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The paper presents an application of the SROI method to the case of culture and the social impacts of cultural institutions. The methodology is based on qualitative and quantitative evaluations and develops measurement proxies that refer back to financial measures, allowing to calculate the return in euros of a cultural investment.
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The activity presented in the paper has been developed in close collaboration with the staff of MUS.E in Florence, with which the researchers are in debt.
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Viganó, F., Lombardo, G. (2019). Calculating the Social Impact of Culture. A SROI Application in a Museum. In: Luigini, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Environments for Education, Arts and Heritage. EARTH 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 919. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12240-9_53
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