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In Italy, the Law 30/12/2010, n. 240, “Regulations regarding the organization of universities, academic staff and recruitment, as well as delegation to the Government to encourage the quality and efficiency of the university system”, represents the starting point of the reform launched by the Bologna Process in 1999.
The Bologna Process was born in 1999 as an intergovernmental collaboration agreement in the higher education sector. The initiative was launched with the Bologna Conference at the conference of European Higher Education Ministers, signed in Bologna in June 1999 and inspired by the previous meeting of the Ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom in 1998 (Sorbonne Declaration 1998). The objective was precisely to build a European Higher Education Area that was based on principles and criteria shared between the participating countries. Subsequently, the inspiring principles of the reform were implemented by the various European countries adhering to the reform.
15 years after the entry into force of the law, on 20th September 2024 the Minister of University and Research signed Decree no. 1591 which establishes the working group that will deal with the reform of Law no. 240/2010.
The working group will have the purpose of carrying out support activities for the Minister for the analysis, study and development of revision proposals in the field of recruitment and quality of the teaching offer, the structure and governance of the evaluation of the university and research, as well as the revision of the structure and functioning of the consultative bodies of the Ministry of University and Research (in acronym MUR).
Among the issues that the reform will have to address, there is the recruitment of researchers and professors, who are divided into three distinct groups: researchers, associate professors and full professors. The three categories follow different recruitment processes that present numerous areas of improvement that are being studied by the working group established by Decree no. 1591.
The aim of the paper is to illustrate the current recruitment processes and subsequently provide a theoretical proposal for their improvement relating to two e-Government models called Citizen to Government and Employee to Government (in acronym C2G and E2G).
The proposal will also seek to strengthen the orientation of recruitment processes towards the themes of good performance and impartiality, today included in the neologism Open Government and since 1948 enshrined in Article No. 97 of the Italian Constitution.
To achieve these objectives, the theoretical proposal accepted in the paper will make use of current e-Government processes integrated by the application of innovative technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).
