Positive Thinking approach e complessità. Un focus sulle strategie di collaborazione legate ai cambiamenti positivi generati dai progetti finanziati dalla Fondazione CON IL SUD nel medio lungo-periodo

The present evaluation analysis was conducted using a goal-free logic on 205 projects, implemented in different areas of Southern Italy benefiting from the financial support of the “CON IL SUD (FCS) Foundation", with the aim of highlighting some of the positive changes (expected or unexpected, direct or indirect) triggered by mid-long term projects, analyzed using the Positive Thinking Approach as a research framework. In situations characterized by high levels of complexity, it is difficult to forecast how a change will manifest itself; therefore, the evaluative research should identify positive changes even when they occur unexpectedly. The author focuses on the different types of relational contexts in which the projects were embedded, with particular attention to how certain types of links between project partners and other stakeholders contributed, along with other factors, to generating local development in the territories.