Foundation
THE FOUNDATION
PackInPro Foundation
Method, research, hands-on testing. No shortcuts to a clean reputation
Ethical and scientific certification, innovation, and community — built to lead the transition on verified ESG impact.
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO
A trust infrastructure for ESG Impact
The PackInPro Foundation builds the infrastructure of trust in packaging: the rules, methods, and tools that make ESG impact verifiable across the supply chain. We don’t ask for your trust. We show our work.
PackInPro works as a trust infrastructure — building the methods, standards, and procedures that reduce the arbitrariness running through most talk of “sustainability” today. The goal isn’t scores to display. It’s conditions in which results can be challenged on empirical grounds.
In practice: we measure, verify, report, and course-correct on real cases. Credibility includes knowing where to draw the line — where data is thin or incomplete, we say so.
What the Foundation actually does
- Defines and maintains the ESG Impact methodology — the framework and its technical documentation
- Runs the Pro-Social Lab on real supply chain cases
- Oversees the Scientific Committee and its governance rules
- Publishes results, limitations, and corrections — reports, policy updates, changelogs
- Enables industrial transparency across data, processes, and audit trails
OUR STORY
A methodological timeline
The steps through which method, governance, and transparency have been built — not a celebration, but the milestones that define the boundaries of verified ESG impact.
MILESTONE 1
MILESTONE 1
Foundation Establishment
Scope defined: ESG impact in packaging and its supply chain. The mandate: build a trust infrastructure, not a new brand.
MILESTONE 2
MILESTONE 2
Scientific Committee convened
Governance rules set: roles, independence, conflict-of-interest management, and a process for critical review of the methodology.
MILESTONE 3
MILESTONE 3
Method v1 released
First version of the framework and its correction policies: indicator structure, inclusion and exclusion criteria, rules for handling errors and updates.
MILESTONE 4
MILESTONE 4
Pro-Social Lab launched
First real-world tests: companies and organizations bring live ESG packaging problems; the Foundation works through the evidence, the gaps, and possible methodological corrections.
MILESTONE 5
MILESTONE 5
Method v1 released (MCDA + sensitivity)
The multi-criteria model and sensitivity analyses formalized, with the first public report documenting choices, weightings, and trade-offs.
MILESTONE 6
MILESTONE 6
Industrial transparency activated
Process auditability and servitization put into practice: machinery, controls, and industrial data become part of the transparency architecture.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
A check, not a rubber stamp
The Scientific Committee doesn’t validate — it scrutinizes. Its role is to keep ESG Impact claims grounded in evidence, hold the quality of that evidence to account, and drive methodological review.
Flavio Antonio Ceravolo
Role: Associate Professor of Sociology
Affiliation: University of Pavia
Focus: S / Models
My role on the Committee: I hold the social dimension of ESG Impact to the standards of rigorous, replicable research.
Lorenzo Malavasi
Role: Full Professor of Physical Chemistry
Affiliation: University of Pavia
Focus: E / Models
My role on the Committee: I verify that the environmental dimension of ESG Impact rests on robust, replicable scientific data.
Pietro Carretta
Role: Experimental Physicist, Head of the Department of Physics
Affiliation: University of Pavia
Focus: Models / Auditability
My role on the Committee: I ensure the data analysis and physical models underpinning ESG assessment are rigorous and open to scrutiny.
Michele Meoli
Role: Associate Professor of Management Engineering
Affiliation: University of Bergamo
Focus: G / Models
My role on the Committee: I verify that the governance dimension of ESG assessment is sound, transparent, and replicable.
Emmanuele Pavolini
Role: Full Professor of Economic Sociology
Affiliation: University of Milan
Focus: S / Models
My role on the Committee: I ensure the social dimension of ESG Impact is assessed against criteria that are comparable, rigorous, and replicable.
Giacomo Bazzani
Role: Associate Professor of Sociology
Affiliation: University of Florence
Focus: S / Models
My role on the Committee: I ensure the social dimension of ESG Impact is assessed against rigorous, replicable criteria — with particular attention to prosocial outcomes.
Ilenia Picardi
Role: Associate Professor of Sociology
Affiliation: University of Naples Federico II
Focus: S / Models
My role on the Committee: I ensure the social analysis of ESG rigorously accounts for gender, ecological transition, and prosocial impact.
GOVERNANCE & TRANSPARENCY
Conflict, correction, and versioning policy
Governance isn’t an institutional page — it’s the operational ruleset that defines who decides what, within what limits, and how errors are handled.
- Conflicts of interest. Clear rules for declaring and managing conflicts at every point in the decision chain.
- Corrections. A formal policy for addressing errors, methodological revisions, and changes in interpretation — with a public changelog.
- Versioning. Every version of our methods, models, and indicators is dated, documented, and archived. Pages display their version.
Governance, conflict-of-interest, correction, and versioning policies are public documents — written to be read, challenged, and improved.
Where a claim rests on a governance rule, the page links directly to the relevant methodological notes and current policies.
META - INFORMAZIONI
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COSA SAPPIAMO
This page covers the PackInPro Foundation's identity, methodological history, Scientific Committee, and governance principles — as the trust infrastructure for ESG Impact in packaging.
COSA RESTA INCERTO
Committee membership, milestone dates, and policy details are subject to formal acts and future updates to the Foundation's method and structure.
ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO
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