viale Sondrio 3
17g
20124 Milano MI
Italy
- Research
Codici has 21 structured employees and 1 internal consultant, all associated members of Codici. The management is in charge of the Board of Direction (2 male members, 3 female members) and of the Assembly of associated members. Since 2018, with the average turnover of 700.000 euros, Codici is implementing around 70 projects each year. Main source of incomes are: public local funds, funds from local and regional philantropic foundations, public tenders for consultant, structural funds from Ministry of Home Affairs (FEI, FAMI), European Programme's funds (REC, JUSTICE, AMIF), direct commitments from third sector organisations. Main modalities of actions: concrete projects at local, regional, national and international level. Main partners: public authorities, social cooperatives providing services for social inclusion/social cohesion/welfare, foundations, youth associations and cultural associations, educational institutions (formal and non formal).
Codici is an independent non-for-profit social research organisation, founded in 2005 in Milan (Italy). It assists public institutions, third sector organizations or private companies, helping them cope with social change. Codici’s researchers and social workers employ the tools of applied social research to analyse emerging social and cultural phenomena, offer consultancies, training courses and technical assistance on specific social topics and policies, support project development and evaluation for innovative social services.
Codici is focused on social intervention, mainly built up by and with all the people involved in the actions. The wide previous experience in management consulting and in methodological supervision implemented by the all the people working in Codici, lead the company to understand how often social organizations and social institutions think, plan, and achieve their actions starting from themselves and their needs, instead of thinking of their users. Codici wants to subvert this way to act, and wants to work in the social field by taking care of people, valorising them as subjects who bring competences, who are able to define their needs, who need a stronger motivation to realise their dreams. The fundamental mission of Codici could be synthetized by a good mix between combining high quality standards for all subjects working with and for the Social Co-operative, to the extreme attention paid to social processes activated by its daily work. Its purpose is to test and implement innovative action projects in the areas of social welfare.
Migrants, minorities and second generation young people represent one of our main targets of intervention.
Within the Third Countries Integration European Fund, we’ve been working in several national projects involving immigrants, aimed at their social integration, linguistic inclusion, and professional integration throughout various activities such as: action-research, field research, thematic surveys, participative methods of involvement, consultancy groups, focus groups, peer research, field interviews and video documentation.
The specific activity carried out in favour of migrants in Italy consists of four types of interventions:
1. Community mediation and development activities for improving social cohesion processes, integration and civic participation and for the promotion of individual identity and empowerment. This type of intervention was carried out in collaboration with Local Territorial Entities, subjects of the third sector active in the offer of social and socio-educational services.
2. Consultancy and accompanying activities for system actions aimed at migrants, aimed at developing new services, modelling services, improving access for migrants to existing services in the social welfare, socio-health, educational and bureaucratic-administrative fields. This type of intervention was carried out in collaboration with Local Authorities, Healthcare Organizations, third sector subjects active in the provision of social and socio-educational services.
3. Activities of public art and storytelling as a tool for socio-cultural integration: Codici is experienced in the analysis of social processes and develops engagement and intervention strategies with the target of young Italians and foreigners using the tools and communication channels of the arts visual (video reportage with participatory approach), of the media (website, webdocumentary, app for smart phones) and of social networks (Facebook, blog), with the aim of gathering and telling in a participatory and as widely as possible way the stories of life and reference social contexts. Several projects of Codici involved strategies and tools of public art and visual arts, social media and collective storytelling aimed at the integration of third-country nationals and social cohesion, through the European funds for the integration of third-country nationals (FEI 2007-2013, FAMI 2014-2020).
4. Monitoring and evaluation of projects through the use of own methodologies for evaluative research and participatory methodologies. Various interventions have been made in projects aimed at foreign users, both within the framework of the European Fund for the integration of Third Country Nationals, and on the commission of foundations such as Cariplo and Compagnia di San Paolo, concerning the themes of integration policies, community welfare, social inclusion.
By joining ALF Codici may contribute to:
1. enriching the network's expertise in social research applied to targeted topic such as intercultural dialogue, social cohesion and social inclusion: Codici is experienced in working side to side with ground based organisations providing facilities and service directly to target groups, and it help them to better understand social change, analyse effective practices, design new methods of intervention, renew their organisational structure according to social change, reinforce their capacity of sharing and exchange know how improving their ability to intercultural dialogue.
2. provide knowledge and inputs on the adoption of participative methods in social work targeting in particular young migrants, non accompanied minors and second generations, according to its several projects and researches carried out.
3. offer expertise for the development of cultural activities as a mean to promote social integration, community development, social and community storytelling and social cohesion. Through the production of cultural products (short films, photography, books, exhibitions in public spaces or diffused museums) we work on past and present stories in order to understand social processes and change. Participative methods and crowd based design of cultural products are our main approach to the storytelling process. Several activities on community memories and collective stories as means of social cohesion have been implemented in specific social and urban context, with a focus on intercultural and intergenerational exchange.
4. make available of the ALF Codici's point of view on intercultural dialogue, on migration processes, on social inclusion policies according to study and researches carried out by Codici in Italy, as well as its network with several stakeholders in the public and private sector of North of Italy.
Mainly for 3 reasons:
1. we strongly share and believe in dialogue as a fundamental mean for getting people closer. our identity is strongly connected and generated by meeting and living close to people with different social and cultural background. that's why Codici always encourage dialogue in its daily research projects and interventions on field and train professionals in social field in observing, criticizing, reframing their capacity of getting into dialogue with others. we are part of a wider Mediterranean community, we share social development issues and intercultural processes linked to industrial development, migrations, climate change, globalisation. we wish to be part of the network to have the opportunity to play a more active role in the development of a respectful, rightful and creative Mediterranean identity.
2. we wish to disseminate the approach of social research as a tool for coping with social change and contribute to better shape and design social responses of institutions and third sector organisations, especially considering recent pandemic's impact at global level. we intend to take part in the process of post-pandemic change and re-design of societal challenges that will especially affect relationships, exchange and dialogue between close countries.
3. we would like to increase our knowledge and competences by attending exchanging opportunities between professionals in the field of intercultural dialogue and improve our network of connections with Mediterranean countries. In the field of migration study that Codici carried out, we focused on local situation and on the development of local policies, but what we need to improve is the possibility to involve directly countries from where migrants come from, working on crossborder cooperation among countries around the Mediterranean sea.