Training Statisticians in the Field of Quality of Life: A New Challenge for the University System. The Case of Qolexity in Italy
Italy has recently developed some important projects (framed in the beyond GDP initiatives) aimed at providing the country with an instrument able to monitor the national wellbeing and support the decision making. The project (launched in 2010) is known with the acronym BES (Benessere Equo e Sostenibile, Fair and Sustainable Wellbeing) and has been developed by Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) with the partnership of the National Council for Economics and Labour (CNEL) by involving also many scholars from Academia and representatives from the civil society.