GRINS: Growing Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable
The project aims to provide tools, evidence and data from the economic, political and social sciences that can guide the decisions of public administrations, the choices of citizens and businesses, and contribute to a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable growth for italian country.
NRRP intervention area: Mission 4 – Education and Research
Component: 2 - From research to business
Investment: 1.3 - Extended partnerships with universities, research centres, businesses and research project funding
Duration: the project will end on 30/11/2025
Total project funding: €115,900,000
Proposer: Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Statistical information to support the decisions of citizens, businesses and administrations
The aim of Grins is to provide a better understanding of the social, economic and environmental reality of the country, through the implementation of high quality, timely and easily searchable data that will provide real support to households, businesses, public administrations and policy makers in their strategic decisions.
Specifically, an open data platform, AMELIA, will be created that will produce high quality statistical information and analyses, in accordance with strict professional ethics and the most advanced scientific standards, to support the decision-making processes of households, businesses and administrations.
Among the project areas, spoke 0 covers the development of AMELIA, while the other 8 spokes aim at providing the primary sources, i.e. intermediate data, statistical analyses, software codes and final deliverables, which will then be processed and harmonised by the platform.
Project structure and participation
Foundation Composition
Universities and research institutes
- Università degli Studi di Padova
- Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
- Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
- Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
- Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
- Università degli Studi di Catania
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Università degli Studi di Palermo
- Politecnico di Milano
- Università degli Studi di Cagliari
- Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
- Università degli Studi di Bergamo
- Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Private actors
- Italian National Association of Insurance Companies
- Centro Studi delle Camere di Commercio Guglielmo Tagliacarne s.r.l.
- CINECA Consorzio Interuniversitario (Inter-university Consortium)
- Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici - CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change)
- Istituto Einaudi per l’Economia e la Finanza - EIEF (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
- CRIF S.p.A.
- Exprivia S.p.A.
- INTESA SANPAOLO S.p.A.
- Leithà S.r.l
- Poste Italiane S.p.A.
- PROMETEIA S.p.A
Areas of action
- Spoke 0 - Data platform and knowledge transfer (leader: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)
- Spoke 1 - Firms' sustainability (leader: Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi)
- Spoke 2 - Public sector: policy design and performance (leader: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)
- Spoke 3 - Households sustainability (leader: Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II")
- Spoke 4 - Sustainable finance (leader: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
- Spoke 5 - Innovation: ecosystems for the circular economy (leader: Università degli Studi di Torino)
- Spoke 6 - Low carbon policies (leader: Università degli Studi di Padova)
- Spoke 7 - Territorial sustainability (leader: Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro")
- Spoke 8 - Social sustainability (leader: Università degli Studi di Catania)
The University of Bologna participates in Spoke 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. It is the coordinator for Spokes 0 and 2.
Project team
University of Bologna participants
Scientific coordinator
Professor Matteo Cervellati
Staff hired with project funds
Researchers
- Guglielmo Barone
- Mascia Bedendo
- Cristina Bernini
- Maria Bigoni
- Pietro Biroli
- Matteo Bocchino
- Daniela Bolzani
- Paola Bordandini
- Luca Bortolotti
- Fabio Bravo
- Federica Caboni
- Giuseppe Cavaliere
- Matteo Cervellati
- Elisa Conticelli
- Lorenzo Dal Maso
- Enzo D'Innocenzo
- Luca Fanelli
- Maria Ferrante
- Riccardo Fini
- Margherita Fort
- Riccardo Ghidoni
- Lucia Guastadisegni
- Alireza Jay Naghavi
- Matteo Lippi Bruni
- Annalisa Loviglio
- Raffaele Mancuso
- Mariagiulia Matteucci
- Carlo Mazzaferro
- Antonio Minniti
- Elisa Montaguti
- Gian Luca Morini
- Emanuele Padovani
- Angelo Paletta
- Fedele Pasquale Greco
- Roberto Patuelli
- Giuseppe Pignataro
- Silvia Romagnoli
- Alessandro Saia
- Filippo Santi
- Vincenzo Scrutinio
- Annalisa Stacchini
- Gian Luca Tassinari
- Laura Toschi
- Carlo Trivisano
- Marialuisa Villani
- Stella Volturo
Staff with a research fellowship
- Tariku Ayana Abdi
- Abreham Adera
- Francesca Audino
- Alberto Basso
- Juliana Bernhofer
- Adrià Bronchal Rueda
- Luca Bungaro
- Andrea Caccialanza
- Corrado Camponeschi
- Fanny Carlet
- Cristina Chilin
- Melaku Bogale Fitawok
- Fabio Franceschini
- Federica Galli
- Maurizio Goni
- Majlinda Joxhe
- Stella Laura
- Ahmad Pour Leila
- Giulia Leoni
- Luigi Lugo
- Federico Maggio
- Dario Marino
- Marco Mazzali
- Lorenzo Mori
- Kotd David Adhal Nguar
- Dorotea Ottaviani
- Elena Pisanelli
- Giulia Romani
- Daniele Sborlini
- Silvia Scarpa
- Antonio Schiavone
- Damian Tojero Riviero
- Mario Trifuoggi
- Rinaldo Vignati
PhD students
- Mohamm Ed Abdel Sayed Ammr
- Alessia Bertuca
- Stefania Colacicco
- Alice Mozzoni
- Cristina Specchi
Departments involved
- Department of Architecture - DA
- Department of Industrial Engineering - DIN
- Department of Management — DISA
- Department of Sociology and Business Law - SDE
- Department of Political and Social Sciences - SPS
- Department of Sociology and Business Law - SDE
- Department of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati" – STAT
The work carried out so far by the university research teams on this project includes:
- the functioning of the public sector, providing new analysis and data on health systems, the performance of local public organisations and the design of public procurement, with a focus on public policy design and evaluation
- assessing performance, increasing resilience to structural shocks and improving the tools used by public administrations to procure external goods and services
Addressing the complexity of the present through data production and analysis
In addition to the activities carried out in all project areas, the University of Bologna is focusing its research in spoke 2 on improving the performance of the public sector, which is essential for efficient management and the delivery of services that truly meet the needs of households and businesses.
