This post is about my improved website/blog and my professional laboratory, named Funds for Reforms Lab (F4R Lab).
I have been working on F4R Lab as of September 2013, when I started my blog.
Since then, I have been re-formulating its backgrounds and features on the basis of new knowledge, reactions to posts and ideas proposed by blogging, and new professional experiences.
By now, F4R Lab is a professional project/start-up well shaped and so I am very proud of bringing it to your attention.
Generally speaking, my blog is aimed at presenting my ideas about reforms heading for ensuring decent lives to everybody and my view on methodological approaches to formulating and funding projects.
Accordingly, I propose and share ideas mainly about reforms, social innovation, innovative business models and development projects. At the same time, I am aware about the simple idea that reforms and innovative projects need money. As a result, I also deal with topics such as public funds for reforms and public finance management, social and impact finance, project finance and fundraising.
I see F4R Lab both as an innovative start-up (according to the definition proposed in the Italian legislative framework for start-ups) and an open platform aimed at presenting and sharing ideas, new business models, innovative projects and, last but not least, innovative financing tools with the potential for building inclusive models for economic and social development.
My goal over the next 12-18 months is to work out its business model and get sound funding in order to set up it as a small consultancy focused on research projects and advisory services mainly intended for non-profit organizations and social businesses.
For the meanwhile, I keep advising on EU Funds, Local Development Strategies, business models and business planning, project management (see ‘Professional services’). Accordingly, you can regard F4R Lab as my professional brand.
Within Funds for Reforms Lab (F4R Lab), the debate over (innovative) reforms and (innovative) funds will be sustained by my on-going research projects:
• SFERA PUBBLICA 2.0,
• LEADER 2.0;
• EUROPE 2.0.
Currently, I am very keen on these research topics.
I consider these research projects key to the improvement of my professional skills.
I have carefully selected these research areas with the aim of writing – for each of them – new posts regularly.
The regular elaboration of new posts will be accompanied by the elaboration of longer Papers and Guidelines, which will be uploaded in the PDF format.
Happy New Year.