Rimini Behind The Scene
We left the classroom to ask one question: is sustainable business truly possible in real life?
Real decisions. Real constraints. Real sustainability.
What happens when sustainability leaves the classroom?
Sustainability is often discussed as a clean and inspiring concept. But real businesses face budgets, customers, regulations, supply chains, human needs, and daily pressure.
This project began with a simple but uncomfortable question: can sustainable business survive the real world?
Rimini became our living laboratory.
For many people, Rimini means the sea, sunshine, and tourism. For us, it became a place to explore the hidden work, choices, and compromises behind sustainable business.
We moved from academic theory to real conversations with entrepreneurs, professionals, academics, and local experts. Their stories showed us that sustainability is not a slogan. It is a daily practice shaped by courage, cost, innovation, and responsibility.
Businesses of Authentic Value
Rimini Behind The Scene was selected to be presented during the public Sustainable Business event connected to the University of Bologna – Rimini Campus.
The event creates a dialogue between students, companies, professors, and citizens on a central question: can ethics and economics be reconciled?
How the story was built
Concept
We started with a question about whether sustainable business can work beyond theory.
Outreach
We contacted entrepreneurs, professionals, academics, and organizations across Rimini.
Interviews
We listened to real voices from agriculture, architecture, consulting, restaurants, fashion, social cooperatives, and public policy.
Fieldwork
We visited real places where sustainability is practiced, challenged, negotiated, and redefined.
Editing
We connected the interviews into one documentary narrative about real-world sustainability.
Public Presentation
The final project was selected to be presented publicly at the University of Bologna – Rimini Campus.
Fieldwork, interviews, and real conversations
A visual journey through the meetings, field visits, and human moments that shaped Rimini Behind The Scene.
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People who helped us understand sustainability in practice
The documentary was shaped by entrepreneurs, professionals, academics, and local experts who generously shared their experiences with sustainability, business, social responsibility, and environmental challenges.
Angelo Dettori
Organic Beekeeping and Honey Production
Shared insights on organic agriculture, beekeeping, honey production, and the importance of avoiding harmful chemicals in food systems.
Luca Tontini
Sustainable Architecture and Circular Economy
Discussed architecture, restoration, circular economy, local materials, reuse, and nature-based solutions for water treatment.
Roberto Forlani
Consulting, Benefit Corporation, and Impact Management
Contributed a business and institutional perspective on consulting, strategic development, benefit corporations, and impact-oriented companies.
Carlo Urbinati
Social Cooperative, Inclusion, and Vulnerable Workers
Presented the social dimension of sustainability through employment, disability inclusion, vulnerable workers, and the impact of digital transformation.
Alessandro Baroni
Restaurant Sector and Local Food Culture
Shared the restaurant sector perspective, including local suppliers, food culture, cost management, and the balance between quality and business sustainability.
Matteo Lessi
Fashion Industry and Strategic Sustainability
Explained sustainability challenges in fashion, including supply chains, affordability, social auditing, transparency, and strategic planning.
Filippo Dal Fiore
Workplace Culture, Leadership, and Organizational Development
Offered reflections on workplace culture, leadership, organizational development, and the human side of sustainable transformation.
Anna Montini
Environmental Economics and Local Policy
Provided an academic and policy perspective on environmental economics, cost-benefit thinking, renewable energy, and local institutions.
The students behind the documentary
This project was developed by three students from the MSc in Resource Economics and Sustainable Development at the University of Bologna, Rimini Campus.
Together, they combined research, coordination, storytelling, and digital production to transform classroom ideas about sustainability into a real documentary experience.
Suraiya Begum Ruhi
RESD MSc @UNIBO | Economics Graduate | Empirical Research & Project Management
Suraiya contributed to research, outreach, interviews, and content organization, helping shape the documentary into a clear and engaging sustainability project.
Nasima Hotak
RESD MSc @UNIBO | Project Support & Field Coordination
Nasima supported background research, field coordination, interviews, and project logistics, helping create a smooth workflow throughout the documentary process.
Academic Context
MSc in Resource Economics and Sustainable Development
University of Bologna – Rimini Campus, Italy
Academic Session: 2025–2026
Sustainability is not a simple answer. It is a difficult balance.
The documentary helped us understand that sustainable business is built through daily decisions, economic pressure, social responsibility, environmental awareness, and the courage to keep improving.
Sustainability has a cost.
Sustainable choices often require investment, patience, and the ability to convince customers and stakeholders of long-term value.
Sustainability is also social.
A business cannot be truly sustainable if it protects the environment but ignores workers, inclusion, dignity, and vulnerable communities.
Technology is not neutral.
Digital transformation and artificial intelligence can create efficiency, but they can also exclude fragile workers if society does not respond responsibly.
Watch Rimini Behind The Scene
After weeks of research, interviews, fieldwork, and reflection, this is the final documentary: a journey into the reality of sustainable business in Rimini.
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Final Documentary
Watch the final documentary and follow the journey behind the scenes.
Watch on YouTubeProject Presentation
View the presentation explaining the concept, mission, process, and final message.
View PresentationThank you for being part of our learning journey
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the guests who generously shared their time, experience, and reflections with us.
Your insights helped us understand that sustainability is not only a theoretical concept, but a real-world practice shaped by difficult decisions, economic constraints, social responsibility, and environmental awareness.
Thank you for being part of Rimini Behind The Scene and for contributing to our learning journey.
Institutions and companies we engaged with
These organizations are part of the story explored in the documentary. They are not presented as sponsors, but as institutions, companies, and local actors connected to the interviews and fieldwork.
Stop asking only what should change. Start asking what role you are ready to play.
Sustainability is built through daily choices, real responsibility, and the courage to act.
