Value for Society Lab
Public Management, Collaborative Governance, and Behavioral Public Services
This research focuses on inequality in public housing neighborhoods in Milan. It aims to map current inequalities, assess regulatory measures and study housing service management strategies' impact on value co-creation processes. The interdisciplinary approach combines public management and urban studies.
The project adopted a qualitative research design, with 100+ interviews conducted in neighborhoods and continuous cooperation with policymakers and service providers.
Funder: Fondazione Cariplo
SDA Bocconi role: Project Leader
Partner: Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento Architettura e Studi Urbani
Time: 2023-2024
Houseinc: Inclusive, Affordable And Sustainable Housing For Marginalized Communities
The overall objective of the HouseInc project is to deeply analyse interlinked dimensions of housing inequalities in the context of marginalised communities - through innovative methodologies and approaches.
HouseInc will empirically understand economic, social and ecological drivers and effects of housing inequality to derive and co-design high-quality policy recommendations for local, regional and national policy makers to foster the adoption of effective and innovative measures to address current housing inequality in Europe and therewith contribute to a better socio-economic integration of marginalized communities in European societies.
SDA Bocconi is leading the WP “Finding innovative solutions” aiming to map and characterize existing solutions addressing affordable housing adopting a multi-sectoral perspective, in order to co-design solutions at local and regional scale targeting different vulnerable segments, and scale-up insights from data set and lessons learnt from all previous WPs to propose new financial, technical and social solution pathways covering existing gaps across the identified domains to inform policy recommendations.
Funder: Horizon Europe
SDA Bocconi role: Partner
Partner: (Consortium Leader) Fraunhofer
Time: 2024 – 2027
Social impact assessment of the decentralized reception system for Ukrainian refugees. Social impact assessment of the decentralized reception system for Ukrainian refugees.
The Italian government has assigned the Department of Civil Protection of the Prime Minister's Office the task of coordinating several reception measures, including the decentralized reception system.
This model is based on providing mixed housing solutions (including co-housing) aimed at humanizing reception and promoting the integration of the individuals being accommodated. The service, managed on a national scale, has involved major third-sector organizations.
As an accredited competence center of the Department of Civil Protection, SDA Bocconi has led the co-design of a social impact assessment model in close collaboration with the involved parties and is coordinating data collection to evaluate the social impact of this reception model, also in comparison to other alternative solutions.
Funder: Department of Civil Protection
SDA Bocconi role: Leader
Time: 2022 – 2024
"Informagiovani" in Italy refers to youth information services that provide information, guidance, and support to young people.
These services are designed to address the diverse needs and interests of young individuals, typically aged between 15 and 29.
The goal is to offer assistance in various aspects of their lives, including education, employment, leisure activities, and personal development. SDA Bocconi has been selected as research partner to identify options for restructuring Informagiovani services in Lombardy and identifying the necessary competencies.
Funder: Polis Lombardia
SDA Bocconi role: Project Leader
Time: 2023
The European Digital Innovation Hub AI-PACT (Artificial Intelligence for Public Administrations Connected) aims at facilitating the adoption of AI technologies for the digital transformation of public administrations by supporting the actors of the public services’ ecosystems: public administrations, start-ups, SMEs and larger firms of the gov tech industry with proper tools, service and capacity to design, develop, adopt and replicate digital public services based on AI technologies.
AI-PACT represents the outcome of a positive encounter among its partners that builds upon the development of a four-layer architecture framework and AI-based public services, combining sound and complementary experience in multiple disciplines. AI-PACT is based on four-layer architecture framework that represents the necessary infrastructure to offer fit-for-purpose services to support the fulfilment of AI-PACT mission.
The layers are closely intertwined; the first one relates to cloud infrastructures necessary to craft the second layer that is about original technological architectures, which are necessary to design and structure the third layer that in turn focuses on developing new methodologies and algorithms that ultimately can trigger the development of dedicated functionalities and services developed in the fourth layer. The focus of AI-PACT is on four vertical domains of services, aligned with the EDS and Italian INRRP missions: AI for public services to citizens, AI for fiscal analysis and fraud detection, AI for tourism, AI for food and sustainable agriculture.
AI-PACT aims at supporting PAs in enhancing their capacity to assess their beneficiaries’ needs for digital public services and to design, test and implement AI-based solutions. AI-PACT aims at facilitating the consolidation of start-ups, SMEs and larger firms operating in the ICT and gov tech industry that have the proper implementation capacity to partner with PAs for their digital transformation purposes.
Funder: Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy
SDA Bocconi role: Coordinatore
Partners: Università di Bologna, Università di Milano Bicocca, Ministero del Turismo, Gruppo Maggioli, Fondazione IFEL, Tempo srl.
Time: 2023 – 2025