Prometeo, a Cooperative Zenith project which aims to sustain the elderly and people with difficulties of the territories of Turin, carried out the “My dear grandchild of the future” venture.

It is a collection of video-letters recorded by a group of the Cooperative old friends who tried to reply to current questions about the pandemic period, like: “What do we want to remain of the difficult time we have just lived and that now we are living again?”

Replies merged in some video-letters addressed to the grandchildren of the future, in which the aged narrators describe the first lockdown (March-May 2020) and how they tried to make it through this difficult time.

They address the descendants who, although they didn’t take part directly in that historical moment, will be able to draw inspiration from the collected memories and use them as an essential lesson for their life.

Among the video-letters, there is a double one from  Armanda and Pasquale who report the significative experience of an old copule with 56 years of marriage, who “faced together the distance from children and grandchildren”.

The letter of Marina, instead, tells gently how “every crisis is also an opportunity” and how from this difficult experience it’s possible to learn something, especially from the rediscovered voice of nature.

The grand-grandfather of Francesco rediscovered the pleasure of spending time with his wife and of reading, but he doesn’t conceal his longing for his dear walks.

Those letters are becoming newly current because of the secondo lockdown (November 2020), but maybe they can be an instrument to see with eyes full of hope to a close future.

To get to know the services of “Prometeo project”, visit the website.

Prometeo is part of the 15 social innovation projects sustained by the City of Turin (Torino Social Factory program), co-funded by “Pon Metro Programma Operativo Città Metropolitane 2014-2020” (measure 3.3.1 A)

Torino Social Factory is a leading project of Torino Social Impact, the Turin platform dedicated to the ecosystem for entrepreneurship and investment with a social impact.

After the success of the first edition of #ImpactPrototypesLabs, the second edition of Impact Prototypes Labs 2020-2021 starts!

Impact Prototypes Labs is the first practical program for the development of prototype solutions with social impact for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Piedmont. The program is based on the collaboration between the company and a multidisciplinary group of students of the Master’s Degrees of the Politecnico di Torino, accompanied by teachers in a project-based training course on the themes of innovation and social impact.

The 2020-2021 edition is based on an ecosystem of skills and reputation: the Cottino Social Impact Campus and the Polytechnic of Turin, with the Turin Chamber of commerce, Unicredit, Unione Industriale Torino, API Torino, Confindustria Canavese and Torino Social Impact meet the challenge of the impact economy and accompany the development of Piedmontese SMEs.

For who

For all SMEs in the Piedmont Region that want to embrace and spread knowledge and awareness of impact-oriented business strategies within the company.
For students of the Master’s Degrees of the Politecnico di Torino who wish to learn in the field how to build impact oriented business initiatives.

Why should a company participate?

• To develop a social impact innovation project
• To seize the opportunities of resources allocated by the impact economy at European level
• To expose your business to impact investing opportunities
• To differentiate in the market in terms of skills and visibility
• To add the impact lens to your positioning
• To receive dedicated training from Cottino Social Impact Campus and Chamber of Commerce
• To expand and consolidate relations with the world of institutions, credit, scientific research and training

Find out how to apply here!

Why should a student participate?

• To acquire skills on the topic of innovation and social impact
• To get in touch with companies in the area and with important partners and to open up to internship and job opportunities at participating companies
• To learn how to manage a complex innovation project by working in a team
• To have the opportunity to analyze and develop a real case of business
• To have a tutor available to support the management of the project
• To have the future possibility to develop the project also in a master’s thesis
• To get the recognition of curricular or extra-curricular training credits

Find out how to apply here!

ToNite is a project funded by the Urban Innovative Actions European Program. The goal is bettering the livability of the areas along the Dora river in the evening, throughout the redevelopment of public spaces and economical and technical support to activate proximity services.
The Municipality of Turin is the leading proponent of the project with the partners: Experientia, Espereal Technologies, SocialFare, Fondazione Torino Wireless, Engineering Ingegneria informatica, ANCI, EFUS .

To promote the inclusive method which points out the local communities and the district potentialities, with a social innovation and urban redevelopment perspective in order to face the security topic, shared conception workshops has been planned, to imagine and develop together the future sceneries for the areas along the Dora river, in particular districts Aurora, Vanchiglia, and the Campus Einaudi area.

The next workshop will take place December 3rd and its topic will be the new activities and services useful to improve the livability of the district, through an open dialogue between all the participants. 

The workshop is pointed towards the whole community: any age citizens, residents, workers, students, curious people, but also institutions, companies, associations interested in participating to the project.

SocialFare facilitators, Social Innovation and Shared design processes experts, will offer tools to participate which will empower the capacities and knowledge of anyone. All you need is the desire to participate.

The event will be online only, in respect to the last DPCM.

3rd December 2020

• Which activities and services?
Let’s imagine and design together activities and services by the neighborhood for the neighborhood!

— Participate!

To do their part in the fight against COVID-19 the European Commission and the City of Mannheim decided to organize 8 fully digital events with the goal of strengthening networks in the Social Economy, creating exchange and facilitating dialogue between stakeholders and the European Commission. Each roadmap event focuses on a specific topic, with the results contributing to the Social Economy Action Plan and European Green Deal.

To help repair the economic and social damage brought by the coronavirus pandemic, the European Commission proposed a major recovery plan for Europe, leading the way out of the crisis and laying foundations for a modern and more sustainable Europe. The bulk of the proposed recovery measures will be powered by a new temporary recovery instrument Next Generation EU with financial firepower of €750 billion.

The 26th and the 27th of November would have been the dates for the “European Social Economy Summit” and to commemorate this, 2 days event has been organized with over 15 different stakeholder sessions from all over Europe and beyond under the suitable umbrella theme “Recovery strategy for Europe”, with speakers such as EU- COMMISSIONER Nicolas Schmit. The first day will discuss the role of the social economy in building a resilient and sustainable economy; the second day will involve ministers and state secretaries from EU member states, representatives from the Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany and the federal working group for non-governmental social services, as well as a political panel with members of the German Parliament.

On November 26th, the speech of TSI spokesman Mario Calderini as keynote speaker at the seminar organized by DG EMPL of the European Commission, PPMI and Tiresia – Politecnico di Milano, where the results of the “Study on the benefits of using social outcome contracting in the provision of social services and interventions – a cross-country comparative assessment of evolving good practice in cross-sectoral partnerships for public value creation” will be presented, is part of the EU accreditation process that IST is strongly pursuing in these months.

Confirming that Torino Social Impact is establishing itself in Europe as a virtuous model of partnership for the strengthening of the local ecosystem with social impact, in September TSI was among the keynote speakers at the event “New challenges, new innovations, new solidarities – Social Economy in the fight against COVID, in the framework of Road to Mannheim, a milestone towards the construction of the EU Social Economy Action Plan.
It was also selected by the European Commission as organizer of one of the panels of the last conference, scheduled for April 29th on “Partnerships for maximizing social impact”.

For more information and program, visit the page: https://hopin.com/events/recovery-strategy-for-europe

The theme of the tenth edition of the Festival of Social Doctrine is Memory of the Future.

Memory of the Future is to remember that we are part of a history that moves in a great embrace, it is to recover the original inspiration to the good, making peace with the past, which, cleared by nostalgia or regret, becomes fertile ground to build the future.

Life unfolds with its own rhythms, not programmable. It challenges us with its load of pain, disappointments, mistakes, mistakes, efforts, trials, illnesses… it gives us back our limit and invites us to look beyond because only in this way is it possible to welcome reality, sensing the deep meaning that lies within a project that precedes and surpasses us.

Looking beyond means overcoming the tiredness that withers the heart, the fear that blocks action, the search for security and guarantees placed in power, in money, in science.
Looking beyond allows us not to depend on the result, so success does not exalt and failure does not depress, but rather invites us to reorient the path.
Looking beyond requires a goal that is able to illuminate the path in the present and restore peace in the heart. A peace that is prodigal of actions, attention, care, creativity, impetus, concreteness.
To look beyond means to free oneself from the self and to make possible authentic relationships with others in a shared journey in which the “we” takes the place of the “I”.
Precisely when we look beyond the people we set ourselves in motion, we restore ardor to passion, stimulus to action, concreteness of doing.

For this reason, remembering the future has a social implication: free from roles and corporate selfishness, it gives back the vision of the whole, active collaborations, it makes possible the pursuit of the good of all and of each one.
Remembering the future allows us to see things in their right dimension, to grasp the fragments of truth present in the different disciplines and to rejoice in them, making synthesis and new starting points.
Remembering the future activates collective energies, allows us to imagine what is not yet there by starting processes that do not end with ourselves and that others will enjoy.
Remembering the future restores the correct idea of development, of integral development, and puts communities, territories and peoples on the road, aware that the future awaits people who will make it present.
To remember the future makes it possible to stay “beyond places, within time”, to accept “the challenge of reality”, to “stay among people”, to give reason that “fidelity is change”, to assume “the risk of freedom”, to “be present, social polyphony”.

We are a synthesis of memory and future. The participation of each one of us in the SDC Festival will lead us to find each other, to recognize each other, to share fears, ideas, hopes and actions inspired by each other. Because remembering the future is a guarantee of freedom, vocation and destiny of man, called not so much to do new things, but to make all things new.

On Monday, November 23, 2020 at 10.30 am, do not miss the live of the opening of the Festival on YouTube, with the planting of the tree of the Social Doctrine of the Church in the Collegio Artigianelli.

Download HERE the poster of the entire event.

The European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy, born during the first course on Social Impact Assessment, is organizing the first conference “How Social Impact and Circular Economy meet Digital Transformation?” in which all Torino Social Impact partners are invited to participate.

The workshop will consider papers of theoretical and empirical nature respectively (the topics are reported in the Call for Paper).

The conference, free, given the current situation, will be realized on a digital platform.

Background:

The growing attention to social issues goes hand in hand with the need to reverse the ongoing climate change.
The connection between the two themes is simple. Our planet in its fragility requires alternative economic systems based on an enormous respect for shared resources. At the same time, more and more people remain marginalized, and this requires companies to take increasing responsibility for social redistribution.
It is therefore necessary for companies to develop new models that, while drawing on the one hand on the smallest possible number of resources, on the other hand distribute the social impact to stakeholders.
The technology sector, in its many forms, shows enormous potential for organization, design, adaptation and reporting on change. To this end, we launch a discussion on how social impact and the circular economy meet digital transformation.

Objectives:

To stimulate theoretical discussion on the previous main themes;
To discover case studies and practitioners’ views on the social impact and circular economy among digital transformations.

What are the impact tools and how to use them?

ESCP Turin and Cottino Social Impact Campus launch the Impact Entrepreneurship Programme!

The oldest Business School in the world and the first center in Europe dedicated to impact education present the new path to train a new generation of experts in “high social impact entrepreneurship”.

Participants will be involved in a 120-hour learning journey divided into 4 modules, from January to April 2021, during which they will be provided with tools and strategies for impact entrepreneurship. The course, delivered in English, is a specialization for students of the Master in Management (MIM) of ESCP but will be attended by students from outside the Business School, graduates of any discipline and young professionals graduated no more than three years ago, who will be introduced to this new systemic approach with frontal lessons, case studies, testimonials, group work and simulations, with the possibility of real experiential learning through on-site visits to local impact entrepreneurs and social business.

Where:
Cottino Social Impact Campus.
ESCP Business School Turin Campus.

When:
January to April 2021

Language:
English

Learning Journey with:

• Elisa Ricciuti
• Alisa Sydow
• Sylvain Bureau
• Guido Palazzo 
• Andrea Bruno Granelli

Sign up

 

THE FREE WEBINARS ON IMPACT INVESTING TO RELAUNCH SOCIAL GREEN FINANCE IN ITALY CONTINUE. Upcoming appointments November 13 and 30, on measurement standards and relationship between finance and SDGs.

Refine techniques and methodologies to measure the social impact of companies and put investors in a position to really choose an investment with positive social and environmental impacts. This is the work being done by Social Impact Agenda for Italy, the Italian network of social impact finance and all the actors of the national “impact economy”.

The next webinar, Friday, November 13 from 15.00 to 16.30, in collaboration with the Department of Management of La Sapienza University, will present the Impact Management Project (IMP).

The third and last appointment on Monday 30 November, from 1 pm to 2.30 pm, will illustrate the UNDP standards that strengthen the contribution of impact financial products, such as bonds and equity funds, in relation to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainability Goals (SDGs).

All the information to participate in the free webinars at www.socialimpactagenda.it

“Portineria di comunità” will take active part to the 15th Festival of Popular Cultures. The “Tradi Radio” seat in the “Portineria” (concierge) will come alive through the voices and the imagination of all the inhabitants, to give shape to an illustrated map of the desires about the future Porta Palazzo.

The “portineria” is a meeting  and exhange place, where you can receive the help you need and give help yourself to other inhabitants: it’s an exercise of human micro-economy that gives life to commerce, craftsmanship, and all the services without a specific category but that everyone needs, such as errands in government offices, doing the shopping, or a place to receive parcels. The project is recognized in Europe as a best practice. It is the final step of “Biagio” Project, one of the 15 social innovation projects sustained by the City of Turin through the Torino Social Factory program, financed also by Pon Metro 2014-2020 and imagined by “Rete Italiana di Cultura Popolare” in partnership with the Migrants Pastoral Office and “Nessuno è straniero”.

From 13th to 15th November  the 15th will take place the Festival of Popular Cultures “Community relationships”, organized by “Rete Italiana di Cultura Popolare”. The present edition will be totally “on radio”, available on Tradi Radio.

The main topic will be the community relationships and innovative ways to take care of them. Proximity because places and modalities will be analogical and digital, physical and virtual, material and immaterial. On the radio and online, with some performative actions open to everyone: from home, on foot, by bike, in order to move close people and make sure that the necessary distancing is only physical, not social and, instead, it will widen our idea of community and strengthen our sens of solidarity.

Discover the program of the festival

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On what assumptions should a new model for schools be based in terms of security, architecture, urban planning and economic sustainability? We will discuss this in our webinar on November 26th, starting from the research of Alfonso Femia (Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia) and Ivo Allegro (Initiative).

Social Impact School is the title of the new webinar promoted by Fondazione per l’architettura / Torino, scheduled for Thursday, November 26th: a 3-hour full immersion that will investigate the assumptions on which to base a new model for school buildings in our country through a multi-voice dialogue.

Starting from the observation that many schools in Italy are not safe from an earthquake-proof, fireproof and anticontage point of view, the meeting wants to be an opportunity to imagine operational tools capable of responding to these deficiencies, but also to think about possible design solutions, urban planning and environmental and economic sustainability.

The comparison will start from the research of Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia, architect and moderator of the meeting, who will deepen the issue through three main strands: financial capacity, economic sustainability and architectural and urban design. Three ideas from which the discussion will start with the president of the Fondazione per l’architettura Alessandra Siviero, the vice-president of the Ordine Architetti Torino Cristina Coscia, the director of the Fondazione per l’architettura / Torino Eleonora Gerbotto, the founder and partner of Iniziativa Ivo Allegro, the director of the Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo Nicola Crepax, the director of the Agnelli Foundation Andrea Gavosto, the Councillor for Education of the City of Milan Laura Galimberti, the Councillor for Urban Planning of Prato Valerio Barberis, the Mayor of Settimo Torinese Elena Piastra, the President of the Order of Architects Bologna Pier Giorgio Giannelli, the CEO of IREN Energia Giuseppe Bergesio and Giovanni Spatti of Wood Beton S. p.A.

Registrations are open: go to the dedicated page and book your place at the webinar!

Awarded the winning projects of the competition dedicated to high school students.

 

On October 29th, in a totally digital version, the award ceremony of the Startup Your Life – 2020 Edition contest took place, linked to the UniCredit Social Impact Banking‘s financial and business education program of the same name, in which more than 300 schools participated and dedicated to students in the three years of high school. The event was included among the initiatives of the Month of Financial Education promoted by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Two projects were the absolute winners, selected by a commission of experts:

– Jugaad: in the “Hindi” language it means finding intelligent solutions using what is available. It is a prepaid card that encourages the use of public transport or vehicles with low environmental impact. Every time you use this type of service, points are credited to the card that can be converted into money or discounts for eco-sustainable services or products. The selected proposal was developed by the III C of the I.I.S. Vittorio Emanuele II of Naples.

– ITERO – Repetita iuvant: a new app that aims to facilitate research and contact with teachers, in order to organize meetings and courses for students who need in-depth lessons. The winning idea was presented by class III F SCI of the Liceo Scientifico Aristotele of Rome.

The winners will receive, in recognition, thirteen computers that will be used by schools for educational purposes, in order to support school digitization.

– Handle: payment method that uses biometric technology to transfer money by scanning the palm of the hand. An app designed for expert teenagers, created by the III F RIM of I.T.C Tosi of Busto Arsizio (MI) and awarded for the completeness of treatment.

– Uniscansion – eyes: an application that allows you to make payments in an innovative and secure way by scanning the iris. All operations will be confirmed by the system through messages sent to the owner’s cell phone. The work was presented by the III A AFM of I.I.S. Sella Aalto Lagrange of Turin and awarded for creativity.

– Grillo Parlante Credit: innovative prepaid card that helps to better manage time by changing color according to more or less virtuous behavior. The card will be credited with points based on school success and extracurricular activities such as volunteering, healthy eating and physical activity. A project of the III B SCI of I.S.S. Leonardo Da Vinci of Niscemi (CL), awarded for innovation.

– Start Your Travel: prepaid card that encourages young people to buy goods and services related to culture, sport and technology. The purchases make the credit card mature on the card that reward the virtuous behavior of users in terms of personal growth, stimulating the culture of savings. An idea of the IV C of the B. Russel high school in Cles (TN), awarded for its clarity and effectiveness in communication.

Among the projects carried out with the aim of creating an innovative and socially aware startup:

– Night & Day Bus S.R.L: useful and ecological transport service, also suitable for people with disabilities, which allows young people to move safely to have fun or to know the cultural heritage of their city. It was designed by the IV A AFM of the I.I.S. Leopoldo Pirelli of Rome and awarded for the completeness of its treatment.

– The Elder is the Future: the business idea involves the creation of fabrics from recycled plastic bottles, orange peels, old jeans and dyed using natural dyes. Presented by the IV C SIA of I.I.S.S. Giannelli of Parabita (LE) has been awarded for creativity.

– Old but Fashion: a service that gives new life to old clothes, producing custom-made, trendy clothing that promotes the circular economy with attention to environmental sustainability issues. The work of the IV C of the I.I.S. Vittorio Emanuele II of Naples has been awarded for the innovativeness of the business idea.

– Youbike S.R.L: a startup that operates in the cycling tourism market, offering a bike sharing service of electric bicycles, tandems and rickshaws. The offer also includes the organization of guided tours and cultural events to enhance the territory. Conceived by IV A RIM of I.I.S. D. Zaccagna di Carrara (MS) and awarded for its communicative effectiveness.

“Financial education is a key component of UniCredit Social Impact Banking,” said Jean Pierre Mustier, UniCredit CEO. I am proud to successfully celebrate the conclusion of the third edition of the Startup Your Life program and launch the fourth for the 2020/21 school year. Special thanks go to all the teachers, more than 1,200 in the last year alone, who have supported students in our program and to the volunteers, UniCredit employees and former UniGens associates, without whom this project would not have been possible.

Startup Your Life – recognized by the Ministry of Education among the “Pathways for transversal skills and guidance” – has reached, since its inception in 2017, more than 41,000 students, providing more than 2,600,000 hours of training between teaching and experiential design, involving about 300 schools each year. Students have access to a digital cooperative learning platform and the tutoring of about 400 volunteer educators, including UniCredit employees and former UniGens associates, whose training interventions are guaranteed even remotely, ensuring the continuity of the program.

The new edition will also offer free access to specialized applications for distance learning to all schools.

“Thanks to the three-year Startup Your Life program, UniCredit wants to promote the development of active citizenship and economic awareness of young people. With this project, we are giving new generations the opportunity to learn not only the basics of economics so that they are able to manage their assets and achieve economic independence, but also to experience how to do business and discover their professional talents,” said Laura Penna, Head of Group Social Impact Banking.

UniCredit was named Best Social Impact Bank in Europe in 2020 by Capital Finance International (CFI.co) magazine. The jury highlighted UniCredit’s determination to “make a difference and make an impact” as well as its pandemic efforts to engage its stakeholders, grasp their concerns and needs and promptly adapt its policies and product offering. The Bank’s commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and “important and significant corporate social responsibility policies” have also been rewarded.

Commenting on the award, Roberta Marracino, Head of Group ESG Strategy & Impact Banking, said: “We are very proud to be recognized by CFI as the Best Social Impact Bank in Europe. This confirms how the efforts made through the Social Impact Banking program, the work of the UniCredit Foundation and the Group’s broader approach to ESG issues have been noticed and appreciated by our stakeholders. Acting in a socially responsible manner continues to be a priority for UniCredit. The crisis caused by the Covid-19 emergency has made us all much more aware of the role of companies in driving positive social change. We will continue to do the right thing and work in this direction in line with the needs and interests of all our counterparts”.

The winners were selected by a jury of industry experts with the aim of identifying individuals and organizations that can make a significant contribution to the convergence of economies and bring value to all those involved.

Since its launch, UniCredit Social Impact Banking has supported more than 4,000 beneficiaries through microcredit initiatives and impact financing, as well as providing various financial education programs for approximately 50,000 young and disadvantaged people.

As evidence of its continued social commitment, in 2020 the Group allocated more than €6.4 billion[1] to SMEs in Europe to address the Covid-19 emergency. Thanks to the contribution of the UniCredit Foundation, hospitals and non-profit organizations in the front line in the fight against the pandemic and operating in the various countries where UniCredit operates have also been supported through major donations.

Atelier of the hybrid enterprise continues, and the next appointment with the Academy will be Monday, November 9 with the lessons of room 5: “Standard and creativity”.
For more information visit: https://atelierimpresaibrida.org/academy/

Futuro Prossimo, a series of meetings with big names from the economy, business, research and institutions, started this week: 6 digital talks, free of charge, open to the public and live streaming, to discuss some of the crucial issues on the horizon of the hybrid enterprise: finance, technological innovation, politics, circular economy, diversity.

Banking foundations are changing their skin, and are fast approaching the hybridization of models. Alberto Francesco Anfossi (Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation), Massimo Lapucci (FONDAZIONE CRT) and Andrea Silvestri (Fondazione CRC) talked about it in the first live digital talk “The social antidote. The new attitude of banking foundations”.

In this article Annalisa Magone, Co-founder of Atelier of the hybrid enterprise, pulls the strings of the event in a reflection on the change taking place, the role of foundations and the impact that their action has had and has on the territories in which they operate.

Don’t miss all the updates of Future Next on Atelier of the hybrid enterprise!
Here is the link to subscribe to the events: bit.ly/AII_FuturoProssimo