smartvenice, research, projects, networks

Smart Venice promotes new models of social and environmental sustainability

We are an independent consultancy, research and capacity building unit specialized in supporting participatory change processes for more gender equal, inclusive and sustainable societies, organizations and cities.

Research and Processing

Growth and Development

Social Integration

Fundraising for research and projects

Finding resources for your project ideas and shaping those to make them solid and credible is a challenge.

If you plan to participate to EU calls for proposals, you can count on us as a trusted partner with experience in high quality

Smart Venice – Research – Projects – Networks

Our key expertise areas

Mixed methods socio-economic research

Qualitative  socio economic research through systematic desk research, policy mapping, meta-analysis, critical frame analysis

Co-design and co-creation

Support the setup and implemementation of Co-design and co-creation and participatory processes more broadly.

Capacity building and training

Design and implementation of capacity building and training programmes, both online and offline, relying on inclusive and participatory pedagogies.

Organization and ecosystem change

Support to the design and implementation of gender and diversity policies and plans within institutions (mostly research intensive ones), companies and innovation ecosystems.

Our Partners

Our Projects

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CALIPER: Gender Equality in STEM research

We are the scientific coordinators of the H2020 CALIPER project, supporting 9 Research Organizations from all Europe in designing and implementing Gender Equality Projects with an innovative approach based on intersectoral collaboration with Innovation ecosystems

BIAS

he project aims at identifying and mitigating biases that occur in Artificial Intelligence applications used in a Human Resources Management (HRM) context. 

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FIERCE

FIERCE aims at providing sound theoretical and practical knowledge and tools to revitalize alliances between the feminist movement, civil society and political decision makers so to contrast populist radical right anti-gender actors and discourses.

Recent News

We are proud of presenting our poster and short paper with preliminary results from the Fairness in Teaching Erasmus + project from our project portfolio at

The 1st #cocreation workshop for the Horizon Europe BIAS Project in Venice was a success!For us, being in charge of designing the cocreation methodology for the project consortium, this