28/11 Seed Call presentation

On Thursday 28 November from 11.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. (at Off Topic in via Pallavicino 35, Turin) Compagnia di San Paolo presents the 2019 edition of the call Seed_Social Enterprises, Efficiency & Development, open to social enterprises in the Piedmont region that intend to start a process of analysis of their needs and to design and implement a development plan capable of activating strategic, managerial and organizational changes.

It will also be possible to follow the event live in Cuneo, Alessandria and Vercelli by registering here

You can also follow the event in Webinar mode by subscribing to this link

The Seed call aims to increase the impact investment readiness of social enterprises through the design and implementation of development processes – generated within the social enterprises themselves and the result of their ideals, experiences and skills – that are able to trigger strategic, managerial and organizational changes.

30/11 Co-City Camp

The actions aimed at the care, shared management and regeneration of urban common goods activated on the city of Turin thanks to the Co-City project – European funding Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) – in the three-year period 2016/19 are presented to the city on Saturday 30 November (from 16.30 to 19.30) at Social Renaissance.

Groups of citizens, associations and bodies involved in the collaboration agreements activated together with the City of Torino will tell visitors about the path started, the first results and prospects for the future through exhibitions and stands that allow direct dialogue with anyone who is curious to know or actively participate in the activities started.

Admission is free of charge.

Bottom Up! When the city turns from below

Bottom Up is the new architecture festival of Turin promoted by the Order of Architects and the Foundation for Architecture / Turin, which will be held from 1 to 10 May 2020.

It is possible to participate now by applying for projects for the transformation of the Turin area, which will be promoted and accompanied on a path of realization. The deadline for submitting proposals is 16 January 2020.

Bottom Up! is a festival that has the ambition to generate new architectures and urban transformations from the “bottom up”. A great call to designers and city associations that transforms the festival into a great process of collective crowdfunding. In fact, the festival is first and foremost a search (and accompaniment) for ideas and proposals for the real transformation of the spaces and places of our city. From ideas to the network of social relations, communication strategies, fundraising, up to the next start of work.

The call – available on the festival’s website – is designed for groups of citizens, schools, artists and collectives, associations, companies, designers, project holders, budgets and possible supporters. Projects may concern indoor or outdoor spaces, abandoned (or heavily frequented) places, public, collective or private places, gardens, parks, courtyards, residual spaces, underused buildings, kiosks, vacant shops or building covers. A single constraint: that at least one architect is present in the proposing group.

The 12 most interesting proposals are offered participation in a training course that will provide all the tools to build the most appropriate and effective crowdfunding campaign. How crowdfunding works, storytelling and stoytelling, effective use of digital and social tools.

15/01/20 Impactwise 2020 – A new value chain for social impact

Cottino Social Impact Campus, the first center in Europe dedicated to impact education, introduces itself with an international conference and the participation of faculty members who will give shape to the Campus’ life and educational activities, beginning in February 2020

A day-long process of learning and exchange to spark off discussion of a culture of social impact and sustainability, which starts in the Campus but spreads out to cover Italy and the world.

Attendance at the conference is free and open to everyone as long as places remain available (click here for registration)

Torino Social Stock Exchange: design team at work

In October, a design team has been set up to define the feasibility study by benchmarking similar experiences (London, Singapore, New York and Johannesburg), analyzing the market, identifying the listing requirements and the related control processes, delivering the model of financial sustainability.

The working group is composed of the Chamber of Commerce of Turin, Borsa Italiana, the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, the International Center for Research on Social Impact Tiresia of the Polytechnic of Milan, the Bocconi University, the University of Turin, the Denegri Foundation and Avanzi, a social company focused on sustainability projects, which already carried out a study on the field in 2009.

Among the possible physical location of the Torino Social Stock Exchange, the former Stock Exchange building of Piazza Valdo Fusi owned by the Turin Chamber of Commerce.