The Accademia Liuteria Piemontese San Filippo starts again with a calendar of appointments open to everyone and masterclasses for professionals.

The Accademia Liuteria Piemontese is a center of continuing education dedicated to the art of craftsmanship of musical instruments, and in particular the violin and classical guitar. Starting this year, in addition to the two-year training courses, thanks to the project “INeOUT – INformative Experiences for User Orientation” co-financed by the Chamber of Commerce of Turin and dedicated to continuing education and orientation (“Projects for Orientation to Work and Professions – Year 2021”) the Academy aims at orienting and sensitizing high school students in Turin and in the Piedmont Region through itinerant seminars and organizes, at its headquarters in via Accademia delle Scienze 11 in Turin, moments of in-depth study around the theme of violin making and dedicated to the curious, enthusiasts and professionals. Every 15 days, from November to July, an “appointment with the professional” and every two months a master class for young luthiers who have already started their activity as craftsmen. Leading names on the Italian and international scene will discuss topics of general interest, ranging from commercial fraud to the history that accompanies the “myth” of the varnish of stringed instruments, from conservative and functional restoration to ancient and modern construction methods.

The first masterclass (for a fee) will be held on December 13, 14 and 15 and will be dedicated to the rewinding of the musical bow. In 2022, the masterclasses will be dedicated to artistic sculpture, maintenance of the bowed instrument and shellac varnishing for plucked instruments.

We are just few days away from the event of the Ashoka Changemaker Summit, the worldwide meeting of the most important network of social innovators active in 90 countries, which will take place on December 2nd at Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin.

As official partner of the event, Torino Social Impact will have an active role by bringing three important contributions to the agenda: a keynote speech on the coordination of ecosystems for territorial development, a workshop on social impact measurement tools, and a meeting dedicated to understanding how some communities and cities become reference points for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Read further details below.

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The Ashoka Changemaker Summit in-person part will start with a welcome ceremony with

• Mario Calderini, Portavoce di Torino Social Impact
• Marie Ringler, Leader di Ashoka Europa e Membro del Global Leadership Group di Ashoka
• Jacopo Rosatelli, Assessore al Welfare, Diritti e Pari Opportunità della Città di Torino
• Claudia Belli, BNP Paribas
• Alberto Alemanno, The Good Lobby
• Davide Canavesio, DPNO srl

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Starting from the experience of Torino Social Impact, the session intends to explore how forms of multi-actor territorial coordination can strengthen the innovation capacity of partners thanks to the multiplication of knowledge, advocacy capacity, resources, services and, above all, thanks to internal synergies that can facilitate the identification of easily scalable and replicable solutions.

Speakers:

• Elisa Rosso, Torino Social Impact Senior Advisor
• Gianni Gallo, Social Entrepreneurship Committee of the Torino Chamber of Commerce and President of Confcooperative Piemonte Nord
• Massimiliano Ferrua, Cooperativa Animazione Valdocco
• Alessandro Grella, Izmade
• Giuseppe Dell’Erba, Business Consultant of Cottino Social Impact Campus

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Social economy actors are increasingly called upon to measure the positive value generated in the contexts in which they operate. Various elements, both external and internal to organizations, contribute to making the need to measure impact and to equip themselves with tools and skills capable of capturing and communicating the social value promoted by organizations increasingly central. The centrality of the measurement activity is accompanied by the complexity of this process at the organizational level, due to the many approaches available (which may respond to different evaluation objectives), the difficulties related to data collection, to the skills and resources needed, etc. The objective of the workshop is to fuel a debate in light of the complexity of the evaluation process, reflecting on concrete experiences to highlight the advantages and positive returns brought by the evaluation activity of social enterprises.

Speakers:

• Gaia Giombelli, Contact person of Torino Social Impact’s Competence center for impact measurement
• Carmela Nitti, Social Economy Unit Coordinator @ARCO – Researcher @Department of Science for Economy and Enterprise (UNIFI)
• Angelo Perez, Director of Innovation, Development & Institutional Affairs of Exar
• Giuseppe Dell’Erba, Business Consultant of Cottino Social Impact Campus

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A meeting dedicated to understand and reflect together on the dynamics of those communities and cities that, thanks to an articulated ecosystem involving institutions and key players, assume the role of reference points for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Speakers:

• Mario Calderini, Spokesperson of Torino Social Impact and Scientific Advisor of Cottino Social Impact Campus
• Marie Ringler, Ashoka Europa Leader and Member of Ashoka Global Leadership Group
• Federico Mento, Director of Ashoka Italia
• Ciro Cattuto, CRT Foundation
• Nora Sarasola, BBK Foundation

To register for the event, go here.

Refashion is a pivotal term in the textile branch of the circular economy: in fact, it indicates the possibility of giving a second chance on the market to clothes that would otherwise end up discarded.

The Innovative Startup Benefit Must Had was founded in Turin in 2021 with the precise aim of creating a refashion community composed of artisans, designers, and small brands that share the philosophy of recovery and reuse in the world of fashion.

With Francesco Antonioli, we discover in more detail the objectives of this interesting reality, through the words of Matteo Aghemo, co-founder of Must Had.

Watch previous episodes here.

Here we are with a new appointment with our Impact Interviews, a conversation between Torino Social Impact and international leaders and changemakers.

Ashoka is the largest network of social innovators that supports an “Everyone a Changemaker” world through its programs in more than 90 countries, by identifying social entrepreneurs who can bring positive transformations and building a community for the exchange of practices and collective growth.

In view of its annual worldwide meeting, which will be held in Turin on December 2, 2021, we spoke with the European Leader of Ashoka Marie Ringler about the goals of the Changemaker Summit.

Watch the full video to know all about it!

About Marie Ringler

Marie Ringler is leading Ashoka’s work in Europe and is a member of Ashoka’s Global Leadership Group. She founded Ashoka’s Austrian office in 2011 and soon took over Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe. In 2015 she became one of Ashoka’s Europe Directors, in 2018 she was appointed European Leader of Ashoka.

She was born in Vienna, studied Sociology, Political Science and Women`s Studies at the University of Vienna, and holds a degree from ESADE Business School, Spain and an MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

The 2030 Social Impact Prize is the award created to support business ideas aimed at solving issues related to inequality and social inclusion, within and between European Nations.

In 2021, Torino Social Impact has consolidated its role in the selection committee of the finalist startups counting on the support of the partners 2i3t, I3P, LITA.co Italy, Mamazen, PerMicro, Reseau Entreprendre, SocialFare. Besides, in view of the final events scheduled on November 25 and December, TSI played a primary role in pitch training for the selected companies.

Therefore, the finalists will be announced during the pitch event on November 25, while the final will be held on December 2. This year’s jury will be composed of Joe Colombano (Economic Advisor and Leading Member of the United Nations team that identified the Sustainable Development Goals), Mursal Hedayat (Founder and CEO of Chatterbox) Giovanna Melandri (President of Human Foundation and Social Impact Agenda), Elena Casolari (CEO of OPES Italia).

Follow the online events:

• Pitch Event, Thursday, Nov. 2, 3 – 5 pm:  shorturl.at/gABC5
• Final, Thursday, Dec. 2, 3 – 5 pm: shorturl.at/jprwA

Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani (aka the Italian National Agency for Young People), in collaboration with Ashoka Italia, is organizing on December 3, 2021, the day after the Ashoka International Summit, at OGR Torino, the initiative “Role model network: stories and tales of positive models, how can young people inspire change?”, a journey started in 2018 at the indication of the European Commission, with the aim of providing positive examples by which the new generations can be inspired.

Models of young people for young people. Girls and boys who have not stopped believing in an inclusive society and who can therefore be concrete models for the European Commission, which has asked to encourage activities against all forms of violent radicalization.

With this in mind, the Agency has deemed it necessary to promote, with even more strength and conviction, the mobility and transnational experiences that the Erasmus+ Community Program makes available to which the European Solidarity Corps has therefore followed.

The program is being defined but there will be guests and speakers, also international, including Alberta Pelino President of YAS, Martina Rogato President of Young Women Network Visionary Days, Ivana Calabrese Young Changemakers, the Italian National Amputee Football Team (FISPES). The EuroPeers Italy network with the aim of telling testimonies of boys and girls who, thanks to mobility and participation projects have positively changed their lives.

After the debate, will follow a moment of networking, OPEN MIC, and a round table on the meaning of being a Role model that can generate positive change in society.

More information here.

Since last week, the activities of many of the winning projects of the European project Tonite have officially started with events, co-design meetings and preliminary presentations to the public.

The aim of these actions is to make more livable, especially in the evening hours, the areas of Aurora and Vanchiglia/Cle, as if the two districts were “illuminated” by a new beginning.

During the sixteenth edition of the Festival of Popular Cultures was presented one of the winners of the call Tonite: the Gardens on the Dora, a concierge community in the Aurora district. Project designed to transform aesthetically and functionally a stretch of the long Dora Savona, between Bologna bridge and the bridge of Corso Regio Parco, from a corridor of passage and parking in a place of encounter and human and cultural exchange.

In addition, as part of the Grandangolo project, the boys and girls of the 5C Parini School began to paint the sidewalk in front of the entrance of the school: a transformation rich in colors that has seen the children together with the students of the Course of Territorial Planning and Design of the Polytechnic of Turin.

As for the Vanchiglia-Cle area, the project Bocciofila 2.0 organized at the Bocciofila Vanchiglietta Rami Secchi a yellow-comic dinner of Commissioner Pautasso “The Mystery of the cemetery” for the night of Halloween in the sign of theater and Piedmontese cuisine.

For the project Per.Notte instead, in the area of the “Benches” of Borgo Rossini, was set up a mobile social health center aimed at preventing the abuse of alcohol and substances, designed by Cooperativa Frassati Onlus and Cooperativa Italiana Artisti Soc., aimed at preventing alcohol and substance abuse.

Finally, on November 20, in Via Chivasso 10, from 3 pm to 6 pm it will also be possible to participate in the first Yalla Aurora co-planning event: the new participation center for communities and young people, a multifunctional space of socialization, study, training, cultural animation and youth participation, as well as a reference point for the entire community of the Aurora district, promoted by the Islamic Association of the Alps – Turin and Generation Bridge.

Discover more about ToNite project.

It is often the imperfection that pushes towards new pathways to be undertaken and new economic models to be experimented with. The search for a new “being” in the community for the company that opens up to the territory and becomes a co-promoter of its economic and social growth.

(RI) GENERIAMO benefit enterprise was born from the collaboration between the Capodarco Agricultural Social Cooperative, the Bricolage del Cuore Association, the ConVoi Lavoro social enterprise, the Liberitutti Cooperative with the support of Leroy Merlin Italia. It represents this approach to an inclusive innovation capable of orienting company-level content with concrete actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the UN Agenda 2030.

(RI) GENERIAMO is an incubator of ideas and a place of contamination between profit and non-profit that has created jobs for fragile people such as disabled people, women victims of violence or prisoners, engaging the processes of inclusion in the logic of a large company like Leroy Merlin and giving a concrete answer to the many needs that the pandemic has made even more dramatic and urgent.

The webinar, starting from the concrete experience of some of the protagonists, intends to share reflections, analyzes and proposals for a new alliance for development between business and local communities, with the aim of helping to overcome the great challenges of the future such as the climate and social crysis, the growth of inequality and of poverty.

We are talking about it during the 4 weeks 4 inclusion, the largest inter-company event dedicated to inclusion which this year, for the first time in Italy, sees over 200 companies involved in promoting together the themes of diversity and inclusion, with a rich program of digital events dedicated to the 700,000 employees of partner companies.

Follow the webinar on https://meet.google.com/tzs-ifhb-zsb

We are waiting for you!

Torino Wireless takes part in Giving Tuesday and offers consultancy to non-profit organisations
CRM, Fundraising, Privacy and Security: analyse use cases with Fondazione Torino Wireless and discover how digital you are.

Webinar Thursday 11 November, 12:00 noon

GivingTuesday is an event that harnesses the power of the web and social media to reach every corner of the world. Through quick tests and practical experiences of solutions to digital problems and data security, Fondazione Torino Wireless will help you understand how to improve your accountability and reputation.

CRM, engagement, fundraising, but also correct data strategy, are the today of your organisation.

Discover with Fondazione Torino Wireless how digital you are!

REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

On Sunday, November 14, 2021, framed by Turin’s Art Month, the Googreen Biodiversity Market celebrates artists and their civil commitment.

From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., seasonal excellence will be represented, as always, by Maestri del gusto e del Paniere, food and wine producers, small but excellent producers of our land, masters of the garden and sustainable economy.

On the occasion of the next #MercatoGoogreen the Spazio delle idee is dedicated to the return of Artissima Fair and all the events linked to Turin’s art, which is expressed in full force every November. Together with two artists from the ICONS Emotional Cultural Space stable, the Emilian painter Federica Borghi and the Tuscan sculptor Giovanna Lisy, we wanted to conduct an experiment: leaving two contemporary artworks unattended in the Sambuy Gardens, next to the monument dedicated to Edmondo DeAmicis, a work that has already been vandalised in these sad years of abandonment of the historic public park.

A social experiment of civic sustainability, which wants to underline the commitment of every single citizen in taking care of and respecting an art “within everyone’s reach”.

During the Googreen Market, through a finissagge, we will discover and measure the civic sense shown by all the citizens of Turin who frequent the park. The finissage will be accompanied by the jazz duo ArDuoBop, Dante Arnoldi on sax and Gianni Santoro on guitar.  Federica Borghi’s “Le flore” and Giovanna Lysy’s “Insostenibile” are on display from today until 15 November at Giardini Sambuy.

On November 18 & 19, do not miss the third edition of Digital Ethics Forum, an event focussed on ethics in the design, production, distribution, and use of digital technologies.

The event is organised by Sloweb in partnership with Mondo Economico.

The event is free, registrations are taken at this link: www.digitalethicsforum.com/registrazioni

3 conference panels with 20 speakers, and a special lecture by Norberto Patrignani.

In everyday life, what environmentally and socially sustainable actions can be taken?

Mercato Itinerante is a digital platform that allows consumers to buy via app from Turin’s local markets and receive products directly at home or workplace.

Andrea Scalogna, co-founder of the project, tells us how Mercato Itinerante helps local markets to remain competitive, with an eye to saving energy and fighting waste.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

An open school, an exhibition on dialects, community porters and the words to take care of.

The XVI edition of the Festival of popular cultures  aims to put some themes and words that emerged strongly in this health emergency at the center of cultural work. Words on which it is necessary to reflect again, to imagine an after that can really generate changes.

SCHOOL, PARTICIPATION and CARE.

Born from the experience of the first light garrison, Lo Spaccio di Cultura – Community Concierge, the Concierge Network, including the IIS Lagrange which becomes the first open school to build a Concierge on the Dora.

At the OGR, after the Summer School for community activators, a seminar dedicated to the culture of giving arrives. In 2021, the project that has put the world at the table in local communities turns 10, “Guess who’s coming to dinner?”. While the Tullio De Mauro Fund presents the second volume of the ” Dizionario che cura le parole“, with over 20 new words, edited by illustrious guests including Bruno Segre, Sabino Cassese and Eva Cantarella and a new ancient lemma: School, edited by Franco Lorenzoni.

The exhibition on #Dantepopolare set up in the spaces of the State Archives of Turin will see 20 editions of the Divina Commedia on display in dialectal versions and in minority languages ​​present in the library of the Tullio De Mauro Fund.

Gen C – the initiative promoted by Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani and Ashoka Italia to create a community of young changemakers – officially closed on October 31!

The call aimed to select young people between 13 and 25, and mentors between 25 and 35, who are already implementing in their territories actions and initiatives of youth leadership to support digital, ecological and autonomy transitions.

251 applications were received of which 131 young changemakers (13-25 years old) and 120 mentors (25-35 years old).

As a strategic partner, Torino Social Impact, together with the other project partners, will select the 50 (25 young changemakers and 25 mentors) who will be awarded at the Ashoka Changemaker Summit on December 2nd in Turin.

 

The Torino Social Impact Art Award is a social innovation project with the aim of fostering emerging talents from multicultural and migratory backgrounds.

On November 5 and 6, on the occasion of Artissima, Italy’s most important contemporary art fair, the four video works realized during the residencies of the winning artists of the 2020 and 2021 editions will be presented.

On November 5, during the event off Lucky Old Sun, at Combo, clips from original films by director Caterina Shanta, winner of the first edition, will be screened.

On November 6, at the fair, there will be a talk on the social and artistic impact of the project. In addition to the artists and their tutors, will speak:

• Mario Calderini – spokesperson for Torino Social Impact
• Giovanna Melandri – President of MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts
• Francesca Gambetta – Head of Mission Creating Attractiveness of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

After the talk, the evening at Combo, with the screening of the 2020 and 2021 editions of the TSI Art Award. Following, the event off Cry me a river, with contributions from the winners of the 2021 edition, Monia Ben Hamouda and the MRZB collective.

Torino Social Impact Art Award is a project of Torino Social Impact and Artissima Fair, in collaboration with Combo and with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation.