ALI – Italian Local Autonomies:  ALI – Italian Local Autonomies is an autonomous, unitary, pluralist and non-profit association of municipalities and local authorities, promote and enhance the federalist principles of autonomy, subsidiarity and social inclusion , sustainable development and institutional cooperation. ALI’s institutional and representative activity is based on the Italian Constitution’s principles. The Association, in particular, intends to contribute with its initiative to the reorganization of local authorities, the reform of public administration, the renewal and strengthening of the welfare state according to the principles of democratic participation of citizens and their political and social organisations, to definition of Government choices regarding local autonomy, development and economic, social and territorial rebalancing between strong and disadvantaged areas, in particular in the South, the defence, protection and valorisation of the environment, landscape and heritage historical, artistic and cultural history of the country, the protection of citizenship rights and equal opportunities and the right to security. 

Leganet s.r.l. is the subsidiary company of ALI – Autonomie Locali Italianeand provides public administrations and the private sector, especially publicly owned companies, with rapid and innovative solutions. The company mission is to support and accompany local authorities, in particular medium and small municipalities, in the effective and efficient management of digital and ecological transformation processes, as well as the strengthening and optimization of financial resources. Thanks to the widespread presence of ALI throughout the national territory, Leganet constantly monitors the operational critical issues of local authorities as well as the hot topics, the activities susceptible to improvement, the expenses that can be optimized and the governance processes that can be activated, thus offering tailor-made products and services to all local administrations. The Company operates as a driver for the efficiency and optimization of the internal and centrifugal processes of the Public Administrations, generating positive impacts on the community. The company supports the process of modernization of the Public Administration through territorial animation activities, encouraging the creation of public and private partnerships at the service of local authorities.

Studio Come S.r.l. is a company that offers consultancy, training, research, technical assistance, monitoring and evaluation of interventions to public administrations and businesses. Established in 1998, it is based in Rome and operates throughout Italy and Europe. It is certified for compliance with the ISO 9001:2015 standard for the design and provision of training, consultancy and research services in labor policies, social, health and equal opportunities policies, local development. It has also obtained certification for gender equality (Uni PdR 125/2022). Studio COME has gained considerable expertise in the planning and evaluation of national and transnational interventions financed through European funds, both directly managed and through Operational Programmes. In the implementation of interventions, Studio COME pursues a systemic approach that facilitates collaboration between subjects with distinct interests, with specific cultures, visions, languages, and facilitates dialogue between institutions, businesses and social promotion associations; between social workers and citizens; between customers and suppliers; between women and men in organizations. Studio Come contributes to the creation and development of networks at local and national level between institutional and non-institutional entities, through technical assistance and the development of organizational and institutional agreements between services for the economic and social development. Studio Comefocuses on social innovation and “socially sustainable” local development, and has developed a method to guide Public Administrations in the use of participatory monitoring and evaluation methodologies.

ACR+ is an international network of cities and regions that share the goal of promoting sustainable resource management and accelerating the transition to a circular economy in their territories and beyond. Since circular economy requires cooperation between all actors, ACR+ is open to other key actors in the field of resource management such as NGOs, academic institutions, consultancy firms or private organizations. Its mission includes: contributing at European and international level to waste prevention and the ecologically and economically rational management of waste and thus promoting sustainable development; contribute to closing the cycle of primary and secondary raw materials (resources, products, waste) in particular through the promotion of resource saving and fairer distribution; support the transition from a chain economy to a circular economy as a path towards resource efficiency; create and maintain a network for the exchange of information on prevention, separate collection and recycling of waste in urban environments; encourage the harmonization of concepts, definitions and standards in the field of waste, products and resources; promote the creation of multi-stakeholder partnerships; develop the skills and capabilities of public authorities in the context of effective policies on waste-products-resources; encourage practical actions in waste management and sustainable consumption.

Federconsumatori Lazio APS is an autonomous and democratic association of citizens based in Rome. Federconsumatori Lazio is a non profit social promotion association that pursues civic, solidarity and social utility purposes.. It pursues support, training, information and protection activities for all citizens (their families and third parties) in their capacity as consumers, savers and users with particular attention to those disadvantaged on an economic, social and cultural basis respecting their ethnic group, nationality, language, sexual orientation, gender identity, cultures and political formations, professional, social and interest diversity, of being a believer or non-believer. The Association bases its action on the principles contained the Treaty on the European Union, in the Italian Constitution, as well as on community, national and regional legislation.

Avezzano is an Italian municipality of 40,769 inhabitants in the province of L’Aquila in Abruzzo Region. Raised to the rank of city by decree of the President of the Republic of 21 June 1994, it is clearly documented for the first time in the 9th century. The urban center developed starting from the French administrative reorganization and even more towards the end of the 19th century following the drying up of Lake Fucino, formerly located in the center of the Marsica Area. The city, almost completely destroyed by the 1915 earthquake, was decorated with the silver medal for civil merit having suffered serious damage in 1944, a few years after reconstruction, due to Anglo-American aerial bombings as well as acts of violence and Nazi-fascist reprisals. With an agricultural, as well as industrial and commercial vocation, it constitutes a geographical road and railway hub in the Apennine area of central-southern Italy.

Bassiano  is an Italian municipality of 1 432 inhabitants in the province of Latina in Lazio. It holds the Orange Flag, i.e. the recognition of tourist-environmental quality awarded by the Italian Touring Club (TCI) to small municipalities (maximum 15,000 inhabitants) which stand out for their excellent offer and quality hospitality. The history of Bassiano certainly begins around the 10th century and starts with a small group of shepherds and farmers forced to take refuge in this place completely covered from the plain, due to the continuous barbarian raids. The first written information about Bassiano dates back to 1169. In a document found in the archive of the collegiate church of Santa Maria in Sermoneta, reference is made to the recovery of the Castrum stolen by deception by a certain Gregorio Leonis from a Lord of Bassiano. Nestled among the Lepini mountains, the ancient village of Bassiano is the highest in the entire province of Latina. Its architecture, in fact, is made up of houses built in a spiral that culminate at the highest point of the hill where the fortress once stood.

Crispiano is an Italian municipality of 13,031 inhabitants in the province of Taranto in Puglia. Crispiano rises around the karst furrow called Vallone, inhabited since prehistoric times, which in the Middle Ages was the site of the Casale Crispiani and the Abbey of Santa Maria di Crispiano. Starting from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, the caves of the Vallone were repopulated in an increasingly stable form, resulting in the initial small inhabited center that developed around the small church of Santa Maria del Vallone. The modern inhabited center developed after the mid-nineteenth century: the first houses arose in the area now called Crispianello, then in the so-called Difesa di Crispiano (now Piazza Madonna della Neve and Corso Vittorio Emanuele III). Urban expansion today affects all the surrounding areas, in particular the Santa Maria Goretti district, located east of the railway line.