OffGrid Italia is an association born in 2015 from the union of professionals in the field of design, architecture, and construction bonded by an ambitious goal: to live “off-the-grid”. Originating in North America, the off-the-grid movement is committed to building self-sufficient homes with reclaimed materials, with a creative and non-conformist approach.
With Marco Mangione, president and founder of OffGrid, we discover how passion, out-of-the-box thinking and the active involvement of communities are decisive factors in supporting the circular economy.
This process includes 10 workshops that will shape potential future EU actions to support the green and digital transition of this ecosystem.
The Commission has invited us to respond to one of their surveys and invite our network to do the same. This is a great opportunity to provide concrete guidance on actions to support green and digital transitions.
Those who respond to the survey will also have priority access to the thematic workshops (clusters, tech4good, skills, local regeneration, public-private partnerships).
It would be really great to bring your voice to the EU table, contributing concretely to the process!
There are only 5 days left to respond to the survey: it closes on February 28.
As part of the Cuore solidale (Solidarity Heart) project, local events on health and wellness topics are resumed.
Organized in collaboration with pharmacies and the main public entities, the meetings are held in the mountain municipalities involved in the project.
Gender medicine, treatment of degenerative diseases, inclusive sports, nutrition: these are just some of the topics covered in the meetings.
How do I get involved:
All thematic meetings are free to attend. You must, however, register by filling out this form. Note: since we are still in the time for a COVID-19 health emergency, you will need to wear a mask and comply with current regulations according to the directions you will receive before the events start.
The series of thematic meetings that is part of the Cuore Solidale (Solidarity Heart) project involves the Metropolitan City of Turin and UNIONCOOP-TORINO. The project intervenes in the definition and delivery of social and welfare services to the population of the territories of the High Valleys and is included in the broader strategy of PITER Alte Valli – Cuore delle Alpi.
For the next stop on our Bench-Mark tour to know the partners of Turin’s social economy ecosystem, we are coming back to the Innovation Square Center to tell you about the Pudens Foundation. In fact, in this structure from the Sixties, now completely renovated and with zero impact, profit and non-profit coexist.
The Pudens Foundation gives concrete help to people in need by providing them meals, but also by using street art to create an impact on the territory. We talked about it with Antonella Graziano, president and co-founder of the Foundation.
Leasys, a Stellantis brand and a subsidiary of FCA Bank, and I3P, the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino, introduce the new edition of “Digital Factory“, an exploratory call for young Italian and international start-ups. The goal is to identify new solutions that can make a decisive contribution to the technological and digital transformation of the company, leader in Italy in long-term rentals, and of Leasys Rent, which specializes in short- and medium-term rentals.
The 2022 edition of the initiative is part of Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance’s Start&Pulse program, with its emphasis on Open Innovation. Specifically, the call will focus on research into technological processes intended to improve customer experience, on the one hand, and internal processes and corporate know-how, on the other.
Participation in the call is free of charge and proposals can be submitted from 11 January until February 25, 2022 on the digitalfactory.leasys.com website. The proposed solutions will be evaluated by a committee of experts, which will select the finalists for the ensuing closing event by March. The winning team will have the resources to develop a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) with which to field test the feasibility of the use case presented, thus coming into direct contact with the business operations of Leasys and Leasys Rent.
The call is launched in a context where technological and regulatory changes have led to new consumer requirements and new challenges for operators, opening up important avenues for the growth and development of services. In fact, digitalizing means adapting all business processes to the digital age, where speed and operational efficiency play crucial roles.
“We have great confidence and expectations in this initiative. We are certain that the Digital Factory will make a decisive contribution to the search for new technological solutions designed to bolster the innovation process that we have been pursuing for some time now,” explainedRolando D’Arco, CEO of Leasys. “The impetus towards digitalization in our sector has accelerated strongly, also as a consequence of the pandemic. This gives added significance to the role and innovative drive of start-ups and SMEs.”
“We have collaborated enthusiastically in the creation of the new edition of the Leasys Digital Factory project, which builds on a successful experience,” said Giuseppe Scellato, President of I3P. “In addition to being a virtuous example of Open Innovation, the initiative is designed to create synergies between young start-ups and an important company like Leasys, to foster the development of the technologies, products, and services of the future.”
The 2022 edition of Digital Factory comes in the wake of the success of last year’s call, focused on the world of FCA Bank, which resulted in a partnership agreement with Stip, an innovative start-up. Founded in Rome and now based in Silicon Valley, this leading-edge company is using its Artificial Intelligence to help the Bank to maximize the efficiency of its customer service, reducing ticket handling and customer response times.
Through a hybrid and highly innovative didactic approach, completely online, the CUAP blends theoretical and practical approaches aimed at the identification of Impact Management strategies and their measurement. A final business case completes the sharing of learning among the participants themselves.
The course deals with the evaluation of social impact declined on the planning for access to European, national or local funding, on large local events, sports, cultural, congress. We start from the assumption that every event or every systemic action brings a change that can be measured and evaluated with specific techniques, mastered by impact evaluators. These themes are increasingly central also in the perspective of PNRR.
At the end of the course it will be possible to obtain certification, issued by Cepas, a third party certification body, and the relative registration in the national register of Impact Assessors.
Fondazione CRT and OGR Torino with Microsoft strengthen their commitment and launch Impact Deal, the first acceleration program for social and environmental impact enterprises at European level.
The first call for impact enterprises will be accessible on impactdeal.eu from February 3 to April 3, 2022.
The project, realized in collaboration with TOP-IX, The Data Science for Social Good Center, Impact Hub, Ashoka and The Data Appeal Company will be developed in OGR Tech, hub for innovation and applied research of OGR Torino.
With Impact Deal, Fondazione CRT, OGR Torino and Microsoft start a system of concrete actions to enhance data and data skills, aware that any public or private initiative, must and will have measurable objectives of long-term impact.
Impact Deal was therefore created with the aim of stimulating, through the application of data science, the growth of entrepreneurial activities with social and environmental purposes, also encouraging the evolution of more traditional ones through the integration of existing models and new business plans.
Thanks to the synergy with partners from both the corporate world and the public administration – such as Banca Sella, Fondazione Snam and the City of Turin – training and mentorship paths, resources and data – open and proprietary – will be made available to accelerate the social and environmental impact of the selected enterprises.
Through the Call for Impact Enterprises, European companies will be selected to access the hybrid acceleration program, in presence and online, divided into two phases.
The first phase, lasting about two months, consists of a path aimed at providing specific skills in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and entrepreneurship.
The second phase, lasting about 3 months, will be accessed by a subset of companies and the focus will be on business acceleration through the development of real projects and solutions enabled by data and thanks to the mentorship and strategic partnerships.
A fundamental element of the program will be the group of companies and organizations, public and private entities, renamed Data Club, that will make possible the acceleration of companies bringing their datasets in a collaborative perspective and with the aim of generating social and environmental impact. The initial nucleus of the Data Club consists of: Banca Sella, Snam Foundation and the City of Turin.
The second phase will end with a Demo Day in which the accelerated companies will show their progress to an audience of potential investors with a particular vocation for impact investing.
We continue our journey to discover the realities of Turin attentive to the impact economy.
In this episode of Bench-Mark, we are at the Innovation Square Center of Turin, where SIGIT SpA, IDT Solution, Fondazione Pudens and ISC Lab coexist. Even with different intents, they all have chosen to join Torino Social Impact.
With Pierangelo Decisi, President of SIGIT – a multinational group in the automotive sector – we talked about entrepreneurship for social purposes.
