The old saying “it’s not the wine that gets man drunk, but it’s the man who gets drunk” is applicable to many cases, including the immoderate use that is often made of the web.

With the intent to educate users on a balanced and conscious use of this medium, in 2017, the non-profit association Sloweb was born in Turin.

With Giulia Balbo, head of communication, we discover the importance of presiding over the digital dimension with a view to sustainability and social impact.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

The housing emergency is at the heart of urban regeneration policies.

On this issue, since 2019, the innovative startup and benefit company Homes4All proposes a strong economic impact social housing model, calculated and evaluated by specialists. In this new episode of Bench-Mark, Federico Disegni, general manager of Homes4All, tells us about it.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

 

The City of Turin has been chosen as the venue for the next Cities Forum, the largest biennial event, organised by the European Commission, involving the main European players in urban development, now in its fifth edition.

Nineteen European cities were nominated, Turin entered the short list together with Ljubljana (Slovenia), Tallinn (Finland), Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) and the outcome of the final vote saw Turin prevail with 8 votes, 3 for Ljubljana and 1 for Victoria-Gasteiz. The Piedmontese capital will host the event in February 2023, when 700 participants are expected to arrive in the city over two days.

It was the mayor of Turin, Stefano Lo Russo, who announced the event, showing great satisfaction for the final victory: “This is the biggest event of the European Commission that brings together the main urban actors at European, national, regional and local level.

The City of Turin”, continued the first citizen, “presented its candidacy with a programme that turned out to be the best and with a great experience in the field of cohesion policies”. This is a biennial event that has reached its fifth edition, the previous one having been in Porto in 2020. The Fondazione CRT has offered the OGR spaces as the main venue for the meetings.

The Forum is an opportunity to address issues and compare reflections on the role of the urban dimension of Cohesion Policy, the Urban Agenda for the EU, the role of cities in the implementation of the European Green Deal (climate targets to be achieved by 2050), the EU response to the urban dimension of the 2030 Agenda, the New Urban Agenda (programmes and policies for sustainable development in urban centres).

The New Leipzig Charter, the document approved in November 2020 that brings together a series of principles aimed at guiding European cities towards a greater degree of sustainability, resilience and inclusiveness, will also provide food for thought.

Issues such as digital transition, climate change and social inequalities are at the heart of the debate today, and the challenges facing cities require concrete strategies and actions to improve governance of these phenomena, for which collaboration with residents is often necessary, as is a useful and productive comparison with other national and European urban realities.

Following the participation in the call for proposal of last November, the City of Torino and the Chamber of Commerce were awarded the RESPONDET project, within the framework of the European call COSME – Social Economy Mission. They will bring the experience of Torino Social Impact.

RESPONDET “Regional Social Economy Policies For Sustainable Community-Driven Environmental Transition” aims to increase the resilience of local communities and their ability to cope with and overcome crises.

For this project, the City of Turin and the Chamber of Commerce have joined forces to bring the Torino Social Impact territorial ecosystem into an international network. The lead partner of RESPONDET is REVES aisbl – Réseau Européen des Villes & Régions de l’Economie Sociale; the other partners involved are the Catalonia region and Coopcat (ES), Region Västra Götaland and Coompanion (SE), Wallonia Region and CONCERTES (BE), Regional Centre of Social Policy/Malopolska region (PL).

“An intense work of relations at European level has been initiated to both position and promote Torino Social Impact within the most relevant EU processes for the development of the social economy, in particular the elaboration of the European Action Plan for the Social Economy, and to build relationships with similar experiences and favour the exchange of practices and the visibility of Torino in other ecosystems – points out Dario Gallina, President of the Torino Chamber of Commerce -. Participation in European projects plays a decisive role in this process”.

“In recent years, thanks to an increasingly collaborative and attentive local ecosystem, Torino has made social innovation its distinctive feature, with the aim of making its territory a place where social impact enterprises and investors can find the best conditions to operate and develop,” explains Chiara Foglietta, Councillor for Ecological and Digital Transition and Innovation.

In addition to facilitating policy convergence and effective knowledge transfer, RESPONDET aims to facilitate the building of local and transnational partnerships to ensure the sustainability of project results.

How? By accompanying the Third Sector realities towards a Green transition process, with the implementation of ‘capacity building’ in the construction of an Action Plan aimed at providing them with the tools to be able to act in this direction and change.

The aim is to strengthen the role of the social economy as a mobilisation tool for the development and consolidation of local communities in general.

There is a need to develop strategies and support policies that will lead to a greener and faster improvement of the economic situation. In order to do this, it is necessary to encourage the transition towards a more sustainable and digitalised economic machine by means of a synergic intervention at a transnational level that enables the sharing of experiences and know-how with other local and regional realities and the assessment of the repeatability of the solutions tested.

Therefore, depending on the different local contexts, different responses will have to be developed that place each city/region at different levels of development. In return, the mutual dissemination and joint construction and sharing of solutions among the project partners will allow the creation of a common legacy that will be translated into a regional action plan.

RESPONDET will therefore facilitate the convergence of policy lines and effective knowledge transfer, but also the building of local and transnational partnerships that will ensure the sustainability of the project results.

34 countries come together to promote impact finance in the world. At OGR a public event on the evolution of social impact in public and private policies to catalyze new economic models for the benefit of all.

From May 23 to 25, 2022, Turin will host the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment Leadership Meeting, the annual meeting of the national Advisory Boards of the various member countries of the network.

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) is an independent movement established in 2015 to expand globally on the work done by the Social Impact Investment Task Force (SIIT), which was formed in 2013 under the UK Presidency of the G8. Through its National Advisory Board, the GSG represents 34 countries, with a mission to promote impact finance around the world. It brings together key players in the international impact ecosystem, from finance to social entrepreneurship, from philanthropy to the public sector.

This year, the GSG Leadership Meeting will be held in Italy in beautiful Turin, the Italian capital of social innovation, thanks to the activation of a partnership between Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia, the Italian network of impact finance and national Advisory Board of GSG, and Torino Social Impact, an innovative territorial public-private alliance that implements social impact projects.

During the GSG Leadership Meeting 2022, on Monday, May 23rd, a day of meetings and debates will take place.

A new impact era – The evolution of social impact in public and private policy to catalyze new economic models for the benefit of all

From 4 pm to 7 pm, OGR will host the public event: A NEW IMPACT ERA. The evolution of social impact in public and private policy to catalyze new economic models for the benefit of all.

Two international panels are scheduled, coordinated respectively by Mario Calderini, Politecnico di Milano, Spokesperson for Torino Social Impact and Rosemary Addis, GSG Ambassador, which will be followed by a fireside chat by Sir Ronald Cohen, GSG President, interviewed by Maurizio Molinari, Director la Repubblica. To conclude, a dialogue between Giovanna Melandri, President of Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia, and Laura Castelli, Vice Minister of Economy and Finance.
The event will be opened by Michela Favaro,  Deputy Mayor of Turin, Guido Bolatto, Secretary General of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, Massimo Lapucci, Secretary General of Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT, CEO Ogr Torino, Paolo Mulassano, Director Impact Innovation and Head of Planet Objective Compagnia di San Paolo.

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Speed Networking Session

From 2.00 pm, at Cottino Social Impact Campus, there will be a b2b session between Turin’s impact economy main players and GSG delegates. To organize the agenda, interested persons are asked to identify the delegates they wish to meet and to indicate their preferences in the form.

Why Turin

Turin is among the best territories to seize the opportunities arising from the affirmation of the entrepreneurial and financial paradigm of the impact economy. A very dynamic ecosystem with a scale suitable for the experimentation of solid scientific, technological and industrial skills; a third sector very strong and open to innovation, social incubators and accelerators; important capital oriented to social impact; international organizations dedicated to global social challenges; a strong orientation to corporate social responsibility; propensity for social innovation of public administrations; ability to create a system between public, private and third sectors.

Event partners

The event is organized in partnership with Fondazione CRT, Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT, OGR Torino, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Unicredit and Camera di commercio di Torino.

Ludovico Einaudi for the Collegio Einaudi Foundation on the occasion of the Turin concert of the international tour

On May 24th, Ludovico Einaudi will perform on the stage of the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium to present his new album Underwater.
It will be possible to support the Collegio Einaudi Foundation with an unforgettable experience through exclusive packages.

The pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi, an icon of world music, will perform on Tuesday 24 May at 9.00 pm at the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium, on the occasion of the Turin concert of the international tour.

Thanks to the sensitivity of Ludovico Einaudi it will be possible to support the Collegio Einaudi Foundation by purchasing exclusive packages for the concert, some of which also provide the opportunity to meet the artist at the end of the event in an exclusive Meet & Greet.

The concert is part of the international tour for the presentation of the new album Underwater and the proceeds from the exclusive packages will go to support the redevelopment of the Mole residence hall in Via delle Rosine, 3: an important project, in the heart of Turin, which will allow the construction of 148 study places for deserving university students.

“I am glad to take part in a project of such great value” says Ludovico Einaudi. “We often talk about the future: I believe that it is our duty to concretize this reality, in which music becomes manifest and a means to build and support many deserving young boys and girls in their study path.”

“An unforgettable evening is expected “explains Prof. Paolo Enrico Camurati, President of Collegio Einaudi:” The Vip Packs will allow you to listen to one of the most popular composers and musicians in the world and in parallel will give the opportunity to 148 deserving students, regardless of their starting conditions, to grow, train and compare in an open and dynamic community which will be the new Mole residence hall of Collegio Einaudi ”

The Vip Packs will be available until sold out and by May 6, 2022.

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