RIs as knowledge-sparkling environment among the Ecosystems of Territorial Cohesion strategy: a study case about the social impact of the ITINERIS Project

This paper critiques the increasing "platformisation" and hyper-bureaucratisation of education, arguing that these trends reduce teachers to compliance-driven data executors and severely weaken student agency. To counteract this, the authors propose a Digital Citizenship Education (DCE) framework that empowers teachers to act as "agency architects". By utilizing a participatory "Needs Mapping" methodology and opening advanced Research Infrastructures as "knowledge-sparkling environments"—as demonstrated in the ITINERIS pilot project—the study offers a scalable, community-situated approach to combat educational poverty and foster inclusive learning in marginalized areas.