Month: January 2020

31/01 – Presentation of the Report on the impact generated by Italian incubators and accelerators

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The presentation of the “Report on the impact generated by Italian incubators / accelerators – Research 2019” will be held on Friday 31st January 2020.

The Report, developed by the Social Innovation Monitor (SIM) research team, was carried out thanks to the collaboration with Italia Startup, and PNICube and the support of Banca Etica, Compagnia di San Paolo, Experientia, Impact Hub Milano, I3P – Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico Torino, Instilla, Iren Group, Make a Cube³, SocialFare, and Social Innovation Teams (SIT).

The rector of the Polytechnic of Turin, Prof. Guido Saracco and the Minister Paola Pisano will also take part in the event.

The meeting will be held in the Council Room of the Faculty of the Polytechnic of Turin – Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 – 10129 Turin (TO), on Friday 31st January 2020, from 10 a.m. to 12.30 a.m.

To participate in the event, please register at this link

05/02 – Commonshood: Blockchains for social good @Torino

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Università e Città di Torino, with Torino Social Impact, organize on February 5th at 8.30 am at Open Incet (Piazza Teresa Noce 17, Turin) a morning of presentation and discussion on how Blockchain technology can have a social impact and how it can innovate the ICT industry on the territory. Will be presented the various experiments of CommonsHood, as well as entrepreneurial experiences on Blockchain and Torino Wireless observatory.

Blockchain is one of the technologies that promise to revolutionize the world of the informal economy, and four years after the European Capital of Innovation award, Turin is a finalist for the European “EIC Horizon Prize Blockchains for social good“: it competes with 22 other candidates for one of the 5 1 million euro prizes.

The finalist project is called CommonsHood, and has been developed by the University of Turin in collaboration with grassroot initiatives such as the Collaboration Pacts signed by citizens with the Municipality of Turin within the context of the new legislation on commons.

The goal of CommonsHood is to democratize local financial instruments: it allows communities to create new types of tokens to support financial inclusion and to increase the sustainability of the local economy. In particular, it provides commons and associations with instruments to help finance themselves issuing tokens representing prepaid cards, crowdfunding, complementary currencies, and to share tools and infrastructures using tokens representing access rights.

Register here http://bc4good.commonshood.eu

CALL FOR PAPER! Scientific Colloquium on Social Enterprise – IRIS Network

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The XIV Scientific Colloquium on Social Enterprise, the traditional appointment of the Iris Network that promotes studies and researches about the evolutionary trends of the social enterprise in Italy, will be held in Turin.

The Scientific Colloquium is part of Torino Social Impact and will take place on the 28th and 29th May 2020 at the Management Department of the University of Turin.

“The social enterprise and its ecosystem for sustainable development” is the theme of the XIV edition, which promotes scientific studies – including interdisciplinary and international ones – on issues that characterize the challenges of the post-reform social enterprise and its ecosystem: sustainable development, innovation of production processes in the circular economy, new paths for social inclusion.

Iris Network and Torino Social Impact promote a CALL FOR PAPER & SESSION to collect contributions to be presented within the Colloquium:

The deadline for submitting proposals is on the 3rd March 2020, while registrations will open in March 2020.

23/01 Torino Social Factory: 15 social innovation projects for the suburbs

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The City of Turin, in collaboration with the Agenzia per la Coesione Territoriale, organizes an event for the presentation of the first results of Torino Social Factory, the measure of the National Operational Program for Metropolitan Cities 2014-2020 (PON Metro Turin).

Torino Social Factory supported with a total budget of 1.5 million euros the creation of projects of social innovation, capable of triggering urban regeneration projects in the Turin suburbs.

This event will be an opportunity to let the 14 Metropolitan Cities of PON Metro and Turin citizens know about the 15 projects financed by the measure, and about the policies for social innovation of the City of Turin.

The event will be held on January 23rd, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the headquarters of Tricircolo and Glocal Factory (two of the funded projects), in via Giuseppe Regaldi, 7/11, Turin. Participation is free with registration on the torino-social-factory.eventbrite.it page.