Raising capital is key for any start-up. One important aspect of it is certainly choosing the right partners but, on the other hand, it is also key to negotiate terms and conditions in the interest of the founders and shareholders, providing for the right protections and incentives to foster the company’s growth. Clear, effective and balanced commitments by the investors and founders, governance terms, exit rights are very important for the success of the start-up. For this purpose, the legal advisor shall be a proactive partner in the start-up’s growth.

This seminar, organized by ESA BIC Turin in collaboration with RP Legal & Tax, will provide key tips on legal aspects in raising capital such as legal nature of the main documents (term sheet, LOI, investment agreement), due diligence, main important clauses of the term sheet and investment agreement.

The speakers at the webinar will include:

• Marco Gardino, Partner at RP Legal & Tax
• Luca Egitto, Partner at RP Legal & Tax
• Leo Italiano, Program Manager at ESA BIC Turin

The event will be fully held in English language.

How to participate

The event, free of charge, will be held in presence in I3P’s headquarters in Turin, Italy. In order to attend in person, registration is required on Eventbrite.

In compliance with current safety regulations, the seats available in the event venue, I3P’s Sala Agorà, are currently limited to a maximum of 70.

About the organizers

RP Legal & Tax is a full-service law firm, founded in 1949, with over 150 professionals, 6 offices in Italy and partnerships with leading international firms. The firm is proud to offer innovative and valuable legal solutions across 25 practice areas – including one specifically devoted to start-ups and venture capital – through close-knit teams. For more information, visit the official website of RP Legal & Tax.

ESA BIC Turin supports entrepreneurs and start-ups in transforming their space-related projects into successful enterprises, offering financial incentives, strategic business consulting, scientific and technological support for the development of products and services, and direct access to a wide network of highly qualified industrial, financial and scientific partners. ESA BIC Turin is managed by I3P with the technological support of Politecnico di Torino and LINKS Foundation. For more information click here.

I3P, the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino, supports the creation and development of innovative start-ups with high technological intensity and growth potential, founded both by university researchers and students, and by external entrepreneurs, providing strategic consulting services, coaching, mentoring, fundraising support and spaces. For more information click here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE ‘YUNUS SOCIAL BUSINESS RESEARCH CENTRE’ IN TURIN

The Social Business Research Centre of the University of Turin will soon be established. The announcement on Monday 7 November 2022, on the occasion of the Yunus Social Business Academia Forum held in the Aula Magna of the ‘Luigi Einaudi’ Campus. Five University Departments are involved in the establishment process: Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, Culture, Politics and Society, Economic-Social Sciences and Mathematics, Law and Management and the School of Business Administration (SAA). The planning phase is now open to define the objectives and topics of interest of the Turin centre, which will have the function of enhancing and coordinating the many research and public engagement activities in the field of ethical finance and sustainable economy.

“The willingness of researchers to set up a Social Business Research Centre in our University is a novelty that makes the entire academic community proud,” says Rector Stefano Geuna. “The centre will be part of the prestigious network established by Professor Muhammad Yunus, whom I sincerely thank for this extraordinary opportunity and for his presence at the University of Turin. We are grateful to Professor Yunus because with his studies he showed a way and then, with his work, opened up new perspectives in the field of social enterprise and ethical finance.
The birth of this centre represents a concrete opportunity for growth, both for the University and its strategic activities, and for our territory. I am convinced that we are thus actively investing in a new business culture, to trace new development trajectories that our city and our region deeply need”.

Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC)

A Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) is a hub for social business in universities around the world, following the principles of Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. YSBCs are created in collaboration through an agreement between the Yunus Centre and the university with the aim of spreading the concept and practice of social business among university students and researchers. YSBCs conduct research, teaching, academic programme and curriculum development, action research, and knowledge-sharing events in social business such as competitions, workshops and seminars, among others. YSBCs also find new and innovative means to expand the concept of social business among students and researchers and also outside the university, in the community and in the region.

The event occurred on the occasion of the Global Business Summit 2022.

Vasté impresa sociale is glad to announce the opening of its new restaurant, the Vasté Bistrò San Salvario. 

Vasté Bistrò San Salvario is a relaxing and familiar place, where you can have breakfast with croissants and cakes of our production, enjoy a delicious lunch break or have a snack with our homemade ice creams and other surprises for young and old.

The official opening will take place next Friday 11 November in via Berthollet 13, in the new venue born from the commitment to the local area and to the people of Vasté Impresa Sociale and the social cooperative Progetto Tenda.

It will be an opportunity to try the delicacies of our menu, which combines our two gastronomic souls, Piedmont and the world. You will find many different dishes, including appetizers and first courses, and homemade desserts, without forgetting our craft beverage.

An opportunity to meet and get to know each other, and celebrate together the birth of our new bistrot in San Salvario, a place that welcomes everyone, always open to the cultures of the world.

The event will start from 17.00 until 22

“I Breathe Poetry” is the capsule collection of VANNI sunglasses designed by artist Catalin Pislaru- winner of the VANNI #artistroom prize at Artissima 2021. A collection of exploratory eyewear, drawing from the visual universe of the young Moldovan artist. The bi-dimensionality of a design on canvas meets the tri-dimensionality of a pair of glasses, united by a taste for courageous colours pairing.

An international jury judged his work capable of offering an original perspective on reality, and on eyewear design. And so it is: Catalin conceptualises a pair of shield sunglasses, in unisex and women’s models, constructed with layers of coloured acetate—just like his paintings, stratifications of symbols and colour on wood or aluminum.

“The project “I breathe poetry” is the metaphorical synthesis of every project that I’ve undertaken. As far back as when I was a student at the Academy in Monaco, I had written that phrase with a marker on the door of the studio: for me it was a motto to follow, and even today it continues to be a reference point for my research.

Collaborating with designers for an eyewear project has been incredibly enjoyable; I’ve had the opportunity to learn much about the world of design, as compared to the art world. I decided to design sunglasses for their introverted nature, because they hide the eyes, the gaze, intended for a young audience, belonging to a rebellious musical subculture like Trap, or hip-hop.”

The collection “I Breathe Poetry” is created entirely in Italy, in a limited series of 200 pieces, available on VANNI Showroom in Turin or online

THE VANNI #ARTISTROOM PRIZE

Alessandra Girardi, promoter of the prize, recounts: “The VANNI #artistroom prize at Artissima will complete its second edition in 2022. It was born with the intention of exploring the possible contaminations between the genius of contemporary art and eyewear design, and awards the winning artist, apart from a cash prize, the opportunity to inspire a capsule collection of auteur eyewear. It is an occasion for us to bring new stimuli into the eyewear sector, letting creativity flow with a process that is more typical of art, but which we then bring into the industrial framework of design to render it replicable. We’ve been keeping an eye on the art world for over 15 years, with interest and curiosity: in 2019 VANNI opened its collaboration with Artissima, the contemporary art fair in Turin, completing its first capsule collection of auteur eyewear with Christian Chironi.”

The capsule collection and the exhibition by artist Catalin Pislaru can be visited at the VANNI showroom from 5 November to 3 December 2022.

What are the needs related to the care of the elderly? What opportunities for innovative solutions on issues that affect us all?

On Friday 25 November from 4.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. IST partner SensoArgento proposes a guided Focus Group activity with the aim of collecting feedback, ideas and suggestions expressed by a heterogeneous group of individuals from the world of elderly care.

The group will be invited to freely and spontaneously discuss a selection of useful and significant vertical issues for the improvement of home care for the elderly. The ideas generated by the discussion will then be translated into concrete actions to help families in need.

Led by industrial designer Andrea Strippoli and digital entrepreneur Marcello Chiesa, each of the discussion tables will highlight the main issues in elderly care and collaboratively propose solutions.

Each table will consist of families, caregivers, doctors and entrepreneurs.

The Focus Group will take place in the premises of the Circolo del Design, Via S. Francesco da Paola 17, Turin.

Let’s do something concrete for our future and that of our loved ones: let’s participate in the realisation of a new vision and new solutions for the third age by sharing experiences!

PARTICIPATE

From 24 October to 6 November kicks off the first edition of Diffusissima, the off-site event of Torino Art Week that brings contemporary art to city spaces, involving people in events, workshops and vernissages throughout the territory.

With the support of the City of Turin, the Chamber of Commerce and Torino Social Impact, Diffusissima is the offspring of Artàporter, the matching platform between artists and businesses, and makes its objective to rethink the commonplaces of art, imagining a new way of experiencing it. Far from being just another contemporary art fair, it is a project that takes works and emerging artists out of the canonical places and into the ordinary places, understood as those frequented every day by people to meet them in their daily lives, giving anyone the chance to fall in love with a work of art and take it home immediately, whether it is on the wall of a bar or in a hotel lobby.

A new map for the Turin of art

Bringing art outside museums and art galleries also means creating new inclusive and unusual tourist routes, following in the wake of the MAUs, which involve above all a young tourism that, according to data for 2021, spends twice as much as the flows to which Turin is accustomed.

Finding your way is easy, with the map in digital and paper format that allows you to find your way around the numerous hosts and events. More than 100 commercial activities (hosts) are involved in the exhibition of 100 emerging artists, while 25 venues have been chosen for events and vernissages.

Some prestigious locations are important touch points, venues for events involving internationally renowned artists, such as debates, exhibitions and concerts. The Super Hosts of Diffusissima 2022 are the Porto Urbano (Murazzi del Po), Otium Pea Club in Lingotto, Pos.to and Wellness Creative in Pozzo Strada, the Innovative Square Center in Mirafiori and Open Baladin in Piazzale Valdo Fusi.

The inauguration of Diffusissima was held on 24 October at Eataly with guests Andrea Concas, who presented his NFT project, and Alvin with his new art projects, including Artoy, on a day when Catawiki representatives also discussed the current situation of online art, together with new start-ups in the art field.

Not just partners, but co-creators

Alongside Artàporter’s historical partners, such as Baladin and Lefranc Bourgeois, the auction house Catawiki joins Diffusissima by launching two thematic auctions, one of which is offline for the first time: simply scan the QR code next to the work on display to enter the site and place your bid.

Driatec and Affini are also joining Diffusissima, along with Distillerie Subalpine, which has launched a Call for Artist with Artàporter to create the new Turin Dry Gin label.

Call for Artist

For the occasion, several Call for Artists were launched in collaboration with Knowhere Studios and Lefranc Bourgeois in the fields of photography and painting to allow new artists to exhibit at the first edition of Diffusissima. In addition, Artàporter has activated a Funding Pitch on Patreon and the fees collected will allow emerging artists to receive scholarships to participate in master classes and finance artistic residencies to develop their creative projects.

The Diffusissima programme and map are available here.

After a successful online edition in 2020, this year the international space hackathon ActInSpace® is back in more than 70 cities around the world, including Turin, Italy. The event will be hosted on November 18^th and 19^th, 2022 by I3P, the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino, in collaboration with the global organizers: the French Space Agency (CNES) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Operational execution will be supervised by ESA BIC Sud France, led by Aerospace Valley.

ActInSpace is a global innovation contest uniting space enthusiasts across 5 continents. Designed for students but open to everyone, ActInSpace aims to cultivate new entrepreneurial initiatives: participating teams will have 24 hours to imagine and design innovative services and products derived from space technologies and data. Local juries of experts and professionals from the space industry will then select the best projects, which will be awarded in local competitions and brought to compete in the international finals, which will take place in France in February, 2023.

The local event in Turin – the only Italian host city for this edition of ActInSpace – will be held in presence at the I3P headquarters within the Campus of Politecnico di Torino. The event will welcome all participants at its venue on Friday, November 18^th, from 2:00 to 2:30 PM CET. After introduction and team composition, the hackathon will start at 4:00 PM and participants will have 24 hours to work in groups on their projects, with assistance and useful advice from local mentors. During the event, the “space hackers” will also have the chance to get in touch with ESA BIC Turin, the incubation program managed by I3P with the scientific and technological support of Politecnico di Torino and LINKS Foundation, who offers funding opportunities and a wide range of business and technical services to boost the development of space start-ups.

In fact, ActInSpace is a marathon of creativity and innovation created to foster entrepreneurship in the space sector, especially among young people, where participants from a diverse range of backgrounds and with expertise in a variety of fields collaborate in small teams to take up one of more than 20 challenges set up by CNES, ESA and their international partners. The challenges are divided in four main categories: “Be a new space player”, “Business in everyday life”, “Space for Earth and humanity” and one new theme for 2022 “Fly to the moon and beyond”. Notably, ActInSpace proposes challenges based on either CNES or ESA patents, or on data supplied by event partners such as Pléiades, Copernicus, EGNOS, Galileo. The initiative aims to consolidate the vibrant image of the space sector, and to show how space technologies are supporting applications that reach into all areas of our daily lives.

The final part of the hackathon will take place on the afternoon of Saturday 19^th. The teams will pitch their projects to the local jury to win one of the local prizes offered by event sponsors. The best teams from each host city will then access the worldwide finals, and compete for several global prizes – for instance, a parabolic flight aboard a Zero-G Airbus A310.

Participation in ActInSpace is free of cost and open to all those who would like to try their hand at an innovative space-related project: students, developers, engineers, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, logistics experts, marketers and communicators can all register to take part in the hackathon. Registrations to Turin’s local event are already underway, with limited places available: application forms must be filled out on the official ActInSpace international website.

“We are honoured to have the opportunity to collaborate with CNES, ESA and Aerospace Valley for the latest edition of ActInSpace, a Europe-born hackathon now spread all over the world. We’re especially proud to host this special event since it is aimed at fostering entrepreneurship in the space sector, a mission which is fully shared by the ESA BIC Turin incubation program”, said Giuseppe Scellato, President of I3P and Coordinator of ESA BIC Turin. “Mentors and consultants from our Incubator are more than ready to meet the teams and to assist them in shaping their innovative projects using current space technology and space-acquired data to develop what could become the core idea for a new successful start-up.”

The winning artists of the TSI Art Award will exhibit their works at Artissima from 4 to 6 November and will be the protagonists of a moment of dialogue between art and social innovation, in collaboration with La Stampa.

Talk at the Artissima Meeting Point
Saturday 5 November, 6:30 pm

The social impact of art
Turin through the eyes of artists

Speakers:

• Federico Pozuelo and Natália Trejbalová, winning artists
• Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini, founders of the art project Treti Galaxie and tutors of the third edition of the prize
• Guido Bolatto, Secretary General, Turin Chamber of Commerce
• Francesca Gambetta, Head of Mission Creating Attractiveness, Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation

Moderator: Cesare Martinetti, journalist, La Stampa

A potential ally and driver of social innovation, art can offer unexpected visions capable of breaking down stereotyped social constructions, giving a voice even to those who risk being excluded from contemporary production systems.

For the third year, Artissima and Torino Social Impact are promoting the Torino Social Impact Art Award in collaboration with Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, a project that aims to foster emerging talents from multicultural and migrant backgrounds. Focusing on the space that multiculturalism has in today’s society, the award aims to propose new relationships and open up unexpected scenarios through the languages and gaze of the winning artists. Also important is the role of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, promoter of Torino Social Impact, which has always supported Artissima, of which it is co-owner.

The two winners of the third edition of the competition – Federico Pozuelo (Madrid, 1992) and Natália Trejbalová (Košice, Slovakia, 1989) – were selected by the “Torino Social Impact Art Award” Committee composed of Luigi Fassi, director of Artissima, Mario Calderini, Politecnico di Milano and Spokesperson for Torino Social Impact, Alberto Anfossi secretary general of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi, president of Fondazione ICA Milano, Ilda Curti, president of Associazione IUR Innovazione Urbana Rigenerazione, Matteo Bergamini, editor-in-chief of Exibart, and Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini, founders of the art project Treti Galaxie and tutors of the third edition of the award.

From 27 June to 27 July, the two artists were hosted in the Piedmontese capital at Combo to create two video works inspired by the theme of the 2022 call for entries, Rebellions and Rebirths: the creative potential of confrontation: an invitation to reflect on the theme of social conflict in its various manifestations and latent forms; a tangible and concrete phenomenon that has always found in art a peaceful means of expression, but at the same time one with a strong potential for denunciation. Guided and supported by Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini, the two artists recounted through their works the contemporary society of Turin as emblematic of a country in transformation, confronting their own multifaceted and unprecedented points of view with the stimulating context of the city and its most significant cultural and social expressions.

The videos produced during the residency period will be presented at Artissima 2022 in a dedicated space.

Federico Pozuelo presents a film project that aims to investigate the different historical narratives of Northern Italy, through the language of detective and horror, focusing on Turin, from the 1970s to today.

Natália Trejbalová investigates the network of underground spaces, time capsules and archives of human and non-human traces, in a journey through a parallel world to discover the hidden face of Turin.

The talk The social impact of art starts with an analysis of how art is able to provide tools and physical spaces for questioning the social urgencies of the contemporary world, and broadens its gaze to other tools that can produce social innovation. More information here.

On November 7 and 8, the Global Social Business Summit, promoted by Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and of which Torino Social Impact is a partner, will take place in Turin.

Before launching the Summit, on the of 6th November, Prof. Yunus will visit Sermig with the Yunus and Grameen delegation from Bangladesh and the social businesses. He will have a special conversation with the young people of Turin and the 3Zero Club, the global network of young changemakers created by Prof. Yunus with the vision of creating a world of 3 zero (zero net carbon emissions, zero wealth concentration for ending poverty and zero unemployment by unleashing entrepreneurship in all) starting from one simple power: the power of youth!

The dialogue is co-organized by The Grameen Creative Lab and Sermig- Arsenale della Pace.

Register for the event here.

The full capacity of the Auditorium will be of 250 seats . A streaming possibility will be offered in the Sala del Dialogo as well (400 seated places).

Dai Senso al Profitto – Give meaning to profit, is the Bocconi’s project created to stimulate students whom are studying management to deepen the topic of social impact for a different business model.

In this context, Pasquale and Alessandro, enrolled in Bocconi, are part of the FLY University Project Team for two months. While with us they will develop the first sustainability report of the non-profit organization and will support fundraising and communication activities.

For more information on the students click here
For more information on the project click here

Turin is the custodian of great and small hidden treasures: among them, the courtyard of Palazzo Costa Carrù della Trinità, home since 2019 of the Circolo del Design.

After an initial start-up phase lasting four years, the CDD is now a point of reference for designers and companies that want to design on and for the territory.

We discover more about this reality with Sara Fortunati, director of the Circolo del Design.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

The Global Social Business Summit is the annual gathering of the social business community around Nobel Laureate Prof. Yunus.

Would you like to be a part of THE GATHERING of the social business community and help us organize it? The Grameen Creative Lab, organizer of the event, is looking for volunteers!

By becoming a volunteer at the Global Social Business Summit 2022,  you will play a key role in supporting the organization of the conference and you will have at the same time the opportunity to join the Summit and interact with thought leaders and professionals from the social business ecosystem and hear about impact best practices from around the world.

What we offer:

• A basic conference ticket for free and will be able to interact with the social business community
• Meals are provided on all days
• A certificate signed by Prof. Yunus for having supported the organization of the GSBS that can be used for your professional purposes
• No economic compensation will be given

What is required:

• You will have to be in Turin from the 5^th -9^th November 2022.
• Before the event some onboarding calls will be organized from the 20^th October
• You can take care of accommodation and travel expenses on your own.
• You have a good knowledge of English to interact with guests and the team
• You have a passion for social impact topics and are motivated to join a fast-pace working environment

Candidates already in Turin will be preferred due to logistic matters, but we are open to explore candidates that want to go the extra mile and join us in Turin.

If you are interested in volunteering fill in this form with your brief profile (CV), language skills, availability in Turin and your motivation.

We hope to see you in Turin and can’t wait to meet you!

Find out more about GSBS 2022:

• The GSB is looking for volunteers for the Summit in Turin
• Website
• Tickets

 October 27-28, 2022 | Two days of training and discussion aimed at companies, designers, researchers and students.

What role do companies play in society today?
What questions must they answer in order to innovate and be competitive?
How then do the themes of social innovation speak to corporate culture and its evolution?

The traditional parameters within which companies have operated until now are changing, in search of a necessary response to the urgent challenges the world is presenting us with, from climate chaos to pandemics, from demographic pressures to socio-economic inequalities.

In this new scenario, the number of companies that in the development of their business model also pursue aims of common benefit is increasing, where responsibility, sustainability and transparency, towards people, communities, territories and the environment, have become indispensable factors for corporate growth, distinction in the market and response to increasingly conscious consumer behaviour.

For companies today, it is crucial to identify the values that can be encouraged, to communicate these principles in order to give visibility to the actions that concretely pursue them, and to activate a development plan to define future objectives that are in tune with them and with current market needs. These are all activities in which design – with its specific methods, tools and languages – can be of vital support to companies.

In fact, design, by placing itself in the right dialogue with the other disciplines involved and participating in the planning of social impact, becomes the ally of companies in orienting participatory processes, building inclusive decision-making paths, elaborating contemporary languages, realising visions and values by acting on spaces, products and supply chains.

On 27 and 28 October, the protagonists will be entrepreneurs, who will present successful case studies, designers, who through testimonials and training workshops will show the tools of design useful to companies that want to innovate and act for a conscious change, and economists, who will frame the proposed themes in the current scenario, also providing tools for assessing the social impact.

“Rooted in a solid history of social entrepreneurship, the establishment of a system of expertise on the topic of social impact has become central in Turin” recalls Sara Fortunati, Director of the Circolo del Design. ‘This creates fertile ground for making our area a point of reference for the application of design skills on social and environmental innovation issues.

By placing itself in the right dialogue with the other disciplines involved and participating in the design of social impact, design in fact becomes the ally of companies to guide participatory processes, build inclusive decision-making paths, elaborate contemporary languages, realise visions and values by acting on spaces, products and supply chains.

Also on this front, the relationship with the Chamber of Commerce is confirmed as fundamental in the development of projects and activities in favour of the use of design as a lever of innovation.”

“The Chamber of Commerce has been actively pursuing the topic of social economy for years, also thanks to the promotion of the Torino Social Impact Platform, which operates in the territory in order to promote it as a suitable place to develop business and impact finance,” explains Guido Bolatto, Secretary General of the Torino Chamber of Commerce. In the same way, we promote the relationship between designers and the business world, aware of the support that design methodologies can bring to the world of production and services. The same methodologies can also favour and support social enterprises and help bring the traditional business world closer to these increasingly topical issues. “Next now” will be an important opportunity to understand how design can ensure a pragmatic approach to social entrepreneurship issues, through well-trodden paths and procedures”.

Discover the programme and register on Eventbrite.

For information and bookings:
info@circolodeldesign.it
Marta D’Angelo – 331 4321195

Next Now is a project of Circolo del Design.
With the support of: Turin Chamber of Commerce and Iren
With the scientific partner of: Polimi DESIS Lab and the collaboration of the Department of Architecture and Design of the Politecnico di Torino
In collaboration with: Torino Social Impact and Unione Industriali

On 24 and 25 October 2022, Social Value Matters Europe, a conference dedicated to best practices and innovations in the world of impact assessment and management, will be held in Turin, Italy, with the aim of highlighting the fundamental role that social value measurement can play in creating a sustainable world.

Over the course of two days, social value practitioners, academics, policy makers, impact investors, sustainability experts and many others will come together to discuss the most pressing issues in the field.

Hosted in the Italian capital of impact, SVM 2022 – Europe will offer participants from across Europe and beyond a unique opportunity to connect, learn, share and create real solutions that can help us all achieve sustainability, equality and well-being.

Programme

Please note that the time below shown are in Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Day 1 – October 24th

10:00am – Registration Open & Refreshment

11:00am – Welcome & Opening

Guests:

• Michela Favaro, Deputy Mayor of Turin
• Marco Demarie, Spokesperson, Compagnia di Sanpaolo

Speakers:

• Ben Carpenter, CEO, Social Value International
• Mario Calderini, Spokesperson, Torino Social Impact

Moderated by Davide Dal Maso, President, Social Value Italia

11:30am – Opening Plenary: Impact evaluation: A tool to support the Plan for a new social economy

Speakers:

• Giuseppe Zammarchi, Head of ESG Metrics, Policies and Disclosure-Group Strategy & ESG, UniCredit
• Luca Gori, Researcher in Constitutional Law, S.Anna University of Pisa
• Patrizia Bussi, Director, European Network of Social Integration Enterprises
• Priscilla Boiadi, Policy Analyst, OECD

Moderated by Roberto Randazzo, responsible for the “ESG and Impact” industry & Alberto Anselmo, Project Leader in Sustainability Area, SCS Consulting

1:00pm – Lunch & Networking

Our Lunch is provided by Fonderie Ozanam, a nonprofit social cooperative that has been in the restaurant business for 33 years.

2:00pm – Panel Discussion: What wellbeing means in different cultural settings

Speakers:

• Awerangi Tamiheri, Chief Operating Officer, Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency and Te Whānau o Waipareria
• I. Renay Onur, General Manager & Board Member, Spor İstanbul
• Riccardo Atzei, Developmental neuro and psychomotor therapist, Dynamo Academy

Moderated by Stephanie Robertson, Founder and CEO of SIMPACT, Board Chair of Social Value Canada

2:00pm – Breakout Session: Accreditation and Certification

Speakers:

• Sophie Robin, Co-Founder, EsImpact and Stone Soup
• Jeremy Nicholls, Assurance Framework Lead of UNDP SDG Impact and Ambassador of Capitals Coalition

Moderated by Catherine Manning, Operations Director, Social Value UK

3:30pm – Networking Break

4:00pm – Breakout Session: Can the Principle 8 Be Responsive enhance learning from Social Impact Measurement?

Speakers:

• Awerangi Tamiheri, Chief Operating Officer, Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency and Te Whānau o Waipareria
• Erica Negro, Impact Measurement Manager, E4Impact Foundation

Moderated by Valentina Langella, Impact manager, ALTIS & Alberto Anselmo, Project Leader in Sustainability Area, SCS Consulting

4:00pm – Breakout Session: Discussion Around Wellbeing

Speakers:

• Charlotte Österman, Private Sector Lead, Social Value UK
• Maria Giulia Marini, Health Area Director, ISTUD
• Paola Chesi, Researcher and educator: Healthcare and Wellbeing Area, ISTUD

Moderated by Giuseppe Dellerba, General Manager, Fondazione Cottino

5:30pm – Side Visit

To learn more about Turin and examples of social innovation, two visits will be held at Cascina Fossata and San Salvario Neighborhood House.

7:30pm – Conference Dinner

We will have a Conference Dinner at the Cascina Fossata restaurant after the side visit. This is also included in the SVM2022 ticket entitlement.

Day 2 – October 25th

8:00am – Registration Open & Refreshment

9:00am – Workshop 1: Accounting for value – learning from developments, especially in relation to nature

Speakers:

• David Thomas, Communications Manager, Capitals Coalition
• Jeremy Nicholls, Assurance Framework Lead of UNDP SDG Impact and Ambassador of Capitals Coalition

9:00am – Workshop 2: SDGs Game and SDGs Impact Standards

Speakers:

• Salam Alkhatib, Founder, Social Value Arabia

9:00am – Workshop 3: An Organisational Approach to Embedding Social Impact – from the frontline staff to the backbone team

Speakers:

• Jo Nicholson, Director, Social Value Aotearoa
• Jacqui Harema, Director Whānau Ora, Te Whānau o Waipareira

10:30am – Networking Break

11:00am – Breakout session: Public procurement

Speakers:

• Raffaella De Felice, Head of Knowledge Management and Community, The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG)
• Cristina Almeida, Head of Platform, Maze Portugal
• Philippe Bernard-Treille, Senior Officer, Eif . European Investment Fund
• Giuseppe Zammarchi, Head of ESG Metrics, Policies and Disclosure-Group Strategy & ESG, Unicredit

Moderated by Federico Mento, General Secretary, Social Value Italia

11:00am – Breakout session: How much precision in social impact assessment do we need?

Speakers:

• Ben Carpenter, CEO, Social Value International
• Erica Melloni, Senior Manager, Change, Avanzi

11:00am – Breakout session: How Social Investors Create Value

Speakers:

• Alessia Gianoncelli, Head of Knowledge Community and Market Development , EVPA
• Bonnie Chiu, Managing Director, The Social Investment Consultancy
• Carola Carazzone, Secretary General, ASSIFERO

Moderated by Davide Dal Maso, President, Social Value Italia

12:30pm – Lunch & Networking

Our Lunch is provided by Fonderie Ozanam, a nonprofit social cooperative that has been in the restaurant business for 33 years.

1:30pm – Plenary: The Social and Solidarity Economy – Learnings from a Peer Learning Partnership

Speakers:

• Irene Basile, Head of the Social Economy and Innovation Unit, OECD
• Kruno Karlovcec, Undersecretary, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Slovenia
• Luca Meini, Global Head of Sustainability initiatives and Circular Economy, Enel

Moderated by Federico Mento, General Secretary, Social Value Italia

2:30pm – Plenary: How are we contributing positively to sustainable development?

Speakers:

• Jeremy Nicholls, Assurance Framework Lead of UNDP SDG Impact and Ambassador of Capitals Coaltion
• Bonnie Chiu, Managing Director, The Social Investment Consultancy

Moderated by Becca Harvey, Head of Community and Engagement, Social Value International

3:30pm – Closing Remarks

Read more about the speakers here

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

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

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

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

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

Synesthesia is a benefit and digital experience company based in Turin, Italy, that focuses on website and mobile app development, marketing services and strategic consulting.

In this episode of Bench-Mark, Francesco Ronchi, President and Founder of Synesthesia, tells us why digital is important for social impact.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

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

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

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

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

Fly University Project is a non-profit organisation that supports students studying STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects, mainly related to the use of Artificial Intelligence.

The aim is to be a bridge between young people, universities and businesses in order to foster employment and better growth conditions for young people, according to the specific objectives of the UN 2030 Agenda.

With Massimo Penzo, President and Founding Partner, we discover what impact economy means to FLY UP.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

Best practices and innovations in the world of social impact assessment and management. These are the topics at the centre of the 2022 edition of “Social Value Matters Europe“, to be held in Turin on 24 and 25 October. Organised by Social Value Italia, Torino Social Impact and Social Value International, with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione CRT, and with the patronage of the City of Turin, the conference will be held at UniCredit University, in via XX Settembre.
Among the first objectives of the two-day event is to highlight the fundamental role that measuring social value can play in creating a sustainable world. For the organisers, in fact, by transforming the way we measure value, society will be able to make better decisions that will increase well-being, protect the environment and reduce social inequality.

The conference will be held in English and will bring together participants from the international Social Value network (Italy, UK, Spain, Belgium, Canada, New Zealand, Arabia), and from different sectors (public, private, for-profit and not-for-profit) to discuss a way of making decisions that listens and responds to stakeholder voices, that is transparent and accountable, and that protects people and the planet at local, regional and global levels.
Prominent figures in the world of evaluation will include Ben Carpenter of Social Value International, Irene Basile of Oecd, Carola Carazzone of Assifero, Alessia Gianoncelli of Evpa, and Mario Calderini of Torino Social Impact, among others.

The choice of Turin is not random, the Piedmontese capital is in fact considered among the best territories to seize the opportunities arising from the affirmation of the entrepreneurial and financial paradigm of the impact economy. Turin is home to a new generation of social incubators and accelerators, to important social impact-oriented capitals, to international organisations dedicated to global social challenges, to a strong orientation towards corporate social responsibility, to the propensity of public administrations towards social innovation, and to the ability to create a system between the public, private and third sectors.

In order to learn more about Turin and the examples of social innovation, two visits will be held on the afternoon of the 24th, one at Cascina Fossata, a redevelopment project that aims to give back to the city a quality meeting space to intercept new housing and social needs in a changing territory; and one at the San Salvario neighbourhood house, a workshop for the design and implementation of social and cultural activities, with the participation of associations, citizens, and artistic and cultural operators who work together to create an open and multicultural space, a place for crossroads, meetings and the exchange of activities and people.

The possibility of getting to know each other and networking will be ensured during the conference by the moments of exchange, the breaks and lunches offered during the work and the social dinner at the end of the first day, which will be held at the Cascina Fossata restaurant.

Find the information and updates on the conference programme on socialvaluematters.com

For the tickets click here

In conjunction with the Social Value Matters Europe conference, the Cottino Social Impact Campus is organising the invitation-only training day ‘The intangible value of places’.

The event will be held on Sunday, October 23, at the Lingotto and at the Campus in Turin, with a session composed of two distinct and unique moments.

Participants will have the opportunity to follow a guided tour of the famous Pista 500 in Lingotto with its creator, architect Benedetto Camerana. In the historic FIAT headquarters, recently redeveloped as a multifunctional structure, they will discuss how the regenerative processes of physical spaces contribute to the generation of social and environmental impact.

Following this, at the Cottino Social Impact Campus, there will be a Meeting of minds between leading experts and scholars exploring the skills required for impact assessment in real estate in the context of urban regeneration.

Speakers at the event will include Ryan Daulton, Senior Research Associate for the Impact-Weighted Accounts (IWA) project at Harvard Business School, Mario Calderini, Scientific Advisor of the Cottino Social Impact Campus and Full Professor of Sustainability and Impact Management at the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano, Alessandra Oppio, Full Professor of Estimo and Evaluation at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano, Patrizia Lombardi, Full Professor in Economic Valuation of Projects and Pro-rector of the Politecnico di Torino, Marella Caramazza, Board Member of the Cottino Social Impact Campus and strategic director of the ‘Centre of Competence for Evaluation and Measurement of Social Impact’ and Danny Casprini is researcher in Technology and Innovation Research on Social Impact at the TIRESIA Research Centre, Politecnico di Milano.

Full programme here

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

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

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

Applications are open until November 7.

All information here: Gen C Call

In this new episode of Bench-Mark, we get to know the experience of Fondazione per l’Architettura, founded on the initiative of Turin architects in 2002 with the aim of promoting architecture as a discipline at the service of quality of life and social well-being.

Michela Lageard, Councillor for the Foundation, tells us about their vision, which is increasingly open to European projects.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

In a few days, the startup got an investment by two international business angels and the award “Welfare che impresa!” by Accenture Italian Foundation

Turin, September 16, 2022

Re4Circular is the new project by Atelier Riforma, the innovative social startup with the mission of reducing the environmental impact of the fashion industry through the circular economy. From 2021 the startup has taken a more technological direction, aimed at making the business (and so its positive impact) more scalable.

The valorization of textile waste as a circular resource is still a great challenge today, therefore most of it ends up in landfills (especially in developing countries). Re4Circular technology is aimed at helping the stakeholders of the supply chain to direct each discarded garment towards the best way of recovery (eg reuse, recycling, upcycling, etc.). It is a digital marketplace platform that matches the B2B supply and demand for used clothing, connected to an Artificial Intelligence technology to extract, from the image of the garment, all the useful data for its recovery.

To carry out this ambitious new project, Ferrero and Secondo have dedicated themselves in the last year to the search for investments (in Italy), addressing in particular to so-called “impact” investors, that is, interested in the environmental and social implications of their investment.
“Fundraising in the early-stage phase is one of the key activities of a startup, but it is also one of the most difficult, especially for first-time startuppers. The last year was extremely challenging for us, but we did our best because we deeply believe in the usefulness of our project”. Said Elena, one of the co-founders.

In February 2022 Elena and Sara – while they were attending the Startupbootcamp FashionTech acceleration program – come into contact with Pietro Bonanno and Serra Falk Goldman, business angels originally from San Francisco and settled in Italy for a few years, who were doing an in-depth scouting among the Italian startups.
Bonanno and Falk Goldman are among the founders of the very recent “The 20 fund”, a venture capital firm committed to gender parity.
The fund’s aim is to invest in Italian, female-run, early-stage startups, with a strong vocation for sustainability.
Thus began a very in-depth due diligence (lasting more than 5 months) in which the fund analyzed the economic potential of Re4Circular, its technical feasibility, its positive impact and above all the quality and commitment of the team.
On 12th September Bonanno and Falk Goldman finalized the investment in Atelier Riforma, as private individuals. Objective: to bring the project to a sufficient maturity to attract an even more substantial investment from the fund in the coming months.
“We are continually impressed by the co-founders, Elena Ferrero and Sara Secondo. Their intelligence, dedication and perseverance will contribute to the success of Atelier Riforma and dramatically reduce waste in the fashion industry. No doubt they and Atelier Riforma will have a positive impact on the environment.” said Serra Falk Goldman.

On September 15th another milestone is achieved: Re4Circular is among the 4 winning projects of “Welfare che Impresa!”.
This national competition, promoted by Accenture Italian Foundation, Bracco Foundation, Intesa Sanpaolo, Snam Foundation and many others, is aimed at awarding “projects capable of combining economy and society, to promote a new vision of development”.

The funds from the investment and the prize will be used to implement the automatic cataloging technology for clothes, based on Artificial Intelligence, thanks to the collaboration with three data scientist (who had been involved in developing the proof of concept last spring). The AI algorithm will then be integrated into the marketplace platform, developed in collaboration with the company Huulke. Part of the funds will also be used to file the definitive patent of the technology (of which the trademark has already been filed) and to expand the team. Throughout the autumn, the team (in collaboration with some cooperatives that have already joined as first users) will test the prototype and acque the first metrics on the marketplace.

For the third consecutive year, Torino Social Impact has been involved as an ecosystem in the selection committee of the finalist start-ups, which will be analysed by a pool of partners experienced in this type of activity. This year, the partners involved are I3P, LITA.co Italy, Mamazen, PerMicro, Reseau Entreprendre and SocialFare.

The evaluation work of the Torino Social Impact partners was combined with that of other prestigious members of the selection committee: Anya Capital, BE-COME, Conduit Connect, H-Farm, Human Foundation, Opes, and Toniic.

The seven start-ups on the short list will face a preparation phase for the final pitch. Following the evaluation, an accompanying and further selection phase will begin, leading to the pitch of three finalists, assessed by an international jury.

Marco Gargiulo, Presidente of Consorzio nazionale Idee in Rete and Presidente of Confcooperative Habitat Marche, tells how the Housing Cooperatives and, specifically, those Housing Cooperatives that carry out participatory social housing projects, self-construction and self-recovery can be defined as “exploration communities”.

This meeting is addressed to all people who want to understand how to embark on an unconventional living business, which involves sharing choices, responsibilities and managing their own living environment with a group of people guided by mutualistic principles and objectives with a positive impact on the community and their own city.

The online meeting, organised by Casematte APS, will take place on Thursday 15 September from 18:00 to 19:00. Participate here

The world’s largest annual hackathon dedicated to space and science returns to Turin, Italy: at the beginning of October 2022, the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino (I3P) will host the local event in Piedmont’s capital city for the sixth time, this year back in presence.

The 11^th edition of the international event will take place over two days on the weekend of Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 October 2022, with free participation. The hackathon is based on collaborative challenge solving with the aim of producing open-source solutions in response to some of the challenges that we currently face on Earth and in space. The last global NASA International Space Apps Challenge – Space Apps for short – was attended by more than 28,000 participants from 323 locations in over 160 countries, who produced more than 2,800 projects in response to challenges set by NASA.

How does it work

Traditionally, hackathons are technology development competitions that showcase young talent in many different fields, such as software developers, engineers, designers, students, scientists and anyone with a desire to make a positive impact on the world and on scientific innovation. The Space Apps hackathon is open to all and this year it will again focus on developing real projects in response to global challenges, to be worked on as a team over the two days and presented to the local jury by the end of the event.

For each annual edition, NASA designs new challenges and the Global Organising Team collaborates with local organisers around the world, called Local Leads, to bring the events to life in different cities and thus maximise the chances of participation by enthusiasts on the territory. I3P will therefore host the Turin hackathon, in parallel with the local events in Rome and Cagliari. Joining the event and submitting a project developed during it provides the possibility of being selected not only for the Local Awards, but also as finalists in the running for the Global Awards, whose winners will be announced in January 2023.

The challenges from NASA

This year’s theme is ‘Make Space‘, which emphasises NASA’s commitment to increasing inclusiveness and highlights the focus on science, technology and the exploration of Earth and space in the hackathon as a mass collaboration event, but also refers to the motto ‘there’s always space for one more‘ by Space Apps, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

For the 2022 edition of the hackathon, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has launched over 20 thematic challenges: their full descriptions and resources will be published on September 15. The challenges span many different topics and are open to contributions from engineers and programmers as well as from artists, designers, storytellers and space enthusiasts. Here are some examples of this year’s challenge titles:

• Build a space biology superhero
• Can Artificial Intelligence preserve our science legacy?
• Earth data analysis developers wanted!
• How does climate change affect you?
• On the way to the sun
• The art in our worlds

The complete list of challenges that can be met with an innovative project can be found on the official Space Apps webpage. In the FAQ on the subject, NASA specifies: “We appreciate the enthusiasm of participants who want to start as early as possible, but we ask that participants start the actual work when the hackathon begins on October 1“.

How to join the event

Everyone can take part in the event: each skill can be useful when working on a team project, regardless of age, education or professional experience. To take part in the hackathon, it is required to register on the individual location page, with a personal profile (existing or new) on the official NASA Space Apps website. After selecting the local event of preference, you will have the opportunity to form a team (recommended size: 3 to 5 people), if you already know the other people with whom you wish to work on a project; otherwise, you will be able to join the new groups that will be formed in attendance at the start of the hackathon.

The Turin edition of NASA Space Apps 2022 will start on Saturday, October 1 at 2 PM CEST and end on Sunday, October 2 at 6 PM CEST. The venue will be I3P headquarters, located in Corso Castelfidardo 30/a within the Campus of Politecnico di Torino, and in particular its Sala Agorà, the large open space at the top of the building where many startuppers contribute every day to writing the future of innovative entrepreneurship. The complete schedule of the two-day hackathon will be published in September.

This year’s Open Living Lab Days – the annual global gathering of Living Labs organised by ENoLL -European Network of Living Labs – will be held in Turin, Italy, from 20 to 23 September at the OGR and is co-organised by the City of Turin, CTE NEXT and Torino City Lab.

The main theme of the event is ‘The city as a Lab, but now for real!”Re-working open innovation environments for inclusive, green and digital transition through emerging technologies’, to which five sub-tracks are linked: Society, Governance, Green & Sustainable, Transformation and Beyond the City.

It will be a specially designed meeting place for policy makers, companies, entrepreneurs, academics and innovators to explore, connect and work together.

Around 400 innovators from Europe and the rest of the world are expected to participate in this annual Living Lab event.

The programme is structured as follows: a training day on the fundamentals of the living lab, two days of international conferences, workshops and ted talks, and study visits to discover the city’s innovation locations.

The City of Turin, specifically, organised the following sessions:

Wednesday 21 September from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

Comparing the Urban Living Labs Models, from large cities to small urban centres: it will be illustrated how city labs are a unique tool to promote innovation in a holistic and inclusive way, involving societal stakeholders in creating long-term impacts for the city to foster the green and digital transition.

Wednesday 21 September from 2.00 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.

Scaling up, scaling out and scaling deep for social innovation, this session will start with an analysis of the role of public authorities and the third sector in social innovation, exploring the replicability of social innovation systems (scaling out) and delving into the roots of social innovation (scaling deep).

Thursday 22 September from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

The House of Emergency Technology in Italy and Beyond, a session in which the project and the first results of CTE NEXT one year after its inception will be illustrated, and the benefits of using 5G and emerging technologies for citizens will be analysed.

Thursday 22 September from 3.45 p.m. to 5.15 p.m.

Living Labs as enablers of the transformation of European cities towards climate neutrality, realised in collaboration with the Energy Center of Turin, the panel aims to analyse how living labs can help to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. The reflection will take place in the context defined by the EU Mission “Climate Neutral and Smart Cities” and the related goal of having the first 100 climate neutral cities by 2030, including Turin.

Discover the program of the event

Register to the event

On 13 and 14 September, the first meeting of the Respondet project will take place in Barcelona, where all the partners involved, such as the City of Turin, the Chamber of Commerce of Turin, Generalitat of Catalonia – Business and Labor Department (Capofila-ES) Confederation of Cooperatives of Catalonia (ES), European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy (ES), Service Public de Wallonie Economie, Emploi, Recherche (BE), Concertation des organisations représentatives de l’économie sociale (BE), Malopolska Voivodship-Regional Centre for Social Policy in Cracow (ROPS) (PL).

The RESPONDET (Regional Social Economy Policies for Sustainable Community-Driven Enviromental Transition) project, within the framework of the COSME European call for proposals, aims to promote local and regional development in order to strengthen the social economy by making common resource management the main element of social sustainability in the Green transition process.

RESPONDET will thus facilitate the convergence of policy lines and an effective transfer of knowledge, but also the building of local and transnational partnerships able to guarantee the sustainability of the project results.

To do so, it will organise its actions around four main thematic strands:

• Promoting the role of the social economy in the constitution of local energy policies
• Strengthening the role of the social economy as a key actor in the development of the local circular economy
• Fostering capacity building within the social economy, within community initiatives and public administration with regard to building a vision guided by the social economy and wise management of resources
• Stimulate cooperation between social economy and organisations

The project’s inaugural meeting will focus on the topic of local energy communities, providing an opportunity for the Turin delegation to exchange views with other European partners in order to foster the growth of these initiatives in our territory.

Discover more

Réseau Entreprendre Piemonte in collaboration with the Turin campus of ESCP Business School and with the impulse and support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, promotes the call for application aimed at non-profit organizations, companies and startups to participate in the Collective Projects 2022/2023.

The new edition of the Collective Projects 2022/2023 was created with the aim of bringing third sector entities, startups and SMEs closer to an open innovation project aimed at contaminating the different systems they belong to.

The subjects selected to participate in the Collective Projects will access the international network of ESCP, they will have a team of 6 or 7 students, highly motivated and eager to get involved with suitable challenges to test their knowledge and skills, for a total of 240 hours of work in order to develop a business project in one of the following areas of interest: Marketing, Internationalization, Fundraising, Knowledge Management, Business development or Sustainability.

Third sector entities, startups and companies will have the opportunity to work with a young team of students who will work as consultants dedicated to the development of a concrete project, providing insights deriving from their international background and able to experiment new business solutions and facilitate their scalability on the market.
Collective Projects also represent the opportunity, for the organizations / companies involved, of talent acquisition and, at the same time, of career for young people.

The Collective Projects will take place from November 2022 to April 2023 and will involve around 300 students of over 40 different nationalities enrolled in the second year of the Bachelor in Management, divided into 50 teams.

Interested companies, organizations and startups can send their application until 30 September 2022.

Read the project in its entirety

To apply, fill out the application form: here

For more information on Collective Projects click here

The European project  SEED – Social Inovation Ecosystem Development launches a program of Capacity Building activities from September 2022 to April 2023 that includes 11 modules divided into 6 thematic areas:

• Co-design and co-production
• Social Innovation policy
• Financial support for Social Innovation
• Social Innovation business models and new forms of entrepreneurship
• Social Innovation monitoring and assessing
• Digital SI

The SEED Capacity Building program, coordinated by the Politecnico di Milano and by the University of Bologna, is part of the path leading towards the creation the National Competence Centers for Social Innovation in the four partner Countries: Greece, Italy, Romania and Slovenia. Stakeholders from these countries are particularly welcome to attend the programme, which is however free and open to anyone interested to better understand the meaning and implications behind the concept of Social Innovation.

You can check out the full program here.

On Tuesday, September 20, the first meeting entitled “Managing Social Innovation: from past challenges to future opportunities” is scheduled with the following agenda:

12.30 – 12.50: Introduction: Utopic scaling: what went wrong  – Mario Calderini and Ambra Giuliano, Politecnico di Milano
Panel discussion: Federico Mento, Ashoka – Marco Nannini, ImpactHub – SocialFare
12.50 – 13.05: What are the main challenges in managing SI processes and initiatives?
13.05 – 13.20: What are the main challenges in scaling SI?
13.20 – 13.35: What leadership for social innovation?
13.35 – 14.00: Q&A – Discussion with participants

Learn more and register for the event

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SEED – Social innovation EcosystEm Development, is funded by the European program EaSI with the City of Turin involved in the role of Lead Partner in partnership with Fondazione Brodolini, Politecnico di Milano, University of Bologna, Politecnico di Torino, Euricse, Fondazione Italia Sociale.

The goal of the project is to support the creation and development of a national Center of Competence for Social Innovation with the aim of enhancing already existing and recognized skills, and at the same time offering tools for training, learning, exchange and growth.

Applications are now open for the second edition of GrandUP! Tech Academy, the free training course for future entrepreneurs and innovative start-ups in the province of Cuneo. The initiative is promoted by Fondazione CRC, in collaboration with I3P, the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino, as part of the multi-year project GrandUP! Tech, aimed at supporting the development of an innovation ecosystem, the dissemination of knowledge, and the birth of new enterprises in the area.

Participation to GrandUP! Tech Academy is completely free of charge. The initiative is aimed at both future innovative entrepreneurs and innovative start-ups already established in the area: the training course is in fact open to all residents or domiciled in the province of Cuneo and entrepreneurs who have set up, or intend to set up, their business there. Project teams may nominate more than one component for participation in the Academy, while each participant or team of participants may present only one business project to be developed during the meetings. It will be possible to register for the course, for which places are limited, until October 16, 2022 by filling in the form available online here.

The new edition of GrandUP! Tech Academy will be presented during the event organized by Fondazione CRC and I3P for Thursday, September 15, 2022, at 6 p.m. CEST at the Rondò dei Talenti in Cuneo, the new educational hub built by Fondazione CRC and inaugurated in July. The event, held in person and in Italian language, will be an opportunity to listen to the testimonies of some of the young entrepreneurial teams supported during the first edition of the Academy, including Eventvm and Glu Glu, and to learn in detail about the programme of the course being launched this year, its opportunities, the application and participation procedures, as well as the partners involved and the context of the innovation support activities carried out to date as part of the GrandUP! Tech project. To register and attend the launch event click here

Following the success of the first edition, launched in 2021, the Academy returns for 2022-2023 to address the fundamental issues for the development of a new enterprise, combining theoretical aspects and practical applications on real cases, with lectures by Politecnico di Torino lecturers and industry experts, joined by I3P analysts who will accompany the participating teams in the development of entrepreneurial projects throughout the course. Among the topics at the centre of the seven meetings scheduled to begin in November 2022: business models, customer discovery processes, performance evaluation metrics, the business plan and fundraising activities, project communication and digital marketing, through to legal and tax aspects in setting up start-ups. The course will conclude with a Pitch Day, scheduled for March 2023, during which participants will present their projects to a panel of experts: the best projects will receive the opportunity to access a pre-incubation course at I3P.

The GrandUP! Tech project and its Academy are being implemented as part of the ‘Memorandum of Understanding for Innovation and the Digitalisation of Businesses in the Province of Cuneo‘, promoted by Fondazione CRC and the Cuneo Chamber of Commerce, which was signed in June 2022 by all the main trade associations in the area, including Confindustria, Confartigianato, Coldiretti, Confcommercio, Legacoop Ufficio Territoriale di Cuneo and Punto Impresa Digitale. Starting from the objective of increasing the effectiveness of initiatives aimed at fostering business start-ups and Open Innovation paths, the protocol intends to actively involve business representatives from the province’s various economic sectors in the establishment of a cohesive, innovative and digitised ecosystem.

“With the new edition of GrandUp! Tech Academy and thanks to the collaboration of I3P, Fondazione CRC’s commitment to innovation-oriented development continues,” said Ezio Raviola, President of Fondazione CRC. “The Academy’s 2022-2023 programme is an important element in the overall strategy that we have adopted, in synergy with the numerous partners who have joined the project, to continue to foster the birth of new start-ups and high-tech companies in the province of Cuneo, with important positive spin-offs in terms of economic development, employment and social impact.”

“The launch of the second edition of GrandUP! Tech Academy is a confirmation of the confidence we share with Fondazione CRC in the vast potential for technological development and innovative entrepreneurship in the Cuneo area,” commented Giuseppe Scellato, President of I3P. “The teams of young startuppers that we have trained and supported during the first cycle of lessons, whose fields of activity range from agribusiness to digital platforms, have shown a strong interest in business culture and the growth opportunities offered by the tools of innovation.“

ConVIVI is an integrated campaign (online and offline) to disseminate and render more poular ideas of collaborative living. Aiming to encourage a new culture of living based on the principles of mutual solidarity,  it is part of the European Days of Collaborative Living initiative (coordinated at the European level since 2013 thanks to the French association Habitat Partecipatif) This initiative networks ecovillages, communities and cohousing which are committed, during the month of May and – after the pandemic – also September, to raising awareness of the world of collaborative living.

This year RIVE – Rete Italiana Villaggi Ecologici (Italian Network of Ecovillages), Rete Italiana Cohousing e Abitare Collaborativo (Italian Network of Cohousing and Collaborative Housing) and MCF – Mondo Comunità e Famiglia (World Community and Family), with the coordination of the Casematte association, have expanded the initiative to the month of September as well. They aim to include all those housing experiences that put interpersonal relationships at the center, with a view to creating a more inclusive and supportive community.

The full program is coming soon here.

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Applications are now open for ESA BIC Turin‘s new call for space start-ups with innovative technologies for upstream and downstream applications. Founding teams and young companies from any ESA membership country that will apply by September 9, 2022 will be able to join the largest community of space companies in Europe and enter its dedicated incubation program.

The selected companies will receive a financial contribution of €50,000, for both product development and intellectual property management, as well as business coaching and mentoring services, technological support, assistance in fundraising activities and access to a vast network of partners, including large companies, investment funds and research institutions of international relevance.

ESA BIC Turin was launched in November 2021 thanks to the synergy between I3P, Politecnico di Torino and LINKS Foundation, which together won the selection made by the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency to found and manage the centre. The project can count on the I3P incubator’s consolidated experience in the world of innovative start-ups, the strong scientific expertise of its technological partners, and the support of a wide network of actors from the institutional, industrial and financial spheres.

In the last months, 8 start-ups were selected and incubated after the first round of the call: AdapTronics, Astradyne, Hipparcos, Kurs Orbital, Mespac, Space V, Synchropal, Volta Structural Energy. Their proposed solutions include space robotics and logistic systems, structural batteries for future satellite applications, innovative solar panels, greenhouses to enable the cultivation of terrestrial plants on space modules, and services for environmental monitoring and security in telecommunications.

To find out more and apply your project within September 9 in order to join the incubation program, please visit the dedicated page – esabic-turin.it/application-process – or contact ESA BIC Turin.

SocialFare, the Centre for Social Innovation founded in Turin in 2013, is the first in Italy specifically dedicated to social innovation. Through research, engagement, and co-design activities, it supports companies and start-ups wishing to accelerate their ability to create an impact on the territory. 

How do you develop innovative solutions to today’s pressing challenges? In this episode of Bench-Mark, Francesco Antonioli interviews Elisa Bacchetti, SocialFare PhD Deputy Operations Officer. 

The interview is curated by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

On 14 September the Research Meeting of the ICT Pole of the Piedmont Region will take place ONLINE, where the University of Turin will present to ICT companies and third sector organisations and enterprises research activities, specialisations and infrastructures related to the theme of technologies with social impact.

ICT for development and social good, inclusive virtual reality systems for people with neurodiversity and motor impairment, advanced medical simulation, and the Human Science and Technologies research infrastructure are the topics that the University of Turin will present to lay the foundations for future collaborations.

Bilateral meetings open to all participants will be held on the following days.

Italia Plant Based srl Società Benefit‘s CEO & Founder, Susanna Graziano, is one of the ten Italian women entrepreneurs to have been chosen for the Empowering Women in Agrifood programme.

The programme – financed by EIT, co-financed by the EuropeanUnion, and managed in Italy by Future Food Institute – aims to give the attendees training, mentoring, business coaching and networking opportunities.

Some sessions dedicated to integralecology and the Mediterranean Diet will be held on the Campus Paideia at Pollica, the capital of this famous diet.

For additional information visit click here.

On the “Terrazza dei Limoni” of the Castello di Masino, Contrametric Ensemble will lead the audience in a game between audience and musicians, a quiz based on notes to guess the title and author, a blind date with the composers, and enjoying excellent live music, in an unforgettable place.

July 29th | At 21:30
Castello e Parco di Masino (Terrazza dei Limoni)
Via del Castello 1, Caravino (TO)

A SURPRISE PROGRAM!

Farhad Mahani
CONTRAMETRIC ENSEMBLE

Tickets ?: Sinfonica II

Reservations:
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*the tickets allow access to the Park, the labyrinth, and the cafeteria*

!! Any tickets still available will be on sale at the concert venue 45 minutes before the concert starts !!!

“It is not possible to think about the future without having a global vision of the complex of problems affecting humanity,” said the entrepreneur Aurelio Peccei.

For Mercato Circolare, an innovative start-up with a social vocation, the impact economy is first and foremost a question of vision and culture.In this episode of Bench-Mark, we discover with founder Nadia Lambiase the social and cultural value of an urban regeneration project in the outskirts of Turin.

The interview is curated by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

The webinar “Space Finance: how to prepare for an investment round“, organized as part of the activities of ESA BIC Turin, is an opportunity to get in touch with Primo Space Fund, Italy’s first venture capital fund and one of the few in the world specializing in the space tech sector.

An overview of venture capital in space will be provided and the criteria for start-up evaluation and investment by the fund will be explored in depth. A Q&A session is scheduled at the end. ESA BIC Turin start-ups attending the event will have the opportunity to participate in one-to-one sessions directly with the fund managers in the following weeks.

The speakers at the webinar will include:

• Raffaele Mauro, General Partner at Primo Ventures;
• Linda Mazzotti, Associate at Primo Ventures;
• Federico Cuppoloni, Associate at Primo Ventures;
• Leo Italiano, Program Manager at ESA BIC Turin.

Participation to the event is free and open to all, with with required registration on Eventbrite. The webinar will be fully held in English language.

Event programme

• 16:00 – Opening and introduction
• 16:10 – Primo Space: portfolio and investment criteria
• 16:30 – Space & Venture Capital: trends and opportunities
• 16:50 – Key factors in evaluating a deal
• 17:10 – Q&A

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Within the framework of the Torino Social Impact Art Award, conceived by Artissima and promoted by Torino Social Impact, in collaboration with Combo and with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, a workshop/experiential path involving artists and a number of local realities took place on Saturday 2 July. Thanks to the willingness and support of a number of organisations and figures familiar with the dynamics that characterise the city of Turin, the workshop was a dynamic opportunity for an exchange to bring the theme of the call into the local context.

The title of the call 2022 is Rebellions and Rebirths: the creative potential of confrontation, and invites artists to reflect on the theme of social conflict in its various manifestations and latent forms.

Structure of the Workshop

The workshop has been organised on the basis of an itinerary interspersed with meetings and visits to significant sites, with the aim of helping the artists trace the history of the city’s transformation, as well as the direction in which it is heading.

Free Exchange Market

Theme: (underground and contrasts) Turin’s Free Trade Market has been held for many years in the Borgo Dora area, coexisting in conflict with residents and other businesses in the area. It is a spontaneous and informal market, a source of income and livelihood for many. Legislative changes in the late 1990s reformed the categories of trades present in the public area, leaving some 500 vendors who had been participating in the market for years without formal recognition. These changes are a source of tension, clashes and the creation of new representations and identities that reverberate in the spaces and people who pass through and experience that space (traders, vendors, residents, public administration, local associations, etc.). The market, the spaces it occupies and the people it involves represent a history of recent tensions and wounds in the city of Turin and the search for a synthesis.

For more: Free trade, the souk, politics and choices: some elements for clarity

Museum of Resistance, Deportation, War, Rights and Freedom

Theme: (Underground and Resistance) The permanent exhibition of the Museo Diffuso della Resistenza is located in the underground rooms of the Palazzo dei Quartieri Militari. During World War II, around 45 public air-raid shelters were built in Turin, including the air-raid shelter in the Palazzo dei Quartieri Militari, intended for the employees of the newspaper “La Gazzetta del Popolo”, which was based in the same block. Situated at a depth of about 12 metres, this shelter consisted of four reinforced concrete tunnels to resist bomb blasts and shock waves. The history of the resistance in Turin is intertwined with that of the workers’ struggle (the Fiat Ferriere strikes, Mirafiori in 1943, etc.) and the underground places where daily life was conducted under the bombing. Going to the underground places is not only an act of survival but also a look into the future, to a new imaginary, to a new world and a new society. The Museum represents an important stage in reflecting on the values of the Resistance in order to read the present and look to the future.

For further information: the Museum’s institutional website

Mirafiori: General gardens, House in Mirafiori Park

Theme: (transformation and rebirth) The Mirafiori district is known for being home to one of the most famous Fiat factories, a symbol of the Italian industrialisation process. In the 1960s, Mirafiori was one of the largest worker concentrations in Europe, employing 65,000 people. The growth of the plant linked to the economic boom triggered migratory phenomena and affected the transformation of the metropolitan area. Rethinking a neighbourhood such as Mirafiori certainly represents a challenge, which is being taken up by a number of local realities capable of thinking up future trajectories for the city thanks also to social innovation.

For more: Mirafiori project after the Myth

In June 2022, Turin’s PalaVela hosted Special Olympics Italia, the largest sports event dedicated to people with intellectual disabilities ever held in our country.

With Giancarlo Amberti, Deputy Director of the Piedmont division of Special Olympics, we discover how sport, as a means of proximity and social inclusiveness, affects the economy of a territory, generating a positive impact on the community.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

IAAD. presents the sixth edition of the Career Day which also for this year will be in remote mode.

The event will start on Thursday 21^st July 2022 and will involve 360 candidates, who will meet an equal number of partner companies, for a total of 3600 interviews divided into 4 days.

The aim has always the same, help students to enter in the professional market through some days of meetings, in which all the graduating students of the current academic year will have the opportunity to present their portfolio to equal number of companies, among the most established on the Italian and international scene.
An opportunity for companies to meet young talents from the world of Design and to find highly profiled candidates to join their workforce.

Companies interested in joining the IAAD. Career Day 2022, are invited to fill out the participation form at the following LINK.
This initiative does not include any registration fee. Deadline Wednesday 6 July.

For more information, please, contact the Partnership & Career Service Office: partnership1@iaad.it

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

Why this award

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

How to participate

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

Awards

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

For further information

Monica Cesana
premioimpatto@koinetica.it
392 216 9204

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

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

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

8th edition: Boundaries of FREEDOM

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

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

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

 

Promoted by Torino Social Impact in collaboration with Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and conceived and curated by Artissima, the Torino Social Impact Art Award announces the winners of the third edition of the prize aimed at two young talents with a background in contemporary art and a multicultural and migrant background. They are Federico Pozuelo (Madrid, 1992) and Natália Trejbalová (Košice, Slovakia, 1989), who will begin a one-month residency in Turin at Combo, the hospitality partner of the project, with the aim of creating a video work.

The Torino Social Impact Art Award was created in 2020 out of the desire to bring art and social innovation into dialogue with the aim of activating actions aimed at influencing the present and contemporary society. Starting from the conviction that art is able to provide tools and physical spaces to question the social urgencies of contemporaneity, the project aims to experiment with the field of the arts as a catalyst for the elaboration of new responses or structured solutions.

Federico Pozuelo and Natália Trejbalová will benefit from a constant tutoring service by the curators of the project, Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini, founders of the art project Treti Galaxie, and will be accompanied by Torino Social Impact in their exchange with the territory thanks to a workshop aimed at getting to know the local context, with meetings and visits to places significant for the production project they propose.

The videos produced during the residency period will be presented at Artissima 2022 (4-6 November).

The two winners were selected by the “Torino Social Impact Art Award” Committee composed of Luigi Fassi, Director of Artissima, Mario Calderini, Politecnico di Milano and Spokesperson for Torino Social Impact, Alberto Anfossi, Secretary General of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi, President of Fondazione ICA Milano, Ilda Curti, President of Associazione IUR Innovazione Urbana Rigenerazione, Matteo Bergamini, Editor-in-Chief of Exibart, Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini, founders of the art project Treti Galaxie and tutors of the third edition of the award.

The call 2022 entitled Rebellions and rebirths: the creative potential of confrontation invites us to reflect on the theme of social conflict in its various manifestations and latent forms: a tangible and concrete phenomenon that has always found in art a peaceful means of expression, but at the same time one with a strong potential for denunciation. Contestation and dissent can become a generative and creative tool if the confrontation does not lead to destructive attitudes and behaviour, but is mediated in order to provoke the development of new visions and social transformations. Social conflict, in fact, in addition to highlighting issues of justice, is generative of new representations, ideas, exercises in negotiation and contamination, resistance and mutual aid, which lead to the emergence of innovative practices and novel languages. Within the complexity of social confrontation, art plays a great role in this challenge of recomposition and regeneration.

The Torino Social Impact Art Award was born out of Artissima and Torino Social Impact’s shared vocation for experimentation, with the aim of broadening the scope of social innovation to include contemporary art. Focusing on the space that multiculturalism has in today’s society, the award aims to propose new relationships and open up unexpected scenarios through the languages and gaze of the winning artists.

The first edition of the project in 2020 entitled “Quante Italie?” was won by Caterina Erica Shanta and Liryc Dela Cruz, who respectively produced the works Talking about visibility and Il Mio Filippino: Invisible Bodies, Neglected Movements during their residency in Turin. The second edition of ZOOM IN/ZOOM OUT in 2021 awarded the projects Adhan to Dora by artist Monia Ben Hamouda and STILI DRAMA XVIII-XXI by the MRZB collective.

THE WINNING ARTISTS

Federico Pozuelo wins the Torino Social Impact Art Award 2022 with a project involving the creation of a video that will investigate the various historical narratives of Northern Italy, focused on Turin, from the 1970s to today. Letting himself be inspired by the ferment of the Piedmontese capital, the artist will work on historical materials to construct a fiction through the cinematographic language of thriller and horror. The aim is to generate a new narrative that explores new meanings of the way we conceive the present and the reality that surrounds us. The work will present several scenes in which fiction, history and mythology meet, attempting to open up new visions of the world we live in.

Pozuelo’s artistic research has recently focused on the leaden years and the culture produced during those years. From a series of historical research, interviews and fieldwork, she has been able to address the hegemonic construction of historical events, thus realising the potential of fiction and film language in challenging dominant perspectives and showing what is hidden, unrepresented, on the margins.

Natália Trejbalová wins the Torino Social Impact Art Award 2022 with a project investigating the network of underground spaces, a meeting place for marginal communities and a place of rebellion against the hegemony of the world and systems of the surface. Underground spaces also function as time capsules, archives of the human and non-human traces that have passed through them. The artist’s work will be transformed into a journey into the parallel world of underground networks to discover the hidden face of Turin, one of the Italian cities with the largest network of artificial cavities and underground passages: Fortezza Pastiss, the military tunnels under the Pietro Micca Museum, under Palazzo Madama, under Piazza Castello and also the Galleria Reale that connects Turin with Rivoli. The underground city is par excellence the representation of the unconscious and the repressed of the city on the surface. Furthermore, the artist develops the link between speleological exploration and the colonisation of space.

Trejbalová’s artistic practice focuses on the creation of moving images. In recent films she has explored the possibilities of science fiction, our individual perception of transformations on a global scale, possible future interspecies relations and changes in the planetary environment. The film production is usually developed and structured as a work in progress over a longer period of time and includes scenes and settings produced in different residencies and exhibitions.

ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES

Federico Pozuelo

Federico Pozuelo (Madrid, 1992) is a visual artist who explores the construction of historical and cultural narratives through different languages. In his latest works he has reflected on the construction of the historical event, the aesthetisation of political violence and the theatricalisation of cultural narratives through the language of film. He is also a founding member of the Amsterdam-based Prom Collective, where he has been developing audiovisual projects and the publishing project Prom.Run since 2017.

Natália Trejbalová

Natália Trejbalová (Košice, Slovakia, 1989) is an artist who devotes her research to the interference between cultural production and digital languages, in a multidisciplinary approach that includes video production, installation, sculpture and performance. She has participated in exhibition projects in various institutions including: Palais de Tokyo, Paris; MUDAM, Luxembourg; Power Station of Arts, Shanghai; Fotomuseum Winterthur; The 16th Quadriennale in Rome; 35m2, Prague; PAV Turin; Regional Art Museum Pardubice; Gossamer Fog, London; Galerie Charlot, Paris.
Trejbalová has been artist in residence at Schafhof-Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern, Freising; Kunstststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart; AIR Futura, Prague; Sim, Reykjavík.

His most recent solo exhibitions include Isle of the Altered Sun at Promise of Kneropy, Bratislava.

TUTORS

Treti Galaxie is an art project founded by Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini. Its aim is to work with artists in an expanded way, respecting their projects and ideas and helping them to produce and develop exhibitions in the most complete way. For this reason, he chooses not to have a fixed location but to seek out each time the space that best suits the project he is working on.

Since March 2016, he has been developing a series of solo exhibitions in which artists dialogue with the hidden urban fabric of Turin, reconfiguring the use of the city’s historical sites such as the Mole Antonelliana, the Sala Reale of Torino Porta Nuova Station, the Underground Fortress of Pastiss and the Arches of the Ex-MOI, signing collaborations with the National Cinema Museum of Turin, Grandi Stazioni Rail, the Pietro Micca Civic Museum, Parcolimpico and Acer.
In 2020 he curates the project Endless Nostalghia, dedicated to the work of film director Andrej Tarkovskij, among the winners of the Toscanaincontemporanea2020 call for entries. In 2021 he is co-curator of Supercondominio3 for the Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea. In 2022 he inaugurates the exhibition season of NAM – Not A Museum at Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence, and curates the sixth edition of the ClubGAMeC Prize.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SIA

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

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

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

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

Introduction

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

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

Context

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

Goals

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

Guidelines

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

 

In this episode we get to know ISC Lab, a reality operating since 2020 at the Innovation Square Center in Turin, which attracts start-ups and innovative SMEs committed to technology.

With Emanuele Buscaglione, creator and coordinator of the ISC Lab project, we discover how knowledge sharing is an essential tool in the digital environment to overcome inequalities and generate social impact.

The interview is by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

A few minutes ago the fourth day of the XXXVII Special Olympics National Summer Games in Turin 2022 ended: a real sports party was staged on all the competition fields and at the PalaVela Olympic Village, with 3 thousand athletes with and without intellectual disabilities and the whole community involved in the event to underline once again the values ​​of inclusion, sharing and fraternity founding in the movement created in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in the United States.

The protagonists of the games are “back on the field” in the disciplines of athletics, basketball, bowling, bowls, 5-a-side football, rowing, horse riding, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, golf, karate, swimming, volleyball, rugby, tennis and table tennis; the competitions in rhythmic gymnastics, golf, karate and rugby ended today. The Health Programs initiatives also continued at the Special Olympics Village, with free screening for all athletes thanks to the collaboration of 150 volunteer medical specialists: among these Opening Eyes (optometric screening), Special Smiles (dental screening), Fit Feet (podiatry screening) ) and Health Promotion (nutrition and prevention). From 10 to 12 the demonstration of the YAP – Young Athletes Program took place, with motor play activities for children with and without intellectual disabilities in view of a future entry into the Special Olympics panorama from the age of 8. The Program provides an introduction to basic motor skills such as running, kicking and throwing through playful activities with the aim of promoting social inclusion by extending the benefits to families and the community as well. Furthermore, after the message of peace launched on the occasion of the Opening Ceremony, a group of Ukrainian families were guests of the Village.

Testifying the achievements of the Special Olympics athletes is also the story of Francesca Sedani, volleyball player of Passeportout Valsesia: “I practiced swimming – she says – since I was a child, while I met volleyball at school: doing sports allows me to be in company, do not get bored and keep busy, since I started I have improved my self-esteem because I really like being with my mates and comparing myself with them. My dream is to continue like this: after my debut at the Play the Games in Biella in October 2021, I would also like to participate in the World Cup, but the Nationals are still a good starting point and I’m really happy to take home some medals”. The progress made thanks to sport is also witnessed by Francesca Vinzio, President and Head of Delegation of the association: “Since she started with us – she explains – last September she had a crazy evolution, going from total inactivity to doing 2 workouts a week of swimming and 1 week of volleyball. Thanks to the progress made with sport, Francesca was also included in a job placement project that could soon lead her to obtain a company contract, given the excellent skills demonstrated: the useful features here also helped her in obtaining the diploma, at work and in private life “.

Tomorrow, Wednesday 8 June, in the morning includes athletics, basketball, bowling, bowling, 5-a-side football, rowing, horseback riding, artistic gymnastics, swimming, volleyball, tennis and table tennis. In the afternoon, however, it will continue with basketball, bowling, bowling, 5-a-side football, horse riding, artistic gymnastics, volleyball, tennis and table tennis.

Below, the details of the tenders and facilities:

• Athletics: Primo Nebiolo Stadium, Viale Luigi Huges 10 Turin
• Badminton: Pala Vela, Via Ventimiglia 145 Turin
• Bocce: Bocciofila Borgo Rossini, C.so Terenzio Mamiani 5 Turin / Bocciodromo Crescenzio Colletta, Lungo Dora P. Colletta 53 Turin
• Bowling: King Center, Via Monginevro 242 Turin
• Football: CUS Torino, Via Milano 63 Grugliasco
• Rowing: Esperia Rowing Club, C.so Moncalieri 2 Turin
• Indoor Rowing: Armida Rowing Club, Viale Virgilio 45 Turin
• Dragon Boat: Esperia Rowing Club, C.so Moncalieri 2 Turin
• Horse riding: Horsebridge Riding Club, Via Supeia Gallino 27 Nole
• Artistic Gymnastics: PalaGymnastics, Via Giacinto Pacchiotti 71 Turin
• Karate: Le Cupole Palace, Via E. Artom, 111 Turin
• Rhythmic Gymnastics: Palasport Moncrivello Eurogymnica, Via Moncrivello 8 Turin
• Golf: Royal Park I Roveri, Rotta Cerbiatta 24 Fiano
• Tennis: Sporting Press Club, C.so G. Agnelli 45 Turin – Gaidano Sports Facility, Via Modigliani 25 Turin
• Basketball: Sisport Sports Center, Via Olivero 40 Turin
• Volleyball: Pala Vela, Via Ventimiglia 145 Turin
• Swimming: Acquatica Turin, C.so Galileo Ferraris 290 Turin / Palazzo del Nuoto, Via Filadelfia 89 Turin
• Table Tennis: CUS Torino, Palazzetto di Grugliasco Via C.L.N. 53 Grugliasco
• Open Water Swimming: Avigliana Lakes, Via Monte Pirchiriano Avigliana
• Flag Rugby: CUS Turin, St. del Barocchio 27 Grugliasco

The complete program is available here

The images, with daily updates, are available here

Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006, visiting Turin Chamber of Commerce President Dario Gallina on Saturday 4 June to announce the GLOBAL SOCIAL BUSINESS SUMMIT 2022 in Turin in November

Economist and entrepreneur, father of microcredit and social enterprises, founder of Grameen Bank, the Nobel Prize winner spoke at the International Festival of Economics.
The meeting in the Chamber of Commerce sanctioned the commitment to bring the annual gathering of the global community of social enterprises, in recent years in Nairobi, Berlin, Paris, Mexico City, Kuala Lumpur, to Turin on 7-8 November

The project to hold The Global Social Business Summit 2022 in Turin in November, organised by The Grameen Creative Lab and Yunus Center, is taking shape with the support of the main local institutional actors and important private groups.

On 4 June, Prof. Yunus was in Turin, a guest at the Festival dell’Economia, and on this occasion he requested a meeting with the local system, to further present the summit and enhance the partnerships and projects that are being outlined for the event.

In the afternoon, he met with the President of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, Dario Gallina, at the historical headquarters in Via Carlo Alberto 16: “Receiving Professor Yunus at the Chamber of Commerce headquarters is an exciting and significant stage of a path that was started many years ago with farsightedness by our organisation with the creation of the Social Entrepreneurship Committee. A path that has allowed us to establish ourselves as an international model in social economy development policies, also thanks to the experience of Torino Social Impact, a territorial platform that now counts 220 partners, dedicated to these issues. The decision to nominate us to host the Global Social Business Summit 2022 next November, after the organisation of the GSG For Impact Investment last 23-25 May and the Social Value International meeting scheduled for October, makes 2022 a special year, which sees our territory as the undisputed protagonist of the global debate on the impact economy”.

“Global warming, the concentration of wealth, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, rising prices, and food shortages have created a massive combined attack on the world. This worsening crisis needs major collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty, reduce inequality and build a healthier world for all – said Prof. Muhammad Yunus. “We will only succeed if we act together, now. Creativity and human values-driven entrepreneurship can play a significant role in solving society’s most urgent needs, but we need a much more ambitious commitment to the vision of a Three-Zero World (zero net carbon emissions, zero concentration of wealth to alleviate poverty, and zero unemployment) by stimulating entrepreneurship in each and every one of us: the time to do it is now!”

“We are delighted to announce that the Global Social Business Summit 2022, the global gathering of the social business community oriented towards solving society’s and the planet’s problems, will meet on 7 and 8 November for the first time since the pandemic right in Turin, Italy,” continued Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof. Yunus. “The Summit is an important moment for the global community to engage various parties in addressing society’s inequalities and create systems that work collaboratively for the common good, supporting the transition to sustainable and equitable development.

The city of Turin inspires us by showing the way to adapt to the needs of a sustainable, digitised and rapidly changing society”.

Turin was chosen by the Summit organisers as a model of Social Impact and Social Innovation recognised by the European Commission also through the Torino Social Impact ecosystem, a public-private platform for social impact that today gathers more than 200 local partners.

Who is Muhammad Yunus

One of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time, Prof Yunus can be defined as the father of microcredit and social business. He is the founder of the Grameen Bank, and of more than 60 nationwide social enterprises in Bangladesh.

For his contribution to fighting poverty in the world, Prof. Yunus and the Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Prof. Yunus has countless awards to his credit, such as the US Congressional Gold Medal, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the St. Francis Lamp of Peace in Assisi in 2019, the Olympic laurel in Tokyo in 2021, and the UN Foundation’s Global Change Award.

What is the Global Social Business Summit

It is the annual gathering of the social business community.

The Summit is the largest social business platform worldwide and an opportunity to learn from case histories that have changed the world for those who want to.

An intensive conference programme, panel discussions and workshops also offer a unique opportunity to share existing ideas and initiatives, make connections and continue learning from social business actors around the world.

Each year the Global Social Business Summit moves to a new city: 2009 & 2010 in Wolfsburg, Germany; 2011 & 2012 in Vienna, Austria; 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico; 2015 in Berlin, Germany; 2017 in Paris, France; 2018 in Wolfsburg, Germany; 2019 in Berlin, Germany; 2021 in Nairobi.

Not even the time to archive the tremendous emotions experienced during the Opening Ceremony, staged last night at the “Grande Torino” Olympic Stadium, which for the XXXVII Special Olympics National Summer Games is already time to get to the heart of the competitions.

The 3,000 athletes with and without intellectual disabilities participating “returned to the field” today in almost all disciplines, filling most of the sports facilities involved with energy, vitality and talent. During the day there were then athletics, badminton (whose program ended in the afternoon), basketball, bowling, bowling, 5-a-side football, rowing, horse riding, rhythmic gymnastics, golf, karate, swimming, volleyball, rugby tests. , tennis and table tennis. At the PalaVela, headquarters of the Special Olympics Village, the Health Programs initiatives were held simultaneously with the Family Health Forum, with free screening for all athletes thanks to the collaboration of 150 volunteer medical specialists: among these Opening Eyes (optometric screening ), Special Smiles (dental screening), Fit Feet (podiatry screening) and Health Promotion (nutrition and prevention).

Tomorrow, Tuesday 7 June, will be no less intense with competitions scheduled from 9 to 18.30: we will start in the morning with athletics, basketball, bowling, bowls, 5-a-side football, rowing, horse riding, rhythmic gymnastics, golf, karate, swimming , volleyball, rugby, tennis and table tennis, and then continue in the afternoon with athletics, basketball, bowling, bowling, 5-a-side football, rowing, horseback riding, gymnastics, golf, karate, volleyball, tennis and table tennis. The Tuesday of the Games will also give other intense sensations to the PalaVela Olympic Village, where the Health Programs will be joined (from 10 to 12) by a demonstration of the YAP – Young Athletes Program, with motor play activities for children with and without intellectual disabilities in sight. of a future entry into the Special Olympics panorama from the age of 8. The Program provides an introduction to basic motor skills such as running, kicking and throwing through playful activities with the aim of promoting social inclusion by extending the benefits to families and the community as well.

Below, the details of the tenders and facilities:

• Athletics: Primo Nebiolo Stadium, Viale Luigi Huges 10 Turin
• Badminton: Pala Vela, Via Ventimiglia 145 Turin
• Bocce: Bocciofila Borgo Rossini, C.so Terenzio Mamiani 5 Turin / Bocciodromo Crescenzio Colletta, Lungo Dora P. Colletta 53 Turin
• Bowling: King Center, Via Monginevro 242 Turin
• Football: CUS Torino, Via Milano 63 Grugliasco
• Rowing: Esperia Rowing Club, C.so Moncalieri 2 Turin
• Indoor Rowing: Armida Rowing Club, Viale Virgilio 45 Turin
• Dragon Boat: Esperia Rowing Club, C.so Moncalieri 2 Turin
• Horse riding: Horsebridge Riding Club, Via Supeia Gallino 27 Nole
• Artistic Gymnastics: PalaGymnastics, Via Giacinto Pacchiotti 71 Turin
• Karate: Le Cupole Palace, Via E. Artom, 111 Turin
• Rhythmic Gymnastics: Palasport Moncrivello Eurogymnica, Via Moncrivello 8 Turin
• Golf: Royal Park I Roveri, Rotta Cerbiatta 24 Fiano
• Tennis: Sporting Press Club, C.so G. Agnelli 45 Turin – Gaidano Sports Facility, Via Modigliani 25 Turin
• Basketball: Sisport Sports Center, Via Olivero 40 Turin
• Volleyball: Pala Vela, Via Ventimiglia 145 Turin
• Swimming: Acquatica Turin, C.so Galileo Ferraris 290 Turin / Palazzo del Nuoto, Via Filadelfia 89 Turin
• Table Tennis: CUS Torino, Palazzetto di Grugliasco Via C.L.N. 53 Grugliasco
• Open Water Swimming: Avigliana Lakes, Via Monte Pirchiriano Avigliana
• Flag Rugby: CUS Turin, St. del Barocchio 27 Grugliasco

The complete program is available here

The images, with daily updates, are available here

The wait is finally over: with the opening ceremony staged on the evening of Sunday 5 June at the Olympic Stadium “Grande Torino“, the XXXVII Special Olympics Summer National Games in Turin 2022 officially opened, the largest event sport dedicated to people with intellectual disabilities never realized in Italy with 3000 athletes, 20 sports disciplines, 1300 volunteers, 420 accompanying delegates, 520 technicians and 1400 family members.

The event was characterized by a continuous and incessant succession of emotions, with moments of great music and entertainment alternating with the protocol of the Olympic ceremonial with the conduct of Francesco Gherardi, Raffaele Italiano and the fencing champion Margherita Granbassi: the evening began at 9 pm with the parade of delegations, divided by region, with the 3 thousand athletes absolute protagonists of the races scheduled until Thursday 9 together with their technicians. A message of universal peace then rose from the field, with the guest of honor Arisa singing Imagine by John Lennon accompanied on the piano by Maestro Giuseppe Barbera and followed by an intense vocal version of the Hymn by Mameli. “May I win, but if I don’t succeed I can try with all my strength“: it was the oath of the Special Olympics athlete, who announced to the audience in the stands the entrance of the torch symbol of the diffusion of Olympic values among peoples escorted by an athlete and a partner athlete. The enthusiasm then skyrocketed with the lighting of the tripod and the opening declaration of the Games by the Mayor of the City of Turin Stefano Lo Russo.

From Monday 6, the competitions will continue (with hours 9-18.30) which began on Sunday morning with the “divisioning”, grouping of the athletes into homogeneous heats / groups based on the level of skill to guarantee everyone the opportunity to express themselves to their full potential. #TORniamoINcampO, in addition to being the claim chosen for the Games, from this point of view will also be the watchword for the champions who will compete after two years of pandemic in the 20 disciplines on the program; team sports will take place in unified mode, with the simultaneous presence of players with and without disabilities. In this regard, Turin will be a great protagonist not only as a host city through the provision of the over 20 sports facilities involved, but also and above all as a welcoming and inclusive place.

Below, the details of the tenders and facilities:

• Athletics: Primo Nebiolo Stadium, Viale Luigi Huges 10 Turin
• Badminton: Pala Vela, Via Ventimiglia 145 Turin
• Bocce: Bocciofila Borgo Rossini, C.so Terenzio Mamiani 5 Turin / Bocciodromo Crescenzio Colletta, Lungo Dora P. Colletta 53 Turin
• Bowling: King Center, Via Monginevro 242 Turin
• Football: CUS Torino, Via Milano 63 Grugliasco
• Rowing: Esperia Rowing Club, C.so Moncalieri 2 Turin
• Indoor Rowing: Armida Rowing Club, Viale Virgilio 45 Turin
• Dragon Boat: Esperia Rowing Club, C.so Moncalieri 2 Turin
• Horse riding: Horsebridge Riding Club, Via Supeia Gallino 27 Nole
• Artistic Gymnastics: PalaGymnastics, Via Giacinto Pacchiotti 71 Turin
• Karate: Le Cupole Palace, Via E. Artom, 111 Turin
• Rhythmic Gymnastics: Palasport Moncrivello Eurogymnica, Via Moncrivello 8 Turin
• Golf: Royal Park I Roveri, Rotta Cerbiatta 24 Fiano
• Tennis: Sporting Press Club, C.so G. Agnelli 45 Turin – Gaidano Sports Facility, Via Modigliani 25 Turin
• Basketball: Sisport Sports Center, Via Olivero 40 Turin
• Volleyball: Pala Vela, Via Ventimiglia 145 Turin
• Swimming: Acquatica Turin, C.so Galileo Ferraris 290 Turin / Palazzo del Nuoto, Via Filadelfia 89 Turin
• Table Tennis: CUS Torino, Palazzetto di Grugliasco Via C.L.N. 53 Grugliasco
• Open Water Swimming: Avigliana Lakes, Via Monte Pirchiriano Avigliana
• Flag Rugby: CUS Turin, St. del Barocchio 27 Grugliasco

Read the complete program

The images, with daily updates, are available here

The PalaVela will be the fulcrum of the entire event not only as the venue for badminton and volleyball competitions, but also with the Special Olympics Village, a meeting point for athletes and volunteers: entertainment activities will take place here with live music and animation during the throughout the day, as well as educational workshops and a family area dedicated to relaxation. Inside the structure, the Closing Party of the Games is also scheduled for Wednesday 8 to 21.

Among the proposals of the Village there are:

• “Healthy Athletes – Health Village” Health Program: area dedicated to health and prevention with free screening for all athletes by 150 volunteer doctors and specialists (Monday 9-18, Tuesday 9-18, Wednesday 9-17, Thursday 9-13);
• MATP Motor Activities Training Program: program aimed at athletes with severe / very severe intellectual disabilities who cannot participate in sports competitions, based on the development of basic motor activities (Wednesday 10-12);
• YAP Young Athletes Program: program that includes motor play activities for children with and without intellectual disabilities from 2 to 7 years before being able to enter, from the age of 8, to be part of the Special Olympics world.

THE DECLARATIONS OF THE PROTAGONISTS OF THE CEREMONY

Fabiana Dadone – Minister for Youth Policies: “With your commitment during the pandemic you have raised the concept of resilience to a higher level: you are the living testimony of how thanks to sport and a great social experience it is impossible to leave someone behind. With the Government we supported the candidacy for the Special Olympics 2025 Winter World Games, which will take place right here in Turin, and we will continue to do so: I wish the children to have fun because seeing them happy fills me with joy “.

Alberto Cirio – President of the Piedmont Region: “Seeing you parading on this wonderful field for this top level event was a river of life. Furthermore, starting from Piedmont and Turin has a symbolic meaning of great value: we are proud to have hosted major events such as Eurovision, the Book Fair and the Festival of Economics in recent months, but the Special Olympics Games are certainly the most qualifying event ever because it is able to warm our hearts. All of Piedmont embraces you and sends you a great good luck”.

Stefano Lo Russo – Mayor of Turin: “We welcome the whole Special Olympics movement to Turin: your oath allows us to underline the desire to be together after 2 very hard years, which have kept us at a distance making us enter an unnatural dimension of physical distance. Being here today is a source of great pride and hope because sport brings people closer by making us immerse in reality and in the spirit of sharing”.

Angelo Moratti – President of Special Olympics Italy: “What a thrill to see you again after 2 and a half years: I still remember with great pleasure the 2019 World Games in Abu Dhabi, with tens of thousands of people from all over the world, the most beautiful event in history by Special Olympics. At a certain point, however, the world closed and the hardest moment came with courageous decisions: from there we invented the Smart Games, giving our athletes the opportunity to play sports directly from their homes by sharing viral videos capable of to be an example for the whole world”.

Alessandra Palazzotti – Director of Special Olympics Italy: “During the pandemic, our athletes guided us and showed us the way, they were our beacon even if we never really stopped: in the last 2 years, in fact, we have trained 60 leading athletes and 40 leading athletes for families, as well as organizing the Smart Games. Today is a whole other story because we are finally back on the field, I invite everyone to underline the abilities, skills and uniqueness of each of our athletes, to whom I want to say to have fun and give the best of themselves because you have shown us that they do not exist. obstacles that you cannot overcome”.

Carlo Cremonte – Director of Special Olympics Italia Team Piemonte: “We have worked hard with all the national and local staff to allow the athletes to compete in the best possible way. There have been many open doors and for this I want to thank the institutions and companies that have supported us: if placed in the best conditions, our children can amaze us and express those talents that make them protagonists even in everyday life. Creating these conditions is a duty of every citizen and we are sure that the athletes will not prove us wrong”.

Federica Borla – Eurogymnica Torino Athlete: “The last 2 years have been very heavy not only for isolation and loneliness but also for the fear of getting close to people, in training and in the gym, or even just hugging them. Today, finally, we are here for the National Summer Games, where we will all return to the field together and I’m sure we will have a lot of fun. From tomorrow I expect you to cheer for all the athletes who will participate in the races”.

#TORniamoINcampO: this is the claim chosen to best represent the multiple meanings of the XXXVII Special Olympics National Summer Games scheduled from 4 to 9 June 2022, presented this morning at the Centro Congressi Unione Industriali Torino in Via Vela 17. Representative because marks the official return to sporting activity in presence for the entire Special Olympics movement, representative because it underlines the role of Turin as the national and international capital of sport. The Turin Games, the largest sporting event dedicated to people with intellectual disabilities ever held in Italy, will bring over 3,000 athletes from every corner of the “boot” to the territory of the Metropolitan City (together with technicians, carers, families and volunteers), with a fallout destined to have a decisive impact not only on the sports and social fabric but also on the economic and commercial one.

The sports disciplines included in the program are 20, many of which are characterized by Unified Sport involving in the same team athletes with and without intellectual disabilities. The calendar of the event foresees, for Saturday 4 June, the accreditation of the Special Olympics delegations from all over Italy and the meeting of the heads of delegations. On day 5, during the morning, the “divisioning” will be held, preliminary competitions where the National Special Olympics technicians will evaluate the skill level of the athletes and their relative inclusion within the heats and groups / groups. All this in view of the subsequent races, which will continue until the end of the event in various facilities in the area: the timetable will always be from 9 to 18.30 except for Thursday 9, the day of departure, when they will end at 13. disciplines and facilities:

• Athletics: Primo Nebiolo Stadium, Viale Luigi Huges 10 Turin
• Badminton: Pala Vela, Via Ventimiglia 145 Turin
• Bocce: Bocciofila Borgo Rossini, C.so Terenzio Mamiani 5 Turin / Bocciodromo Crescenzio Colletta, Lungo Dora P. Colletta 53 Turin
• Bowling: King Center, Via Monginevro 242 Turin
• Football: CUS Torino, Via Milano 63 Grugliasco
• Rowing: Esperia Rowing Club, C.so Moncalieri 2 Turin
• Indoor Rowing: Armida Rowing Club, Viale Virgilio 45 Turin
• Dragon Boat: Esperia Rowing Club, C.so Moncalieri 2 Turin
• Horse riding: Horsebridge Riding Club, Via Supeia Gallino 27 Nole
• Artistic Gymnastics: PalaGymnastics, Via Giacinto Pacchiotti 71 Turin
• Karate: Le Cupole Palace, Via E. Artom, 111 Turin
• Rhythmic Gymnastics: Palasport Moncrivello Eurogymnica, Via Moncrivello 8 Turin
• Golf: Royal Park I Roveri, Rotta Cerbiatta 24 Fiano
• Tennis: Sporting Press Club, C.so G. Agnelli 45 Turin – Gaidano Sports Facility, Via Modigliani 25 Turin
• Basketball: Sisport Sports Center, Via Olivero 40 Turin
• Volleyball: Pala Vela, Via Ventimiglia 145 Turin
• Swimming: Acquatica Turin, C.so Galileo Ferraris 290 Turin / Palazzo del Nuoto, Via Filadelfia 89 Turin
• Table Tennis: CUS Torino, Palazzetto di Grugliasco Via C.L.N. 53 Grugliasco
• Open Water Swimming: Avigliana Lakes, Via Monte Pirchiriano Avigliana
• Flag Rugby: CUS Turin, St. del Barocchio 27 Grugliasco

Pala Vela will also host the Special Olympics Village with recreational activities open to all, health programs and demonstrations from the YAP Young Athletes Program and MATP Motor Activity Training Program projects.

The presentation press conference took place just as the streets of Turin were the protagonists of the Torch Run organized on the occasion of the Games, which arrived in the city after having left Udine on 18 March and having crossed all of Italy in 44 stages. The torch, the original symbol of the desire to spread Olympic values ​​among the populations, during the morning was the protagonist of the raising of the flag at the “Cernaia” Barracks – headquarters of the Carabinieri School of Turin – in the presence of 275 students and the Italian champion of pentathlon and heptathlon Sveva Gerevini, standard bearer of the Sports Center of the Carabinieri and godmother of the event, as well as a former pupil. The torch then left, escorted by the Carabinieri, to the headquarters of the Turin Industrial Union and then resumed its journey towards the subsequent stages of Bardonecchia (June 1), Grugliasco (June 2) and Settimo Torinese (June 3). The return to the regional capital is set for Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th June.

The opening ceremony of the XXXVII Special Olympics National Summer Games in Turin 2022 will be officially kicked off by the Opening Ceremony (with free admission), scheduled for Sunday 5 June at 9 pm at the “Grande Torino” Olympic Stadium. The event will follow the Olympic protocol, starting with the parade of delegations and continuing with the oath of

judges and athletes: “May I win, but if I fail, may I try with all my strength.” When these words resound in the stands it will be the turn of one of the most exciting moments: the entrance into the stadium of the torch symbol of peace and hope, escorted by an athlete and a partner athlete, with the lighting of the tripod; finally, the Mayor of Turin Stefano Lo Russo will officially declare the Games open. During the evening there will be moments of music and entertainment, as well as institutional greetings, with the presence of the singer Arisa as guest of honor.

The Special Olympics National Summer Games of Turin 2022 are organized in collaboration and with the patronage of Piedmont 2022 – European Region of Sport, Piedmont Region, City of Turin and Rai for Social. Special Olympics Italy is a meritorious association recognized by CONI and the Italian Paralympic Committee

Premium Partner Banca Intesa San Paolo

Gold Partner Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, The Coca-Cola Foundation

Silver Partner Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture of Turin, iZilove Foundation, Mitsubishi Electric

Bronze Partner Belron, Social Sports Cooperative, Rotary District 2031

Friends Otis, Würth, Michelin, ABB, Mattel, Green Vision Group

Media Partner: La Gazzetta dello Sport

Adidas Technical Partner

Toyota Mobility Partner

YAP Partner iDO

Healthy Athletes Partner Golisano Foundation

The torches were made for Special Olympics by Bonino Carding Machines Srl

This activity is also carried out with the contribution referred to in law 208/15

“Stories Matter” is the official side events of the first #NewEuropeanBauhaus Festival that will take place in June.

The opening of “Stories Matter” photo exhibition will take place in 3 cities: Beirut, Barcelona, Brussels.

The choice of three cities is to discover how projects, art, culture and social initiative intersect to transform our community into an inclusive, beautiful and sustainable future place to live in.

Join us to build together a sustainable & inclusive future that is beautiful for our eyes, minds & souls!

The value of a start-up lies in its intangible assets. This is especially true for start-ups that operate in highly technological and innovative sectors, such as the space industry.

In order to support the growth and success of these start-ups, it is fundamental to develop a strategy of protection and valorization that – through patents and other intellectual property tools (trademarks, designs, copyrights, etc.) – transforms this intangible capital into a more structural one, which could differentiate the start-up with potential partners and investors.

This seminar, organized by ESA BIC Turin and Metroconsult, will provide key tips for protecting innovation and maximizing the value of inventions.

How to participate

The event, free of charge, will be held in presence in I3P‘s Sala Agorà and on live streaming. In order to attend, either in person or online, you must register on the dedicated form.

In compliance with current safety regulations, the seats available in the room are currently limited to a maximum of 70.

About the organizers

The European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre Turin supports entrepreneurs and start-ups in transforming their space-related projects into successful businesses. ESA BIC Turin looks for entrepreneurial ventures that are developing innovative products and services in the upstream or downstream fields.

With 35 years of experience, a strong industrial background and a team of qualified experts registered before the National and European Intellectual Property Office, Metroconsult offers tailored services to protect and maximize the value of intellectual property rights.

In TSI ecosystem, it is not uncommon to make interesting encounters.

In this episode of Bench-Mark, is interviewed Pietro Jarre, international entrepreneur and founder of eMemory.it and eLegacy, two platforms created to educate people on more conscious use of the web.

How do they help the impact economy? Let’s find out in the video.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

On Monday 23 May, more than 250 people gathered at the OGR Turin to watch A New Impact Era, the event organised by Torino Social Impact and Social Impact Agenda for Italy as part of the GSG Leadership Meeting.

Delegates from 50 countries around the world came together to share the vision of a new economy that fosters social impact.

It was an honour and the realisation of a dream for us to host this meeting after Chicago, New Delhi and Buenos Aires.

Partners of the event: Fondazione CRT, Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT, OGR Torino, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Unicredit, Cottino Social Impact Campus e la Camera di commercio di Torino.

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From May 30 to June 04, School of Management and Economics of the University of Turin will host the Business Economics Forum, organized by the Department of Management, which will feature more than 120 speakers and 20 breakout sessions.

The days will include opportunities for discussions with companies and in-depth discussions on current issues. A number of booths of partner companies will also be present with the aim of explaining, including product testing, the results of sustainable strategies applied in recent years.

Tied to our research activities we particularly highlight:

1. Innovation in accountability for the professions and the Third Sector with Fabio Matta (Sistemi SPA), Giulia Pettinau (Orango Go), Davide Barberis (Chartered Accountant), Silvana Secinaro (Lecturer at UniTo), Laura Berardi (Lecturer at University of Chieti-Pescara), Marco Meneguzzo (Lecturer at University of Rome “Tor Vergata)When and where? May 31, 2022 h.10-13 – Classroom 1 (and streaming)

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2. The Social Impact Assessment: the activities of companies in the territory with Mimmo Carretta (City of Turin), Beatrice Borgia (Film Commission Piemonte), Eugenio in Via di Gioia, Erica Azzoaglio (Banco di Credito P. Azzoaglio SPA), Debora Zani (Ceo Gruppo Rubner)When? May 31, 2022 h.14-16pm – Aula Jona (and streaming)

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3. The Pop Balance Sheet Instrument of innovation for dialogue with the Citizen with Valerio Brescia (UniTo), Andrea Tronzano (Piedmont Region), Gabriella Nardelli (City of Turin), Belinda Gottardi (City of Castel Maggiore), Lidia Reale (City of Basiglio), Paolo Montagna (City of Moncalieri), Luca Rivoira (City of Settimo Torinese), Luca Lelli (City of Ozzano)When? June 01, 2022 h.09:30 -11:30 – Classroom 1 (and streaming)

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We look forward to seeing you there!

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

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

Is it possible to enhance art through the circular economy?

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

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

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speakers:

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

Moderator: Francesco Antonioli, Director Mondo Economico

NEW SOCIAL ECONOMY AND INNOVATION POLICY, by Torino Social Impact

June 2, 2022
4:30 pm. Museo Egizio

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

Speakers:

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

 

Website and event programme here

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

Promoted by Torino Social Impact, in collaboration with Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, conceived and curated by Artissima, the Torino Social Impact Art Award offers two young talents with a background in contemporary art and a multicultural and migrant background the opportunity to participate in an artist residency in Torino, aimed at creating a new video or photographic work.

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

Each edition of the project is characterised by a call for proposals, distributed to the main public and private Fine Arts Academies and Italian Universities, which is aimed at young people with training in the world of contemporary art and whose life and family histories and experiences have led them to experience different cultures in an international context.

The first edition of the project in 2020 entitled “Quante Italie?“ was won by Caterina Erica Shanta and Liryc Dela Cruz, who produced, during their residency in Turin, the works Talking about visibility and Il Mio Filippino: Invisible Bodies, Neglected Movements respectively. The second edition of the ZOOM IN/ZOOM OUT call in 2021 awarded the projects Adhan to Dora by the artist Monia Ben Hamouda and STILI DRAMA XVIII-XXI by the collective MRZB.

The third edition of the “Torino Social Impact Art Award” renews the opportunity for two young talents to take part in a month-long artist residency in Turin for the creation of a new video or photographic work, inviting them once again this year to use art to offer a contribution to the transformation of the social perception of particularly urgent themes or life stories considered “distant”.

The call 2022 entitled Rebellions and rebirths: the creative potential of confrontation invites us to reflect on the theme of social conflict in its various manifestations and latent forms: a tangible and concrete phenomenon that has always found in art a peaceful means of expression, but at the same time with a strong potential for denunciation. Contestation and dissent can become a generative and creative tool if the confrontation does not lead to destructive attitudes and behaviour, but is mediated in order to stimulate the development of new visions and social transformations. Social conflict, in fact, besides highlighting issues of social and spatial justice, is generative of new representations, ideas, exercises in negotiation and contamination, resistance and mutual aid, which lead to the birth of innovative practices and new languages. Within the complexity of social confrontation, art can only be an ally in this challenge of recomposition and regeneration.

At the beginning of the residency there will be a full day workshop, with the aim of promoting a relationship and an exchange between artists and the territory. An interactive-experiential path will be proposed to get to know the local context. The city will be crossed from one end to the other by tram line 4, famous in Turin for its route from the Mirafiori South district to the Falchera district in the north. The route will be interspersed with meetings and visits to significant places, such as the Orti Generali or the Case dei quartieri (Neighbourhood Houses), which, often breaking with their own past history, work to affirm a certain imagery of the city, based on values such as proximity, relationships, networks, collaborative experiences, care and mutual aid, and respect for the environment.

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

The videos or photographs produced during the residency period will be presented at Artissima 2022 (3-6 November).

Requirements and how to participate

The call is open to young artists between the ages of 21 and 35 who live in Italy, with a multicultural and migratory background; who attend or have attended the Academy of Fine Arts or University in Italy and/or abroad, or who have presented their research and work at festivals, in exhibitions in galleries or in Italian or foreign institutions, and who intend to develop their own path starting from contemporary art; who intend to create a work through images (video/photography); who have the possibility to attend the entire one-month residency programme in Turin (end of June – July 2022).

The artists will be selected by the “Torino Social Impact Art Award” Committee composed of Luigi Fassi, Director of Artissima, Mario Calderini, Politecnico di Milano and Spokesperson for Torino Social Impact, Alberto Anfossi, Secretary General of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi, President of Fondazione ICA Milano, Ilda Curti, President of Associazione IUR Innovazione Urbana Rigenerazione, Matteo Bergamini, editorial director of Exibart, Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini, founders of the art project Treti Galaxie and tutors of the third edition of the award.

The residency

“Torino Social Impact Art Award” will host the selected artists for a 30-day residency at the hospitality partner Combo, an innovative hospitality concept in the heart of Porta Palazzo in Turin, a historical and multicultural district.
The artists will receive a lump-sum contribution of €3,000 for the production of the work and for their stay in Turin, in addition to their accommodation in residence.

Download the call for applications here. The deadline for participation is 23 May.

For further information please write to segreteria@artissima.it

On May 25th 2022, from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm, Cottino Social Impact Campus and ISTUD Business School in partnership with the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG), are honoured to host and deliver a unique Learning Session for companies and managers interested in ESG and sustainability: “A New Impact Era, from strategy to measurement”.

Within the framework of the GSG Leadership Meeting, scheduled from May 23rd to 25th 2022 in Torino, the Learning Session represents a great opportunity for discussion and collaboration, thanks to the organization by Torino Social Impact, Yes4TO and the Young Entrepreneurs Groups of Unione Industriali Torino and API Torino.

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) is a world-class organization of 34 countries whose most influential financial leaders for impact investing and philanthropy come together to solve the most compelling societal and environmental challenges.

SCHEDULE

H 2:30 pm – Welcome
Giuseppe Dell’Erba, Board Member Cottino Social Impact Campus
Marella Caramazza, General Director ISTUD Business School

H 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm – Impact, from Strategy to Measurement
Dialogue between:
Karim Harji – Director, Oxford Impact Measurement Programme
Mario Calderini – Polytechnic University of Milan, Scientific Advisor Cottino Social Impact Campus
Q&A

H 4:15 pm – Coffee Break

H 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm – A New Impact Era
Cliff Prior – Chief Executive Officer, GSG
Alasdair Maclay – Chief Funds Officer GSG
Kristzina Tora – Chief Market Development Officer, GSG
Q&A

Both Q&A, curated by Yes4to and the Young Entrepreneurs of API Torino and Unione Industriali Torino, want to give voice to the questions and points of interest of SMEs in order to understand how to include the impact on the 3 focus of the event: strategy, management, measurement.

MODERATOR

Meg Pagani is a Forbes 30under30 Founder of Impacton.org and (R)evolutionary, a speaker and a member of networks like the World Economic Forum Global Shapers and the Global Regeneration Colab.
She lived and traveled across 25+ countries studying models of growth, purpose and transformation from different cultures, ancient traditions and emerging sciences.
Her work revolves around decoding tools to apply Power and leadership in alignment with the principles of nature and regeneration.

SPEAKERS

Mario Calderini is Full Professor at the School of Management of Polytechnic University of Milan, where he teaches Sustainability and Impact Management.
Author of books and publications in international scientific reviews, he founded and currently directs Tiresia, the research center for Innovation and Impact Finance of the School of Management of the Polytechnic of Milan.
Calderini is Cabinet Advisor to Minister of Innovation Vittorio Colao and member of the Commission for Sustainable Finance for Infrastructure.
He is a columnist for Repubblica and he wrote for Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Sole 24 Ore.
In 2021, he was on the list of the 100 most influential academics on Governments in the world.

Karim Harji is the Programme Director of the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford.
He is also a Founding Partner at Mondiale Impact. He advises investors, corporates, and networks to integrate impact considerations in strategy, governance, investment processes, and reporting. He was previously the Co-Chair of the Impact Measurement Task Force convened by the Government of Ontario; Member of the Impact Measurement Working Group of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force; Advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation; and co-founder of Purpose Capital, Canada’s leading impact investment advisory firm.

Cliff Prior, Chief Executive Officer GSG.
He was CEO of Big Society Capital, the social impact investment institution and market development from the UK, unltd, the UK Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs and Rethink, an organization supporting people with mental health problems.
As expert on social issues, he provided his expertise as an advisor to the British Government.

Alasdair Maclay, Chief Funds Officer GSG, is responsible for fundraising and donor relations for the GSG.
He supports the funding of National Advisory Boards and Outcome Funds.
He was previously Director of Strategy and Development at the Rhodes Trust, leading over £300 million in fundraising, with a focus on donating several scholarships to disadvantaged geographical areas, including Africa, the Middle East, China and Southeast Asia and building strategic operational partnerships with several organizations.

Kristzina Tora, Chief Market Development Officer GSG, has been supporting the development of the global impact ecosystem with her team since 2017.
She works with the national advisory committees of the GSG member countries and develops relations with potential new members.
She contributes to accelerating social and political change processes, educating financial actors, directing funds towards impact investments.

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

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

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

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

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

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

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

 

The City of Turin has been chosen as the venue for the next Cities Forum, the largest biennial event, organised by the European Commission, involving the main European players in urban development, now in its fifth edition.

Nineteen European cities were nominated, Turin entered the short list together with Ljubljana (Slovenia), Tallinn (Finland), Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) and the outcome of the final vote saw Turin prevail with 8 votes, 3 for Ljubljana and 1 for Victoria-Gasteiz. The Piedmontese capital will host the event in February 2023, when 700 participants are expected to arrive in the city over two days.

It was the mayor of Turin, Stefano Lo Russo, who announced the event, showing great satisfaction for the final victory: “This is the biggest event of the European Commission that brings together the main urban actors at European, national, regional and local level.

The City of Turin”, continued the first citizen, “presented its candidacy with a programme that turned out to be the best and with a great experience in the field of cohesion policies”. This is a biennial event that has reached its fifth edition, the previous one having been in Porto in 2020. The Fondazione CRT has offered the OGR spaces as the main venue for the meetings.

The Forum is an opportunity to address issues and compare reflections on the role of the urban dimension of Cohesion Policy, the Urban Agenda for the EU, the role of cities in the implementation of the European Green Deal (climate targets to be achieved by 2050), the EU response to the urban dimension of the 2030 Agenda, the New Urban Agenda (programmes and policies for sustainable development in urban centres).

The New Leipzig Charter, the document approved in November 2020 that brings together a series of principles aimed at guiding European cities towards a greater degree of sustainability, resilience and inclusiveness, will also provide food for thought.

Issues such as digital transition, climate change and social inequalities are at the heart of the debate today, and the challenges facing cities require concrete strategies and actions to improve governance of these phenomena, for which collaboration with residents is often necessary, as is a useful and productive comparison with other national and European urban realities.

Following the participation in the call for proposal of last November, the City of Torino and the Chamber of Commerce were awarded the RESPONDET project, within the framework of the European call COSME – Social Economy Mission. They will bring the experience of Torino Social Impact.

RESPONDET “Regional Social Economy Policies For Sustainable Community-Driven Environmental Transition” aims to increase the resilience of local communities and their ability to cope with and overcome crises.

For this project, the City of Turin and the Chamber of Commerce have joined forces to bring the Torino Social Impact territorial ecosystem into an international network. The lead partner of RESPONDET is REVES aisbl – Réseau Européen des Villes & Régions de l’Economie Sociale; the other partners involved are the Catalonia region and Coopcat (ES), Region Västra Götaland and Coompanion (SE), Wallonia Region and CONCERTES (BE), Regional Centre of Social Policy/Malopolska region (PL).

“An intense work of relations at European level has been initiated to both position and promote Torino Social Impact within the most relevant EU processes for the development of the social economy, in particular the elaboration of the European Action Plan for the Social Economy, and to build relationships with similar experiences and favour the exchange of practices and the visibility of Torino in other ecosystems – points out Dario Gallina, President of the Torino Chamber of Commerce -. Participation in European projects plays a decisive role in this process”.

“In recent years, thanks to an increasingly collaborative and attentive local ecosystem, Torino has made social innovation its distinctive feature, with the aim of making its territory a place where social impact enterprises and investors can find the best conditions to operate and develop,” explains Chiara Foglietta, Councillor for Ecological and Digital Transition and Innovation.

In addition to facilitating policy convergence and effective knowledge transfer, RESPONDET aims to facilitate the building of local and transnational partnerships to ensure the sustainability of project results.

How? By accompanying the Third Sector realities towards a Green transition process, with the implementation of ‘capacity building’ in the construction of an Action Plan aimed at providing them with the tools to be able to act in this direction and change.

The aim is to strengthen the role of the social economy as a mobilisation tool for the development and consolidation of local communities in general.

There is a need to develop strategies and support policies that will lead to a greener and faster improvement of the economic situation. In order to do this, it is necessary to encourage the transition towards a more sustainable and digitalised economic machine by means of a synergic intervention at a transnational level that enables the sharing of experiences and know-how with other local and regional realities and the assessment of the repeatability of the solutions tested.

Therefore, depending on the different local contexts, different responses will have to be developed that place each city/region at different levels of development. In return, the mutual dissemination and joint construction and sharing of solutions among the project partners will allow the creation of a common legacy that will be translated into a regional action plan.

RESPONDET will therefore facilitate the convergence of policy lines and effective knowledge transfer, but also the building of local and transnational partnerships that will ensure the sustainability of the project results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speed Networking Session

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

Why Turin

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

Event partners

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more information on the call click here.

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The world of sport is full of stories of redemption.

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

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

Watch previous episodes here.

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

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

The prizes

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

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

How to participate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more information on the call click here.

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

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

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

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

Research Meeting: companies and stakeholders meet research centres

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

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

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

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

What technologies can be used to create truly effective systems?

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

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

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

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

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

More details and free registration on the ICT Cluster website:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How do I get involved:

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

Info:

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

Next appointments for the month of March:

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

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Discover all the events already realized.

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

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

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

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DATES:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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