Health emergency and closure of schools and universities. Culture gap as a further consequence of Covid-19. – Almost 185 nations in the world were forced to close schools and Universities between March and April because of Covid-19 pandemic. Hence, almost a billion and a half students had to suspend their educational path. UNESCO is monitoring this situation giving a warning about a cultural emergency as a further consequence of Covid-19. This paper, starting from the available data, aims at analysing the possible effects of partial or total school closure. Closing such centres make and will make social and technological differences more evident on both a European and global scale. Indeed, even in those areas where online learning has been established, gaps are emerging. For this reason, when the health emergency is handled thanks to the discovery of a vaccine, the socio-cultural effects will have left clear marks, which will require adequate political measures.

Social capital and digital interactions in Italian regions during the emergency phase Covid-19. – With the implementation in Italy of the prevention measures against the spread of the Covid-19, social interactions have been recalibrated through the use of digital infrastructures such as Internet, which have strengthened stable and innovative social relationships. The aim of this research was to evaluate by a quantitative approach, the relationships in all Italian regions of social capital and digital interactions. The analysis has corroborated the existence of a regional divide and a dominant position of some regions of northern Italy and a different relational involvement of the population in all Italian regions.