Wonder is promoted by the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation to develop design projects that generate innovative solutions and services capable of responding to the social needs of the territory, taking up the challenge of green transition.

Within the framework of the Mission to Create Attractiveness of the Culture Objective and the Mission to Accelerate Innovation of the Planet Objective, the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation is launching the call for proposals Wonder: Experiments in Design for Social Innovation. The initiative, realised in collaboration with Circolo del Design and Torino Social Impact, is aimed at designers and third sector organisations. The aim is to develop design projects that generate innovative solutions and services with a social impact and at the same time respond to the challenge of the green transition.

In particular, the call aims to:

• contribute to the positioning of Turin as a place of contemporary production and creativity in the field of design and as a model of an ecosystem of innovation for the common good;
• promote a high level of “liveability”, understood as a synthesis of the three key principles of the New European Bauhaus: beautiful, sustainable, together;
• to encourage, through capacity building and matching, the hybridisation of skills, communication and collaboration between creative people, cultural enterprises and third sector organisations that intend to generate social innovation;
• strengthen the connections of the world of design with the different spheres of the community: welfare, health, urban regeneration, education, environmental sustainability, etc.; and
• stimulate reflection and a proactive vision on the challenge of green transition among the actors of the ecosystem of innovation for the common good.

The call will be developed in two phases.

Phase 1 calls for the submission of an expression of interest, respectively and independently advanced by non-commercial bodies operating in the Turin area and designers (freelancers, associated studios, companies, cooperatives, associations) from all over Italy.

Phase 2 foresees the presentation of the projects developed by the non-commercial entity in collaboration with the designer, as the outcome of a capacity building and matching process coordinated by Circolo del Design and Torino Social Impact and of the subsequent design process.

To the entities selected in Phase 2, the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation will grant a contribution for a maximum amount of € 50,000, corresponding to no more than 80% of the overall project budget.

The deadline for submitting applications for Phase 1 is 12 noon on July 28, 2021.

The deadline for submitting applications for phase 2 is 12 noon on December 21, 2021.

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Mercato Itinerante makes it possible to buy directly from the Porta Palazzo market in Turin. Today, small businesses are not able to compete and this leads, in some cases, to the closure of the business itself.

Mercato Itinerante wants to bring citizens back to the market. And when, for lack of time, it is not possible to reach the market? The market comes to you!

Thanks to the service that helps digitalisation, ecological and ethical delivery by cargo bike, reduction of packaging used and services to reduce food waste. With your order, you help the local economy and respect your city.

The classrooms of the Cottino Social Impact Campus come to life with StemDays Torino – the “girls’ camp”, organised and funded by the Human+ Foundation, which brings together 40 students from local high schools to develop STEM skills and abilities such as creativity, ethics and imagination.

Yesterday, Giuseppe Dell’Erba, Campus Business Advisor and Director of the Cottino Foundation, welcomed the students for their first day of activities.

Ancient Greeks had two terms for time: chronos and kairòs. The latter referred to the concept of “right” or “appropriate” moment.

In the Torino Social Impact ecosystem, Kairòs Consortium is contaminating the for-profit and non-profit worlds, while it is also approaching the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) disciplines, so that young people, and not only them, can build a future with the right timing.

Lea Iandorio, project manager of Kairòs, interviewed by Francesco Antonioli, told us about the future projects of the consortium and the importance of networking.

> Rewatch here the previous episodes.

It is estimated that in Italy over 220,000 tonnes of food are thrown away each year, worth over €3 billion in the distribution chain alone.

Although the problem is largely ignored, there are some companies that are creating solutions that can be replicated on a large scale.
iThanks, for instance, is an innovative app that allows both large and small shops to reduce food waste by ensuring that supplies are always efficient and not expiring.

How was the idea born? Marco Cartolano and Andrea Gasco, co-founders of iThanks, tell us the story behind the project.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

> Watch here the other episodes of Bench-Mark.

Ready with the third stage of Road to Social Change.

Promoted by the UniCredit Banking Academy, in collaboration with AICCON, Politecnico di Milano – Tiresia/MIP, Fondazione Italiana Accenture and TechSoup, ROAD TO SOCIAL CHANGE is a project for the integral development of the Third Sector that intends to play a leading role in the country’s recovery process, contributing significantly to the realization of many important economic and social challenges.

The project, which takes place throughout 2021, ideally crosses Italy with 7 stages in the territories of our country.

Don’t miss the next meeting on June 22, we will talk about “Regenerating places by involving communities” with special guests.

We will have with us Fabrizio Barca, Coordinator Forum Inequalities and Diversity, statistician and economist, expert in territorial development policies. Fabrizio Barca has taught Economic Policy, Corporate Finance and Economic History at the universities of Milan (Bocconi University), Modena, Paris (Sciences Po), Siena, Rome, Parma and Urbino. He has been a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and at Stanford University. He has also held managerial positions at the Bank of Italy, the Ministry of the Treasury, the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the OECD. Former Minister for Territorial Cohesion from 2011 to 2013. Author of several essays and books.

A new important meeting, a new challenge for the country to accompany processes of change and innovation of territories and communities on which we will be inspired as always by the story of good practices. With us will be Massimiliano Monetti with the case “Borghi in Rete – Abruzzo” and Francesca Elisa Leonelli with “Retake Roma“.

> Register here

For more information, visit the page www.unicredit.it/roadtosocialchange or send an email to unitalk@unicredit.eu

The Family Sharing project was conceived and implemented by the Social Cooperative il Margine, born from the overcoming of psychiatric asylum and operates in the social health, educational, social inclusion, active labor policies, local development.

Family Sharing is the first mutual-foster project between families in a state of fragility and represents an innovative system of foster family, day or residential: it provides support between two families who are going through a period of difficulty, but who can help each other to overcome them.

The innovative and meaningful idea of the project is just “reciprocity”: even if families are going through a period of difficulty (they need help), they may still want to share their resources with another family (they can be of help). Each family will then have the opportunity to receive practical help in relation to its own needs, but at the same time to respond to the needs of the other.

Families are therefore no longer a taxable person receiving aid defined by others, but become an active part of a process of union, cohesion and sharing.

Family Sharing is part of the logic of social co-design through the instrument of “horizontal subsidiarity”. The principle that supports the intervention is that the service is not “provided”, but co-projected together with the beneficiary families. Families thus have the opportunity to live the experience of “becoming a resource” for another family, enhancing their social image (the family internalizes a positive image of itself) and activating a virtuous process capable of operating a cultural inversion of perspective: from model caregiver-care receiver (family Competent family-Disagiata family) with peer support model.

The project is aimed at families in the east of Turin with particular reference to peripheral areas, but can be inserted in any territorial context.

The project then sees the first phase of identification of families, which follows a path of support/ mentoring by a dedicated operator (family coach, with the function of matching facilitator), whose intervention will gradually reduce, until being completely absorbed thanks to a virtuous regenerative process activated by the interaction between the two families (which will be followed for a period of follow-up).

After periods of arrest due to Covid, Family Sharing has been active since June 2021: some beneficiary families have already been contacted and the first exploratory talks have been made through a careful evaluation of the mutual resources and needs, conduct of the psychologists of the cooperative The Margin.

The Covid has necessarily made it appropriate to reshape the project that is now going on in a slightly different way from how it was designed, because it is necessary to identify the new needs and new fragilities that emerged during the pandemic and it is also necessary to give different answers because it was not possible to work exclusively on proximity and meeting, which was a bit the focus of the project, the cooperative had to reinvent some partially different operating modes.

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Da Capo is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part 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 Global Steering Group for Impact Investments (GSG), Torino Social Impact and Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia, the Italian National Advisory Board, have joined forces to launch the Impact Narrative Awards, the first-ever award dedicated to communication about impact investing.

The Impact Narrative Awards aims to identify best-in-class examples of impact investing stories used to persuade financial institutions and governments to put their full weight behind impact. By honouring excellence in communication, we can strengthen the narratives used to promote impact investing and help our community to speak with one voice. In doing so, we elevate the profile of impact investing and enable it to expand around the world, bringing benefits to people and the planet.

The winners will be announced to 1,500 impact professionals at the GSG Global Impact Summit (October 6-8, 2021) and their message will be distributed through the GSG communication channels. The categories include the best impact narrative aimed at governments and the best impact narrative aimed at the financial sector.

The closing date is August 23 at 23:59 BST (London time).

Before submitting your entry, please read the full call, containing selection criteria and submission rules.

Only entries submitted using the ONLINE FORM and including a link to the narrative content you are submitting will be considered. Applications sent via email or other channels will not be accepted.

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For more information, visit the official website or contact awards@gsgii.org

Friday, June 11, 2021 | 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm

An appointment to explore the WORK challenge of TorinoProxima, an initiative of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation with SocialFare.

About the event

TorinoProxima | From civic imagination to social enterprise is an initiative of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, realized with SocialFare, aimed at aspiring innovators and social entrepreneurs (especially young people under 35) from and for Torino. A unique opportunity to learn and accelerate knowledge and practical skills in Social Innovation.

We are looking for proximity entrepreneurs: teams with an innovative idea or solution in response to one or more of the 6 urban challenges identified by the call: Culture, Work, Housing, Reuse, Nature, Well-being. In order to deepen the issues related to the 6 challenges, we propose a series of appointments open to the participation of all interested citizens.

How to participate in the event

Participation is free. Registrations at this link.

Da Capo is a project of generative economy promoted by the social cooperative Giuliano Accomazzi, born in Turin in 1989, which for over 30 years has focused on the value of people, the value of rights, the value of the meeting, taking care of people and the environment by regenerating social tissues and contributing to the well-being of the community.

The Project develops around the idea of giving life to used garments and at the same time offering people the opportunity to get back into the game through work paths: regeneration therefore not only of objects but also of relations both territorial and human given by the creation of a network of traders and inhabitants who live in and near Piazza Savoia where the store is located.

In this last year, despite the difficulties and obstacles brought by the pandemic that have seen the opening of the store’s commercial activity, some significant initiatives have been developed: Covid’s arrest turned out to be a time for reflection on new perspectives and skills development and the creation of a network of contacts in the district where Da Capo operates.

The project has the ambition to become a reference point for the community by promoting relationships based on the exchange of opportunities.

During the summer of 2020, a tailoring workshop was set up, equipped with industrial sewing machines and an ironing station, a space in which women, in employment, had the opportunity to experiment and learn sartorial skills.

This has allowed the workers involved in the project, even during the closing of the store in lockdown last November, to give a second life to the garments not only through repairs, but also through refashion and upcycling in the perspective of a truly circular economy.

A Crowdfunding campaign called Da Capo Baby was also launched: thanks to the contribution of 127 donors, it was possible to create 20 birth kits consisting of clothing and products for the newborn and new mother,for 20 families living in a situation of fragility but also books, clothes, linen and hygiene products have been collected, all goods with which new kits will be made or which, simply, can be donated to other families.

From Capo not only stops at a store, but becomes a real reference point of a positive movement: customers contribute with the donation of clothes, propose new ideas and become ambassadors of a brand that “sees no flaws but only diversity, the positive, stimulating.”

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Da Capo is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part 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 City of Turin has been selected to participate in the international learning program promoted by the project RRR – Respond Rebuild Reinvent on the theme of ecosystems of the social and solidarity economy.

RRR, funded by the European Union under its foreign policy instruments, is part of the initiative of the OECD – Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development called ‘Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems Global Action’ launched in 2020 that involves over 30 countries.

Turin is the only Italian city that will participate in the training program and comparison with international realities. It has been chosen because of the commitment it has shown for years to support the local ecosystem of social innovation, in particular through the initiative Torino Social Impact’. The Turin context is in fact recognized as one of the richest on the international level for the experiences that promote the social economy and solidarity.

During the Covid-19 health emergency, the City has activated initiatives such as ‘Torino Solidale’ that have mobilized the territory in favor of the weakest and most affected by the socio-economic consequences of the pandemic.

Respond Rebuild Reinvent – which will involve 16 organizations worldwide, including Upsocial (the lead subject) and city networks Eurocities and Metropolis – wants to highlight and enhance the impact that the actions implemented by local governments can have in providing quick and effective responses during critical situations such as the recent health emergency.

The other cities selected, with which Turin will deal, are Dublin, Bilbao, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Belo Horizonte and Warsaw.

Who said that impact economy companies shouldn’t make a profit?

For the Bench-Mark column, Alessandro Grella, partner and co-founder of Izmade, a social enterprise born in Turin in 2016, tells us about the social impact of an artisan design and ambient architecture workshop on the territory.

Interview curated by Francesco Antonioli.

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.

Pandan Social Hub, whose headquarters is in the heart of the district of San Salvario, is the project managed by the Cooperative Esserci that for more than 30 years offers services to people, in the territory of Turin, with the aim of helping them to feel better.

The project is born from the desire to promote a conscious and sustainable approach to living and consumption in economic, environmental, social and cultural terms; through the promotion of the culture of artisanal work attentive to the quality of raw materials, the marketing of environmentally friendly products and the enhancement of social and cooperative work.

Pandan Social Hub diversifies its activities on two levels:

The business plan with:
a bar and diner, which become a place of exchange, chatter, meetings and events;

The social plan with:
1. Financial Assistance Desk: assistance and assistance to people who are in difficulty in their economic management at home (family budget management, indebtedness and over-indebtedness, definition of relationships with banks, finance, pathological gambling, banking and criminal usury).

2. . Alzheimer’s coffee: active since 2020, it supports families who have loved ones who are suffering from dementia with the help of professionals who can meet informally, spending a few hours in a friendly atmosphere and focused on listening.

Pandan Social Hub is primarily a physical and virtual space that holds together chanting (fa Pandan) people, food, services, conviviality, protagonism and proximity: in fact, most of the people who attend the club have a relationship with all those who work there because you just want to give a different cut both from the commercial and from the social point of view.

Pandan also promotes the employment of people with disabilities, and in the last year an indefinite contract has been concluded for a person with intellectual disabilities, within the premises. Starting next June, with the evening opening, will be added to the staff another boy with intellectual disabilities.

The project started at the same time as the Covid-19, but this was not an obstacle, but it gave rise to the possibility of having a greater design and of being able to establish new relationships that have proved useful for the continuation of the various initiatives promoted that obviously had a brief setback but then they immediately resumed and continue to be carried forward in these months.

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Pandan Social Hub is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part 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.