What we do
We work in different contexts, always intending to stimulate and promote changes inspired by social justice, to help create shared well-being and opportunities.
Public Space
We accompany the knowledge and implementation of major urban transformations, aimed to change the face of the city and its livability: Città 30, the Tram line, the regeneration of areas such as the former Scalo Ravone – a new piece of that “City of Knowledge” which will also include the Museum of Children and Girls at Pilastro and the cycle-pedestrian path of the Via della Conoscenza. Furthermore, in the direction of improving the livability of the urban space, the creation of squares and new services for school mobility, the enhancement of the historic center’s livability, with particular attention to the university area, and the accessibility and inclusiveness of public spaces. We develop projects to increase the facilities and quality of urban greenery, to respond to the needs expressed by people and to increase climate well-being.
Nature
We act to counter the ecological emergency in the processes of urban transformation, to protect biodiversity and to regenerate the characteristics of the landscape that represent an identity component of the territory. We manage green areas such as the Villa Ghigi Park and the Prati di Mugnano. We develop educational and training courses for people of all ages that involve schools, families, public administrations and universities on the themes of nature in the urban environment and sustainability. We are present in various places in the city, such as in the classroom at Parco Grosso and in the Environmental Education Laboratory at Villa Scandellara, and we practice various outdoor education activities: from summer camps to walks, from trekking to adventure stays and much more.
Digital Urban Democracy
We support the development of processes based on knowledge and the conscious and ethical use of digital tools and data. The Digital Twin of Bologna project goes in this direction and places science and knowledge as founding elements to guide urban and metropolitan policies: we promote their civic use to understand people’s needs, by stimulating and experimenting with new forms of participation. We have created Innovazione Urbana Lab, a physical and digital space in the heart of Bologna, between Palazzo d’Accursio and Salaborsa Library, where you can learn about and engage in dialogue with the transformations that are redesigning the city. We also collaborate in the development and management of the Partecipa portal of the Municipality of Bologna and we experiment with digital tools to encourage civic participation and new forms of digital proximity alongside physical proximity.
Administrative and social innovation
We work to renew the methods of collaboration between citizens, institutions, third sector organizations and the multiplicity of active subjects involved in the care of urban life: an open and permanent laboratory of experimentation and consolidation on a local and national scale. A leading role is reserved for processes such as the Participatory Budget and places such as the Neighborhood Houses, spaces for programming specific activities and services, open to citizens, on the issues of welfare and sustainability. Many proximity paths have been started in the neighborhoods to support the fight against fragility and generate cultural opportunities, services, and open use of public space.
Ecological and climatic re-generation
We are working on the Bologna Missione Clima path, through which the city intends to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. A process that began in 2021 and led to the presentation of the Climate city contract in 2024. We are committed to making citizens and social organizations aware and active in building responsible policies and behaviors in the short and long term, to generate and stimulate widespread action to support this great global challenge. It is in this framework that our work of coordination and support of the process of the first Citizens’ Assembly for the climate is part of: a democratic tool that directly involved 100 randomly selected citizens to form and implement, through proposals and recommendations, municipal policies on climate change issues.v