In the framework of the Digital Road to Mannheim promoted by the European Commission on April 29th, 2021, at 1:00 pm, Torino Social Impact contributes to the event Partnerships for maximizing social impact by organizing one of the working sessions.

The session “Multiplayer Local Partnerships for the Social Economy” will compare some EU cases, provide academic analysis and explore how these forms of cooperation strengthen the innovation capabilities of the partners, letting innovative solutions more likely to emerge than in situations where actors are acting alone without coordination. In addition to the clear advantages (knowledge sharing, advocacy, resources pooling, shared services, joint promotion, etc) local partnership, similarly to clusters mechanisms, lay on high-quality synergies and are able to facilitate profitable inner exchanges, boosting solutions and their scalability and replicability. These frameworks have proven their effectiveness during the COVID-19 outbreak emergency, when fast information circulation and quick actors coordination turned to be essential to meet the needs of different communities and people’s groups, and are now playing a key role in the recovery programs.

Check out the program:

Introduction

• Mario Calderini, spokesman of Torino Social Impact and full professor Politecnico of Milano
• Karel Vanderpoorten, Policy Officer Social Economy DG Grow
• Luigi Martignetti, Secretary General of REVES

Good practices

• Anders Bro, Coordinator Partnership for Social Innovation Örebro County
• Elisa Rosso, Senior Advisor and Projects Coordinator, Torino Social Impact
• Coos Santing, Programm Manager Impact Economy, ImpactCity The Hague

Session Moderator: Raffaella Scalisi, Senior Advisor Torino Social Impact

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What does Glocal mean? Glocal is a term that combines two words that are often at odds, “local” and “global”, proposing to enhance the local dimension through international good practices.

The Glocal Factory project, by the Liberitutti cooperative, born in November 2019, has developed in these months, on the one hand, as a local social enterprise that has given support to the artisans of Barriera di Milano by developing sewing courses, all-round creative courses, events and webinars (live and online) related to sustainable fashion and internships for people in difficulty. On the other hand, as an innovative model, unprecedented in Turin, which provides a continuous interaction between profit and non-profit, establishing an equal relationship that gives shape to a network enterprise with the aim of developing knowledge, network and skills of its users.

Certainly the place chosen as the headquarters of Glocal Factory, Via Regaldi 7 /int 11 of Barriera di Milano, has allowed the interaction with the other major project for the enhancement of artisan knowledge, the TriCircolo Reuse Center, creating a real innovative hub to support the artistic and traditional craftsman of the neighborhood.

Among the other companies, projects and places with which Glocal Factory has begun an ongoing collaboration and with which it has set up a real innovative ecosystem we find:

• the NIDō social tailoring project, which mainly involves young women and men who are asylum seekers and refugees. Starting from the collaboration with the artist and designer Francesco Liberti, it has developed into a path of personal redemption and accompaniment to micro-entrepreneurship.
• The initiative i Fiori di Cotone – carried out thanks to the collaboration with Rete al Femminile Torino, IF life design and Krearte association – that in addition to teaching sewing techniques, through real photo shoots has trained seamstresses on how to create books and videos to promote their own production lines, also turning them into models for a few days.
• Glocal Factory is also a cocrafting of different brands (Au Petit Bonheur, Petit Le Cad, Arbrora, Baobab Couture, Anna Maria Carrieri, Episodio Zero, Sosa Baby design), which have teamed up to develop their own brands by sharing spaces, machinery, but above all craftsmanship.
• Another element of the project is the cooperative’s commercial network (Au Petit Bonheur, Il Grifone Kids, Il Grifone, Uno), intended as a tool for social, cultural and economic promotion, with the objectives of inclusion and integration.
• Among the privileged places of collaboration, we find the Bagni pubblici of via Agliè, a socio-cultural center that organizes various cultural events during the year, open from Monday to Saturday.

The Covid-19 has certainly given a boost to the project, but there are many future developments of Glocal Factory that the cooperativa Liberitutti is trying to put in place, such as, for example, the birth of the Atelier for integration for the boys of CAD Superabile – job placement of young adults with mental and physical disabilities – which will be trained not only on production aspects, but also on those of sales.

If you want to know more about the project watch the official video of the initiative

Glocal Factory is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-financed by the  Programma Operativo Nazionale Città Metropolitane , European Social Fund, carried out within the framework of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link.

The LINKS Foundation, born from an agreement between the Polytechnic of Turin and the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, has been presiding over technical-scientific disciplines falling within the fields of engineering and architecture, making use of the work of 150 researchers.

In the Cittadella Politecnica, we met Micaela and Mirko, who at LINKS deal with applied research, technology transfer and, collaterally, social impact.

The interview is by Francesco Antonioli.

 

Thursday 25th  March 2021 the first Policy Lab “Regenerating public policies starting from local communities – designing the scenario”, organized as part of the “Top Metro Fa Bene” project, promoted by the Metropolitan City of Turin in partnership with S-Nodi.

Participation reserved to members of the partners involved from the Municipalities of Collegno, Grugliasco, Moncalieri, Rivoli and Venaria and the Consortia directly involved in the co-design, the first Policy Lab will be a training event that will see the participation of Fabrizio Barca, Coordinator of the Inequalities and Diversity Forum and Mario Calderini, Spokesperson of Torino Social Impact and Director of Tiresia, and will also see the important contribution of Carlo Anselmi, Director of the Area Coesione Sociale Consorzio Ovest Solidale, Mario Lupo, Director of the Economic Development Department of the Metropolitan City of Turin, Marzia Sica, Head of Obiettivo Persone of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, Carlo Chiama, Director of Confesercenti of Turin and Province and Pierluigi Dovis, Director of the Diocesan Caritas Turin Office. Partners and panelists will discuss local and national challenges to unlock the potential of the territories by developing sustainable local ecosystems.

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But what does “TriCircle” mean? The word seems to refer on the one hand to “recycling” and on the other to “tricycle”, a three-wheeled vehicle used both by children and as a means of transporting goods.

The TriCircolo Project Reuse Centre, of the Cooperativa Sociale Triciclo, has addressed in these months to citizens and artisans of the Barriera di Milano neighborhood in order to create an aggregative capacity on the themes of reuse and circular economy.

The TriCircolo Reuse Centre in via Regaldi 7/11 has been, and continues to be, a place of production, commerce and sociality equipped to host meetings, training, solidarity exchanges, production and sale of goods and services related to reuse and the theme of eco-sustainability.

In particular, the spaces of TriCircolo are aimed at artisans, professional or simple hobbyists, who can use them to make and display their products every day from 9.00 am.

TriCircolo has chosen Barriera di Milano as the place to implement its project relying on the long tradition of craftsmanship of the neighborhood, which was born as a working-class village in the mid-nineteenth century. The operators of TriCircolo aim to develop the great manual and craft potential of the residents of these streets.

As a result, the project has managed to bring on board for some initiatives important partners such as the Polytechnic of Turin and Compagnia di San Paolo, as well as hosting another reality specialized in textiles along with 7 artisans who have settled in these spaces and who deal with the reuse of bicycle materials.

It is important to underline that despite the various historical markets that are organized in the TriCircolo Reuse Centre and the numerous collateral initiatives, the objective of the project is not the sale of final products, but to provide services and facilities to the artisans who make them, trying to put the producers in contact with possible customers and/or with possible investors interested in developing their projects.

TriCircolo Reuse Centre project is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-financed byProgramma Operativo Nazionale Città Metropolitane and the European Union, European Social Fund, carried out within the framework of Torino Social Impact.

Despite a setback due to Covid-19 and the recent end of the city and European funding, the project TriCircolo continues to wait for the artisans who want and all interested citizens in the headquarters of Via Regaldi 7/11.

If you want to know more about the project watch the video

To keep up with the various initiatives follow tthe facebook page of the project

To learn more about the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link

To celebrate the completion of the ASIS INTERREG project (Alpine Social Innovation strategy), the 10 partners from Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia, are honored to invite you to the Alpine Social Innovation Day on April 1st. At the local level, the project involves the City of Turin and the Chamber of Commerce of Turin, which extend the invitation to the entire ecosystem of social innovation in our city.

This international event will host conferences, workshops, networking activities, to discuss how Social Innovation changes cooperation and public action.

On this occasion, three different workshops will be organized in the morning (h. 10.00 – 12.30), questioning how Social Innovation can change
1/ our vision of innovation,
2/ our public policies,
3/ our forms of cooperation

In the afternoon, the three proposed workshops (h. 14.00 -17.00) will address how Social Innovation can change1/ our funding schemes,
2/our ways to measure social impact and finally
3/our ways to create social value and to build business models.

During these sessions, we will welcome engaging testimonials, highlight interesting European pilot experimentations and share the most relevant ASIS project outputs.

Additionally, several networking activities will be open all day long, to meet virtually and
share opportunities in a friendly atmosphere.

Here you can find the agenda of the event

Here is the link to register by March 25, 2021.

The City of Turin through the European Funds and Innovation Sector has won, as leader, the European project called EaSI, “Competence Centers for Social Innovation”.

“It is a very important success that seals the role of Turin as one of the most important centers in the world for Social Innovation and impact finance – says Mario Calderini, spokesperson for Torino Social Impact -. It is no coincidence that Turin has been chosen as the venue for two international events that have been included by the specialized press among the ten most important in the world in 2021 and the European Commission has presented the case of Turin as one of the guiding examples in the construction of the Social Economy Action Plan that will be launched in a few months”.

“This recognition is the result of the efforts made to consolidate in Turin a unique ecosystem in the field of social innovation – says Marco Pironti, Councillor for Innovation of the City of Turin -. The Center will represent a fundamental tool for a real long-term impact on the territory, strengthening the role of experimenter of social innovation practices, also through the funds of the Pon Metro”.

The EaSI (Employment and Social Innovation) program is a European financial instrument that aims to promote a high level of sustainable and quality employment, ensure adequate and decent social protection, combat exclusion and poverty, and improve working conditions.

The objective of the project is to support the creation and development of a National Competence Center for Social Innovation, with the functions of: capacity building of key social innovation stakeholders; transnational knowledge transfer; creating synergies between the EaSI program and the ESF (European Social Fund), especially with a view to designing, supporting, monitoring and integrating innovative actions that could be extended and/or replicated using ESF funds in the coming years; networking to network and cooperate with other selected Centers of Competence, using mutual learning and jointly developing, evaluating and optimizing relevant methods and tools also collecting and disseminating inspiring examples, models and practices.

With this project – whose total budget is about 900 thousand euros – we want to build a bridge between public policies and social practices in order to integrate Social Innovation in Italy and partner countries as a human-centered approach to innovation, able to promote technological development and at the same time address the most urgent social and societal challenges.

The strategy is to create a National Center of Competence on Social Innovation as a platform to connect public policies and communities of practice in order to facilitate mutual understanding, foster better cooperation and increase the capacity of policymakers and practitioners to promote the theme in the country (and abroad).

The Center, therefore, aims to facilitate the promotion, mainstreaming and upscaling of social innovation based on the specific characteristics of the context of each partner involved, building on a strong strategic partnership between public authorities, universities and research centers, intermediaries and practitioners who share a common vision of social innovation as a key driver for inclusive and sustainable European development. To this end it will support and coordinate the nascent Centers in Greece, Romania and Slovenia.

A Steering Committee will be set up at the Italian level, composed of ANPAL, the Managing Authority of the Inclusion PON and the Pon Metro with coordination and guidance functions.

The project – whose partners are Fondazione Brodolini, Politecnico di Milano, University of Bologna, Politecnico di Torino, Euricse, Fondazione Italia Sociale – has gathered the support of over 30 Italian public and private stakeholders.

In ten years, 4.250 families and entrepreneurs have been able to take advantage of microcredit support, which has allowed them to re-enter a circuit where they had been excluded from the traditional credit system. This is the action of PerMicro, one of the most important microcredit companies in Italy and partner of Torino Social Impact.

On the Bench-Mark bench sits PerMicro’s CEO Benigno Imbriato, who tells us about the social impact of microcredit on the territory.

The interview is by Francesco Antonioli.

“How Social Impact and Circular Economy meet Digital Transformation” is the title of the first workshop organised by the European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy, published by the University of Turin. A completely online event that will see academics and businesses from the Turin area confront each other in an open debate on how digital transformation is changing and evolving social impact and the circular economy.

The event will be opened by the Rector of the University – Prof. Stefano Geuna, the Director of the Department of Management – Prof. Francesca Culasso and the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine, Prof. Paolo Biancone. The online meeting will also be a new opportunity to highlight the strategic importance of our city in terms of Social Impact. The Department of Management, in fact, is one of the partners of Torino Social Impact within the Social Entrepreneurship Committee, as well as being one of the promoters and organisers of the university refresher course “Social Impact Assessment”, which currently has over 150 students. The online event will be open to the public upon registration at socialimpact.management@unito.it.

To follow the workshop: click here

Here the full workshop program

Pioneerspost reports on the 10 impact events not to be missed in 2021. Among these is the Ashoka Changemaker Summit in Torino.

Esela – 8-31 March

The virtual conference run by Esela, the legal network for social impact, attracts lawyers, businesses, investors and policy makers. Various online sessions will take place each week, focusing on impact investing, purpose-led business, environment, sustainability, business and human rights and ESG. The conference promises “curated networking”, knowledge sharing on legal structures and deals, and discussion of market developments.

Tickets for non-members are €207, or you can become a member of Esela from €20 per year.

Skoll World Forum – 13-15 April

The Skoll Foundation’s flagship event, the Skoll World Forum, gathers social entrepreneurs, innovators, thought leaders and artists from around the world to advance solutions to pressing global problems. Formerly held in Oxford, England and invitation-only, this year’s Virtual Forum is open to all and will focus on ‘Closing the Distance’, a theme that will “examine local and global divides” and how to mend them. This year, key speakers include Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s minister responsible for social innovation, and chef José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen.

Registration for this 18th edition is free and more information will follow in the coming months. Check the Frequently Asked Questions page for details.

Impact Summit – 19-20 May

Scotland’s Impact Summit is for anyone from business, government and education who’s interested in a values-led economy. Head to the website on 19-20 May to find talks focusing on people, the planet and technology, with leaders from Yunus Social Business, Ben & Jerry’s Europe and ethical search engine Ecosia. There are also chances to network and explore exhibitor stands in a virtual marketplace.

This year Impact Summit is operating a ‘pay what you can model’, with suggested fees from £10 to £100.

ChangeNow Summit – 27-29 May

The ChangeNow Summit promotes itself as a space to discover, test, and discuss innovations and solutions to urgent global issues. Speakers this year include civil rights activist and co-founder of New York’s Black Lives Matter movement Chivona Renée Newsome and economist and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab Kate Raworth. There’s the opportunity to visit The World Expo for demos of innovations for the planet, as well as numerous networking events.

The summit will take place over three days in the new Grand Palais Ephemere in Paris, but full digital access is also available.

Early bird tickets for digital access are €90 until 31 March, and €90-€250 for in-person attendance.

Social Enterprise World Forum – September/October

The Social Enterprise World Forum typically draws thousands of social entrepreneurs and innovators from across the globe, moving to a new location each year. It went online for the first time last year, and in 2021 will run four separate events throughout the year.

The main World Forum is planned for September or October, with plans for a hybrid online and face-to-face event. SEWF is partnering with Common Good Solutions in eastern Canada as it spotlights the country, with key themes including climate change, young people, social procurement, economic recovery and indigenous social enterprises.

Other events include SEWF Policy Forum on 27-28 April, the SEWF Rural Forum on 8-9 June, and the SEWF Academic Forum in November.

More details on all these events coming soon – keep an eye on SEWF’s website.

Ashoka Changemaker Summit – September-December

Another hybrid event, the Ashoka Changemaker Summit takes place in Turin in December, with online sessions and networking taking place online beforehand, from September to November.

The focus will be on unlocking the potential for change in the areas including children and youth, climate, technology, gender and diversity. Sessions aim to promote learning and building trust, and are targeted at leaders from business or philanthropy looking to expand the impact of their organisation or portfolio, as well as the global Ashoka community of social entrepreneurs and their support network.

GSG Impact Summit – 6-8 October

The annual GSG Impact Summit – hosted by the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment – was due to take place in South Africa last year, but like many, took place online instead. The summit attracts impact entrepreneurs, investors and intermediaries, and last year had more than 1,500 participants from 73 countries.

This year’s event, again online, will discuss “the best impact initiatives and real-world examples”, and share “practical tools and solutions to empower and inspire”, according to GSG. Keep an eye on their website for more information to come.

Socap – 18-22 October

San Francisco’s Social Capital Markets conference is online again this year. It’s for social entrepreneurs, investors, foundations and policy makers wanting to explore impact investing. Attendees (5,000 are expected) can follow live and pre-recorded sessions, attend an interactive marketplace and join networking meet-ups. Speakers and agenda coming soon.

Early bird tickets are available (until 29 May) for $199.

Social Value Matters – 20-21 October

Social Value International and Social Value Thailand are co-hosting Social Value Matters 2021, bringing together voices from impact investing, academia, policy making and corporate sustainability. After going virtual last year, the 2021 conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand for those able to attend, in parallel with a virtual event for a global audience.

Looking at the rapid global response to Covid-19, the conference will focus on the power of communities to build back after the pandemic and solve the large-scale challenges that people and the planet face.

EVPA Annual Conference – 15-17 November

The European Venture Philanthropy Association’s Annual Conference will take on a hybrid form this year – with digital access as well as face-to-face attendance in Porto, Portugal (the original location of 2020’s event, before it was moved online).

This year will look at how “investing for impact” could be the “driving force behind societal recovery” from the pandemic. The hosts expect to attract around 700 social investors, entrepreneurs and practitioners from Europe and around the world.

Which practices and examples in Italy and abroad are effective for the internationalisation of ecosystems and therefore replicable?

With the aim of identifying the international dimension for Torino Social Impact, the working group coordinated by the partners SocialFare, Nesta Italia, International University College Torino e Urban Lab, and which saw the participation of Experientia, Permicro, Danish Refugee Council, Confcooperative Piemonte Nord and MinD – Mad in Design, identified the starting points for working on brand awareness of the ecosystem and attracting interest beyond national borders.

The key words to guide the work are:

• international media relations
• sharing of contacts and networks
• European planning
• academic publications

The City of Torino and the Chamber of commerce of Torino are partners of the European project ASIS “Alpine Social Innovation Strategy” within the framework of the European program Interreg Alpine Space. The project, which aims to develop and promote a new vision of social innovation in the Alpine Space, increasing the capacity to propose public policies to support social innovation, involved 10 partners from Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia.

The two days of Social Innovation Academy, organized in the frame of Torino Social Impact and with the collaboration of Biennale Democrazia, will address the theme of the role of the public sector as a stimulus for the activation of social innovation projects and generative welfare, as well as the innovative rules available to PAs to experiment and innovate and the measurement of social impact as a key for the promotion of projects and positive actions for the community.

These days of training are intended to guide participants to discover the outputs generated by the project and stimulate discussion, deepening the challenges and issues that emerged by declining them at the local level.

The SI Academy will be structured in 3 modules and organized in online mode.

Wednesday 24 March 2021

10 am – 1 pm “The role of communities and the public sector in stimulating and supporting projects of Social Innovation and Generative Welfare”.

3 pm – 5:30 pm “Social Innovation in Public Administrations. State of the art of regulatory and organizational tools”.

Thursday 25 March 2021

10 am – 12:30 pm “Social impact between methodologies, measurement and concrete application in PA”.

The detailed program is available on Eventbrite, where registrations are active: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/142474680605

It will also be possible for non-members to follow the live broadcast on the Torino Social Impact Youtube channel.

The Asis project will close its work on April 1st with another day dedicated to social innovation, the Alpine Social Innovation Day. After a plenary session, the day will be divided into 6 workshops, questioning how social innovation changes cooperation and public action, based on testimonials, European pilot experiments and some of the results of the ASIS project. In addition, several networking sessions will be organized, to stimulate conversations and give participants the opportunity to meet virtually and share opportunities.

Workshop 5 is dedicated to social impact: “Social impact, methodologies, measurements and concrete applications”.

The final international event – April 1 – is open to the public. For the detailed program and registration: www.to.camcom.it/alpine-space-innovation-day

For more information on the ASIS project and the SI Academy:

• www.alpine-space.eu/projects/asis/en/
• www.socialinnovationstrategy.eu
• socialinnovationstrategy.eu/event/the-social-innovation-academy-italy/

beeloved Diari di Comunità is a heterogeneous space which contains, tells and disseminates the different actions of the beeO Ingredienti di Comunità project, winner of the 2019 CivICa Call from the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation.

beeloved Diari di Comunità was born as a path of civic imagination, directed to the communities of two districts in Turin, Madonna di Campagna and Borgo Vittoria. Furthermore, the project aims to activate and develop beeozanam community hub as a space of cultural production and social aggregation.

Five animated podcasts have been produced within this project, and they are now available on beeozanam YouTube channel. These are short videos in which five witnesses, chosen among the inhabitants of the neighbourhoods, tell five different stories about significant places around Madonna di Campagna and Borgo Vittoria, enriching the history of such places with their own memories and personal stories.

Malik Adnan Sher, a young Pakistani cultural mediator, tells us about the former Ozanam Foundries, from the building construction to its conversion into a dormitory and the workers’ protests in the seventies, until his own arrival in Turin via the Balkan route. Marcello Gottardo, a retired Religion professor, talks about the Madonna di Campagna parish and the 3G oratory, the first mixed oratory open to young boys and girls together, a novelty in those years, which has marked the personal history, the commitment to voluntarism and activism of many inhabitants of the neighbourhoods. Maurizio Gaier takes us on a journey to discover the many cinemas which were present in the area, of which there is no memory anymore. Catia Bruzzo, who transformed her parents’ tavern into a bookshop and cultural centre, intertwines her own history with that of the old taverns in the area, home to different gangs of young partisans from the Italian resistance movement. Finally, Federica Lovaglio, which was born and raised in Borgo Vittoria, talks about the neighbourhood’s public spaces starting from the memory she has of a little public square, where her dad used to wash his car with the water coming from a public fountain.

These five animated podcasts were made in collaboration with Cliomedia Public History and with the Archivio Nazionale del Cinema di Impresa, partners of the beeO – Ingredienti di Comunità project. They represent the starting point for the construction of an interactive map, which will tell the story of Borgo Vittoria and Madonna di Campagna through these narrations, as well as with the involvement of young students from two local middle schools, the IC Aleramo and IC Murialdo Vivaldi.

Who is Prometheus? Prometheus is a mythological figure who loved mankind unconditionally to the point of challenging the gods of Olympus.

The Prometheus Project, run by the Zenith Cooperative, was inspired by this unconditional love to offer a personalised assistance service to the over-65s in the Turin area.

The aim of the project: to create the conditions for active ageing of the people assisted through a personalised assistance service. A sort of innovative “volunteer boutique” offering tailor-made services according to the needs of each recipient.

Among the services provided: home care and active participation of the elderly in engaging socialisation activities.

These include ‘Danzamovimentoterapia’, a body mediation technique that aims to promote a state of ‘physical, psychic and social’ wellbeing; ‘Internauti’, computer training courses held by high school pupils to encourage the exchange of knowledge at a generational level; ‘A spasso con Monica’, walks around Turin’s historical sites and places of interest led by Monica, an expert professional guide; and finally ‘Meditarte’, courses to reconcile meditation and artistic self-expression.

Since 2019, the Prometeo project has given support to 100 elderly people in Turin on an individual and differentiated basis. It has given psychological support to more than 30 family members of those assisted. It has involved 32 volunteers and high school students. Furthermore, it provided more than 2500 hours of home support and organised more than 110 socialisation meetings for the city’s elderly.

With the arrival of COVID, the services provided by the Prometeo project were rethought.Telephone support by educators and psychologists was activated. Socialising activities were rethought in a digital key with webinars, videocall, sharing of daily awareness-raising posts.

Among the activities designed for the elderly in this period were “Un fiore per te” (“A flower for you”), in which it was possible to give a small plant to an elderly person living alone at home, and “Mio caro nipote del futuro” (“My dear grandchild of the future”), a collection of letters from some of the people assisted by the project to their future grandchildren, who wanted to recount the lockdown and life disrupted at the time of Covid-19.

Progetto Prometeo is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Torino, co-financed by the Programma Operativo Nazionale Città Metropolitane  and the European Social Fund, implemented within the framework of Torino Social Impact.

At the end of the funding period, the project continues to be present with new ideas and activities for future developments, always based on the requests of the beneficiaries.

Currently, the Prometeo Project is helping to disseminate all the information on COVID-19 vaccines through its Facebook page.

Watch the final video of the project

To learn more about the Torino Social Factory programme and other projects go to this llink

Solidarity, volunteering and sharing. These are the keywords of VolTo, the Volunteer Service Center of the province of Turin, which today brings together more than 1,300 third sector organizations.

For the Bench-Mark format, Gerardo Gatto, the president of VolTo, sat on the bench and talked to us about the social impact of volunteering.

The interview was edited by Francesco Antonioli.

 

On Sunday 14 March 2021, as the Spring equinox approaches, the #Googreen biodiversity market celebrates the Awakening of Sambuy Garden which, like every second Sunday of the month, comes back to life to be a place for encounters, good practices, exchanges and seasonal stories.

• 9am to 7pm – Googreen producers selected by Giardino Forbito are back, as always, to represent seasonal excellence.
• 12pm – an appointment with the book “Trenta ritratti di donne in Piemonte” (Thirty portraits of women in Piedmont) by Margherita Crema Giacomasso, published by Graphot. Thirty women of the past for Thirty and more women of the future. In collaboration with the Graphot publishing house and Torino Città per le Donne.
• 3pm – presentation of Enrico Pandiani‘s latest novel “Lontano da casa“. Set in the streets of “Barriera di Torino” and suburbs, a noir that becomes a pretext for scrutinising the human soul and the capacity for social tolerance. The author is joined by journalist Francesco Antonioli and Alexandru Nastasa, unexpected reader.
• Giardino forbito continues to celebrate the birth of the first Association for the knowledge and protection of biodiversity and pollinators, supporting the collection of signatures promoted by the European Union: “save bees and farmers“.
• The lowered shutters of the Sambuy gazebo continue to support the small precious exhibition curated by Giardino forbito and created by the apprentice Ciceroni of class 5E of the Regina Margherita High School in Turin for the “FAI parlare la città” project.

But what does C.A.R.O.T.A. mean? Food, Agriculture, Network, Employment, Territory, Aggregation.

The C.A.R.O.T.A project was born in the spring of 2019 with the aim of generating a sustainable welfare model through the creation of a “system” of integrated services to combat poverty in the Mirafiori Sud neighborhood.

There are 3 tools fielded by Cooperativa Patchanka, together with Fondazione Mirafiori and Associazione Coefficiente Clorofilla, which have helped the fragile groups of the neighborhood.

The first tool is the three free social counters opened at the Casa del Parco (via Panetti 1) to listen to the inhabitants of the neighborhood. A total of 405 people passed through the desks (a number that decreased during the months of the pandemic), a team of volunteers was created to support the operators of the desks, 4 job placements were made and 48 personalized consultations were provided to assist users with debt problems.

The second tool was the urban gardens offered to 10 families in difficulty, who grew fruit and vegetables for their own needs and to help the volunteers of the Orti Generali collective garden, the urban garden park on the banks of the Sangone torrent that is open to citizens and visitors. A total of 1015 kg of vegetables were collected during the period by the 10 families involved.

Finally, free meals at the Locanda del Parco, whose food came from unsold local markets, supermarket surpluses and numerous other sources, as well as from Orti Generali.

During the Covid-19 emergency (march-may 2020) the C.A.R.O.T.A. project wanted to listen the needs of the local area to which it responded by donating 50 meals a day (1200 meals a month) to people in difficulty indicated by the Social Services, by local authorities and excluded from other forms of support, prepared by the cooks of Locanda nel Parco and delivered by the volunteers of the project.

In total, 4960 meals were donated and 12,200 kg of food were collected.

C.A.R.O.T.A. is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-financed by the National Operational Program Metropolitan Cities and the European Union, European Social Fund, carried out within the framework of Torino Social Impact.

Watch the project video

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EUreka!, the capacity building path of Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation addressed to the entities selected by the Seed calls 2018-2019 to make the most of the opportunities offered by the EU, has started.

The Academy, curated by SocialFare, takes place in 5 days from February 22 to March 8 and aims to allow participants to learn about the main pillars of European planning and to acquire tools and methods useful for the search of opportunities offered by the 2021-27 programming.

Each day corresponds to a thematic module: Analysis of the reference framework, Opportunity detection, Basic design, Executive design, Financial project management.

In the 6 months following the conclusion of the course, SocialFare experts will be available to participants for moments of sharing, opinions and feedback on the application of the tools covered during the Academy.

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To encourage the strengthening of the ecosystem and the collective dimension, a path has been started to enable the involvement and the protagonism of the partners.

On November 25, 2020, during the Assembly of Torino Social Impact, it was started four working groups: Innovation Mapping, Impact Finance, Tech4Good, Internationalization. The aim of these groups is to give space to the emerging planning in these areas, to integrate and update the masterplan of Torino Social Impact and to define planning.

What is the social challenge on the territory in which impact finance can make a difference? This was the starting question for a working group coordinated by Cottino Foundation, Maurizio Maggiora Academy Foundation and EXAR Social Value Solutions.

22 subjects from twenty organizations have shared project proposals and reflections on many topics: digital transformation, green economy and sustainability, social housing and access to housing, young generations and discomfort, school, education, training, territorial attractions, cultural places.

The work of the group is proceeding with the analysis of existing tools and benchmarking of national and international experiences. Next meetings scheduled in March and April.

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Social entrepreneurship is not exclusively an organizational form, but it is mainly an organizational behaviour. A behaviour that structures itself along three axes: a social mission (that is linked to intentions of change), a commercial activity and a democratic governance.

How can one become a social entrepreneur? How is it possible to develop services or products not only for profit, but also oriented towards finding solutions to social problems? This Impact Dive starts from these fundamental questions.

Participants will be involved in an experience that will shed light on the mechanisms that make possible the construction of a social business. The main focus will be on the transformation of antagonistic assets – elements that seem to be dysfunctional to the market and to enterprise creation, social problems and issues that are apparently unsolvable – into a social impact opportunity.

Where:
online

When:
Friday 19 March 2021
2pm-6pm CET

Language:
Italian-English

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