Maria Vella is adjunct professor in Economics and Management of the Third Sector. Creator and scientific director of LET'S GO, laboratory for new professionals for the Third Sector. The undersigned has organized several conferences on the theme of cooperation and the Third Sector, with the participation of representatives, institutional and academic, of the non-profit to deepen the theme, start conventions and spread the theme of solidarity and ethics in business. He has carried out consultancy activities for cooperatives to draw up their social reports. Since 2015 he is also Director of the Master (MUTUASI) in Mutual Health and in 2018 creator and director of the Let's GO master on the future of non-profit careers (www.letsgo.unisi.it). In 2007, as an expert in Economics of Cooperation, she was a member of the Consulta della Cooperazione established at the Tuscany Region. She is the author of university texts and, recently, of articles in specialized journals on the growing role of the Third Sector for individual well-being (www.vita.it) and in the social-health sector. Currently the research activity in the field of the Third Sector in line with the Reform continues. She is also a member of the Committee for Teaching in Social Work Sciences and delegated to internships for the Department of Political and International Sciences.
Research lines:
The Third Sector: role for co-programming and co-design policies with the PA in a multi-stakeholder environment.
The role of university education for new professional figures in the Third Sector
European funding for the Third Sector.