From Wednesday, March 22 to Sunday, March 26, Biennale Democrazia, a cultural event promoted by the City of Turin, conceived and chaired by Gustavo Zagrebelsky, returns to Turin and has been held under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic since 2009. Now in its eighth edition this year, whose title is ‘At the Boundaries of Freedom’, its goal is to return to a reflection on the complex relationship between freedom and democracy, inside and outside the borders of our society. The event welcomes more than one hundred meetings, more than two hundred and twenty Italian and international guests, five exhibitions and the contribution of about one hundred and fifty volunteers. The events will be recorded and made available on the event website every year.

In five days, a reflection starting from four thematic itineraries, four different perspectives to discuss and reason together around the significant issues concerning freedom, to which this year will be added the sections Democrazia Futura, dedicated to young people and schools of all levels, and Democrazia Diffusa, realized in synergy with the cultural realities of the territory and with Torino Social Impact, which has involved some partners in the programming, as well as expressing an event within the RESPONDET project, in collaboration with Torino Creative City UNESCO for Design and a presentation by Euricse.

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The Global Social Business Summit kicked off on Monday, November 7, in Turin. For two days in the Centrale della Nuvola Lavazza, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006 and ‘father’ of microcredit, brought together the global social business community for the annual event he founded in 2009, which this year came to Italy for the first time. In front of an audience of around 500 people from 45 countries around the world – including over 300 social entrepreneurs as well as exponents of global politics and economics, managers and scholars, representing about fifty international organisations – this Summit edition laid the foundations of a culture of peace through business to develop a three-zero economy: zero unemployment, zero poverty and zero CO2 emissions.

The day before the Summit started, Muhammad Yunus visited the Sermig Arsenal of Peace, welcomed by its founder Ernesto Olivero. The day at Sermig ended with the appointment “Cultivating a culture of peace with social business” a meeting with Turin’s young people, the 3 Club Zero and the Young Challengers. We talked about it here.

The opening ceremony on November 7 marked the official begin of the 2022 Summit. After the institutional greetings, it was Muhammad Yunus himself, together with Lamiya Morshed, executive director of the Yunus Centre, and Hans Reitz, CEO of The Grameen Creative Lab, who opened the proceedings, articulated through a series of thematic panels. The opening greetings also included a speech by Guido Bolatto, Secretary General of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, a long-standing promoter of TSI.

The first day’s meetings focused on topics such as energy, food, new financing instruments with social impact, technology, sport, and a focus on the coffee market in view of Agenda 2030, to continue the next day with further discussions on microfinance, social entrepreneurship, green mobility, public health, and circular economy. To access the full programme, and watch panel recordings, click here.

Many TSI’s partners attended the Summit: among them, Links Foundation and PerMicro brought their testimonies to the stage.

Also on November 7, the establishment of a Social Business Research Centre at the University of Turin was announced at the Yunus Social Business Academia Forum. For more details, read the news.

Those were all valuable opportunities to share ideas and results, create connections and learn good practices from the protagonists of local and global social business ecosystems, but also to spread public awareness on these issues, stimulating debate on the need to tackle inequalities in our society and promote the common good.

The Global Social Business Summit – which so far has been hosted in various countries around the world, from Mexico to Austria, from Malaysia to France, from Germany to Kenya – is promoted by The Grameen Creative Lab and the Yunus Centre, with the organisational support of the Italian tech media company TMP Group spa, which proposed Turin as the location. A choice that rewards an internationally recognised model in the social business sector also thanks to the work carried out in the area by Torino Social Impact, partner of the event together with the Turin Chamber of Commerce, City of Turin, Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, Sermig, Tourism Turin and Province, University of Turin, Talent Garden and other Italian and international players such as Quid, Neoma Business School x KPMG, H-Farm, Circ, Az.imut. To these are added, in the role of sponsor, the Lavazza Group, which played a leading role in the event as well as hosting it, and the initiative’s historical partners: BNP Paribas, present with a large delegation also involving the Italian structure of its subsidiary BNL, and the organisations of the network created by Professor Yunus Friends of Social Business, Yunus Sports Hub, Yunus Environment Hub, YY Ventures.

TSI won the prestigious Absolute Press Jury Award, chaired by Forbes Italy, and second place in the Public Communication category of the Areté Award.

The award ceremony took place in the setting of the CSR Fair of Responsible Communication, at Bocconi University in Milan. The aim of the award, now in its 19th edition, is to valorise individuals who have distinguished themselves for the effectiveness of their responsible communication, presenting virtuous examples to the business community and the general public. Candidates are selected by the Jury after careful monitoring, not by the spontaneous application.

‘The communicative strength of Torino Social Impact lies in the breadth and heterogeneity of its more than 220 partners: third sector, foundations, for-profit companies including 30 benefit societies, organisations and institutions voluntarily committed to generating social impact through their activities. These awards give us confirmation that the voice of the ecosystem is heard and appreciated, and encourage us to give it ever greater echo’. These were the words of Guido Bolatto, Secretary General of the Torino Chamber of Commerce, which promotes the platform together with the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, in line with the Jury’s motivation: for the capacity of aggregation and inclusion, with more than two hundred actors, institutions, companies, research centres, third sector, to work together on a sustainable ecosystem.

President of the Press Jury is Alessandro Rossi, Director of Forbes.it. Mediapartners BFC Forbes, Gruppo24Ore, Askanews and Formiche.

Forbes interview to Guido Bolatto, Secretary General of the Turin Chamber of Commerce

Réseau Entreprendre Piemonte, Thursday 29.09.2022, with an event in Turin in Rinascimenti Sociali, launched its IMPACT accompanying program.

Impact + is an accompanying program aimed at social enterprises, cooperatives and innovative startups with a social vocation, designed to help them pursue a greater positive impact for the future in the social, cultural and environmental fields. It aims to sensitize 100% of entrepreneurs to the challenges of a changing world.

The course is part of the Réseau Entreprendre international methodology and provides companies with a tool for diagnosing needs and measuring the impact generated, specialist support for the preparation of a Social Business Model Canvas and social planning tools enriched by hours of mentoring provided, free of charge, by a network of experienced entrepreneurs and professionals in various product sectors.

Impact + takes place within the START program of Réseau Entreprendre, aimed at newly established realities.

For the second year, Torino Social Impact is a strategic partner of the GEN C: Generazione Changemaker project, promoted and implemented by Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani and Ashoka Italia.

The initiative aims to create a community of young changemakers who make a positive impact on society.

The call is focused on girls and boys between 13 and 24 years old and mentors between 25 and 35, who have identified a problem, developed an idea to solve it and, after setting up a team, are generating a positive impact in their local area and community, supporting digital, ecological and autonomy transitions.

Applications are open until November 7.

All information here: Gen C Call

Young Challengers Program 2022, led by the Grameen Creative Lab, a creative incubator for social innovation founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus, and Talent Garden, a European leader in digital training, lands in Piedmont!

The programme, designed to train tomorrow’s young leaders in the field of social entrepreneurship and Industry 4.0, is aimed at 80 students, aspiring entrepreneurs and young professionals from all over the world who are passionate about social business and Tech4Good initiatives, and who want to learn skills that can help them make a positive impact on their community and their region.

2 months of flexible online training, from September to November, at the end of which they will create, with other young changemakers, their Tech Social Business idea and present it in a final in-person pitch at the Global Social Business Summit 2022, the largest global event of the social business community, to be held in Turin on 7 and 8 November 2022.

At the Summit, they will also be able to interact directly with award-winning professor Muhammad Yunus and meet executives from the world’s leading social enterprises. At the end of the programme, participants will learn fundamental skills such as creating a digital mindset, applying systems thinking to environmental and social problems, creating a plan for a tech social business and a go-to-market strategy, and presenting business ideas to a panel of judges and possible investors.

The Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation will offer 10 scholarships for the Young Challengers Program to talented young people aged 18-30 years old, resident in the Piedmont region. Applications are open from June 20 until July 13 at the following link.

The programme will be held in English, so please apply in English.

 

Sustainability is becoming a mainstream issue: for this reason it is increasingly important to assess the impact generated by strategies and projects implemented by profit and non-profit companies.
On the occasion of its 10th edition, the CSR and Social Innovation Expo launches the Impact Award to bring attention to the importance of measuring and assessing the impact generated by projects that aim to contribute to the path towards sustainable development.

Why this award

With this award, the Expo intends to reward profit and non-profit organisations capable of measuring the economic, social and environmental value created by sustainability projects and initiatives, but also to emphasise the need to communicate the results obtained and share them with stakeholders.

How to participate

Participation in the award is free and open to all profit and non-profit organisations based in Italy that have assessed the impact of a project carried out between 2019 and 2021. The project may have been realised in different locations but must also have had an impact in Italy.
All organisations that have already communicated the impact of their initiatives to stakeholders, e.g. through events, workshops, the website, newsletters, reports, etc., can participate in the award. To participate, you must submit your project entry form by 31 August 2022.
To be eligible, applications must contain: information on the organisation and the context in which it operates; a description of the project, the methodology adopted and the impact generated; indications on the stakeholder engagement process; a description of the dissemination actions and possible developments of the initiative.

Awards

The award ceremony is scheduled during the CSR and Social Innovation Expo on 3 October 2022 at Bocconi University in Milan.

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Biennale Democrazia is a cultural event promoted by the City of Turin and realised by the Fondazione per la Cultura Torino. The aim of the initiative is to spread a culture of democracy that can be translated into democratic practice.

Biennale Democrazia is a permanent workshop of ideas open to all, with a special focus on high school and university students. The project is divided into a series of preparatory and intermediate stages – from meetings in schools to thematic discussion workshops – culminating, every two years, in five days of public appointments: lectures, debates, readings, forums, in-depth seminars and various moments of active involvement of citizenship. All this with the presence of the most authoritative protagonists of national and international culture, and with the collaboration of over 70 institutions, organisations and associations, which make possible a rich circulation of ideas, suggestions and proposals.

Biennale Democrazia is also art, cinema and theatre. Partnerships with the city’s cultural bodies make it possible to realise initiatives that use the languages of creativity and entertainment, under the banner of transversality and the mixing of expressive modes. Alongside lectures, debates and meetings, the Biennale Democrazia calendar therefore hosts themed film festivals, exhibition itineraries, concerts and moments of city animation, theatre shows, performances and forays into unusual and unexpected spaces.

8th edition: Boundaries of FREEDOM

As announced at the press conference on 7 June, the Biennale Democrazia is returning to the period that has seen it play a leading role from the very beginning: from Wednesday 22 to Sunday 26 March 2023, Turin will host the eighth edition of one of the most eagerly awaited events in the city’s cultural calendar, with a particularly significant title: AT THE LIMITS OF FREEDOM.

At the centre of attention will be freedom, an indispensable reference point for any discourse on democracy and, at the same time, a word that is contested by even very different sides and cultural traditions, to the point of becoming a flag, continually redefined, of the most diverse political actors. Hence the need to talk about it again, with the aim of grasping its nuances, understanding its contradictions, discussing its limits and possible new advances. In continuity with the previous years, the 2023 edition will find space throughout the city, thanks to the active and proactive involvement of the realities that animate it, which will be solicited to put forward opportunities for meetings, activities and reflections on the themes on which it will be articulated: Free all!, Conflicts of freedom, Freedom as a format, Imagining freedom.

With this in mind, the collaboration with the Turin Chamber of Commerce is renewed, which, through its partnership with the Turin Social Impact platform – the ecosystem for social impact entrepreneurship – will make it possible to reflect on urban regeneration practices as a meeting point between active participation and economic and social development.

 

Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia promotes impact investing: investing to generate a positive social and environmental impact that is measurable and compatible with an economic return. And it launches with the support of the Banca d’Italia the project “Impact investing: transforming finance for real change”.

The number of people in absolute poverty recorded by ISTAT in Italy in 2021 is about 5.6 million, 9.4% of the population, and just over 1.9 million households (7.5% of the total). Absolute poverty confirms the historic highs reached in 2020, the year the Covid-19 pandemic began. For relative poverty, the incidence rises to 11.1 percent (from 10.1 percent in 2020) and about 2.9 million households are below the threshold. This is just one of the pieces of evidence that show the unsustainability of the current economic development model, even more, inadequate in the face of the recent dramas of the pandemic and war.

A response to the urgent need for change comes from impact finance (impact investing), which promotes a new investment strategy, no longer oriented towards maximising profits but making concrete contributions to the social and environmental needs of the community, while maintaining an economic return.

But what does impact investing actually mean? What are the opportunities for businesses, the non-profit world, and civil society? Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia (SIA), an Italian network that disseminates knowledge on impact finance, is launching the research project ‘Impact Investing: transforming finance for real change’ with the support of Banca d’Italia: the aim is to contribute to the dissemination of the culture and practices of impact investing in the public administration, the financial sector and business, for a relaunch of the truly sustainable economy.

“In Italy, the impact investing market is already worth €8 billion (investment 2019) and is constantly expanding,” says Filippo Montesi, secretary general of SIA. “However, the urgency of the crisis in our country requires it to grow rapidly, and this is why SIA wants to involve economic players, offering them opportunities for discussion, comparison, and expansion of skills, which will make impact investing opportunities more identifiable and viable. The project that we are launching today thanks to the support of the Bank of Italy and which involves some of the most important players in the financial sector, businesses, the cooperative world, and the third sector, respond to this objective”.

The project, starting on June 21, sees the participation of over 60 Italian professionals from the world of public administration and institutional investors, banks, universities and research centres among the most important in Italy, investment funds and foundations, for-profit and social enterprises, as well as social promotion associations and non-profit organisations.

Participants will work on 3 tables each dedicated to a specific topic of impact investing: Public development policies and incentives for impact investing, Sustainable and fundable business models, and Standards and methods for impact measurement and reporting.

At the end of the meetings, each table will produce a document summarising what emerged from the discussion of the actors involved on the specific topic and a toolkit will be produced with concrete indications and guidelines for the realisation of impact investments, which not only have attractive returns but also positive impacts on society and the environment. This toolkit will be built to be effectively and immediately used by businesses, public administrations, and the third sector to start concrete paths of impact finance.

The results of the project will be presented in the coming months through public webinars with the aim of increasingly broadening the adherence of economic actors to impact finance and thus contributing to real change.

SIA

Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia (SIA) is the reference association in Italy for the promotion of impact finance (impact investing): investing to generate positive social and environmental impact that is measurable and compatible with an economic return.

SIA brings together a network of 25 organisations, representing investors, social enterprises, market builders and philanthropic institutions, working together to realise a new model of a truly sustainable economy.

The association operates through advocacy, research, communication and market development activities.

SIA is the Italian Advisory Board of the GSG (Global Steering Group for Impact Investment), an international movement promoting impact investing in the world.

Introduction

We want the area’s most promising young people interested in working in this field to find ISC the ideal place to develop their dreams.
Although it may sound ambitious, we would like ISC to become the nice place to work, as Silicon Valley is for the digital world.
A place where, with a focus on young people and female leadership, widespread and interpenetrating innovation can flourish.

The Call “We are looking for TALENTS” promoted by the ISC LAB incubator in collaboration with Torino Social Impact and PoliTo Careers, has the strategic objective of identifying those who want to focus their talent and skills within various innovation-oriented realities.

Context

ISC LAB is aware that the company’s value creation process passes through the correct identification and management of human resources. ISC Incubator’s mission is to draw future scenarios and design winning solutions for innovative companies through the search for the best talents able to adapt to constantly changing conditions.

Goals

Through this Call for Talents, ISC LAB intends to collect expressions of interest from those interested in joining the collaboration/recruitment/stage initiatives promoted and in making their CVs accessible to the platforms with which the Incubator has established partnerships. We are looking for bright, dynamic but above all curious people. Who are willing to challenge themselves and explore alternative paths.

Guidelines

• Recipients – Employed persons, undergraduates, recent graduates, thesis holders, freelancers, willing to make their CVs accessible for the above purposes.
• Submission procedure – Expressions of interest (CVs) matching the company’s needs must be submitted on the iscstartup.it website from 16 June 2022 until 10 July 2022. In relation to the progress of the Call, ISC LAB reserves the right to consider also expressions of interest that will be received later.
• Presentation event – on 23 June 2022 from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. an event will be held at ISC LAB to present the entrepreneurial realities involved in the Call. On this occasion, future aspirants will have the opportunity to meet those who promoted the Call and learn about the projects put forward by the various participating companies. As well as to breathe the atmosphere of the ISC.
• Application deadline – selection will be completed by 30 July 2022, unless extended.

 

What is Social Value International and what are its goals? We asked the CEO Ben Carpenter.

Enjoy a new episode of Impact Interviews, conversations between Torino Social Impact and international leaders and changemakers.

Is it possible to enhance art through the circular economy?

Artàporter is a startup and benefits company, recently founded in Turin, that aims to rethink the commonplaces of art, increase the visibility of emerging artists, and bring more beauty to commercial venues. As a result, it will help create a new generation of collectors who will enjoy art by going to bars, restaurants, or stores.

In this episode of Bench-Mark, the story of CEO Massimo Gioscia.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

The city of Turin will host, from May 31 to June 4, 2022, the International Festival of Economics.

Selected out of more than twenty applications from as many Italian cities by the creators of the initiative, Editori Laterza, the scientific director prof. Tito Boeri and the coordinator of the Editorial Committee prof. Innocenzo Cipolletta, Turin has capitalized on its recognized ability to network and mobilize the broad ecosystem of local actors (Regione Piemonte, Città di Torino, Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, Università degli Studi e Politecnico di Torino, Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino Chamber of Commerce, Unioncamere Piemonte, Unione Industriali Torino, gathered in the Torino Local Committee –  TOLC) to attract an event of international resonance.

For our territory, this is an important opportunity that will generate a direct and lasting impact not only at the socio-economic level but also at the cultural level, because it is part of a framework of major events that will see Torino catalyze in the coming months and years growing attention from the public and the media.

Torino Social Impact actively contributes to the Festival’s Participatory Program with 2 events:

FINANCE THAT IS GOOD FOR SOCIAL ECONOMY, organized by Torino Social Impact.

June 2, 2022
2:30 pm. Piazza Carlo Alberto

The great changes of our time call for innovative responses, and the social economy is set to play an increasingly important role in proposing new models of sustainable and fair development. This awareness is at the basis of many stories of a new finance that is necessary, innovative and inclusive, capable of enhancing the positive changes generated on the environment and on our societies. An example of this is the Social Impact Exchange, a project created with the aim of building a capital market dedicated to companies that intentionally, additionally and measurably achieve a positive social impact. The aim of the event is to tell this and other stories of impact finance that can be the engine for growth in the social economy.

Speakers:

• Davide Dal Maso, Vice President of the Social Impact Finance Promotion Committee and Partner of Avanzi Sostenibilità per Azioni
• Elena Casolari, Managing Director of OPES ITALIA Sicaf EuVECA
• Andrea Limone, President Permicro Spa
• Nadia Lambiase, CEO Mercato Circolare

Moderator: Francesco Antonioli, Director Mondo Economico

NEW SOCIAL ECONOMY AND INNOVATION POLICY, by Torino Social Impact

June 2, 2022
4:30 pm. Museo Egizio

The necessary integration between environmental transition and social cohesion can be achieved by fostering a new generation of technological and innovative companies that are able to combine positive social impacts with profitability, retaining the value created in places and communities.

Speakers:

• Dan Breznitz, University of Toronto
• Karel Vanderpoorten, European Commission
• Priscilla Boiardi, Policy Analyst – Private Finance for Sustainable Development, OECD
• Bianca Polidoro, Senior Policy and EU Partnerships Manager, EVPA
• Gianluca Salvatori, General Secretary EURICSE
• Paolo Mulassano, Compagnia di San Paolo, Obiettivo Pianeta
• Mario Calderini, Politecnico Milano, Torino Social Impact

 

Website and event programme here

On Monday 2nd and 9th May, the CUAP – “Social Impact Evaluation” university course will host the presentations of the 14 research projects carried out in groups by the 80 participants of the third edition.

Also in this edition, carried out completely online, the learners applied in the field what they learned in class, actively experiencing what it means to create a “value chain” or identify the main stakeholders of a project.

Looking at the numbers of the course, an interesting aspect that emerged is that about 70% of the learners who have participated in CUAP over time are women. Having reached this third experience, this is indeed a trend.

Another important point is the presence, among the students, of representatives of the Public Administration. This underscores, once again, how the issue of Social Impact Assessment related to the reporting of projects linked to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRP) is becoming of interest even at the governance level.

Given the interest in the course, not only at the local level, the organizers are planning the closing conference of this edition, which will be open as well as presentation days for continuing education and maintenance of certification as “Impact Evaluators”, and will take place within the International Festival of Economics that will take place in Turin from May 31 to June 4, 2022.

 

Green Growth, an accelerator for communities on sustainability is in its 9th month of life! Today we launch a call for ideas aimed at young people and talents in Turin and Cuneo areas for the Storytelling and Photojournalism project, and a call for interest to hire partners in the area to identify spaces where to co-develop and co-curate the results of creative projects and products.

Based on the principles of the New European Bauhaus, GreenGrowth co-designed and launched in Lebanon the Storytelling Workshop (within the Education, Art and Culture Program) led by Jacob Russell. The pilot training course involved young creatives (Lebanese and non-Lebanese) and worked on the development of issues such as accessibility to transport, slow fashion, energy and human rights. After the training session and the fieldwork, the pairs of photographers and writers developed their own micro-projects.

The next step is to involve other talents and professionals in the sector with the aim of deepening the issues addressed by including different approaches and creative perspectives, and then conclude the journey with an exhibition. The goal is to give visibility to emerging talents and create new opportunities for collaboration in Lebanon, Italy and beyond.

 

The old saying “it’s not the wine that gets man drunk, but it’s the man who gets drunk” is applicable to many cases, including the immoderate use that is often made of the web.

With the intent to educate users on a balanced and conscious use of this medium, in 2017, the non-profit association Sloweb was born in Turin.

With Giulia Balbo, head of communication, we discover the importance of presiding over the digital dimension with a view to sustainability and social impact.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

The housing emergency is at the heart of urban regeneration policies.

On this issue, since 2019, the innovative startup and benefit company Homes4All proposes a strong economic impact social housing model, calculated and evaluated by specialists. In this new episode of Bench-Mark, Federico Disegni, general manager of Homes4All, tells us about it.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

 

34 countries come together to promote impact finance in the world. At OGR a public event on the evolution of social impact in public and private policies to catalyze new economic models for the benefit of all.

From May 23 to 25, 2022, Turin will host the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment Leadership Meeting, the annual meeting of the national Advisory Boards of the various member countries of the network.

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) is an independent movement established in 2015 to expand globally on the work done by the Social Impact Investment Task Force (SIIT), which was formed in 2013 under the UK Presidency of the G8. Through its National Advisory Board, the GSG represents 34 countries, with a mission to promote impact finance around the world. It brings together key players in the international impact ecosystem, from finance to social entrepreneurship, from philanthropy to the public sector.

This year, the GSG Leadership Meeting will be held in Italy in beautiful Turin, the Italian capital of social innovation, thanks to the activation of a partnership between Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia, the Italian network of impact finance and national Advisory Board of GSG, and Torino Social Impact, an innovative territorial public-private alliance that implements social impact projects.

During the GSG Leadership Meeting 2022, on Monday, May 23rd, a day of meetings and debates will take place.

A new impact era – The evolution of social impact in public and private policy to catalyze new economic models for the benefit of all

From 4 pm to 7 pm, OGR will host the public event: A NEW IMPACT ERA. The evolution of social impact in public and private policy to catalyze new economic models for the benefit of all.

Two international panels are scheduled, coordinated respectively by Mario Calderini, Politecnico di Milano, Spokesperson for Torino Social Impact and Rosemary Addis, GSG Ambassador, which will be followed by a fireside chat by Sir Ronald Cohen, GSG President, interviewed by Maurizio Molinari, Director la Repubblica. To conclude, a dialogue between Giovanna Melandri, President of Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia, and Laura Castelli, Vice Minister of Economy and Finance.
The event will be opened by Michela Favaro,  Deputy Mayor of Turin, Guido Bolatto, Secretary General of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, Massimo Lapucci, Secretary General of Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT, CEO Ogr Torino, Paolo Mulassano, Director Impact Innovation and Head of Planet Objective Compagnia di San Paolo.

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Speed Networking Session

From 2.00 pm, at Cottino Social Impact Campus, there will be a b2b session between Turin’s impact economy main players and GSG delegates. To organize the agenda, interested persons are asked to identify the delegates they wish to meet and to indicate their preferences in the form.

Why Turin

Turin is among the best territories to seize the opportunities arising from the affirmation of the entrepreneurial and financial paradigm of the impact economy. A very dynamic ecosystem with a scale suitable for the experimentation of solid scientific, technological and industrial skills; a third sector very strong and open to innovation, social incubators and accelerators; important capital oriented to social impact; international organizations dedicated to global social challenges; a strong orientation to corporate social responsibility; propensity for social innovation of public administrations; ability to create a system between public, private and third sectors.

Event partners

The event is organized in partnership with Fondazione CRT, Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT, OGR Torino, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Unicredit and Camera di commercio di Torino.

Ludovico Einaudi for the Collegio Einaudi Foundation on the occasion of the Turin concert of the international tour

On May 24th, Ludovico Einaudi will perform on the stage of the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium to present his new album Underwater.
It will be possible to support the Collegio Einaudi Foundation with an unforgettable experience through exclusive packages.

The pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi, an icon of world music, will perform on Tuesday 24 May at 9.00 pm at the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium, on the occasion of the Turin concert of the international tour.

Thanks to the sensitivity of Ludovico Einaudi it will be possible to support the Collegio Einaudi Foundation by purchasing exclusive packages for the concert, some of which also provide the opportunity to meet the artist at the end of the event in an exclusive Meet & Greet.

The concert is part of the international tour for the presentation of the new album Underwater and the proceeds from the exclusive packages will go to support the redevelopment of the Mole residence hall in Via delle Rosine, 3: an important project, in the heart of Turin, which will allow the construction of 148 study places for deserving university students.

“I am glad to take part in a project of such great value” says Ludovico Einaudi. “We often talk about the future: I believe that it is our duty to concretize this reality, in which music becomes manifest and a means to build and support many deserving young boys and girls in their study path.”

“An unforgettable evening is expected “explains Prof. Paolo Enrico Camurati, President of Collegio Einaudi:” The Vip Packs will allow you to listen to one of the most popular composers and musicians in the world and in parallel will give the opportunity to 148 deserving students, regardless of their starting conditions, to grow, train and compare in an open and dynamic community which will be the new Mole residence hall of Collegio Einaudi ”

The Vip Packs will be available until sold out and by May 6, 2022.

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Closed the first phase of the call with 31 expressions of interest by designers and 25 expressions of interest by non-profit organizations.

Phase 1 of the call for proposals Wonder. Experiments in design for social innovation, promoted by the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation to promote the meeting between third sector entities and designers, increasing the awareness of the former with respect to the value of design as a tool for the development of solutions with social impact and giving designers the opportunity to explore the ecosystem and the culture of social innovation in the Turin area.

This first phase involved the presentation of an expression of interest, respectively and independently advanced by non-profit organizations and designers (freelancers, associated studios, companies, cooperatives, associations).

31 expressions of interest were received from designers and 25 expressions of interest from non-profit organizations.

In the next few days, the details of the capacity building and matching process in view of phase 2 of the call will be communicated.

A list of the selected organizations and designers is available at this link.

For more information on the call click here.

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The world of sport is full of stories of redemption.

In order to give voice to each of them, the sports association Mo.Ve. Torino is following the regeneration works of the Fausto Coppi Motovelodromo with the aim of offering the community a new aggregative sports center, inclusive and accessible to all.

In this episode of Bench-Mark, Francesco Antonioli interviews the president of MoVe Fabrizio Rostagno about the link between sports and the impact economy.

Watch previous episodes here.

Legacoop Piemonte and Coopfond presented the first edition of Coopstartup Piemonte, starting on 25 February 2022. The project, realised with the operational collaboration of the I3P incubator, the 2i3T incubator, the University of Turin, the Polytechnic of Turin, Nova Coop and Inforcoop Ecipa Piemonte, aims to promote the birth of new cooperative startups and foster youth employment, as well as bringing benefits to the territory in terms of increased employment and economic, social and cultural growth.

Legacoop Piemonte is the representative association of the cooperative companies that are members of the National League of Cooperatives and Mutual Societies with registered office in Piemonte. Coopfond is Legacoop’s mutual fund for promotion and development: its aim is to promote, strengthen and extend the cooperative presence within the national economic system, with over 450 million euros of net assets invested to date.

The prizes

All applicants will participate in a free training course on the principles of cooperative start-ups. The selected projects will be admitted to a one-to-one course to develop their idea and draw up a Business Plan, at the end of which the winners will be able to set up a cooperative enterprise.

In addition, the winning teams will receive a non-repayable prize of €6,500 for start-up and development costs and vouchers for training, assistance, tutorship and mentoring services.

How to participate

Groups of at least three people, most of whom are under 40 and have a business idea to be transformed into a cooperative enterprise, or cooperatives established no earlier than 1 January 2021, may participate in the call.

To apply, send your application on the official website of the initiative by April 30, 2022.

“Intergenerationality is a distinctive feature and a pillar of cooperation and as Legacoop Piemonte in recent years we have focused our attention on encouraging and helping the emergence of new generations of cooperators,” said Dimitri Buzio, president of Legacoop Piemonte. “The Coopstartup call represents another step in our commitment to create new members and contribute to the creation of a new managerial class both through the generational change in existing cooperatives and the creation of new enterprises that represent for young people the possibility of guaranteeing themselves a good and stable job, also considering that cooperatives are a more durable form of enterprise and better able to resist the crisis than others”.

“Cooperation is a tool that allows many people, especially young people, to transform their dreams into a business, enriching our economic fabric with new people and new skills, an even more strategic objective in this recovery phase. Coopstartup, which in Italy has already involved 7,000 people, is the programme through which Coopfond seeks to achieve this goal”, explained Simone Gamberini, general manager of Coopfond. “This is why we are particularly pleased that this possibility is arriving today also in Piedmont, a region where cooperation has always been strongly rooted, in different sectors, with significant experiences for the whole country, from social cooperation to workers buyout”.

For further information please visit www.piemonte.coopstartup.it or write to piemonte@coopstartup.it.

Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation has selected 5 initiatives for phase 2 of the call for proposals Wonder. Experiments in design for social innovation, for a total commitment of € 240,000.

The call, promoted by the Mission to Create Attractiveness of the Objective Culture and the Mission to Accelerate Innovation of the Objective Planet, in collaboration with Torino Social Impact and the Circolo del Design, aims to encourage the meeting between third sector organizations and designers, increasing the awareness of the former with respect to the value of design as a tool for the development of social impact solutions and giving designers the opportunity to explore the ecosystem and the culture of social innovation in the Turin area.

A list of the selected institutions and designers is available at this link.

For more information on the call click here.

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The 8th edition of the MinD Mad in Design workshop proposes four days of inclusive and interdisciplinary project aimed to students (from Architecture, Design, Psychology, Educational Science and similar), newly graduated students, healthcare workers and people supported by mental health institutions.

From the 7th to the 10th of April, the Casa del Quartiere Cascina Roccafranca in Turin will host six project teams, led by professional designers. The teams will focus on the valorisation of relationships between people and places, imagining to build a new community, based on care, well-being and inclusivity.

To apply, please send a CV, motivational letter and a portfolio (if applicable) to the email info@madindesign.com. Please write “Candidatura WKS 2022” in the subject line.

The deadline for applications is 20 March at h. 12:00.

Research Meeting: companies and stakeholders meet research centres

The ICT Cluster’s Research Meetings are an opportunity to get to know the world of research more closely and to start collaborating with its organisations.

In this first meeting dedicated to such a priority topic, we will try to propose some initial answers to these questions:

What challenges are facing the sector of care, rehabilitation and treatment services for the most fragile individuals: the elderly, children and people with chronic diseases?

What are the winning and emerging models for guaranteeing and improving care and monitoring services, including remote monitoring?

What technologies can be used to create truly effective systems?

In this edition of the Research Meeting, we will explore with the Links Foundation new models of remote assistance and rehabilitation for elderly and vulnerable people, starting from the availability of state-of-the-art IoT and AI technologies.

We will also listen to some successful experiences of companies active on the topic. Moreover, it will be possible to book b2b meetings open to all participants.

This event is open to all third sector and ICT companies, as well as to Service providers (ASL and Social Services) interested in discussing the future of remote care.

Organised by Fondazione Torino Wireless, within the framework of the Piedmont ICT Innovation Pole and the Project supported by the Turin Chamber of Commerce I3S – Digital Innovation for the Third Sector, which involves the Representative Bodies that adhere to the Social Entrepreneurship Committee of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, in particular: Confcooperative Piemonte Nord, Legacoop Piemonte and VOL.TO and, through them, 16 third sector organisations, including social cooperatives, networks and voluntary associations.

Furthermore, it is part of the Tech4good strand of action, an integral part of the Torino Social Impact strategic plan.

More details and free registration on the ICT Cluster website:

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Torino Social Impact adheres to Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia (SIA) through the Turin Chamber of Commerce

EVPA, the investing for impact community, the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG), as well as several of its National Advisory Boards and academic partners, have joined forces to provide a clear and reliable picture of the impact investment market in Europe.

The much-needed drive to mobilise capital for people and the planet is becoming increasingly mainstream. Sustainable and responsible investment is booming. Still, the notions of ‘impact’ and ‘sustainable’ investment are still blurry or intangible for a lot of people. This joint data collection will help create more transparency around impact investing practices and quantify their transformative impact on society and planet.

“Investing for impact has the power to transform society for the better. With more and better data, we’ll be able to shed more light on key trends and real impact. Data will also show us key gaps and challenges to address if we truly want to scale impact across Europe and achieve real and lasting social change”, said Roberta Bosurgi, EVPA CEO.

“There is a window of opportunity to reach sustainable development goals and net-zero, and impact investing is key to its achievement. Coordinating our efforts to map the size and shape of the impact investing market in Europe will help us understand how this crucial tool can best achieve a future fit for our people and planet”, said Cliff Prior, GSG CEO.

The European impact investment consortium gathers key impact players and builds on two years of discussions on how to harmonise methodologies and data collection strategies. The consortium initiates the first European Impact Investment Survey which aims to collect and aggregate data on impact investment practices, comprehensive of all players, country by country, throughout Europe in a consistent and comparable way.

In the medium term, the methodology aims at creating a blueprint for national market sizing processes that can be replicated in other regions thanks to the National Advisory Boards of the GSG and regional membership associations part of EVPA operating in other regions of the world.

The consortium will present overall findings in autumn 2022; detailed data breakdown and in-depth analysis will be available in time for EVPA Impact Week in Brussels (30 Nov. – 2 Dec. 2022).

The Turin ecosystem is increasingly becoming a pole of international attraction. In fact, from May 23 to 25 it will host the Leadership Meeting of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment.

Established in 2015, the GSG is the independent committee launched by Ronald Cohen to continue the work initiated by the UK G8 Presidency in 2013 and brings together leaders from 33 countries in the world of impact investing engaged in finance, social entrepreneurship, philanthropy and the public sector.

On the occasion of this closed-door meeting on May 23, TSI will organize, together with several partners, a public event opened by Ronald Cohen‘s keynote speech.

 

OffGrid Italia is an association born in 2015 from the union of professionals in the field of design, architecture, and construction bonded by an ambitious goal: to live “off-the-grid”. Originating in North America, the off-the-grid movement is committed to building self-sufficient homes with reclaimed materials, with a creative and non-conformist approach.

With Marco Mangione, president and founder of OffGrid, we discover how passion, out-of-the-box thinking and the active involvement of communities are decisive factors in supporting the circular economy.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

The European Commission is launching a transition pathway for Proximity & Social Economy.

This process includes 10 workshops that will shape potential future EU actions to support the green and digital transition of this ecosystem.

The Commission has invited us to respond to one of their surveys and invite our network to do the same. This is a great opportunity to provide concrete guidance on actions to support green and digital transitions.

Those who respond to the survey will also have priority access to the thematic workshops (clusters, tech4good, skills, local regeneration, public-private partnerships).

It would be really great to bring your voice to the EU table, contributing concretely to the process!

There are only 5 days left to respond to the survey: it closes on February 28.

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As part of the Cuore solidale (Solidarity Heart) project, local events on health and wellness topics are resumed.

Organized in collaboration with pharmacies and the main public entities, the meetings are held in the mountain municipalities involved in the project.

Gender medicine, treatment of degenerative diseases, inclusive sports, nutrition: these are just some of the topics covered in the meetings.

How do I get involved:

All thematic meetings are free to attend. You must, however, register by filling out this form.
Note: since we are still in the time for a COVID-19 health emergency, you will need to wear a mask and comply with current regulations according to the directions you will receive before the events start.

Info:

Email: cuo­re­so­li­da­lee­ven­ti@con­f­pie­mon­te­nord.coop
Tel: UNION­COOP-TORI­NO 0114343181
Cell. + 39 3488560038

Next appointments for the month of March:

• March 9, 2022, Perosa – Alzheimer’s: prevention and projects
  March 16, 2022, Sant’Antonino – Decubitus lesions: prevention and treatment

Download the poster with all the appointments.

Discover all the events already realized.

The series of thematic meetings that is part of the Cuore Solidale (Solidarity Heart) project involves the Metropolitan City of Turin and UNIONCOOP-TORINO. The project intervenes in the definition and delivery of social and welfare services to the population of the territories of the High Valleys and is included in the broader strategy of PITER Alte Valli – Cuore delle Alpi.

For the next stop on our Bench-Mark tour to know the partners of Turin’s social economy ecosystem, we are coming back to the Innovation Square Center to tell you about the Pudens Foundation. In fact, in this structure from the Sixties, now completely renovated and with zero impact, profit and non-profit coexist.

The Pudens Foundation gives concrete help to people in need by providing them meals, but also by using street art to create an impact on the territory. We talked about it with Antonella Graziano, president and co-founder of the Foundation.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

Leasys, a Stellantis brand and a subsidiary of FCA Bank, and I3P, the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino, introduce the new edition of “Digital Factory“, an exploratory call for young Italian and international start-ups. The goal is to identify new solutions that can make a decisive contribution to the technological and digital transformation of the company, leader in Italy in long-term rentals, and of Leasys Rent, which specializes in short- and medium-term rentals.

The 2022 edition of the initiative is part of Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance’s Start&Pulse program, with its emphasis on Open Innovation.  Specifically, the call will focus on research into technological processes intended to improve customer experience, on the one hand, and internal processes and corporate know-how, on the other.

Participation in the call is free of charge and proposals can be submitted from 11 January until February 25, 2022 on the digitalfactory.leasys.com website. The proposed solutions will be evaluated by a committee of experts, which will select the finalists for the ensuing closing event by March. The winning team will have the resources to develop a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) with which to field test the feasibility of the use case presented, thus coming into direct contact with the business operations of Leasys and Leasys Rent.

The call is launched in a context where technological and regulatory changes have led to new consumer requirements and new challenges for operators, opening up important avenues for the growth and development of services. In fact, digitalizing means adapting all business processes to the digital age, where speed and operational efficiency play crucial roles.

“We have great confidence and expectations in this initiative. We are certain that the Digital Factory will make a decisive contribution to the search for new technological solutions designed to bolster the innovation process that we have been pursuing for some time now,” explained Rolando D’Arco, CEO of Leasys. “The impetus towards digitalization in our sector has accelerated strongly, also as a consequence of the pandemic. This gives added significance to the role and innovative drive of start-ups and SMEs.”

“We have collaborated enthusiastically in the creation of the new edition of the Leasys Digital Factory project, which builds on a successful experience,” said Giuseppe Scellato, President of I3P. “In addition to being a virtuous example of Open Innovation, the initiative is designed to create synergies between young start-ups and an important company like Leasys, to foster the development of the technologies, products, and services of the future.”

The 2022 edition of Digital Factory comes in the wake of the success of last year’s call, focused on the world of FCA Bank, which resulted in a partnership agreement with Stip, an innovative start-up. Founded in Rome and now based in Silicon Valley, this leading-edge company is using its Artificial Intelligence to help the Bank to maximize the efficiency of its customer service, reducing ticket handling and customer response times.

After the success of the first two editions, the university course for professional updating on “Social Impact Evaluation” (CUAP), supported by the Chamber of commerce of Turin and proposed by the Competence Center for Social Impact Measurement within TSI, is back.

The university course, realized by the Department of Management of the University of Turin with the Polytechnic of Turin (members of the Social Entrepreneurship Committee), the Piccatti Milanese Foundation, the Cottino Social Impact Campus, the Polytechnic of Milan, the training bodies of the Centrali Cooperative (Consorzio Il Nodo for Confcooperative Piemonte Nord and Inforcoop Ecipaa Piemonte for Legacoop Piemonte) and the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, starts today with 75 new enrolments, after the 160 total of the first two editions.

Through a hybrid and highly innovative didactic approach, completely online, the CUAP blends theoretical and practical approaches aimed at the identification of Impact Management strategies and their measurement. A final business case completes the sharing of learning among the participants themselves.

The course deals with the evaluation of social impact declined on the planning for access to European, national or local funding, on large local events, sports, cultural, congress. We start from the assumption that every event or every systemic action brings a change that can be measured and evaluated with specific techniques, mastered by impact evaluators. These themes are increasingly central also in the perspective of PNRR.

At the end of the course it will be possible to obtain certification, issued by Cepas, a third party certification body, and the relative registration in the national register of Impact Assessors.

Fondazione CRT and OGR Torino with Microsoft strengthen their commitment and launch Impact Deal, the first acceleration program for social and environmental impact enterprises at European level.

The first call for impact enterprises will be accessible on impactdeal.eu from February 3 to April 3, 2022.

The project, realized in collaboration with TOP-IX, The Data Science for Social Good Center, Impact Hub, Ashoka and The Data Appeal Company will be developed in OGR Tech, hub for innovation and applied research of OGR Torino.

With Impact Deal, Fondazione CRT, OGR Torino and Microsoft start a system of concrete actions to enhance data and data skills, aware that any public or private initiative, must and will have measurable objectives of long-term impact.

Impact Deal was therefore created with the aim of stimulating, through the application of data science, the growth of entrepreneurial activities with social and environmental purposes, also encouraging the evolution of more traditional ones through the integration of existing models and new business plans.

Thanks to the synergy with partners from both the corporate world and the public administration – such as Banca Sella, Fondazione Snam and the City of Turin – training and mentorship paths, resources and data – open and proprietary – will be made available to accelerate the social and environmental impact of the selected enterprises.

Through the Call for Impact Enterprises, European companies will be selected to access the hybrid acceleration program, in presence and online, divided into two phases.

The first phase, lasting about two months, consists of a path aimed at providing specific skills in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and entrepreneurship.

The second phase, lasting about 3 months, will be accessed by a subset of companies and the focus will be on business acceleration through the development of real projects and solutions enabled by data and thanks to the mentorship and strategic partnerships.

A fundamental element of the program will be the group of companies and organizations, public and private entities, renamed Data Club, that will make possible the acceleration of companies bringing their datasets in a collaborative perspective and with the aim of generating social and environmental impact. The initial nucleus of the Data Club consists of: Banca Sella, Snam Foundation and the City of Turin.

The second phase will end with a Demo Day in which the accelerated companies will show their progress to an audience of potential investors with a particular vocation for impact investing.

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We continue our journey to discover the realities of Turin attentive to the impact economy.

In this episode of Bench-Mark, we are at the Innovation Square Center of Turin, where SIGIT SpA, IDT Solution, Fondazione Pudens and ISC Lab coexist. Even with different intents, they all have chosen to join Torino Social Impact.

With Pierangelo Decisi, President of SIGIT – a multinational group in the automotive sector – we talked about entrepreneurship for social purposes.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

The innovative social startup, part of Torino Social Impact network, Atelier Riforma, has been selected as a semi-finalist among 177 others who have applied for the “Green Alley Award”, the most prestigious European prize for the circular economy.

To decree the 6 startups that will access the final there will be a public vote, active until February 15th.

For those unfamiliar with this project, it is an idea of ​​two young women, Elena Ferrero and Sara Secondo, who set themselves the goal of reducing the enormous environmental impact of the fashion industry through the circular economy.

The two young women started in 2019 by collecting used clothes and entrusting them to a network of tailors to remove the defects and make them wearable again. Atelier Riforma then officially became an innovative startup with a social vocation in 2020. Elena and Sara did not let themselves be discouraged by the complicated period of the pandemic: day after day they created a network of more than 25 tailoring professionals throughout Italy, including several social tailoring workshops, which promote the job inclusion of disadvantaged people such as migrants, ex-prisoners and women victims of violence.

They are now working on a system that allows this circular model to be applied on a larger scale: they have therefore just started the development of the first Artificial Intelligence technology for the cataloging and sorting of textile waste. This technology project has been called “Re4Circular” and that’s exactly what they nominated for the Green Alley Award. The objective of this machinery will be to direct as many used garments as possible towards sustainable uses, such as reuse, recycling and upcycling. And avoid them ending up in landfills!

By 2025, separate collection of textile waste will be mandatory throughout the EU, and this technology could make Italy a pioneer in the upcoming regulatory change in the sector. Their dream? Making sure that no clothing, after being used, is transformed into waste, but on the contrary is continuously recovered, transformed and put back into circulation, creating economic value and new jobs.

If you want to give these two young women one more chance, you can vote Atelier Riforma at this link.

Who knows if this year a TSI startup could win the prize!

If you are struck by a painting in a restaurant, you can pay for it and take it away with you. In Turin you can with Artàporter: the first platform that supports the development of emerging art to make it accessible to all, rethinking its “common places”.

The idea starts from the need to “rethink the commonplaces of art“, that is the ability of cities to create urban galleries with new tourist itineraries related to art. Not only public spaces but also private spaces, starting from the network of merchants who love art and want to make available their walls for the exhibition of works.

Artàporter was born as a benefit company to increase the accessibility of the world of art in different spaces, to make it as usable as possible and, why not, even buy it in a local, and collectible by all art lovers.

A “phygital” project that allows not only the online matching between artists and shopkeepers but also the birth of capillary touchpoints (host) through which to convey the widespread art with innovative “Artàporter District” or “art districts”, which recall the great European capitals of Berlin or London, creating new artistic spaces mapped throughout the city. The goal is to bring beauty everywhere, with the idea of being able to rediscover a city under the sign of art.

There are already 15 participating venues in Turin that display the Artàporter logo on the outside of their premises. A real “neighborhood proximity of art” is starting, with an increasingly wide and widespread network of venues involved, to increase the number of streets and stores, not only in the historic center but also in the suburbs and the belt.

In these days the first matching between artists and venues has started, where to admire the first works among the streets and roads of Turin. Just frame with your smartphone the QR code near the work to buy it and take it away with you immediately.

Applications for artists and shopkeepers are also open on www.artapoter.it.

The system, which started in Turin, in the coming months will see the development in other Italian cities and even abroad.

ROAD TO Eurovision Song Contest 2022, the concerts at Googreen Market in the run-up to Eurovision next May.

In continuity with the Tanto di Cappello project and the development of the platform Arthecity Network, musicians, street artists and producers of the territory united together for a common urban regeneration action aimed at snatching Giardini Sambuy from their abandonment.

Active since December 2021, the ROAD TO will be the musical reverberation in countdown to the big music festival and will end on May 8 with the final concert at Giardini Sambuy.

DATES:

• FEBRUARY 13
• 13 MARCH
• 10TH APRIL
• MAY 8TH

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Saturday, January 29 Where Learning Happens. Education as an urban policy makes a stop in Turin for a new presentation meeting in the spaces of Via Baltea 3.

The publication collects the perspectives and experiences – Italian and international – emerged during the local conversations on the link between education and cities organized between April and May 2021 by Avanzi as a contribution to the New European Bauhaus initiative.

Promoted by the European Commission, the New European Bauhaus (NEB) was created with the aim of stimulating debate and social imagination around the design and construction of a sustainable and inclusive future.
To respond to this challenge and contribute to the public debate launched by the NEB, Avanzi wanted to stimulate a reflection on the role of the city as a “learning community” that cultivates the skills of its inhabitants and sets up spaces to support them.

The presentation in the spaces of Via Baltea 3, the community hub of Barriera di Milano, a former printing house transformed into a space for the community, intends to continue this reflection, starting from a suggestion: the construction of “educating communities” could be the challenge on which to set a new season of policies for the suburbs.

Spaces that welcome and stimulate social energies (like via Baltea 3) can be crucial resources to support innovation and social learning. Turin, which is the Italian city with the most consolidated tradition of intervention in the suburbs, how does it interpret this new phase and how could it orient its policies to support it?

Free copies of the publication will be available for meeting attendees.

Super Green Pass holders will be allowed to attend the event after registering on Eventbrite.

“Italia Inclusiva” is a project of the Directorate-General for the Promotion of the Country System that aims to enhance the Italian third sector abroad, through the creation of video-photographic projects that highlight the activities of six Italian non-profit associations.

The Third Sector in Italy is a dynamic and extremely varied reality, with hundreds of thousands of organizations active in various fields. It was created to serve the community and, at the same time, it creates communities and relationships, producing an economic value far greater than what is quantified.

It is a very active laboratory of entrepreneurship and innovation and contributes to promoting culture and making it accessible. In turn, the Italian Third Sector generates a culture of responsibility, cooperation and care for people, spaces and cities. It is therefore important to start associating Made in Italy also with the excellence that our country can boast in the social sphere, which has a crucial role in the sustainable development of the country and in the inclusion of its most fragile subjects.

The project aims to communicate abroad the contribution of the third sector and to try to return its variety, through the selection of six macro-areas of intervention, which recall the Goals for Sustainable Development of the UN Agenda 2030: legality, women’s empowerment, urban regeneration, social integration, sports, social entrepreneurship.

For the promotion and enhancement of this important socio-economic heritage will be made of video-photographic projects that tell the activities of the associations identified active in the areas listed above, in continuity with the established tradition of Italian photography in the reading of places and society.

The public notice “Italia Inclusiva” is addressed to emerging or mid-career photographers/video makers or collectives and will remain open until February 4, 2022.

The six selected artists will be able to develop their video-photographic project by observing over the course of a few months the work and history of the associations. The photographic projects will then be valorized through the realization of six books and six exhibitions destined to be diffused in the diplomatic-consular network and in the Italian Institutes of Culture.

Since 1990 leader in the world of creative eyewear design VANNI takes on the form of a “Società Benefit” (Benefit Corporation), a corporate typology (introduced in Italy by law) that applies to the companies that pursue objectives of common good- beyond those of profit- in their corporate purpose.

“For us, the pandemic has constituted a moment to redesign and rethink” states the president of VANNI, Giovanni Vitaloni. “From here came the urgency to bring about, through the activities of the company, an improvement in both the social and environmental impact we produce. It is not a surface-level makeover, but rather an undertaking of substantial responsibility, to make it measurable and visible.

“AT VANNI We Care” is a new way of seeing our company, and how we operate” continues Alessandra Girardi, co-owner of VANNI: “being sustainable today for us means managing, with attention and care, the effects of our activities: engaging for fair working conditions that place people at the center; minimising the environmental impact of the glasses we produce, starting from design; encouraging the spread of positive and responsible practices to the Italian eyewear sector as a whole, a pride of made in Italy.

NextItaly is the new acceleration program promoted by SocialFare | Center for Social Innovation in collaboration with VVA aimed at supporting Third Sector Organizations in accessing European funds included in the 2021-27 programming.

NextItaly is a new model of intervention that integrates technical expertise of europlanning and tools of Social Innovation, in line with the approach required by the European Union.

The proposal is a high-level capacity building program that follows the Third Sector entities starting from the acquisition of basic know-how – for those who do not have previous experience – and continuing with differentiated paths that offer the support of our experts in the various stages of design, search for strategic partners and writing, until the presentation of the application to the major EU calls.

The offer is divided into 2 programs, Boost!1 and Boost!2:

• NextItaly Boost!1 is a training course aimed at Third Sector organizations that have not yet gained consolidated experience in the field of europlanning. Participation is also open to trade associations and professionals. The course includes 8 days of training (42h of theoretical and practical sessions + 6h of follow-up workshop) to learn about the opportunities offered to the Third Sector by EU policies and acquire the basic know-how to access European funding
• NextItaly Boost!2 is the acceleration program that supports Third Sector organizations by following them step-by-step in all phases of planning, research for strategic partners, writing and applying to European calls for proposals.

The program is developed in different accompaniment paths according to the specific calls of the European Union, ensuring highly qualified and personalized support from SocialFare and VVA experts.

Info and registration to the programs in departure:
https://socialfare.org/nextitaly-boost/ 

Mariangela Romanazzi
mariangela.romanazzi@socialfare.org 

 

We hear a lot about artificial intelligence applied for productive purposes, but what contribution can this technology bring to the social economy?

In 2020, an open group of engineers, data analysts and domain experts from around the world kicked off a project that aims to turn AI into a tool to reduce the complexity of predictive calculations on the energy sector by facilitating their interpretation.

Massimiliano Vurro, Co-Founder of Seetalabs, explains why this fits well into the Torino Social Impact ecosystem.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

Environmental and social sustainability are both issues that must be addressed with great professionalism.

Through consulting, accompaniment, and teamwork, TSI partner Link4Good Benefit Corporation helps profit and nonprofit organizations to increase their skills in this sense.

An ambitious name and objective indeed, as Caterina Soldi, Co-founder of Link4Good, tells us.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Are you aged between 16 and 35 years? Are you an Italian, Albanian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Kosovan, Serbian or Montenegrin citizen? Would you like to make your voice heard and share your thoughts on Europe and the changes which need to happen? What are you waiting for?! Take part in the public Consultation launched by the Italian Minister for Youth Policies, Ms Fabiana Dadone, and bring your point of view.

This Consultation offers you the opportunity to share your opinions on the European Union and on the changes needed to improve the democratic system, increasing youth participation in decision-making processes.

Your ideas will then feed into the discussions taking place within the Conference on the future of Europe. Moreover, the final outcome of this Consultation will be presented to the European institutions.

The Consultation is available in English and in Italian, so that everyone can take part. Here you are the Italian version, whilst here you can find the English translation.

The Consultation is open until December 31, 2021.

The future of Europe is in your hands!

Take part, speak up, make a difference.

Prof. Mario Calderini, Torino Social Impact’s spokesperson and full Professor at Politecnico di Milano, was just named on of the 100 Most Influential Academics in Government by Apolitical.

Great policy research from academic institutions isn’t always able to cut-through and make an impact. But when research does resonate with policymakers, it has the potential to steer the direction of government. Academic research remains a vital source of information and innovation. This is why Apolitical invited public servants to nominate the academics who are the most influential to the work of government.

We’re excited to share Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential Academics in Government list below. The list highlights work that’s influenced the policymaking process by providing insights into policy problems, contributing innovative ideas and solutions, or adding relevant and informative data. Each nominee on the list is committed to improving the work of government, and their research has already made an impact. Read on to learn about each person, in their own words.

This year, academics working is devided in five timely policy areas that are the focus of government work around the world. The areas represent problems being faced by government everywhere, and present an opportunity for intergovernmental collaboration. They are:

• Recovery from Covid-19
• Employment and skills
• Social policy
• Climate and sustainability
• Policymaking processes and approaches

More insights

Avanzi – Sustainability in Action, under the patronage of the City of Milan and in collaboration with Eurocities, publishes “Where Learning Happens. Education as an Urban Policy”, a collection of contributions and reflections born during the Local Conversations “Building learning communities. Dialogues on education and city”: three meetings, organized on April and May 2021, in which we began to question the relationship between education and the city.

We want to present our reading on what the New European Bauhaus should represent. Innovative approaches are needed to go beyond the vision of the city as a “container of experiences” and consider it in its function as an “educational subject”.

To the drawing up of “Where Learning Happens” they have participated: Associazione Quartieri Spagnoli, BASE Milano, Collettivo Amigdala, Comune di Milano, Fondazione per l’Innovazione Urbana, Reti informali di Dergano – Milano, Sogent – Ghent Development Authority, Terzo Paesaggio, VIC – Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas Madrid.

Pre-registration is now open for the third edition of the University Course of Professional Development (CUAP) “Social Impact Evaluation”. The course, supported by the Torino Chamber of Commerce in the framework of the Torino Social Impact Strategic Plan, is realized by the Department of Management of the University of Torino with the Polytechnic of Turin (members of the Social Entrepreneurship Committee), the Piccatti Milanese Foundation, Cottino Social Impact Campus, Tiresia, the training institutions of the Centrali Cooperative (Consorzio Il Nodo for Confcooperative Piemonte Nord and Inforcoop Ecipaa Piemonte for Legacoop Piemonte) and the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation.

The CUAP is among the activities offered by the Competence Center for Social Impact Measurement, located at the Turin Chamber of Commerce.

Pre-registration will remain open until January 11, 2022, which will be followed by the opening of the registration window.

The course will start on February 7, 2022, and will include weekly appointments of 4 hours on Monday afternoon for a total of 40 hours of lectures (the remaining 85 hours of individual and group activities and preparation of project work).

The lessons will be online, with live teaching. At the end of the course will be issued a certificate of competence Social Impact Assessor, after verification of the same.

More information about the structure are available at the related page on the website of the Department of Management of UniTo > Continuing Education > Courses a.a. 2021-2022 > University Course of Professional Update > Social Impact Assessment III edition.

 

Approximately 5,500 organizational forms with social impact operate in Piedmont, mainly in the area of associations and volunteering, growing by 11% compared to 2019. Piedmont’s productive third sector, composed of social enterprises and cooperatives, counts about 1,000 realities, which in 2020 generated 1.8 billion in turnover and employed 57 thousand workers.

Presented today at an online press conference, the data relating to the surveys carried out by the Turin Chamber of Commerce and Isnet (Association for the development of social enterprises) on the complex world of social economy. In addition to a mapping of the realities operating in this field, business models developed following the pandemic and the spread of social impact purchasing were analyzed.

“With a turnover of 1.8 billion, the third sector in Piedmont employs 57,000 people, mainly concentrated in social cooperatives,” explains Dario Gallina, President of the Turin Chamber of Commerce. – Therefore, this is an important sector that we have been following for years, with surveys and dedicated initiatives, also investing in the training of those who are called upon to give value to the social impact generated by these realities. We have also been supporting the Torino Social Impact Platform since its inception, which this year has achieved important results: the development of the Competence Center for Social Impact Measurment, the European positioning of the territorial ecosystem through highly structured relationships and the delivery of projects shared between partners.”

“To date, Torino Social Impact has 170 partners including social enterprises, accelerators and incubators, public bodies, foundations and financial institutions, start-ups, universities, spaces and networks of expertise, associations and companies that make up an increasingly attractive and innovative ecosystem in the field of social innovation and impact economy – adds Mario Calderini, spokesperson for Torino Social Impact. – The data presented today are useful and important because they serve to effectively direct TSI actions, selecting the projects that can bring the greatest results, such as the social procurement program aimed at the world of social enterprises”.

In Turin there is a place where “food” becomes synonymous with “integration” and the catering service is carried out from a sustainable perspective: it is Karibu Open, a young reality like its founders – all under 30 – which is committed to encouraging and accompanying the employment of young people with a migration background.

Founders Elena Giaccone and Giorgio Prette tell us how the inclusion of people in difficulty and the sensitization to a choice of conscious consumption and nutrition are both important factors for the impact economy.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

The Accademia Liuteria Piemontese San Filippo starts again with a calendar of appointments open to everyone and masterclasses for professionals.

The Accademia Liuteria Piemontese is a center of continuing education dedicated to the art of craftsmanship of musical instruments, and in particular the violin and classical guitar. Starting this year, in addition to the two-year training courses, thanks to the project “INeOUT – INformative Experiences for User Orientation” co-financed by the Chamber of Commerce of Turin and dedicated to continuing education and orientation (“Projects for Orientation to Work and Professions – Year 2021”) the Academy aims at orienting and sensitizing high school students in Turin and in the Piedmont Region through itinerant seminars and organizes, at its headquarters in via Accademia delle Scienze 11 in Turin, moments of in-depth study around the theme of violin making and dedicated to the curious, enthusiasts and professionals. Every 15 days, from November to July, an “appointment with the professional” and every two months a master class for young luthiers who have already started their activity as craftsmen. Leading names on the Italian and international scene will discuss topics of general interest, ranging from commercial fraud to the history that accompanies the “myth” of the varnish of stringed instruments, from conservative and functional restoration to ancient and modern construction methods.

The first masterclass (for a fee) will be held on December 13, 14 and 15 and will be dedicated to the rewinding of the musical bow. In 2022, the masterclasses will be dedicated to artistic sculpture, maintenance of the bowed instrument and shellac varnishing for plucked instruments.

We are just few days away from the event of the Ashoka Changemaker Summit, the worldwide meeting of the most important network of social innovators active in 90 countries, which will take place on December 2nd at Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin.

As official partner of the event, Torino Social Impact will have an active role by bringing three important contributions to the agenda: a keynote speech on the coordination of ecosystems for territorial development, a workshop on social impact measurement tools, and a meeting dedicated to understanding how some communities and cities become reference points for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Read further details below.

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The Ashoka Changemaker Summit in-person part will start with a welcome ceremony with

• Mario Calderini, Portavoce di Torino Social Impact
• Marie Ringler, Leader di Ashoka Europa e Membro del Global Leadership Group di Ashoka
• Jacopo Rosatelli, Assessore al Welfare, Diritti e Pari Opportunità della Città di Torino
• Claudia Belli, BNP Paribas
• Alberto Alemanno, The Good Lobby
• Davide Canavesio, DPNO srl

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Starting from the experience of Torino Social Impact, the session intends to explore how forms of multi-actor territorial coordination can strengthen the innovation capacity of partners thanks to the multiplication of knowledge, advocacy capacity, resources, services and, above all, thanks to internal synergies that can facilitate the identification of easily scalable and replicable solutions.

Speakers:

• Elisa Rosso, Torino Social Impact Senior Advisor
• Gianni Gallo, Social Entrepreneurship Committee of the Torino Chamber of Commerce and President of Confcooperative Piemonte Nord
• Massimiliano Ferrua, Cooperativa Animazione Valdocco
• Alessandro Grella, Izmade
• Giuseppe Dell’Erba, Business Consultant of Cottino Social Impact Campus

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Social economy actors are increasingly called upon to measure the positive value generated in the contexts in which they operate. Various elements, both external and internal to organizations, contribute to making the need to measure impact and to equip themselves with tools and skills capable of capturing and communicating the social value promoted by organizations increasingly central. The centrality of the measurement activity is accompanied by the complexity of this process at the organizational level, due to the many approaches available (which may respond to different evaluation objectives), the difficulties related to data collection, to the skills and resources needed, etc. The objective of the workshop is to fuel a debate in light of the complexity of the evaluation process, reflecting on concrete experiences to highlight the advantages and positive returns brought by the evaluation activity of social enterprises.

Speakers:

• Gaia Giombelli, Contact person of Torino Social Impact’s Competence center for impact measurement
• Carmela Nitti, Social Economy Unit Coordinator @ARCO – Researcher @Department of Science for Economy and Enterprise (UNIFI)
• Angelo Perez, Director of Innovation, Development & Institutional Affairs of Exar
• Giuseppe Dell’Erba, Business Consultant of Cottino Social Impact Campus

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A meeting dedicated to understand and reflect together on the dynamics of those communities and cities that, thanks to an articulated ecosystem involving institutions and key players, assume the role of reference points for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Speakers:

• Mario Calderini, Spokesperson of Torino Social Impact and Scientific Advisor of Cottino Social Impact Campus
• Marie Ringler, Ashoka Europa Leader and Member of Ashoka Global Leadership Group
• Federico Mento, Director of Ashoka Italia
• Ciro Cattuto, CRT Foundation
• Nora Sarasola, BBK Foundation

To register for the event, go here.

Refashion is a pivotal term in the textile branch of the circular economy: in fact, it indicates the possibility of giving a second chance on the market to clothes that would otherwise end up discarded.

The Innovative Startup Benefit Must Had was founded in Turin in 2021 with the precise aim of creating a refashion community composed of artisans, designers, and small brands that share the philosophy of recovery and reuse in the world of fashion.

With Francesco Antonioli, we discover in more detail the objectives of this interesting reality, through the words of Matteo Aghemo, co-founder of Must Had.

Watch previous episodes here.

Here we are with a new appointment with our Impact Interviews, a conversation between Torino Social Impact and international leaders and changemakers.

Ashoka is the largest network of social innovators that supports an “Everyone a Changemaker” world through its programs in more than 90 countries, by identifying social entrepreneurs who can bring positive transformations and building a community for the exchange of practices and collective growth.

In view of its annual worldwide meeting, which will be held in Turin on December 2, 2021, we spoke with the European Leader of Ashoka Marie Ringler about the goals of the Changemaker Summit.

Watch the full video to know all about it!

About Marie Ringler

Marie Ringler is leading Ashoka’s work in Europe and is a member of Ashoka’s Global Leadership Group. She founded Ashoka’s Austrian office in 2011 and soon took over Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe. In 2015 she became one of Ashoka’s Europe Directors, in 2018 she was appointed European Leader of Ashoka.

She was born in Vienna, studied Sociology, Political Science and Women`s Studies at the University of Vienna, and holds a degree from ESADE Business School, Spain and an MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

The 2030 Social Impact Prize is the award created to support business ideas aimed at solving issues related to inequality and social inclusion, within and between European Nations.

In 2021, Torino Social Impact has consolidated its role in the selection committee of the finalist startups counting on the support of the partners 2i3t, I3P, LITA.co Italy, Mamazen, PerMicro, Reseau Entreprendre, SocialFare. Besides, in view of the final events scheduled on November 25 and December, TSI played a primary role in pitch training for the selected companies.

Therefore, the finalists will be announced during the pitch event on November 25, while the final will be held on December 2. This year’s jury will be composed of Joe Colombano (Economic Advisor and Leading Member of the United Nations team that identified the Sustainable Development Goals), Mursal Hedayat (Founder and CEO of Chatterbox) Giovanna Melandri (President of Human Foundation and Social Impact Agenda), Elena Casolari (CEO of OPES Italia).

Follow the online events:

• Pitch Event, Thursday, Nov. 2, 3 – 5 pm:  shorturl.at/gABC5
• Final, Thursday, Dec. 2, 3 – 5 pm: shorturl.at/jprwA

Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani (aka the Italian National Agency for Young People), in collaboration with Ashoka Italia, is organizing on December 3, 2021, the day after the Ashoka International Summit, at OGR Torino, the initiative “Role model network: stories and tales of positive models, how can young people inspire change?”, a journey started in 2018 at the indication of the European Commission, with the aim of providing positive examples by which the new generations can be inspired.

Models of young people for young people. Girls and boys who have not stopped believing in an inclusive society and who can therefore be concrete models for the European Commission, which has asked to encourage activities against all forms of violent radicalization.

With this in mind, the Agency has deemed it necessary to promote, with even more strength and conviction, the mobility and transnational experiences that the Erasmus+ Community Program makes available to which the European Solidarity Corps has therefore followed.

The program is being defined but there will be guests and speakers, also international, including Alberta Pelino President of YAS, Martina Rogato President of Young Women Network Visionary Days, Ivana Calabrese Young Changemakers, the Italian National Amputee Football Team (FISPES). The EuroPeers Italy network with the aim of telling testimonies of boys and girls who, thanks to mobility and participation projects have positively changed their lives.

After the debate, will follow a moment of networking, OPEN MIC, and a round table on the meaning of being a Role model that can generate positive change in society.

More information here.

It is often the imperfection that pushes towards new pathways to be undertaken and new economic models to be experimented with. The search for a new “being” in the community for the company that opens up to the territory and becomes a co-promoter of its economic and social growth.

(RI) GENERIAMO benefit enterprise was born from the collaboration between the Capodarco Agricultural Social Cooperative, the Bricolage del Cuore Association, the ConVoi Lavoro social enterprise, the Liberitutti Cooperative with the support of Leroy Merlin Italia. It represents this approach to an inclusive innovation capable of orienting company-level content with concrete actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the UN Agenda 2030.

(RI) GENERIAMO is an incubator of ideas and a place of contamination between profit and non-profit that has created jobs for fragile people such as disabled people, women victims of violence or prisoners, engaging the processes of inclusion in the logic of a large company like Leroy Merlin and giving a concrete answer to the many needs that the pandemic has made even more dramatic and urgent.

The webinar, starting from the concrete experience of some of the protagonists, intends to share reflections, analyzes and proposals for a new alliance for development between business and local communities, with the aim of helping to overcome the great challenges of the future such as the climate and social crysis, the growth of inequality and of poverty.

We are talking about it during the 4 weeks 4 inclusion, the largest inter-company event dedicated to inclusion which this year, for the first time in Italy, sees over 200 companies involved in promoting together the themes of diversity and inclusion, with a rich program of digital events dedicated to the 700,000 employees of partner companies.

Follow the webinar on https://meet.google.com/tzs-ifhb-zsb

We are waiting for you!

Torino Wireless takes part in Giving Tuesday and offers consultancy to non-profit organisations
CRM, Fundraising, Privacy and Security: analyse use cases with Fondazione Torino Wireless and discover how digital you are.

Webinar Thursday 11 November, 12:00 noon

GivingTuesday is an event that harnesses the power of the web and social media to reach every corner of the world. Through quick tests and practical experiences of solutions to digital problems and data security, Fondazione Torino Wireless will help you understand how to improve your accountability and reputation.

CRM, engagement, fundraising, but also correct data strategy, are the today of your organisation.

Discover with Fondazione Torino Wireless how digital you are!

REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

On Sunday, November 14, 2021, framed by Turin’s Art Month, the Googreen Biodiversity Market celebrates artists and their civil commitment.

From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., seasonal excellence will be represented, as always, by Maestri del gusto e del Paniere, food and wine producers, small but excellent producers of our land, masters of the garden and sustainable economy.

On the occasion of the next #MercatoGoogreen the Spazio delle idee is dedicated to the return of Artissima Fair and all the events linked to Turin’s art, which is expressed in full force every November. Together with two artists from the ICONS Emotional Cultural Space stable, the Emilian painter Federica Borghi and the Tuscan sculptor Giovanna Lisy, we wanted to conduct an experiment: leaving two contemporary artworks unattended in the Sambuy Gardens, next to the monument dedicated to Edmondo DeAmicis, a work that has already been vandalised in these sad years of abandonment of the historic public park.

A social experiment of civic sustainability, which wants to underline the commitment of every single citizen in taking care of and respecting an art “within everyone’s reach”.

During the Googreen Market, through a finissagge, we will discover and measure the civic sense shown by all the citizens of Turin who frequent the park. The finissage will be accompanied by the jazz duo ArDuoBop, Dante Arnoldi on sax and Gianni Santoro on guitar.  Federica Borghi’s “Le flore” and Giovanna Lysy’s “Insostenibile” are on display from today until 15 November at Giardini Sambuy.

On November 18 & 19, do not miss the third edition of Digital Ethics Forum, an event focussed on ethics in the design, production, distribution, and use of digital technologies.

The event is organised by Sloweb in partnership with Mondo Economico.

The event is free, registrations are taken at this link: www.digitalethicsforum.com/registrazioni

3 conference panels with 20 speakers, and a special lecture by Norberto Patrignani.

In everyday life, what environmentally and socially sustainable actions can be taken?

Mercato Itinerante is a digital platform that allows consumers to buy via app from Turin’s local markets and receive products directly at home or workplace.

Andrea Scalogna, co-founder of the project, tells us how Mercato Itinerante helps local markets to remain competitive, with an eye to saving energy and fighting waste.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

An open school, an exhibition on dialects, community porters and the words to take care of.

The XVI edition of the Festival of popular cultures  aims to put some themes and words that emerged strongly in this health emergency at the center of cultural work. Words on which it is necessary to reflect again, to imagine an after that can really generate changes.

SCHOOL, PARTICIPATION and CARE.

Born from the experience of the first light garrison, Lo Spaccio di Cultura – Community Concierge, the Concierge Network, including the IIS Lagrange which becomes the first open school to build a Concierge on the Dora.

At the OGR, after the Summer School for community activators, a seminar dedicated to the culture of giving arrives. In 2021, the project that has put the world at the table in local communities turns 10, “Guess who’s coming to dinner?”. While the Tullio De Mauro Fund presents the second volume of the ” Dizionario che cura le parole“, with over 20 new words, edited by illustrious guests including Bruno Segre, Sabino Cassese and Eva Cantarella and a new ancient lemma: School, edited by Franco Lorenzoni.

The exhibition on #Dantepopolare set up in the spaces of the State Archives of Turin will see 20 editions of the Divina Commedia on display in dialectal versions and in minority languages ​​present in the library of the Tullio De Mauro Fund.

Gen C – the initiative promoted by Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani and Ashoka Italia to create a community of young changemakers – officially closed on October 31!

The call aimed to select young people between 13 and 25, and mentors between 25 and 35, who are already implementing in their territories actions and initiatives of youth leadership to support digital, ecological and autonomy transitions.

251 applications were received of which 131 young changemakers (13-25 years old) and 120 mentors (25-35 years old).

As a strategic partner, Torino Social Impact, together with the other project partners, will select the 50 (25 young changemakers and 25 mentors) who will be awarded at the Ashoka Changemaker Summit on December 2nd in Turin.

 

The Torino Social Impact Art Award is a social innovation project with the aim of fostering emerging talents from multicultural and migratory backgrounds.

On November 5 and 6, on the occasion of Artissima, Italy’s most important contemporary art fair, the four video works realized during the residencies of the winning artists of the 2020 and 2021 editions will be presented.

On November 5, during the event off Lucky Old Sun, at Combo, clips from original films by director Caterina Shanta, winner of the first edition, will be screened.

On November 6, at the fair, there will be a talk on the social and artistic impact of the project. In addition to the artists and their tutors, will speak:

• Mario Calderini – spokesperson for Torino Social Impact
• Giovanna Melandri – President of MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts
• Francesca Gambetta – Head of Mission Creating Attractiveness of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

After the talk, the evening at Combo, with the screening of the 2020 and 2021 editions of the TSI Art Award. Following, the event off Cry me a river, with contributions from the winners of the 2021 edition, Monia Ben Hamouda and the MRZB collective.

Torino Social Impact Art Award is a project of Torino Social Impact and Artissima Fair, in collaboration with Combo and with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation.

ConTeStoweb.it participates in the Network4people contest organized by Reale Foundation.

ConTeSto is the new digital network dedicated to rare and complex diseases and disabilities, which match patients, no profit organizations and services in Piedmont (Italy) to make the treatment system more functional, focused on the needs of people. We all are or know someone who experiences this situation, people who live with rare diseases, disabilities, pathologies that make everyday life tiring and difficult.

Let’s support them, let’s vote this project together!

An increasing number of professional firms are gearing up for B Corp certification. Fiscalgest was the first to become a Benefit Society in Piedmont and the third in Italy.

By becoming a B Corp, Fiscalgest integrates into its bylaws purposes of common benefit, in line with current times. Director Riccardo Petrignani tells us about it.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

On November 5, 2021, from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm, at Open Incet, piazza Teresa Noce 17 in Turin, will be held, Imp’ACT – From dreamers to changemakers, the final event of the Strategic Partnership Erasmus+ SSEDs (Strategies for youth SSE Entrepreneurship Development and Social impact).

The Social and Solidarity Economy project has actively involved 7 organizations from 4 different countries (Spain, Italy, Greece, and France); Confcooperative Piemonte Nord is a project partner together with Citizens in Action, Nexses, Unis-Cité, Stranaidea Impresa Sociale ONLUS, CooperaSec, Kaléidoscope.

The project lasted 2 years and the final event Imp’ACT – From dreamers to changemakers will be an opportunity to work in groups and collect valuable feedback from participants familiar with social impact assessment. So as to experiment with the tools made by the partners (Toolbox on values, sustainability, and social impact of the ESS and a Training Module for approaching young people to the ESS). The Toolbox can be used by everyone.

Access to the room will be limited. Therefore, registration will be closed once the maximum number allowed is reached.

Sign up to secure your place at the event by filling out this form, no later than 10/28/2021.

The event will be held in English, without translation. According to the current regulations for the realization of events in presence, it will be required for attendees to wear a mask.

The seeds Project

The project aimed to support the development of the agri-food and tourist accommodation sectors, with particular attention to their commercial management and marketing strategies, useful for the promotion and growth of these sectors. Moreover, the project has tried to create new political strategies and new management standards for the economic sectors involved, in order to create a well-organized supply chain, enriched by the presence of young entrepreneurship, open to innovation.

The commitment of the project partners allowed the creation of a “toolbox” composed of an online toolbox on values, sustainability, and impact of Social and Solidarity Economy and a training module for young people on social impact assessment.

Thanks to the tools systematized during the project, developed in two years, it was possible to enhance the ideas of young people, stimulating the acquisition of knowledge about social impact assessment.

Find out more about the SSEds project.

The 2030 Social Impact Prize is the award that aims to enhance entrepreneurial ideas to address the problems of inequality across Europe and, in particular, solutions that address some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: #1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16.

For the second year in a row, Torino Social Impact has been involved as an ecosystem in the selection committee of the finalist startups, which will be analyzed by a pool of partners representing the different public, private, financial, technological and specialized components. This year, the partners involved are 2i3t, I3P, LITA.co Italy, Mamazen, PerMicro, Reseau Entreprendre e SocialFare.

In the next months the finalists will be chosen. Updates will follow.

What if the narration of the space of care was itself part of the care? It will be discussed on October 26th starting from the experiences promoted by the Fondazione per l’architettura / Torino, during the meeting at Circolo del Design, in the frame of Torino Design of the City.

Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Circolo del Design
Via San Francesco da Paola 17, Turin

An appointment to talk about “Humanization of care places: narration and relationships in the project”. At the center of the discussion, the crucial role of relationships – and in particular of the strategic dimension of a shared narration integrated into the design of the space – able to strengthen the specific identity of care places and the sense of belonging in the different users.

In order to understand if and how narrative in the architecture for places of care can be a decisive element for the humanization of these places, during the meeting we will analyze the issue through the multidisciplinary gaze of designers, health professionals, philosophers and storytellers.
Each of them will be asked to propose a definition of narrative according to their respective disciplinary field, to highlight the communicative potential contained in architecture and to identify how this type of narrative can shape the sense of belonging and the identity of a place.

Further details here.

Fab SMS – Fondo Assistenza e Benessere Società di Mutuo Soccorso presents the “Charity Fab” competition, which offers 15,000 euros as a prize and is dedicated to supporting Volunteer Organizations in the provinces of Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Turin and Vercelli.

The Società di Mutuo Soccorso is launching this initiative with a view to constantly promoting the culture of wellbeing and mutualistic values and closeness to the community such as inclusion, proximity and territoriality, as emerged from its recent Social Report. The project, created in collaboration with Associazione Volontariato Torino – Vol.To, Associazione Centro Servizi Volontariato Asti-Alessandria – CSVAA, Centro Territoriale per il Volontariato Biella- Vercelli – CTV, aims to improve the health, well-being and promote a healthy lifestyle of children and teenagers with disabilities. In particular, the proposals submitted must be aimed at achieving one or more of the following Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.

Volunteer Organizations, registered in the Regional Register and having their registered office in the provinces of Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Turin, and Vercelli. For the support of the selected project proposals, Fab SMS provides 15,000 euros.

The submission deadline is December 13, 2021 at 6 PM. To participate you must complete the documentation available at www.fondoassistenzaebenessere.it/bando-charity-fab in its entirety.

Social Impact Agenda for Italy has defined 10 recommendations useful to government, institutions, companies, financial funds, but also to universities, third sector actors and local communities, on how to exploit the opportunity offered by RRP and how to extend in Italy the potential of social entrepreneurship and impact finance to build a more inclusive and sustainable economy.

On Tuesday, October 19 at 6 pm, the recommendations will be presented at a web event organized in collaboration with Vita.

Speakers will include:

• Giovanna Melandri, President of Social Impact Agenda for Italy
• Filippo Montesi, Secretary General of Social Impact Agenda for Italy
• Mario Calderini, spokesperson of Torin Social Impact
• Sergio Gatti, Director General of Federcasse
• Stefano Granata, President of Confcooperative Federsolidarietà
• Irene Tinagli, Member of the European Parliament and President ECON

Moderator: Stefano Arduini, Director of Vita.

What does communication have to do with the impact economy?

The desire to create a dialogue and the possibility of conveying complex messages in a credible, convincing, and authoritative way is a path that the Torino Social Impact ecosystem is also undertaking with partners who fit into this specific mission.

Ex Idea is a Benefit Corporation which intent is to take care of the definition, exposure, and transmission of ideas and valuable content, through the design and management of events and web communication services.

We talked about this with Federica Donati, CEO of Ex Idea, was interviewed by Francesco Antonioli.

> Watch previous episodes here.

Saturday, October 23rd, from 10 am to 4 pm, at TAG Agnelli in Turin will be held the third edition of the Computational Law+ Festival, a free event organized by Legal Hackers Torino.

This year’s focus will be on social impact, an increasingly important issue in the field of sustainability, which will be discussed in four round tables and a keynote speech with experts in the field.

Patronage: Torino Social Impact
Sponsors: Talent Garden Fondazione Agnelli, Futura Law Firm starl SB
Media Partner: 4cLegal
Media Coverage: Giovanni Caponetto
Partner: AGICONSUL – Association of jurists and legal and tax consultants and PCM

Ticketing: Eventbrite

From October 6 to 8, 2021, the most important social impact investment event of the year, the GSG Global Impact Summit, of which Torino Social Impact is an official partner, will be held online.

At the event, which will be attended by a large delegation of the Torino Social Impact ecosystem, will also participate our spokesman Mario Calderini, who will moderate a panel entitled Sustainable bonds: impact at scale or room for improvement? 

Using bonds to finance social and environmental challenges is becoming increasingly popular. Sustainability bonds have the potential to leverage huge sums of financing to address many of our most pressing challenges. Therefore, the session will give a close look at the potential benefits and pitfalls of sustainable bonds and how good impact management can drive transparency, accountability, and performance.

Speakers will be Maria Laura Tinelli (Acrux Partners Argentina NAB), Gavin Power (PIMCO), Veronica Raffo (World Bank) and Anne van Riel (BNP Paribas).

The session will take place on October 8 starting at 2:15 pm (BTS time): register here!

 

How can we deal with circular economy in our own small way?

An interesting example comes to us from Torino Social Impact partner Consorzio Equo: it is DRINN GREEN, an initiative of social and work inclusion aimed at economically fragile people, which provides for the collection of discarded objects, production and special wastes and their reuse in specialized centers.

In this interview with Mauro Fedele, Director of Consorzio Equo, we discover how this project was born and has evolved, in line with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda.

Torino Social Impact reinforces its international commitment through a new series of impact interviews to leaders and changemakers from around the world.

We are glad to introduce you Cliff Prior, CEO of The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG), the independent global organization promoting sustainable development and advanced education on impact investments.

Previously Cliff was CEO of Big Society Capital, the UK’s wholesale social impact investor and market developer; CEO of UnLtd the UK foundation for social entrepreneurs; CEO of Rethink for people affected by severe mental ill health; and has also worked in healthcare, elder care, social housing and homelessness.

Cliff has also participated as a government regulator and adviser across several social issue areas, and has co-founded social enterprises. He previously chaired working groups for the GSG on mission led business, impact investing wholesalers, and impact integrity.

Torino Social Impact is proud to be partnering with the GSG Global Impact Summit 2021, which will take place online from October 6-8 2021.

Watch the interview to get more insights about GSG.

Torino Social Impact is official partner of the GSG Summit, the most influential impact investing event delivering solutions for people and the planet, taking place online 6-8 October 2021. Established in 2015, Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) brings together leaders from the worlds of finance, business, and philanthropy whose goal is precisely the pursuit of positive social and environmental impact.

Torino Social Impact participates in the Summit with a large delegation representing the ecosystem, to learn and share best practices from around the world. The group, which is being defined, is currently composed of:

• Andrea Limone – PerMicro S.p.A.
• Angelo Perez – Consorzio Kairòs
• Caterina Soldi – Link4Good Srl Società Benefit
• Chiara Ferroni – Fondazione Torino Wireless
• Daniela Gregnanin – Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo
• Daniele Caccherano – Cooperativa Sociale Liberi Tutti
• Davide Dal Maso – Make a Cube³
• Elisa Rosso – Torino Social Impact
• Federico Disegni – Brainscapital Srl Società Benefit
• Giovanna Bossi – Finpiemonte S.p.A.
• Guido Bolatto – Camera di commercio di Torino
• Giulia Spagna – Danish Refugee Council
• Giuseppe Dell’Erba – Fondazione Cottino
• Laura Orestano – SocialFare
• Marco Ramella – Fondazione Torino Wireless
• Mario Calderini – Tiresia Polimi
• Mario Montalcini – Brainscapital Srl Società Benefit
• Federica Fulghesu – Fondazione Brodolini
• Raffaella Scalisi – Torino Social Impact
• Simona De Giorgio – Torino Social Impact
• Stefania Coni – Fondazione CRT

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Giardino Forbito presents Googreen Regions of Italy, the Biodiversity Market on a national scale.

In the evocative Piazza Cavour, in the heart of Turin’s historic garden, two days dedicated to the agricultural, nursery and food and wine excellence of the Bel Paese in a showcase of those that are fundamental presidia of our territory, points of arrival and departure together of the vast and unique cultural heritage that belongs to us.

A circuit of conscious producers, secular actors in the places of our land, attentive to the impact on nature and the earth, who adopt criteria of eco-sustainability in the management of their companies in respect of the territory and good practices. A space is also dedicated to non-profit organisations, cooperatives or consortia dedicated to the principles of circular economy and inclusion. With the one great objective of spreading good, healthy, ethical food, made to sow culture.

Two days dedicated to the promotion of the best products – active online with Googreen shop all year round so that we can all become partners in the change underway, in support of the innovative cultural and environmental policies that are so necessary today.

Biennale Democrazia will return to Turin with the theme “One planet, many worlds”, which will start from our condition of inhabitants of a single planet, increasingly connected but at the same time more fragmented, and will focus on the factors that make it difficult to find common answers to global problems.

Biennale Democrazia is a cultural event promoted by the City of Torino, which aim is to spread a culture of democracy and put it to practice. It is an ongoing public workshop focused on the local context, while at the same time issues on a broader scale are also addressed.

The Chamber of commerce of Turin, through its platform for social impact entrepreneurship Torino Social Impact, is once again a supporter of this important initiative on the territory, bringing its contribution to the very rich program, with events conceived and designed with some of TSI’s 150 partners, including the exhibition “Distributed and connected, five years of Hackability. Technology and design as an infrastructure for innovation”; the meeting “Le Parole che curano” (Words that heal) by the Italian Network of Popular Culture; the event “Diritto al cibo, buono, pulito e giusto” (The right to good, clean and fair food) by the Giardino Forbito Cultural Association with interludes by the Terra Madre Orchestra.

Furthermore, on Thursday, October 7, at 6 pm at OGR Torino, Mario Calderini will dialogue with journalist Vitaliano D’Angerio on the theme of ecological transition and social vulnerability.

Following, the links with the events in detail.

• Dialogo su transizione ecologica e vulnerabilità sociale | 7 ottobre ore 18, OGR Torino
• Distribuiti e connessi, cinque anni di Hackability. Tecnologia e design come infrastruttura di innovazione | October 4-8,  3:00-6:00 PM, Rinascimenti sociali
• Le parole che curano live – coraggio | October 8, 6:30 PM, Fondo Tullio De Mauro
• Diritto al cibo buono, pulito e giusto | October 10, 11:00 AM, Giardino Sambuy

To download our calendar, click here!

Watch the talk on YouTube here.

Full details about Biennale Democrazia on http://biennaledemocrazia.it 

For the second year in a row, Torino Social Impact will be partnering with the 2030 Social Impact Special Prize, the award that aims at enhancing entrepreneurial ideas focus on tackling problems of inequality across Europe.

The prize is targeted at startups committed to finding solutions that address some of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, specifically numbers 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16.

Some of the selection criteria include: scalability – severity of the problem by the number of people affected; solvency – the problem is addressable with reasonable resources; and neglect – the problem is not currently widely addressed.

Winners will receive €30,000 of investment as a convertible note, access to system stakeholders and investors network.

Submission will be open from 9th September to 14th October at 2-0-3-1.com.

Good luck!

MinD – Mad in Design  is a cultural association born in Turin in 2019 that works in response to situations of discomfort and marginalization in the field of mental fragility by realizing creative, multidisciplinary, and inclusive projects

A concrete example of how a meaningful and creative experience can have an impact in our Turin. It was told to us by Giulia Mezzalama, architect and founder of MinD.

The non-profit “Impact Housing Foundation (FIH) – Transformative Communities and Cities” has been established on the initiative of Homes4All – an innovative start-up and benefit corporation founded to address the housing crisis and to promote urban regeneration – and of a coalition of CSOs with a shared commitment to housing.

FIH is a participation-based foundation aiming to promote research on models, types, and experiences in the field of innovative housing, and transform the concept of housing as a driver of high-impact social urban regeneration in disadvantaged areas, based on public-private cooperation and investments from both privates and CSOs. The people-centered approach will prioritize actions for the care and wellbeing of people, growth for future generations and
environmental sustainability.

The foundation is based in Genoa, to acknowledge the city’s heritage as the crib of social solidarity. Throughout the centuries, the city has interpreted solidarity in creative ways and has prioritized the common good; by remaining open to the Mediterranean and maintaining a welcoming and sensitive nature, and rich social initiatives.

Matteo Robiglio, FIH Chair, architect, researcher, professor at the Polytechnic of Turin, and founder of FULL the Future Urban Legacy Lab interfaculty research center, stated:

“In a social impact view, housing – its different facets and integrated with other urban functions – may be the decisive element to render urban regeneration processes transformative. It can enhance the potential created by cultural and social initiatives as it reuses and transforms buildings, requalifies community spaces and integrates different types, functions, generations, and social groups.

FIH research initiatives and actions aim to contribute to the creation and dissemination of this new kind of operational housing culture, by overcoming the consolidated barriers between the public and private sectors, market and social affairs, non-profit and profit, with a common goal of providing everyone with a house that can be beautiful, affordable and deeply integrated in the community and the city.

In addition to Homes4All, the other founding members are DRC Italia, one of the major international NGOs working in 40 countries worldwide in the field of migrants and refugees protection, COMIN, a social and solidarity cooperative based in Milan, which promotes educational actions for minors and families, the elderly and people with disabilities, or
experiencing vulnerabilities and social isolation; CEIS Foundation Genoa, Genoa Solidarity center founded by Bianca Costa Bozzo with decades-long experience in supporting people in extremely vulnerable situations due to addiction or other vulnerabilities and offers therapeutic, educational, and social inclusion initiatives.

“Homes4All is growing and gaining momentum, not only thanks to its scalable model in Italy but also thanks to new alliances and join forces to support those facing vulnerabilities. The decision to create a foundation specialized in social impact housing stems from the desire to develop new urban regeneration methods and new housing models. Along the way, we met high-level partners who believed in our initiative and enabled the creation of the foundation
with Homes 4All, by sharing their skills. A defining step forward.” Mario Montalcini- Homes4All President

“People who live on the seaside are welcoming in a creative way; but they still have an underlying vision, and an innovative one, like the Impact Housing Foundation. This project meets a vital need- housing – and it unfolds with creativity and solidarity while involving many people: we are honored to support it.” Enrico G. Costa – Fondazione CEIS Genova

“The opportunity of having a house is key to support people in difficult socio-economic conditions. Even when people are included in inclusion and recovery programs, the lack of stable and decent housing is often the cause for a downward spiral leading to loss of autonomy, health, and rights. Today, With the Impact Housing Foundation, DRC joins forces with private actors and Italian CSOs to innovate social housing. Our ambition is to use our respective expertise in local, national and international contexts to develop inclusive housing models for all those in need.” Giulia Spagna – Country Director DRC Italia

“Establishing the Impact housing foundation is an important and exciting challenge for Comin. It enables us to address the issue of housing in a rich city – Milan – where housing can be an open wound if it is only made accessible to a few. Doing so with actors from sectors other than cooperation will help us experiment with an innovative approach, merging the concrete aspects of people’s lives and the development of community links. This is how urban regeneration is built.” Emanuele Bana, President of Comin Cooperativa Sociale di Solidarietà

The residency of the winning artists of the second edition of the Torino Social Impact Art Award has come to an end.

Monia Ben Hamouda and the MRZB collective, who during the month of July were supported by tutors Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini from the Treti Galaxie art project, worked on the production of two video works, offering their unique point of view to the representation of social issues and “distant” life stories.

During their stay at Combo, the artists also had the opportunity to confront themselves with the curators and the network of Torino Social Impact, being introduced to the heart of the world of social innovation in Turin. One example was to participate in the co-design activities promoted by the Italian Network of Popular Culture within the project Spaccio di Cultura – Community Concierge.

During one of these meetings, we asked them to tell us about the social value of their work. Here is what emerged.

Monia

Monia Ben Hamouda (Milan, 1991) worked on the film project “Adhan to Dora”, with the aim of portraying the complexities and contradictions of cultural assimilation.

In her case, it was interesting to interact with the city of Turin and the Porta Palazzo district, which reminds her of Tunisia, her country of origin.

The fact that Tunisia does not have a pavilion at the Venice Biennale is symptomatic of how Arab culture is still very underrepresented in contemporary art circuits.
With her project, Monia wants to give voice and visibility to artists who have different cultural backgrounds and, for this reason, find it more difficult to fit in.

Collettivo mrzb

The MRZB Collective worked on the project “STILI DRAMA XVIII-XXI”, oriented towards the deconstruction of a film and the compression of the idea of the contemporary city.

In art, there are implicit meanings that have to do with social impact, from the recovery of waste materials for the production of works to collaborations with groups of emerging artists and marginal communities.
The free and spontaneous approach of this Collective is based on aesthetic and affective research that generates a representation of the suburbs that is frankly authentic.

The works produced during the residency will be presented at Artissima 2021 (November 5-7).

Record numbers were achieved in the latest edition of Startup Your Life, the financial and entrepreneurial education and orientation program promoted by UniCredit Social Impact Banking and included among the PCTOs, the Paths for Transversal Skills and Orientation, recognized by the Ministry of Education:

+43% schools participating in the program
+206% of high school students involved
+194% of classes taking part in the project.

The major news of the just concluded edition of the program are available here, together with the animated infographic:

Startup your life – 4th edition (unicreditgroup.eu)

We have been accustomed to an economy that aims to make the most of everything we are given from the land and the soil in order to make a profit, without however thinking of future generations.

The benefit enterprise (RI)GENERIAMO – born from the collaboration between the Cooperativa Sociale Agricoltura Capodarco, the Associazione Bricolage del Cuore, the social enterprise ConVoi Lavoro, the Cooperativa Liberitutti with the support of Leroy Merlin Italia – aims to counter this “extractive” model with a “generative” model, which aims to include people and products, otherwise excluded, in the current market system, recognising their value and creating new perimeters.

Luca Pereno, Administrator of (RI)GENERIAMO, sat on the Bench-Mark bench to talk to us about it.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

> Watch previous episodes here.

Torino Social Impact is a strategic partner of “Gen C“, the initiative promoted by the Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani (National Agency for Young People) and Ashoka Italia to create a community of young promoters of change: the first call expires on 15 October.

The project aims to select young people aged between 13 and 25 and Mentors aged between 25 and 35. Young people who are already implementing in their territories actions and initiatives of youth leadership to support digital, ecological and autonomy transitions.

A young changemaker has many qualities: he/she is empathetic, visionary, courageous, aware, motivated and determined to change things for the good of all. Changemakers lead by example, involve and inspire their peers and the communities they belong to, generate innovative virtuous processes of value for society, promote the territory, carry out social and cultural projects and support and launch youth initiatives.

More info on the Gen C project.

Summer 2021 is opening up new horizons for tourism and activities in rural and mountain areas. It is, therefore, an important opportunity to relaunch the growth of the “highlands.”

The “Territori in Movimento” project intends to respond to this challenge, an experience of territorial animation in the Valli Valdesi, Val Susa, Val Sangone financed by the Time2 Foundation on the “Prossimi” Announcement.

To give concreteness to the solicitations that emerged during the course of the project and to support the territorial animation and the new network of relationships among the actors, some webinars will be realized between June and September. The latter will represent moments of dialogue and confrontation online, which will allow involving a wider audience.

Tourism development must start from the involvement of the young population and the strong production capacity of the territory. For this reason, there will be two cycles of webinars, open to all but addressed in particular to two targets:

• Territori in Movimento on Tuesdays.
  Aimed at young people who – with a high school diploma or degree – are entering the world of work.
  In the Tuesday cycle, we will talk about employment, active participation, and conscious citizenship, particularly in rural and mountain areas. Entrepreneurial and occupational strategies will be presented, and new opportunities linked to the tourist industry, the third sector, and the world of volunteering will be illustrated.
• Territori in Movimento on Fridays
  They will be specifically addressed to economic activities, companies, and associations that work in the territories.
  The focus of this cycle will be on the dynamics of growth of the territory, the challenges related to the current recovery period, the future of rural and mountain areas, sustainable tourism, and the role of digital.

To allow the widest possible access, the meetings will still be in the online form, despite the gradual loosening of the distancing measures related to Covid, they will be broadcasted on Facebook and Youtube of Confcooperative Piemonte Nord.

The project is promoted by Consorzio Il Nodo, leader of a wide partnership that includes: GAL Gruppo di Azione Locale Escartons e Valli Valdesi, Bobbio Pellice Municipality, UNCEMUnione nazionale dei comuni, comunità ed enti montani, Confcooperative Piemonte Nord, Department of Management of the University of Turin and its academic spin off Halalto srl, Consigliera di Parità della Città Metropolitana di Torino, Il Rosa e il Grigio aps, Greening srl.

The main objectives of the project are:

1. the promotion of a path of territorial animation through the dialogue between the partners and actors operating in the territory.
2. The promotion of tourism and enhancement of the territory to overcome the criticalities related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The project aims at identifying the strengths and specificities of the territory of the Alpine valley. These, if exploited, can trigger positive mechanisms of growth, counteract depopulation and commercial desertification and encourage the active participation of women, young people, and some segments of the population, such as people with disabilities and foreigners.

Thanks to the first phase of analysis, during which semi-structured interviews were conducted with the project partners, several themes to be explored were identified. In particular, territorial specificities, the ability to react to the health emergency, critical issues, expectations for the future, and the ability to network.

How do our children view the future?

If your child is aged 4 – 17 and could answer some simple questions, to be filmed by you, then perhaps they could be the star of the Summit! The GSG Global Impact Summit 2021 will start each day with thought-provoking views from young people around the world, on the challenges, solutions and actions we need to take to deliver impact solutions for people and planet.

GSG will select the most captivating appearances to be on screen during the Summit.

Submission Deadline: Monday 26 July

Here’s what you need to do:

Download the Capture Captain app https://capturecaptain.app.link/go, and enter the story code ‘GSG3517’ when prompted.

Follow the simple instructions on the app, they will guide you.

We believe young people are the superheroes of the future (and we love costumes!). So if your child has a superhero costume, let’s see it on screen!

Either you or your child should give their first name, age and country

Please ask your young person these questions:

1. What are you most worried about in the world?

2. What do you want the world to look like when you grow up?

3. What should grown-ups do to make a better world?

(There are no wrong answers!)

If your child is not speaking in English, please translate what they have said at the end of the video, so that we can add subtitles.

Please state that you grant permission for GSG to use the footage of your young person for this project. We do require your verbal consent.

Recordings are being collated by the Summit’s Film & Streaming Partner, Be Inspired Films. If your video is selected, they may contact you to clarify details.

In 2021, in Turin, a number of lawyers wondered how the legal profession could benefit in terms of social impact. Driven by this common goal, they have created Futura Law Firm, a benefit society among lawyers, which offers innovative consultancy services that focus on the territory, technology and people.

What does it mean for lawyers to be a benefit? President Emanuela De Sabato tells us.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

> Watch previous episodes here.

The Torino Social Impact Art Award project – conceived by Artissima and Torino Social Impact, in collaboration with Combo and with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation – announces the winners of the second edition of the residency call: Monia Ben Hamouda (Milan, 1991) and the MRZB collective.

Selected through a call to the main public and private Fine Arts Academies and Italian Universities, the winners will have the opportunity to live in residence in Turin for 20 days in July to work on the creation of a new video or photographic work, offering through art a contribution to the transformation of the social perception of particularly urgent themes or life stories considered “distant”.
The residency will take place in Combo, the project’s hospitality partner and an innovative format that combines the idea of hospitality with artistic and cultural programming open to experimentation.
The videos or photographs produced during the residency period will be presented at Artissima 2021 (November 5-7).

The artists will benefit from a tutoring service provided by Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini, founders of the art project Treti Galaxie who, together with Artissima and Torino Social Impact, will accompany the winners on their discovery of the city and its most significant cultural and social expressions. The selected talents will be guided through the process of producing their work and will be able to meet the project curators and the Torino Social Impact network active in the area, discovering the world of entrepreneurship and social innovation.

The 2021 call for entries, entitled ZOOM IN/ZOOM OUT, evokes, on the one hand, our contemporary virtual life, which has forced art to be enjoyed almost exclusively from a distance, and on the other, leads to a reflection on the ability to acquire a new and unexpected vision of society if one observes it from very near or very far. The specific history and training of the winners will offer access to these perspectives, which are as diverse as they are valuable, allowing them to tell the story of contemporary society in Turin in a transversal way, as emblematic of a country that is transforming itself.

The Torino Social Impact Art Award stems from the desire to bring art and social innovation into dialogue with the aim of activating actions to impact on the present and contemporary society. Starting from the conviction that art is able to provide tools and physical spaces to question contemporary social urgencies, the project aims to experiment with the field of the arts as a catalyst for the elaboration of new responses and structured solutions. The aim is to offer young people from “other” backgrounds the opportunity to pursue an artistic career, in order to hypothesise forms of social inclusion in the world of Italian culture and the dissemination of messages capable of positively transforming the perception of what may commonly appear to be distant, foreign or different.

The first edition of the project, characterised by the launch in 2020 of the call “Quante Italie?“, was won by Caterina Erica Shanta (Germany, 1986) and Liryc Dela Cruz (Philippines, 1992), who produced, during their residency in Turin, the works Talking about visibility and Il Mio Filippino: Invisible Bodies, Neglected Movements, respectively.

Their shared vocation for experimentation led Artissima and Torino Social Impact to conceive the project with the aim of broadening the scope of social innovation to include contemporary art. Focusing on the space that multiculturalism has in today’s society, the prize aims to propose new relationships and open up unexpected scenarios through the languages and vision of the winning artists.

THE WINNERS

Monia Ben Hamouda wins the Torino Social Impact Art Award 2021 with Adhan to Dora, a movie project based on a performative narrative that aims to portray the complexities and contradictions of the phenomenon of cultural assimilation. A film that contaminates the present through its very origins, to evolve and self-determine by formulating a counter-narrative that does not deny but exalts.

The MRZB collective (Andrea Parenti, Désirée Nakouzi De Monte, Filippo Tocchi, Pietro Cortona) wins the Torino Social Impact Art Award 2021 with the project STILI DRAMA XVIII-XXI. From the collective, Désirée Nakouzi De Monte (1994, IT-LB) will take part in the residency.

THE TUTORS

Treti Galaxie is an art project founded by Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini. Its aim is to work with artists in an expanded way, respecting their projects and ideas and helping them to produce and develop exhibitions in the most complete way.
For this reason she chooses not to have a fixed location but to look for the space that best suits the project she is working on each time.
Since March 2016, it has been developing a series of solo exhibitions in which the artists dialogue with the hidden urban fabric of Turin, reconfiguring the use of historical sites in the city such as the Mole Antonelliana, the Sala Reale of Torino Porta Nuova Station, the Underground Fortress of Pastiss and the Arches of the Ex-MOI, signing collaborations with the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, Grandi Stazioni Rail, the Pietro Micca Civic Museum, Parcolimpico and Acer.

Online event: presentation of THE DIGITAL MATCH

The World of Business is ready to present the position paper “The Digital Match” and the Recommend-Actions to establish Turin and Piedmont as a territory of excellence on digital issues.

The Torino Chamber of commerce and Unione Industriale di Torino are the institutions that have believed in this challenge and have activated all the other associations representing the entire business world, from engineering to agriculture, from commerce to craftsmanship.

PWC and Torino Wireless carried out a careful analysis and collection of the territory’s assets, including an assessment of its strengths and weaknesses, and we compared ourselves with leading European cities in order to identify the best strategy and the tools needed for a positioning that can only strengthen all the companies and make our territory even more attractive.

There was also a very useful exchange of views with all the players in the innovation ecosystem, from universities and research organisations to ITS, from banking foundations to the non-profit sector, such as Torino Social Impact, together of course with numerous local institutions: first and foremost the Piedmont Region, the Metropolitan City of Torino and the City of Torino.

Now we are all called upon to play “TheDigitalMatch”!

In today’s society, it has become more important than ever to be familiar with the tools to be an aware citizen in a connected and digitised world. All the more reason for those involved in the impact economy to know them.

Rete del Dono is a crowdfunding platform set with the precise goal of training third sector and non-profit organisations of the Turin area to acquire the technical tools to start operating in and with the digital world.

Interview with Anna Siccardi, founder of Rete del Dono, by Francesco Antonioli.

Wonder is promoted by the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation to develop design projects that generate innovative solutions and services capable of responding to the social needs of the territory, taking up the challenge of green transition.

Within the framework of the Mission to Create Attractiveness of the Culture Objective and the Mission to Accelerate Innovation of the Planet Objective, the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation is launching the call for proposals Wonder: Experiments in Design for Social Innovation. The initiative, realised in collaboration with Circolo del Design and Torino Social Impact, is aimed at designers and third sector organisations. The aim is to develop design projects that generate innovative solutions and services with a social impact and at the same time respond to the challenge of the green transition.

In particular, the call aims to:

• contribute to the positioning of Turin as a place of contemporary production and creativity in the field of design and as a model of an ecosystem of innovation for the common good;
• promote a high level of “liveability”, understood as a synthesis of the three key principles of the New European Bauhaus: beautiful, sustainable, together;
• to encourage, through capacity building and matching, the hybridisation of skills, communication and collaboration between creative people, cultural enterprises and third sector organisations that intend to generate social innovation;
• strengthen the connections of the world of design with the different spheres of the community: welfare, health, urban regeneration, education, environmental sustainability, etc.; and
• stimulate reflection and a proactive vision on the challenge of green transition among the actors of the ecosystem of innovation for the common good.

The call will be developed in two phases.

Phase 1 calls for the submission of an expression of interest, respectively and independently advanced by non-commercial bodies operating in the Turin area and designers (freelancers, associated studios, companies, cooperatives, associations) from all over Italy.

Phase 2 foresees the presentation of the projects developed by the non-commercial entity in collaboration with the designer, as the outcome of a capacity building and matching process coordinated by Circolo del Design and Torino Social Impact and of the subsequent design process.

To the entities selected in Phase 2, the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation will grant a contribution for a maximum amount of € 50,000, corresponding to no more than 80% of the overall project budget.

The deadline for submitting applications for Phase 1 is 12 noon on July 28, 2021.

The deadline for submitting applications for phase 2 is 12 noon on December 21, 2021.

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Mercato Itinerante makes it possible to buy directly from the Porta Palazzo market in Turin. Today, small businesses are not able to compete and this leads, in some cases, to the closure of the business itself.

Mercato Itinerante wants to bring citizens back to the market. And when, for lack of time, it is not possible to reach the market? The market comes to you!

Thanks to the service that helps digitalisation, ecological and ethical delivery by cargo bike, reduction of packaging used and services to reduce food waste. With your order, you help the local economy and respect your city.

The classrooms of the Cottino Social Impact Campus come to life with StemDays Torino – the “girls’ camp”, organised and funded by the Human+ Foundation, which brings together 40 students from local high schools to develop STEM skills and abilities such as creativity, ethics and imagination.

Yesterday, Giuseppe Dell’Erba, Campus Business Advisor and Director of the Cottino Foundation, welcomed the students for their first day of activities.

Ancient Greeks had two terms for time: chronos and kairòs. The latter referred to the concept of “right” or “appropriate” moment.

In the Torino Social Impact ecosystem, Kairòs Consortium is contaminating the for-profit and non-profit worlds, while it is also approaching the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) disciplines, so that young people, and not only them, can build a future with the right timing.

Lea Iandorio, project manager of Kairòs, interviewed by Francesco Antonioli, told us about the future projects of the consortium and the importance of networking.

> Rewatch here the previous episodes.