ART
- Analisi
e Ricerche Territoriali was established in January 2001 as
a prosecution and consolidation of a pre-existing network of professionals
engaged in activities of socio-economic and territorial analysis and
research and interested, in particular, in the issues relating to local
level development.
The decision by
this network of professionals of establishing a corporate and, consequently,
entrepreneurial structure, was motivated by the necessity of improving
the level of organization in order to better pursue the aims of acting
as social researchers and by the exigency of operating as a functionally
and territorially articulated system.
At the basis of
the entire social project there is the idea that the multiform issues
related to socio-economic and cultural development can be fruitfully
addressed at a micro-territorial scale in the framework of a logic of
integrated analysis and action, actively engaging all the available
resources, inside and outside of a given area, around the mobilization
of the human factor.
This strategy of
research and intervention cannot be, for its own nature, implemented
by administrative acts, but requires the action on the field of territorial
operators with a strong socio-economic vocation, capable of analysing
the territorial problematics under the profile of resources and synergies
that can be activated, of identifying factors of mobilization, funding
sources, available subjects, establishing relations among them and activating
suitable training interventions, as well as the necessary supports for
the transfer of technological and organization innovations.
In conformity with
this approach, ART has an operational structure endowed with the strategic
competencies (sociological, economic, statistical, legal, territorial)
for carrying out territorial analyses and researches and for the implementation
of interventions aimed at promoting local level development.
The methodology
that has been developed on the basis of the research-work experiences
achieved by the partners and collaborators of the company throughout
several years of professional activity, contemplates the realization
of socio-economic territorial researches, the planning of integrated
interventions, the promotion of social animation activities, the carrying
out of training interventions, the establishment of local developmental
agencies, the management of interventions on the territory.
ART is, thus, capable
of providing to its clients, whether public institutions or private
entities, all the necessary assistance to set up and manage every phase
of a research and intervention project for the development at a local
scale.
The most consolidated
instrument for the activation of these competencies is represented by
the research-action, a strategy of enquiry that is not solely targeted
to theoretical interests, but that is oriented also to the transformation
of the logics of action and relation among the actors involved in the
research project.
The activity
of ART is articulated upon five main directrices:
1. the activity
of research, planning, promotion, development and analysis of projects
and activities in the cultural, social, economic, financial, territorial,
mediatic, entrepreneurial fields, and in the field of no-profit activities;
2. the preparation of feasibility and development projects concerned
with: the organization and management of training courses; the organization,
management and coordination of courses for professional and cultural
up dating on local level development, agriculture, industrial manufacturing,
handicraft and small industry, agritourism and tourism, recreational
activities and new technologies, Internet included;
3. the provision of services and support for the development
and the implementation of strategies in favour of public bodies and
administrations, foundations, enterprises, individuals, associations
in the fields of marketing, advertising, information, communication,
new technologies, ecology, territorial planning, organization and management
of data bases;
4. the preparation of didactic and bibliographical material for
the organization of meetings, seminars, debates and conferences;
5. the collaboration with magazines, journals, publishing companies,
TV and radio stations, web sites and other media.