Porta Aperta was founded 2001 as a type A social cooperative named “Porta Aperta Small Social Cooperative Society a r.l.” It changed its name to its current one in 2005 and in the same year contributed to the founding of the Consortium of Social Cooperatives “Andalas de Amistade.” As of 2019 it is no longer part of the Consortium and has moved its headquarters from Valledoria to Sassari, with a new organizational footprint that starts from the heart of the city to spread its services to several municipalities in northern Sardinia.

Porta Aperta places the person at the center of its actions and does so by adopting a working methodology aimed at improving the well-being and quality of life of all those involved in the life and work of the Cooperative, namely:
– its own human resources, it aims to optimize their human, cultural, professional and economic skills through constant training, the support of the psychologist-supervisor and a methodology of turn-over containment focused on listening to everyone’s needs
– the beneficiaries to whom it directs its activities, it acts with personalized intervention plans that take into account every aspect of the person involved and promote multidisciplinary teamwork to respond to every type of need
– the public and private entities and organizations for which it carries out services or with which it collaborates, attentive to the social needs of the territorial context of reference, it organizes services focused on network collaboration with the resources present in the area