TranspArEEnS

TranspArEEnS

TranspArEEnS is the Competence Center of the Ca’ Foscari University Foundation dedicated to developing innovative, practical solutions for sustainable governance and finance, capable of identifying and anticipating the socio-economic changes accompanying the ongoing transitions. Through advisory services, tools, and training, it supports companies and institutions in their growth and transition paths

Areas of Expertise

The Centre positions itself as a strategic partner, connecting research, markets, and policy to generate shared value. It transforms research and analysis into operational tools, supporting companies and institutions in measuring and managing performance and risks in order to ensure their long-term resilience and future-readiness.

Activities and Services

  • Advisory and specialist consulting
    Support for companies and institutions in integrating sustainability into decision-making, financial, and strategic processes, with a focus on governance, social, environmental, and energy issues, including understanding and managing socio-demographic trends that will affect both the structure of consumption and savings preferences and the configuration of goods and services markets, labour markets, and insurance-financial markets. Support for senior management and governing bodies in defining strategic levers and metrics.
  • Development of tools, advanced data analysis, and quantitative models
    Creation of tools and dashboards for measuring, monitoring, and reporting sustainability performance and risks. Application of data analysis techniques to assess performance and financial risks and to identify and anticipate the socio-economic changes linked to the ongoing transitions.
  • Assessment of sustainability-related risks and development of ESG models
    Analysis of sustainability-related risks and opportunities, including in relation to the European regulatory framework. Design of quantitative methodologies for assessing environmental, social, and governance factors, also with a focus on energy and energy efficiency, as well as the implications of economic and demographic trends that are reshaping market structures and energy demand.
  • Support for companies in the transition and analysis of transparent and responsible governance practice
    Operational support for the adoption of sustainability practices aimed at improving environmental, social, and governance performance. Support in assessing impacts on social and environmental dimensions at local, national, and international level. Transparent assessment of governance, understood as a central and cross-cutting element of social and environmental dimensions, promoting its adoption in public and private decision-making processes at all levels.
  • Training, capacity building, and organisation of dissemination events
    Design and promotion of training programmes, workshops, outreach activities, and capacity-building initiatives to enhance knowledge and awareness of sustainability, turning risks into opportunities and strengthening future-readiness.
  • Applied research, projects at national and European level, and creation of networks and partnerships
    Development and management of innovation projects in collaboration with public and private partners. Activation of collaborations among universities, companies, institutions, and stakeholders at national and international level.

Centre Director

  • Monica Billio

Management Committee

  • Agar Brugiavini
  • Stefano Colonnello
  • Michele Costola
  • Andrea Giacomelli
  • Marco Marelli 
  • Petra Scanferla