---
title: "Forum LEADER Giovani 2025"
type: lab
locale: en
url: https://liminalfutures.com/labs/forum-leader-giovani-2025
date: "2025-10-30"
summary: "Applied training and territorial service with 38 participants under 35, hosted by four comunes in the GAL Elimos area of Sicily. Six days on the ground left 281 points of interest, 41 interviews and four communication strategies."
---

# Forum LEADER Giovani 2025

Type: lab
Status: past
Dates: 2025-10-06 – 2025-10-30
People: Nicolás Delgado Alcega; Gabriele Pizzi; Alessandro Caruso; Silvia Pennisi; Maurilio Caracci
Organizations: Liminal; GAL Elimos; Rete Nazionale PAC – Rete LEADER; GAL Castelli Romani e Monti Prenestini; GAL Metropoli Est; CREA – Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria; Ministero dell’agricoltura, della sovranità alimentare e delle foreste; Comune di Buseto Palizzolo; Comune di Misiliscemi; Comune di Valderice; Comune di Vita
Places: Buseto Palizzolo; Misiliscemi; Valderice; Vita; Marsala; Altavilla Milicia
Commentaries: Grounding Territorial Data: Forum LEADER Giovani 2025

## Summary

Applied training and territorial service with 38 participants under 35, hosted by four comunes in the GAL Elimos area of Sicily. Six days on the ground left 281 points of interest, 41 interviews and four communication strategies.

## Work

The 2025 Forum LEADER Giovani, “Weaving data and territory”, was organised by Rete Nazionale PAC – Rete LEADER, GAL Elimos and Liminal between 6 and 30 October 2025 as applied training that is also a service to its host territories. After an introductory week online, the in-person course in Marsala opened on 25 October. Module A, led by Liminal, turned the Challenge method into a training device: the theory of the territory as a complex system on the 26th, a day of fieldwork on the 27th in Buseto Palizzolo, Misiliscemi, Valderice and Vita — interviews with local stakeholders and the mapping of points of interest, uploaded directly to Google Maps — and a cross-analysis into stakeholder files, SWOTs and first strategic hypotheses on the morning of the 28th. Module B, led by GAL Elimos with Prof. Maurilio Caracci, translated the analyses into place-based communication: personas, keywords, editorial plans and pilot content.

The four groups presented their strategies on 30 October at the Forum LEADER 2025 in Altavilla Milicia, before about seventy representatives of Italian Local Action Groups; the group for Vita, which mapped the comune’s votive shrines into an itinerary, was awarded the prize for best project, and bilateral meetings with the four administrations followed. The work left 281 mapped points of interest, 41 interviews, four SWOT analyses, four canvases and editorial plans and 28 pieces of pilot content. An ex-post evaluation on an adapted Kirkpatrick model (27 of 38 respondents) recorded overall satisfaction of 4.3 and a recommendation rate of 4.6 out of 5, with territorial analysis named the most useful and applicable skill. Membership is not a transactional reward for attendance.

## Sources

- zenodo: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17703228](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17703228)
- legacy-site: [/questionario-finale-forum-leader-giovani-2025](/questionario-finale-forum-leader-giovani-2025)

## Outputs

- Produced Grounding Territorial Data: Forum LEADER Giovani 2025

## Related

- Led by [Nicolás Delgado Alcega](/people/nicolas-delgado-alcega)
- Led by [Gabriele Pizzi](/people/gabriele-pizzi)
- Participant [Alessandro Caruso](/people/alessandro-caruso)
- Participant [Silvia Pennisi](/people/silvia-pennisi)
- Teaching [Maurilio Caracci](/people/maurilio-caracci)
- In partnership with [Liminal](/organizations/liminal)
- Financing partner [GAL Elimos](/organizations/gal-elimos)
- Operative partner [GAL Elimos](/organizations/gal-elimos)
- Financing partner [Rete Nazionale PAC – Rete LEADER](/organizations/rete-nazionale-pac)
- Operative partner [Rete Nazionale PAC – Rete LEADER](/organizations/rete-nazionale-pac)
- Operative partner [GAL Castelli Romani e Monti Prenestini](/organizations/gal-castelli-romani-e-monti-prenestini)
- Engaged actor [GAL Metropoli Est](/organizations/gal-metropoli-est)
- Engaged actor [CREA – Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria](/organizations/crea)
- Engaged actor [Ministero dell’agricoltura, della sovranità alimentare e delle foreste](/organizations/ministero-dell-agricoltura)
- Engaged actor [Comune di Buseto Palizzolo](/organizations/comune-di-buseto-palizzolo)
- Engaged actor [Comune di Misiliscemi](/organizations/comune-di-misiliscemi)
- Engaged actor [Comune di Valderice](/organizations/comune-di-valderice)
- Engaged actor [Comune di Vita](/organizations/comune-di-vita)
- Located in [Buseto Palizzolo](/places/buseto-palizzolo)
- Located in [Misiliscemi](/places/misiliscemi)
- Located in [Valderice](/places/valderice)
- Located in [Vita](/places/vita)
- Located in [Marsala](/places/marsala)
- Located in [Altavilla Milicia](/places/altavilla-milicia)