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About Us

“We support organizations that want to have a positive impact on society”

We are a university-based organization that offers research, consulting, and training services. With almost fifteen years of experience in local development, inclusive development, social economy, impact evaluation, and sustainable food commodities, we combine scientific rigour with practical solutions.

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Friday February 7th, 2025 ARCO

SWINS Sustainable Well-being through Investment in Social Services

Produce a new comparative, gender sensitive and integrated framework for the measurement of the returns of investments in social services, this is the main objective of the project SWINS- Sustainable Well-being through Investment in Social Services. The overarching architecture of the project is aimed at producing new knowledge on how the returns of complementary different [...]
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Tuesday January 14th, 2025 ARCO

Promuovere i piani di welfare e altre misure di conciliazione vita-lavoro, un bando della Regione Toscana

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Organisational consulting: promoting sustainability, inclusion, and well-being in impact organisations

Friday October 4th, 2024 ARCO

Using Outcome Harvesting to evaluate socio-economic development and social innovation generated by Social Enterprises in complex areas

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