---
title: Labsus — Laboratorio per la Sussidiarietà
type: ngo
status: active
country: IT
website: https://www.labsus.org
logo: /assets/org-logos/labsus.png
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-09
  form: https://www.labsus.org/contatti
  source: https://www.labsus.org
summary: An Italian association pioneering 'shared administration' (amministrazione
  condivisa) — a legal and practical framework for citizen-government collaboration
  pacts to manage common goods, adopted by hundreds of Italian cities.
concepts:
- deliberative-democracy
- participatory-budgeting
- democracy-tools
location:
  latitude: 41.9028
  longitude: 12.4964
  name: Rome, Italy
  precision: city
events:
- date: '2005-01-01'
  title: Founded in Rome as the Laboratory for Subsidiarity, pioneering shared administration
    in Italy
  url: https://www.labsus.org/chi-siamo/
  quote: Il Progetto Labsus, il Laboratorio per la sussidiarietà, ha un obiettivo
    ben preciso
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: true
activity:
  rss:
    checked: 2026-08-17
    date: 2026-07-07
    note: 'Latest post: Oltre la rigenerazione urbana: la cura dei custodi come nuovo
      bene comune'
    url: https://www.labsus.org/2026/07/oltre-la-rigenerazione-urbana-la-cura-dei-custodi-come-nuovo-bene-comune/
last_checked: '2026-08-09'
---

Labsus — the Laboratory for Subsidiarity — has spent two decades developing and advocating for "amministrazione condivisa" (shared administration), a framework in which citizens and local government enter formal collaboration pacts to co-manage common goods: parks, cultural spaces, social services, confiscated mafia properties, and other shared resources. The model is grounded in the Italian constitution's principle of subsidiarity and has been adopted by hundreds of municipalities, producing what Labsus calls a parallel governance layer — not replacing representative institutions but supplementing them with structured citizen co-management.

The organisation runs a university-accredited higher education course in shared administration (enrolling for 2026–2027), publishes a journal and research papers, and held the second edition of its Festival of Shared Administration in Assisi in March 2026. Labsus occupies an unusual space: neither a civic-tech platform nor a deliberative practitioners' network, but a legal-institutional innovation organisation — one that changed the law and the administrative practice, not just the conversation.

## Links

- Website: [labsus.org](https://www.labsus.org)

## See also

- [Deliberative Democracy](../concepts/deliberative-democracy.md)
- [Participatory Budgeting](../concepts/participatory-budgeting.md)
- [Democracy Tools](../concepts/democracy-tools.md)