Record numbers were achieved in the latest edition of Startup Your Life, the financial and entrepreneurial education and orientation program promoted by UniCredit Social Impact Banking and included among the PCTOs, the Paths for Transversal Skills and Orientation, recognized by the Ministry of Education:

+43% schools participating in the program
+206% of high school students involved
+194% of classes taking part in the project.

The major news of the just concluded edition of the program are available here, together with the animated infographic:

Startup your life – 4th edition (unicreditgroup.eu)

We have been accustomed to an economy that aims to make the most of everything we are given from the land and the soil in order to make a profit, without however thinking of future generations.

The benefit enterprise (RI)GENERIAMO – born from the collaboration between the Cooperativa Sociale Agricoltura Capodarco, the Associazione Bricolage del Cuore, the social enterprise ConVoi Lavoro, the Cooperativa Liberitutti with the support of Leroy Merlin Italia – aims to counter this “extractive” model with a “generative” model, which aims to include people and products, otherwise excluded, in the current market system, recognising their value and creating new perimeters.

Luca Pereno, Administrator of (RI)GENERIAMO, sat on the Bench-Mark bench to talk to us about it.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

> Watch previous episodes here.

Torino Social Impact is a strategic partner of “Gen C“, the initiative promoted by the Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani (National Agency for Young People) and Ashoka Italia to create a community of young promoters of change: the first call expires on 15 October.

The project aims to select young people aged between 13 and 25 and Mentors aged between 25 and 35. Young people who are already implementing in their territories actions and initiatives of youth leadership to support digital, ecological and autonomy transitions.

A young changemaker has many qualities: he/she is empathetic, visionary, courageous, aware, motivated and determined to change things for the good of all. Changemakers lead by example, involve and inspire their peers and the communities they belong to, generate innovative virtuous processes of value for society, promote the territory, carry out social and cultural projects and support and launch youth initiatives.

More info on the Gen C project.

Summer 2021 is opening up new horizons for tourism and activities in rural and mountain areas. It is, therefore, an important opportunity to relaunch the growth of the “highlands.”

The “Territori in Movimento” project intends to respond to this challenge, an experience of territorial animation in the Valli Valdesi, Val Susa, Val Sangone financed by the Time2 Foundation on the “Prossimi” Announcement.

To give concreteness to the solicitations that emerged during the course of the project and to support the territorial animation and the new network of relationships among the actors, some webinars will be realized between June and September. The latter will represent moments of dialogue and confrontation online, which will allow involving a wider audience.

Tourism development must start from the involvement of the young population and the strong production capacity of the territory. For this reason, there will be two cycles of webinars, open to all but addressed in particular to two targets:

• Territori in Movimento on Tuesdays.
  Aimed at young people who – with a high school diploma or degree – are entering the world of work.
  In the Tuesday cycle, we will talk about employment, active participation, and conscious citizenship, particularly in rural and mountain areas. Entrepreneurial and occupational strategies will be presented, and new opportunities linked to the tourist industry, the third sector, and the world of volunteering will be illustrated.
• Territori in Movimento on Fridays
  They will be specifically addressed to economic activities, companies, and associations that work in the territories.
  The focus of this cycle will be on the dynamics of growth of the territory, the challenges related to the current recovery period, the future of rural and mountain areas, sustainable tourism, and the role of digital.

To allow the widest possible access, the meetings will still be in the online form, despite the gradual loosening of the distancing measures related to Covid, they will be broadcasted on Facebook and Youtube of Confcooperative Piemonte Nord.

The project is promoted by Consorzio Il Nodo, leader of a wide partnership that includes: GAL Gruppo di Azione Locale Escartons e Valli Valdesi, Bobbio Pellice Municipality, UNCEMUnione nazionale dei comuni, comunità ed enti montani, Confcooperative Piemonte Nord, Department of Management of the University of Turin and its academic spin off Halalto srl, Consigliera di Parità della Città Metropolitana di Torino, Il Rosa e il Grigio aps, Greening srl.

The main objectives of the project are:

1. the promotion of a path of territorial animation through the dialogue between the partners and actors operating in the territory.
2. The promotion of tourism and enhancement of the territory to overcome the criticalities related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The project aims at identifying the strengths and specificities of the territory of the Alpine valley. These, if exploited, can trigger positive mechanisms of growth, counteract depopulation and commercial desertification and encourage the active participation of women, young people, and some segments of the population, such as people with disabilities and foreigners.

Thanks to the first phase of analysis, during which semi-structured interviews were conducted with the project partners, several themes to be explored were identified. In particular, territorial specificities, the ability to react to the health emergency, critical issues, expectations for the future, and the ability to network.

How do our children view the future?

If your child is aged 4 – 17 and could answer some simple questions, to be filmed by you, then perhaps they could be the star of the Summit! The GSG Global Impact Summit 2021 will start each day with thought-provoking views from young people around the world, on the challenges, solutions and actions we need to take to deliver impact solutions for people and planet.

GSG will select the most captivating appearances to be on screen during the Summit.

Submission Deadline: Monday 26 July

Here’s what you need to do:

Download the Capture Captain app https://capturecaptain.app.link/go, and enter the story code ‘GSG3517’ when prompted.

Follow the simple instructions on the app, they will guide you.

We believe young people are the superheroes of the future (and we love costumes!). So if your child has a superhero costume, let’s see it on screen!

Either you or your child should give their first name, age and country

Please ask your young person these questions:

1. What are you most worried about in the world?

2. What do you want the world to look like when you grow up?

3. What should grown-ups do to make a better world?

(There are no wrong answers!)

If your child is not speaking in English, please translate what they have said at the end of the video, so that we can add subtitles.

Please state that you grant permission for GSG to use the footage of your young person for this project. We do require your verbal consent.

Recordings are being collated by the Summit’s Film & Streaming Partner, Be Inspired Films. If your video is selected, they may contact you to clarify details.

In 2021, in Turin, a number of lawyers wondered how the legal profession could benefit in terms of social impact. Driven by this common goal, they have created Futura Law Firm, a benefit society among lawyers, which offers innovative consultancy services that focus on the territory, technology and people.

What does it mean for lawyers to be a benefit? President Emanuela De Sabato tells us.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

> Watch previous episodes here.

The Torino Social Impact Art Award project – conceived by Artissima and Torino Social Impact, in collaboration with Combo and with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation – announces the winners of the second edition of the residency call: Monia Ben Hamouda (Milan, 1991) and the MRZB collective.

Selected through a call to the main public and private Fine Arts Academies and Italian Universities, the winners will have the opportunity to live in residence in Turin for 20 days in July to work on the creation of a new video or photographic work, offering through art a contribution to the transformation of the social perception of particularly urgent themes or life stories considered “distant”.
The residency will take place in Combo, the project’s hospitality partner and an innovative format that combines the idea of hospitality with artistic and cultural programming open to experimentation.
The videos or photographs produced during the residency period will be presented at Artissima 2021 (November 5-7).

The artists will benefit from a tutoring service provided by Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini, founders of the art project Treti Galaxie who, together with Artissima and Torino Social Impact, will accompany the winners on their discovery of the city and its most significant cultural and social expressions. The selected talents will be guided through the process of producing their work and will be able to meet the project curators and the Torino Social Impact network active in the area, discovering the world of entrepreneurship and social innovation.

The 2021 call for entries, entitled ZOOM IN/ZOOM OUT, evokes, on the one hand, our contemporary virtual life, which has forced art to be enjoyed almost exclusively from a distance, and on the other, leads to a reflection on the ability to acquire a new and unexpected vision of society if one observes it from very near or very far. The specific history and training of the winners will offer access to these perspectives, which are as diverse as they are valuable, allowing them to tell the story of contemporary society in Turin in a transversal way, as emblematic of a country that is transforming itself.

The Torino Social Impact Art Award stems from the desire to bring art and social innovation into dialogue with the aim of activating actions to impact on the present and contemporary society. Starting from the conviction that art is able to provide tools and physical spaces to question contemporary social urgencies, the project aims to experiment with the field of the arts as a catalyst for the elaboration of new responses and structured solutions. The aim is to offer young people from “other” backgrounds the opportunity to pursue an artistic career, in order to hypothesise forms of social inclusion in the world of Italian culture and the dissemination of messages capable of positively transforming the perception of what may commonly appear to be distant, foreign or different.

The first edition of the project, characterised by the launch in 2020 of the call “Quante Italie?“, was won by Caterina Erica Shanta (Germany, 1986) and Liryc Dela Cruz (Philippines, 1992), who produced, during their residency in Turin, the works Talking about visibility and Il Mio Filippino: Invisible Bodies, Neglected Movements, respectively.

Their shared vocation for experimentation led Artissima and Torino Social Impact to conceive the project with the aim of broadening the scope of social innovation to include contemporary art. Focusing on the space that multiculturalism has in today’s society, the prize aims to propose new relationships and open up unexpected scenarios through the languages and vision of the winning artists.

THE WINNERS

Monia Ben Hamouda wins the Torino Social Impact Art Award 2021 with Adhan to Dora, a movie project based on a performative narrative that aims to portray the complexities and contradictions of the phenomenon of cultural assimilation. A film that contaminates the present through its very origins, to evolve and self-determine by formulating a counter-narrative that does not deny but exalts.

The MRZB collective (Andrea Parenti, Désirée Nakouzi De Monte, Filippo Tocchi, Pietro Cortona) wins the Torino Social Impact Art Award 2021 with the project STILI DRAMA XVIII-XXI. From the collective, Désirée Nakouzi De Monte (1994, IT-LB) will take part in the residency.

THE TUTORS

Treti Galaxie is an art project founded by Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini. Its aim is to work with artists in an expanded way, respecting their projects and ideas and helping them to produce and develop exhibitions in the most complete way.
For this reason she chooses not to have a fixed location but to look for the space that best suits the project she is working on each time.
Since March 2016, it has been developing a series of solo exhibitions in which the artists dialogue with the hidden urban fabric of Turin, reconfiguring the use of historical sites in the city such as the Mole Antonelliana, the Sala Reale of Torino Porta Nuova Station, the Underground Fortress of Pastiss and the Arches of the Ex-MOI, signing collaborations with the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, Grandi Stazioni Rail, the Pietro Micca Civic Museum, Parcolimpico and Acer.

Online event: presentation of THE DIGITAL MATCH

The World of Business is ready to present the position paper “The Digital Match” and the Recommend-Actions to establish Turin and Piedmont as a territory of excellence on digital issues.

The Torino Chamber of commerce and Unione Industriale di Torino are the institutions that have believed in this challenge and have activated all the other associations representing the entire business world, from engineering to agriculture, from commerce to craftsmanship.

PWC and Torino Wireless carried out a careful analysis and collection of the territory’s assets, including an assessment of its strengths and weaknesses, and we compared ourselves with leading European cities in order to identify the best strategy and the tools needed for a positioning that can only strengthen all the companies and make our territory even more attractive.

There was also a very useful exchange of views with all the players in the innovation ecosystem, from universities and research organisations to ITS, from banking foundations to the non-profit sector, such as Torino Social Impact, together of course with numerous local institutions: first and foremost the Piedmont Region, the Metropolitan City of Torino and the City of Torino.

Now we are all called upon to play “TheDigitalMatch”!

In today’s society, it has become more important than ever to be familiar with the tools to be an aware citizen in a connected and digitised world. All the more reason for those involved in the impact economy to know them.

Rete del Dono is a crowdfunding platform set with the precise goal of training third sector and non-profit organisations of the Turin area to acquire the technical tools to start operating in and with the digital world.

Interview with Anna Siccardi, founder of Rete del Dono, by Francesco Antonioli.