Until May 11th, apply for ImpattoSocialeReloaded

Until May, 11th #ImpattoSocialeReloaded is open, a call dedicated to Third Sector entities and social entrepreneurs committed to innovate and redesign their activities in order to face the COVID-19 emergency and mitigate its social and economic consequences.

The initiative is addressed to those who need immediate resources to activate, through a transformative process, new solutions and new models for the care and well-being of the communities in which they operate.

Each selected initiative will benefit from:

  • Up to € 100,000 in cash
  • A fundraising campaign on ideatre60
  • An advisory support from the Promoters to accompany the development of the projects proposed.

The initiative is promoted by Fondazione Italiana Accenture and Fondazione Snam, in partnership with Aiccon, Make a Cube³, Nesta Italia and TechSoup.

See the call and applicate > impattosocialereloaded.ideatre60.it

Torino City Lab and Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center for the mobility of the future

Techstars, one of the first startup accelerators in the world, started its first European acceleration program at Ogr Tech in Turin choosing the first 11 new companies to grow in Italy through a call dedicated to new ideas for smart mobility. The projects, selected at international level among hundreds from over 50 countries around the world, were presented for the first time on April 23rd in a virtual Demo Day in front of an audience of venture capitalists, business angels, investors, entrepreneurs.

Thanks to the collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, four of these startups – Automotus, Parkofon, PowerMarket, Urban SDK – have been selected by Torino City Lab – the innovation policy of the City of Torino – for a real testing on the territory of their technologies and solutions to improve the sustainability of urban mobility.

TuttiConnessi, solidarity collection of IT tools for students in difficulty

In Turin, some local associations have launched “TuttiConnessi”, an initiave to promote the solidarity collection of IT tools for students in difficulty in response to the lack of connection equipment.

Distance learning has proven to be a strategic resource for schools with the aim of ensuring continuity of training activities in this emergency situation we are facing. To success, this new model of “doing school” does not only require you to juggle e-learning platforms, multimedia content and new teaching approaches, but has a fundamental requirement: the IT tools, essential for accessing this “e-learining plan”.

However, data collected from teachers revealed several critical issues, first of all the absence of  technological devices for a third of Italian families. According to a recent ISTAT survey, in fact, it seems that about 14.3% of families with at least one minor do not have computers or tablets and only in 22.2% of families each component has a PC or tablet at disposal.

“TuttiConnessi” is a project in expansion: born to respond to a specific need (and emergency) of the territory, it also intends to look to the future, trying to incisively face the problem of the digital divide and the new challenges that the world of education will face.

To offer effective teaching support, the goal is to collect unused IT equipment from private individuals and companies and distribute it to students in need. The devices will be recovered and sanitized by volunteers, regenerated and delivered to the families of the pupils who requested them through the mediation of teachers and educators.

This independent project was born from the collaboration between the Turin associations SYX, Tékhné, Informatici Senza Frontiere and MuPIN – Piedmontese Informatics and Technology Museum: a multidisciplinary team, necessary to manage a complex situation that implies, in the first phase, the offer of the access to hardware essential for online training, and which will subsequently require the development of new skills and teaching methods.

By connecting to the web site tutticonnessi.it it is possible to access the different areas dedicated to anyone intending to donate a device: everyone can support the project through the donation of laptops, tablets or smartphones, of any brand and type, provided they are functional and sufficiently recent.

The proposed model is also scalable and replicable in other cities that have already taken an interest in the initiative, and which find indications on the website regarding the processes and operations. This emergency teaches everyone to be in solidarity, therefore the prerequisite for the school to continue with its formative mission is that, thanks to a massive adhesion, it is also possible to make #TuttiConnessi.

For more information: tutticonnessi@syx.it – ​​Telegram / WhatsApp: +39 351 8930600

Unioncamere launches RipartireImpresa, the platform for enterprises on the Coronavirus emergency policies and initiatives

A tool dedicated to enterprises, collecting all information about the Coronavirus emergency: Unioncamere, in collaboration with InfoCamere, has created an online platform to help entrepreneurs to extricate themselves in the flood of national and regional measures aimed at containing the spread of the virus.

Reachable at https://ripartireimpresa.unioncamere.it/ the portal allows a targeted search of the rules adopted at central and local level and pays particular attention to opportunities for financial support.

Seed: update to the call

The Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation has introduced an important update in the current edition of the Seed_Social enterprises, efficiency & development call, in ordet to better meet the needs generated by the health emergency.

The review is aimed at supporting the resilience and restarting of social enterprises, as well as the continuity of organizational functioning, and promoting possible transformations to react to the rapidly changing context.

The main changes concern the acceleration of the selection process and the increase in the overall amount of contributions and the number of social enterprises that can be supported. An ecosystem of subjects available to offer their services to social enterprises will also be activated.

The deadline for submitting applications is April 30, 2020.

> See all the details on the revision of the call on the official call page [ITA].

HumusJob’s appeal for a labor emergency in the fields

We point out the appeal of Humus Job, an innovative startup with a social vocation accelerated by SocialFare in 2018/19, which has developed the new job search platform dedicated to agriculture and committed to promoting ethical and regular contracts:

CALL FOR EMPLOYMENT EMERGENCY IN THE AGRICULTURAL FIELDS:

we create an operational and synergistic network to meet the needs of companies!

To all those who work in the agricultural sector:

Institutions, public bodies, employers’ associations, trade unions, third sector

[Contacts: www.humusjob.it / rete@humusjob.it]

They teach us compulsory schools that the primary sector is the most marginal, least important in “developed” economies:  everything is now mechanized, the industry and the service sectors are the main driving forces of the country.

Still, we find ourselves today not knowing where to find the labor force for our farms. According to what the president of Coldiretti Prandini said, “the blockade of the borders has made 370 thousand foreign workers in the fields less, on which a quarter of the Made in Italy food production depends“.

But this is not an emergency today. For years our campaigns have lost a governance of the supply of labor, leading to the generation of the famous ghettos, which in the words of Minister Bellanova, are “hellish places! Where desperation is mounting, also due to hunger and loneliness, which are full of workers who come from the South of the world and who over the years have been used in our countryside, often in the dark”.

“Now we realize how much WE are in need of immigrants, because the North is suffering!” These words of Minister Bellanova resonate vigorously among those who, for years, have been dealing with issues related to agricultural labor and the labor insertion of migrants.

Numerous actors have been moving on these issues for some time, to try to stem the suffering in the ghettos, to respond to the housing needs of the seasonal workers, to protect the interests of workers and those of companies. Either the state governs these processes, or there is crime. Today, too often, there is no government of the phenomenon. A complex and differentiated phenomenon, but which has highlighted a priority need from many sides: an instrument that connects the supply and demand of agricultural work is essential.

Humus Job has been working for a year and a half to create a job matching platform in agriculture.

We listened to companies, workers, unions and employers’ associations, we tried to respond to everyone’s needs, attempting a mediation that would respond strongly to the needs of the sector.

We were born in one of the provinces with the strongest agricultural vocation in Italy: Cuneo. The Granda Province is famous all over the world for its excellence and its food production. Today it is also the district of Northern Italy affected by the phenomenon of the ghettos of seasonal workers, in the difficult context of Saluzzo and surroundings.

Humus Job communicates job supply and demand efficiently and facilitates regular contracts. We are still in the process of developing the tool, but we are ready to make it available to workers and companies already after Easter.

We have decided to push the accelerator to respond to this emergency, to provide a concrete tool to those who deal with this phenomenon in all parts of Italy.

We don’t think we have a definitive solution, but we believe that, quoting the minister, there is “The need to do a job together, we must be able to give these people the opportunity to work REGULARLY and not to have a deficit of manpower for the next harvesting campaigns ».

The platform is there and there is no shortage of possible workers, not only among migrants. Those who have lost their jobs, the unemployed, those who receive income support, can now be the new agricultural workers. Thanks to the platform, people can be contracted directly online and therefore the movement of workers seeking employment in the countryside can be avoided. Companies can search for labor on the basis of training, experience in the sector and availability.

A verification of workers’ documents is activated and contracts are activated directly online. We ask both parties to keep track of the working days and we will check the regularity of the hiring at the end of the season. Verified companies – i.e. those that will focus on regularity and transparency – will receive an ethical quality label for the management of work resources and will be given positive visibility on social networks and on our website.

We want to encourage work in the countryside, but not just any job, not even in an emergency: we promote ethical and regular contracts, especially today!

However, we believe that the success of an innovative project is based on integration with other services, public and private. To give organic and effective answers there is the need to connect and be available.

This appeal goes in this direction: we have worked on a small piece, now we hope to be able to stimulate a dialogue on possible concrete experiments to provide immediate and shared solutions. They will not be perfect, but they will be operational and available solutions. Activating a large-scale collaboration process seems essential to us and the words of the Minister motivate us to get involved in the first person. Humus teaches us how essential the mixing of elements is to generate new life. We are inspired by this model to try to create networks, connections and new integrated responses.

Let’s join forces: help us spread our platform and write us to collaborate!

21/4 – CSR Ivrea roadshow, in live streaming

The Ivrea date of the CSR roadshow “THE FACES OF SUSTAINABILITY – THE NEW COMPANY AND THE CORPORATE IMPACT”, which was supposed to be held in the Olivetti factories, moves to the virtual.

The appointment is for Tuesday 21 April, at 4.30 pm, for a 90-minute meeting.

The speakers are of great interest and over 200 online registrations have already been collected.

Read the program and the discover the speakers [ITA]

Register here to participate

#EUvsVirus Hackathon: innovative solutions in the fight against COVID-19

The European Commission, in close collaboration with the EU member states, will host a pan-European hackathon (from 24 to 26 April) to connect civil society, innovators, partners and investors across Europe in order to develop innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges.

Application deadline: 19 April

The European Commission, in close collaboration with all member States and the participating H2020 associated countries, will provide follow up to the best projects coming from the #EUvsVirus hackathon through the new European Innovation Council (EIC) Covid platform.

More info on https://euvsvirus.org/

Covid-19 emergency: the solidarity network of the City of Turin

The Covid-19 emergency led the City of Turin to define a solidarity territorial network to support and protect people and groups in situations of personal, social and economic vulnerability. The actions that the city network has activated are wide and differentiated.

GENERAL NEEDS
A toll-free number 800 444 004 (active every day from 10 to 17)  available for all those who have various needs (delivery of the shopping, walking the dog, going to the pharmacy) and are unable to move from home or lean on other people. Citizens’ calls are sent to voluntary associations available to meet the requests. The citizens who want to offer their collaboration can contact the number too.

PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT
The numbers 011 011 37 782 and 011 011 37 740 offer psychological support to people who find themselves alone in the house and experience difficult times. The service is managed by the association “Psicologi per il popolo”, and is active every day of the week from 10 to 18.

HELP ELDERLY PEOPLE, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND FRAGILITY
Tthe  Elderly Help Service has extended its action to people with disabilities and frailties and strengthened the dedicated call center. A logistics center  has been opened for the storage of food and the possibility of distributing food at home. Collaboration with the Banco Alimentare del Piemonte has been strengthened for the supply of food and basic necessities from both the ordinary flows of supplies and donations, and from the supplementary food aid provided for by the European FEAD fund to be destined to the local solidarity network.

FOOD EMERGENCY
A network is active for the free supply of food and basic necessities based on the identification of intermediate distribution hubs spread throughout the municipal area, identified in collaboration with Arci Torino,Arcidiocesi, Associazione Terza Settimana, SermigRete Case del Quartiere, cooperativa Educare and Associazione Eufemia. All the hubs ensure the supply, storage and distribution of food goods both to voluntary and social private bodies of territorial reference, and directly to people and families in difficult situations. In addition, the solidarity territorial network provides for interventions dedicated to the retrieval of food and basic necessities, listening and telephone support, helping specific population groups, supporting cultural mediation and other services.

DONATIONS
The Municipality has opened a “solidarity” bank account at Banca Unicredit to collect donations to be allocated to people in economic difficulties to allow them to be able to shop for food and basic necessities. Those who wish can make a donation by bank transfer to the Municipality of Turin, IBAN IT69L0200801033000104431330 with the reason “Turin Solidale art. 66 dl 18/2020 “.

HOW TO DO IT: AN EMERGENCY GUIDE
An How-to page has been prepared on the Informagiovani website: a guide on the emergency, a collection of questions and answers on the supports and services available during the emergency.

TURIN CITY LOVE FREE RESOURCES FOR CITIZENS AND BUSINESSES
The Department of Innovation activated Torino City Love; an initiative of solidarity and open innovation aimed at the partners of Torino City Lab to offer free resources, actions  and skills to support citizens and businesses in the area during the COVID emergency- 19.

Welfare, che impresa! is open until April 20th

Welfare, che impresa! the 4th edition of the competition in online

Until April 20th it’s possible to candidate your project in the “Welfare, che impresa!” competition, which rewards and supports the best community welfare projects promoted by actors able to produce benefits in terms of local development.

The competition will award the best four projects in the following areas:

  • social agriculture
  • enhancement of cultural heritage
  • requalification of confiscated assets
  • training and social inclusion for vulnerable categories
  • environmental sustainability and fight against climate change

The competition is aimed at non-profit organizations, innovative start-ups with a social vocation, benefit companies, membership networks that have not been established for more than 5 years and to organizations that have not yet been established, which will have 6 months from the announcement of the winning projects to formalize the constitution.

> Download the the information sheet of the competition 

The competition is promoted by Fondazione Italiana Accenture, Fondazione Bracco, Fondazione Snam, Fondazione CON IL SUD, Fondazione Peppino Vismara e UBI Banca, con il contributo di AICCON, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano – Tiresia e Impacton e degli incubatori PoliHub, SocialFare, Hubble Acceleration Program, G-Factor, Make a Cube e Campania NewSteel.

7th April: “How to become A SMART COMPANY” executive course’s starting

// Early bird on registrations until April 3rd!

How to Become a Smart Company is the executive course for those companies that in the COVID-19 emergency have found themselves unprepared for smart working and who want to know practical and technical solutions of remote work management for their team.

The course, organized by Impact Hub Turin, is addressed to Startups, SMEs and Corporates who aim to improve the flexibility and digitalization standards within their company, even post-emergency.

THE CALENDAR

April 7th > SMART WORKING: REGULATIONS AND TAX ADVANTAGES

April 9th > HOW TO MAKE REMOTE MEETING EFFECTIVE

April 14th > INFRASTRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT: IT SOLUTIONS FOR TELEWORK

April 16th > COLLABORATION TOOLS: WORKING IN AGILE AND REMOTE MODE

April 21st > SMART WORKING: OBLIGATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EMPLOYER

April 23rd > HOW TO MOTIVATE YOUR TEAM IN AGILE MODE

The course will be held online.

For more information and to find out how to register, visit the website at https://torino.impacthub.net/how-to-become-a-smart-company/