Meet Partner: Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA) supports the TRICK Project on circular behaviours, sustainability assessment and circular metrics
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The Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA) is a public university institute with special autonomy working in the field of applied sciences (Economics and Management, Law, Political Sciences, Agricultural Sciences and Plant Biotechnology, Medicine, Industrial and Information Engineering), and playing an important role in favour of the community. Standing out as a centre of reference for pioneering training with paths of excellence, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna offers Seasonal School, PhD course, bachelor’s and master’s degree advanced training lessons. The Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna boasts an excellent reputation for the high level of international results in research achieved by its seven institutes and their several specific research areas.
The Institute of Management (IoM) is active in the field of management in the context of private and public organizations as support to a renewed entrepreneurship with reference to the management of innovation, sustainability and health. The Sustainability Management Laboratory (SuM), a branch and the laboratory of the IoM mainly involved in the TRICK Project, specialises in combining knowledge on business management and decision-making processes with sustainability principles. SuM’s three missions are: (1) educate managers capable of allying efficiency with environmental protection in their organizations; (2) produce groundbreaking research in the field of sustainability management and (3) use the latest scientific evidence and cutting-edge analytical tools to help private and public organizations achieve sustainable growth.
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SuM has a long-lasting experience in EU-, private companies-, and organizations-funded projects. It enables the laboratory to grow a strong capability in scientific research on the following topics: circular economy and natural capital, life cycle thinking, green marketing, and sustainable products, efficient resource management and industrial symbiosis, environmental management systems, climate change, and disaster management and corporate social responsibility.
In the TRICK project, SSSA gives its support to the following topics thanks to its knowledge both of Circular Economy assessment methods and consumer behaviours in relation to the purchase of green and circular products:
- Definition of the roadmap from linear to circular, with a special focus on Consumer behaviour. Thanks to its expertise in consumer behaviour, SSSA has given an important contribution to the purchase and usage of circular clothing in the textile-clothing (TC) sector with the investigation of the European consumers’ response to sustainability, traceability and circular approach by means of a questionnaire-based survey.
- Support the definition of KPIs for expected benefits assessment and the design and implementation of circular assessment service.
- TC and Food Pilots’ implementation and circular assessment of both.
CONTACT PERSON & EMAIL ADDRESS:
- Dr. Natalia Marzia Gusmerotti - Scientific responsible (email)
- Dr. Domenico Mecca - Expert on circular metrics (email)
- Dr. Greta Colombi - Operational coordinator (email)
- Dr. Sara Limone - Responsible for Dissemination & Communication activities (email)
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