedom, responsibility, generativity, sustainability, beauty, duration and specialists to be involved.

Learning outcome. The participant can distinguish the opportunity from the project and formulate an initial development hypothesis consistent with the vocation of the territory, clearly stating what still requires verification.

Workshop, not an abstract lecture

RC-02 and RC-03 should mainly use real or simulated cases. In this way, the Bulletin becomes one of the first places where the Method of the Continuing Renaissance encounters economic and territorial reality.

RC-04 Completing the Preliminary Opportunity Referral Sheet

Indicative duration: 6 hours. Participants: Vicars, Pro-Vicars and authorised territorial operators

Purpose. To transform a piece of news, a contact or a referral into an identifiable, verifiable and traceable case file.

Core contents. Identification of the referral; owner/promoter; object; economic dimension; form of cooperation; authorised interlocutor; documentation; maturity S0–S4; critical issues; confidentiality; data proposed for the Bulletin; Vicar declarations; errors to avoid.

Learning outcome. Complete preparation of a simulated Sheet, distinguishing documented data, declared data and information still to be verified.

RC-05 Reading the Bulletin and interpreting an opportunity

Indicative duration: 6 hours. Participants: Consuls, Ambassadors, Fellows and authorised members

Purpose. To enable those who receive an opportunity to understand its actual degree of maturity and formulate relevant questions before expressing interest.

Core contents. Codes and categories; maturity levels; difference among public data, reserved information and data room; price, CAPEX, total investment and funding requirement; promoter and authority to negotiate; declared critical issues; meaning of preliminary review and matters that remain subject to professional due diligence.

Learning outcome. The participant can read a sheet without confusing presentability with a guarantee, identifying the checks and specialists required.

RC-06 From the Sheet to the Bulletin: procedure, confidentiality and traceability

Indicative duration: 4 hours. Participants: Vicars, Secretariat, Magistracies and authorised officers

Purpose. To understand the internal procedure through which an opportunity moves from referral to possible publication.

Core contents. Flow: Vicar → Sheet → Secretariat → protocol and code → competent Magistracy → preliminary review → Supreme Magistrate → decision → Bulletin. Confidentiality, conflicts of interest, redactions, recording of additions, prohibition on premature presentation, limits of reserved professional activities and traceability of decisions.

Learning outcome. The participant understands who may do what, at what stage and with which documentation.

RC-07 Knowing the District — Courses, conferences and study visits

Indicative duration: 3–8 hours per individual meeting or visit. Participants: Consuls, Ambassadors, Vicars and other operators according to the territory

Purpose. To ensure that project design is preceded by direct knowledge of the history, traditions, communities and economic vocations of individual Tuscan Districts.

Core contents. Variable programmes: local history; cartography and archives; villas, palaces and villages; landscape and agriculture; manufacturing and craftsmanship; contemporary enterprises; cultural and religious institutions; gastronomy; infrastructure; environment; meetings with administrators, entrepreneurs, associations and custodians of local knowledge. Lessons may be integrated with visits to museums, archives, companies, workshops and places of particular territorial value.

Learning outcome. The participant gains lived knowledge of the District and gathers elements useful for interpreting its identity, relationships, critical issues and potential.

Environmental School of the Order of Saint Stephen P.M.

Alongside short courses for Missions, Districts and Villages, the Academy promotes specialist pathways. The Level I Certificate of Qualification in the Stewardship of Creation has already been structured: 16 hours of online training and a final practical in-person test, for an indicative total educational duration of 22 hours, including naturalistic monitoring, citizen science, iNaturalist, the Natura 2000 Network and a practical suitability assessment. The programme is presented separately on the Environmental School page.