BeeFlower is an innovative market format for the valorisation of environmental issues, in line with the Biodiversity Strategy 2030, which tells of a production of honey, flowers, plants and food linked to impoIIination and connected to the territory.

A maximum number of 20 exhibitors/producers and institutional stands are planned in order to develop content and dissemination.
The aim of this initiative is to educate, protect and promote biodiversity through the knowledge of the link between pollinating insects and daily food – as indicated in the SDGs for the EU 2030 Agenda in terms of the right to and access to food as a function of the protection of natural spaces, the dignity of the work of small family businesses, respect for the soil and animal welfare.

BeeFlower is therefore of strategic importance not only for the information it can convey and for the quality of the local product it is intended to support, but also as a territorial connection tool for the defence and protection of natural, urban and peri-urban areas.

BeeFlower is a market that contributes to restoring to citizenship a greater awareness and responsibility towards sustainable environmental policies and agricultural practices, but above all with the possibility of choosing an alternative that comes from a selected production that is attentive to the respect and dignity of labour as well as the protection of the soil. So BeeFlower is not just a commercial activity but a concrete tool for educating, promoting and defending biodiversity.

With this itinerant and educational market, the Slow Food Community of Metropolitan Pollinators of Turin, founder of the association of the same name that co-proposes the project, wants to balance the seriousness of the environmental situation with solutions: BeeFlower is one of them, designed for cities and administrations that want to be prototypes of ‘green’ change, through innovative and strategic solutions.

On Sunday 13 June 2021, in the middle of the month dedicated to the Environment, the Googreen biodiversity market will be unveiled in Giardino Sambuy, which as every second Sunday of the month comes back to life to be a meeting place for good practices and seasonal stories.

• From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. – Googreen producers selected by Giardino Forbito will be back as always to represent seasonal excellence. SPAZIO DELLE IDEE
• 12 noon: Setting oneself in the sun and in freedom. The solar kitchen. Parva Gullino presents an ecological and healthy way of cooking using sunlight. Suggestions for free time in the open air, trips and camping, and for living nature and our territory to the full. Special guest Bertolini Borse presents green clothes and accessories for an eco-sustainable summer.
• 3.00 pm: Ambientarsi in città. Discovering literary routes through the city, Andrea Maia will take us through the streets and pages of Turin, revealing images and impressions found in the works of poets and writers who visited or lived in the city. Turin, the city and the writers. Graphot Editrice
• 4.30 p.m.: Ambientarsi in cielo. A meeting with journalist Maurizio Maschio and the very young aerospace engineer Giulia Bassani to discover the space sector and the future. A collection of exclusive interviews with ten personalities from the world of science and aerospace to explore the point of view of those who are writing the history of space exploration and related scientific research. Italy in space. The story of its protagonists. Cartman Editions.
• 6pm: Settling on Earth. An appointment in the garden with Luca Mercalli for advice on life and adaptation. A glimpse of the possibilities of change provided by sustainable technologies, energy efficiency and a more contemplative and less competitive life.
  Going up mountains. Gaining altitude to escape global warming. Giulio Einaudi Editore.

 

May 18, 2021 Webinar

The webinar, organized by the Piedmont Chambers of Commerce in collaboration with Invitalia, will focus on the facilities made available by the Ministry of Economic Development to support SMEs that intend to develop projects for the technological and digital transformation of production processes.

The initiative is organized as part of the Punti Impresa Digitale of the Piedmont Chambers of Commerce and the Enterprise Europe Network in collaboration with the Torino Wireless Foundation.

Participation in the webinar is free, after registration at this link by Monday, May 17, 2021: http://piemontedesk.pie.camcom.it/webinar/DigitalTransformation

Program

10:00 – Greetings and introduction
Paolo Bertolino, Secretary General of Unioncamere Piemonte

10:10 – The Digital Transformation Measure: incentives to support the digital transformation of enterprises
Luigi Gallo, Head of Innovation Area, Invitalia

10:50 – The Digital Transformation of communities: national experiences
Laura Morgagni, Director of Torino Wireless Foundation

11:00 – Questions and answers
For more information:

Unioncamere Piemonte – Projects and Territorial Development Area
Tel. 011 5669236 – Email innovazione@pie.camcom.it

Thursday, May 20, 2021 – 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
WEBINAR on MICROSOFT TEAMS

To complete the path already started with the three events that the Turin Chamber of Commerce proposed last year:

• New digital professions: young people as a growth resource for SMEs – November 25, 2020
• The workshop: an alternative for your digital transformation – December 2, 2020
• Digital Ecosystems: networks of professionals supporting the territory – December 10, 2020

API Torino in collaboration with the Punto Impresa Digitale of the Torino Chamber of Commerce presents “La Bottega digitale per la PMI”, a project that aims to respond to a specific business need by accompanying the company to walk the “first mile”: small pilot projects, aimed at understanding the right way to identify the real digital project.

PROGRAM

16:45 Participants connection

17:00 Opening and introduction 
Nicoletta Marchiandi Quartaro, Head of Innovation and Calls for Proposals Sector, Punto Impresa Digitale Torino Chamber of Commerce

Presentation of the project “La Bottega digitale per la PMI” (The digital workshop for SMEs)
Fabio Palmieri, Studies and Innovation Office – API Torino

The Bottega model
Andrea Alfieri, Chief Digital Officer, Innovation Manager, Founder – Guilds42

•  How the Bottega works
•  Presentation of “Pilot” projects to apply for
• How to participate

17:50 Q&A and conclusions

Cost:

Participation in the event is free, after registration by May 19 HERE

API Torino collects registrations and will send via email to all interested parties the link for the connection.

It is required to fill in “Selfi4.0”, the self-assessment test on digital maturity of Punto Impresa Digitale.

For details on the event to present the project or on how to involve companies in the initiative, contact API TORINO – Ufficio Studi Tel.: 011 4513.269 E-Mail: studi@apito.it

For technical connection problems during the webinar:
Tel. 011 5716803 / 348 1136450

The aim of the Conference on Europe’s Future is promoted by the EU Institutions (Parliament, Council and Commission) to give citizens a decisive role in defining EU policies and ambitions, improving the resilience to both economic and health crises.
What is the role of the social economy?
Starting from a concrete example of (RI)GENERIAMO BCorp, as a result of a shared process that combined profit and nonprofit in a common vision of integral development. Following Europe Day, the Talk workshop wants to further explore the role of social economy for the future of the EU.
(RI)GENERIAMO’s Impact Report will be the tool at the center of the debate, all the different value chains that the social economy produces will be analysed through contributions of expert speakers in a European dimension.

Download the Agenda and follow live on Facebook EuropaToday page
For further information: info@ri-generiamo.it

An extraordinary edition that has reached a total of over 10 million digital profiles in 202 countries around the world

The curtain falls tomorrow, April 30, 2021 on the thirteenth edition of Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, the international event organized by Slow Food, the City of Turin and the Piedmont Region that did not give up in the face of the imperative dictated by Covid-19 and with great spirit of resilience has revolutionized its format, offering 205 days of physical and digital events, organized by the Slow Food network and its partners in 75 countries around the world.

“Faced with the health, social and economic crisis caused by the pandemic, we wanted to bring attention to the causes that triggered it: agricultural biodiversity compromised by human action, the climate crisis that threatens ecosystems, the inequities of the production model and food distribution. All problems that we were familiar with even before this pandemic, but which the dominant development model continues to ignore or does not want to face”, declared Carlo Petrini, president of Slow Food. “In this situation we have decided to focus the spotlight on solutions, small but revolutionary for their effectiveness of action at the local level, which are already in the hands of the communities of farmers, fishermen, artisans, cooks, but also of individual citizens who every day they act for change with their conscious choices. We have long supported the need for a change of paradigm, and we are not the only ones to say it: here, these seven months of Terra Madre have allowed us to listen to the voice of scholars, academics, philosophers, scientists, economists, together with that of farmers, artisans, shepherds, fishermen, educators who are the fundamental backbone of the Terra Madre and Slow Food network in every corner of the planet ‘event, through the thousands of hours of activities carried out in the five continents, is a clear vision of these new paradigms, which represents that true ecological transition from several parts i invoked and can no longer be postponed”.

Seven months of events that have brought Terra Madre Salone del Gusto all over the world, making Turin and Piedmont the reference point for reflection on the future of food. “The great success of this edition, even in the ways that the health emergency has imposed, is the demonstration of the extraordinary strength of the community that Slow Food has created over the years and of which Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, Italy and Piedmont are the beating heart – emphasizes the president of the Piedmont Region, Alberto Cirio, and d is proof that in this unique human heritage, made up of skills, history and ideas that look to the future, there is the key to restart vital to feed our tomorrow with awareness and conscience”.

“Even in a context of great difficulty caused by a pandemic which – underlines the mayor of Turin Chiara Appendino – has done and is still making its heavy health, economic and social effects felt in every part of the planet, the event overcame every obstacle, managing to make realities even belonging to distant and different worlds communicate with each other, and confirming the event as an unmissable opportunity to raise awareness on the issues of food, food education, the protection of biodiversity. It should be noted that the format chosen for the thirteenth edition, through its numerous events organized also digitally and proposed in seven months, involving 75 countries – has made it possible to transform the limits set by the need to adopt restrictive measures to contain the spread of Covid 19, allowing at the same time, to keep Turin and Piedmont at the center of the event and to expand the horizons of the event”.

And precisely in this great opportunity to know and learn lies the uniqueness of this edition of Terra Madre which has virtually united the Slow Food network as no physical edition could ever have done. “Mind you, no virtual appointment can ever replace the sense of fraternity and the strength of the multitude that meets in Turin every two years, but in recent months every Slow Food community, every member or activist, every single lover of the proposed themes – everywhere in the world, whatever its language – had the opportunity to find the most suitable format in Terra Madre – according to a note-. According to a first estimate, the 1160 events, organized in 75 countries – from Azerbaijan to Brazil, from Philippines to the island of Antigua – which the www.terramadresalonedelgusto.com platform hosted and promoted with an average of about six a day, have reached over 10 million digital profiles worldwide. In particular, the appointments transmitted on the platform and on the social media of Terra Madre Salone del Gusto totaled over 1,300,000 views with an audience distributed in 202 countries, while the events organized directly by the Slow Food network around the world involved 250,000 participants. The data relating to training activities and meetings that required participation after registration is significant: a total of 97 appointments marks the total enrollment of 10,300 people while over 1 million users have followed those same appointments through social networks. In addition, 3300 young people from all over the world for a month joined the challenge organized on Instagram in collaboration with the activists of the Slow Food Youth Network to promote good, clean and fair food. Another important data emerges from a first statistical survey carried out near the end of the event, according to which over 45% of the subjects who actively participated in the events of Terra Madre Salone del Gusto had never had an involvement in Slow activities. Food: a solid base of interlocutors from which to start again for the next challenges that await us. And a rich parterre of people that we will be able to meet for the first time, physically, at Terra Madre 2022”.

“These numbers are impossible to compare with any other data relating to previous editions and to any other Slow Food initiative – emphasizes Petrini -, but we can certainly say that they are results we are very satisfied with, because they exceed the objectives we set ourselves on the eve of ‘opening”. A more complete and detailed picture of the numbers will be presented in June, after the necessary analysis and in-depth work that will begin as early as next week.

Conferences, trainings, forums, in addition to the most innovative and most successful formats, the Food Talks and How is it done? represent a unique heritage of knowledge, a real “library of good, clean and fair” that remains available to those who still want to know, learn, acquire new awareness, essential to understanding in which direction we must direct our actions. “Fishing in this extraordinary online library, accessible for free to all, we want to mention some of the many names that have accompanied us on this long journey: Franco Farinelli, Virginie Raisson and Paul Collier, with whom we opened on October 8, on the theme of new geographies to read the world; Jonathan Franzen, who confirmed the thesis that the battle to save biodiversity, unlike that against the climate crisis, is within everyone’s reach; Heribert Hirt and David Quammen, who spoke on the report between food and health and the relationship between biodiversity loss and zoonosis; Elena Granata, with the model of the city of the future, based on resilience rather than productive monoculture, echoed by Carolyn Steel, according to which the imperative is to reconnect cities and the surrounding countryside; Sunita Narain who reported us on the tragedy of social injustices caused by the climate crisis; Célia Xakriabá, with her pun view of a young indigenous woman about the role of food, the biodiversity of knowledge and cultures, the right to land; Paul Ariès and Eric Schlosser, on the food of the future and on the (non) solutions proposed by technology; Alice Waters on the role of taste education for children (and schools) in changing the food system”, continues the press release.

All of this has been made possible above all thanks to the trust of the bodies that have believed in Slow Food and in this far from the simple and obvious project. A very special thank you to the institutions that have historically been the event’s first partners, the City of Turin and the Piedmont Region, to the Ministry for Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies and the Ministry for the Environment and the Protection of Land and Sea that have granted us their patronage, and to the many partners who have supported this edition. Platinum partners include: Pastificio Di Martino, Unicredit, Lavazza, Acqua S.Bernardo, Quality Beer Academy; Gold partners: Agugiaro&Figna, Astoria, BBBell; Silver partners: Compagnia dei Caraibi, Cuki, Parmigiano Reggiano, Reale Mutua. Finally, we would like to thank Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, Associazione delle fondazioni di origine bancaria del Piemonte and the Chamber of Commerce of Turin for their support.

What are the community’s doubts about climate change?
From today they find space on Conversation Community, a digital platform where everyone can enter questions and concerns about climate change.

The first step of a project that combines theatre, digital media and journalism to improve the quality of the discussion about climate change.

The digital platform was created with a minimal template, specifically designed to minimize the energy demand and the ecological footprint of websites, responsible for 2% of total greenhouse gas emissions.

The doubts collected will be transformed into theatrical pills to arouse confrontation and discussions. A public debate from which will be created an interactive theatrical show and a multimedia e-book. The goal is to put the user in dialogue with the entire process of artistic creation and with the selection and use of scientific and journalistic sources.

Why all this? Because we firmly believe that critical thinking, supported by appropriate methods, can withstand the impact of disinformation and fake news.

We ask you to contribute by telling us your doubts about climate change!

If you don’t have it yet, you can learn more and be inspired by the collection of content to read, listen to and watch that we have selected for you.
“Dubium sapiantiae initium” said Descartes. Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

Conversation Community is a project of Mercato Circolare, Il Mutamento, Pop Economix in collaboration with Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana.

Conversation community is part of the MediaFutures project.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s framework Horizon 2020 for research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 951962.

 

What are the community’s doubts about climate change?
From today they find space on Conversation Community, a digital platform where everyone can enter questions and concerns about climate change.

The first step of a project that combines theatre, digital media and journalism to improve the quality of the discussion about climate change.

The digital platform was created with a minimal template, specifically designed to minimize the energy demand and the ecological footprint of websites, responsible for 2% of total greenhouse gas emissions.

The doubts collected will be transformed into theatrical pills to arouse confrontation and discussions. A public debate from which will be created an interactive theatrical show and a multimedia e-book. The goal is to put the user in dialogue with the entire process of artistic creation and with the selection and use of scientific and journalistic sources.

Why all this? Because we firmly believe that critical thinking, supported by appropriate methods, can withstand the impact of disinformation and fake news.

We ask you to contribute by telling us your doubts about climate change!

If you don’t have it yet, you can learn more and be inspired by the collection of content to read, listen to and watch that we have selected for you.
“Dubium sapiantiae initium” said Descartes. Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

Conversation Community is a project of Mercato Circolare, Il Mutamento, Pop Economix in collaboration with Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana.

Conversation community is part of the MediaFutures project.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s framework Horizon 2020 for research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 951962.

 

The recent rediscovery by many users of the vast trail network a stone’s throw from the city center of Turin has certainly brought countless benefits to the citizens who can practice sports and relax in the outdoors just a few minutes from the city. In Turin a short walk of a few minutes is sometimes all it takes to go from the urban environment to enchanting paths immersed in the green of the hills.

This surge in user numbers however, has brought increasing pressure on the trails that after the first lock down were literally filled with sports and nature enthusiasts.

For this reason, the representatives of various groups of off-road cyclists have deemed necessary to anticipate the arise of any problems due to the massive increase in attendance in the Turin woods by promoting an initiative aimed at raising awareness among bikers to respect other users and the trails.

Thus, in the days preceding the weekend of Easter, the information panels of the “keyword: respect” campaign were installed on the notice boards along the panoramic road (Via dei Colli) that connects Superga to Pino Torinese. The initiative is promoted by CAI Section of Pino Torinese and IMBA Italy in collaboration with the Piedmontese Po Protected Areas Park Authority and the support of GS Sassi, Greentoso, SingleTrack Torino and Di Tutti i Sentieri.

The panels begin with a “Welcome on the Turin trails: do your part and respect these simple rules for the sustainable use of MTB in this beautiful place” and list the ten basic rules that every biker should respect for a good coexistence with all the other users of the trails and respect for nature:

1. Respect nature
2. Plan your rides
3. Stay on the trail
4. Don’t ride muddy trails
5. Don’t modify the trails
6. Ride carefully
7. Respect other users
8. Announce your arrival
9. Give way
10. Overtake safely

For those wishing to learn more about this topic, an article has been published on the IMBA Italia website that explains the birth of the project and the full trail etiquette (Italian only).

This campaign was enthusiastically welcomed by many two-wheel enthusiasts (and hikers too) who wrote to the various promoting associations supporting the initiative. Given the considerable success, we hope that the project will soon be extended to other areas characterized by a multi-user use of the trail network.

IMBA Italia is pleased to be one of the leading bodies of the project and wishes that the awareness campaign will help all trail users to enjoy the natural environment in harmony while minimizing their impact on it.

Starting from April 2021, the European Union’s European Cluster Platform, an EU hub dedicated to industrial clusters comprising more than 1000 partners and aimed at strengthening the European economic system through collaboration, has also included social economy clusters among its members. Torino Social Impact’s candidacy is one of the first to be approved, and so the Turin platform with its more than 100 partners becomes part of the European coordination.

For decades, the theme of technological and industrial clusters at the European level has been considered strategic for competitiveness and, borrowing this approach, in 2019 the European Commission has launched in-depth work on the role of clusters and other forms of territorial cooperation for the social economy, counting on introducing them into funding measures on an equal footing with other clusters. Hence the dedicated section of the European Cluster Platform, confirming the Commission’s plan to include the proximity and social economy among the Industrial Ecosystems for the Recovery.

In the dedicated section of the European Cluster Platform, the social economy is described as a significant portion of Europe’s economy that provides benefits for people other than investors and owners. In the new section, the social economy clusters or “Cluster of social and ecological innovation” are “Groups of social economy enterprises and other related supporting and economic actors that cooperate in a particular location to increase their joint social and ecologic impact by enhancing their cooperation, pooling resources and innovation capacity.“

Many of them are organised in a quadruple or quintuple model, meaning bringing together business (social economy and regular business), civil society, research and government. Moreover, they are usually cross-sectoral and they have usually other drivers than just improving the sectoral competitiveness.

A new chance for Torino Social Impact to get European visibility.

Starting from April 2021, the European Union’s European Cluster Platform, an EU hub dedicated to industrial clusters comprising more than 1000 partners and aimed at strengthening the European economic system through collaboration, has also included social economy clusters among its members. Torino Social Impact’s candidacy is one of the first to be approved, and so the Turin platform with its more than 100 partners becomes part of the European coordination.

For decades, the theme of technological and industrial clusters at the European level has been considered strategic for competitiveness and, borrowing this approach, in 2019 the European Commission has launched in-depth work on the role of clusters and other forms of territorial cooperation for the social economy, counting on introducing them into funding measures on an equal footing with other clusters. Hence the dedicated section of the European Cluster Platform, confirming the Commission’s plan to include the proximity and social economy among the Industrial Ecosystems for the Recovery.

In the dedicated section of the European Cluster Platform, the social economy is described as a significant portion of Europe’s economy that provides benefits for people other than investors and owners. In the new section, the social economy clusters or “Cluster of social and ecological innovation” are “Groups of social economy enterprises and other related supporting and economic actors that cooperate in a particular location to increase their joint social and ecologic impact by enhancing their cooperation, pooling resources and innovation capacity.“

Many of them are organised in a quadruple or quintuple model, meaning bringing together business (social economy and regular business), civil society, research and government. Moreover, they are usually cross-sectoral and they have usually other drivers than just improving the sectoral competitiveness.

A new chance for Torino Social Impact to get European visibility.