For the second ASOC report, our team is entering a more creative and operational phase of the civic monitoring journey. In this stage, we are transforming the information collected so far into clear, engaging, and accessible communication tools. We are working on three main outputs: an original infographic to clearly present our research and key data, a report on Monithon to deepen the local context and expected impact of the project, and a civic monitoring video to document our experience and share our journey with the community.
On February 20, 2026, the Lost in the Water team experienced a truly crucial moment in its civic monitoring journey during an official visit to the Municipality of Marsala 🏛️, where we had the opportunity to meet with engineer Alessandro Putaggio and engage in a meaningful discussion about the project aimed at replacing the historic center’s water network 💧.
This meeting represented much more than a simple institutional appointment. It was a valuable occasion to step inside the decision-making process, ask questions ❓, clarify doubts, and gain a deeper understanding of how a public project evolves from planning to implementation. Through a direct and open exchange 💬, we explored the technical, administrative, and social dimensions of the intervention, discovering the challenges ⚙️, timelines ⏳, and goals 🎯 behind the initiative.
As part of our civic monitoring work, we created and shared a questionnaire to gather citizens’ opinions, experiences, and perceptions about the project we are monitoring. Listening to the community of Marsala is essential for us, because civic monitoring is not only about analysing data and documents, but also about understanding how public projects affect everyday life.
The questionnaire proved to be extremely valuable, as it provided a wide range of insights and perspectives from the community. Thanks to the information collected, we were able to develop the second output of our second report: a dynamic infographic that clearly visualizes the findings and makes the data accessible and engaging for everyone.
On 27/02/2026, the Lost in the Water team, together with another school delegation from the province of Trapani, took part in a high-profile technical webinar 💻 that transformed numbers into concrete tools of active citizenship.
The protagonists of the meeting were the territorial representatives of ISTAT, Dr. Antonella Puglia and Dr. Roberto Foderà, and the contact person of the Europe Direct centre in Trapani, Dr. Marta Ferrantelli 🇪🇺, who offered us students authoritative reading keys and operational tools, useful for our civic monitoring path 🧭.
The experience was configured as an authentic laboratory of participatory democracy 🏫🤝: data 📑, official sources 🗂️, and infographic techniques 🖌️ have become levers to understand, interpret, and tell in a critical and conscious way the impact of public interventions on the territory 🌍. A concrete step towards a school that not only observes reality, but analyses and monitors it with competence 💡.