The value of a start-up lies in its intangible assets. This is especially true for start-ups that operate in highly technological and innovative sectors, such as the space industry.

In order to support the growth and success of these start-ups, it is fundamental to develop a strategy of protection and valorization that – through patents and other intellectual property tools (trademarks, designs, copyrights, etc.) – transforms this intangible capital into a more structural one, which could differentiate the start-up with potential partners and investors.

This seminar, organized by ESA BIC Turin and Metroconsult, will provide key tips for protecting innovation and maximizing the value of inventions.

How to participate

The event, free of charge, will be held in presence in I3P‘s Sala Agorà and on live streaming. In order to attend, either in person or online, you must register on the dedicated form.

In compliance with current safety regulations, the seats available in the room are currently limited to a maximum of 70.

About the organizers

The European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre Turin supports entrepreneurs and start-ups in transforming their space-related projects into successful businesses. ESA BIC Turin looks for entrepreneurial ventures that are developing innovative products and services in the upstream or downstream fields.

With 35 years of experience, a strong industrial background and a team of qualified experts registered before the National and European Intellectual Property Office, Metroconsult offers tailored services to protect and maximize the value of intellectual property rights.

In TSI ecosystem, it is not uncommon to make interesting encounters.

In this episode of Bench-Mark, is interviewed Pietro Jarre, international entrepreneur and founder of eMemory.it and eLegacy, two platforms created to educate people on more conscious use of the web.

How do they help the impact economy? Let’s find out in the video.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

On Monday 23 May, more than 250 people gathered at the OGR Turin to watch A New Impact Era, the event organised by Torino Social Impact and Social Impact Agenda for Italy as part of the GSG Leadership Meeting.

Delegates from 50 countries around the world came together to share the vision of a new economy that fosters social impact.

It was an honour and the realisation of a dream for us to host this meeting after Chicago, New Delhi and Buenos Aires.

Partners of the event: Fondazione CRT, Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT, OGR Torino, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Unicredit, Cottino Social Impact Campus e la Camera di commercio di Torino.

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From May 30 to June 04, School of Management and Economics of the University of Turin will host the Business Economics Forum, organized by the Department of Management, which will feature more than 120 speakers and 20 breakout sessions.

The days will include opportunities for discussions with companies and in-depth discussions on current issues. A number of booths of partner companies will also be present with the aim of explaining, including product testing, the results of sustainable strategies applied in recent years.

Tied to our research activities we particularly highlight:

1. Innovation in accountability for the professions and the Third Sector with Fabio Matta (Sistemi SPA), Giulia Pettinau (Orango Go), Davide Barberis (Chartered Accountant), Silvana Secinaro (Lecturer at UniTo), Laura Berardi (Lecturer at University of Chieti-Pescara), Marco Meneguzzo (Lecturer at University of Rome “Tor Vergata)When and where? May 31, 2022 h.10-13 – Classroom 1 (and streaming)

   Free reservations at the link

2. The Social Impact Assessment: the activities of companies in the territory with Mimmo Carretta (City of Turin), Beatrice Borgia (Film Commission Piemonte), Eugenio in Via di Gioia, Erica Azzoaglio (Banco di Credito P. Azzoaglio SPA), Debora Zani (Ceo Gruppo Rubner)When? May 31, 2022 h.14-16pm – Aula Jona (and streaming)

   Free reservations at the link

3. The Pop Balance Sheet Instrument of innovation for dialogue with the Citizen with Valerio Brescia (UniTo), Andrea Tronzano (Piedmont Region), Gabriella Nardelli (City of Turin), Belinda Gottardi (City of Castel Maggiore), Lidia Reale (City of Basiglio), Paolo Montagna (City of Moncalieri), Luca Rivoira (City of Settimo Torinese), Luca Lelli (City of Ozzano)When? June 01, 2022 h.09:30 -11:30 – Classroom 1 (and streaming)

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We look forward to seeing you there!

What is Social Value International and what are its goals? We asked the CEO Ben Carpenter.

Enjoy a new episode of Impact Interviews, conversations between Torino Social Impact and international leaders and changemakers.

Is it possible to enhance art through the circular economy?

Artàporter is a startup and benefits company, recently founded in Turin, that aims to rethink the commonplaces of art, increase the visibility of emerging artists, and bring more beauty to commercial venues. As a result, it will help create a new generation of collectors who will enjoy art by going to bars, restaurants, or stores.

In this episode of Bench-Mark, the story of CEO Massimo Gioscia.

Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

The city of Turin will host, from May 31 to June 4, 2022, the International Festival of Economics.

Selected out of more than twenty applications from as many Italian cities by the creators of the initiative, Editori Laterza, the scientific director prof. Tito Boeri and the coordinator of the Editorial Committee prof. Innocenzo Cipolletta, Turin has capitalized on its recognized ability to network and mobilize the broad ecosystem of local actors (Regione Piemonte, Città di Torino, Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, Università degli Studi e Politecnico di Torino, Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino Chamber of Commerce, Unioncamere Piemonte, Unione Industriali Torino, gathered in the Torino Local Committee –  TOLC) to attract an event of international resonance.

For our territory, this is an important opportunity that will generate a direct and lasting impact not only at the socio-economic level but also at the cultural level, because it is part of a framework of major events that will see Torino catalyze in the coming months and years growing attention from the public and the media.

Torino Social Impact actively contributes to the Festival’s Participatory Program with 2 events:

FINANCE THAT IS GOOD FOR SOCIAL ECONOMY, organized by Torino Social Impact.

June 2, 2022
2:30 pm. Piazza Carlo Alberto

The great changes of our time call for innovative responses, and the social economy is set to play an increasingly important role in proposing new models of sustainable and fair development. This awareness is at the basis of many stories of a new finance that is necessary, innovative and inclusive, capable of enhancing the positive changes generated on the environment and on our societies. An example of this is the Social Impact Exchange, a project created with the aim of building a capital market dedicated to companies that intentionally, additionally and measurably achieve a positive social impact. The aim of the event is to tell this and other stories of impact finance that can be the engine for growth in the social economy.

Speakers:

• Davide Dal Maso, Vice President of the Social Impact Finance Promotion Committee and Partner of Avanzi Sostenibilità per Azioni
• Elena Casolari, Managing Director of OPES ITALIA Sicaf EuVECA
• Andrea Limone, President Permicro Spa
• Nadia Lambiase, CEO Mercato Circolare

Moderator: Francesco Antonioli, Director Mondo Economico

NEW SOCIAL ECONOMY AND INNOVATION POLICY, by Torino Social Impact

June 2, 2022
4:30 pm. Museo Egizio

The necessary integration between environmental transition and social cohesion can be achieved by fostering a new generation of technological and innovative companies that are able to combine positive social impacts with profitability, retaining the value created in places and communities.

Speakers:

• Dan Breznitz, University of Toronto
• Karel Vanderpoorten, European Commission
• Priscilla Boiardi, Policy Analyst – Private Finance for Sustainable Development, OECD
• Bianca Polidoro, Senior Policy and EU Partnerships Manager, EVPA
• Gianluca Salvatori, General Secretary EURICSE
• Paolo Mulassano, Compagnia di San Paolo, Obiettivo Pianeta
• Mario Calderini, Politecnico Milano, Torino Social Impact

 

Website and event programme here

On Monday 2nd and 9th May, the CUAP – “Social Impact Evaluation” university course will host the presentations of the 14 research projects carried out in groups by the 80 participants of the third edition.

Also in this edition, carried out completely online, the learners applied in the field what they learned in class, actively experiencing what it means to create a “value chain” or identify the main stakeholders of a project.

Looking at the numbers of the course, an interesting aspect that emerged is that about 70% of the learners who have participated in CUAP over time are women. Having reached this third experience, this is indeed a trend.

Another important point is the presence, among the students, of representatives of the Public Administration. This underscores, once again, how the issue of Social Impact Assessment related to the reporting of projects linked to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRP) is becoming of interest even at the governance level.

Given the interest in the course, not only at the local level, the organizers are planning the closing conference of this edition, which will be open as well as presentation days for continuing education and maintenance of certification as “Impact Evaluators”, and will take place within the International Festival of Economics that will take place in Turin from May 31 to June 4, 2022.

 

Green Growth, an accelerator for communities on sustainability is in its 9th month of life! Today we launch a call for ideas aimed at young people and talents in Turin and Cuneo areas for the Storytelling and Photojournalism project, and a call for interest to hire partners in the area to identify spaces where to co-develop and co-curate the results of creative projects and products.

Based on the principles of the New European Bauhaus, GreenGrowth co-designed and launched in Lebanon the Storytelling Workshop (within the Education, Art and Culture Program) led by Jacob Russell. The pilot training course involved young creatives (Lebanese and non-Lebanese) and worked on the development of issues such as accessibility to transport, slow fashion, energy and human rights. After the training session and the fieldwork, the pairs of photographers and writers developed their own micro-projects.

The next step is to involve other talents and professionals in the sector with the aim of deepening the issues addressed by including different approaches and creative perspectives, and then conclude the journey with an exhibition. The goal is to give visibility to emerging talents and create new opportunities for collaboration in Lebanon, Italy and beyond.

 

Promoted by Torino Social Impact, in collaboration with Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, conceived and curated by Artissima, the Torino Social Impact Art Award offers two young talents with a background in contemporary art and a multicultural and migrant background the opportunity to participate in an artist residency in Torino, aimed at creating a new video or photographic work.

The Torino Social Impact Art Award stems from the desire to establish a dialogue between art and social innovation with the aim of activating actions to have an impact on the present and on 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 or structured solutions. The aim is to offer an opportunity to young people coming from other contexts to access 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 as distant, foreign or different.

Each edition of the project is characterised by a call for proposals, distributed to the main public and private Fine Arts Academies and Italian Universities, which is aimed at young people with training in the world of contemporary art and whose life and family histories and experiences have led them to experience different cultures in an international context.

The first edition of the project in 2020 entitled “Quante Italie?“ was won by Caterina Erica Shanta and Liryc Dela Cruz, who produced, during their residency in Turin, the works Talking about visibility and Il Mio Filippino: Invisible Bodies, Neglected Movements respectively. The second edition of the ZOOM IN/ZOOM OUT call in 2021 awarded the projects Adhan to Dora by the artist Monia Ben Hamouda and STILI DRAMA XVIII-XXI by the collective MRZB.

The third edition of the “Torino Social Impact Art Award” renews the opportunity for two young talents to take part in a month-long artist residency in Turin for the creation of a new video or photographic work, inviting them once again this year to use art to offer a contribution to the transformation of the social perception of particularly urgent themes or life stories considered “distant”.

The call 2022 entitled Rebellions and rebirths: the creative potential of confrontation invites us to reflect on the theme of social conflict in its various manifestations and latent forms: a tangible and concrete phenomenon that has always found in art a peaceful means of expression, but at the same time with a strong potential for denunciation. Contestation and dissent can become a generative and creative tool if the confrontation does not lead to destructive attitudes and behaviour, but is mediated in order to stimulate the development of new visions and social transformations. Social conflict, in fact, besides highlighting issues of social and spatial justice, is generative of new representations, ideas, exercises in negotiation and contamination, resistance and mutual aid, which lead to the birth of innovative practices and new languages. Within the complexity of social confrontation, art can only be an ally in this challenge of recomposition and regeneration.

At the beginning of the residency there will be a full day workshop, with the aim of promoting a relationship and an exchange between artists and the territory. An interactive-experiential path will be proposed to get to know the local context. The city will be crossed from one end to the other by tram line 4, famous in Turin for its route from the Mirafiori South district to the Falchera district in the north. The route will be interspersed with meetings and visits to significant places, such as the Orti Generali or the Case dei quartieri (Neighbourhood Houses), which, often breaking with their own past history, work to affirm a certain imagery of the city, based on values such as proximity, relationships, networks, collaborative experiences, care and mutual aid, and respect for the environment.

The artists will be able to take advantage of 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 young people will be guided through the production of their work and will have the opportunity to meet the curators of the project and some of the players in the Torino Social Impact network active in the area, discovering the world of entrepreneurship and social innovation.

The videos or photographs produced during the residency period will be presented at Artissima 2022 (3-6 November).

Requirements and how to participate

The call is open to young artists between the ages of 21 and 35 who live in Italy, with a multicultural and migratory background; who attend or have attended the Academy of Fine Arts or University in Italy and/or abroad, or who have presented their research and work at festivals, in exhibitions in galleries or in Italian or foreign institutions, and who intend to develop their own path starting from contemporary art; who intend to create a work through images (video/photography); who have the possibility to attend the entire one-month residency programme in Turin (end of June – July 2022).

The artists will be selected by the “Torino Social Impact Art Award” Committee composed of Luigi Fassi, Director of Artissima, Mario Calderini, Politecnico di Milano and Spokesperson for Torino Social Impact, Alberto Anfossi, Secretary General of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi, President of Fondazione ICA Milano, Ilda Curti, President of Associazione IUR Innovazione Urbana Rigenerazione, Matteo Bergamini, editorial director of Exibart, Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini, founders of the art project Treti Galaxie and tutors of the third edition of the award.

The residency

“Torino Social Impact Art Award” will host the selected artists for a 30-day residency at the hospitality partner Combo, an innovative hospitality concept in the heart of Porta Palazzo in Turin, a historical and multicultural district.
The artists will receive a lump-sum contribution of €3,000 for the production of the work and for their stay in Turin, in addition to their accommodation in residence.

Download the call for applications here. The deadline for participation is 23 May.

For further information please write to segreteria@artissima.it

On May 25th 2022, from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm, Cottino Social Impact Campus and ISTUD Business School in partnership with the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG), are honoured to host and deliver a unique Learning Session for companies and managers interested in ESG and sustainability: “A New Impact Era, from strategy to measurement”.

Within the framework of the GSG Leadership Meeting, scheduled from May 23rd to 25th 2022 in Torino, the Learning Session represents a great opportunity for discussion and collaboration, thanks to the organization by Torino Social Impact, Yes4TO and the Young Entrepreneurs Groups of Unione Industriali Torino and API Torino.

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) is a world-class organization of 34 countries whose most influential financial leaders for impact investing and philanthropy come together to solve the most compelling societal and environmental challenges.

SCHEDULE

H 2:30 pm – Welcome
Giuseppe Dell’Erba, Board Member Cottino Social Impact Campus
Marella Caramazza, General Director ISTUD Business School

H 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm – Impact, from Strategy to Measurement
Dialogue between:
Karim Harji – Director, Oxford Impact Measurement Programme
Mario Calderini – Polytechnic University of Milan, Scientific Advisor Cottino Social Impact Campus
Q&A

H 4:15 pm – Coffee Break

H 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm – A New Impact Era
Cliff Prior – Chief Executive Officer, GSG
Alasdair Maclay – Chief Funds Officer GSG
Kristzina Tora – Chief Market Development Officer, GSG
Q&A

Both Q&A, curated by Yes4to and the Young Entrepreneurs of API Torino and Unione Industriali Torino, want to give voice to the questions and points of interest of SMEs in order to understand how to include the impact on the 3 focus of the event: strategy, management, measurement.

MODERATOR

Meg Pagani is a Forbes 30under30 Founder of Impacton.org and (R)evolutionary, a speaker and a member of networks like the World Economic Forum Global Shapers and the Global Regeneration Colab.
She lived and traveled across 25+ countries studying models of growth, purpose and transformation from different cultures, ancient traditions and emerging sciences.
Her work revolves around decoding tools to apply Power and leadership in alignment with the principles of nature and regeneration.

SPEAKERS

Mario Calderini is Full Professor at the School of Management of Polytechnic University of Milan, where he teaches Sustainability and Impact Management.
Author of books and publications in international scientific reviews, he founded and currently directs Tiresia, the research center for Innovation and Impact Finance of the School of Management of the Polytechnic of Milan.
Calderini is Cabinet Advisor to Minister of Innovation Vittorio Colao and member of the Commission for Sustainable Finance for Infrastructure.
He is a columnist for Repubblica and he wrote for Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Sole 24 Ore.
In 2021, he was on the list of the 100 most influential academics on Governments in the world.

Karim Harji is the Programme Director of the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford.
He is also a Founding Partner at Mondiale Impact. He advises investors, corporates, and networks to integrate impact considerations in strategy, governance, investment processes, and reporting. He was previously the Co-Chair of the Impact Measurement Task Force convened by the Government of Ontario; Member of the Impact Measurement Working Group of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force; Advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation; and co-founder of Purpose Capital, Canada’s leading impact investment advisory firm.

Cliff Prior, Chief Executive Officer GSG.
He was CEO of Big Society Capital, the social impact investment institution and market development from the UK, unltd, the UK Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs and Rethink, an organization supporting people with mental health problems.
As expert on social issues, he provided his expertise as an advisor to the British Government.

Alasdair Maclay, Chief Funds Officer GSG, is responsible for fundraising and donor relations for the GSG.
He supports the funding of National Advisory Boards and Outcome Funds.
He was previously Director of Strategy and Development at the Rhodes Trust, leading over £300 million in fundraising, with a focus on donating several scholarships to disadvantaged geographical areas, including Africa, the Middle East, China and Southeast Asia and building strategic operational partnerships with several organizations.

Kristzina Tora, Chief Market Development Officer GSG, has been supporting the development of the global impact ecosystem with her team since 2017.
She works with the national advisory committees of the GSG member countries and develops relations with potential new members.
She contributes to accelerating social and political change processes, educating financial actors, directing funds towards impact investments.

Register for the event!