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

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

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

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

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

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

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

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

Read further details below.

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

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

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

Speakers:

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

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

Speakers:

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

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

Speakers:

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

To register for the event, go here.

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

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

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

Watch previous episodes here.

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

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

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

Watch the full video to know all about it!

About Marie Ringler

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

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

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

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

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

Follow the online events:

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

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

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

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

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

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

More information here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are waiting for you!

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

Webinar Thursday 11 November, 12:00 noon

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

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

Discover with Fondazione Torino Wireless how digital you are!

REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

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

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

SCHOOL, PARTICIPATION and CARE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The seeds Project

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

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

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

Find out more about the SSEds project.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Further details here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speakers will include:

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

Moderator: Stefano Arduini, Director of Vita.

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

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

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

Ticketing: Eventbrite

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Watch the interview to get more insights about GSG.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Following, the links with the events in detail.

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

To download our calendar, click here!

Watch the talk on YouTube here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good luck!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monia

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

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

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

Collettivo mrzb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

> Watch previous episodes here.

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

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

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

More info on the Gen C project.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The main objectives of the project are:

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

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

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

How do our children view the future?

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

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

Submission Deadline: Monday 26 July

Here’s what you need to do:

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

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

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

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

Please ask your young person these questions:

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

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

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

(There are no wrong answers!)

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

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

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

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

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

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

> Watch previous episodes here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE WINNERS

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

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

THE TUTORS

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

Online event: presentation of THE DIGITAL MATCH

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In particular, the call aims to:

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

The call will be developed in two phases.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

> Rewatch here the previous episodes.

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

> Download the Programme

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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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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