3 new promising impact startups have been presented at the end of the 9th edition of the FOUNDAMENTA acceleration program by SocialFare | Centro per l’Innovazione Sociale.

The event opened with the Why Impact Investing? panel with the participation of:

• Alberto Anfossi, Secretary General of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation
• Michele Denegri, Managing Director Finde SpA
• Stefano Molino, Head of Accelerators Fund CDP Venture Capital SGR

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The 9th acceleration program for social impact startups selected by SocialFare | Centro per l’Innovazione Sociale through the FOUNDAMENTA call ended on September 24th in Turin.

The event, which saw the participation of about 30 investors in attendance and 40 in streaming, was held at the headquarters of Rinascimenti Sociali in Turin and opened with a stimulating panel that saw the participation of prestigious references from the world of Impact Investing such as Alberto Anfossi, Michele Denegri and Stefano Molino.

The teams of:

• Unobravo [TeleHealth] offers qualified psychological support remotely at sustainable costs, adapting to patients’ needs, rhythms and time zones, developing a service specifically designed for Italian expats around the world.
• BonusX [SocialTech] simplifies the access to bureaucracy, offering personalized remote assistance to the citizen in obtaining information and in requesting the social benefits due to him.
• I-tes [EcoTech] develops innovative thermal storage systems and offers advanced services and energy efficiency interventions proposed also with contracts based on the guarantee of the result (eg Energy Service Contract) as Energy Service Company or ESCO.

The three startups of FOUNDAMENTA#9 presented themselves to private entities, business angels, private investors, family offices and impact funds. Present were the impact investors of SocialFare Seed (Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRC, Finde S.p.A. and Fondazione Magnetto), a private seed investment vehicle that invests in startups accelerated by SocialFare, and others interested in supporting the birth, development and scalability of innovative companies able to generate economic value with a social impact. The teams have already registered the interest of some investors and, in the case of UnoBravo, have collected a 1st round of investments during the acceleration program.

The Social Impact Investor Day closes a four-month program of high-intensity work in which the startups selected through the FOUNDAMENTA call were able to increase their skills thanks to the support of the SocialFare team, composed of experts in product/service design, business modelling & strategy, investment readiness, mentors and advisors of the highest level and new networks, opportunities for comparison and opportunities to test their entrepreneurial offer. The path allowed the startuppers to approach their target market in a conscious, mature and ready manner and to arouse the interest of the audience, which actively participated by asking numerous and timely questions at the end of the presentation pitch of each project.

FOUNDAMENTA CONTINUE! NEW STARTUPS IN ACCELERATION

Meanwhile, on September 28th, the new acceleration program FOUNDAMENTA#10 has started for the 4 startups selected in summer: Kidding, Jojolly, Vaia and Aqura.

Soon will also be open the selections for the new call, FOUNDAMENTA#11.

Impact Finance: what opportunities for companies with a social impact?

On October 22nd we will give voice to 15 experts to tell a wide range of possibilities offered by banks, investment funds, foundations and crowdfunding aimed at social entrepreneurs and impact startups.
A new, important appointment within  GrandUP!, the program that since 2018 stimulates and supports the development of social impact entrepreneurship in the province of Cuneo. The program is promoted by Fondazione CRC and the Chamber of Commerce of Cuneo with the technical collaboration of  SocialFare.

PROGRAM

Greetings and presentation of the GrandUP project!

Greetings from Giandomenico Genta, CRC Fountation President

Introduction by Andrea Silvestri, CRC FountationGeneral Manager

Impact finance: what opportunities for the province of Cuneo?

Introduces the session Silvia Bergamo, SocialFare

The talks are facilitated by Federico Maggiora, Fondazione Accademia Maurizio Maggiora

Speakers:

Making your voice heard for certain social categories is a real challenge. A challenge that the two groups of the Festival Bottom Up! WALL coming! and Hear me have decided to take up by putting themselves to work for the realization of social inclusion projects aimed at two well-defined targets: the first aims to build a theater open to all within the juvenile prison Ferrante Aporti, Lingotto, to be designed and managed with the direct involvement of children; the second instead wants to create a sound installation in the garden Piredda that promotes the inclusion of psychiatric users.

Discover what the projects of the festival promoted by Fondazione per l’architettura / Torino and the Order of Architects of Turin are and support them!

WALL Coming! A new theater in the city.

The Wall Coming! project has as its objective the realization of a theater inside the juvenile prison of Lingotto Ferrante Aporti. The theater will be a multifunctional space open to all to design, conceive and manage directly with the children. Not a simple theater, then: Wall Coming! will give life to a place of exchange of skills, self-determination and assumption of responsibility, a place ready to welcome the city with its cultural and theatrical exhibitions.
WALL Coming! is an experimental path of rediscovery of their skills that actively involves young people to transform the spaces of the prison in a concrete way. It has a goal of 17.000 euros and 3 steps to face: to design an acoustic system and a blackout system to adapt the space to future events; to design modular platforms and seats to be used with a different arrangement depending on the occasion of use; to create a sign that is visible from the outside and a path that welcomes visitors and guides them to the theater. Follow the Facebook page and Instagram profile!

• Make your donation for WALL Coming! on crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it/wallcoming

Hear me

The idea of Hear Me was born to promote the social inclusion of psychiatric users living in residential facilities overlooking the Piredda garden in Borgo San Paolo. Here will be placed an artistic sound installation that through loudspeakers will broadcast the soundtrack recorded by patients, health workers and citizens. The goal? To promote social inclusion and experiment the potential of creative disciplines for psychiatric rehabilitation. The goal of the project is 15,000 euros and many are the rewards for the donors: the illustrations by the designer Giulia La Porta, the handmade sartorial creations of Sartoria Orlando furioso, guided tours among the plants at the Viridarium Lab Garden in Pino Torinese and a gardening course to learn how to best care for your balcony or garden. Follow the project on Facebook and Instagram!

• Make your donation for Hear me on crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it/hearme

These are only two of the projects of the festival Bottom Up!; to know and support all the others go to crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it page.
If you make a donation of 50 euros or more you will receive an official t-shirt of the festival!

The cycle of webinars on impact integrity organized by Social Impact Agenda is approaching. It will bring, for the first time to Italy, three international initiatives that have a profound impact on the definition of standards and processes of impact measurement in finance.

The first webinar, on October 21, 2020, will be dedicated to Impact Weighted Accounts, an initiative aimed at integrating social and environmental dimensions into financial accounting, in order to support investors and companies in making more sustainable business decisions; the second, on November 13, 2020, will discuss the Impact Management Project, which aim is to create an internationally shared framework for social impact measurement; the third, on November 30, 2020, entitled SDG Impact standards for Bonds & Equity funds, will finally discuss how investors and companies can contribute through the issuance of bonds and equity to the achievement of SDGs.

The international keynote speakers, Prof. George Serafeim (Harvard Business school), Clara Barby (CEO of IMP), Rosemary Addis (Board trustee of GSG) and Elizabeth Boggs-Davisden (Director SDG impact of UNDP), will be joined by Italian speakers who will discuss and interact on the case studies presented. Among the Italian speakers, the partners of Social Impact Agenda, Fondazione con il Sud and Unicredit have made themselves available to participate through valuable testimonies.

From an inclusive and informative point of view, webinars are free and open to all, by registering on the following page.

Reynaldi Srl won the National award for the civil economy at the National Festival of Civil Economy.

Torino Social Impact’s partner Reynaldi SRL is a company specialized in the Third parties cosmetic production on a wide range of cosmetics. The ability to produce in full service, in a short time and meet the clients’ demands about quality, price and punctuality are the strength of the family company. Reynaldi formulates, produces and packs cosmetics for the skin, hairs and perfumes.

They invest, every year, 13% in R&D and, with more than 45 employees, they create professional opportunities on the territory.

Knowing the importance of social and environmental sustainability, it became the first cosmetic Benefit company in Italy in 2016. It activates cooperation projects with Gruppo Abele in Turin, San Patrignano and many other no-profit associations for the cooperation and the enhancement of the work. Since 2003, it works in Burkina Faso and, recently, the United Nations’ ITC asked Reynaldi a consulting to replicate the model in Nigeria too.

Regarding environmental sustainability, through their operations, they recycle 97% of their industrial wastes.
The company introduced a water management system to recover, filter and stock the water in a zero-waste system. Finally, concerning energy efficiency, is coming to an end a project to auto produce energy with the installation of solar panels on the roof of the plant. This will bring to an almost Zero CO2 production.

Moreover, Reynaldi actively collaborates with associations and Universities in the upcycling of food wastes in the cosmetics formulations. Since the beginning, they have put themselves on the front line at the activation of sustainable projects in the social, environmental and economic fields.

Among the others, the training and social creation projects of the GGI Academy deserve a mention.
They train university and high school students through classes and company testimonials.
GGI Academy was born from the will of the Unione Industriale Gruppo Giovani of Turin to create a link between education and entrepreneurship.
Its first objective is to spread business culture and its values.
This happens through the collaboration with schools and universities, the promotion of formative meetings in which are told the experiences as entrepreneurs.

On October 30th, closing the Torino Design of the City 2020, from 9.30 am to 7 pm at the Circolo del Design in Torino, Hackability proposes a day to experiment and improve the kit that is developing to trigger processes of co-design, open innovation and social impact.

Hackability is a non-profit company, which recently won the Honorable Mention of the XXVI Compasso d’Oro ADI Award, which uses co-designing to bring designers, makers, digital artisans, people with disabilities and activate “smart” communities, who know how to solve problems related to autonomy and care, in a process that creates objects, solutions, but also inclusion, and new expertise.

How do you make designers work “with” people and not “for” people? That technical and ideative competences are an enabling tool in a path that gives protagonism to all the people involved and that allows, questioning traditional hierarchical relationships, to share competences and at the same time to reach a common solution? Hackability is a place of continuous comparison and experimentation on these issues, the design group tutored by Andrea Gaiardo who is conceiving the Hackability Trigger Kit 1.0 is a treasure trove of five years of experience and offers some simple working tools to its community and to anyone interested in managing co-design processes with social impact.

Registration is mandatory, while places last, by sending an email to info@hackability.it.

The results of the Social Progress Index 2020 were published on 10 September 2020, providing a complete picture of the life experience of over 7 billion people in 163 countries. For the first time ever, the index measures social progress 10 years later.

The index is the most comprehensive measure of a country’s social and environmental performance independent of economic factors, and complements traditional measures of success such GDP. The index captures outcomes related to all 17 Sustainable Development Goals and reveals that, if current trends continue the world will not achieve the goals until 2082. The data also indicates that, unless urgent actions are taken, the Covid-19 pandemic will set us back another decade, delaying achievement of the goals to 2092—more than 60 years after the 2030 target date.

• In general, the world is improving. Since 2014, the world average score increased from 60.63 to 64.24, and there has been improvement on eight of 12 components of social progress.
• Despite this overall progress, Personal Rights and Inclusiveness have declined since 2011, while the world has stagnated on Environmental Quality and Personal Safety.
• Norway ranks first in the world on social progress with a score of 92.72.
• The fastest progress over the past decade is among developing countries, with The Gambia, Ethiopia and Tunisia demonstrating notable improvement.
• There are important outliers that have declined on social progress. Most notably, the United States continues to backslide, declining both in absolute terms and relative to its wealthy, world-power peers, ranking just 28th in social progress and is only one of three countries declining in social progress over the past decade.

These are just some of the findings from the 2020 Social Progress Index. This year Social Progress Imperative also partnered with Ipsos to conduct polling on public opinion surrounding social progress in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. This research indicates that a majority of people across countries hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic want social progress–rather than economic growth–to be at the fore, not only as the crisis continues but also once it ends. Young people, in particular, prefer that their countries prioritize social outcomes even after the pandemics is over. The full report on is available here.

Amidst the dual challenges of Covid-19 and economic decline, it is more critical than ever that we have the very best social data to understand the current moment and guide the recovery. Visit www.socialprogress.org to explore the full results and download the full 2020 dataset—complete with 10 years of historical data—to learn more about key trends in your country and around the world.

To help turn data into urgent actions required to accelerate social progress around the world, you can make a donation at https://secure.qgiv.com/for/socproimp.

We start on October 8th and continue for six months with a calendar of online events, both physical and local, in a completely renewed formula. Follow us on this platform and consult the events map to discover the activities closest to you.

Here are some of the ways you can participate in Terra Madre:

1. Follow the digital events: you can watch online conferences, forums, Food Talks, and much more.

2. Sign up to participate in our forums and make your voice heard!

3. Share Terra Madre posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

4. Involve your community: invite family, friends, and colleagues to Terra Madre – you could share this message on your social media, WhatsApp groups… Hello, #TerraMadre is Slow Food‘s international event dedicated to our food, our planet, and our future. I don’t miss it, you too!”

5. Take part in a Terra Madre event near you and discover the events organized around the world over the next six months.

6. Organize a Terra Madre event in your community!

7. Support Terra Madre and Slow Food with a donation.

As part of the Gaetano Marzotto 2031 Award, Torino Social Impact brought its collective and multidisciplinary dimension to the selection committee for business ideas with a social impact, alongside authoritative subjects such as Anya Capital, Be-Come, Human Foundation, Katapult, The ConduitConnect e Toniic.

Thirty sustainable social impact startups applied for the first edition of the Special Social Impact Prize 2030, created to support businesses and business ideas that address the issue of inequalities within and between nations.

Specifically, the startups assigned were analysed by a pool of IST partners representing the various public, private, financial, technological and specialist components. In particular: Città di Torino, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT, Impact Hub Torino, Nesta Italia, Open Incet, Fondazione Torino Wireless, 2i3T, I3P, Social Fare ed il Comitato Imprenditorialità Sociale della Camera di Commercio di Torino.

Six of them made it to the finals:

• Diadem, a manufacturer of an in vitro diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease;
• Endelea, an ethical fashion brand that sells online clothes and accessories created in Tanzania;
• 3Bee Sustainable Pollination, a decision support system for beekeepers that uses IoT, AI algorithms and satellite photos;
• Dinehome, designed for cultural exchange between families and international students through shared dinners;
• Feed their minds, the platform to support gifted children and their families;
• IntendiMe, a device to improve the quality of life of deaf or hearing impaired people.

The final of the Gaetano Marzotto Prize will take place on November 19th. The choice of the neighbor was entrusted to a jury composed of Mursal Hedayat (founder of Chatterbox, the platform that transforms refugees into language teachers), Giovanna Melandri (president of the Social Impact Agenda Foundation), Sophie Robé (creator of Find Impact), Joe Colombano (the Turinese man who helped write the UN 2030 goals), Johannes Weber (director general of Ananda Impact Ventures).

DIGITAL + is especially designed for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, including family ones, in rural and mountain areas, based in the Lanzo and Canavese valleys, with a main tourist, agricultural or manufacturing vocation.

The DIGITAL+ path will accompany SMEs towards the knowledge and use of digital skills and technologies useful for improving their processes and operating resultsup to the realization of a specific digitalization project, thanks to the help of a dedicated expert (mentor).

DIGITAL + is managed by Torino Wireless in collaboration with PID – Punto Impresa Digitale of the Turin Chamber of Commerce and uses its Selfi4.0 and Zoom4.0 tools. The initiative is funded by InnovLab project of the Integrated Territorial Plan GRAIES Lab (www.graies.eu) in the framework of the ALCOTRA Program.

Whether they are inside a condominium or around a school, courtyards are spaces of passage or meeting places extremely experienced by their users – even if not always in a fully conscious way – that can become real bridges between the different communities that surround them. For Bottom Up!, the festival promoted by Fondazione per l’architettura / Torino and by the Order of Architects of Turin, two projects have chosen to enhance this type of place by returning it to the community to its full potential: Cortile Mondo, la natura si fa scuola and Corti.lì_Spazio e tempo per essere.
This is what the two proposals consist of and how to support them.

Cortile Mondo, la natura si fa scuola

Did you know that 90% of Marc Chagall kindergarten students in the Aurora district are citizens of the world? To enhance this wealth and combat school segregation, the Cortile Mondo project aims to create an inclusive path for a united school community. How? Through an intervention that transforms the schoolyard into a public space open to the neighbourhood and the city, with workshops and activities for all. To carry out the project, the goal to be reached is 6,000 euros and among the rewards up for grabs are pins and handmade bags. Among the next scheduled events, the meeting “Cortile Mondo guarda la città” on Friday, October 9 at 5.30 pm promoted in the setting of Torino Design of the City to reflect together with Maurizio Cilli and the City Councillor Marco Giusta. Appointment directly at the school, at Marc Chagall in via Cecchi 2 in Turin: download the poster and confirm your presence at cortilemondo@gmail.com.
Follow the Facebook page of Cortile Mondo.

• Make your donation for Courtyard World on crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it/cortilemondo

Corti.lì_Spazio e tempo per essere

Every day in the tree-lined courtyards communicating between Via delle Rosine and Via Giolitti students, families and inhabitants of the neighbourhood pass by. These are intensely lived-in spaces with a thousand potentialities, shared by different target groups and heterogeneous souls and for which a project is needed to transform them into real places of reference for all; Corti.lì‘s proposal aims to respond to the citizens’ need to have a space open to all, attractive and inclusive, where urban regeneration can also become social regeneration. The goal is 5,000 euros! Among the next scheduled events, the concert of the flutist Peter-Lukas Graf on Saturday, October 3 at 7.30 pm at the Church of Santa Pelagia in via San Massimo 21, promoted in the setting of Torino Design of the City: subscribe to the Facebook event or download the poster.
For all the news follow the project on Facebook.

• Make your donation for Corti.lì on crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it/cortilì

These are only two of the projects of the festival Bottom Up!; to know and support all the others go to the page crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it
If you donate 50 euros or more you will receive an official festival t-shirt!

Great participation at the presentation meeting of the projects selected for the accompanying path of DELFIN (actions for the development and consolidation of a financial ecosystem for the birth and growth of social enterprises in rural areas) organized by Finpiemonte and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini.

In order to support social entrepreneurship, a Pilot Project is being developed, which foresees a path to accompany the implementation of 10 business ideas with a social impact, selected among 55 proposals received.

The meeting, articulated in different interventions, initially analyzed the theme of the social needs of the internal areas and the responses received from the territory.

Professor Barbera from the University of Turin and the Collegio Carlo Alberto exposed the critical issues facing entrepreneurs in mountain areas, proposing actions to turn these critical issues into opportunities for the rebirth of the territories themselves. The main responses that the territory needs go from simplifying the bureaucratic spiral, to facilitating access to finance, to designing a widespread welfare model.

Following this, the representatives of the Nemo- Innovare in montagna cooperative offered an overview of all the applications received, highlighting how the greatest number of proposals focused on the valorisation of local products, the rediscovery of the territory and sustainable tourism and the promotion of psychophysical well-being.

It was then the turn of the real protagonists of the meeting, the projects: the representatives of the 10 selected projects had the opportunity to present their project idea to the audience of stakeholders, highlighting their needs.

The main needs reported can be summed up mainly in the need for access to funding, institutional support, the creation of a network at a local level that recognises their work and enhances it also economically, and the need to be recognised as actors for the creation of fairer and more sustainable forms of economy.

Very interesting was the presentation by Professor Bogetti of the SAA – School of Management, who illustrated the different phases of the accompanying path which, through frontal lessons, tutoring and mentoring activities, will take the projects from project idea to business project.

Finally, the speech by Elisa Rosso from the Time2 Foundation to present the excellent results of the Prossimi call for proposals, aimed at supporting development, innovation and social inclusion initiatives in inland and mountain areas, provided stimuli for reflection on the need for a system at local and territorial level.

In conclusion, the meeting showed that one of the cornerstones for the development of marginal areas is certainly the need for a strong local ecosystem to support new projects. It is fundamental to encourage and facilitate collaboration and integration between the various stakeholders active in the territory in a perspective of integration between public and private and systemic synergy.

In this, the Delfin project wants to be a piece of the system and to give its contribution by encouraging the development of the 10 selected business ideas.

Select the 10 projects that will take part in the accompanying course with the School of Business Administration.

Finpiemonte and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, as part of the DELFIN project (INTERREG Central Europe 2014-2020), have promoted a pilot project to support the creation, enhancement or scalability of entrepreneurial initiatives aimed at responding to the social challenges of certain mountain and/or rural areas of Piedmont (Biella, Cuneo, Turin).

Out of the 55 project ideas received, found also thanks to the scouting activity carried out by Collegio Carlo Alberto, with the technical support of Nemo- Nuova Economia in Montagna, 10 projects have been selected, which have just started their accompanying path with SAA – School of Management, which will develop in about 9 months and will include training sessions, individual assistance and practical exercises.

The objective of Finpiemonte and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini is to facilitate cooperation and resource system processes, to generate new ways of interaction and partnership, as well as financing and intervention mechanisms to support social enterprises in rural areas, also through the involvement of local stakeholders from the three provinces concerned and from the financial and philanthropy world.

With this aim in mind, a first workshop was held on September 29 in Turin, where the 10 selected projects will be able to present themselves personally and share their idea of entrepreneurial activity. The 10 selected projects have been proposed in some cases by companies already formally established and in other cases by informal working groups looking for an entrepreneurial outlet. They all share the objective of developing innovative actions with respect to the rural/mountain context in which they fit and to generate with their work also a positive social impact on the life of local communities.

The meeting was also an opportunity to address the social needs of mountain areas, the scouting activity that has been carried out to encourage the identification of projects in the territories and the importance of an accompanying and training path for new entrepreneurs. Moreover, the experience and perspectives of the “Prossimi” Call for Proposals have also been illustrated and the modalities of a wider involvement of the territory to favour the development of social entrepreneurship in rural areas have been analysed.

LIST OF SELECTED PROJECTS

Province of Biella

• “La Scuola Senza Pareti – Filiere, comunità e accoglienza per nuovi luoghi abititati”, promoted by the Onlus “Cooperativa del Mulino” (Netro, Ailoche, Caprile, Coggiola, Crevacuore, Curino, Piedicavallo, Portula, Pray, Quittengo, Soprana, Sostegno, Valdilana, Veglio, Villadelbosco) – Cooperativa di comunità, training for the enhancement of the local landscape and cultural heritage;
• “Vita da Bosco!”, promoted by the individual enterprise “Cubit” and the B&B “Cervovolante” (Campiglia Cervo) – accessible tourism, environmental sustainability, quality tourist services.

Province of Cuneo

• “AGRI-LAB”, promoted by the Cooperatives “I Tesori della Terra” and “Il Ramo” (Cervasca, Valle Grana,Valli Cuneesi) – social agriculture to promote social inclusion, environmental sustainability, enhancement of local agricultural production, sustainability of life in inland areas;
• “Casa Sartorino – Officina Contemporanea”, promoted by the informal group “Casa Sartorino” (Levice e Comuni Valle Bormida, Uzzone, Belbo) – enhancement of the territory, contemporary workshop to generate well-being, awareness, new ways of perceiving reality;
• “Germin-Azioni”, promoted by the “Germinale” Community Cooperative (Unione Montana Valle Stura di Demonte) – creation of sustainable life opportunities in the area, creation of favourable conditions for business activity, reactivation of the local agricultural potential;
• “L’Arma dei Margari”, promoted by a public-private group in the definition phase (Demonte) – valorisation of the territory through the recovery of the Margaro mountain pastures and the trade;
• “Can a local mountain community grow and prosper by guaranteeing the provision of ecosystem services? From theory to practice”, promoted by the Cooperativa Agricola di Comunità “la Volpe e il Mirtillo” (Ormea) – valorisation and increase of ecosystem services, sustainable forest and agricultural management;
• “Vendita di Prodotti Tipici Piemontesi in Germania”, promoted by an informal group currently being defined (Stroppo, Elva, Macra, Prazzo) – valorisation of local production, social inclusion, creation of commercial networks, coordination of local production

Metropolitan City of Turin

• “The land of ERIDAAN: A bet for health”, promoted by the informal group “Eridaan” (Arignano, Balangero, Brozolo, Cavagnolo, Cinzano, Marentino, Montaldo Torinese, Moriondo Torinese, Pavarolo, Sciolze) – socialization and integration through social farming to improve bio-psycho-social well-being;
• “Fattoria Sociale”, promoted by Fattoria Sociale “E.Gi.Ivo” (Valgioie, Coazze, Susa, San Giorio di Susa, Meana di Susa) – social agriculture to promote work integration, city-mountain relationship, participatory management of agricultural activity, generation of economic-social value.

More information and press release

On 1st and 2nd October, do not miss the second edition of Digital Ethics Forum, an event focussed on ethics in the production, distribution, and use of digital technologies.

The event is organised by Sloweb in partnership with Fondazione GCSEC of Poste Italiane and in collaboration with Fondazione Circolo dei Lettori di Torino.

The event is free, registrations are taken at this link: https://gcsec.org/it/digital-ethics-forum/

4 conference panels with more than 30 speakers, amongs them Marco Bentivogli (Mise), Carola Frediani (Guerre di Rete), Sabina Leonelli (Exeter University), Don Luca Peyron (Arcidiocesi Torino), Alberto Rossetti (Psicoterapeuta), Paolo Santi (MIT).

2 special events in which Luciano Floridi (Il verde e il blu), and Simone Pieranni (Red Mirror) will present their latest books and disuss related topics.

A plenary session to decide the 2021 agenda towards an inclusive and sustainable digital world.

Fundraising for the Bottom Up! festival promoted by the Fondazione per l’architettura / Torino and the Order of the Architects in Turin continues until November 3.

Community spaces are fundamental for a city that is shared and lived to the fullest by its inhabitants, from neighbourhood to neighbourhood; this is the philosophy that animates the projects of Bottom Up!, including Miraorti and Stiamo freschi! at the Casa del Quartiere di San Salvario. On October 10th at 8 p.m. you will be able to see with your own eyes the spaces of the urban gardens of Mirafiori Sud on the occasion of the Gran Galà Miraorti dinner, while the Casa del Quartiere awaits you until September 26th to celebrate its tenth birthday. Here are the details!

Miraorti

Miraorti is a project for the redevelopment from below of the illegal gardens of Mirafiori Sud. The aim is to give back to the district 6 hectares of public greenery while maintaining their agricultural vocation, through a participatory process that will involve illegal and voluntary gardeners in the creation of a large park of urban gardens, where they can experiment new forms of urban agriculture and social inclusion.
You can also support this initiative live by taking part in the Gran Galà Miraorti event, a dinner based on fresh vegetables cooked by the vegetable gardeners of Orti Generali. What is special? The dress code: evening dresses and garden shoes! The appointment is for Saturday 10th October, 8.00 p.m., Strada Castello di Mirafiori 40. To stay updated, follow the Miraorti Facebook page.

• Make your donation for Miraorti on crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it/miraorti

Stiamo Freschi! 10×10

The courtyard of the Casa del Quartiere di San Salvario is an area of 600 square meters that hosts inhabitants of all ages and numerous activities, especially during the summer period. Currently, the courtyard is an expanse of concrete without shade and has very little space for greenery; two elements that complicate the usability of the space during the summer months. The project Stiamo Freschi! intends to create a system of pergolas to increase the shaded area and make the moments of relaxation and outdoor activities that take place here pleasant. On the occasion of the celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Casa del Quartiere in Via Morgari 14 until 26 September will celebrate its birthday and raise funds for its initiative during 10×10. Follow the project on Facebook and Instagram.

• Make your donation for 10×10 on crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it/10×10

 

These are only two of the projects of Bottom Up!; to know and support all the others go to the page crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it.

For every donation over 50 euro an official festival t-shirt will be reserved.

Financial markets for impact: model and feasibility study for a Social Exchange

On Wednesday, September 30, from 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm, the Financial Markets for Impact: Model and Feasibility Study for a Social Exchange event will be online as part of the eighth edition of  The CSR and Social Innovation Show.

The commitment of for-profit and non-profit social enterprises must move from fiction to corporate operations evaluated by the stock and bond markets. In a profoundly changed context also as a result of the health pandemic, the challenge is increasingly to integrate shareholder interest with commitment to stakeholders. The meeting will discuss the possibility of creating a Social Stock Exchange where each organisation will be evaluated by institutional investors and retailers.

Coordinates

Giorgio Fiorentini – Professor of Social Enterprise Management at Bocconi University

Speakers

Guido Bolatto – Secretary General of the Turin Chamber of commerce
Giuseppe Bruno – CGM President
Mario Calderini – Full Professor at the Polytechnic of Milan
Davide Dal Maso – Partner of Avanzi
Alberto Eicholzer – Compagnia di San Paolo Finance Department
Emiliano Giovine – R&P Lawyer associated
Barbara Lunghi – Head of primary stock markets at Borsa Italiana

Please notice that during the free registration process, you should specify investors as thematic path.

What is the CSR and social innovation exhibition?

From 2013, The CSR and Social Innovation Show is the most eagerly awaited event for those who believe in sustainability. Recognised as the main event in Italy dedicated to these issues, over the years the Show has contributed to the spread of the culture of sustainability, offered opportunities for updating and facilitated networking between the various social players.

The 2020 edition with 205 “leading” organisations, more than 300 speakers, 80 events and thousands of people streaming will be an opportunity to activate positive energies and share new ideas. But above all to understand how the market is changing at a time of real “metamorphosis”.

All the events, divided into thematic routes, will be streamed live by Università Bocconi on 29 and 30 September from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The public will only be able to follow the events remotely by registering for free on the digital platform on which they will be broadcast.

Torino Social Impact is increasingly establishing itself in Europe as a virtuous partnership model for strengthening the local ecosystem with social impact, thanks to the plan for relations with the European institutions launched in 2019.

In this framework, Torino Social Impact is one of the keynote speakers at the event “New challenges, new innovations, new solidarities – Social Economy in the fight against COVID 19″ on September 24, the first of the eight major digital conferences organised by the European Commission in view of the European Social Economy Summit scheduled for May 26-27 in Mannheim, and was selected by the European Commission as the organiser of one of the panels of the last conference, scheduled for April 29 and entitled “Partnerships for maximising social impact”.

A key milestone in the definition of the future Action Plan for the Social Economy, the Summit aims to promote the contribution of the social economy to economic development, inclusion, green and digital transitions.

The “Digital Road to Mannheim” consists of eight online events. Each Roadmap event focuses on a specific topic and aims to connect different social economy actors in Europe in a highly interactive format, present best practices and use cases, and provide information in interactive sessions of changemakers across Europe.

Digital Road to Mannheim: https://www.euses2020.eu/exchange-events/

Food is community, sociality, a precious good to share and make the most of. Two of the projects of Bottom Up!, the architecture festival promoted by Fondazione per l’architettura / Torino and the Order of Architects of Turin, have chosen it as the mission of their urban transformation initiatives, under the banner of enhancing the social fabric of Turin. Here are the details!

• Waste wheel

Waste wheel is a project that aims to reduce food waste thanks to the philosophy of recovery, transformation and distribution of food surpluses. How? With a fundraiser that aims to raise 6,000 euros for the purchase of a van equipped with a mobile kitchen. The aim is to increase the current distribution network and activate dynamics of urban transformation and re-appropriation of the squares that host the city’s markets during the day and that remain unused once the sales activity is over. Through a van with a mobile kitchen, in fact, it would be possible to recover, transform and distribute food surpluses from the food chain and donate them. Follow the project on Facebook.

Make your donation for Waste Weel on: https://crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it/ruotadiscarto/

• S.P.I.G.A Social Oven

S.P.I.G.A. is an inclusive bakery project that wants to give life to a social bakery for artisan re-generation in the outskirts of Turin, in Barriera di Milano, in the urban garden of Agrobarriera. The aim is to transform bakery into a moment of integration, an opportunity to make use of physical, cultural, social and environmental resources, according to the principles of the circular economy. The project also proposes the creation of a “grain library” in which to collect different types of seeds from all over Italy, promoting biodiversity. In order for this initiative to become a reality and reach the goal of 25,000 euros, your donation is also necessary. Follow the project on Facebook and Instagram.

Make your donation for S.P.I.G.A. on: https://crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it/fornosocialespiga/

 

Waste Well and S.P.I.G.A. join forces and give you an appointment for the joint fundraising event Passata/e in Barriera (subscribe to the Facebook event and download the poster) scheduled for Saturday 19th September from 6 to 10 pm, in the urban garden of Agribarriera in via Petrella 28 Torino. The event is on Saturday but the space will be open for the whole weekend: an opportunity to make the sauce all together, discover the two projects and give them a real chance to be realized.

These are just two of the projects of Bottom Up!; to know and support all the others go to https://crowdfunding.bottomuptorino.it/.

Biennale Democrazia – an international cultural event involving citizens and in particular young people from schools and universities – will return to Turin from Wednesday 24 to Sunday 28 March 2021 with the seventh edition entitled “One planet, many worlds”.

The focus will be on our condition as inhabitants of a single planet, today increasingly connected but increasingly fragmented, with particular attention to the many factors that make it difficult to find common answers to problems of global significance. The health emergency has provided an exemplary demonstration of our dependence on the global context: for better or worse, in vulnerability as well as in solidarity. But it has also shown how important are the links – affective, cultural, political, legal – that place people in direct relationship with each other, shaping spaces of citizenship and what is perceived as “one’s own world”. We inhabit the same land, but we belong to different worlds.

The theme of the seventh edition of the Biennale Democrazia is divided into four paths to offer a broad and articulated reflection starting from a plurality of points of view.

• Planet-World. The demands of an environmentalist movement made up mostly of young citizens strongly show the urgency of returning to the discussion of global problems, aggravated today by the pandemic and its economic and social effects; among these also the new risks of nuclear conflict or biological weapons, developments in genetic engineering or artificial intelligence, the economically deflagrating potential of financial flows.
• Worlds against. In the face of increasingly connected societies, the fractures around which mutually hostile worlds are emerging are deepening: opposing geopolitical blocs, but also bitter conflicts, especially in democratic societies, today exacerbated by the social crisis that is maturing following the health crisis. It becomes so urgent to confront both the growth of economic inequalities and the exploitation of labour, and the pressing demand for identity and nationalist policies.
• Politics and other spheres. While the past few decades have accustomed us to think of politics as a compressed form on the stage of economic and technological globalisation, the world health crisis has once again shown its irreplaceable function. Thus the need to investigate the relationship between politics and other spheres of social life returns: first of all science, but also the economic sphere, the media, the world of culture and public opinion in general.
• New worlds. In times of crisis, there is a renewed need to look to the future to give new form to reality. Hence, the need to return to the paths traced by literature,
  from artistic creativity and the encounter with unknown worlds and to experiment with new looks on a saturated world like ours, renewing the drive to imagine possible futures, first of all from a political and social point of view.

TRAINING PATHS

Biennale Democrazia wants to be a support for students and teachers, confirming its commitment to support higher education and civic education. In preparation for the 2021 edition, BD is once again proposing four thematic courses to high schools in Turin and Italy, with the aim of providing students with analysis tools and keys to interpreting the emergency phase that has affected society as a whole and, above all, to reflect on the future transformations that already today give a glimpse of tomorrow’s world.
1) Cities; 2) Changes. Changes; 3) Counting in the world. The right to be counted; 4) Work in progress? Past, present and future of work: four paths structured by usable modules
by students both remotely and in the classroom with the mediation of the teachers. With particular attention to the interaction between students, the courses will offer a wide range of teaching materials (video, audio, readings, images) prepared by the Biennale Democrazia trainers. In light of the unprecedented conditions of these months, it has been decided to opt for video lectures accompanied by proposals for functional activities to promote reflection and discussion. The materials will be usable by all high schools in Italy, and classes in Turin who request them will be guaranteed an in-presence or distance meeting that will allow students to discuss with the trainers.

TWO CALLS TO PARTICIPATE

After the success of the previous editions, this year Biennale Democrazia launches two calls in order to promote openness to new audiences and new associations. The call Become an author
of BD 2021 is addressed to all citizens who wish to propose topics for discussion in the next edition. As part of a wider project to relaunch the cultural realities of the City, the second call will be
This year is reserved exclusively for associations in the Turin metropolitan area who want to contribute to the implementation of an initiative during the five days of the event. Biennial
Democracy will select up to 5 citizens’ ideas and up to 10 organisations’ projects. All proposals must be submitted by 15 October 2020 by filling in the dedicated form available on the biennaledemocrazia.it website.

As part of the Festival of Sustainable Development, organised by the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, on Wednesday, September 23, from 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., the event Partnerships for Progress: alliances as an engine of resilience and inclusiveness will be held at the Reale Group Auditorium.

The main theme will be the 17th Sustainable Development Goal, which underlines the importance of partnerships to reduce inequalities and develop ecosystems capable of generating positive and measurable social impacts.

Speakers:

• City of Turin – Mayor Chiara Appendino
• Reale Group – CEO, Luca Filippone
• Lavazza Group – Vice Chairman, Marco Lavazza
• Fondazione La Stampa – Specchio dei Tempi – President, Lodovico Passerin d’Entrèves
• Dynamo Academy – President, Serena Porcari
• Torino Social Impact – Spokesperson, Prof. Mario Calderini
• UNHCR Italy – Spokesperson, Carlotta Sami
• GSG Global Steering Group for Impact Investment – Chief Market Development Officer, Kriztina Tora
• European Union – DG Growth – Policy Officer Social Economy, Karel Vanderpoorten
• Reale Group – Head of Sustainability & Institutional Communication, Virginia Antonini

Moderator: Andrea Crabini, Director of Class CNBC (Sky 507) and Class Life.

It will be possible to follow the live streaming on https://reale.top-ix.org/ and on the Reale Foundation’s Facebook page.

Hackability received the Honourable Mention of the XXVI ADI Golden Compass Award, one of the most prestigious international design awards.

Hackability is a non-profit company founded in Turin in 2016 to bring together the skills of designers, makers, digital craftsmen, with the needs (and inventiveness) of people with disabilities. To achieve this goal Hackability has developed a co-design and open innovation methodology that allows people with disabilities and care givers, with the support of makers and designers, to design and implement innovative and customized solutions for autonomy and care, focusing on their ideas, needs and skills.

In 2019, thanks to the contribution of the AxTo Azioni per le periferie torinesi della Città di Torino (measure 3.03), Hackability focused on the area of Turin between the former general markets and the Lingotto (project name: Hackability4MOI), involving about 80 makers, designers, craftsmen, Polytechnic students, people with disabilities, caregivers who worked together to find new solutions for autonomy in everyday life.

What attracted the attention of the international jury of the Compasso d’Oro was this way of working, judged unique, which in four years Hackability has applied to co-design a more accessible future in various areas such as food (thanks to the support of Barilla, Wasa and Harri’s), sport (with Juventus) and mobility (with Toyota and Arriva). But above all, it has made it possible to build co-design tables on accessibility and autonomy in the suburbs of Turin, Milan and Parma, in schools, universities and hospitals and also abroad, in Paris and Shanghai.

It is a great novelty that to win an award in the panorama of the great international design awards is a social innovation project that shifts the focus from design products – which are all released in open source – to social impact and innovation and research. Carlo Boccazzi Varotto, founder and co-founder of Hackability, says: “we are trying to give life in Turin, in addition to the Torino Social Impact ecosystem, the Polytechnic, Links Foundation and the city’s cultural institutions, to a centre that uses co-design as a tool to produce knowledge, open innovation processes aimed at businesses and inclusion to overcome stigma. Not only a prototyping laboratory but a real innovation hub able to create courses, workshops, co-design tables, conferences, exhibitions, putting people with disabilities at the centre”.

The objects and methodologies, awarded with the Compasso d’Oro Award or the Honorable Mention, become part of the ADI Compasso d’Oro Collection, declared on 22 April 2004 by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities of “exceptional artistic and historical interest”.

On 7 July Atelier Riforma launched its first “reward-based” crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, with a final goal of 8000 euros. Two months after the launch, the goal has been reached and exceeded!

Atelier Riforma is an innovative startup with a social vocation, established in Turin in April 2020. Its objective is to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion sector through the circular economy and sartorial creativity. The team collects used clothes from those who want to get rid of them and entrusts them to a network of tailoring realities that, through the process of transformation (called “upcycling”), gives them new value. Once transformed, the garments are sold by Atelier Riforma and can thus have a second life.

The idea for Atelier Riforma was born during the Fondazione CRT’s project “Talents for Enterprise”, a high-level training course aimed at training young people on entrepreneurship. In a year Atelier Riforma has gone from being a simple idea to a startup. Over 2000 garments were collected and a network of ten realities was created, including designers, tailors, sustainable brands and social tailors where people from fragile conditions work. Two collaborations have been established with fashion schools so that students, the professionals of tomorrow, can approach sustainable fashion and learn the art of upcycling. In addition, Atelier Riforma collaborates with two non-profit associations (the ABITO Project in Turin and the Abraham Association in Nichelino), giving them clothing that can be useful to people in economic and social difficulties. Atelier Riforma e-commerce has also been active for about two months now, where you can buy upcycling clothes, but it is only the beginning!
«We want to do much more. – they say – We want to create a traceability system that guarantees those who donate their garments to us the transparency of their destination. At the same time, we want to allow those who buy to discover who made the tailoring work on the garment they bought and understand their positive impact on the environment, generated by buying one of our reformed clothes».

In fact, it is not so easy for all of us today to be sustainable in the way we dress. If we decide to donate our used clothes by storing them in the appropriate bins, we risk the garments being intercepted by the illegal trade in textiles and, in general, the lack of transparency about the destination of the donation discourages many from doing what is essentially a good deed. In addition, the huge amount of clothing that arrives in Africa from Western countries (not donated, but sold) only destroys the local craftsmanship and textile economy. If, on the other hand, we decide to buy clothes made with “eco-friendly” raw materials and processes, we have to pay a lot of attention to “green-washing”, that is the phenomenon for which some fashion brands profess to be “green”, advertising apparently virtuous projects aimed at sustainability, but then in practice continue to produce most of their collections with processes that can be criticised from an ethical and environmental point of view.

In order to create its own traceability system, the Atelier Riforma team has set itself the objective of collecting 8.000 euros, making it its own through its products. It was in fact a “reward-based” crowdfunding campaign, i.e. those who donated will receive a reward in return – corresponding to the value of their donation. In other words: a sort of pre-sale. The team put a lot of money on this campaign. «We opted for a “fixed” target. So if we had not reached the target, we would have returned all the donations».

The results have exceeded expectations! As many as 235 people took part in the campaign, winning a wide variety of products: from a simple guide on sustainable fashion to bracelets made from T-shirts, to notebooks and diaries lined with jeans, to cases and backpacks made from used jeans upcycling, to T-shirts made from the combination of several T-shirts, but also reformed clothes and jumpers made from regenerated yarn. «This great success has given us confirmation of people’s interest in our products and service, as well as the growing sensitivity of people to environmental issues and company ethics. Every gesture has been important to us, we thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts and hope that this is the beginning of a long and virtuous journey».

IN RESIDENCE DESIGN WORKSHOP # 14: “TRUTH TELLERS”

Designers / Tutors:
Thomas Ballouhey + Soft Baroque
When:
4-7 November 2020
Where is it:
MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
In the context of:
MAAT Mode 2020
Curated by:
Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò

IN Residence Design Workshop # 14 will take place in Lisbon, in the wonderful context of the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, a prestigious cultural institution that has always been committed to promoting critical discourse and creative practice.

Participation in the workshop – mainly addressed to university students, young professionals of creativity and design-enthusiast – is limited, being reserved for a maximum of 24 people.

Participation Tickets can be purchased directly from the IN Residence website.

We are also happy to announce that the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology contributes significantly to this educational project, supporting a total of 15 scholarships to be able to participate for free in the workshop. To compete for the selection, candidates must send their RESUME and PORTFOLIO plus a short MOTIVATION LETTER by and no later than September 21st 2020 to the address info@inresidence-design.com. Candidates selected as scholarship winners will be contacted by email no later than September 25th 2020. PLEASE NOTE: Scholarships do not cover travel and accommodation expenses.

For more information visit www.inresidence-design.com

IN RESIDENCE DESIGN WORKSHOP # 14: “TRUTH TELLERS”

Designers / Tutors:
Thomas Ballouhey + Soft Baroque
When:
4-7 November 2020
Where is it:
MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
In the context of:
MAAT Mode 2020
Curated by:
Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò

IN Residence Design Workshop # 14 will take place in Lisbon, in the wonderful context of the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, a prestigious cultural institution that has always been committed to promoting critical discourse and creative practice. Participation in the workshop – mainly addressed to university students, young professionals of creativity and design-enthusiast – is limited, being reserved for a maximum of 24 people.

Participation Tickets can be purchased directly from the IN Residence website.

We are also happy to announce that the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology contributes significantly to this educational project, supporting a total of 15 scholarships to be able to participate for free in the workshop. To compete for the selection, candidates must send their RESUME and PORTFOLIO plus a short MOTIVATION LETTER by and no later than September 21st 2020 to the address info@inresidence-design.com. Candidates selected as scholarship winners will be contacted by email no later than September 25th 2020. PLEASE NOTE: Scholarships do not cover travel and accommodation expenses.

For more information visit www.inresidence-design.com

How can design for social innovation concretely contribute to the regeneration of democratic systems?

Monday, September 28th, 2020, in ONLINE mode, our Impact Dive Design and democracy curated by Cottino Social Impact Campus with Nik Baerten and Virginia Tassinari.

The objective of our Impact Dive is to provide its participants with expertise on design methodologies for social innovation interpreted in the light of the co-creative and co-generative dimension, involving citizens, administrators and other local key players.

Learning Journey with:

• Nik Baerten
• Virginia Tassinari

Is it possible to regenerate cities by involving citizens, local administrators and other stakeholders to rethink the cities of the future in a more participatory, resilient, ecosystemic and sustainable way?

From 30 September to 2 October 2020 + spring 2021, in ONLINE – BLENDED mode, our Impact Agenda The city of the future curated by Cottino Social Impact Campus, with Nik Baerten and Virginia Tassinari.

The aim of our Impact Agenda is to provide its participants with expertise in design methodologies for urban regeneration and the construction of future scenarios for cities.

Learning Journey with:

• Nik Baerten
• Virginia Tassinari

What are the impact tools and how to use them?

From 22 to 25 September 2020 + 9 October 2020, in BLENDED mode, our Impactware Understanding the impact: development tools curated by Cottino Social Impact Campus, with Nik Baerten, Valeria Cavotta, Laura Orestano, Elisa Ricciuti, Alberto Robiati and Virginia Tassinari.

The objective of our Impactware is to provide its participants with an effective and functional instrumentation for the construction and design of actions oriented to social impact, both at individual and organizational level.

Learning Journey with:

• Nik Baerten
• Valeria Cavotta
• Laura Orestano
• Elisa Ricciuti
• Alberto Robiati
• Virginia Tassinari

Would you like to work in the world of Data Science and in building social impact solutions from data?

From September 21, 2020 to January 29, 2021, in BLENDED mode, our Impact Academy
DASI: Data Arts and Science for Impact by the Cottino Social Impact Campus and the Data Arts & Science for Impact team.

The aim of the Impact Academy is to guarantee the participant the development of hard and soft skills to face a Data Science project from the beginning to the end.

Learning Journey with:

• Mara Bianchi
• Barbara Bonoli
• Ferruccio Costantini
• Raul De Maio
• Alessio Giangrande
• Chiara Perricone
• Pierluigi Perri
• Andrea Tinterri
• Flavio Venturini
• Marta Ziosi

Fondazione Brodolini, together with ItaliaCamp, Forcoop, San Donato Scs, Stranaidea and Vides Main, started the project “(Im)perfect Futures”, supported by Compagnia di San Paolo – with the aim of helping young people who have no voice to imagine, aspire and build a future as protagonists by participating in a training program that includes several practical and interactive workshops, to acquire skills, explore new worlds and learn more about themselves and their aspirations.

How does the project “(Im)perfect Futures” work?

It develops in three phases:

1. Future Workshops: between October and December, ForwardTO – Studies and Skills for Future Scenarios will guide participants in exploring possible futures through techniques related to theater, videomaking, written and oral narration and other art forms. From the scenarios identified will arise a common manifesto, which will be the basis on which the association will work at the end of the course.

2. Training path: at the beginning of 2021 will start an accompanying path aimed at providing skills for the activation and management of an associative reality and more generally of social innovation.

3. Constitution of the association: at the end of the course participants will create an association based at Open Incet for the promotion of projects related to cultural and civic innovation with particular reference to young people and their right and need to aspire to a future.

Who can participate?

Two main targets will work in parallel:

– Young people from 14 to 18 years old

– Young people from 18 to 30 years old

How to participate?

Those who wish to participate must fill in the registration form (by clicking here) with the required information, and attach a letter or a graphic project (drawing or photo with caption) to present themselves and how they see themselves in the future.

What will be the “skills of the future”?

On September 15-17-22 2020 (6 hours total) from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm take part at our Impact Academy| e-Learn! Foresight PRIMER curated by Cottino Social Impact Campus and ForwardTO, with Filippo Barbera e Alberto Robiati.

The goal of the Impact Academy| e-Learn! is to know the main methods to explore and generate possible futures, define roadmaps, reconfigure strategies and reinvent their systems (products, services, processes, organizations).

Learning Journey with:

• Filippo Barbera
• Alberto Robiati

What skills should a manager or leader have in an increasingly complex and digitized environment?

On September 14-21-28 + October 5-12 2020, in ONLINE mode, our Impact Academy
I-Leadership by Cottino Social Impact Campus with Andrea Granelli.

The goal of the Impact Academy is to provide the participant with the tools of impact leadership.

Learning Journey with:

• Andrea Granelli

Support Viaggio Italia4Hackability, the crowdfunding campaign promoted by Hackability and Viaggio Italia to donate 3D printers to some Spinal Units.

Viaggio Italia is the extraordinary journey that Danilo and Luca started on August 18th, with their handbikes, through Italy. Danilo and Luca’s friendship began in the corridors of the Spinal Unit in Turin over 20 years ago, after an accident, a dramatic event that they chose to live as “a beginning”. The beginning of a new life, a new way of seeing things, a new adventure. Viaggio Italia is a challenge, to show that living with a disability is possible: a journey from north to south, from Turin to Etna, to discover and talk about everyday life and accessibility. It is also a journey to the Italian Spinal Units, to bring a strong and simple message about how life in autonomy is possible, directly where you start to understand how to live again.

Thanks to “Viaggio Italia” Hackability intends to donate 3D printers to some of the Spinal Units and rehabilitation centers that, crossing Italy by handbike, Luca and Danilo will touch during their journey.

Support the project!

How digital platforms for Open Innovation can enable the development of territories? How can territories accelerate the development of open innovation processes?

Territorial digital platforms and their impact on the development of territorial competitiveness are at the center of the reflection that this webinar proposes starting from the concrete experience of ART-ER with the EROI platform, developed by Emilia-Romagna as a tool for territorial Open Innovation.

The SmartCommunitiesTech Cluster talks about it with Digital Magics, the most important business incubator of Italian startups, ART-ER that for the Emilia-Romagna Region manages the EROI platform, Social Seed that coordinates a community of Social Innovators and Mango Mobile Solutions, a company that on EROI has launched a challenge to start an open innovation process.

The webinar is free.

AGENDA AND REGISTRATION ON EVENTBRITE

On 7 July Atelier Riforma launched its first “reward-based” crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, setting € 8000 as the final goal. Less than a month after the launch, the amount raised is more than 5000 euros, about 64% of the final target.

Atelier Riforma is an innovative startup for social good, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry through circular economy principles and tailoring creativity.

For Atelier Riforma, second-hand clothes, which are no longer worn and would be thrown away, are a resource!

What do they do in practice? They collect used clothes from those who want to get rid of them and give them to their network of tailoring realities which, through a tailoring process of transformation (called “upcycling”), gives them a new value. Once transformed, the garments are sold by Atelier Riforma and can thus have a second life.

Atelier Riforma wants to represent all the people who look for environmentally friendly and ethical clothes.

The upcycling of used clothes is also a means to create job opportunities, growth and inclusion: in other words, they want their startup to connect, through the upcycling of used clothes, all the tailoring realities who want to commit themselves in the environmental protection and in building a more equal society.

The idea of ​​Atelier Riforma was born during CRT Foundation’s project “Talenti per l’Impresa”, an advanced training course aiming at training young people on entrepreneurship. After one year they turned a simple idea into a startup. They have collected over 1500 garments and created a network of nine realities, including designers, tailors, sustainable brands and social tailorings where people from conditions of fragility find a job. They have also established a partnership with two fashion schools so that students, tomorrow’s professionals, approach sustainable fashion and learn the art of upcycling. They also collaborate with two non-profit associations, donating them clothes that can be useful for people in social-economic difficulties.

A few weeks ago they started to sell their clothes on their e-commerce website, but they are just getting started!

They want to do more. They want to create a traceability system which guarantees transparency about the destination of the clothes people give them. At the same time, they want to allow those who buy to find out who made the tailoring work on the garment they purchased and understand their positive impact on the environment, generated by buying a reformed item.

To achieve all this, they need more human and financial resources: going on at the current rhythm, next year they will need at least two people dedicated to working on the traceability and measurement of environmental impact systems. In addition, an investment in digital labels and IT devices will be needed (they estimate an amount for the whole investment of 30.000 €).

These are ambitious goals, so they decided to proceed step by step and to ask the people who believe in their values to support them.

With this campaign, they aim to reach the goal of 8.000 euro, which will enable them to start investing in the traceability system. Thanks to your support, they will give the opportunity to people who donated them their clothes to find out their destination by entering a code on Atelier Riforma’s website.

If you want to help them to take this first step, take part in this campaign!

As a reward for your donation, based on your contribution, you will receive one of these products in preview:

• a bracelet realized from old t-shirts by the tailors of our network:
• a pochette made from recycled jeans and wax fabric by our social tailoring “Il Filo d’Alga”
• a backpack realized from recycled jeans and wax fabric by the social tailoring “Il Filo d’Alga”
• a multicolor t-shirt made from second-hand shirts by the social tailoring “Il Gelso”
• a sweater of regenerated yarn realized by our knitter Sonia Oberto.

If you embrace Atelier Riforma’s mission, but you do not have the possibility to donate, you can still help them by sharing this campaign with your contacts! Every small action is important.

P.S. by choosing to receive these products derived from the upcycling of old clothing, you are already contributing to making fashion a bit more sustainable!

The second selection of the 2019 edition of the Seed Social Enterprises, Efficiency&Development of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation has been completed.

The aim of the call is to help Piedmontese social enterprises with greater potential to design and implement a process of development and transformation, efficiency and innovation. The first selection of the call for proposals allowed fifty social enterprises to design their own development plan, and then to be examined by a Commission composed of referees with different competence profiles, in order to reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the proposals that the call for proposals intends to solicit.
Now the Turin philanthropic foundation will support the twenty social enterprises that passed the second selection, with a total investment of €500,000. The list of selected companies can be consulted here.

In a scenario characterized by growing inequalities, social enterprise and the third sector play a decisive role in Italy and internationally in the production of goods and services that generate forms of inclusion, value and wealth ,and respond to complex social problems. Seed_Social Enterprises, Efficiency & Development is an action of capacity building, management training and acceleration aimed at social enterprises operating in Piedmont, to help those with potential to design and implement a process of development and transformation, efficiency and innovation and at the same time promote, in such a delicate phase, a design-oriented to resistance, resilience and restart.

The objective of the 2019 edition of the Seed call for proposals is to support social enterprises to design and implement their own development plan, with the aim of moving towards real sustainability at market conditions, also becoming attractive for private capital. The company is accompanied towards high level skills usually not easily accessible for the third sector, such as those towards digital transformation.

The Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation attracts, coordinates and directs these skills, strengthening the entire ecosystem of innovation for the common good.

In the last two years PerMicro, the main microfinance operator in Italy, has continued to collaborate with the Tiresia Centre of the Polytechnic of Milan to publish a new research on the social impact generated by its loans to subjects excluded from the traditional credit channels: the latest edition of the research includes the impact calculated over a 10-year period, from 2009 to 2018.

On Tuesday 28 July h 17.00, there will be a webinar presenting the results of the research in collaboration with the Tiresia Centre and Professor Mario Calderini.

To participate in the webinar, simply connect to the appointment by clicking on this link:

Connect to this link on the day and time scheduled for the event.

Meeting ID: 912 3389 6561
Passcode: 423792

Thursday, September 10th at 6.00 p.m. appointment at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation to start the crowdfunding campaigns of Bottom Up!, the architecture festival promoted by the Order of Architects of Turin and the Architecture Foundation of Turin.

During the evening the 14 fundraising campaigns will be launched simultaneously to finance the 14 protagonists of Bottom Up!, each one promoting a specific urban transformation project from below, 12 on Turin and 2 on Milan.

Then begins the real action phase of the festival, during which all citizens (and not only) will be called to contribute to the realization of the project or projects they feel closest to.

After the summer break we will give you more precise details about the programme of the evening. In the meantime, however, you can already go ahead in two ways:

• by marking on your agenda the evening of Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 18.00 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, via Modane 16, Turin
• go to the festival website to find out what the 14 transformation projects are and start following them!

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On 29 September the new advanced training course promoted by the Architecture Foundation of Turin and curated by Mali Weil will begin, during which the entire urban structure will be reinterpreted as a wooded space. Among the guests, also the architects Stefano Boeri and Paulo Tavares. The early bird expires on 8 September.

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From 29 September to 16 October, the “Forestare” advanced training course promoted by the Architecture Foundation of Turin and curated by Mali Weil, an artistic platform based in Trento, will be held. At the center, a reflection on the concept of “forestare” or “making forests” an act that allows to develop a new imagery about the city and the way of living in it, reinterpreting the entire urban structure as a space-forest. It will be divided into 5 modules of 2 hours each: registrations expire on September 25th but the early bird fee is available only until September 8th: register now!

The emergency of Covid-19 has determined a new attention to nature and a rediscovery of the individual and collective relationship with it; a change that will have a strong impact on the future of cities, on the way they are inhabited and designed. The forest thus becomes the key element for rethinking not only living but all spaces of citizenship.
On the basis of these considerations, an advanced training program is divided into 5 webinar modules for professionals in the world of architecture, urban planning and landscape to reinterpret urban space not only from the point of view of greenery or urban forestry but as a space-forest, a space that is built and characterized according to its relationship with the other.

But what is the forest? The Brazilian architect Paulo Tavares, one of the teachers of the course, in reflecting on the exploitation of the Amazonian forest using legal categories and a forensic language, overturns the imaginary of the forest, equating it with the city’s own dimension. While the vision of “forest city” proposed by Stefano Boeri refers to a completely new urbanistic model, based on small, compact and green cities, energetically autonomous and with a vertical development that limits the consumption of agricultural land and with a strong presence of natural elements.
And precisely on this challenge of definition that accompanies the word “forest”, within the course are inserted the vision and contribution of landscape architects, philosophers, jurists, epistemologists to complete the overall picture:

• Mauro Agnoletti, Professor of Agricultural and Forestry Systems Planning and Environmental History at the School of Agriculture University of Florence, National Observatory for Rural Landscapes Ministry of Agriculture and President of the Landscape Laboratory Tuscany Region
• Andrea Cassi, architect partner Carlo Ratti Associati
• Emanuele Coccia, philosopher, Maitre de conférences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris)
• Vinciane Despret, philosopher of science, University of Liège (tbc)
• Michele Spanò, Professor of Theory of Private Law at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris
• in addition to the already mentioned Stefano Boeri and Paulo Tavares, architect, Faculdade de Arquitetura and Urbanism of the University of Brasilia.

The botanical aspect therefore dialogues with disciplines such as biology, law, ecology, philosophy and contemporary art in order to promote a reflection in the architectural field and identify design effects: in other words, the aim is to “make the forest” concretely and in the practice of those who daily think and design cities and their landscapes. At the end of the course, the last module will see the participants as protagonists of a confrontation/debate with the speakers on their original proposal.
Forestare was born from the collaboration between the Architecture Foundation of Turin and Mali Weil, creator of the Forests project.

• Go to the full program and subscribe to the Forestare high training course

WHAT IS FORESTS?

Forests is an artistic and research project conceived and coordinated by Mali Weil, which is articulated through different media and in multiple episodes, with the aim of rethinking the notions of cities and citizenship starting from the legal, social and narrative nature of the forest. To date, Forests, which began in 2018, includes a series of performances, a film, editorial interventions and a nomadic and temporary open school conceived as a platform for discussion and in-depth study of the conceptual, aesthetic and political guidelines born from the project. The Master curated for Fondazione per l’architettura / Torino is part of this series of activities.

Forests is conceived, developed and co-produced by Mali Weil, supported by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo through the Ora! Productions of Contemporary Culture and coordinated by Centrale Fies. The Architecture Foundation of Turin is a partner in the project.

WHO’S MAIL WEIL?

Mali Weil is an artistic platform formed by Elisa Di Liberato, Lorenzo Facchinelli and Mara Ferrieri, based in Trento. Since 2012 she has been developing a research that investigates the potential of performance as an engine of creation and a space for spreading political imagination. Her production ranges from performance to product design, from editorial products to audiovisual formats. Since 2013 he has been the creative director of the art-based brand Animal Spirits for which he has created several lines, product performance, held workshops in universities and academies in Italy and abroad. Mali Weil also collaborates permanently with Fies Core, the cultural incubator of Centrale Fies, as founder and project developer and associate artist of Centrale Fies.

Important updates from Homes4All the project of impact finance to face the housing emergency in Torino promoted by the City of Torino together with the Chamber of Commerce of Torino, Brainscapital, Homers, ACMOS, within Torino Social Impact.

Homes4All was born to solve a problem: the pathways of poverty very often start from the loss of one’s own home. It doesn’t matter if this happens due to personal or entrepreneurial events, but from the loss of the house onward the gravity of any previous situation increases to the point that it becomes hardly reversible, with very high costs for people, families and the whole community.

Homes4All promotes an innovative housing strategy through the identification of property blocks, free or occupied, of different origins (court auctions, vacant housing, donations) to be entrusted to the management of a newco/startup. The company proceeds, in case of empty housing, to renovate, enhance or make available to the social rental channels and, in case of occupied housing, to support tenants in case of debt situations.

From today is online the pre-campaign of equity crowdfunding LITA realised by the innovative newco/startup with the same name of the project. The startup has the great advantage of having management and operating costs of the first 3 years covered by the contribution, paid in favor of the project, by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.  This allows the startup to use and allocate the funds collected through the Equity Crowdfunding campaign exclusively to the acquisition of real estate

Read more about the project and discover socially responsible crowdfunding.

The international impact events canceled due to the pandemic were reconfirmed in Turin in 2021 and a calendar is being recomposed that confirms the centrality of the Turin ecosystem in the impact economy.

First of all, the GSG For Impact Investing Leadership Meeting, whose 2020 edition was scheduled to take place in Turin in virtual mode, was confirmed from 5 to 8 May 2021 in our city. The GSG is undoubtedly the leading international network dedicated to impact investing, it is an independent global organization that brings together leaders from the world of finance, business, and philanthropy. Dedicated to boosting impact investments, which today represent just 1% of the capital allocated globally, GSG analyzes, promotes, and discusses the tools that can return social and environmental results together with financial returns, business models that can profitably pursue a double result. The debate also focuses on the definition of global policies that promote the diffusion of investments that bring together private and public capital with social entrepreneurship and non-profit organizations in order to bring about significant social change.

On the other hand, the Ashoka Europe Changemaker Summit will take place in November 2021, at the end of a path dedicated to social innovators that will start already in the 2020 edition that will take place online in the autumn with the collaboration of Torino Social Impact. Ashoka is the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs for social innovation. Ashoka is based on the belief that everyone has the capacity to be an agent of change in the world (Everyone a changemaker) and the aim of Ashoka is not only to maximize social impact but also to create transversal alliances capable of changing entire systems. This is why for over 35 years she has been selecting, networking, and training more than 3500 social entrepreneurs active in different sectors and in different parts of the world. In Italy Ashoka has been active since 2014.

Finally, the annual Iris Network event. Also, this event was canceled in 2020 and is reconfirmed in 2021 in Turin in spring. Iris is the network of social enterprise research institutes and its annual scientific colloquium is a key event in the national and international debate on third sector companies and their evolution.

Wide-ranging cooperation over the next three years between the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the City of Turin for the implementation of projects combating climate change. That is the aim of the framework agreement signed between the bank of the European Union and the capital of Piedmont, an agreement that marks the launch of an operating phase based on potential investment financing operations, technical assistance for such investments and cooperation for better use of EU structural funds.

This is the EIB’s first climate agreement with an Italian city and the second in Europe. The Bank is committed to aligning all its financing activities with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

Specifically, the strategic sectors of collaboration will be in four key areas:

• green infrastructure;
• energy efficiency of public buildings;
• redevelopment of urban spaces and the urban fabric with a view to climate change adaptation;
• implementation of financial instruments supported by the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in priority sectors for the development of cohesion policies, either concerning the closing phase of the current 2014-2020 programming period or in preparation for the imminent 2021-2027 programming period.

This broad collaboration will be applied on two levels once the projects have been identified together and evaluated positively. Level 1: the EIB operates as a financial institution, with all the advantages in terms of maturity and cost (low-interest rates) that its funding makes available to the loan beneficiaries. Level 2: with a view to complementing EU structural funds, the EIB will play a technical and financial advisory role for projects promoted by the City of Turin, including via the implementation and management of financial instruments.

The SimplifAI Ted team, an impact startup selected by SocialFare and currently accelerating with the FOUNDAMENTA#9 program, wins the 2nd prize of Welfare che Impresa!

SimplifAI Ted offers a personalized remote assistance service that allows citizens to inform themselves and request the social benefits they are entitled to through a simple approach, using the necessary support at every stage of the procedure: a way to simplify bureaucracy and make public services universally accessible.

The startup won the 2nd prize of “Welfare, what an enterprise!”, an initiative that rewards and supports the best welfare projects promoted by bodies able to produce benefits in terms of local development. The competition, now in its 4th edition, is promoted by Fondazione Italiana Accenture, Fondazione Bracco, Fondazione Snam, Fondazione Con Il Sud, Fondazione Peppino Vismara and UBI Banca, with the contribution of AICCON, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano – Tiresia and Impacton.

The Covid-19 emergency highlighted an increasing number of old people in need because of their loneliness or poverty.

S.E.A. is looking for new volunteers for this summer.

If you can’t make your little donation, please give some of your most precious good: your TIME.

We ask for 3 hours/a week to help us to carry out our voluntary services for the elderly during summer holidays.

Gardens, virtual warehouses, beehives, 17 proposals arrived at the Metropolitan City of Turin for the call for ideas of Top Metro FaBene on the Municipalities of Collegno, Grugliasco, Moncalieri, Rivoli and Venaria.

From the creation of a virtual warehouse that brings together local associations to encourage the donation of food and basic necessities products, to the promotion of a direct channel between farms and citizens to encourage greater knowledge of the quantity and quality of food available and seasonality; but there are also those who have thought of vegetable gardens as places of activity and training from which to cook meals from a canteen and make the circuit economically sustainable.

It has also been proposed to work with subjects seeking international protection in the construction of an apiary in which to produce honey and other products to be resold to finance further professional projects.

The 5 final projects, which will have been judged more interesting and of greater impact, will benefit from an accompanying path with professionals and experts of social innovation, circular economy and sustainability, but above all will receive a fund of € 30.000 carry out the experimentation on the territories.

Info: www.cittametropolitana.torino.it/speciali/2020/topmetro_fabene/

A research to bring out the wealth of experience and skills in the field.

Make your voice heard: take part in the survey.

Monday, July 13 2020

Today starts the research project wanted and supported by Compagnia di San Paolo and developed by Medicina a Misura di Donna Foundation, in collaboration with CCW – Cultural Welfare Center and DORs – Documentation Center for Health Promotion. The aim is to bring out and map the experiences of cooperation between Culture, Health, Social and Education through the digital survey hosted by the italianonprofit.it platform. The survey is active from 13 July to 10 September 2020, click here to fill it in.

The research is part of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation’s long-term strategic programme to develop the virtuous relationship between Culture and Health in Piedmont, Liguria and Valle d’Aosta.
These territories are at the forefront in Italy for a multiplicity of pioneering experiences of great interest, however little known and recognized, which encounter difficulties in having continuity, sustainability and real impact of the system. The intent of the research is precisely to bring out and map experiences, skills and sensitivity of the territory, regarding the cooperation between the cultural, health, social and educational fields, aimed at increasing the welfare of people and communities.

Why participate in the survey?
The main advantages:

• to be included in the first frame of reference of the ongoing Culture and Health projects in the territories of Piedmont, Liguria and Valle d’Aosta;
• to report their existence as individual and/or organizational subjects willing to be part of a multidisciplinary community, an ecosystem that sees the collaboration of operators from the cultural, health, educational and social welfare world;
• to indicate what is necessary to strengthen the paths, identifying the enabling factors to make pioneering projects make a leap of scale;
• to prepare for the next European programming, particularly focused on cross over, i.e. systematic and systemic interactions between Culture and Health.

Who is the survey aimed at?
The survey areas:

• Culture and prevention
  Projects that favor the active participation of citizens, with or without pathologies, in cultural activities aimed at the well-being and prevention offered by the territory.
• Culture, care relationships and medical humanities
  Cultural intervention and training projects that influence and improve the quality of the care relationship and the biopsychosocial well-being of patients, care professionals and carers.
• Culture for the humanization of care places                                                                                      Cultural projects (visual arts, architecture, design, music, performing arts, digital languages, etc.) that work to temporarily or permanently transform physical places of care in the direction of a greater humanization and an indirect impact on the organizational climate and care.
• Wellness and care in places of Culture                                                                                                Wellness and care projects carried out in the places themselves and integrated in the programming of cultural organizations (museums, theatres, libraries, new cultural centres, etc.).

This is the beginning, in Italy, of the creation of a laboratory for experimentation, research and training between operators and cultural, health, social welfare and educational organizations. The data included in the research referring to the project dimension, to the individual organizational subjects involved will be protected and used only for research purposes.
Participate immediately in the survey!

For more information: contatti@culturalwelfare.center and culturaesalute@italianonprofit.it

Can we predict successful innovations based on what already happened?

On Monday, July 20 2020, from 2 pm to 6 pm our Impact Masterclass| Live!, all in English.

The hand that draws itself: narration and innovation curated by Cottino Social Impact Campus and Experientia, with Giovanni Nisato.

The goal of the Masterclass is to increase awareness of how narratives make innovation possible and vice versa.

You will learn to…

• Define how narratives build innovation: from startups to industrial roadmaps and their warnings;
• Determine how innovation builds narratives: experience and success are different things;
• Take a more critical look at some narratives about innovation.

Learning Journey with:

Giovanni Nisato

The international impact events canceled due to the pandemic were reconfirmed in Turin in 2021 and a calendar is being recomposed that confirms the centrality of the Turin ecosystem in the impact economy.

First of all, the GSG For Impact Investing Leadership Meeting, whose 2020 edition was scheduled to take place in Turin in virtual mode, was confirmed from 5 to 8 May 2021 in our city. The GSG is undoubtedly the leading international network dedicated to impact investing, it is an independent global organization that brings together leaders from the world of finance, business and philanthropy. Dedicated to boosting impact investments, which today represent just 1% of the capital allocated globally, GSG analyzes, promotes, and discusses the tools that can return social and environmental results together with financial returns, business models that can profitably pursue a double result. The debate also focuses on the definition of global policies that promote the diffusion of investments that bring together private and public capital with social entrepreneurship and non-profit organizations in order to bring about significant social change.

On the other hand, the Ashoka Europe Changemaker Summit will take place in November 2021, at the end of a path dedicated to social innovators that will start already in the 2020 edition that will take place online in the autumn with the collaboration of Torino Social Impact. Ashoka is the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs for social innovation. Ashoka is based on the belief that everyone has the capacity to be an agent of change in the world (Everyone a changemaker) and the aim of Ashoka is not only to maximize social impact but also to create transversal alliances capable of changing entire systems. This is why for over 35 years she has been selecting, networking, and training more than 3500 social entrepreneurs active in different sectors and in different parts of the world. In Italy Ashoka has been active since 2014.

Finally, the annual Iris Network event. Also, this event was canceled in 2020 and is reconfirmed in 2021 in Turin in spring. Iris is the network of social enterprise research institutes and its annual scientific colloquium is a key event in the national and international debate on third sector companies and their evolution.

The international impact events canceled due to the pandemic were reconfirmed in Turin in 2021, and a calendar is being recomposed that confirms the centrality of the Turin ecosystem in the impact economy.

First, the GSG For Impact Investing Leadership Meeting, whose 2020 edition was scheduled to take place in Turin in virtual mode, was confirmed from 5 to 8 May 2021 in our city. The GSG is undoubtedly the leading international network dedicated to impact investing, it is an independent global organization that brings together leaders from the world of finance, business and philanthropy. Dedicated to boosting impact investments, which today represent just 1% of the capital allocated globally, GSG analyzes, promotes and discusses the tools that can return social and environmental results together with financial returns, business models that can profitably pursue a double result. The debate also focuses on the definition of global policies that promote the diffusion of investments that bring together private and public capital with social entrepreneurship and non-profit organizations in order to bring about significant social change.

The Ashoka Europe Changemaker Summit will take place in November 2021, at the end of a path dedicated to social innovators that will start in the 2020 edition that will take place online in the autumn with the collaboration of Torino Social Impact. Ashoka is the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs for social innovation. Ashoka is based on the belief that everyone has the capacity to be an agent of change in the world (Everyone a changemaker) and the aim of Ashoka is not only to maximize social impact, but also to create transversal alliances capable of changing entire systems. This is why for over 35 years she has been selecting, networking and training more than 3500 social entrepreneurs active in different sectors and in different parts of the world. In Italy Ashoka has been active since 2014.

Finally, the annual Iris Network event. This event was also cancelled in 2020 and reconfirmed in 2021 in Turin in the spring. Iris is the network of social enterprise research institutes and its annual scientific colloquium is a key event in the national and international debate on third sector companies and their evolution.

13 – 24 July 2020, Impact HUB Torino (Piazza Teresa Noce 17 D) hosts the Hackability Summer Camp 2020, ten meetings dedicated to co-design for creating 3D printable solutions that can make the Barriera di Milano area more accessible for people with disabilities.

Hackability Summer Camp is realized with the support of Confcooperative Piemonte, Coop-up Torino and with the collaboration of Impact Hub Torino, Open Incet, Via Baltea 3, Circolo Arci Antonio Banfo – Laboratory of Culture, Social point Il Passo, The “Public Baths” of Via Agliè, EXAR Social Value Solutions, Turin Scout Group 9.

Fill the form to apply, otherwise write to the Facebook page or call the 011197853.

An open reflection on the value of data is the theme of the sixth appointment of “L’Officina dei Beni Comuni”, an event organized by Labsus within the project “Patti per l’amministrazione condivisa nell’area metropolitana di Torino” with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.

The theme of this Common Goods Workshop seems complex but is urgent and concrete. Now more than ever, data is needed to map new inequalities that the pandemic has added to those present, from work, the economy, family poverty, health and social transformation. This information is essential to plan effective and comprehensive social and health policies aimed at a fairer and freer society. Until, however, citizens are aware and involved in this path in a transversal and massive way, however, the reaction of most people risks slipping into conspiracy on the one hand, and into unconscious public interventions on the other.

Even if they promise us that subscribing to the platforms will be free forever, have we finally understood that our data have a value on which the business model of digital giants is based in the sale of perfectly self-processed advertising space or in the transfer of the information we produce to the market? This lack of awareness on the part of us citizens, every day, every day, moves us to reflect on other models of data governance as common goods, as a new frontier of what could be understood as a historical class action.

What post-pandemic world? The philosopher Michel Onfray answers: “The same but worse. It will change work, teaching, travel, intersubjective relations, the balance between city and country: telework, the replacement of “presence” with “distance” will increase the powers of the society of control, which has taken over the witness of the old totalitarian society. The virtual will supplant the real whenever possible, and to govern over the virtual will be the Big Brother. After all, it couldn’t be otherwise since he invented it”.

Defuse this dynamic? Our attempt – says Labsus – is to talk about it as much as possible, without the presumption of being exhaustive or resolutive, but resilient and resilient, and to seek alliances: with some administrators, activists, expert organizations.

It will be discussed on Thursday, July 2 from 17:30 to 19:00 (direct facebook on Labsus Beni Comuni page) together with:

Elena Piastra – Sindaca, City of Settimo Torinese
Giorgio Sestili – Coronavirus – Scientific Data and Analysis Facebook Page
Sara Vegni – ActionAid Italy with covid19italia.help
Sergio Duretti – Lepida ScpA – Digital Welfare – Emilia-Romagna Region
Moderator Caterina Bonora, Labsus – Workshop for subsidiarity

For information: piemonte@labsus.net
Facebook Group: Labsus Piemonte

On Monday, June 15 2020, the quantitative survey on the state of health of Third Sector organizations in the territory and the emerging needs of this sector was concluded.

Thanks to the partnership with Italianonprofit, the survey was carried out by Torino Social Impact to map in real-time the consequences of Coronavirus on non-profit organizations in the Liguria, Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta ecosystem, with particular attention to the metropolitan city of Turin.

Through a short questionnaire, the Third Sector entities were able to tell what needs and difficulties they are experiencing at this particular time. In fact, many of the initiatives in the square have been canceled or postponed until a date to be set. Many of the services aimed at disadvantaged people cannot be provided and, if the extraordinary measures will continue for a long time, it will be increasingly difficult to find coverage for all management costs. The survey, which collected data directly from non-profits, will focus on the priority needs of organizations in the very short to medium term. This picture, which is constantly updated, will also serve to guide the definition of intervention programs. Furthermore, an in-depth qualitative survey will soon follow.

Thanks to all the 212 participants who wanted to give their organization a voice.

The results will soon be available.

Corporate Meeting: business networking & B2B

The lockdown before, the spacing rules now and, above all, the uncertainty about the time to return to normal from an epidemiological and community life point of view are having a very strong economic impact on all sectors and, in our country, the sector of culture and tourism is certainly among the most affected.

However, a glimpse of light can be glimpsed, in the sense that many cultural realities and many economic operators have been able to react with great courage and creativity, remodeling, where possible, their entertainment offer in digital form and thus reaching a virtual audience, sometimes even wider.

Better use of social networks and data-based marketing strategies, activation of content management, augmented and virtual reality, as well as solutions previously considered too innovative, can be the key to exit from the crisis and the starting point from which to start design a renewed cultural and tourist offer for our territory and for Italy.

The Piedmont ICT Cluster, in its Corporate Meeting of 7 July, chose to investigate this topic so strategic for the restart, thanks to the comparison with two valuable keynote speakers and proposing some of the most useful technological and innovative solutions aimed at the management and enhancement of the cultural heritage and economic development of the territories, to increase their tourist attraction capacity.

Why participate

To get to know the most useful technological solutions for:

• manage and enhance the cultural and artistic heritage
• promoting the tourist offer and local specificities
• make better use of tourist destinations

The Corporate Meeting is

LIVE EVENT in remote connection on the ZOOM platform, in which companies belonging to the ICT Pole present their solutions with 5-minute quick interventions on the speed pitching model.

B2B MEETINGS organized in the days following the meeting, which take place remotely. Each participant in the live can request can request personalized appointments to each speaker.

AN EVENT OPEN to all companies in the culture and tourism sector, in addition to those in the ICT sector. Organize the Torino Wireless Foundation.

DISCOVER THE AGENDA AND REGISTER

Nesta Italia has published the italian edition of Nesta Challenges’ Practice Guide to Challenge Prizes. It’s a useful tool to discover how to design, develop and launch a challenge prize. You can read and download the guide on Nesta Italia’s website.

Challenge prizes offer a reward to whoever can first or most effectively meet a defined challenge. Through a public competition, challenge prizes aim to tap into and engage the broadest possible community of innovators in the solving of a specific problem or challenge. To learn more about the impact of this innovation method you can visit Nesta Challenges’ website.

At Nesta Italia we believe in the power of Challenge Prizes to find valuable solutions to social issues, sparking change and innovation throughout the process.

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The TOP METRO FA BENE call, within the framework of the Suburban Notice of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, stems from the desire of the Metropolitan City of Turin to gather creativity and collective intelligence to improve the quality of life of local communities, through the development of civil engagement and initiatives that focus on markets, quality food chains, new citizens and sustainability.

Initiatives that nurture local communities and their places of reference through the use of enabling technologies, the involvement of women, young people, migrants and vulnerable people, exchange between cultures, geographies, generations.

It is conceived and promoted by the Metropolitan City of Turin in partnership with the S-node promoting committee, with the support of the Caritas Diocesana of Turin and in collaboration with the cities of Collegno, Grugliasco, Rivoli, Moncalieri, Venaria Reale.

The call will be open until Monday July 6 2020. Info: www.topmetrofabene.it