Società Italiana di Psicologia del Lavoro e dell'Organizzazione

What Società Italiana di Psicologia del Lavoro e dell'Organizzazione does

Società Italiana di Psicologia del Lavoro e dell'Organizzazione (SIPLO) is an Italian non-profit professional association founded on January 21, 1995 in Venice, with legal registered office in Rome. The association promotes, develops, and disseminates work and organizational psychology as a scientific discipline and professional practice in Italy. SIPLO serves individual psychologists, early-career practitioners, and students through a tiered membership structure (€50 for full Soci members with 3+ years of practice, €25 for Sostenitori, and €15 for student Sostenitori in formazione), and indirectly serves public and private organizations that benefit from member expertise in occupational health, HR management, and psychosocial risk prevention.

SIPLO's core offerings include professional membership; ECM-accredited continuing education (e.g., e-books with 30 ECM credits on organizational health); a portfolio of six active project work streams covering ESG, AI and professions, safeguarding in sports, professional identity, age management, and psychosocial risks; national congresses and events; and scientific publications vetted by its Scientific Committee. The association holds statutory authority as the constituent partner of EAWOP (European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology) in Italy and collaborates with institutional partners including CIIP, INAIL, and regional Orders of Psychologists. Its technology stack is a standard WordPress-based website (siplo.it) used for member onboarding, news, and event management rather than proprietary platforms.

Revenue is generated primarily through annual membership fees, supplemented by event and training fees, scientific publication sales, and project-specific grants (notably EU ERASMUS+ co-funding for the PLOS international project launched December 30, 2025). As a member-governed non-profit (associazione senza scopo di lucro), SIPLO is prohibited from distributing profits to members. The association is led by President Antonia Ballottin (elected January 2024) and operates with 1-10 staff and several hundred members distributed across all 20 Italian regions via formalized territorial sections.

Name

Società Italiana di Psicologia del Lavoro e dell'Organizzazione

Legal name

SOCIETA' ITALIANA DI PSICOLOGIA DEL LAVORO E DELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI

Website

https://siplo.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SIPLO is an Italian non-profit professional association founded in 1995 that promotes work and organizational psychology through tiered membership, ECM-accredited training, scientific publications, and national events for psychologists across Italy, and serves as Italy's constituent partner of EAWOP.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bologna

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: Annual membership fees from three categories: Soci (full members) at €50, Sostenitori (supporters) at €25, and Sostenitori in formazione (student supporters) at €15. Revenue supports association activities, events, publications, and professional development programs.
2. Professional Services and Training: Revenue generated through ECM (Educazione Continua in Medicina) training credits, professional development courses, and certification programs for members. Association provides continuing education opportunities for work and organizational psychologists.
3. Event Revenue: Revenue from organizing national congresses, seminars, workshops, and scientific events in the field of work and organizational psychology. Events include ECM credits and professional training components.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SIPLO is a non-profit professional association that promotes and disseminates work and organizational psychology in Italy through tiered annual memberships for psychologists, ECM-accredited continuing education programs, scientific e-books, national congresses and workshops, and collaborative research project work on topics such as psychosocial risks, AI in professions, ESG, and organizational wellbeing. It also engages in international collaboration projects co-funded by the European Commission (e.g., PLOS via Erasmus+).

Product overview

SIPLO operates as a professional association offering a unified portfolio of services centered on professional membership, continuing education (ECM credits), scientific publications (e-books), collaborative project work, and national/international events. The core offering revolves around professional development and networking for work and organizational psychologists in Italy, with recent expansion into European cooperation projects like PLOS.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SIPLO Membership Program
• ECM Training Credits Program

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor, core and flagship.

• Italian State-Regions Agreement on Occupational Safety TrainingminorOthers · 17 April 2026SIPLO contributed observations and proposals on the new State-Regions Agreement of April 17, 2025, regarding occupational health and safety training through CIIP working groups. The contribution focused on learning processes, training quality, and evaluation of effectiveness in organizational contexts.
• TOP RY - Työ-ja organisaatiopsykologit ry (Finnish Work and Organizational Psychology Association)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 December 2025International collaboration through PLOS project (Psychology of Work for Sustainable Organizations) launched December 30, 2025. The project develops a training curriculum for young work psychologists under 35, combining Italian and Finnish expertise. Co-funded by European Commission ERASMUS+ program, representing SIPLO's first international project.
• EAWOP - European Association of Work and Organizational PsychologyflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 January 1995SIPLO is the constituent partner of EAWOP in Italy since the founding of the association in 1995. This partnership provides international recognition, enables participation in European congresses (including the 19th EAWOP Congress in Turin 2019), and connects Italian work psychologists with the broader European professional community. EAWOP membership enhances SIPLO's credibility and international reach.
• CIIP - Consulta Interassociativa Italiana per la PrevenzionecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerActive collaboration with CIIP on occupational health and safety topics, including joint publications (e-books on workplace health promotion, psychosocial risk prevention), consensus documents on occupational health training, and contributions to national policy development. SIPLO members participate in CIIP working groups on stress, psychosocial risks, and workplace violence prevention.
• Italian Orders of Psychologists (Various Regional Orders)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSIPLO coordinates working groups on work psychology with regional Orders of Psychologists including Lazio, Emilia Romagna, and Campania. These partnerships facilitate professional development, continuing education (ECM credits), and advocacy for work psychology competencies.
• INAIL - Istituto Nazionale per l'Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul LavorominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on research projects including BRIC project on emerging psychosocial risks in changing work environments, with SIPLO members serving as scientific responsables for research lines on workplace violence prevention.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Consulta Interassociativa Italiana per la Prevenzione (CIIP): Italian inter-association consortium on prevention where SIPLO is an active collaborator, focused on occupational health and psychosocial risk prevention. Comparable as a membership-driven scientific association ecosystem for occupational health topics in Italy.
• Associazione Italiana Direzione Personale (AIDP): Italy's national HR management association, which overlaps with SIPLO's constituency at the intersection of HR practice and work psychology. Comparable as a national membership body influencing workplace practices and professional development in Italy.
• British Psychological Society - Division of Occupational Psychology: U.K. division focused on occupational psychology within the BPS, serving a similar member base of work psychologists through conferences, training, and standards-setting. Comparable structure as a national-level professional body in the same discipline.

Broad incumbents

• European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP): Pan-European federation of national work and organizational psychology associations, of which SIPLO is the Italian constituent partner. Directly comparable as a membership and scientific-society organization operating in the same discipline, just at the European rather than national level.
• International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP): International umbrella organization for applied psychology, including work and organizational psychology divisions. Comparable as a global membership body for applied psychologists, sitting above national associations like SIPLO.

Direct peers

• Società Italiana di Psicologia (SIPS): Parent Italian psychology association from which SIPLO split in 1995. Closely comparable as a national scientific-professional society for Italian psychologists, with overlapping membership and disciplinary scope.
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP): U.S.-based professional association for industrial and organizational psychology, affiliated with the American Psychological Association. Comparable as a leading national scientific-professional body in I/O psychology, offering membership, conferences, and publications.
• Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP): Italian psychological association covering the broader discipline. Comparable as a national scientific society organizing congresses, publications, and member services for psychologists in Italy, including sub-sections on work and organizational psychology.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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