The Metropolitan City of Turin is partner of the European project Fast Forward Europe- FFWD Europe, financed by The Interreg Europe 2014-2020 Program.

A total of 8 partners from different European regions are involved in the project. The main objective of the project is to improve the policies and instruments to support the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s).

This goal will be achieved through exchange of good practices that will contribute to impact on policy instruments and to enable them to develop new programs for business acceleration.

At this stage of the project, the partners are sharing and collecting examples of good practices in three main sectors:

• SME’s Acceleration
• Internationalization of SME’s
• Access to funding

Among all good practices currently identified in the metropolitan area and published on the policy learning platform of the program, we point out FOUNDAMENTA , promoted by SocialFare– centre for social innovation. This is the first Italian acceleration program dedicated to start-ups and companies with a social impact.

FUNDAMENTA is targeted at those best entrepreneurial solutions that answer in innovative way to the contemporary social challenges. The program offers concrete support services to companies and start-ups.

Since 2015, this initiative has lead to an important impact in the territory:

• More than 40 start-ups accelerated
• More than 1,7 M.€ invested in the start-ups
• More than 200 new jobs created
• Activation of the first “Impact seed Fund” in Italy
• More than 1000 applications received from whole Europe

The program is aimed at constituted Start-ups with a prototype tested or produced on the market and companies that stand out for the highly innovative product/service offer, in the following sectors: welfare, Healthcare, education, cultural heritage, circular economy, Food & Agriculture.

The City of Turin organizes a press conference to present the projects funded by Pon Metro Torino (National Operational Program Metropolitan Cities 2014-2020) measure 3.3.1.A, for which approximately 1 million and 400 thousand euros of European funds to support social innovation projects.

25 non-profit organizations will be involved, which will experiment through twelve partnerships models able to include civil society and to trigger urban regeneration processes in urban areas with high socio-economic problems.

Open Incet launches the “Call for Social Innovators” in collaboration with Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and its partners, thanks to the contribution of Compagnia di San Paolo.

The call aims at boosting sustainable social innovation models in the third sector,  strengthening competences and stimulating the generation of innovative ideas coming from young talents.

We look for

– 60 young people aged between 23 and 35, willing to work in the third sector or starting a business in the social innovation sector;

– 30 organisations of the third sector intending to start an innovation path testing new business and service models as well as new technologies.

What we offer

We offer training, mentorship and project work over a period of 6 months by connecting participants to international networks.

How to partecipate

Call for young people: http://openincet.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/CSIO_call-for-young-people.pdf

Download at this link openincet/chiefsocialinnovofficer the application form and send it along with your CV and a motivational letter to info@openincet.it by 6^th January 2019 at 12.00 p.m.

Call for third sector organisations: http://openincet.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/CSIO_call-for-III-Sector-organisation.pdf

Download at this link openincet/socialinnovators the application form and send it to info@openincet.it by 6^th January 2019 at 12.00 a.m..

For more information write to the organisers at the email info@openincet.it

Open Incet is honored to host two events belonging to the Festival of Education promoted by the City of Turin and linked to the LEA European project.

The LEA project’s goal is to accelerate knowledge transfer, dialogue and awareness raising on innovation public demand potential, within the learning technology sector.

On 29^th November you can participate in a seminar aimed at presenting the new innovative technologies that can be used in schools for teaching.

On 30^th November a workshop will help you to learn more and share opinions about what innovation procurement represents and how does it work, with particular reference to the instruments of pre-commercial public procurement, public procurement of innovative solutions and innovation partnership, also within the framework of EU funding and project design.

Click here for registration:

29^th November

30^th November

The Smart Space project organizes the course “Digital transformation, an opportunity for SMEs”. In Turin the course is organized by CSP and is si aimed to support the role of intermediaries (operators of Chambers of Commerce, Innovation Poles) providing a free course of 40 hours starting on 28 November and ending in February 2019.-

The course is held by experts and is organized in collaboration with the Università di Torino – Dip. di Management and  Polo MESAP.

PROGRAM   –  PDF  corso formazione smart space

• 28/11/2018 Industry scenarios 4.0 M. Pollone
• 10/12/2018 Tools for SMEs and intermediaries M. Pollone
• 17/12/2018 and 8/1/2019 Digital transformation and organizational changes: impact on businesses and new scenarios Paola DeBernardi and Pier Carlo Rossi (Univ. Torino)
• 15/1/2019 and 17/01/2019 Introduction to the enabling technologies of the sector 4.0 – S.Sella – CSP
• Gennario 2019 Case studies (2-4 study visits at companies) R. Caminiti (Mesap)
• February 2019 The approach with companies: tools and methods and follow-up of the training program R. Caminiti (Mesap) and CSP

To register for the Course http://corso-smartspace.eventbrite.com

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The  Smart Space  Project

The SMART-SPACE project aims to strengthen cooperation within the innovation system to promote digital smart solutions in the traditional industrial sectors, foreseen in the various S3 regional strategies.

Targets:

It will identify a strategy for the manufacturing sector in the Alpine Space, able to combine Alpine economic-social challenges, geographical and industrial peculiarities, environmental sustainability and entrepreneurship;
establish an Alpine strategic partnership to implement a joint action plan, supported by a Digital Innovation Hub, a center of expertise to help all actors in innovation and drive growth and alpine welfare.
The project has also prepared a work platform to which it is possible to register https://smartspacehub.eu/

Regions involved: Lombardia | Veneto | Piedmont | Bayern | Baden-Wurttemberg | Salzburg | Vienna | Alsace | Auvergne-Rhonè Alpes | Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur | slovenia

Financing Program: Alpine Space

Participants: A consortium of 14 partners, led by the Venice Chamber of Commerce.

More info: http://www.alpine-space.eu/projects/smart-space/en/home

Are you a cooperative or an SME active in Piedmont? Do you want to test an innovative approach for products or services design?

The Metropolitan City of Turin, thanks to DesAlps project funded by the Interreg Alpine Space program, offers you an opportunity to learn about Design Thinking and start a tailor made work on your projects with the support of partners and the network of experts of the DesAlps project!

Attend the meeting on Friday 19 October from 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm at Rinascimenti Sociali, Via Maria Vittoria 38 Turin

Participation is free. In order to guarantee the effectiveness of the meeting, you will receive a short questionnaire by e-mail to fill in online.

Click here for the registration

DesAlps European project 

Des Alps experts network  is developing paths to facilitate the adoption of the Design Thinking (DT) by the SME in the Alpine area. The Metropolitan City of Turin is partner of the DesAlps project and with the technical support of Experientia it offers free workshops targetet to Piedmontese entreprises to spread the knowledge of the DT approach and co-design testing activities on the territory.
SocialFare is project’s observer.

Registration is now open to take part to the second edition of the OIS Open Innovation Summit, take place in Open Incet on 20 September 2018.

OIS 2018 intends to explore three key enabling factors (people, policy and technology) of cities’ capacity to innovate and compete on the global stage, and to bring together governments and local administrations’ officials, corporates and civil society leaders to share successful practices, models and ideas, in the spirit of mutual learning and exchange.

On the same day it will be possible to participate to the workshop “Social innovation for sustainable urban development”, a side event organized by the City of Turin in the context of Pon Metro. The workshop is aimed to bring together representatives from Italian metropolitan cities, EU institutions, social innovation communities, relevant national and international stakeholders, with a twofold purpose: advocating for social innovation to be recognised in the next EU programming period as a key strategy to design and deliver urban actions; to position cities as a relevant European actor on social innovation in order to foster better cooperation with international organisations and networks committed to promote innovative social policies.

OIS OPEN INNOVATION SUMMIT
Open Incet (via Cigna 96/17), 14.00 – 21.00
SUBSCRIBE

SOCIAL INNOVATION AS A NEW EUROPEAN PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPEMENT
Open Incet (via Cigna 96/17), 9.30 – 12.30
SUBSCRIBE

OIS 2018 is organized by Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini with support of CIttà di Torino.
More info on www.openinnovationsummit.org

The City of Collegno (Turin, Italy) in collaboration with Fondazione Contrada Torino Onlus launched an international call for street artists in order to identify three artists or three artists’ collectives proposing three solutions capable of enhancing the selected buildings and coordinating three workshops with locals to intervene on smaller walls.

Participation is free and open for all visual artists, graphic designers, illustrators, architects, designers, either individually or as a group.

Deadline: Sept. 17th 2018 | more info here: https://t.co/knZUtjo33m

The call “Innovate in the network” is opened. Banca Etica launches a programme with a funding of 10 million Euros for innovative start ups and university spin off able to generate projects with high social impact. The selected projects will have a grant among 100 thousand and 700 thousand Euros to be returned in 10 years.

The call is managed in collaboration with Bruno Kessler Foundation, Giacomo Brodolini Foundation and Entopan, with the operational coordination of Oltre Open Innovation Hub providing services of technical assistance, incubation, acceleration, integration to the selected projects.
Applicantions shall submitted through the portal