UniCredit Banking Academy, in collaboration with AICCON, Politecnico di Milano – Tiresia/MIP, Fondazione Italiana Accenture and TechSoup, presents ROAD TO SOCIAL CHANGE, a project for the Italian Third Sector development which intends to play a leading role in the country’s recovery process, contributing significantly to the realisation of many important economic and social challenges. The project, which runs throughout 2021, ideally crosses Italy with 7 stages in the territories of our country.
Road to Social Change is aimed at training the new professional figure of the Social Change Manager of the Third Sector, to design and guide the transformation processes of Italian Non-Profit organisations. The primary objective of the Road to Social Change project is to trigger, enhance and accompany processes of change and innovation that are strongly rooted in the territory and the communities that live there.
The project offers a path of inspiration and training that develops through Digital Talks of national interest, local seminars and on demand online courses with the aim of providing knowledge, encouraging moments of confrontation and networking, stimulating the creation of new alliances and accelerating change. Through this course you will acquire the skills necessary to obtain the Social Change Manager Open Badge.
Call for the Third Sector
In parallel to the roadmap, the project is promoting the “Call Road to Social Change“, an open call to identify and promote 7 projects with a strong social impact, capable of providing structural solutions to make the beneficiary communities more solid and cohesive, stimulating innovation and new economies.
The seven best community-building proposals will be rewarded with targeted consultancy support and with economic awards as specified in the regulations.
The call is open until 30/09/2021.
To participate and read the regulations: https://roadtosocialchange.ideatre60.it/.
National talks and regional seminars
Digital talks calendar (You can register to digital talks for events on the Road to Social Change project landing page on the UniCredit website www.unicredit.it/roadtosocialchange):
- SICILY – 20 April:
- Enhancing cultural, tourist and agri-food supply chains.
- SOUTH – 18 May:
- Generating new social infrastructures.
- CENTRE – 22 June:
- Regenerating places by involving the community.
- NORTH CENTRE – 21 September:
- Developing community welfare and cohesive economies.
- NORTH EAST – 19 October:
- Promoting the circular economy through enterprising communities.
- NORTH WEST – 16 November:
- Promoting inclusive cities and new ecosystems.
- LOMBARDY – 3 December:
- Enhancing digital infrastructures to generate social impact.
Past digital Talk recordings are available on https://roadtosocialchange.ideatre60.it/.
The calendar of the 14 online local seminars dedicated to territories to help increasing knowledge and skills of the Third Sector on issues related to Digital Transformation, Banking and Social Impact Measurement and ;anagement can be viewed at the following link: https://www.unicredit.it/it/chi-siamo/educazionefinanziaria/unicredit-talk/road-to-social-change.html.
The Open Badge
An Open Badge is a digital certification of knowledge, skills and competences acquired, in this case issued by MIP – Politecnico di Milano. It certifies a professional figure, the Social Change Manager, who, in the non-profit sector, initiates and manages social and participatory innovation processes. This professional is able to develop a transformative vision for and in collaboration with communities and to implement this vision through processes of co-design and co-production in partnership with public and private actors in the area, through impact management tools and digital technologies.
The Social Change Manager Open Badge is obtained through:
- Participation in 5 national Digital Talks;
- Participation in 2 local seminars;
- 100% completion of the On Demand content on the Ideatre60 platform (roadtosocialchange.ideatre60.it/)
We would also like to remind that in order to obtain the Social Change Manager Open Badge it is necessary to participate in at least two territorial seminars, one held by TechSoup and Tiresia – Politecnico di Milano, and one held by UniCredit trainers. There will be a total of 14 territorial seminars (two for each territory) and they are open to all. When choosing which two seminars to attend, preference should be given to those held in your area. There are no restrictions on attending more than two seminars.
Partners
AICCON: one of the most authoritative centres of reflection and thought on the themes of the Civil Economy, is scientific partner and content partner of the project, with support for the design of the route and definition of the contents.
Politecnico di Milano (Tiresia/MIP): is scientific partner and impact partner of the project. Tiresia and MIP participate in the training course and collaborate in accompanying the winners of the Call. In addition, MIP Business School issues the Open Badge of Social Change Manager certifying the skills and knowledge acquired by participants during the course.
TechSoup: is a content partner of the project, proposing itself as a reality that will accompany, through content, skills and resources, the organisations participating in the initiative towards a conscious and mature use of technology and digital.
Fondazione Italiana Accenture: technological partner with the Ideatre60 platform, manages the delivery of on-demand content and for the Call provides the 7 winners with a customised and integrated accompaniment path with digital learning functions for all participants.
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For more information, please contact: info.unitalk@unicredit.eu
