Since the beginning of the programming period 2007-2013 I have supported the Municipality of Gorizia in the design, preparation and management of the Plan for Sustainable Urban Development of the city of Gorizia. The first phase of the work consisted in the drafting of the Plan to be financed under the ERDF 2007-2013. The Plan called "Let's Go" was one of the only four projects financed by ERDF (now Italian Cohesion Action Plan funds). The design activities required a substantial work of involvement of various municipal offices normally not used to work together for a common goal, together with a huge task of identification and animation of the territory in order to involve stakeholders into thematic roundtables and an important effort to raise awareness of businesses potentially interested in the activities. To sum up the work realized includes: - Activation of a Working Table with the local Chamber of Commerce; - Activation of the Institutional Table of Concertation in order to fix the settings of the general guidelines of the PISUS and ensure the sharing of "political and strategic" priorities and the themes of interest for the city with the main stakeholders and institutions of the area; - The activation of the final process with public and/or private sector through the publication of public notices to contribute to the formulation of the PISUS through the proposed project ideas and expressions of interest for SMEs.

One of the main activities implemented within the PISUS was the monitoring inside the City Council of Gorizia aimed at gathering information on actions/projects that fall within the identified targeted area and upgrading them. Within this project, as project manager, I have tracked, reviewed and revised the design of the activities to be implemented, in order to ensure that the project creates the deliverables in accordance with the project objectives. Because of the unique and temporary nature of this project, it is requiring active and constant control. One of the first results of this monitoring and controlling process is the finalizing of the project performance reports concerning the implementation of the activities and the state of the advancement of the expenditures. While monitoring the focus is also the analysis of project performance to determine whether a change is needed in the plan for the remaining project activities to achieve the project goals. Tools and techniques that I usually use to conduct the Monitoring and Controlling of a project: - collection of project performance information (meetings, variance reports and program reviews) - analysis of the project performance to determine whether a project change is needed. (technical reviews, project forecasting and problem solving) - reporting on project performance (project management information systems, management reviews and dashboards) - common usage of the MIPAC, the on line monitoring tool.

Sustainable and urban development is a highly topical issue in our territories. While designing project ideas for our business clients, private or public, we consider as permanent item the protection of historic, cultural and environmental resources. Our daily work routine includes the task of constant updating of European and local news through different means, I would just mention some of them as an example: - the European Commission and European Union Regional Policy portals and the related publications, - the Italian Environment Ministry and European Policy Ministry portals and the related publications, - the Friuli Venezia Giulia regional portal, Department of Environment and Territory and the related publications, - the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) portal and the related publications, - academic portals and publications, - European cross-border and transnational cooperation programs portals. Moreover I participated to several events and meetings on these topics.