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Humanities for Change is a network through which we propose to build and share an alternative ideal for the present and future of the humanities. The project starts from the assumption that public and digital humanities are the most effective channels for the release of the liberal arts from the limitations of a purely academic debate. For this reason, the collaborators intend to critically evaluate the possible actions and contributions that the study of the humanities can offer to the understanding of contemporary reality. The project aspires to involve students and scholars both in Italy and the world at large. The contents that Humanities for Change deals with are not exclusively addressed to an audience of experts, but aim to reach a much wider and heterogeneous audience. Faced with an increasingly globalized world dominated by the sectorialisation of studies and professions, Humanities for Change aims to enhance the intermingling between disciplines, in order to identify  the potential achievements deriving from the dialogue between humanities and exact sciences, two fields that today appear to be poorly communicating.Humanities for Change does not propose specific contents about the humanities (such as literature themes or history chronicles), but aims at reflecting in a metadisciplinary way about the present and the future conditions of the humanities. In fact, the main themes of our network could be summed up to six subjects: 1) digital humanities: underlining the potential interactions between humanities and technological innovations;2) workplace for humanists: identifying the potential professional areas for future students of the humanities;3) public humanities: exploring new ways of spreading the humanities outside the academic field;4) didactic innovations: developing new teaching practices and methodologies for scholastic and university teaching of the humanities;5) humanities and hard sciences: mentioning and proposing projects of contamination between humanities and hard sciences;6) reshaping humanities: demonstrating the value and importance of the study of the humanities for the comprehension of contemporary society.As for its main long term goal, Humanities for Change wants to redefine the role of the humanities in the social tissue. The network plans to achieve this through a permanent activity of promotion and reflection on these subjects, with the aim to develop a new awareness in public opinion and institutions; an awareness that should reiterate the course that has to be taken in order to get some changes and didactic innovations about public spreading and enhancement of humanities. Such an approach is certainly essential to gain the necessary changes, particularly in secondary schools and university’s curricula. In order to achieve these aims, the network is particularly interested in involving students. It is a strong conviction of the founders that it is of fundamental importance to promote a debate on these topics. And we firmly believe that in this field of study the effective development of such an analysis represents the real stakes for the future of humanities.