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.

It is estimated that in Italy over 220,000 tonnes of food are thrown away each year, worth over €3 billion in the distribution chain alone.

Although the problem is largely ignored, there are some companies that are creating solutions that can be replicated on a large scale.
iThanks, for instance, is an innovative app that allows both large and small shops to reduce food waste by ensuring that supplies are always efficient and not expiring.

How was the idea born? Marco Cartolano and Andrea Gasco, co-founders of iThanks, tell us the story behind the project.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

> Watch here the other episodes of Bench-Mark.

Ready with the third stage of Road to Social Change.

Promoted by the UniCredit Banking Academy, in collaboration with AICCON, Politecnico di Milano – Tiresia/MIP, Fondazione Italiana Accenture and TechSoup, ROAD TO SOCIAL CHANGE is a project for the integral development of the Third Sector that intends to play a leading role in the country’s recovery process, contributing significantly to the realization of many important economic and social challenges.

The project, which takes place throughout 2021, ideally crosses Italy with 7 stages in the territories of our country.

Don’t miss the next meeting on June 22, we will talk about “Regenerating places by involving communities” with special guests.

We will have with us Fabrizio Barca, Coordinator Forum Inequalities and Diversity, statistician and economist, expert in territorial development policies. Fabrizio Barca has taught Economic Policy, Corporate Finance and Economic History at the universities of Milan (Bocconi University), Modena, Paris (Sciences Po), Siena, Rome, Parma and Urbino. He has been a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and at Stanford University. He has also held managerial positions at the Bank of Italy, the Ministry of the Treasury, the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the OECD. Former Minister for Territorial Cohesion from 2011 to 2013. Author of several essays and books.

A new important meeting, a new challenge for the country to accompany processes of change and innovation of territories and communities on which we will be inspired as always by the story of good practices. With us will be Massimiliano Monetti with the case “Borghi in Rete – Abruzzo” and Francesca Elisa Leonelli with “Retake Roma“.

> Register here

For more information, visit the page www.unicredit.it/roadtosocialchange or send an email to unitalk@unicredit.eu

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investments (GSG), Torino Social Impact and Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia, the Italian National Advisory Board, have joined forces to launch the Impact Narrative Awards, the first-ever award dedicated to communication about impact investing.

The Impact Narrative Awards aims to identify best-in-class examples of impact investing stories used to persuade financial institutions and governments to put their full weight behind impact. By honouring excellence in communication, we can strengthen the narratives used to promote impact investing and help our community to speak with one voice. In doing so, we elevate the profile of impact investing and enable it to expand around the world, bringing benefits to people and the planet.

The winners will be announced to 1,500 impact professionals at the GSG Global Impact Summit (October 6-8, 2021) and their message will be distributed through the GSG communication channels. The categories include the best impact narrative aimed at governments and the best impact narrative aimed at the financial sector.

The closing date is August 23 at 23:59 BST (London time).

Before submitting your entry, please read the full call, containing selection criteria and submission rules.

Only entries submitted using the ONLINE FORM and including a link to the narrative content you are submitting will be considered. Applications sent via email or other channels will not be accepted.

DOWNLOAD THE CALL

For more information, visit the official website or contact awards@gsgii.org

Friday, June 11, 2021 | 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm

An appointment to explore the WORK challenge of TorinoProxima, an initiative of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation with SocialFare.

About the event

TorinoProxima | From civic imagination to social enterprise is an initiative of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, realized with SocialFare, aimed at aspiring innovators and social entrepreneurs (especially young people under 35) from and for Torino. A unique opportunity to learn and accelerate knowledge and practical skills in Social Innovation.

We are looking for proximity entrepreneurs: teams with an innovative idea or solution in response to one or more of the 6 urban challenges identified by the call: Culture, Work, Housing, Reuse, Nature, Well-being. In order to deepen the issues related to the 6 challenges, we propose a series of appointments open to the participation of all interested citizens.

How to participate in the event

Participation is free. Registrations at this link.

Who said that impact economy companies shouldn’t make a profit?

For the Bench-Mark column, Alessandro Grella, partner and co-founder of Izmade, a social enterprise born in Turin in 2016, tells us about the social impact of an artisan design and ambient architecture workshop on the territory.

Interview curated by Francesco Antonioli.

Torino Social Impact will present its model at the first workshop of the RESET – Regions for social economy business development,  scheduled on 1st and 2nd of June.

The RESET project is run in the framework of the “Social Economy Missions” initiative of the European Commission/DG Grow. The objective of the project is to foster policy exchange among regions on ways and instruments to promote the development of the social economy and related support eco-systems. Project leader is Accio, the Catalan Business Development Agency – other partners are POBAL (Ireland), the city of Berlin, the East Sweden Region and REVES, the European network of cities and regions for the social economy that Torino Social Impact has recently entered.

The two-days workshop will explore incubation programmes, strategies and policies to encourage the creation and consolidation of social enterprises. The agenda includes a presentation of the Catalan strategy for the social economy, an online visit to Coòpolisin Barcelona (incubation of cooperatives), presentations from  Region Östergötland, Berlin and Ireland. Torino Social Impact will be on stage on the 1st of June at 11.00 am.

These are the connection details:

Zoom link Day 1 – 1st of June:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85815014317?pwd=eDV4emRMd1MzTVYwRWtNcW9mZmNSZz09

Meeting ID: 858 1501 4317

Code: 054472

Zoom link Day 2 –  2nd of June:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88647885156?pwd=M1J6elBGZEhrVVp6WTBTUDlwZG1wUT09

Meeting ID: 886 4788 5156

Code: 552343

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Democrazia Digitale is a TEDx event held on the online platform Virtual Venue from 24th May to 6th June. The event takes the shape of a relay in which, on June 2nd, 24 local TEDx from all over Italy will follow one another in a marathon of Talks on the theme of the relationship between the digital world and democracy.

The Virtual Venue hosting the marathon will also hold conferences, multiplayer debates and interviews with remarkable personalities on the theme of digital democracy, which can be found on the ‘Agenda’ section on the platform throughout all 12 days.

Civiltà Digitale is the media partner of Democrazia Digitale and the first and main project of Ex Idea, owner of the platform on which the event is held (virtualvenue.stream).

On May 28, 2021, 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm, Torino Social Impact will be among the speakers at Change NOW, the largest gathering dedicated to sustainability and social impact in the world with over 500 speakers from 120 countries and 1000 innovative solutions proposed. Torino Social Impact will speak in one of the Ecosystem Highlights sessions thanks to the invitation of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investing.

Here the link: https://event.changenow.world/en/session/049bd976-79b8-eb11-94b3-000d3a219024

The event will also be the occasion to officially launch a joint initiative of the GSG For Impact Investing and Torino Social Impact in the framework of the National Advisory Board Italy to promote the theme of communication as a strategic one for the affirmation of the impact finance movement.

The GSG was established in August 2015 to complement the work of the Social Impact Investment Task Force set up under the UK presidency of the G8. The GSG currently involves over 32 countries plus the EU as members. Chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen, the GSG brings together leaders from the worlds of finance, business and philanthropy. Italy is one of the GSG members and Torino Social Impact is part of the National Advisory Board Italy through the Turin Chamber of Commerce.

OrtiAlti is a non-profit organisation of architects, landscape architects, researchers, agronomists and educators involved in the dissemination and experimentation of urban horticultural practices and regeneration of underused areas of the city, such as flat roofs.

Founded in 2015 in Turin on the initiative of architects Elena Carmagnani and Emanuela Saporito, the project crosses the co-design and implementation of community gardens, with the double goal of achieving urban and civic regeneration, helping to make people grow in their ability to take care of common spaces.

In this episode of Bench-Mark, Elena Carmagnani tells us how the city can be changed with public green spaces.

Interview editeb by Francesco Antonioli.

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On 27 May at 11:30, during Envisioning the future of the social economy in Europe, Mario Calderini, spokesperson for Torino Social Impact, will speak at the European Social Economy Summit #EUSES, the official EU conference for the European social economy in Mannheim, Germany and via digital events. Its aim is to strengthen the social economy in Europe and harness its contribution to economic development, social inclusion as well as green and digital transitions. The discussions will focus on three dimensions: digitalisation of the Social Economy, (social) innovation, Cross-country and cross-sectoral collaboration.

Last 29 April Torino Social Impact organised the event “Partnerships for maximising social impact” as part of the Digital Road to Mannheim.

The #EUSES is an opportunity to bring all stakeholders active in the social economy together.

The registration for the European Social Economy Summit is for free.

REGISTER NOW!

Torino Social Impact is a network partner of the S+T+ARTS URBAN FEST, a two-day digital festival to inspire, imagine and and debate on the cities of the future.

About this event

How will cutting-edge collaborations between science, technology and the arts help us solve some of the biggest challenges for the city of the future?

Join Nesta Italia on the 29th and 30th of June for the STARTS Urban Fest to find out more about innovative projects and experiences from around the world that are reshaping life in the city, promoting disruptive research approaches to enhance a more sustainable and fair technological development.

Sign up to learn, debate and be inspired by international speakers working in technology, urbanism, design, policymaking, social innovation, science, contemporary arts and much more. They will guide you through a two-days programme dedicated to explore the latest trend in science, technology and arts collaboration for a more sustainable and inclusive future.

Visit the website www.startsurbanfest.eu to stay updated about the agenda and not miss the sessions in live streaming.

STARTS Urban Fest is organised by Nesta Italia in collaboration with Fondazione CRT and OGR Torino, with the support of the European Commission.

After a first event staged last 20 April, the TOP-IX Consortium organises a new online seminar dedicated to the “European Programming 2021-2027: Horizon Europe Programme” on 14 June 2021 from 3pm to 4.30pm.

With this second seminar TOP-IX will once again explore the opportunities of collaboration with its network to trigger synergies at territorial level on the main European themes.

The Keynote Speaker will be ALESSANDRO BARBAGLI, Head of Sector Research Strategy & Programme Coordination, DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission.

The seminar will be moderated by Leonardo Camiciotti, Executive Director of the TOP-IX Consortium.

During the event, Dr Barbagli will illustrate the objectives of the programme and give an overview of the 3 pillars. In particular, there will be a vertical focus on Cluster 4 “Digital, industry and space” and the European Innovation Council will be discussed.

Participation is open to all, after registration on Eventbrite.

For more information, please write to the following email: eventi@top-ix.org

In line with the mission of UniCredit’s Social Impact Banking (SIB) initiative, to concretely contribute to building a fairer and more inclusive society, SIB has developed a new measurement & evaluation (M&E) system together with the think tank Human Foundation, focused on advancing social impact finance measurement standards and maximising the related direct and indirect social outcomes.

The dedicated M&E system allows UniCredit SIB to consistently monitor and evaluate its social impact finance activities across all 11 Group markets where SIB is active: Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia.

The aim is to track performance and the impact generated by comparing expected and achieved results on a continued basis through a tailored framework that also accounts for the characteristics of the different beneficiaries of specific projects. The Human Foundation think tank was chosen as a partner for the development of the M&E system thanks to their work in promoting innovative solutions to societal issues.

Laura Penna, Head of Group Social Impact Banking at UniCredit, commented: “At UniCredit, ESG is part of our DNA and this includes a strong social commitment in all our markets. Our Social Impact Banking programme helps us drive tangible positive social change in our communities and in order to ensure we are always growing our impact and making a real difference, we need to be able to track and measure social impact finance outcomes in a concrete and uniform way. This new measurement & evaluation system has been designed to help us do this effectively as well as make an important contribution for increased transparency and common standards in the wider social impact finance sector.”

The purpose of social impact finance is to create tangible positive social benefits through the financing of projects and initiatives that have the potential to deliver such outcomes. The sector has significantly grown worldwide in recent years[1] and we expect this trend to accelerate driven by the effects of the Covid-19 crisis.

This context increases the need for clear and common measurement methods to ensure the credibility of impact finance activities and avoid the risk of “impact washing”[2]. It is also important for the beneficiaries of impact finance programmes to guarantee a level playing field, agreement on specific KPIs for each project and increase transparency in the selection process.

UniCredit’s social impact finance offer is aimed at supporting social innovation as a driver of change through loans at advantageous conditions as well as providing financial training and access to relevant partnerships and networks. A “pay for success” mechanism is integral to the offer to allow for additional economic benefits to the project / initiative based on the successful achievement of agreed social impact goals. In addition, UniCredit’s Social Impact Banking programme is also committed to inclusive finance, supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses through microcredit and to financial education to encourage greater financial knowledge and social inclusion that can empower active citizenship.

To find more information on the M&E system please refer to the SIB Position Paper here.

For more information on UniCredit Social Impact Banking, please see here.

About UniCredit

UniCredit is a simple successful pan-European Commercial Bank, with a fully plugged in CIB, delivering a unique Western, Central and Eastern European network to its extensive client franchise. UniCredit offers both local and international expertise to its clients, providing them with unparalleled access to leading banks in its 13 core markets through its European banking network: Italy, Germany, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Leveraging on an international network of representative offices and branches, UniCredit serves clients in another 16 countries worldwide.

Enquiries: mediarelations@unicredit.eu

[1] Total impact investing market value was estimated at USD 502 billion as of end of 2018 (GIIN, 2019).

[2] “Impact washing” refers to the process of any bank, firm or fund using the social / environmental impact narrative for reputational and market purposes, but not contributing to the achievement of any tangible positive impact (IDS, 2019).

On Wednesday May 19, 2021, the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation and SocialFare are launching TorinoProxima, an event to reflect on the cultural and economic dimension of proximity as an enabling element for building an empathetic and accessible future for Torino.

TorinoProxima

Economy and culture of proximity
to design the near future of our city today

Online event

A unique appointment to reflect together on the cultural and economic dimension of proximity as an enabling element to build the close, empathetic and accessible future of Torino:

• The presentation of the new book by Ezio Manzini, Abitare la prossimità. Ideas for the city of 15 minutes, Egea Edizioni.
• The launch event of Torino Proxima, the new programme of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation created with SocialFare to accompany civic and cultural projects towards the creation of social impact enterprises through the unique and relevant declination of proximity.

Speakers:

• Ezio Manzini, author of Abitare la prossimità. Ideas for the city of 15 minutes
• Paolo Mulassano, Head of Obiettivo Pianeta – Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation
• Matteo Bagnasco, Head of Culture Objective – Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation
• Laura Orestano, CEO of SocialFare | Centre for Social Innovation

Moderator: Stefano Arduini, Director of Vita.

Followed by a Q&A session

The live audience will be able to ask questions through Facebook and YouTube chat.

The event will be broadcast live on SocialFare‘s Facebook and YouTube channels.

At this link the always updated calendar of events: click here.

There are emblematic places in Turin that give an idea of its evolution and its way of being. For example, Via Giacosa 38, the street address of the Fondazione Agnelli, was the expression of Italy in the 1960s and of a city that was essentially monocentric and mono-industrial, built around Fiat.
Over the years this has all changed, and the Foundation has shifted and concentrated its focus on higher education, thanks also to the important partnership with Talent Garden.

Barbara Graffino, Co Founder of Talent Garden Fondazione Agnelli, tells us about the meaning of “hybrid platform” and a particular project on which 12 subjects from Turin’s technological innovation ecosystem are working.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli for Bench-Mark.

The University Course of Professional Development (CUAP) in Social Impact Assessment, aimed at those who wish to enhance their knowledge and skills in the field of impact assessment, is organised by the Department of Management of the University of Turin and as part of the activities promoted by the Competence Centre on Social Impact Measurement.

The second edition of the course ended on 10 May, the day on which all participants presented the final outputs of the course: 14 group projects in which future certified impact assessors tried their hand at carrying out a real impact assessment. Here are the results.

The first group we would like to introduce you is composed of Davide Matteo Lasagno – Anteo Impresa Sociale, Maria Mancuso – Slow Food Italia Asps, Elena Menin – Consulta per le Persone in Difficoltà Odv, Giulia Sala – MinD and PUSH and Federica Serafini – Genera Società Cooperativa Sociale Onlus.

The group experimented with the realization of the impact assessment of the “Orto in Condotta” project, one of the main food and environmental education tools for children created by the Slow Food Italia Aps Association. Designed specifically for younger age groups, it is aimed primarily at nursery and elementary school, as it is important to acquire correct eating habits from an early age.

The EU has published an update of the EU Industrial Strategy, with the aim of driving the transition to a more sustainable, digital, resilient and globally competitive economy.

So far, 14 industrial ecosystems across the EU have been identified on the basis of their economic and technological relevance, and for their expected contribution to the decarbonisation, digitisation and resilience of the European economy. Social economy is one of them.

The relevance of the social economy benefits from the international work of Torino Social Impact, through its spokesperson Mario Calderini, who was heard last October by European Commissioners Thierry Breton (Internal Market) and Nicolas Schmit (Labour and Social Rights) on the new PAct for Skill and the Social Economy Action Plan.
Last February, Professor Calderini also participated in the workshop of the EU Science, Research and Innovation in Seville Ecosyste for high growth enterprises, with a study on “A New Entrepreneurial Genre for High Potential Inclusive Growth”.

Read the EU Industrial Strategy.

The collection of initiatives to join the Tech4Good project, which allows organisations providing services to the Third Sector to gain visibility and get in touch with ETS, is still ongoing.

DO YOU PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE THIRD SECTOR? Fill in these two short forms to allow project partners to include you in the Tech4Good service map.

1- Tell them about yourself: FILL IN THE FORM

2- Tell us about your technological projects and activities for the social world: FILL IN THE FORM

What is Tech4Good

With the project Tech4Good, Torino Social Impact – together with Fondazione Torino Wireless, Nesta Italia and Incubatore Imprese Innovative of the University of Torino – is the promoter of coordinated actions for the digitalisation of the third sector and the experimentation of new and emerging technologies that offer new possibilities to face and solve the problems of the community. Find out more!

The entry period for the 2021 European Social Innovation Competition is coming to a close. The deadline for submitting entries is Wednesday 12th May, 12pm CEST.

The European economy is changing. The coming years will see a shift towards a green and digital future. These twin transitions present individuals, businesses and industries with exciting opportunities. Understanding the skills that will be needed and how best to develop them will be key to unlocking these opportunities for individuals and organisations alike.

This Competition aims to incentivise, support and reward social innovations that will help people and organisations to identify, develop and strengthen the skills they will need to adapt and thrive in a changing world. The Competition is looking for early stage ideas that tackle these needs in a range of different ways. From innovative solutions that identify skills needs and gaps to skills development approaches, including but not limited to training.

Coming up: Wednesday 5th May – 3pm CEST

The fourth and final launch webinar is a practical session to support the potential contestants who might need a steer through the application process.

Register for the webinar here.

The session will cover general information about the Competition, as well as practical information on the application process, the objectives, phases, and rules of the contest, as well as support packages and events. Contestants will have the opportunity to ask questions and exchange with the Competition team and partners.

Monica Boța-Moisin (lawyer, cultural sustainability consultant and Co-Founder of WhyWeCraft – winner of the 2020 European Social Innovation Competition) will share the WhyWeCraft journey with the 2020 Social Innovation Competition: Reimagine Fashion, from submitting the expression of interest for entering the Competition from Mumbai, India, to how the Social Innovation Academy enabled the team to develop a compelling action plan for reviving the textile crafts of Europe and reviving the emotional connection between people and garments.

Monica will join the webinar from Romania where she currently coordinates the first stage of the WhyWeCraft pilot project implementation: the artisan onboarding and capacity building program.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions directly to Monica and the competition team and partners.

The Turin Chamber of commerce is launching the Job for the Future (JFD) Award for the 2021 edition of the Job Film Days, dedicated to short films made in the European Union by directors under 40 that tell the story of “emerging” jobs and the challenges of contemporary work. Works, both published and unpublished, with a maximum duration of 30 minutes, produced after January 1, 2019, are eligible to participate.

The work of the future in all its meanings, from technological innovation to the green economy, from smart working to social responsibility: these are the themes that will be the background to the works that will compete for the following awards: Prize for the best short film (5,000 Euros), Prize for the best director (3,000 Euros), Prize for the best subject on the Italian reality (2,000 Euros).

Job Film Days (JFD) is the film festival dedicated to the themes of work and rights that this year will take place from September 22 to September 26, 2021.

The second edition of the CUAP “Social Impact Assessment” course is coming to an end. On May 3 and 10, in fact, the participants will present the final outputs of the course: 14 group projects in which the future certified impact evaluators have experienced the realization of a real impact assessment.

The two days, together with May 24, the day of the conference that will also host the virtual delivery of the new certifications, represent the conclusion of the course, this year delivered entirely online.

An exceptional audience will take part in the three days: in addition to all teachers, in fact, will also be present the first impact evaluators, certified last year. The initiative is part of the continuous training on the subject, one of the fundamental aspects promoted by the organizers of the course.

Here are the numbers of the second edition:

• 70 new “future” impact evaluators
• About 40 different third sector organizations, foundations and professionals involved
• 5 Italian regions reached
• More than 10 teachers for 40 hours of frontal training

Given the success, the organizing committee is already working on the design of a new edition.

On Sunday 9th May 2021, the #Googreen biodiversity market celebrates Mother Nature and all forms of love and care at Giardino Sambuy, which, like every second Sunday of the month, comes back to life to be a place of encounter, good practices and seasonal harvests.

• From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. – Googreen producers selected by Giardino Forbito will be back, as always, to represent seasonal excellence.
• This month’s “Spazio delle Idee” is dedicated to reciprocity and the ability to care. To celebrate this day dedicated to parenthood, guests in the garden will be the representatives of the municipal offices of the Casa dell’Affido (Foster Care Home), a valuable department of the Social Services of Turin which, this year too, has involved numerous families who have made their homes available, with love and generosity, to temporarily take in a child, and sometimes, even a baby with his or her mother.
• Clown Ida, a foster father himself, will entertain young and old alike with the magic of his bubbles and tricks for the children.
• Googreen producer Marzia Gullino will compose delicious rose wreaths for the children present and all families will be given a Googreen shopping bag.
• In the afternoon, in the name of love for reading and for books to be saved, Stefania Bertola will present to the friends of Silent Book Torino “Il giardino di guerriglia” (The guerrilla garden), a year of happy battles between women and green.
• Presentation of the project “DOTTA. L’Adozione Googreen”, the new Giardino forbito initiative aimed at rethinking adoption and the discovery of the animal world at a distance.
• Giardino forbito continues to celebrate the birth of the first Association for the knowledge and protection of biodiversity and pollinators, supporting the collection of signatures promoted by the European Union: “save bees and farmers“.
• The lowered shutters of the Sambuy gazebo continue to support the small precious exhibition curated by Giardino forbito and created by the apprentice Ciceroni of class 5E of the Regina Margherita High School in Turin for the “FAI parlare la città” project.

The fourth edition of Impact Conference gathers the audiences of two European Interreg projects – Interreg being one of the goals of the EU Cohesion Policy in the 2014-2020 period: the DelFin project, promoting social entrepreneurship in rural regions across Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Italy, and CE Responsible -Empowering Social Business in Central Europe, which connects entrepreneurs with social entrepreneurs in nine EU countries, through a developed platform.

Like everyone else, so does this year’s Impact Conference move online where we continue to share experiences about what entrepreneurial and community impact means in 2021.

Apart from the newcomers, the event welcomes all other change-makers to sprout relationships, talk about burning challenges in the new normal, and develop ideas with the purpose of creating a meaningful social impact.

For more information: https://www.impactconference.net/

The cycle of the Jury’s days for the evaluation of the 500 projects competing in the XXV edition of the Mediastars Advertising Technical Award has come to an end. 222 professionals from agencies and companies from all over Italy took part in the remote jury appointments and 12,987 voting mails were received, confirming the organisation as the most representative in the sector in terms of participation across the country, thanks to the continuous work carried out to seek out and reward Italian creative realities.

For the Internet & Multimedia competition area, Torino Social Impact won first place on the podium for the Public Communication category and a Special Start for Creative Direction.

For the XXV edition of the Mediastars Award were evaluated Advertising campaigns (Print, Outdoor, TV, Radio), Internet sites, Advertising on Line campaigns, Viral, Social Media, Promotion campaigns, Social campaigns, Branded Content Entertainment, creation of PR Events, Corporate Identity projects, Direct Marketing and Packaging Design, Multimedia APP, Institutional Videos, Infographics, Signatures and Videoclips, socio-cultural campaigns, CSR, social ethics and No Profit.

Mediastars in this edition has received entries from agencies from twelve Italian regions with a representation of thirty-five provincial capitals.

In addition, great interest and participation was confirmed for all the Jury appointments, which featured professionals and delegates from companies and agencies from all over Italy, northern Europe and even overseas in Canada and Brazil.

The award ceremony will take place at the end of June.

The Torino Social Impact website has been developed by Tembo, whom we thank for the stimulating collaboration.

ARCI is a well-known acronym in Italy. Founded near Florence at the end of the 1950s, its strong mutualistic and democratic vocation has contributed over the years to the construction of the country.

Today, the association promotes culture, sociality and solidarity through practices that focus on the protagonism of the member, their ability to participate, to decide and to network with others their skills and competences.

The Turin Territorial Committee, a partner of Torino Social Impact, plays a coordinating and networking role among the associations affiliated to it. Daniele Mandarano (vice-president of Arci Torino) and Elisabetta Bosio (collaborator for the #Fooding project) told us how Arci Torino is reacting to the great difficulties generated by the pandemic crisis that the socio-cultural sector is facing.

The Bench-Mark column is edited by Francesco Antonioli. All episodes on our YouTube channel and on our Facebook page.

Due to the pressure and discontent that many categories are facing today, the Googreen Biodiversity Market of April has been canceled.

Giardino Forbito does not stop and wants to support the virtuous realities of the territory with all its tools.

From today, a small platform with the producers of Googreen market will allow you to reach their e-commerce and their menus of the week, for a shopping at a distance, but still sustainable.

Clic HERE to visit the website and support them!

SOIL IS KEY TO EVERYTHING. ONLY HEALTHY AND FERTILE SOIL CAN PROVIDE US WITH CLEAN, QUALITY FOOD.

What kind of agriculture can regenerate our soil? Deborah and Gabriele of Podere Bianchi Galli in Marena, near Parma, started their farm in the Apennines four years ago. They raise Cornigliese Sheep (Slow Food Presidium) as well as Ciuta sheep, pasture-raised hens and donkeys. They consider these allies in their work, and know how to rotate them on the pastures effectively: first the sheep, then the donkeys, and then the hens. This allows their soil to remain fertile, rich and productive.

They have horticultural gardens too and continue to practice their previous profession: training dogs, a job that’s as important as ever in this area in order to live alongside the wolves that have repopulated these mountains. It’s not a conventional farm, by any means, but an example of permaculture.

In this Food Talk, they tell us what it means to farm in this way, preserving the fertility of the land and producing high-quality meat in a beautiful environment. The soil is key to everything, and animals are powerful allies.

The Food Talks are a new and freely accessible format of Terra Madre Salone del Gusto: ten minutes for our guests to explore their thoughts on the world we live in, and the future we want for it!

OTHER INFO

• Event languages: IT, EN
• Online event

With Bench-Mark, we tell about the value that the different realities adhering to Torino Social Impact are giving in interpreting the impact economy.

This time, we sit on the bench with Rosalba La Grotteria and Francesca Vanzetti, members of Codex, a development agency, founded between 1987 and 1988 in cooperative form, which offers consultancy on issues relating to the European Union, local economic development, and labor policies.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investments (GSG), Torino Social Impact and Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia, the Italian National Advisory Board, have joined forces to launch the Impact Narrative Awards, the first-ever award dedicated to communication about impact investing.

The word “impact” is proliferating in marketing strategies, but an effective and compelling narrative about impact investing is still lacking. Impact investment means optimizing risk, return and impact to benefit people and the planet. Impact investment does so by setting specific social and environmental objectives alongside financial ones and measuring their achievement.

The Impact Narrative Awards aims to identify best-in-class examples of impact investing stories used to persuade financial institutions and governments to put their full weight behind the impact. By honoring excellence in communication, we can strengthen the narratives used to promote impact investing and help our community to speak with one voice. In doing so, we elevate the profile of impact investing and enable it to expand around the world, bringing benefits to people and the planet.

The winners will be announced on October 7, 2021, to 1,500 impact professionals at the GSG Global Impact Summit.

SmartCommunities conference is the annual national meeting organised by the Italian SmartCommunities Cluster.

It will be held online on the 13^th April 2021 from 9.00 to 17.00 and will be mainly in Italian, with the exception of some of the key speakers.

The Conference 2021 is focused on Digital Transformation and intends to propose a reflection and a comparison to look carefully at the Covid-19 changes, understand how the digital transition has changed and is changing our communities and their needs, and propose solutions to seize new opportunities from this “new normality”.

The conference will have an opening session and 3 thematic sessions presenting innovation projects for the management of urban and metropolitan areas, particularly in 3 topics:

• Smart and collaborative mobility (intelligent mobility of goods and people).
• Smart and secure living (urban security, protection of the territory and critical infrastructures, prevention of critical or risk events, IT security of data and their use)
• Smart and inclusive government (relationship between public administrations and citizens, participation and social inclusion, processes and service management).

For further information and agenda, visit www.smartcommunitiestech.it/scc-2021/agenda/

On Sunday 11 April 2021, with spring now in full swing, the #Googreen Biodiversity Market celebrates active nature and all its potential at Giardino Sambuy, which, like every second Sunday of the month, comes back to life to be a place for meeting, good practices, exchanges and seasonal stories.

• From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. – Googreen producers selected by Giardino Forbito will be back, as always, to represent seasonal excellence.

This month’s Spazio delle Idee is dedicated, on the subject of active nature, to the knowledge and application of the plants and herbs most useful to our well-being.

• 11 am: HEMP. An appointment with Maestro Bruno Tessa, hemp spinner from Coazze and a profound connoisseur of history, who will talk about this ancient craft and what an incredible plant hemp is. In collaboration with Ecomuseo di Coazze and live on Facebook.
• 12pm: NATURAL DYES. An appointment with Claudio Vitali, the story of Passione Natura and the years dedicated to phytotherapeutic research, to the precious medicines distilled from cannabis, rosemary, thyme and the infinite range offered by nature. Live on Facebook.
• 2 p.m.: ARTEMISIA. Appointment with Stefano Nervi, organic mugwort grower, who collects and dries the buds naturally to make infusions, tisanes and decoctions, oleoliths, mother tinctures, toothpastes, bitters and syrups, dream pads, smudges and cigars for moxa. Live on Facebook.
• 4 pm: SAGE. An appointment with herb master Marco Gramaglia to discover what is much more than a kitchen herb, and whose name already contains the answer to its innumerable powers. Live on Facebook.

And then, like every Sunday, let’s protect biodiversity by supporting the collection of signatures promoted by the European Union: “Let’s save bees and farmers” and the lowered shutters of the Sambuy gazebo will remain in support of the small precious exhibition for the “FAI parlare la città” project.

Giardino forbito is a cultural association that crosses biodiversity, attention to green and urban regeneration, with the aim of giving new life to abandoned places.

In the Sambuy gardens of Piazza Carlo Felice, every second Sunday of the month is organized Googreen, a market of biosustainability with producers of excellence.
Right here we met the president of Giardino Forbito Antonella Giani, who told us the story of this reality partner of Torino Social Impact.

The interview is by Francesco Antonioli.

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To encourage the strengthening of the ecosystem and the collective dimension, a path has been started to enable the involvement and the protagonism of the partners.

On November 25, 2020, during the Assembly of Torino Social Impact, it was started four working groups: Innovation Mapping, Impact Finance, Tech4Good, Internationalization. The aim of these groups is to give space to the emerging planning in these areas, to integrate and update the masterplan of Torino Social Impact and to define planning.

From an initial analysis of the needs of the 25 partners who took part in the working group on mapping for social innovation, there emerged a clear need to establish a profitable relationship between the local market and the third sector, which are still struggling to cooperate, but also an internal network within the third sector that facilitates networking. There is also a strong need for external representation.

There are 3 tracks that the group follows to arrive at the mapping proposal:

• Knowing. What is the purpose of mapping?
• Disseminate. How is Torino Social Impact perceived from the outside?
• Interact. How can Torino Social Impact actors improve their internal communication?

The working group is coordinated by TSI partners Hackability, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, Open Incet and Torino Urban Lab.

In the framework of the Digital Road to Mannheim promoted by the European Commission on April 29th, 2021, at 1:00 pm, Torino Social Impact contributes to the event Partnerships for maximizing social impact by organizing one of the working sessions.

The session “Multiplayer Local Partnerships for the Social Economy” will compare some EU cases, provide academic analysis and explore how these forms of cooperation strengthen the innovation capabilities of the partners, letting innovative solutions more likely to emerge than in situations where actors are acting alone without coordination. In addition to the clear advantages (knowledge sharing, advocacy, resources pooling, shared services, joint promotion, etc) local partnership, similarly to clusters mechanisms, lay on high-quality synergies and are able to facilitate profitable inner exchanges, boosting solutions and their scalability and replicability. These frameworks have proven their effectiveness during the COVID-19 outbreak emergency, when fast information circulation and quick actors coordination turned to be essential to meet the needs of different communities and people’s groups, and are now playing a key role in the recovery programs.

Check out the program:

Introduction

• Mario Calderini, spokesman of Torino Social Impact and full professor Politecnico of Milano
• Karel Vanderpoorten, Policy Officer Social Economy DG Grow
• Luigi Martignetti, Secretary General of REVES

Good practices

• Anders Bro, Coordinator Partnership for Social Innovation Örebro County
• Elisa Rosso, Senior Advisor and Projects Coordinator, Torino Social Impact
• Coos Santing, Programm Manager Impact Economy, ImpactCity The Hague

Session Moderator: Raffaella Scalisi, Senior Advisor Torino Social Impact

More information

Register here

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• Twitter: https://twitter.com/euses2020
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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/euses_2020/
• Newsletter: http://newsletter.euses2020.eu/f/245685-241523/

The LINKS Foundation, born from an agreement between the Polytechnic of Turin and the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, has been presiding over technical-scientific disciplines falling within the fields of engineering and architecture, making use of the work of 150 researchers.

In the Cittadella Politecnica, we met Micaela and Mirko, who at LINKS deal with applied research, technology transfer and, collaterally, social impact.

The interview is by Francesco Antonioli.

Thursday 25th  March 2021 the first Policy Lab “Regenerating public policies starting from local communities – designing the scenario”, organized as part of the “Top Metro Fa Bene” project, promoted by the Metropolitan City of Turin in partnership with S-Nodi.

Participation reserved to members of the partners involved from the Municipalities of Collegno, Grugliasco, Moncalieri, Rivoli and Venaria and the Consortia directly involved in the co-design, the first Policy Lab will be a training event that will see the participation of Fabrizio Barca, Coordinator of the Inequalities and Diversity Forum and Mario Calderini, Spokesperson of Torino Social Impact and Director of Tiresia, and will also see the important contribution of Carlo Anselmi, Director of the Area Coesione Sociale Consorzio Ovest Solidale, Mario Lupo, Director of the Economic Development Department of the Metropolitan City of Turin, Marzia Sica, Head of Obiettivo Persone of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, Carlo Chiama, Director of Confesercenti of Turin and Province and Pierluigi Dovis, Director of the Diocesan Caritas Turin Office. Partners and panelists will discuss local and national challenges to unlock the potential of the territories by developing sustainable local ecosystems.

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The City of Turin through the European Funds and Innovation Sector has won, as leader, the European project called EaSI, “Competence Centers for Social Innovation”.

“It is a very important success that seals the role of Turin as one of the most important centers in the world for Social Innovation and impact finance – says Mario Calderini, spokesperson for Torino Social Impact -. It is no coincidence that Turin has been chosen as the venue for two international events that have been included by the specialized press among the ten most important in the world in 2021 and the European Commission has presented the case of Turin as one of the guiding examples in the construction of the Social Economy Action Plan that will be launched in a few months”.

“This recognition is the result of the efforts made to consolidate in Turin a unique ecosystem in the field of social innovation – says Marco Pironti, Councillor for Innovation of the City of Turin -. The Center will represent a fundamental tool for a real long-term impact on the territory, strengthening the role of experimenter of social innovation practices, also through the funds of the Pon Metro”.

The EaSI (Employment and Social Innovation) program is a European financial instrument that aims to promote a high level of sustainable and quality employment, ensure adequate and decent social protection, combat exclusion and poverty, and improve working conditions.

The objective of the project is to support the creation and development of a National Competence Center for Social Innovation, with the functions of: capacity building of key social innovation stakeholders; transnational knowledge transfer; creating synergies between the EaSI program and the ESF (European Social Fund), especially with a view to designing, supporting, monitoring and integrating innovative actions that could be extended and/or replicated using ESF funds in the coming years; networking to network and cooperate with other selected Centers of Competence, using mutual learning and jointly developing, evaluating and optimizing relevant methods and tools also collecting and disseminating inspiring examples, models and practices.

With this project – whose total budget is about 900 thousand euros – we want to build a bridge between public policies and social practices in order to integrate Social Innovation in Italy and partner countries as a human-centered approach to innovation, able to promote technological development and at the same time address the most urgent social and societal challenges.

The strategy is to create a National Center of Competence on Social Innovation as a platform to connect public policies and communities of practice in order to facilitate mutual understanding, foster better cooperation and increase the capacity of policymakers and practitioners to promote the theme in the country (and abroad).

The Center, therefore, aims to facilitate the promotion, mainstreaming and upscaling of social innovation based on the specific characteristics of the context of each partner involved, building on a strong strategic partnership between public authorities, universities and research centers, intermediaries and practitioners who share a common vision of social innovation as a key driver for inclusive and sustainable European development. To this end it will support and coordinate the nascent Centers in Greece, Romania and Slovenia.

A Steering Committee will be set up at the Italian level, composed of ANPAL, the Managing Authority of the Inclusion PON and the Pon Metro with coordination and guidance functions.

The project – whose partners are Fondazione Brodolini, Politecnico di Milano, University of Bologna, Politecnico di Torino, Euricse, Fondazione Italia Sociale – has gathered the support of over 30 Italian public and private stakeholders.

In ten years, 4.250 families and entrepreneurs have been able to take advantage of microcredit support, which has allowed them to re-enter a circuit where they had been excluded from the traditional credit system. This is the action of PerMicro, one of the most important microcredit companies in Italy and partner of Torino Social Impact.

On the Bench-Mark bench sits PerMicro’s CEO Benigno Imbriato, who tells us about the social impact of microcredit on the territory.

The interview is by Francesco Antonioli.

“How Social Impact and Circular Economy meet Digital Transformation” is the title of the first workshop organised by the European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy, published by the University of Turin. A completely online event that will see academics and businesses from the Turin area confront each other in an open debate on how digital transformation is changing and evolving social impact and the circular economy.

The event will be opened by the Rector of the University – Prof. Stefano Geuna, the Director of the Department of Management – Prof. Francesca Culasso and the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine, Prof. Paolo Biancone. The online meeting will also be a new opportunity to highlight the strategic importance of our city in terms of Social Impact. The Department of Management, in fact, is one of the partners of Torino Social Impact within the Social Entrepreneurship Committee, as well as being one of the promoters and organisers of the university refresher course “Social Impact Assessment”, which currently has over 150 students. The online event will be open to the public upon registration at socialimpact.management@unito.it.

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Here the full workshop program

Pioneerspost reports on the 10 impact events not to be missed in 2021. Among these is the Ashoka Changemaker Summit in Torino.

Esela – 8-31 March

The virtual conference run by Esela, the legal network for social impact, attracts lawyers, businesses, investors and policy makers. Various online sessions will take place each week, focusing on impact investing, purpose-led business, environment, sustainability, business and human rights and ESG. The conference promises “curated networking”, knowledge sharing on legal structures and deals, and discussion of market developments.

Tickets for non-members are €207, or you can become a member of Esela from €20 per year.

Skoll World Forum – 13-15 April

The Skoll Foundation’s flagship event, the Skoll World Forum, gathers social entrepreneurs, innovators, thought leaders and artists from around the world to advance solutions to pressing global problems. Formerly held in Oxford, England and invitation-only, this year’s Virtual Forum is open to all and will focus on ‘Closing the Distance’, a theme that will “examine local and global divides” and how to mend them. This year, key speakers include Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s minister responsible for social innovation, and chef José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen.

Registration for this 18th edition is free and more information will follow in the coming months. Check the Frequently Asked Questions page for details.

Impact Summit – 19-20 May

Scotland’s Impact Summit is for anyone from business, government and education who’s interested in a values-led economy. Head to the website on 19-20 May to find talks focusing on people, the planet and technology, with leaders from Yunus Social Business, Ben & Jerry’s Europe and ethical search engine Ecosia. There are also chances to network and explore exhibitor stands in a virtual marketplace.

This year Impact Summit is operating a ‘pay what you can model’, with suggested fees from £10 to £100.

ChangeNow Summit – 27-29 May

The ChangeNow Summit promotes itself as a space to discover, test, and discuss innovations and solutions to urgent global issues. Speakers this year include civil rights activist and co-founder of New York’s Black Lives Matter movement Chivona Renée Newsome and economist and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab Kate Raworth. There’s the opportunity to visit The World Expo for demos of innovations for the planet, as well as numerous networking events.

The summit will take place over three days in the new Grand Palais Ephemere in Paris, but full digital access is also available.

Early bird tickets for digital access are €90 until 31 March, and €90-€250 for in-person attendance.

Social Enterprise World Forum – September/October

The Social Enterprise World Forum typically draws thousands of social entrepreneurs and innovators from across the globe, moving to a new location each year. It went online for the first time last year, and in 2021 will run four separate events throughout the year.

The main World Forum is planned for September or October, with plans for a hybrid online and face-to-face event. SEWF is partnering with Common Good Solutions in eastern Canada as it spotlights the country, with key themes including climate change, young people, social procurement, economic recovery and indigenous social enterprises.

Other events include SEWF Policy Forum on 27-28 April, the SEWF Rural Forum on 8-9 June, and the SEWF Academic Forum in November.

More details on all these events coming soon – keep an eye on SEWF’s website.

Ashoka Changemaker Summit – September-December

Another hybrid event, the Ashoka Changemaker Summit takes place in Turin in December, with online sessions and networking taking place online beforehand, from September to November.

The focus will be on unlocking the potential for change in the areas including children and youth, climate, technology, gender and diversity. Sessions aim to promote learning and building trust, and are targeted at leaders from business or philanthropy looking to expand the impact of their organisation or portfolio, as well as the global Ashoka community of social entrepreneurs and their support network.

GSG Impact Summit – 6-8 October

The annual GSG Impact Summit – hosted by the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment – was due to take place in South Africa last year, but like many, took place online instead. The summit attracts impact entrepreneurs, investors and intermediaries, and last year had more than 1,500 participants from 73 countries.

This year’s event, again online, will discuss “the best impact initiatives and real-world examples”, and share “practical tools and solutions to empower and inspire”, according to GSG. Keep an eye on their website for more information to come.

Socap – 18-22 October

San Francisco’s Social Capital Markets conference is online again this year. It’s for social entrepreneurs, investors, foundations and policy makers wanting to explore impact investing. Attendees (5,000 are expected) can follow live and pre-recorded sessions, attend an interactive marketplace and join networking meet-ups. Speakers and agenda coming soon.

Early bird tickets are available (until 29 May) for $199.

Social Value Matters – 20-21 October

Social Value International and Social Value Thailand are co-hosting Social Value Matters 2021, bringing together voices from impact investing, academia, policy making and corporate sustainability. After going virtual last year, the 2021 conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand for those able to attend, in parallel with a virtual event for a global audience.

Looking at the rapid global response to Covid-19, the conference will focus on the power of communities to build back after the pandemic and solve the large-scale challenges that people and the planet face.

EVPA Annual Conference – 15-17 November

The European Venture Philanthropy Association’s Annual Conference will take on a hybrid form this year – with digital access as well as face-to-face attendance in Porto, Portugal (the original location of 2020’s event, before it was moved online).

This year will look at how “investing for impact” could be the “driving force behind societal recovery” from the pandemic. The hosts expect to attract around 700 social investors, entrepreneurs and practitioners from Europe and around the world.

Which practices and examples in Italy and abroad are effective for the internationalisation of ecosystems and therefore replicable?

With the aim of identifying the international dimension for Torino Social Impact, the working group coordinated by the partners SocialFare, Nesta Italia, International University College Torino e Urban Lab, and which saw the participation of Experientia, Permicro, Danish Refugee Council, Confcooperative Piemonte Nord and MinD – Mad in Design, identified the starting points for working on brand awareness of the ecosystem and attracting interest beyond national borders.

The key words to guide the work are:

• international media relations
• sharing of contacts and networks
• European planning
• academic publications

The City of Torino and the Chamber of commerce of Torino are partners of the European project ASIS “Alpine Social Innovation Strategy” within the framework of the European program Interreg Alpine Space. The project, which aims to develop and promote a new vision of social innovation in the Alpine Space, increasing the capacity to propose public policies to support social innovation, involved 10 partners from Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia.

The two days of Social Innovation Academy, organized in the frame of Torino Social Impact and with the collaboration of Biennale Democrazia, will address the theme of the role of the public sector as a stimulus for the activation of social innovation projects and generative welfare, as well as the innovative rules available to PAs to experiment and innovate and the measurement of social impact as a key for the promotion of projects and positive actions for the community.

These days of training are intended to guide participants to discover the outputs generated by the project and stimulate discussion, deepening the challenges and issues that emerged by declining them at the local level.

The SI Academy will be structured in 3 modules and organized in online mode.

Wednesday 24 March 2021

10 am – 1 pm “The role of communities and the public sector in stimulating and supporting projects of Social Innovation and Generative Welfare”.

3 pm – 5:30 pm “Social Innovation in Public Administrations. State of the art of regulatory and organizational tools”.

Thursday 25 March 2021

10 am – 12:30 pm “Social impact between methodologies, measurement and concrete application in PA”.

The detailed program is available on Eventbrite, where registrations are active: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/142474680605

It will also be possible for non-members to follow the live broadcast on the Torino Social Impact Youtube channel.

The Asis project will close its work on April 1st with another day dedicated to social innovation, the Alpine Social Innovation Day. After a plenary session, the day will be divided into 6 workshops, questioning how social innovation changes cooperation and public action, based on testimonials, European pilot experiments and some of the results of the ASIS project. In addition, several networking sessions will be organized, to stimulate conversations and give participants the opportunity to meet virtually and share opportunities.

Workshop 5 is dedicated to social impact: “Social impact, methodologies, measurements and concrete applications”.

The final international event – April 1 – is open to the public. For the detailed program and registration: www.to.camcom.it/alpine-space-innovation-day

For more information on the ASIS project and the SI Academy:

• www.alpine-space.eu/projects/asis/en/
• www.socialinnovationstrategy.eu
• socialinnovationstrategy.eu/event/the-social-innovation-academy-italy/

beeloved Diari di Comunità is a heterogeneous space which contains, tells and disseminates the different actions of the beeO Ingredienti di Comunità project, winner of the 2019 CivICa Call from the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation.

beeloved Diari di Comunità was born as a path of civic imagination, directed to the communities of two districts in Turin, Madonna di Campagna and Borgo Vittoria. Furthermore, the project aims to activate and develop beeozanam community hub as a space of cultural production and social aggregation.

Five animated podcasts have been produced within this project, and they are now available on beeozanam YouTube channel. These are short videos in which five witnesses, chosen among the inhabitants of the neighbourhoods, tell five different stories about significant places around Madonna di Campagna and Borgo Vittoria, enriching the history of such places with their own memories and personal stories.

Malik Adnan Sher, a young Pakistani cultural mediator, tells us about the former Ozanam Foundries, from the building construction to its conversion into a dormitory and the workers’ protests in the seventies, until his own arrival in Turin via the Balkan route. Marcello Gottardo, a retired Religion professor, talks about the Madonna di Campagna parish and the 3G oratory, the first mixed oratory open to young boys and girls together, a novelty in those years, which has marked the personal history, the commitment to voluntarism and activism of many inhabitants of the neighbourhoods. Maurizio Gaier takes us on a journey to discover the many cinemas which were present in the area, of which there is no memory anymore. Catia Bruzzo, who transformed her parents’ tavern into a bookshop and cultural centre, intertwines her own history with that of the old taverns in the area, home to different gangs of young partisans from the Italian resistance movement. Finally, Federica Lovaglio, which was born and raised in Borgo Vittoria, talks about the neighbourhood’s public spaces starting from the memory she has of a little public square, where her dad used to wash his car with the water coming from a public fountain.

These five animated podcasts were made in collaboration with Cliomedia Public History and with the Archivio Nazionale del Cinema di Impresa, partners of the beeO – Ingredienti di Comunità project. They represent the starting point for the construction of an interactive map, which will tell the story of Borgo Vittoria and Madonna di Campagna through these narrations, as well as with the involvement of young students from two local middle schools, the IC Aleramo and IC Murialdo Vivaldi.

Solidarity, volunteering and sharing. These are the keywords of VolTo, the Volunteer Service Center of the province of Turin, which today brings together more than 1,300 third sector organizations.

For the Bench-Mark format, Gerardo Gatto, the president of VolTo, sat on the bench and talked to us about the social impact of volunteering.

The interview was edited by Francesco Antonioli.

On Sunday 14 March 2021, as the Spring equinox approaches, the #Googreen biodiversity market celebrates the Awakening of Sambuy Garden which, like every second Sunday of the month, comes back to life to be a place for encounters, good practices, exchanges and seasonal stories.

• 9am to 7pm – Googreen producers selected by Giardino Forbito are back, as always, to represent seasonal excellence.
• 12pm – an appointment with the book “Trenta ritratti di donne in Piemonte” (Thirty portraits of women in Piedmont) by Margherita Crema Giacomasso, published by Graphot. Thirty women of the past for Thirty and more women of the future. In collaboration with the Graphot publishing house and Torino Città per le Donne.
• 3pm – presentation of Enrico Pandiani‘s latest novel “Lontano da casa“. Set in the streets of “Barriera di Torino” and suburbs, a noir that becomes a pretext for scrutinising the human soul and the capacity for social tolerance. The author is joined by journalist Francesco Antonioli and Alexandru Nastasa, unexpected reader.
• Giardino forbito continues to celebrate the birth of the first Association for the knowledge and protection of biodiversity and pollinators, supporting the collection of signatures promoted by the European Union: “save bees and farmers“.
• The lowered shutters of the Sambuy gazebo continue to support the small precious exhibition curated by Giardino forbito and created by the apprentice Ciceroni of class 5E of the Regina Margherita High School in Turin for the “FAI parlare la città” project.

EUreka!, the capacity building path of Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation addressed to the entities selected by the Seed calls 2018-2019 to make the most of the opportunities offered by the EU, has started.

The Academy, curated by SocialFare, takes place in 5 days from February 22 to March 8 and aims to allow participants to learn about the main pillars of European planning and to acquire tools and methods useful for the search of opportunities offered by the 2021-27 programming.

Each day corresponds to a thematic module: Analysis of the reference framework, Opportunity detection, Basic design, Executive design, Financial project management.

In the 6 months following the conclusion of the course, SocialFare experts will be available to participants for moments of sharing, opinions and feedback on the application of the tools covered during the Academy.

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To encourage the strengthening of the ecosystem and the collective dimension, a path has been started to enable the involvement and the protagonism of the partners.

On November 25, 2020, during the Assembly of Torino Social Impact, it was started four working groups: Innovation Mapping, Impact Finance, Tech4Good, Internationalization. The aim of these groups is to give space to the emerging planning in these areas, to integrate and update the masterplan of Torino Social Impact and to define planning.

What is the social challenge on the territory in which impact finance can make a difference? This was the starting question for a working group coordinated by Cottino Foundation, Maurizio Maggiora Academy Foundation and EXAR Social Value Solutions.

22 subjects from twenty organizations have shared project proposals and reflections on many topics: digital transformation, green economy and sustainability, social housing and access to housing, young generations and discomfort, school, education, training, territorial attractions, cultural places.

The work of the group is proceeding with the analysis of existing tools and benchmarking of national and international experiences. Next meetings scheduled in March and April.

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Social entrepreneurship is not exclusively an organizational form, but it is mainly an organizational behaviour. A behaviour that structures itself along three axes: a social mission (that is linked to intentions of change), a commercial activity and a democratic governance.

How can one become a social entrepreneur? How is it possible to develop services or products not only for profit, but also oriented towards finding solutions to social problems? This Impact Dive starts from these fundamental questions.

Participants will be involved in an experience that will shed light on the mechanisms that make possible the construction of a social business. The main focus will be on the transformation of antagonistic assets – elements that seem to be dysfunctional to the market and to enterprise creation, social problems and issues that are apparently unsolvable – into a social impact opportunity.

Where:
online

When:
Friday 19 March 2021
2pm-6pm CET

Language:
Italian-English

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There is time until February 28th to participate the Circular4Recovery call launched by Marzotto Venture Accelerator to select, reward and support business projects focused on developing innovative technologies, solutions and services with a low environmental and social impact in 5 Key Focus Areas of the Circular Economy.

Challenges
The Five Key Focus Areas identified by the Call are:

• Circular Bioeconomy
  Enhancement of agro-food waste, new models of sustainable and regenerative agriculture.
• Circular Water Economy
  Treatment and valorisation of wastewater, smart water and wastewater management systems.
• Circular Energy Economy
  Energy transition, smart energy management systems, sustainable and circular materials management models in the energy supply chain.
• New Circular Life Cycles
  Circular and sustainable solutions, technologies, and processes in the plastics and WEEE supply chains management.
• Circular City & Land
  New integrated and circular approaches and models for the sustainable development of cities and rural/inland areas.

Awards
Twenty projects, distributed among the 5 Key Focus Areas, will be selected by the MVA Acceleration Team to participate in a Pre-Acceleration Program, lasting up to 12 weeks.
At the conclusion of the Pre-Acceleration Program, up to 10 projects will be selected to be included in the next phase of the Acceleration Program, lasting between 12 and 24 weeks.

Pre-Acceleration Program

• credits for each selected Project – up to a maximum of Euro 25,000 – to be used for technological and entrepreneurial empowerment services, provided by the Organizers and the Corporate Partners network, within a maximum overall cap for all winning projects of Euro 500,000,00;
• dedicated physical spaces in the Phygiwork S.p.A. Business Centers located in the territory of the Municipality of Rome.

Acceleration Program

• credits for each selected Project – up to a maximum of Euro 70,000 – to be used for technological and entrepreneurial empowerment services, provided by the Organizers and the Corporate Partners concerned, within a maximum overall cap for all projects eligible for the acceleration phase of Euro 700,000,00;
• equity, quasi-equity, forms of guarantee and co-guarantee on medium-long-term debts, to be used in co-investment with third-party resources, within the limits of a maximum overall plafond made available by MVA and the Corporate Partners concerned, amounting to Euro 10,000,000.00;
• dedicated physical spaces in the Phygiwork S.p.A. Business Centers located in the territory of the Municipality of Rome.

For more information: circular4recovery@marzottoventure.com

“Working online together, in the new normal”, a training opportunity organized by Scuola Capitale Sociale in collaboration with Avventura Urbana Srl, Genius Loci, Florence School of Dialogue and MAGESCO, the new Master in Consensus building and mediation of the University of Florence and University of Turin.

Starting on March 2nd, the course focuses on how to cooperate and learn from each other while working in online groups, as well as in real sessions, improving relationships and producing results. The course will be held by Gerardo de Luzenberger, professor of participatory project management at the University of Trento and organizer of #FACILITA, the Italian facilitators conference; and Iolanda Romano, expert in deliberative processes and public consensus building and mediation, former government commissioner for the Terzo Valico railway line.

Course enrollment ends on February 22^nd. For further information, please write to: segreteria@scuolacapitalesociale.it.

The photographic exhibition #impresecheresistono – Artisans vs Covid-19, the lockdown in Turin in April 2020 – Faces and stories of an Italy that does not give up, is set up in the spaces of Collegio Artigianelli, in corso Palestro 14. The initiative promoted by Cna Torino, and supported by the Turin Chamber of commerce, wants to be a message of positivity for the Made in Italy and the young artisans of the future.

30 shots, taken by Virgilio Ardy, illustrate the faces and the suspended spaces of laboratories, offices and working environments of as many artisans and entrepreneurs from Turin in the difficult weeks between April and May 2020. Men and women who, despite everything, did not give up and reopened their activities, after the forced hiatus, with greater determination than before.

The #imprecheresistono project also includes the creation of a docu-film to be released in May, shot partly in the company’s locations, partly in the Artigianelli theater, Le Musichall.

The photographic exhibition will be open until the end of May 2021 with free admission.

Here’s the first edition of 2021 of the Mercato della biodiversità Googreen organised by Giardino Forbito. Like every second Sunday of the month, the Sambuy Gardens come back to life and become a perfect city oasis where we can celebrate the beauty of nature and the goodness of our local products.

• From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Googreen producers selected by Giardino Forbito will be back, as always, to represent seasonal excellence.
• At the “spazio delle idee”, set up with ivy thanks to the Vivai Giani, Marzia Gullino, entrepreneur and creative farmer, will bring her garlands to life, teaching us how to weave willow branches into hearts to give or hang on our doors.
• Anna Fantini will introduce us to BanAnna Kitchen, her food delivery project active from November 2020, and will contribute to the #cifailaspesa fundraiser with the sale of her picnics.
• The Amado Association will propose love poems to the public, silently read by Silent Book Torino and street artists supported by Arthecity will animate our gardens.
• at 3 pm we’ll meet Tobees. The musical project conceived by Marna Fumarola, violinist and beekeeper, Alessio Mosti, electronic composer and Azzurra Fragale, director and sound designer, to develop soundtracks for biodiversity.
• The lowered shutters of the Sambuy gazebo will remain to support the small but precious exhibition curated by Giardino forbito and created by the students of class 5E of the Liceo Regina Margherita in Turin for the “FAI parlare la città” project.

The 10th edition of FOUNDAMENTA, the acceleration program for social impact startups by SocialFare, has ended!

Selected through the call FOUNDAMENTA#10, the teams of JoJolly, Freedome, and Aqura/Mosaic have completed the path and presented themselves to the network of investors during a fully online event.

The event was introduced by the panel “IMPACT MAKING. Investing in social impact enterprises: national and international scenarios” moderated by Laura Orestano, CEO of SocialFare, with guests:

• Vincenzo Durante (Head of Employment Area Invitalia)
• Giovanni Ravina (Chief innovation officer of Engie Eps)
• Sertac Yeltekin (Fund Manager of ZingForce, Singapore)

Here is what the presented startups are all about:

• JoJolly [SocialTech] counteracts undeclared work and tax evasion in the restaurant sector – whose peaks of work are particularly subject to periodic fluctuations – through a platform that simplifies the management of “extra” human resources by facilitating and incentivizing the stipulation of regular contracts even in the case of occasional services.
• Freedome [Sustainable Tourism] enhances the Italian naturalistic heritage by aggregating and promoting quality outdoor sports and recreational activities, offering support and market access opportunities to small local operators who work in close contact and in positive synergy with their own territory.
• Aqura [EdTech] has created MOSAIC, a kit of smart objects designed to promote school inclusion for children with disabilities with a focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder, through a proposal that combines in an innovative way technological objects with training methods designed ad hoc.

In the meantime, the analysis of the 186 applications received for the FOUNDAMENTA#11 call is proceeding: in spring the names of the teams selected to access the next edition of the acceleration program will be known.

Info: https://socialfare.org/foundamenta/ 

DRC Italia offers a Project Coordinator position in the Turin office.

DRC as an employer

By working in DRC, you will be joining a global workforce of around 8000 employees in 40 countries. We pride ourselves on our:

• Professionalism, impact & expertise
• Humanitarian approach & the work we do
• Purpose, meaningfulness & own contribution
• Culture, values & strong leadership
• Fair compensation & continuous development

DRC’s capacity to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, IDP’s and other persons of concern depends on the ability of our staff to uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. DRC conducts thorough and comprehensive background checks as part of the recruitment process.

If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please visit drc.ngo/about-us/job-and-career/support-for-job-seekers.

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DRC Italia reports an open position within the Turin offices.

Programme Coordinator – Maternity Cover

DRC as an employer
By working in DRC, you will be joining a global workforce of around 8000 employees in 40 countries. We pride ourselves on our:

• Professionalism, impact & expertise
• Humanitarian approach & the work we do
• Purpose, meaningfulness & own contribution
• Culture, values & strong leadership
• Fair compensation & continuous development

DRC’s capacity to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, IDP’s and other persons of concern depends on the ability of our staff to uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. DRC conducts thorough and comprehensive background checks as part of the recruitment process.

If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please visit drc.ngo/about-us/job-and-career/support-for-job-seekers.

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Context elements

Since last March, society has suddenly found itself in a new context marked by prolonged social distancing. This condition has put a double emphasis on those places that act as civic and cultural principals spread throughout the territory, both those present and active for years and those born in recent times. We are talking about New Cultural Centers, Independent Cultural Centers and Civic Aggregation Centers. All of these realities will assume a primary role in the process of re-initiating relationships of proximity, but they are still paying a very high price and are under stress both in financial terms (today) and in terms of organizational model (tomorrow) because in all likelihood they will have to reinvent the dynamics of operation and economic sustainability.

These spaces represent the response to collective needs not always considered and often absent from policies; those who manage them and the communities that form around these realities activate citizens and contribute to welfare and well-being, helping to counter growing inequalities and cooperate in mending social cohesion.

For this reason, in April 2020 the Culture Objective of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation proposed “Rincontriamoci”, an emergency call for proposals to support all those centers created by the autonomous initiative of individuals or associations that play a role of territorial protection, present in the cities, provinces and inland areas of the Northwest. A total of 1.5 million euros was thus allocated to 147 centers in Piedmont, Liguria and Valle d’Aosta.

The analysis conducted on the data collected, developed thanks to the contribution of the cheFare Association, reveals a panorama with great potential, not without new lifeblood in terms of innovation, with a recognizable civic, social and cultural role, characterized by different models of microeconomics and sometimes of non-profit enterprise. A sector, however, not yet well defined and not treated in a systemic way by specific policies, despite the fact that these spaces generate social value with a strong impact. Managers make significant investments in activities of public utility, often in favor of real estate assets owned by local or state administrations, but with the closure dictated by the regulations to contain the epidemic, the damage is falling on individuals and communities.

For these reasons, the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation has decided to continue supporting this sector by inaugurating a three-year program that places these structures at the center of the Participation Mission of the Culture Objective.

Aims and objectives

The call is aimed at SPACES (i.e., permanently organized physical places), open to citizens with a constant frequency, managed or co-managed by entities eligible for grants from the Compagnia (see paragraph “Eligible entities”) that function as cultural and civic centers dedicated to a specific area or community and therefore characterized by a strong relationship with those who frequent them; spaces of cultural and social inclusion, multifunctional, possibly open to spontaneous and informal use by the inhabitants of the area, managed according to criteria of economic sustainability and interested in strengthening it.

With the call SPACE the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation wants to financially support the spaces and contribute to the strengthening of management models and skills of the managers and co-managers of the principals also through training and consulting.

The call aims to identify:

1. the spaces that already represent an innovative and functioning model of the sector;
2. spaces that show potential and on which an investment can generate a sustainable social impact over time.

The Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, in collaboration with the Snam Foundation, launches a call for social innovators to find scalable and sustainable solutions with which to tackle energy poverty.

Energy poverty represents a major challenge for society.
It has economic and environmental repercussions that require a transversal approach to promote innovative and sustainable solutions, in order to generate a broad social impact as quickly as possible.

This is why the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation has decided to launch this call, born from the collaboration with the Snam Foundation, with the technical contribution of the Incubator of the Politecnico di Torino I3P and the scientific contribution of Ashoka Italia. In fact, the Inclusive Energy call promotes an approach to energy poverty that intends to involve social innovators in order to find solutions – also with entrepreneurial potential – capable of generating a broad and widespread change at the system level.

Background

Energy poverty is defined as a situation in which a household or individual is unable to afford adequate energy services to ensure a decent standard of living, such as heating, cooling and lighting. The cause can be a combination of low income, poor energy efficiency in the home, high energy costs and low awareness.

Several factors affect energy poverty. These include climate change, which influences household energy demand. It should also be remembered that the phenomenon can take two forms: overt energy poverty, when families are unable to meet their energy bills, and hidden poverty, when, despite managing to pay their bills, families find themselves having to opt for a self-reduction in consumption.

This problem, according to the indicator adopted by the Italian government in 2017, afflicts 8.8% of Italian households.

However, energy consumption is not only determined by the technical characteristics of appliances and the energy performance of homes but also depends on the way people consume energy.
For this reason, in addition to structural actions for the energy efficiency of buildings, it is necessary to promote actions of behavioral change and energy innovation, disseminating information on energy saving, good practices and more sustainable consumption patterns.

The proposed intervention

It is to meet this challenge that Accelerare l’Innovazione and Proteggere l’Ambiente Missions of Obiettivo Pianeta have designed the Inclusive Energy Call.
A call that aims to identify, select, support and accompany innovative and creative solutions with the potential to scale their impact, promoted by social innovators throughout the country to combat energy poverty. Initiatives aimed at a paradigm shift in addressing the phenomenon, combining scalable and environmentally sustainable innovations.

Participation

Fifteen finalists will be selected and will benefit from a personalized and specialized accompaniment process, managed by I3P, which will make use of Snam‘s corporate expertise and that of other subjects, with the aim of implementing a development strategy to broaden the impact of the project.

At the end of the accompaniment process, the winners will be selected from the finalists (maximum 5 projects) who will receive an economic contribution (from 10,000 € to 50,000 €) to support their project, in addition to the value of the specialized accompaniment.

The projects

Projects may be implemented throughout the country and must address one or more of the following areas:

• Training and awareness
• Energy Efficiency
• Measurement systems
• Energy consulting
• Mapping
• Behavioural change
• New financing models
• Skills and job development
• Cross-sector collaboration

Explore

Description

It offers a multi-disciplinary basic knowledge on social impact.
The aim of the module is to enable you  to develop an Impact Vision,
a theoretical-practical horizon to structure your own path towards social impact actions.

The module deepens experiences and practices of those who have undertaken a track oriented to the construction and promotion of impact culture in their organization, practice and transformative motivation.

How it works

• 3 online sessions
• Finale collaborative workshop + testimonials in one full day at the Campus.

For whom

For those who realize that a new world vision should be explored first in its diversity, richness and complexity: explore, in order to understand and learn new languages, tools and practices. For those who want to acquire basic knowledge to introduce social impact in their own personal and professional realty.

Goals and methods

The aim of the module is to offer a widespread and extensive knowledge of the impact ecosystem: from the definitions of social entrepreneurship to the typical social innovator’s mindset. Learning methods are manifold: lectures, group discussions, national and international case studies, and a final collaborative workshop for identifying your Impact Vision.

Learning Journey With:

Description

Impactware is the original, systemic and multidisciplinary program dedicated to social impact designed by Cottino Social Impact Campus. Just like a software is the set of languages and logical components enabling the functioning of a machine, Impactware is the set of concepts, tools and languages enabling individuals and organizations to design and build a (new) world oriented towards social impact.

Impactware is made of 4 modules, with clear and well-defined objectives:

EXPLORE: Build your Impact Vision
It offers a multi-disciplinary basic knowledge on social impact. The aim of the module is to enable you to develop an Impact Vision, a theoretical-practical horizon to structure your own path towards social impact actions.

UNDERSTAND: From Impact Vision to Impact Goals
It is devoted to realizing the Impact Vision in a personal and organizational goal through the acquisition of specific tools: from the Theory of Change (ToC) and design thinking to social impact management and evaluation, in order to define your own Impact Goal.

DEFINE: From Impact Goals to Impact Action
It is the advanced module to design your own impact action, making it effective and participated.
It combines both theoretical and structural phases to define your own impact action.

CHALLENGE: From Impact Action to Impact Transformation
This is the space for individual and organizational transformation, where you will be exposed to disruptive impact experiences which will drive you to make your action tangible in the world and in society.

How it works

• Full Program: 4 modules
• Single modules: Explore, Understand, Define, Challenge
• Customizable journey: ad hoc editions for your organization

For whom

Impactware is held twice a year. The Spring edition is dedicated to young professionals, neo-entrepreneurs and start-up funders; the Autumn edition is for entrepreneurs, senior managers in various company functions (CSR, Change Management, Strategy, HR), both from the profit and nonprofit world.

For those who want to play a role in creating a new vision of the world.
For leading organizations from theory to practice through the identification of a social impact path.

Turin, February 1, 2020 – Wiseair is a project created by 5 young engineers of the Politecnico di Milano with the mission to allow citizens to access clear and transparent information about air quality and through this information promote a new attitude aimed at bringing clean air in our cities.

The secret ingredient of the project is Arianne, a balcony pot that monitors the concentration of particulate matter in the air. Starting from the data provided by the Arianne housed on the balconies of the so-called Ambassadors, all citizens can learn about the air quality in their neighborhood via App, stimulating the birth of communities of aware citizens who can lead the change.

After deploying a network of over 100 sensors in the city of Milan, Wiseair has launched a new community project dedicated to the city of Turin. The first 20 Arianne sensors were distributed free of charge by selecting the citizens of Turin who most closely reflected the values and spirit of the project. After more than 1000 applications received, the Ambassadors have been selected and the sensors have been installed on their balconies!

Currently, therefore, the first network of 20 sensors is widely distributed in the Piedmontese capital and all citizens can access the data collected in real-time. To know the air quality in Turin just download the application Wiseair directly from the store. Starting from the data collected by the city sensors, the application is able to show the air quality in every point of the city, also showing the daily, monthly, and yearly historical trend.

The project doesn’t stop there. The goal is to use this information to create a conscious movement, helping the administration in addressing the problem of pollution. The community is gathered on the Facebook group ITALIA ARIA PULITA | Wiseair community, which today counts several thousand citizens and two large subgroups, Milano Aria Pulita and Torino Aria Pulita, the two cities that first joined the Wiseair project.

The Torino Aria Pulita project has been supported by many local realities that are giving their support, including Comitato Torino Respira, Bike Pride, and Dott. This is the beginning of a collaborative project that has the ambition to address the issue of pollution in a concrete and active way. Starting directly from the civic spirit of the citizens themselves.

For more information about the Torino Aria Pulita project and the startup Wiseair: www.wiseair.vision/community

The second edition of the university course for professional development (Cuap) “Social Impact Assessment” – supported by the Turin Chamber of commerce and realized within the framework of the Turin Social Impact Strategic Plan – is now underway. The university course, organized by the Department of Management of the University of Turin with the Polytechnic University of Turin (members of the Social Entrepreneurship Committee), the Piccatti Milanese Foundation, Cottino Social Impact Campus, Tiresia, the training bodies of the Cooperative Centres (Consorzio Il Nodo for Confcooperative Piemonte Nord and Inforcoop Ecipaa Piemonte for Legacoop Piemonte), and the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, has seen a boom in enrolments. “We are delighted – comments Professor Paolo Biancone, scientific director of the course -: the high number of enrolments shows that the topics addressed are of interest to the territory.

The CUAP is one of the proposals put forward by the Competence Center for Social Impact Measurement, based at the Turin Chamber of commerce and available to all public and private, profit and non-profit organizations in the area.

The aim of the course is to learn social impact assessment methodologies in line with the Chamber of commerce‘s Social Entrepreneurship Committee Guidelines.

Through a hybrid and highly innovative teaching approach, the CUAP blends theoretical and practical guidelines to identify impact management strategies and measure them. A final business case completes the sharing of learning among participants. The course deals with social impact assessment as applied to projects for accessing European, national or local funding, and extensive local, sporting, cultural and conference events. It starts from the assumption that every event or every systemic action brings about a change that can be measured and assessed with specific techniques, mastered by impact assessors.

The novelty of this edition is the completely online formula. Given the current pandemic situation, the entire course has been designed remotely, also taking the opportunity to bring the culture of impact assessment beyond the borders of Turin with nationwide dissemination.

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

“We are very satisfied – comments Professor Paolo Biancone, scientific director of the course – the high number of registrations shows that the issues addressed are of interest to the territory. The first edition had certified 84 impact evaluators. The novelty of this edition is the completely online formula. Given the current pandemic situation, the entire course has been designed remotely, taking the opportunity to bring the culture of impact assessment beyond the borders of Turin with a national spread”.

“The Cuap is one of the proposals put forward by the Competence Center for Social Impact Measurement and is available to all public and private, profit and non-profit organizations in the area,” says Guido Bolatto, Secretary General of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, headquarters of the Center. “We are creating a center to strengthen evaluation culture and practices through guidance, methodological support, training, updating and alignment with international methodologies”.

Starting from 2021 Torino Social Impact becomes part of REVES, the first European organization based on partnerships between local and regional authorities and territorial actors of the social economy.

Under Social economy REVES considers cooperatives, mutual societies, associations, foundations and, more in general, all those organisations asserting the “primacy of individual and of social objective over capital, the voluntary and open membership, the democratic control by membership, the combination of interests of members/users and the general interest, the defence and application of the principle of solidarity and responsibility, the autonomous management and the sustainable use of most of surpluses”.

REVES MEMBERS are those local authorities or social economy organisation that are presently developing or are willing to develop policies to promote social and solidarity based economy, for a most fair, inclusive, participative and responsible society; a network of social innovation in terms both of methods and procedures based on co-construction and shared capacities of the members and their territories.

http://www.revesnetwork.eu/wp/ 

Description

Impactware is the original, systemic and multidisciplinary program dedicated to social impact designed by Cottino Social Impact Campus. Just like a software is the set of languages and logical components enabling the functioning of a machine, Impactware is the set of concepts, tools and languages enabling individuals and organizations to design and build a (new) world oriented towards social impact.

• It is the program that introduces and develops vision and action for social impact.
• It is the program to generate and strengthen specific skills to manage and transform organizations with a vision oriented towards social impact.
• It is tailor-made and customizable according to individuals’ and organizations’ needs.

Highlights:

• HYBRID: theoretical and practical knowledge.
• INTERNATIONAL: Faculty, testimonials, case studies.
• INNOVATIVE: research and methods.
• OPEN AND INCLUSIVE: Impactware classes are learning communities where Faculty and participants generate new knowledge together.

Impactware is made of 4 modules, with clear and well-defined objectives:

EXPLORE: Build your Impact Vision
It offers a multi-disciplinary basic knowledge on social impact. The aim of the module is to enable you to develop an Impact Vision, a theoretical-practical horizon to structure your own path towards social impact actions.

UNDERSTAND: From Impact Vision to Impact Goals
It is devoted to realizing the Impact Vision in a personal and organizational goal through the acquisition of specific tools: from the Theory of Change (ToC) and design thinking to social impact management and evaluation, in order to define your own Impact Goal.

DEFINE: From Impact Goals to Impact Action
It is the advanced module to design your own impact action, making it effective and participated.
It combines both theoretical and structural phases to define your own impact action.

CHALLENGE: From Impact Action to Impact Transformation
This is the space for individual and organizational transformation, where you will be exposed to disruptive impact experiences which will drive you to make your action tangible in the world and in society.

How it works

• Full Program: 4 modules, 70 hours
• Single modules: Explore, Understand, Define, Challenge
• Customizable journey: ad hoc editions for your organization

For whom

Impactware is held twice a year. The Spring edition is dedicated to young professionals, neo-entrepreneurs and start-up funders; the Autumn edition is for entrepreneurs, senior managers in various company functions (CSR, Change Management, Strategy, HR), both from the profit and nonprofit world.

For those who want to play a role in creating a new vision of the world.
For leading organizations from theory to practice through the identification of a social impact path.

Discover Impactware

It was held online on December 4 at 10 a.m. workshop to present and discuss the project for the Social Impact Stock Exchange.

The Social Impact Stock Exchange project

Launched by Torino Social Impact, the project aims to promote the feasibility of a capital market for the social economy, which can integrate the current system of access to resources and facilitate growth processes of companies with social aims, with the aim of generating social value for all stakeholders.

During the workshop was presented the outcome of a study that has deepened the context for the development of a capital market for social purpose organizations, international experiences, analysis of the demand and supply of capital, the possible structure of the future market, also in terms of legal compatibility, access requirements and related control processes.

The objective of the meeting was to share the analysis and collect ideas and observations to foster the development of the project. The meeting was structured through three working groups related to the functioning mechanisms of the Social Impact Stock Exchange.

Participants worked on 3 thematic strands:
Group 1 – Does the Social Impact Stock Exchange serve companies with an impact? – Moderator: Giorgio Fiorentini, Bocconi University
Group 2 – Criteria, rules, and requirements for the actors involved in the Social Impact Stock Exchange system – Moderator: Roberto Randazzo, R&P Legal
Group 3 – The ecosystem and incentives – Moderator: Flaviano Zandonai, CGM Cooperative Group

List of participants:

a|impact
Ashoka
Banca Etica
Borsa Italiana
CGM coop
Cometa & Assofondipensione
Consob
Coopfond
Coopselios
CSP
Enasarco
Federcasse
Fondazione Cariplo
Fondazione CRC
Fondazione Italia Sociale
Forum per la Finanza Sostenibile
Invitalia
LITA.co
OltreVenture
Opes Italia
Sefea Impact
SIA
Spazio Aperto Servizi
UBI Banca Comunità
Università Milano-Bicocca

For more information about the project, please refer to the Social Impact Stock Exchange activity tab on the website.

On February 1, 2021 the second edition of the University Course of Professional Development “Social Impact Assessment” will start. The course is part of Torino Social Impact and is activated by the University of Torino in collaboration with Cottino Social Impact Campus and the Polytechnic of Torino.

Pre-registration is open and will close on 8 January 2021, after which it will be possible to enroll in the course (closing date 22 January 2021).

As far as the mode of delivery is concerned, given the current situation, the course will be delivered online, with live teaching. In the event that there is the possibility, the course itself will be moved to the physical classroom, but the online teaching will still be operative.

For further information on the course structure, please consult the relevant page on the website of the Department of Management: https://www.management.unito.it/do/home.pl/View?doc=formazione_continua.html -> Formazione Continua -> Corsi in attivazione 2020-2021 -> Corso Universitario di Aggiornamento Professionale -> Valutazione d’impatto sociale II edizione or send an email to socialimpact.management@unito.it

The latest research carried out by Unioncamere showed that in the second quarter of 2020 alone, the registrations of new businesses led by women were more than 10 thousand less than in the same period of 2019. This decrease, equal to -42.3%, is higher than that recorded by male activities (-35.2%).

The difficulties triggered by the health emergency have hit the female business world more sensitive to the economic cycle than the male one: 21% of female businesses believe they are more exposed to the negative trend of the economy compared to 18% of male businesses. After the stagnation at the beginning of 2020, the number of employees also registered a sharp drop, which mainly affected the female component. The main causes seem to be: a greater vulnerability of women in the labor market, more employment in the sectors most affected by the pandemic and, finally, a greater burden in family management [1].

“In a context of general emergency that has affected the most diverse sectors, we are witnessing a negative trend in particular on employment and female entrepreneurship. For this reason, we want to be part of the solution, supporting women’s businesses and all businesses that offer services to families. Because a fairer and more inclusive society that values women’s skills and professionalism can generate more growth and well-being for all,” said Roberta Marracino, Head of Group ESG Strategy & Impact Banking at UniCredit.

Against this backdrop, UniCredit is providing concrete support for:

• women entrepreneurs who want to start a new business or who want to grow it. They are offered inclusive and discounted financing, such as microcredit up to 50,000 euros, the support of a network of social partners and access to digital tools useful for business start-ups and financial planning. Finally, they are also provided with a skills support thanks to UniGens, the association of employees and former UniCredit employees, to give solidity to the growth of their businesses.
• profit and nonprofit companies that provide welfare, health and educational services, able to generate a concrete and measurable social impact. Also included are those projects and corporate initiatives that promote welfare services for their employees and their families. They are offered financing with a social impact for over 50 thousand euro at advantageous conditions. Upon achievement of the social objectives, the proposal is completed with the recognition of a donation of up to 20 thousand euros, a training program, the sharing of a network to spread the experiences and, finally, external visibility.

More information at www.unicredit.it/it/chi-siamo/noi-e-il-sociale/social-impact-banking/Ilvaloredelledonne.html

Note 1: Source: IV Female Entrepreneurship Report 2020, Unioncamere elaborations, Istat Annual Report 2020.

The 7th edition of Biennale Democrazia entitled Un pianeta, molti mondi (One planet, many worlds) returns to Torino from Wednesday 6 to Sunday 10 October 2021.

Due to the continuation of the health emergency, it has been decided to move the 2021 edition from March to October, so that Biennale Democrazia can confirm itself as a place of meeting and cultural debate, encouraging the participation of a wide audience of citizens and returning to inhabit the cultural places of Turin.

From March to June, Biennale Democrazia will propose a series of meetings in live streaming in preparation for the new edition.

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The 7th edition of Biennale Democrazia entitled Un pianeta, molti mondi (One planet, many worlds) returns to Torino from Wednesday 6 to Sunday 10 October 2021.

Due to the continuation of the health emergency, it has been decided to move the 2021 edition from March to October, so that Biennale Democrazia can confirm itself as a place of meeting and cultural debate, encouraging the participation of a wide audience of citizens and returning to inhabit the cultural places of Turin.

From March to June, Biennale Democrazia will propose a series of meetings in live streaming in preparation for the new edition.

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For some years now, SEI’s mid-December agenda witnessed an important event: the DEMO DAY of SEI School’s path committed to bringing the best talents to high-tech innovation, SEI PIONEER. And this year is no exception. 

From December 18th, Google Platform will host teams made up of university students in an inspiring pitch challenge, presenting the innovative products they’ve been realizing during these first six months of the program. Each of them enrolled in ASP, Collegio Einaudi, and from SEIPlus association, received a challenge from international companies recognized as leaders in the tech field: GEDI Digital, Reply, COMAU, Leonardo, and SAP.

All these pitches will be published on SEI‘s Facebook page on December 18th.

You may cast your vote for your favorite pitch here, until Tuesday 22nd.

The Challenges

In these six months, each team has developed an innovative product based on a challenge issued by one of the project’s partner companies. Let’s see which ones. 

GEDI Digital and the master app that fosters conversion – Italy’s leading publishing group has identified a very precise objective with the launch of its challenge: encouraging user-to-subscriber conversion through a new “Master APP” with a focus on LaRepubblica.

Reply and the drones fleet – Reply’s challenge is flying towards the creation of a fleet of self-piloted and 5G tech-based drones. To win it, key features are building a fleet, prototyping a mission planner, creating a UTM platform – for collision avoidance and task management – and implementing 5G communication through an SDN controller.

COMAU and debris sorting – the challenge of this leading Italian robotics and automation company concerns the development of automation focused on the sorting phase of construction and demolition materials. This solution aims directly at the construction site following natural disasters but also planned demolitions in the various construction phases.

SAP and the CleanTech challenge – In the last six months, the team that took up SAP’s challenge worked on the realization of a CleanTech software solution. Its main focus is beyond providing a present energy consumption analysis in office buildings: it looks at the future. Thanks to its integration with a proprietary predictive algorithm, the software is able to provide energy managers with advice and best practices to make consumption optimization possible. 

Leonardo and drone management software – Active in the Aerospace, Defense and Security sector on a global scale, Leonardo has proposed to SEI students a challenge with a triple purpose: to create a software, a network, and an interface for the management of a fleet of drones to be applied to search and rescue situations. 

SEI Pioneer: a project of excellence in the field of innovation

SEI Pioneer is a one-year path of excellence that aims to turn the best talents into the high-tech innovation process leaders of tomorrow. From vision to prototyping, through ideation and value engineering, the SEI – School of Entrepreneurship & Innovation has accompanied the teams along the first path of innovation that will culminate on December 18th. In January, instead, the second phase of the process will be started with the aim of putting to use all the knowledge and skills acquired in the previous 6 months and launching their business idea. 

Save the date

On December 18th, all the pitches will be published on SEI’s Facebook page.

Until December 22nd, you can vote for your favorite pitch.

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With the teaching of Professor Enzo Grossi, the first course on “Health, Culture, Complexity and Artificial Intelligence” at the University of Turin started, addressed to midwifery and gynecology students.

Ten modules with frontal lectures, practical exercises in small groups and research activities on original data collected at the University Clinic of Presidio Ospedaliero S. Anna.

The virtuous relationship between Culture and Health and digital innovation is one of the axes of commitment indicated in the statute since 2010 of the Fondazione Medicina a misura di Donna, a body with operational headquarters at S. Anna, considered among the best European practices.

Links of interest:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Enzo_Grossi/?ev=hdr_xprf

http://publicationslist.org/enzo.grossi

https://www.medicinamisuradidonna.it/news/290-formazione-le-medical-humanities-in-unito.html

https://culturalwelfare.center/about-enzogrossi/

A documentary film to tell the story of the condominium-museum

of the multi-ethnic district of Porta Palazzo in Turin

a film by Lucio Viglierchio and Miha Sagadin

written and produced by Massimo Arvat for Zenit Arti Audiovisive

from 10.00 p.m. on December 2 to the end of the lockdown of the places of culture

the film remains available on www.condominiomuseo.it

Viadellafucina16 Condominium – Museum

Via S. Giovanni Battista La Salle 16 – Turin

In the heart of the multi-ethnic district of Porta Palazzo in Turin, in via La Salle 16, there is a building inhabited by over 200 tenants from 20 countries and 5 continents, which thanks to the artist Brice Coniglio (part of the duo ConiglioViola), has become the scene of a visionary artistic project: it is viadellafucina16, the world’s first condominium-museum experiment: a place definitely out of the ordinary, the absolute protagonist of the documentary film VIADELLAFUCINA16 (ITA 2018 – 18 min) by Lucio Viglierchio and Miha Sagadin.

Three years after its birth, Tuesday, December 1, 2020 from 10.00 p.m. on the website of Artribune Television, it was possible to see a preview of the documentary for 24 hours, available from the following day on all the project channels: www.condominiomuseo.it and www.facebook.com/viadellafucina16.

Written and produced by Massimo Arvat for Zenit Arti Audiovisive and winner of the Mibact Cineperiferie competition in 2018, VIADELLAFUCINA16 tells how a multi-ethnic condominium has become a microcosm in which, through Art, it is possible to read contemporary social dynamics.

With the project viadellafucina16 Brice Coniglio has put himself and all the tenants of the building to the test through the transformative power of art, with an idea as visionary as simple: to invite young artists to spend a period of residence in the building, to create works of art for the common spaces, involving the owners in all phases of the creative process. Its history began in 2016 with a call for proposals to which 400 artists from all over the world responded: with the first residences the old building – renamed viadellafucina16, from the ancient name of the street – became the protagonist of a transformation not at all predictable.

In addition to the works of the young artists selected, the condominium-museum collection houses the works of great masters such as Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giorgio Griffa who donated their works.

Thanks to this project, in fact, a space in a state of thirty years of neglect has been transformed into a place of sharing art and beauty.

In the condominium-museum is now in progress the exhibition GentiliVicini curated by Piera Valentina Gallov with the works of the artists who took part in the residency program 2020 realized with the support of MiBACT and SIAE in Perchicrea. The first exhibition closed to the public – in compliance with the rules imposed by the last DPCM – but reserved to the about 200 inhabitants of the building.

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