Who we are

In 1994 a group of operators from various Italian industrial districts founded the Industrial Districts Club, an association whose purpose was and still is to give a voice to the industrial districts and to solicit increased attention on the part of the political world.
At present, 27 districts are members of the association: Prato, Carpi (Mo), Belluno, Lecco, Biella, Como, Empoli (Fi), Treviglio (Bg), Sassari (Calangianus/Tempio Pausania), Pesaro, Urbino, Santa Croce (Pi), Montebelluna (Tv), Cusio-Valsesia (No/Vc), Ascoli Piceno (Fermo e San Benedetto del Tronto), Carrara (Mc), Alto Livenza (Pn/Tv), Viadana-Casalmaggiore (Mn), Lumezzane (Bs), Verbano Cusio, Ossola (Vb), Sassuolo (Mo), Brianza Comasca Milanese (Co), Asse del Sempione (Va), Lucca, Matera, Castel Goffredo (Mn), and Cicagna (Ge).

The objectives of the Club are:

• to promote the exchange of information and experiences between district operators;
• to transfer the scale of industrial policy from the national level to that of the regions and the districts;
• to favour the adoption of instruments of intervention in support of the industrial districts;
• to promote the image of the industrial districts.

The Club:

• organizes conferences and seminars on the districts and industrial policy;
• promotes research on the Italian and European industrial districts;
• furnishes information to district operators, the press, the academic world, and public agencies through an active Internet site (www.clubdistretti.it) and a quarterly newsletter (Distretti italiani);
• conducts relations with the national government, the European Union and the regions, sustaining the interests of the industrial districts and helping to orient industrial and promotional policy in their favor.

The Club is a cultural association, fully supported by the contributions of its members.

Social Offices

Presidential Board
President
Virgilio Bugatti (Lumezzane)

Technical Adviser
Coordinator
Luciano Consolati

Councillors
Enrico Botto Paola (Biella)
Alberto Palma (Ascoli Piceno)
Paolo Terribile (Belluno)
Andrea Tomat (Montebelluna)
Maurizio Meloda (Cusio-Valsesia)
Paolo Sarti (Prato)

Members
Arnaldo Cartotto
Andrea Balestri
Roberto De Martin
Aldo Durante
Ubaldo Renzi
Olivetta Federici

Permanent guest members
Savino Rizzio (Cusio Valsesia)
Mario Po' (Alto Livenza)