The competition is back, open until 18 June, offering a concrete opportunity for under-35 creators of digital content to make a name for themselves and grow

Open until 18 June, the sixth edition of the national competition “Faber, creativity, enterprise and impact“, organised by Weco with the contribution of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation and the Turin Chamber of Commerce, as part of Torino Social Impact. For 15 years, it has been promoting encounters between young people active in the fields of digital creativity and companies and organisations interested in enhancing these skills. The professional spin-offs are important: in fact, more than 90% of the young participants in the last edition recognised a fundamental role of the initiative in their own entrepreneurial and career path. The subject of the competition is works and products realised in the last 24 months on commission or independently, with a free theme in the four categories envisaged: Live action & Animation, Visual & Graphic design, Gaming, augmented reality and virtual reality, Web, app, social.

Participating in and winning the Faber competition allows digital creatives under 35 to access the fabermeeting and thus to participate in workshops, talks, meetings and exchanges with partner companies, paid experience at the same companies and to have support for the projects proposed in various fields, including live action, visual design, augmented reality and virtual reality, apps, social. Faber also promotes the knowledge and application of creative and digital media and tools to meet new social and entrepreneurial challenges.

Partner companies find in Faber the answers to specific innovation needs, new skills, new languages and new approaches to technology.

As Dario Gallina, President of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, explains, “Digital, innovation and social impact: this is the heart of the Faber call for proposals, now in its sixth edition, which on the one hand allows young people to propose digital and creative solutions for immediate use, and on the other allows entrepreneurs to make effective use of them in their business. A contact that is often fruitful and long-lasting, since 75% of the young people awarded a prize sign a work contract after this positive experience”.

“For 15 years,” says Carlo Boccazzi Varotto, director of the initiative, “the Faber competition and Fabermeeting have been a great showcase for Italian digital talent, the success of which is measured in the fact that, increasingly often, those who originally took part as competitors now participate as partners, not infrequently representing a company that they met thanks to Fabermeeting. Faber is also one of the, not too many, initiatives capable of anticipating languages and themes. This is why it is important to open up to the world of the Third Sector and social impact, which, more than any other, can benefit not only from the skills, but also from the inspirations, the needs for change that the boys and girls participating in the competition express”.

Since its inception in 2008, Faber has seen more than 1,000 young people take part in the competition phase, 470 projects have been submitted and more than 150 have been awarded. In five editions there were more than 200 partner companies and 106 speakers involved in workshops, talks and round tables. In 2008 there were 14 partners involved, today there are more than 60.

The Faber 2023 edition expands by extending the partnership to Third Sector organisations to meet their need to identify new market spaces and competences. Social impact and sustainability will be relevant themes in the programme and will also find space in dedicated workshops and talks.

All information on how to participate can be found at: www.fabermeeting.it

What does cultural craftsmanship have to do with the impact economy?

In order to change the direction of the economy and finance, all sectors must be involved to achieve relevant results.

Tommaso Rovetta, Coordinator of the training activities of the Accademia Liuteria Piemontese, a third-sector association that makes musical instruments, explained  how music and attention to the ancient arts can be an interesting way to understand the issues of the impact economy.

The Interview by Francesco Antonioli.

Watch previous episodes here.

CERES – At Le Valli in Vetrina, the Al Cicapui association focuses on territory and sustainability and does so starting from the game, from sensitivity, from nature.

≪We would be pleased to invite you from 21 to 24 April at the “Al Cicapui” stand during the “Le Valli in Vetrina” fair. During the event we will present the board game “VIAV: The Tour delle Valli” result of a long co-planning between various players of the Joint Association finally in the first edition in LIMITED Edition, 90% guaranteed with reused materials. For the occasion, on the afternoon of April 23, we created a short immersion in nature at psychological character to experience firsthand both the benefits and nature and the environment mountains offer on the well-being side, both the motivations that support and guide the Association in pursuit of its mission. For us it would be a great pleasure to be able to share the event and the experiences together.

We kindly ask you to confirm your presence or not at the event by writing us on whatsapp ai numbers 3398654032 or 3479430952≫.

The current context is characterized by a fundamental challenge: the transition to sustainability. Global warming, environmental and climate change, depletion of resources and biodiversity, drought and water scarcity are just a few examples of how the impact of human beings has broken the balance of the Earth. This condition remains difficult to intercept because it lacks, al moment, a solid “common ground” that can lead to a concrete change in both economic modalities and in daily habits.

Starting from what has been said and from a profound attention to the social changes that result from it they achieve, the psychologist Nicolò Starnai, the glass artist Chiara Ferraris and the technical Maker in circularity Antonio Convertino in collaboration with the Al Cicapui ASD and APS Association, integrating different perspectives and skills, they decided to give life to Eco-Chance Lab.

Eco-Chance Lab defines itself as a laboratory for the acquisition and development of skills direct and indirect on the theme of sustainability, therefore on the relationship between human beings and nature. It is in fact aimed at promoting new ways of being and acting, objectives pursued through support to people, organizations and communities. Eco-Chance Lab was born from the integration of daily practice and scientific studies: it is defined in the acronym C.H.A.N.C.E., which identifies the six pillars essential to favor a sustainable turnaround considered in all its aspects.

Eco identifies a window on the relationship between Ecology and Economy, but above all it highlights the Eco understood as resonance. Indeed, the challenge of sustainability must be faced in a shared integrated way. Awareness identifies the need to develop a personal awareness, a necessary basis to co-build a collective consciousness of symbiosis with nature and the environment. Health represents well-being and health: the reference model is bio-psycho-socio-environmental. The bio-psycho-social model must be integrated with the physical environment, as it is capable of increasing o reduce perceived well-being. Art is understood as awareness of beauty, therefore an opportunity for growth and greater equilibrium. Art represents the possibility of perceiving things from an alternative point of view, key element in any change. Nature: experiences in nature have powerful and positive implications on physical, psychological and health emotional. Furthermore, direct contact with nature has proved to be a powerful tool raising awareness in favor of green practices. “touch” the problem and experiment with its solutions. Experiential learning, especially when in a cooperative context, is an aspect capable of activating new ways of thinking and acting.

Eco-Chance Lab therefore incorporates workshops, training and experiential activities that they allow to develop a sense of realistic trust and conscious optimism towards the present e to the future. ≪These develop – they explain from the association – starting from concern, a very important feeling because it is capable of stimulating behaviors useful for solving a given problem. In other words, it is a powerful emotional lever that can lead to change. It’s just starting on a level adequate of concern that you can cultivate psychological closeness. Psychological closeness is the element for which a subject, initially perceived as distant (e.g. “global warming is an Arctic ice sheet problem”) is acknowledged as ever closer and concretely observable here and now in the immediate vicinity (“because of global warming today there is no more water in the river and probably this summer will come streamlined”). Therefore, developing psychological closeness starting from concern means understand what is happening and consequently acquire greater awareness a respect, an element capable of favoring deeper and more significant concrete changes.

Eco-Chance Lab therefore aims to raise awareness among people, families, communities and organizations on the issue of sustainability mainly through two channels. On the one hand it offers Team Making and Team Empowerment activities, with the dual objective of developing knowledge on sustainability (direct skills) and enhance the relational components and the dynamics that characterize a work group (indirect skills). These activities are carried out mainly in the Atelier through practical workshops of direct experimentation with reused materials. On the other hand, the objectives are pursued through experiences of immersion in Nature a psychological nature, aimed at promoting the strengthening of resources especially in relation to managing stress, emotions and difficulties. This is to increase your own individual, organizational and community well-being in favor of a better quality of life and greater serenity. The goal is not the application of top-down solutions, but the co- construction of a different approach aimed at promoting feasible and shared solutions for the different reality. A newfound and conscious symbiosis between human beings and the environment can in fact promote both individual and organizational practices of recirculation, reuse and recovery of materials with a view to circular economy, and to promote greater general well-being≫.

The Sand company, with its giant games, will be at Lingotto Fiere into Torino Comics, from 14 to 16 April, inside the Games pavilion dedicated to role-playing, card and board games.

Every day Sand designs and builds elements of communication, furnitures and structures to enhance open spaces, from private gardens to national natural parks; for this faire Sand will make available to the Comics visitors some GIANT GAMES made with recycled wood and processing waste. Traditional and popular games come back revisited in a modern and eco-sustainable key: checkers, jenga, connect four, tic-tac-toe and target shooting with rings.

We are the Qubì cultural association and we’re building a garden on the Dora river: a meeting place, an urban vegetable garden and a cultural reference point for the Lungo Dora area adjacent to Borgo Rossini.

Our project starts from the ideas of sustainability and circularity, passing through our incredible cuisine.

We are in the development phase and this summer we will begin to fill the Lungo Dora area in front of our headquarters (Lungo Dora Firenze – opposite via Parma). We want to collaborate with a reality that helps us calculate the impact, emissions and absorption of CO2 that we will produce with our project!

Are you interested or interested? Write to us at info@qubitorino.it directed to Andrea!

Thank you!

Qubì Staff

Aspire is an incubation programme for anyone with a high social impact idea to develop.
The programme supports aspiring entrepreneurs and social innovators through online training, networking and access to a grant to test their idea. The aim of the programme is also to break down barriers for the most vulnerable groups, for which rewards will be awarded at the evaluation stage.

In 8 weeks, together with other change makers from all over Italy, it will be possible to improve impact design and entrepreneurial skills, consolidate one’s idea and realise it, with the opportunity to access a non-repayable grant of 10,000 euro.

Applications are open until 30 April here.
The Social Tides incubator is managed by Inco and supported by google.org

San Salvario, located in the heart of Turin, has become today one of the coolest districts of the city, representing transformation and change. In this area you can find Vasté Impresa Sociale, the project created with the aim of offering high quality catering linked to Piedmontese tradition but open to innovation.

In this interview by Francesco Antonioli with Marco Valente and Marco Pastori – respectively President and Head of Innovation, Development and Impact of Vasté – we discover how a catering project can have a positive impact on both people and the surrounding environment.

 

 

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AG 4 Future Food Accelerator is a b2b vertical acceleration program that, through partnerships with the best companies in the sector, investments and the most qualifying mentorship path on a global scale, aims to identify and support the growth of International STARTUPS for the development of innovative, economically sustainable, accessible and efficient solutions and technologies within the ENTIRE INTERNATIONAL AGRI-FOOD CHAIN.

Admission to the program is reserved for 10 highly motivated international startups and teams in the pre-seed phase operating on cutting-edge technologies, with relevant industry experience, a clear roadmap, brilliant execution skills and a TRL> = 6.

Champions selected out of the business accelerator will receive  a convertible grant of 100K € each.

Applications are open. Apply here