Last April at Fuorisalone 2023 in Milan, (RI)GENERIAMO together with Leroy Merlin Italia and Connect-Italia, promoted the “Laboratori Tematici” (Thematic Workshops) series of meetings, four consecutive mornings focused on topics such as connections, generativity, social impact. We invited our stakeholders to take part in these meetings, anyway they were open meetings and from time to time some visitors to Fuorisalone decided to sit with us in order to listen and maybe say a word.

Drawing on that experience, we’ve produced an Ebook (in Italian) that is now available and free to download on our website.

Why this Ebook? Two are the main reasons:
first, to tell the story of what happened during that experience
second, to encourage others to replicate it, and possibly scale it.

Those meetings turned out to be, in a nutshell, a sort of an “exercise of generous connection”. We know from the findings of the survey we took in the following weeks (it’s included in the Ebook) that participants appreciated so much their experience.

Why such appreciation? We can’t tell it for sure, anyway we strongly believe that the main reason is about the way the audience has been stimulated with regard to what to share: not the usual success stories (“we did this, we did that, we have best practices, we’ve been awarded”), but somehow quite the opposite: we invited participants to tell the story of the problems they’ve struggled with, the story of their crisis moments, the story about when they failed, the story about the impact they didn’t succeed in making. In our view, that kind of “not usual” and maybe even uncomfortable approach allowed any of us to learn so much from each other and to deeply feel we need one each other.

Are you wondering if it’s worth giving a try? If you need help, we’re gladly avaialable to give a hand. Let’s connect together.

The Stories Matter project is a cutting-edge initiative that seeks to empower and uplift individuals in the creative and cultural sectors. Our primary goal is to offer a comprehensive curriculum that enhances the skills of emerging artists, socially engaged artists, and industry stakeholders. By promoting sustainability, innovation, participation, and inclusivity, we create an environment where participants can thrive in their projects, work, and productions.

Working in collaboration with partners from Belgium (Creative District), Cyprus (Visual Voices), and Italy (Green Growth Generation), we harness a diverse range of expertise to provide a transformative experience. Our overarching aim is to upskill and expand the audience reach of visual artists and creatives. Through the lead of industry experts and practical knowledge, we delve into crucial subjects such as sustainability, innovation, inclusion, civic participation, climate change awareness, and other themes that aim to raise awareness and empower artists to become catalysts for change and storytellers within their communities.

The 12th edition of the international contest Posterheroes: Beautifully Diverse – redefining disability has opened. The contest invites graphic designers, illustrators, both professional and non-professional, to express their thoughts through a poster-manifesto of size 70×100 cm. The initiative is promoted by the Plug Cultural Association, the Favini paper mill, the ITCILO International Training Center and Fondazione Time2.

The constant growth of inequality, makes urgent to strengthen cooperation and educate in solidarity and empathy to recognize the value and dignity of every individual, regardless of ability or characteristics. Through collective action, it is necessary to promote a narrative of disability that is neither positive nor negative, but simply an expression of the diversity that characterizes humankind.

As every year, Posterheroes aims to fuel the international debate on issues of social concern, stimulating the creative community to reflect on them; in particular, with this new edition Posterheroes questions the concept of normality and intends to promote the beauty of diversity.

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Contest Opening: 05/13/2023

Deadline: 8/27/2023

The partnership between Plug, Favini and The ITCILO International Training Center, consolidated over the course of the editions, is enriched this year by the collaboration of the Fondazione Time2, strengthening the social value of the contest and further amplifying its communicative potential.

An international jury, composed of leading figures in the fields of design, illustration and social communication, will select the 40 winning posters, which will be the subject of exhibitions, events and publications curated by the Plug association. Two special mentions will also be awarded with related cash prizes: the Favini prize, worth €2500, and the Fondazione Time2 prize, worth €1500. As every year, 12 posters will be selected for the creation of the 2024 Calendar designed by the Plug Cultural Association and produced by the Favini company.

An additional novelty of the 2023 edition is an experimental section of the call, outside the official competition, intended to accommodate works generated on the theme using generative systems based on Artificial Intelligence.

Over the past ten years Posterheroes has received more than 15,000 posters from around the world and involved more than 100 international experts in the field of illustration, the arts, and visual communication who, as members of the jury, selected the winning posters.

For more information on the contest brief and rules, visit website.

“In a historical moment like the present,” says Silvia Barbero, president of Plug Association, “knowing how to welcome diversity is crucial for not only personal but community growth. It is certainly not easy to be able to understand diversity (of opinions, situations, abilities,…) but it is an indispensable effort to live democracy and equality.”

“By supporting this socio-cultural illustration contest, we feel we are contributing to a deep reflection on relevant issues by illustrators, graphic designers and artists, both professionals and students, and creative enthusiasts,” explains Eugenio Eger, CEO Favini. “Through their eyes and art, thanks to Posterheroes, a representation of disability will be composed that will help viewers raise awareness on the issue.”

“This is an important opportunity. The new languages and contexts will help overcome a moralistic attitude toward disabilities for which it is ‘good’ to care.

We will thus be able to help finally access a perspective of full recognition of citizenship rights on a basis of equality with everyone and everyone,” says Samuele Pigoni, secretary general of Fondazione Time2.

Earthrise – Design for a Living Planet is the annual festival that Circolo del Design dedicates to the relationship between design and environmental sustainability, helping to outline possible responses and scenarios, and fuelling collective and shared dialogues.

A great part of what surrounds us comes from trees: the first edition of the festival focuses on the relationship between forests and society, gathering visions, proposals and researches of design, science and culture.

Earthrise is a project by Circolo del Design to join the cultural change necessary to develop a new ecologic consciousness.
The 2023 edition is curated by Giorgio Vacchiano (lecturer and science popularizer) and Elisabetta Donati de Conti (design curator and planner).

Having examined the Iranian and Syrian questions in the  first two editions of Voci, we turn to a mostly underrated social issue: the prison and its world. To tell us about this “parallel universe”, together with prejudice surrounding it, we talked to Carmine Falanga, President of Idee in Fuga, social cooperative born inside the prison of Alessandria (Piedmont), working in the field of prison economy.

The Voci column

Voci is about stories, people and words without frontiers. In our infodemic age with its extreme background noise, this is an initiative designed to focus attention on key social issues, giving a voice to people with first-hand experience. Voci is powered by Amapola.

On April 24, 2023, exactly 10 years after the Rana Plaza tragedy, the Responsible Fashion Movement (MMR) was born.

The first action of this network, made up of brands, producers, companies, cooperatives and professionals who work daily in the fashion industry, is the launch of the Manifesto for Responsible Fashion in Italy which aims to create a fashion industry that is always more responsible, accessible and recognized.

This is only the first step: it is important to reiterate in every way the urgent need for a change in the fashion industry on the planet and on people.

The union of intentions comes to life from the awareness of the negative impact that the fashion industry has both on an environmental and social level, with the aim of creating a system that looks at the fashion sector with a critical and proactive perspective.

With the dissemination of this Manifesto, the participatory movement wants to be the spokesperson for a project that has three main aims:

• For companies: promote transparency and good practices, helping companies understand how to reduce their environmental impact, introducing virtuous practices for a positive social impact, through concrete guidelines that can be applied to their company, as well as by setting a good example ;
• For institutions: promote a sense of responsibility, uniting the voices of producers and consumers to acquire greater strength and therefore be able to propose new regulations to support the path towards sustainability;
• For people: promoting awareness, critical thinking and conscious consumption, as well as making it easier to identify virtuous and responsible companies.

The founding values on which the Manifesto is based with the aim of making the fashion industry responsible are four: pursuit of quality, creation of social value, respect for the environment and ethics and social responsibility.

Elena Ferrero – CEO of Atelier Riforma, one of the signatories of the Manifesto – says:

“If we want to see a positive change, we must be that change. The Movimento Moda Responsabile is the result of this strong will, the will to see one day a fashion industry that bases its economic growth not on the exploitation of people and the environment, but on their protection”.

The Manifesto, the list of participants and the graphic contents to share the project are available here

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The social startup Atelier Riforma, part of the Torino Social Impact ecosystem, was awarded the “Premio Impresa Ambiente” in the “Young Entrepreneur” category.
This is the highest Italian award for companies that, in carrying out their business, have made an innovative contribution in terms of environmental sustainability and social responsibility.
The award ceremony – promoted by the Venice Rovigo Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with Unioncamere and under the patronage of the Ministry of Ecological Transition – took place at the end of April in Venice, in the beautiful Palazzo Franchetti.

The CEO of the startup Elena Ferrero said:

“Receiving the highest Italian award for companies that contribute to environmental protection and social responsibility is something we would never have imagined a few years ago, when, with great insecurity, Sara Secondo and I tried to look into this very complicated world that is entrepreneurship.

We are very grateful because – in this low-meritocratic world – the efforts made almost never correspond to the results obtained… and we often discuss it bitterly with our peers.
Considering the current context, young “social” entrepreneurs who start from scratch, without funds or backings, but with a dream in their heart, make a real “venture”, not so much in the sense of a “company”, but precisely in the sense of “heroic deed”.

We know many young people like that… and they are the ones who give us hope for the future. This award goes to all of them!

Atelier Riforma is an innovative social startup with the mission of reducing the negative environmental and social impact of the fashion industry through the circular economy. The two founders (Elena Ferrero and Sara Secondo) started in 2019 with a social project dedicated to refashioning of discarded clothes and in recent years have given a technological breakthrough to the startup, with Re4Circular project.

The function of Re4Circular is to maximize the residual value of each end-of-life garment as a resource, postponing as much as possible the moment when it will turn into a waste. How? Facilitating the players in the fashion industry  to use these clothes as a resource,  implementing circular practices such as reuse, sartorial upcycling or the recycling of textile fibers.

Re4Circular is a digital platform aimed at matching the B2B supply and demand for used or leftover clothing efficiently and transparently.

They have created an automatic cataloging and digitization technology for clothes that they supply to used clothing collection/selection entities, as well as to fashion brands that want to manage their deadstock or take-back services in a sustainable way. Through this tool they can record and transmit all the information about their garments to the circular companies/professionals that can give a second life to these clothes (the process is made easier and faster for them thanks to an Artificial Intelligence algorithm, trained to automatically recognize this information just from a photograph of the garment and its label).

Linked to this tech there is a digital marketplace, which allows them to sell the clothes thus cataloged directly to circular fashion companies/professionals, so that each garment can be valorized as a resource and directed towards the circular process most suited to its characteristics and conditions. But it is not the usual offline and non-trasparent trade of used clothes, it is a wholesale transparent and precision commerce.

Re4Circular is a digital marketplace on which every circular business can use several search filters to find the most suitable clothes for their business: e.g. used garments in perfect condition for second-hand shops, clothes with specific colours, fabrics and patterns for upcyclers, 100% single fiber clothes divided by colors for recycling companies, and so on. Once the search has been carried out, the user will see which entities have the material they are looking for and can view the images of all the clothes available item by item, with information on their characteristics. In this way, they can easily select and purchase online the material they need.

Re4Circular is an innovative technology, for which Atelier Riforma has filed a patent application.

But it is not meant to be used by the startup internally, but to be supplied to any entity in the sector that needs it, anywhere.

This allows the startup to make a positive impact on a large scale and potentially to reform the entire sector from a circular perspective.

Re4Circular landed on the market in mid-March 2023 – after years of work in design, fundraising and development – and in a few days a few hundred garments were directed for reuse … in short, the circular ecosystem started to come to life and hopefully it continues to grow more and more!

In the digital era, it is important to be conscious citizens capable to communicate complex ideas in simple terms.

Amapola is a partner of Torino Social Impact and has been working on sustainable communication for years.

In this new episode of Bench-Mark, we discover with Alberto Marzetta, partner of the agency, how communication plays a fundamental role in changing the business paradigm.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

The competition is back, open until 18 June, offering a concrete opportunity for under-35 creators of digital content to make a name for themselves and grow

Open until 18 June, the sixth edition of the national competition “Faber, creativity, enterprise and impact“, organised by Weco with the contribution of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation and the Turin Chamber of Commerce, as part of Torino Social Impact. For 15 years, it has been promoting encounters between young people active in the fields of digital creativity and companies and organisations interested in enhancing these skills. The professional spin-offs are important: in fact, more than 90% of the young participants in the last edition recognised a fundamental role of the initiative in their own entrepreneurial and career path. The subject of the competition is works and products realised in the last 24 months on commission or independently, with a free theme in the four categories envisaged: Live action & Animation, Visual & Graphic design, Gaming, augmented reality and virtual reality, Web, app, social.

Participating in and winning the Faber competition allows digital creatives under 35 to access the fabermeeting and thus to participate in workshops, talks, meetings and exchanges with partner companies, paid experience at the same companies and to have support for the projects proposed in various fields, including live action, visual design, augmented reality and virtual reality, apps, social. Faber also promotes the knowledge and application of creative and digital media and tools to meet new social and entrepreneurial challenges.

Partner companies find in Faber the answers to specific innovation needs, new skills, new languages and new approaches to technology.

As Dario Gallina, President of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, explains, “Digital, innovation and social impact: this is the heart of the Faber call for proposals, now in its sixth edition, which on the one hand allows young people to propose digital and creative solutions for immediate use, and on the other allows entrepreneurs to make effective use of them in their business. A contact that is often fruitful and long-lasting, since 75% of the young people awarded a prize sign a work contract after this positive experience”.

“For 15 years,” says Carlo Boccazzi Varotto, director of the initiative, “the Faber competition and Fabermeeting have been a great showcase for Italian digital talent, the success of which is measured in the fact that, increasingly often, those who originally took part as competitors now participate as partners, not infrequently representing a company that they met thanks to Fabermeeting. Faber is also one of the, not too many, initiatives capable of anticipating languages and themes. This is why it is important to open up to the world of the Third Sector and social impact, which, more than any other, can benefit not only from the skills, but also from the inspirations, the needs for change that the boys and girls participating in the competition express”.

Since its inception in 2008, Faber has seen more than 1,000 young people take part in the competition phase, 470 projects have been submitted and more than 150 have been awarded. In five editions there were more than 200 partner companies and 106 speakers involved in workshops, talks and round tables. In 2008 there were 14 partners involved, today there are more than 60.

The Faber 2023 edition expands by extending the partnership to Third Sector organisations to meet their need to identify new market spaces and competences. Social impact and sustainability will be relevant themes in the programme and will also find space in dedicated workshops and talks.

All information on how to participate can be found at: www.fabermeeting.it

What does cultural craftsmanship have to do with the impact economy?

In order to change the direction of the economy and finance, all sectors must be involved to achieve relevant results.

Tommaso Rovetta, Coordinator of the training activities of the Accademia Liuteria Piemontese, a third-sector association that makes musical instruments, explained  how music and attention to the ancient arts can be an interesting way to understand the issues of the impact economy.

The Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

CERES – At Le Valli in Vetrina, the Al Cicapui association focuses on territory and sustainability and does so starting from the game, from sensitivity, from nature.

≪We would be pleased to invite you from 21 to 24 April at the “Al Cicapui” stand during the “Le Valli in Vetrina” fair. During the event we will present the board game “VIAV: The Tour delle Valli” result of a long co-planning between various players of the Joint Association finally in the first edition in LIMITED Edition, 90% guaranteed with reused materials. For the occasion, on the afternoon of April 23, we created a short immersion in nature at psychological character to experience firsthand both the benefits and nature and the environment mountains offer on the well-being side, both the motivations that support and guide the Association in pursuit of its mission. For us it would be a great pleasure to be able to share the event and the experiences together.

We kindly ask you to confirm your presence or not at the event by writing us on whatsapp ai numbers 3398654032 or 3479430952≫.

The current context is characterized by a fundamental challenge: the transition to sustainability. Global warming, environmental and climate change, depletion of resources and biodiversity, drought and water scarcity are just a few examples of how the impact of human beings has broken the balance of the Earth. This condition remains difficult to intercept because it lacks, al moment, a solid “common ground” that can lead to a concrete change in both economic modalities and in daily habits.

Starting from what has been said and from a profound attention to the social changes that result from it they achieve, the psychologist Nicolò Starnai, the glass artist Chiara Ferraris and the technical Maker in circularity Antonio Convertino in collaboration with the Al Cicapui ASD and APS Association, integrating different perspectives and skills, they decided to give life to Eco-Chance Lab.

Eco-Chance Lab defines itself as a laboratory for the acquisition and development of skills direct and indirect on the theme of sustainability, therefore on the relationship between human beings and nature. It is in fact aimed at promoting new ways of being and acting, objectives pursued through support to people, organizations and communities. Eco-Chance Lab was born from the integration of daily practice and scientific studies: it is defined in the acronym C.H.A.N.C.E., which identifies the six pillars essential to favor a sustainable turnaround considered in all its aspects.

Eco identifies a window on the relationship between Ecology and Economy, but above all it highlights the Eco understood as resonance. Indeed, the challenge of sustainability must be faced in a shared integrated way. Awareness identifies the need to develop a personal awareness, a necessary basis to co-build a collective consciousness of symbiosis with nature and the environment. Health represents well-being and health: the reference model is bio-psycho-socio-environmental. The bio-psycho-social model must be integrated with the physical environment, as it is capable of increasing o reduce perceived well-being. Art is understood as awareness of beauty, therefore an opportunity for growth and greater equilibrium. Art represents the possibility of perceiving things from an alternative point of view, key element in any change. Nature: experiences in nature have powerful and positive implications on physical, psychological and health emotional. Furthermore, direct contact with nature has proved to be a powerful tool raising awareness in favor of green practices. “touch” the problem and experiment with its solutions. Experiential learning, especially when in a cooperative context, is an aspect capable of activating new ways of thinking and acting.

Eco-Chance Lab therefore incorporates workshops, training and experiential activities that they allow to develop a sense of realistic trust and conscious optimism towards the present e to the future. ≪These develop – they explain from the association – starting from concern, a very important feeling because it is capable of stimulating behaviors useful for solving a given problem. In other words, it is a powerful emotional lever that can lead to change. It’s just starting on a level adequate of concern that you can cultivate psychological closeness. Psychological closeness is the element for which a subject, initially perceived as distant (e.g. “global warming is an Arctic ice sheet problem”) is acknowledged as ever closer and concretely observable here and now in the immediate vicinity (“because of global warming today there is no more water in the river and probably this summer will come streamlined”). Therefore, developing psychological closeness starting from concern means understand what is happening and consequently acquire greater awareness a respect, an element capable of favoring deeper and more significant concrete changes.

Eco-Chance Lab therefore aims to raise awareness among people, families, communities and organizations on the issue of sustainability mainly through two channels. On the one hand it offers Team Making and Team Empowerment activities, with the dual objective of developing knowledge on sustainability (direct skills) and enhance the relational components and the dynamics that characterize a work group (indirect skills). These activities are carried out mainly in the Atelier through practical workshops of direct experimentation with reused materials. On the other hand, the objectives are pursued through experiences of immersion in Nature a psychological nature, aimed at promoting the strengthening of resources especially in relation to managing stress, emotions and difficulties. This is to increase your own individual, organizational and community well-being in favor of a better quality of life and greater serenity. The goal is not the application of top-down solutions, but the co- construction of a different approach aimed at promoting feasible and shared solutions for the different reality. A newfound and conscious symbiosis between human beings and the environment can in fact promote both individual and organizational practices of recirculation, reuse and recovery of materials with a view to circular economy, and to promote greater general well-being≫.

The Sand company, with its giant games, will be at Lingotto Fiere into Torino Comics, from 14 to 16 April, inside the Games pavilion dedicated to role-playing, card and board games.

Every day Sand designs and builds elements of communication, furnitures and structures to enhance open spaces, from private gardens to national natural parks; for this faire Sand will make available to the Comics visitors some GIANT GAMES made with recycled wood and processing waste. Traditional and popular games come back revisited in a modern and eco-sustainable key: checkers, jenga, connect four, tic-tac-toe and target shooting with rings.

We are the Qubì cultural association and we’re building a garden on the Dora river: a meeting place, an urban vegetable garden and a cultural reference point for the Lungo Dora area adjacent to Borgo Rossini.

Our project starts from the ideas of sustainability and circularity, passing through our incredible cuisine.

We are in the development phase and this summer we will begin to fill the Lungo Dora area in front of our headquarters (Lungo Dora Firenze – opposite via Parma). We want to collaborate with a reality that helps us calculate the impact, emissions and absorption of CO2 that we will produce with our project!

Are you interested or interested? Write to us at info@qubitorino.it directed to Andrea!

Thank you!

Qubì Staff

Aspire is an incubation programme for anyone with a high social impact idea to develop.
The programme supports aspiring entrepreneurs and social innovators through online training, networking and access to a grant to test their idea. The aim of the programme is also to break down barriers for the most vulnerable groups, for which rewards will be awarded at the evaluation stage.

In 8 weeks, together with other change makers from all over Italy, it will be possible to improve impact design and entrepreneurial skills, consolidate one’s idea and realise it, with the opportunity to access a non-repayable grant of 10,000 euro.

Applications are open until 30 April here.
The Social Tides incubator is managed by Inco and supported by google.org

San Salvario, located in the heart of Turin, has become today one of the coolest districts of the city, representing transformation and change. In this area you can find Vasté Impresa Sociale, the project created with the aim of offering high quality catering linked to Piedmontese tradition but open to innovation.

In this interview by Francesco Antonioli with Marco Valente and Marco Pastori – respectively President and Head of Innovation, Development and Impact of Vasté – we discover how a catering project can have a positive impact on both people and the surrounding environment.

 

 

Watch previous episodes here.

AG 4 Future Food Accelerator is a b2b vertical acceleration program that, through partnerships with the best companies in the sector, investments and the most qualifying mentorship path on a global scale, aims to identify and support the growth of International STARTUPS for the development of innovative, economically sustainable, accessible and efficient solutions and technologies within the ENTIRE INTERNATIONAL AGRI-FOOD CHAIN.

Admission to the program is reserved for 10 highly motivated international startups and teams in the pre-seed phase operating on cutting-edge technologies, with relevant industry experience, a clear roadmap, brilliant execution skills and a TRL> = 6.

Champions selected out of the business accelerator will receive  a convertible grant of 100K € each.

Applications are open. Apply here

This free seminar will cover the fundamentals of how to approach a venture capital fund, how to structure a funding round and how to build a solid partnership with the investor after the investment.

Too often, the fundraising process is approached by founders without the necessary preparation, which makes the communication between start-ups and investors harder while reducing the chances of getting funded. Hence, a better understanding of an investor’s expectation and an improved knowledge of a fund’s investment rationale are essential for an optimal fundraising process.

A special focus of the event will be on deep tech start-ups, which face specific challenges such as technological risk, capital requirements and the need for skilled talent.

The seminar will be presented by Leo Italiano, Senior Consultant at I3P and Program Manager of ESA BIC Turin, and led by Federico Cuppoloni, Senior Associate at Primo Ventures.

How to participate

The event, free of charge, will be held on April 18, 2023 at 17:00 CEST in presence at I3P‘s headquarters – located in Corso Castelfidardo 30/a, 10129 Turin, Italy – in English language.

In order to attend in person, registration is required on Eventbrite.

About the organizers

Primo Ventures is an asset management company specialized in seed and early-stage venture capital investments. The firm is currently managing seven funds across the digital and space investment domains. In particular, Primo Space is focused on start-ups of the New Space Economy, ranging from upstream solutions and downstream applications to enabling technologies such as cybersecurity, advanced materials, additive manufacturing, power systems and robotics. For more information here

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 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 workspaces.

After a first interview about the Iranian protests, the project Voci | Parole senza barriere (Voices | Words without barriers) by Amapola returns to a dramatic current event: the earthquake in Syria. Alex Moscetta, communication manager of Comunità di Sant’Egidio, an international movement that takes care of the poorest and works for peace, talks about this land and its people. Here is the summary of the video interview.

The project

Voci is a project about stories, people and words without barriers. An initiative which, at the time of the infodemic and extreme background noise, aims to keep attention high on major social issues, giving a voice to the protagonists who experience them up close.

There is an Italian startup committed to spreading impact culture through a sustainable digital, deposit-free reusable packaging service. Their main goal is to eliminate waste in an innovative, affordable and accessible way.

We discover more about this reality with Alberto Garuccio, cofounder and strategist of Around.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

Experimenting with new languages, or adopting old but powerful ones, such as theater, to explain and convey social impact: on March 24 we were at Teatro Gobetti for Biennale Democrazia with “Communities Free to Respond to the Future,” the event curated by Torino Social Impact as part of the RESPONDET project, in which the City of Turin is a partner together with the Turin Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with Torino Creative City UNESCO for Design and Mercato Circolare Benefit Society.

The magic of the Little Prince opened the way for a dialogue on social economy and sustainability, and what is happening in the city on these issues.

Simona De Giorgio and Valeria Vacchiano spoke, with moderation by Nadia Lambiase.
Theater interventions by Antonella Delli Gatti, visual design by Stefano Giorgi.

Review the show here

We turn to students: do you know the study rooms near the Turin universities? They are not the height of beauty, let’s face it… they tend to be overcrowded, hot in summer and chilly in winter. And if instead of sitting among the tables of some “urban” study room we set ourselves to reviewing the last lesson of law or a chapter of contemporary history in the middle of the greenery in a mountain resort?

Let’s imagine that this was more or less the question that the association of Groscavallo, in Val Grande di Lanzo, Al Cicapui asked itself when, after the pandemic, it thought of participating in an Edisu tender to open an affiliated study room with the institution for the right to study. “The institution really liked the idea of ​​an outdoor study room – Chiara Ferraris of Al Cicapui tells us – because we had been told that, after the pandemic, students tended to look for outdoor spaces in which to study. We have participated in the tender in February 2022 and we were also selected for the courage of the initiative”.

The idea is certainly to bring students to the Valli di Lanzo, but not only: “We have decided – continues Chiara – that for this year we will launch a call for foreign students of English mother tongue, in order to be able to organize a summer camp and in Groscavallo Italian students and English-speaking students. It is also an action of inclusion”. From a lawn to a study room, therefore. Where did the idea come from? “By organizing the summer camp for the children here and doing their homework with them – explains Chiara – we saw that in the midst of nature they concentrated better and that they were less distracted, and older kids also arrived with them”.

To tell the truth, the study room has already existed since last year, and already in the summer of 2022 it had been quite successful. And in itself, looking at it, it seems more than inviting: in addition to the tables for studying, there are also spaces for having fun: swimming pool, basketball court and soccer field.

Now, however, the service will be enriched more and more. It will kick off in the summer period, even if the time “contours” are not yet defined. What is certain is that the classroom will also be easily accessible from Turin.  The student will in fact be able to arrive in Ceres by bus and there will find a shuttle to Groscavallo. Furthermore, if he wants to stop for a few days, he can do so by staying in Groscavallo. In short, the project aims to bring people to the mountains, and to take them there by letting them spend quality time, which is productive but also aimed at experiencing the places and territories.

“The main purpose of our association – explains Antonio Convertino of Al Cicapui – is to try to avoid the desertification of the territories where we lived our childhood, and therefore we think that even the idea of ​​letting them live some experiences in safety will allow guys to come back here and get attached to these places”.

(Art. by Francesco Munafò)

The initiative is by the Groscavallo association Al Cicapui, which is setting up a coworking space in Turin.

The name is suggestive: “circular building”. It indicates a process of building tools and spaces from waste materials that are “rescued” from landfills. And this is exactly the goal that the Groscavallo association Al Cicapui has been pursuing for some time, building a coworking space in Turin step by step.

The creation of the space is made possible, among other things, by the partnership with AICS Turin, the project leader body together with other third sector bodies. All together they participated in the tender that the City of Turin published in the framework of the Social Inclusion Plan with the project “Nourishing community for new life-generating trajectories”. Since it was born, Al Cicapui has always been the spokesperson and architect of projects with a view to circular building and, thanks to its internal skills and the network of donor companies, it will support some interventions for the regeneration of interiors in the field of social housing.

Chiara Ferraris, who represents the association, answers us right from the Coworking space in Piazza Vetta d’Italia in Turin, which Al Cicapui manages with two other cooperatives. A constantly moving space, animated by the shapes and colors of the furnishings built by those who will live in that space to work or study. “It is our workhorse – says Chiara – which we care a lot about. Now we are here in Turin, but the idea of ​​furnishing the spaces with reused materials comes from Groscavallo, precisely from the Migliere hamlet”. That is, the hamlet in which the Al Cicapui event was born.

“We had taken over the sports field of the hamlet – continues Chiara – but there was nothing, and therefore we had to furnish it. We didn’t have the funds to furnish everything from top to bottom, and so we decided to try our hand at regenerating the spaces using reused materials”. The idea worked and the space under management gradually took shape, became welcoming and on a human scale. But mind one thing: this is not just a matter of pure and simple recycling of materials destined for landfills.

Behind the furnishing of a space, as urban planning teaches, there is much more: “From the point of view of social housing – explains Chiara – it is certainly important to regenerate spaces, but what really matters is starting a process of education to beauty”.

A process that cannot ignore the involvement of those who will use those furnishings once built. “Making people participate in the construction of the spaces they will live in – explains Chiara – considerably reduces the possibility that the furnishings can be vandalized or mistreated”. In short, vandalism is read as a phenomenon connected to the extraneousness of the spaces that each of us experiences every day. To avoid this, users need to make them their own. And what better way to make them your own than by making them?

Getting your hands dirty, building your own spaces and reusing recycled materials therefore becomes an opportunity to trigger an educational and sustainable process. “We also focus a lot on training – explains Chiara -. For example, the Biosphere cooperative has started an internship in our spaces for an Egyptian boy who is not yet of age”.

The cooperatives, according to Chiara, “have understood that it is much better to teach Italian to young people through an educational and engaging internship, through which the young person can feel part of a creative project, than by sending them to take traditional courses”. We take a tour of the Coworking with Chiara: there are joelettes, chairs, mirrors, works of art and many other objects that furnish the space. All produced with reused materials. “We have a two-year contract with Decathlon which supplies us with the materials – explains Chiara – with which we then make the furnishings and tools”.

For her, it is also a matter of launching a message of awareness, and not just to ordinary citizens. “We would also like to sensitize companies – he says – by showing them that functional and socially useful objects can also be reproduced with waste pieces”.

But the coworking in Piazza Vetta d’Italia is much more. For example, since 2020 Al Cicapui has been holding circular building courses here as part of the Bottega Scuola Piemonte project.

Also within this project is the work of the designer Rebecca Ferrari, graduated from Polito with the thesis “Out-Feel: sensoriality in autism”. Rebecca is responsible for creating self-constructed social furnishings with Decathlon products and end-of-life glass transport.

In planning there is also a study room, always made with waste materials and always inside the Turin Coworking. Here too, the perspective is to combine the need to inhabit spaces with the possibility of starting a path of self-education in beauty and respect for shared places.

For the World Water Day, all of the media dedicated insights to this preciuos and endangered resource. But what do citizens really know? And how muche do they know about who manages the water service?

The I3S Project accelerates awareness and skills of Third Sector organisations in driving digital transformation

Are new skills needed to contribute to the digital transformation of the third sector? Apparently so!

Thanks to the I3S project, the Fondazione Piemonte Innova has identified the professional figures, with business and social skills, that are increasingly indispensable for third sector organisations interested in activating a strategic path to increase the digital skills of their organisation, including through the acquisition of young and ‘smart’ figures.

There are ten job descriptions identified by the study, which belong to four areas of specialisation:

• Operations and Service Delivery
• Knowledge & Expertise
• Communication
• Sustainability

Let’s find out what they are:

Operations and Service Delivery

Reverse Mentors

They are young people, possibly digital natives, with a good general command of digital technologies and specifically of the company’s enabling digital tools (PCs, Macs, Office 365, Google Workspaces, MS Teams, etc.).

Work alongside a senior figure with extensive experience, so as to encourage cross-fertilisation during daily work. They help colleagues to make better use of the available tools, gradually modifying work processes and solving the simplest problems, providing services such as proximity IT support.

Innovation Manager

Works as an employee or consultant of the organisation. He/she interfaces with the managers of all the organisation’s sectors in order to identify the innovations considered strategic for the organisation, acknowledging the needs of the reference context and identifying functional development processes to set up the progressive advancement of technological and digital transformation.

The Innovation manager promotes solutions and methodologies that foster cultural change in the company. He initiates paths of transformation in transversal areas, capable of bringing out new perspectives and opportunities for the organisation. He does not merely learn about new technologies, but builds competitive innovation projects that take into account the integration of technologies with other relevant factors: sustainable innovative technological solutions, the organisation’s digital maturity, strategic objectives and constant updating.

UX Designer

He is primarily concerned with designing, drawing and implementing the graphical interface of digital products, such as applications, software, social profiles or websites. His aim is to ensure the best possible user experience: intuitive, easy and accessible.

The UX Designer is concerned with studying the motivations that drive users to use that particular product/service, analysing their expectations and searching for appealing and efficient graphical solutions.

He studies the behaviour, the needs of the users and the objective of the product/service and of the organisation, always using a people-centred design approach (human-centred design), helping to provide products that are functional, with a high level of usability and aesthetically pleasing. In addition to collaborating with engineers to implement the tool, the UX Designer continues to gather feedback on the final product, working on its improvement and continuing to identify new solutions to optimise user experience and user satisfaction.

Service Designer

Expert in the design and improvement of sustainable processes, resources and services. He/she always keeps people’s needs in mind, considering both the end users and the staff and organisation delivering the service.

The service designer must be able to analyse the context in which he intervenes from different points of view, optimising it as a whole. Points of particular attention may be the definition of the touchpoints, both physical and digital, the systems, infrastructures and processes on which the service relies.

He has similar characteristics to those of the UX designer, but intervenes when a long-term strategic vision is needed in projects, and integration with other services and processes. For this reason, it is essential that he can understand the context in a holistic manner.

Knowledge & Expertise

Digital Educators and Psychologists

They are figures with digital knowledge and skills, able to use current technologies in the specific professional activities of Educators and Psychologists such as E-Therapy, E-learning, virtual reality as functional support (education, meditation, etc.).

They know and are able to use technological tools in prevention, treatment and rehabilitation activities of individuals, including fragile targets and communities, and neuromarketing. They understand the dynamics related to social media, video and serious games, digital learning (blended teaching), biofeedback and neurofeedback.

Digital educators and psychologists are experts who are able to use innovative tools and new forms of technology in educational, clinical-therapeutic and rehabilitation settings. They are able to orientate themselves in the digital and social networking world; they have knowledge useful for a new educational setting of e-learning, and therapeutic setting of e-therapy, individual or group.

Researcher Digital / Humanities

A student or doctoral candidate in ‘humanities informatics’, the science that deals with the connection between the humanities and information technology. More precisely, he applies information technologies in the humanities.

Designs and implements basic or applied research activities in order to investigate specific areas of expertise. Conducts systematic and rigorous experimentation of innovations, both in the laboratory and in the field, while advancing the ETSs’ awareness of technology and the quality of their activities. Analyses qualitative-quantitative data and documents activities and results with scientific dissemination and communication activities. Maintains relations and facilitates exchange between experts and academics and the Third Sector.

Communication

Communication, digital relations and social media

Handles the management of social and other communication channels used by the organisation. In particular, it monitors, moderates and responds to audience comments, manages partnerships within social, creates or posts shareable videos and images, sends newsletters, updates the website.

He is also in charge of the overall communication strategy, executing digital marketing and digital fundraising campaigns and collecting and analysing data and results. He also deals with digital communications with volunteers and supporters.

People & Community Manager

Is responsible for managing the organisation’s communities, both online and offline, in order to stimulate dialogue and interactions between the organisation and all its stakeholders, increasing the engagement and satisfaction of volunteers, employees and service users. Has an excellent knowledge of digital communication channels useful to the organisation and identifies the most suitable tools and systems to succeed in creating a comfortable environment of contact and dialogue between all stakeholders.

He manages all aspects of the relationship with staff and volunteers. In particular, it is responsible for recruiting, coordinating and enhancing the value of resources by stimulating and retaining all those who work with the organisation. It plans staff training with a view to increasing the organisation’s skills and culture over the long term, enhancing their abilities, and creating a healthy and pleasant working environment.

Sustainability

Data Analyst for impact assessment

He is in charge of designing and setting up all the tools for the collection of data relevant to the organisation along the different areas, processes and services of the ETS, their correct storage and processing from a strategic perspective in order to extract value from them.

Defines KPIs to measure the organisation’s impact and creates the respective data collection flows useful for the preparation of dashboards and automated reports, useful for the drafting of the social report and to support reporting activities.

It acts in support of all other figures and activities to optimise an effective and efficient processing and correct exploitation of the resulting data and information.

Grant Manager (Planning + Fundraising)

Is responsible for the management and diversification of funding sources, whether from design activities on funded initiatives or from fundraising activities, using all available digital tools to identify the best opportunities for the organisation and maximise the results of such initiatives.

It takes care of the processes that regulate the organisation’s interaction and relations with private and institutional donors, as well as with public administrations of reference for the co-design of services that meet the needs of the relevant territorial communities, supporting the organisation’s mission.

Job profiles

For each of these profiles, Piemonte Innova has drawn up a detailed job profile, which describes the specific skills to be possessed, what ETS needs the profile meets and the degree of social or technological orientation. An indication of the level of seniority to be sought completes the profiles.

The forms have been shared with the representative bodies that are part of the project and can be requested by writing to info@piemonteinnova.it.

What is I3S

The I3S Project promotes digital transformation and the adoption of new business models for the third sector. It is supported by the Turin Chamber of Commerce and is part of the Tech4Good programme of the Turin Social Impact strategic plan, which also acts as director. It is led by Piemonte Innova, which also coordinates and enables the network of enterprises and experts. It is conceived and realised in collaboration with the representative bodies that adhere to the Social Entrepreneurship Committee: Confcooperative Piemonte Nord, Legacoop Piemonte and VOL.TO Volontariato Torino.

Biennale Democrazia, an international event dedicated to spreading the culture of democracy, now in its 8th edition, is back.

This new edition will be structured in three sections: Biennale Democrazia, Democrazia Futura and Democrazia Diffusa, realized in synergy with the cultural realities of the territory and with Torino Social Impact, which has involved some partners in the programming, as well as expressing an event within the RESPONDET project, in collaboration with Torino Creative City UNESCO for Design and Mercato Circolare, and a presentation curated by Euricse.

Events curated by the TSI partners

THURSDAY, MARCH 23 – 2:30 P.M.

The New Boundaries of Business Freedom. Between ecology and sustainability
Palazzo Ceriana-Mayeri – Sala Toniolo corso Stati Uniti, 27, Turin
curated by Assoetica

THURSDAY 23
March 23 – 5:30 pm
Freedom is participation. The “I decide” project
Vol.To via Giolitti, 21, Turin
curated by Vol.To ETS

THURSDAY 23
March 23 – 7 p.m.
Freedom and Community. Open debate
Central Library of the Einaudi University College via Maria Vittoria, 39, Turin
Organized by Renato Einaudi University College of Turin Foundation

FRIDAY 24
March 24 – 3:00 p.m.
Expressions of Freedom
Open Incet piazza Teresa Noce, 17, Torino
curated by Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

FRIDAY 24
March 24 – 4:00 p.m.
Doing Responsible and Sustainable Business. New paradigms of freedom
Fondazione Educatorio della Provvidenza corso Trento, 13, Turin
Organized by Maurizio Maggiora Academy Foundation, LabNet, SAA – School of Management

SATURDAY 25
March 25 – 12:00 p.m.
Freedom is written
Giardino Sambuy piazza Carlo Felice, Turin
curated by Giardino Forbito

SUNDAY 26
March 26 – 12:00 p.m.
Freedom is written
Giardino Sambuy piazza Carlo Felice, Turin
curated by Giardino Forbito

Various events curated by Arci (with 12 Associations present)

The TSI Ecosystem Events

FRIDAY 24

March 24 – 6 p.m.
Enterprising Communities. New models of participation and local development
Central Civic Library – Conference Room via della Cittadella, 5, Turin
Organized by Euricse

March 24 – 21:00
Teatro Gobetti, curated by Torino Social Impact as part of the RESPONDET project, in collaboration with Torino Creative City UNESCO for Design and Mercato Circolare

 

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20.06.22 / Biennale Democrazia 2023

Biennale Democrazia

Biennale Democrazia, an international event dedicated to spreading the culture of democracy, now in its 8th edition, is back.

This new edition will be structured in three sections: the Biennale Democrazia, Democrazia Futura and Democrazia Diffusa, realized in synergy with the cultural realities of the territory and with Torino Social Impact, which has involved some partners in the programming, as well as expressing an event within the RESPONDET project, in collaboration with Torino Creative City UNESCO for Design, and a presentation curated by Euricse.

Events curated by TSI partners.

THURSDAY, MARCH 23 – 2:30 P.M.

The New Boundaries of Business Freedom. Between ecology and sustainability
Palazzo Ceriana-Mayeri – Sala Toniolo corso Stati Uniti, 27, Turin
curated by Assoetica

THURSDAY 23
March 23 – 5:30 pm
Freedom is participation. The “I decide” project
Vol.To via Giolitti, 21, Turin
curated by Vol.To ETS

THURSDAY 23
March 23 – 7 p.m.
Freedom and Community. Open debate
Central Library of the Einaudi University College via Maria Vittoria, 39, Torino
Organized by Renato Einaudi University College of Turin Foundation

FRIDAY 24
March 24 – 3:00 p.m.
Expressions of Freedom
Open Incet piazza Teresa Noce, 17, Torino
curated by Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

FRIDAY 24
March 24 – 4:00 p.m.
Doing Responsible and Sustainable Business. New paradigms of freedom
Fondazione Educatorio della Provvidenza corso Trento, 13, Turin
Organized by Maurizio Maggiora Academy Foundation, LabNet, SAA – School of Management

SATURDAY 25
March 25 – 12:00 p.m.
Freedom is written
Giardino Sambuy piazza Carlo Felice, Turin
curated by Giardino Forbito

SUNDAY 26
March 26 – 12:00 p.m.
Freedom is written
Giardino Sambuy piazza Carlo Felice, Turin
curated by Giardino Forbito

Various events curated by Arci (with 12 Associations present)

The TSI Ecosystem Events

FRIDAY 24

March 24 – 6 p.m.
Enterprising Communities. New models of participation and local development
Central Civic Library – Conference Room via della Cittadella, 5, Turin
Organized by Euricse

March 24 – 21:00
Teatro Gobetti, curated by Torino Social Impact as part of the RESPONDET project, in collaboration with Torino Creative City UNESCO for Design

A major European program for social enterprises engaged in paths of innovation and sustainability starts in Turin. EXTENDED TO 21 APRIL 12:00 (CEST)

Info – session on March 7 10 a.m. at link here

As part of the SocialTech for Europe for Resilient and Responsible Ecosystems (SocialTech4EU) project co-funded by the European Union in the framework of Joint Cluster Initiatives (EUROCLUSTERS) for Europe’s recovery, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Srl SB and Torino Social Impact, who are coordinating it, are launching a call aimed at social enterprises to undertake training pathways, and a call for stakeholders and suppliers interested in working in the social economy sector.

SocialTech4EU aims to strengthen the resilience, innovation, competitiveness and sustainability of the social economy ecosystem, start-ups and small and medium-sized social economy enterprises. As such, it represents the largest support and training program for social enterprises in Europe. The project is co-funded by the European Union under Joint Cluster Initiatives (EUROCLUSTERS) for Europe’s recovery (for more information click here). Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini srl SB is coordinating the SocialTech4EU project together with Torino Social Impact.

The project has published:

1. A call for social enterprises* that provides funds to undertake training in enterprise, digitization and technological and innovative management – deadline: extended to 21 April 12:00 (CEST). For information: click here. Organizations selected in this call will have the opportunity to compete for additional funds in 2023/2024 for:
   • Innovation: up to €20,000 per selected company (up to 20).
   • Acceleration: up to €35,000 for each selected enterprise (up to 10).
2.  An invitation, always open for stakeholders and suppliers interested in working in/for the social economy sector: training and/or research institutions, universities and other institutions of higher education, technology providers, incubators, and accelerators are invited to become part of a stakeholder and supplier register, which selected companies in the project will consult to establish collaborations to support their green and digital transition. For information: click here

 

*Social enterprises as defined by the European Commission, but also start-ups with a social mission/impact-for details on eligible enterprises, see the Guidelines for Proposers.

 

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21.11.22 / SocialTech4EU: a survey to support European social enterprises kicks off

On the 27th of January, project “Fit4benefit” kicked off. The training and networking path, designed for the Benefit Corporations inside Torino Social Impact, will include 4 meetings dedicated to core issues about sustainability and impact. Amapola hosted the first workshop, regarding Stakeholder Engagement: a primary topic for those who want to create a positive impact on the inner and outer world.

Who are External Stakeholders? Which strategies should we adopt in order to engage them? And how can we involve Internal Stakeholders too? How to strenghten Participation? Which tools can we use? These the main issues discussed during the meeting.

During the workshop, participants had the opportunity to experiment some Facilitating Tools and Tecniques, a Method that helps groups to work together and achieve common targets by activating the Collective Intelligence and turning Conflicts into Enrichment.

Here the video story of the day:

15 ETSs will be able to experience the service provided by the partners of the I3S project with the activation of temporary innovation managers, learning by doing, and mentoring

The new service of accompaniment to the digital transformation and technological innovation of the I3S Project is about to start: on 6 February, the pilot project will begin, allowing the first 15 Third Sector organisations in our territory to bring out new ideas and possibilities for development, digital transformation and social innovation enabled by ICT technologies, starting from their real operational needs.

The ETSs that will participate in this experimentation have been identified among those belonging to the three partner representative bodies of the I3S Project: Confcooperative Piemonte Nord, Legacoop Piemonte and VOL.TO Volontariato Torino.

The offer of services is broad and distributed among the actors in the territory, aggregating the already available services provided by the representative bodies and the extended network of the project partners, in particular Piemonte Innova, Confcooperative Piemonte Nord, Links Foundation and Legacoop Piemonte.

Advice can be obtained on the organisation of services and the optimisation of processes, systems and people, through to service design and the optimisation of currently active services. Basic literacy workshops and introductions to Office Automation and Microsoft technologies – both more commonly used, such as Office 365, and more sophisticated uses such as Microsoft Power Apps, Power BI, Power Platforms and Azure – are also available. ETSs will be able to make use of mentors on ICT topics and to identify funded opportunities for digital innovation, as well as to carry out assessments on cybersecurity and GDPR. In addition, important support will be provided for recruiting and bringing in young professionals from the digital world or working with thesis and PhD students, who can be useful to the organisation and help it grow in the long term.

This pilot is designed to bring value to the Torino Social Impact network, as it will test a new approach to the digitalisation of the Third Sector. In particular, from the questionnaires collected after the co-design phase, the potential of the project emerges in terms of the framing of the needs and skills required for the start-up of digitalisation paths by the organisations involved, the recognition by the organisations of the internal factors enabling digitalisation, the emergence of specific needs and peculiarities of the sector in terms of technological innovation (e.g. the need for implementation models applicable to the sector, sharing of experiences, tutoring and consultancy, etc.).

The validity of this approach will emerge in the medium term, thanks to an evaluation process from which results and limitations will emerge, providing the ecosystem with an effective digitalisation model.

The I3S project is supported by the Turin Chamber of Commerce and is part of the Tech4Good programme of the Turin Social Impact strategic plan, which also acts as a director. It is led by Piemonte Innova, which also coordinates and enables the network of enterprises and experts. It is conceived and realised in collaboration with the representative bodies that adhere to the Social Entrepreneurship Committee: Confcooperative Piemonte Nord, Legacoop Piemonte and VOL.TO Volontariato Torino.

The fourth meeting of the RESPONDET (Regional Social Economy Policies for sustainable community-Driven Environmental Transition) project, hosted in Turin on Jan. 24 and 25 by Città di Torino e Camera di Commercio di Torino, with Turin Social Impact, which welcomed European delegations from Belgium, Spain and Poland, concludes today.

The project aims to promote local and regional development in order to strengthen the social economy, making common management of resources the main element of social sustainability in the Green transition process, with a focus on circular economy and energy transition issues.

The theme of the fourth mission, “new models of cooperation and governance”, was explored by all project partners through intensive knowledge transfer work, which also included several study visits to the most significant impact economy places in the city, including Casa del Quartiere San Salvario, Via Baltea, Beeozanam, Open Incet, Centro Cultura Ludica “Walter Ferrarotti,” Casa nel Parco – Casa del Quartiere Mirafiori Sud.

In addition, some partners of Torino Social Impact were actively involved in the meeting through a structured networking moment with European stakeholders, offering them a space to compare, stimulate and reflect on social economy practices at the international level, in order to foster the growth of these initiatives in our territory.

Respondet’s partners are:

Generalitat of Catalonia. Business and Labor Department. Catalonia Region (ES) (lead partner), The Confederation of Cooperatives of Catalonia (ES), The European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy (REVES aisbl), Service Public de Wallonie Economie, Emploi, Recherche – Direction de l’économie sociale (BE), Concertation des organisations représentatives de l’économie sociale (ConcertE S) (BE), Malopolska Voivodship/The Regional Centre for Social Policy in Cracow (ROPS) (PL), Città di Torino e Camera di Commercio di Torino.

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Chamber of Commerce and City of Turin win RESPONDET European Project for Torino Social Impact

First meeting of RESPONDET | Torino Social Impact project partners

The event takes place in the form of a face-to-face meeting with industry stakeholders and entrepreneurs to learn about projects and technologies applied to the creative industry followed by in-depth one-to-one meetings.

B2B Meeting

At the end of the conference all participants will be able to request B2B meetings to learn more about Invitalia’s funding opportunities or get in touch with companies and stakeholders in the sector and activate useful synergies, networking and opportunities for future collaboration.

Participation is free of charge. Agenda and registration on Eventbrite.

Turin, the consortium leader, on Monday 9 January held the first meeting of SocialTech4EU, the project co-funded by the European Union, in the framework of the Joint Cluster Initiatives (EUROCLUSTERS) for Europe’s recovery, which aims to strengthen the resilience, innovation capacity, competitiveness and sustainability of social economy ecosystems, start-ups and SMEs, with a special focus on technology companies.

The meeting defined the modalities by which support will be provided in the coming months to social start-ups that will be selected through a special call for proposals. Grants, vouchers and professional services will be provided.

The consortium is formed by: Torino Social Impact represented by Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (consortium leader, Italy), Alaturi de Voi Romania Foundation (ADV Romania), Coompanion Örebro (Sweden), Silicon Vilstal (Germany), Asociacion investigacion, desarollo e innovacion en Aragon IDIA (Spain), European network of social integration enterprises ENSIE (Belgium/EU).

On 25 November 2022, the focus group ‘Ageing in Place’ proposed by the Turin-based start-up SensoArgento was held at the Circolo del Design in Turin. Led by industrial designer Andrea Strippoli and digital entrepreneur Marcello Chiesa, representatives of the social assistance ecosystem in the Turin area took part in a workshop with the aim of analysing the main issues related to elderly care and identifying possible actions to be implemented to improve the current care offer using digital tools.

There are about 14 million people over the age of 65 living in Italy, many of whom enjoy good health conditions and a good level of autonomy: this age group is becoming increasingly significant due to its growth, which is not compensated by a corresponding increase in the number of under-15s, who have instead decreased by 400,00 since 2010. The 2017 Auser research ‘Domiciliarity and Residential Care’ shows that more and more people prefer to receive care at home rather than turn to facilities. This gave rise to the idea of analysing the current situation in which families live and understanding which problems they have to face, which are solved and which still need to be solved or at least mitigated; most of the services offered in the elderly care landscape are outdated, do not make sufficient use of digital and innovative tools and rely entirely on the direct help of caregivers. Thus, a strong imbalance has arisen between the demand for care by the elderly population, the ability of families to respond on their own, and the supply of care services, generating strong imbalances and situations of severe disadvantage for some of the weaker segments of the population.

Using the classic Design Thinking method of convergence and divergence, the focus group participants first set out everything that came to their minds when talking about the care of an elderly person and then filtered and grouped the problems into 2 macro-areas:

• Emergencies
  Routine problems

Subsequent analysis by the SensoArgento team revealed a further 5 sub-categories into which the issues emerged can be divided (for the full analysis download the attached report):

1. Problems related to physical decay
2. Problems related to mental decay
3. Problems of psychological nature
4. Problems related to maintaining routine and personal well-being
5. Problems of a social nature

Based on the problems collected, possible solutions were generated. Some of these are already present in some form in the area while some are not yet present in the current offer, e.g. the use of video games to alleviate the sense of loneliness in a similar way to some youth groups was proposed, together with the use of augmented reality to make the person relive his or her old home.

Innovative solutions such as these are fertile ground for teams of innovators and disruptors who can leverage their ability to innovate in the technological and social fields. Exploiting the potential of new technologies to solve social problems in order to give added value to the elderly is the goal of SensoArgento, a start-up that was born in Fondazione CRT’s Talenti per l’Impresa project and now seeks to collaborate with local authorities to improve its non-invasive monitoring system.

For more information, visit sensoargento.it or contact marcellochiesa@sensoargento.it.

Here you can download the report

EpiCura, the first digital home care provider in Italy that aims to simplify and innovate the personal care sector, and Young Platform, the Italian fintech platform that simplifies access to the world of cryptocurrencies, are the ex-aequo winners of the “Start-up of the Year I3P” 2022 award, assigned by the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino to the young companies that have most distinguished themselves for their achievements after three years of incubation.

The awards were presented during the annual “Festa delle Startup I3P” event, held in its 23^rd edition, which provided an opportunity to present the case histories, innovative products and services of the 25 new start-ups that joined the incubation program during 2022 and to launch those who have “graduated”, ready to face the market having successfully completed their path of entrepreneurial growth at I3P.

The winning start-ups

Founded in 2017 by Gianluca Manitto and Alessandro Ambrosio initially to offer physiotherapy services, epiCura‘s project later focused on home care, through on-call service, to support the clients for short periods or specific needs, and full service for long periods. EpiCura takes care of the entire placement process, along with the contracts and any in-person replacements, while also providing psychological support to the family of the assisted person. There are more than 70,000 contacts of carers throughout Italy on the platform, and more than 80,000 hours of assistance are provided on average in a month.

Investors are also believing in the project: in 2021, with a major funding round worth a total of €5 million, EpiCura closed its third capital raising operation and reached a total of €11 million. Thanks to these resources, the start-up has been able to work on its strategy to simplify a long-standing industry such as the health and social care sector, which, even today, is not very flexible and responsive to the needs of patients and family caregivers. Finally, in 2022, EpiCura inaugurated its new headquarters in Turin and its first two “epiStores” in Milan and Turin, strategically placed to facilitate contact from potential customers about the services offered and to optimise the recruiting processes of professionals.

Young Platform, founded in 2018, aims to simplify access to the world of cryptocurrencies through a platform of digital products and intense educational activity and awareness of blockchain technology and its applications. Among the top three cryptocurrency trading platforms in Italy with 36% market share, the company had over 1 million users at the end of the first quarter of 2022, 11 times last year’s figures, and aims to become a smart digital bank with a focus on new digital services.

After raising €3.5 million in 2021, in 2022 Young Platform closed a €16 million investment led by Azimut, in which a pool of investors including Banca Sella and United Ventures took part. With the new raised capital, Young Platform intends to support its development plans, which include expanding its team – from 41 units to 110 by the end of 2022 – and expanding into new markets such as Spain and France.

“EpiCura and Young Platform deserve this recognition as they have been able to invent and reinvent themselves over time, also in line with the needs of the market,” commented Giuseppe Scellato, President of I3P. “For example, with its solutions epiCura is positioning itself at the centre of the healthcare innovation process, while Young Platform, with its crypto exchange features, is operating in a sector that is constantly evolving and is thus able to address the new generation of investors. At I3P,” Scellato concludes, “we are proud to have supported these start-ups on their path to growth: our goal is to continue to be a point of reference for innovation in Italy, supporting and promoting ideas and projects with high technological potential that work on services with a direct impact on the lives of citizens.”

The festive season, as we know, is a time of great turmoil for businesses and all organisations.
Deadlines, closures and preparation management lead us to have to review our priorities in the run-up to the Christmas break.

It is precisely for this reason that the Cottino Social Impact Campus and the partners of the Impact Prototypes Labs programme have decided to postpone the deadline for applications to 31 January 2023 in order to give companies and all representatives of organisations interested in the route more time to submit their sustainable project ideas.

We believe that the festive season, with the serenity and spirit of change it brings, can be an opportunity for reflection and inspiration for all those who want to make their companies more sustainable.

All information is always available on the dedicated page Impact Prototypes Labs 2022/2023 and it will be possible to arrange a direct, no-obligation interview with one of our tutors by emailing iplabs@cottinoimpact.org no later than Tuesday 24 January.

Find out more about IP Labs

Following the success of the previous editions, the University Course for Professional Advancement (CUAP) “Social Impact Assessment” is back. Pre-registration is open from 5 December 2022 to 13 January 2023.

The course, supported by the Turin Chamber of Commerce as part of the Turin Social Impact Strategic Plan, is being delivered by the Department of Management of the University of Turin with the Turin Polytechnic University (members of the Social Entrepreneurship Committee), the Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili di Torino, the Piccatti Milanese Foundation, Cottino Social Impact Campus, Tiresia, the training organisations 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.

CUAP is among the activities proposed by the Centre of Competence for Social Impact Assessment based at the Turin Chamber of Commerce.

The course will start on 6 February 2023 and foresees weekly appointments of 4 hours on Monday afternoons for a total of 40 hours of frontal lessons (the remaining 85 hours are individual and group activities and preparation of project work).

The lessons will be delivered exclusively online, with live teaching. At the end of the course a certificate of competences “Social Impact Assessor” will be issued, after verification of the same and in addition the OPEN BADGE digital certificate issued by Bestr.

The objective of this course is to develop Impact Management strategies and cognitive processes necessary for social impact assessment and NRP-related projects. The CUAP is aimed at organisations and all those who wish to enhance and deepen their knowledge on this topic.

More information on the structure can be found on the relevant page on the Department of Management website > Continuing Education > A.A. Courses 2022-2023 > University Professional Development Course > Social Impact Assessment 4th edition and at the following e-mail address: socialimpact.management@unito.it

Réseau Entreprendre is an international network present in 11 countries and counting more than 14,500 entrepreneurs, socially committed to supporting of new entrepreneurs and the creation of new jobs.

In Piedmont the association is active throughout the region with local sections in Turin, Alessandria, Alba and Cuneo, Biella and Ivrea.

In the last 2022 episode of Bench-Mark, we find out with Lisa Orefice, director of Réseau Entreprendre Piemonte, about the impact of this project on the region.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

Strolling through the Valentino park in Turin, it is difficult not to notice a particular villa that seems to have come straight out of a fairy tale: it is Villino Caprifoglio, the former reading garden of the philanthropist Alberto Geisser built at the end of the 19th century. It is a special place due to its architectural peculiarity, which will now become the headquarters of the “base camp” project of 1 Caffè, the first digital non-profit organisation set up to support small Italian non-profit associations by spreading the culture of the gesture of giving. Among the founders is the Turin actor Luca Argentero.

Francesco Antonioli spoke about it with Silvia Meacci, general manager of 1 Caffè.

 

Watch previous episodes here.

Torino Social Impact is a lead partner with Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini of the SocialTech for Europe for Resilient and Responsible Ecosystems (SocialTech4EU) project, co-funded by the European Union, within the framework of the “Joint Cluster Initiatives (EUROCLUSTERS) for Europe’s recovery“.

This project is aimed at strengthening the resilience and innovation capacity, competitiveness, and sustainability of social economy ecosystems and of start-ups and SMEs of the social economy, with a special focus on technology social ventures. As one of the largest European social-venture startup programs, the project will provide them with support in the form of grants, vouchers and professional services.

So, we are sharing a survey that aims to understand the needs and blockers preventing Social Enterprises (SEs) to innovate, making the most of digital transformation, embracing the twin digital & green transition, and becoming more resilient.

Please find the link to the survey here. The deadline is February 28, 2023.

We appreciate how precious your time is and we would like to reward your effort:

• You get an invitation to join a European cluster of Social Enterprises and the European Map of Social Enterprises, so you can connect with other social enterprises across Europe, as well as other stakeholders in the social economy ecosystem (e.g. training and tech providers, incubators/accelerators, Universities;)

• You will get informed when the project will launch the Calls for vouchers/grants described above.

For any questions about the survey or the project SocialTech4EU, please contact info@torinosocialimpact.it

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14.02.23 / SocialTech4EU seeks businesses and experts for the social economy

Introduction

Agenzia Nazionale Giovani, in collaboration with Ashoka Italia, promoted in 2021 the Gen C: Generation Changemaker call. Torino Social Impact is a partner of the initiative.

The project aims at fostering youth leadership by establishing a community of young people, aged 13 to 25, actors of change (changemakers), supported in this experience by Mentors aged between 25 and 35. The project is supported by a broad partnership of over 50 organisations.

In the second phase of GEN C (May 2022-July 2023) several initiatives will be implemented to promote youth empowerment through 5 pillars of work: engaging, capacity building, ecosystem building, policy-making and storytelling. Within these pillars, some specific initiatives will be carried out. Particularly in the first pillar of work, a new call for young changemakers has been opened and events dedicated to the youth network will be realised.

Objectives of the event

The event has multiple objectives. Specifically:

• Celebrating youth leadership;
• To award the 50 new young changemakers;
• To build an identity of young changemakers;
• To promote the exchange of ideas and projects between young people and partners;
• To guarantee visibility to the most innovative proposals;
• To offer a platform for cultural exchange on GEN C themes (ecological transition, digital transition, transition towards autonomy).

The target audience of the event

More than 100 young people will be involved. Specifically:

• Young changemakers who participated in the GEN C initiatives in phase 1 and the GEN C call phase 2;
• GEN C partners;
• ANG network representatives: EuroPeers, ANG InRadio;
• ANG Beneficiary Association representative.

The theme: DECISIONS

Sirene Kierkegaard: ‘Men are always at a crossroads […]’. 

It is hard to accept the idea that everything we do involves the exclusion of something else.  Start afresh. Even the simplest and most mundane actions like walking while balancing on the edge of a pavement on the way to work, trying to guess what a passer-by is thinking, giving coins to a beggar or smiling at someone, can change us, others and the world.

Even if we don’t notice anything, with every step we take something happens: we are able to INFLUENCE what is around us.

It takes COURAGE to change things. Making decisions forces us to confront Fear: the fear of making a mistake, of choosing a road that is too winding, of not being up to it.  By choosing the path with the fewest obstacles, however, we always prioritise the option with the fewest worries. In this way, our decisions are fixed a priori and we live not only an unfree life but also an uninspiring one.

Today’s volatile and rapidly changing world constantly presents us with new crossroads.  However, the path of change cannot be imposed, it is about one’s own being and one’s own life purpose. Choosing, taking one’s PASSIONS into account, allows one to be an active protagonist of one’s life and to find one’s FREEDOM.

What decisions have we had to make on our path to change? And how can we, as changemakers, make decisions that are fair and forward-looking, for the good of all?

Programme

9h00 – 09h30 – Arrival and registration/accreditation

09h00 – 10h00 – Welcome & Networking

10h00 – 10h30 – Plenary. Institutional greetings and presentation of the day

• Lucia Abbinante – Director General National Agency for Young People
• Federico Mento – Director Ashoka Italy
• Andrea Abodi – Minister for Sport and Youths (TBC)

10h30 – 11h15 – Plenary. Deep connection

In a session dedicated to connecting participants, we will explore the theme of “decisions” through participatory methodologies that will allow participants to discover each other, get to know each other and dialogue in small groups.

11h15 – 11h45 – Coffee break

11h45 – 12h30 – Enabling youth leadership
In dialogue with:

• Alessia De Iulis – International Association for Cooperation and Education in the World;
• Alessia Garofalo – EuroPeers;
• Amaya Vizmanos – Young Changemaker Ashoka Spain; – Ena Peeva – Ang InRadio Networking.

12h30 – 13h30 – Inspiring talks – Young people and adults generating change together

• Davide Mazzanti, Italian volleyball coach and head coach of the Italian women’s national team;
• Susanna Croci – Generation Changemaker;
• Massimo Vallati – Ashoka Fellow.

13h30 – 15h00 – Lunch

15h00 – 16h00 – Plenary. Award ceremony for young changemakers.

16h00 – 17h30 – Parallel sessions. Workshop

In these sessions, the young people will be given the opportunity to take part in panels where different speakers and panelists will guide the participants through specific topics.

The workshops will be led by selected young changemakers

17h30 – 18h00 – The floor is given to the Gen C Partners.

Conclusions

Sloweb Association for 2022 proposes the fourth edition of the Digital Ethics Forum, two days with conference panels and special events to explore some of the most pressing issues concerning ethics in the design, production, distribution and use of digital technologies.

“What to do” is the focus that this edition wants to pursue. A popular, informative and experiential event, during the Forum we will ask what is happening in offices, companies and institutions to understand what is being done to accept, adopt and include digital in an ethical and sustainable way in everyday life.

For this year’s edition we have set up a division of interventions that follows a conceptual scheme whereby the ‘playing field’ of digital ethics involves three main subjects: institutions, companies, citizens. For each subject – which we ideally place in a triangular playing field, in fact – we want to address issues relating to the application of ethics in the digital domain.

We will therefore have three sessions

• the first (23rd afternoon) dedicated to what institutions do/should do, with a special focus on education and health;
• the second (24th morning) on companies, digital or not, including information companies;
• the third (24 afternoon) to citizens, and what is happening around responsible digital consumption

In addition, space has been dedicated to English-language speeches by experts in the field outside the Italian ecosystem to share best practices at an international level.

Last but not least, the Digital Ethics Forum is a free event and this year it has expanded from Turin to Rome as well, as a clear sign of growth.

Programme:

23 November

13-14 “Introductory speech”, Luciano Floridi
14-16:30 “Institutions: regulations and essential services”.

24 November

9-11:30 “Organisations: sustainability, identity, trust and data quality”.
14-16:30 ‘Users: from consumers to responsible citizens’.

For more than twenty years, Progetto Tenda has been working in the Turin area with people in difficulty and at risk of fragility, to strenght autonomy and promote encounters between people of different backgrounds. Understanding diversity is indeed the key to building a more peaceful, more open and fairer society.

With Cristina Avonto and Valentina Melchionda – respectively president and vice-president of the cooperative – we discover why welcoming is a key element of the impact economy.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

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 ‘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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Here the map of all international events.

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:
info@cmensemble.com / faimasino@fondoambiente.it

*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

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

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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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

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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!

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.

Register for the event!

The winners of the Impact Narrative Awards, the first ever awards dedicated to outstanding communication that captures the imagination and puts impact investing centre stage, have been announced.

The awards were launched earlier this year by The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG), Torino Social Impact and Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia, the Italian National Advisory Board, which promotes the development of impact finance in Italy. They aim to identify and honour best-in-class storytelling and communication used to persuade financial institutions and governments to put their full weight behind impact investing.

The winners in the category “best impact narrative aimed at the financial sector” were social impact and justice journalist, Meg Massey, and director of communications at Village Capital, Ben Wrobel, for their article “A Story About Power” based on their book Letting Go which highlights the “top-heavy” and “insular” nature of global foundations and impact investment funds and tells the story of those that have “chosen to cede decision-making power to people with lived experience of the problem at hand.”

The winner in the category “best impact narrative aimed at government” was GSG’s National Advisory Board (NAB) in Chile, which was represented by María de los Ángeles Ferrer. The Chile NAB produced a compelling two-minute video that explained how impact investing could help solve some of the globe’s most pressing problems.

The winners were announced to over 1,000 impact professionals during the GSG Global Impact Summit and win communications support from PR firm, Thinkshift, who will develop a communications strategy centred on the award-winning content.

By honouring narrative excellence, the Awards highlight the importance of communications that promote impact investing and the transition to economies that work for all people and the planet. The Awards also provide a platform to strengthen the narratives used to promote impact investing and help the movement to speak with one voice.

Cliff Prior, Chief Executive of the GSG, said:

“We need compelling new ways of communicating with people outside of the impact investing field to truly become mainstream. These winning submissions go a long way to encouraging financial institutions and governments to put their weight behind impact investing. We congratulate the winners and hope that the Awards shine a light on the importance of powerful storytelling in our movement.”

Mario Calderini, Spokesperson for Torino Social Impact, said:

“A compelling narrative is a key tool to foster stakeholder engagement among finance and government sectors in order to expand impact investing. This is why Torino Social Impact actively collaborated and supported the creation of the Awards, which have raised awareness about the importance of communication and to deliver effective examples. We therefore congratulate the winners and thank them for their important contribution for the achievement of the impact movement goals.”

We would like to congratulate all the organisations shortlisted for the Awards. The finalists included: Chi Impact Capital; Centre for Social Investment, University of Heidelberg; UniCredit Social Impact Banking; Bravo Charlie; Neev Fund; Open Value Foundation; and FAIR.

We would also like to thank the Awards selection committee for undertaking the challenge of evaluating the excellent submissions received for consideration:

• Dolika Banda, financial expert, GSG Ambassador, member of the CDC Board
• Elena Casolari, CEO of Opes Italia Sicaf Euveca, a pioneer in the impact investing space
• Tim West, communication expert, founder editor and CEO of Pioneers Post
• Sandra Stewart, communication expert, founder of Thinkshift Communications, which is offering probono consultancy to the winners
• Matias Kelly, former Secretary of State for Social Economy in the Argentinian Government and founder of Sumatoria, an Impact Finance firm

Photography contest open to photographers from around the world: we are looking for images focused on Environmental, Social and Governance Sustainability. A prize reward of 1,500 euro will be given to the best shot of the competition and the best photography history will receive a 3,500 euro prize.

Application deadline: September 6th

Per info: www.ispaward.com/en

Photography contest open to photographers from around the world: we are looking for images focused on Environmental, Social and Governance Sustainability. A prize reward of 1,500 euro will be given to the best shot of the competition and the best photography history will receive a 3,500 euro prize.

Application deadline: September 6th

info: https://www.ispaward.com/it