Codici

Codici Onlus is a No Profit Social Co-operative based in Milan and founded in 2008 by a group of social researchers and social workers, all coming from other work experiences. Codici Onlus is focused on social intervention, mainly built up by and with all the people involved in the actions. 1. Codici treats every phase of the of the project development process with equal care: preliminary feasibility studies; documentation and review of relevant literature; sample construction, research design, development of questionnaires and other research tools; in-depth and focus group interviews, participant and non-participant observation, shadowing and implementation of qualitative field work; processing and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data; mapping of data and cartographic displays of urban transformation; detailed written, aural and photo-video reporting; communication and discussion of research data within the scientific community; audio and video documentation of research actions; creation of videodocumentaries, photoessays, and social investigations; diffusion and publicization of research results through symposiums, meetings, books, websites, cultural and social events, training seminars. 2. Codici carries out studies, inquiries and surveys in order to support the development of public policy and social action. Research, to us, is necessarily a form of social action. It implies the active participation of all actors involved in each and every step of the research process, that we strive to attain also by promoting peer-research experiences and by prompting trainees within our training courses to experiment with social research. 3. Codici creates training seminars, workshops and consulting for all kinds of professionals operating within the welfare sector (public officials and administrators, psicologists, social workers, educators and teachers) and for anyone whose professional activity deals with social change. We design refresher courses and professional upgrade seminars; we can turn classes into a research group, a planning session or an interactive on-line workshop. We design our training proposal according to our clients demands and in collaboration with academic institutions and other expert training providers. 4. Codici designs and creates social observatories, social information management systems, databases and other devices that may support governing complex welfare services networks, promoting a bottom-up approach in order to ensure that information gathering and diffusion is perceived as a participative process. We assist policymakers and social or health service providers in gaining a more thorough and detailed understanding of specific social phenomena an issues, providing knowledge and expertise that will enhance policy design and implementation. We also provide technical assistance and innovation-boosting solutions for planners and program managers who implement public policy, and for all those organisations that need to cope efficiently with social change. 5. Codici produces evaluation designs for the assessment of projects and actions within the welfare sector. We can monitor, supervise and evaluate projects, actions, services and research efforts acting as scientific referee, as member of scientific committees or providing expert consulting on specific methodologies, actions and the attainement of project objectives.