The artistic residence of the winners of the competition QUANTE ITALIE?, which was promoted by Artissima and Torino Social Impact, started on September 1st and ended on Septemeber 30th. 

Last May, the Torino Social Impact Art Award – The prize conceived by Artissima and Torino Social Impact and addressed to emerging talents with a multicultural and migratory background – announced the two winners of the call for artistic residence: Caterina Erica Shanta (Germany, 1986) and Liryc Dela Cruz (Philippines, 1992).

The two young talents selected had the opportunity to be in residence in Torino for one month to produce a new video work that involves reflections on the theme of “How Many Italies?”, the title and focus of this first edition of the Torino Social Impact Art Award.

“How many Italies?” invites the young winners to contribute to the transformation of social perceptions on particularly urgent issues, examining life stories considered “distant” to investigate themes such as identity and cooperation, relying on their own multicultural background and personal, faceted and innovative viewpoints, through constant and productive interaction with the context and stimuli of the city of Torino.

The selection of the artists took place through the publication of a call sent to the leading Italian Fine Arts Academies and Universities and digitally distributed. The call received submissions from 22 artists: video artists, photographers, painters and performers, ranging in age from 22 to 35 years, with a slight majority of women (thirteen) and foreigners (twelve). The existence of a multicultural and migratory background in the artist’s life story was a fundamental requirement of the call, interpreted by the candidates in close relation to family history, and in relation to professional and educational experiences. Living for a long period of time in contact with other cultures, and having assimilated their characteristics, many of the candidates feel like “citizens of the world” and see their research as the result of migratory experience. Artists of many different origins responded to the call, with roots in Southeast Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, Central America, South America, the Middle East and the Far East. All the candidates have demonstrated a strong interest in the creation of collaborative works based on dialogue with the inhabitants of Torino.

The two winners have been selected by a committee composed of Ilaria Bonacossa, director of Artissima, Mario Calderini, professor at Politecnico di Milano and spokesperson of Torino Social Impact, Antonio Damasco, director of Rete Italiana di Cultura Popolare, Danilo Correale, artist, and Anna Daneri, curator.

During the residency – initially scheduled for the month of May and postponed to September due to the health emergency – the artists stayed at Combo, the hospitality partner of the project and an innovative format that combines the idea of lodging with artistic and cultural programming open to experimentation. The daily interaction with the heterogeneous community that inhabits and frequents the spaces of Combo, as well as the synergic proximity to Porta Palazzo – the largest market in Europe – which lends its name to the historically multi-ethnic neighborhood that is Combo’s location, permitted the artists in residence to constantly absorb new stimuli and inspirations.

Stimuli were enhanced by the visits organized by Artissima and Torino Social Impact to accompany the artists in the discovery of the city and its most significant artistic, cultural, and social expressions. Artissima also guided the artists in the development of their works, with specific processes of tutoring.

The shared focus on experimentation has led Artissima and Torino Social Impact to formulate the project with the aim of widening the boundaries of action of social innovation to contemporary art. Concentrating on the space of multiculturalism in today’s society, the initiative proposed new relationships and opened unexpected scenarios through the languages and gazes of the winning artists.

 

THE WINNERS

Caterina Erica Shanta won the Torino Social Impact Art Award with the project: Talking about visibility, for the following reasons:

“For the social impact of her proposal, based on horizontal dialogue and exchange of viewpoints. For the desire to question and focus on the imaginary of cinema of each of us, with the aim of giving rise to a project of collective cinema, involving several multi-ethnic communities of Torino and producing a work capable of conveying stories and narratives that shift from the personal to the social dimension.”

Born to an Italian mother and an American father, Caterina Erica Shanta has lived in various countries and been in contact with a range of different communities. Like other works recently made by the artist, Talking about visibility is a place of construction of identity, otherness and memory that places the accent on the act of recognition of self in a given imaginary, and on the visibility of that imaginary inside a common narrative.

 

Liryc Dela Cruz, a filmmaker from the Philippines, won the Torino Social Impact Art Award with the project Il Mio Filippino: Invisible Bodies, Neglected Movements, for the following reasons:

“For the force of social investigation proposed, focusing on the documentation of the collective movement of migration, its perception, the forgotten labour force and social rejection. For the intention to put a silent, subterranean world at the centre of the research, inhabited by people who remain unobserved or overlooked, but who play a fundamental role in our society.”

As in other works thematically linked to his roots and history, the Filipino community of Torino will be the protagonist of the research. The artist, concentrating on the everyday life of domestic workers, sets out to produce a video with choreographic elements.

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE ARTISTS

Caterina Erica Shanta

Born in Germany in 1986, Caterina Erica Shanta is an artist and director who develops documentary film projects with a particular focus on media systems for the production and archiving of images.

With a degree in Visual Arts from IUAV University of Venice, her works have been shown at various film festivals and in contemporary art exhibitions. She has worked in the field of education for several years, conducting workshops for children and adults.

Her works have been presented in art spaces and film events, including: Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (FI); Progetto Borca, Borca di Cadore (BL); PAV Parco Arte Vivente (TO); Lago Film Festival, (TV); MAMbo, Bologna (BO); Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano (MI).

 

Liryc Dela Cruz

Born in the Philippines in 1992, Liryc Dela Cruz took a degree in Mass Communication at the University of Davao (PH). He moved to Italy in 2017, and lived for six months in Torino, then moving to Rome where he presently lives and works.

His works have been selected and screened in international film festivals and art exhibitions. Among his various honours and events, we can mention: representation of Italy at Young Artist UK in Nottingham; Editor-in-Chief of the exhibition “Where is South” at Palazzo Querini, Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi in the context of the initiative “Rothko in Lampedusa” during the 58th Venice Biennale; he collaborated with the Festival del Cinema Mediterraneo in Rome as coordinator of Progetto Methexis (2019). Recently he was selected as one of the emerging young filmmakers to represent Italy in the section of the Berlinale Talents festival during the 70th Berlinale International Film Festival. He will also take part in the INFRA project from 2020 to 2021 for Teatro di Roma.

In Turin, the first Social Impact Evaluators have been certified thanks to the University Professional Course promoted by the Turin Social Impact Competence Center.

The CUAP – University Professional Course – for the Social Impact Assessment carried out by the University of Turin as part of the Turin Social Impact strategic plan, is successfully concluded today as the first action of the Competence Center for Impact Measurement, born in November.

As a confirmation of the great attention of the territory for new business models able to combine economic performance objectives and social impact objectives, the numbers of this first edition are an important sign: 91 participants and 42 third sector entities were involved. The total teaching hours provided were 125 (both in classroom and online), with the participation of over 20 expert teachers of the impact assessment in every area: to name a few, in addition to Paolo Biancone director of the CUAP, Mario Calderini, Giuseppe Chiappero, Flavia Coda Moscarola, Emiliano Giovine, Gabriele Guzzetti, Federico Mento, Filippo Montesi, Roberto Randazzo, Elisa Ricciuti, Silvana Secinaro, Valentina Tosi, Paolo Venturi, Flaviano Zandonai.

A total of 84 certified impact evaluators / chief value officers came out of the course. The final exam test involved the realization of a project work, for which the participants selected 15 existing projects, on which to carry out the impact assessment.

The course, supported by the Turin Chamber of Commerce through the Social Entrepreneurship Committee, was made possible thanks to the synergy with the Management Department of the University of Turin, as well as the collaboration of the Tiresia Politecnico di Milano International Research Center, of the Cottino Social Impact Campus and of the training agencies of the cooperative system.

A new edition of the CUAP on the Social Impact Assessment is expected in December 2020.

The Scientific Colloquium on Social Enterprise organised by Iris Network – initially forseseen in Turin – will take place in LIVE STREAMING, on the 28th and 29th of May!

> Download the program [ITA] 

Participation in the Scientific Colloquium on Social Enterprise is free, available in live streaming on the following platforms:

• Rivista Impresa Sociale web site
• Facebook page of  WIS – Workshop sull’impresa sociale
• YouTube channel of Iris Network

The 2021 edition will be held in Turin!

FOUNDAMENTA # 10 | Impact Makers for the Future is the new call from SocialFare | Center for Social Innovation, addressing startups and businesses with a social impact, able to offer innovative responses to contemporary social challenges.

Objective is to support the best entrepreneurial teams “capable for the future” for the development of innovative products, services and models, by offering a unique acceleration program of expert advice and equity investment up to € 100k for the generation of entrepreneurship and social impact.

Incubator certified by MISE, SocialFare has activated 9 specific acceleration programs for companies with a social impact: since 2016, it has accelerated 57 startups that together have collected more than 4 million euros of fundings.

The startups and companies selected through the FOUNDAMENTA # 10 call will have access to:

• 4 months of intensive acceleration (September 2020 / January 2021)
• Seed fund up to € 100K in cash for each company selected in exchange for equity up to 15% (20% of the seed seed received by correspondent to SocialFare for acceleration services)
• A dedicated Acceleration Team, mentor and advisor of excellence
• Social Impact Acceleration approach developed by SocialFare
• Access to the network of over 50 social impact investors
• Free desk in Social Renaissance, hub and network dedicated to social innovation in the heart of Turin

The program ends with the Social Impact Investor Day and the opportunity to present itself in front of a panel of prestigious private entities, business angels, private investors and family offices including the impact investor instrument SocialFare Seed: Compagnia di San Paolo, CRC Foundation, Finde SpA and Magnetto Foundation.

Deadline: July, 12th

> The call with further information is available at the link socialfare.org/foundamenta

COVIDCAP.COM is a platform for searching global and local sources of finance and loans for small businesses and non-profit organizations. The database, daily updated, already contains over $ 1 trillion in resources allocated for the COVID-19 emergency, available to small businesses and nonprofit entrepreneurs around the world.

By accessing the platform it is possible to search or to add a resource available in the form of a grant, loan or any other forms of cash aid, anywhere in the world.

Covidcap.com is produced by The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, with a team of consultants and volunteers and with the support of institutions from all around the world.

> GO TO THE PLATFORM

On Wednesday 20th May from 18 to 19 on Hackability Facebook page will take place the LIVE STREAMING of COCCA prototype presentation.

Cocca is the first ergonomic and customized helmet made in 3D printing for the Paralympic bowl, designed by Cocca Visconti, Paralympic champion of bowl and by Etra Rossi designer, with Davide Visconti and the support of Maurizio Contu Marco Bocca Giuseppe Becci. COCCA was created within the HACKABILITYLAB with the contribution of the CRT Foundation.

The project team will be present.

HACKABILITYLAB is a Hackability initiative.

The launch of the new investment fund created to support the development of companies with high social, environmental and cultural impact

a|impact^e is the new closed impact investing fund promoted by Avanzi – Sustainability in Action, in collaboration with Etica Sgr – Resposible Investments, starting from 2020.

The Fund has raised significant resources from professional investors, in particular from Banca Etica and Fondazione Social Venture Giordano Dell’Amore and aims to raise a total of € 40 million in the coming months from professional investors. It has as Advisor a|cube (ex Make a Cube³), the leading incubator in Italy in social business.

The launch of a|impact^e will take place on Friday 15th May 2020, at 10.30 am.

> Go to the registration link

Fifth appointment of “The Workshop of the Commons”, an event organized by Labsus and part of the “Pacts for shared administration in the Turin metropolitan” with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation.

During the ongoing Coronavirus emergency, children lost their daily reference to the place of learning, discovery and relationship: school. In recent weeks, civil society has mobilized on the one hand to support the activities of educational institutions, on the other, making creative proposals to meet the needs of children and families.

How can we rethink the school that will come in the coming months? What experiences emerged in the area, what ideas can help us rethink and co-design activities and services for children by renewing the role of schools as a community garrison in neighborhoods?

It will be discussed on Thursday 14th May from 17:30 to 19:00 (live facebook on the Labsus Beni Comuni page) together with:

• Ester Chicco, Psychotherapist, Psychologists Worldwide, Turin
• Erika Mattarella, Coop Liberitutti and Public Baths Via Agliè, Torino
• Gianluca Cantisani, President of MoVI – Italian Volunteer Movement and Parent Association of the “Di Donato” School, Rome
• Teaching Direction Collegno III, Open and Shared School I. Calvino
• Manuela Naldini, University of Turin – Alliance for children
• Ludovico Albert, President of the Foundation for the School of the Compagnia di San Paolo

Introduced and moderated by Ianira Vassallo, Labsus – Subsidiarity Laboratory

For information: mailto: piemonte@labsus.net
Facebook Group Labsus Piemonte

RETE ADESSO is addressed to unemployed people in particular conditions of frailty and social vulnerability: the telephone contact point offers information on the services active in the area, advice and accompaniment to access to digital public and private services, including: access to the Program Digital Solidarity of the Italian Government, the activation of the SPID and the use of the public platforms, the search for information necessary for daily life and / or the study of children and numerous other services.

The service is also available in language sign for deaf people.

The initiative is relized by Exar Solutions with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, in partnership with the Regione Piemonte, the Consorzio Sociale Co.Al.A and the Consorzio Sociale Il filo da Tessere.

The free number to call is 800 197 331 and it is active;

• from Monday to Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m to 6 p.m.
• on Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The service in language sign is available in videoconference on Tuesday and on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 12 a.m., by calling at the number 342 09 66 740

The Community Concierge “Lo Spaccio di cultura” of the Biagio Project from the Italian Network of Popular Culture is active to provide free assistance to people who need it. The “concierges” are available to provide different services, such as:

• Sos technological assistance
• Homework support and creative workshops for children from kindergarten and elementary school
• Recipes from the multicultural families of “Guess who’s coming to dinner?”
• Aesthetics and body care treatments
• Concierge choir
• Parlons français!
• Psychological support

All services will be offered for free, from Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., by calling the number +39 347 8788271, of directly from the web site www.spacciocultura.it or by e-mail info@spacciocultura.it

The Giacomo Brodolini Foundation takes part to the SOLIVID project, an international open database for sharing solidarity and civil activism initiatives in the fight of the crisis of Covid19.

In particular, the project aims to acquire information on two main areas:

1 / Maps and digital networks that collect solidarity initiatives in response to the Coronavirus crisis in various territorial areas around the world.

2 / Concrete solidarity initiative with the following general characteristics:

• An altruistic initiative that does not involve any type of monetary exchange and not for profit
• Collective initiative involving a certain degree of social organization (and therefore not only found on a personal basis)
• Initiatives aimed at responding to plural collective needs (linked to personal care, education, housing, leisure, physical activity, culture …)
• Initiative that represents a response expressly referred to the Coronavirus crisis, implemented by groups born in this period or new activities of groups already operating in the area.

The project, conceived by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​already has numerous partners all over the world (Spain, France, Italy, Portugal) and sees, in addition to the Brodolini Foundation, also the participation of the Italian University such as the University Federico II and the IUAV of Venice, as well as other foreign universities such as the Universitat de Girona, the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Maximum participation and collaborative action is encouraged.

For more information and to enter your initiative in the database: solivid.org

Until May, 11th #ImpattoSocialeReloaded is open, a call dedicated to Third Sector entities and social entrepreneurs committed to innovate and redesign their activities in order to face the COVID-19 emergency and mitigate its social and economic consequences.

The initiative is addressed to those who need immediate resources to activate, through a transformative process, new solutions and new models for the care and well-being of the communities in which they operate.

Each selected initiative will benefit from:

• Up to € 100,000 in cash
• A fundraising campaign on ideatre60
• An advisory support from the Promoters to accompany the development of the projects proposed.

The initiative is promoted by Fondazione Italiana Accenture and Fondazione Snam, in partnership with Aiccon, Make a Cube³, Nesta Italia and TechSoup.

See the call and applicate > impattosocialereloaded.ideatre60.it

In Turin, some local associations have launched “TuttiConnessi”, an initiave to promote the solidarity collection of IT tools for students in difficulty in response to the lack of connection equipment.

Distance learning has proven to be a strategic resource for schools with the aim of ensuring continuity of training activities in this emergency situation we are facing. To success, this new model of “doing school” does not only require you to juggle e-learning platforms, multimedia content and new teaching approaches, but has a fundamental requirement: the IT tools, essential for accessing this “e-learining plan”.

However, data collected from teachers revealed several critical issues, first of all the absence of  technological devices for a third of Italian families. According to a recent ISTAT survey, in fact, it seems that about 14.3% of families with at least one minor do not have computers or tablets and only in 22.2% of families each component has a PC or tablet at disposal.

“TuttiConnessi” is a project in expansion: born to respond to a specific need (and emergency) of the territory, it also intends to look to the future, trying to incisively face the problem of the digital divide and the new challenges that the world of education will face.

To offer effective teaching support, the goal is to collect unused IT equipment from private individuals and companies and distribute it to students in need. The devices will be recovered and sanitized by volunteers, regenerated and delivered to the families of the pupils who requested them through the mediation of teachers and educators.

This independent project was born from the collaboration between the Turin associations SYX, Tékhné, Informatici Senza Frontiere and MuPIN – Piedmontese Informatics and Technology Museum: a multidisciplinary team, necessary to manage a complex situation that implies, in the first phase, the offer of the access to hardware essential for online training, and which will subsequently require the development of new skills and teaching methods.

By connecting to the web site tutticonnessi.it it is possible to access the different areas dedicated to anyone intending to donate a device: everyone can support the project through the donation of laptops, tablets or smartphones, of any brand and type, provided they are functional and sufficiently recent.

The proposed model is also scalable and replicable in other cities that have already taken an interest in the initiative, and which find indications on the website regarding the processes and operations. This emergency teaches everyone to be in solidarity, therefore the prerequisite for the school to continue with its formative mission is that, thanks to a massive adhesion, it is also possible to make #TuttiConnessi.

For more information: tutticonnessi@syx.it – ​​Telegram / WhatsApp: +39 351 8930600

A tool dedicated to enterprises, collecting all information about the Coronavirus emergency: Unioncamere, in collaboration with InfoCamere, has created an online platform to help entrepreneurs to extricate themselves in the flood of national and regional measures aimed at containing the spread of the virus.

Reachable at https://ripartireimpresa.unioncamere.it/ the portal allows a targeted search of the rules adopted at central and local level and pays particular attention to opportunities for financial support.

The Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation has introduced an important update in the current edition of the Seed_Social enterprises, efficiency & development call, in ordet to better meet the needs generated by the health emergency.

The review is aimed at supporting the resilience and restarting of social enterprises, as well as the continuity of organizational functioning, and promoting possible transformations to react to the rapidly changing context.

The main changes concern the acceleration of the selection process and the increase in the overall amount of contributions and the number of social enterprises that can be supported. An ecosystem of subjects available to offer their services to social enterprises will also be activated.

The deadline for submitting applications is April 30, 2020.

> See all the details on the revision of the call on the official call page [ITA].

We point out the appeal of Humus Job, an innovative startup with a social vocation accelerated by SocialFare in 2018/19, which has developed the new job search platform dedicated to agriculture and committed to promoting ethical and regular contracts:

CALL FOR EMPLOYMENT EMERGENCY IN THE AGRICULTURAL FIELDS:

we create an operational and synergistic network to meet the needs of companies!

To all those who work in the agricultural sector:

Institutions, public bodies, employers’ associations, trade unions, third sector

[Contacts: www.humusjob.it / rete@humusjob.it]

They teach us compulsory schools that the primary sector is the most marginal, least important in “developed” economies:  everything is now mechanized, the industry and the service sectors are the main driving forces of the country.

Still, we find ourselves today not knowing where to find the labor force for our farms. According to what the president of Coldiretti Prandini said, “the blockade of the borders has made 370 thousand foreign workers in the fields less, on which a quarter of the Made in Italy food production depends“.

But this is not an emergency today. For years our campaigns have lost a governance of the supply of labor, leading to the generation of the famous ghettos, which in the words of Minister Bellanova, are “hellish places! Where desperation is mounting, also due to hunger and loneliness, which are full of workers who come from the South of the world and who over the years have been used in our countryside, often in the dark”.

“Now we realize how much WE are in need of immigrants, because the North is suffering!” These words of Minister Bellanova resonate vigorously among those who, for years, have been dealing with issues related to agricultural labor and the labor insertion of migrants.

Numerous actors have been moving on these issues for some time, to try to stem the suffering in the ghettos, to respond to the housing needs of the seasonal workers, to protect the interests of workers and those of companies. Either the state governs these processes, or there is crime. Today, too often, there is no government of the phenomenon. A complex and differentiated phenomenon, but which has highlighted a priority need from many sides: an instrument that connects the supply and demand of agricultural work is essential.

Humus Job has been working for a year and a half to create a job matching platform in agriculture.

We listened to companies, workers, unions and employers’ associations, we tried to respond to everyone’s needs, attempting a mediation that would respond strongly to the needs of the sector.

We were born in one of the provinces with the strongest agricultural vocation in Italy: Cuneo. The Granda Province is famous all over the world for its excellence and its food production. Today it is also the district of Northern Italy affected by the phenomenon of the ghettos of seasonal workers, in the difficult context of Saluzzo and surroundings.

Humus Job communicates job supply and demand efficiently and facilitates regular contracts. We are still in the process of developing the tool, but we are ready to make it available to workers and companies already after Easter.

We have decided to push the accelerator to respond to this emergency, to provide a concrete tool to those who deal with this phenomenon in all parts of Italy.

We don’t think we have a definitive solution, but we believe that, quoting the minister, there is “The need to do a job together, we must be able to give these people the opportunity to work REGULARLY and not to have a deficit of manpower for the next harvesting campaigns ».

The platform is there and there is no shortage of possible workers, not only among migrants. Those who have lost their jobs, the unemployed, those who receive income support, can now be the new agricultural workers. Thanks to the platform, people can be contracted directly online and therefore the movement of workers seeking employment in the countryside can be avoided. Companies can search for labor on the basis of training, experience in the sector and availability.

A verification of workers’ documents is activated and contracts are activated directly online. We ask both parties to keep track of the working days and we will check the regularity of the hiring at the end of the season. Verified companies – i.e. those that will focus on regularity and transparency – will receive an ethical quality label for the management of work resources and will be given positive visibility on social networks and on our website.

We want to encourage work in the countryside, but not just any job, not even in an emergency: we promote ethical and regular contracts, especially today!

However, we believe that the success of an innovative project is based on integration with other services, public and private. To give organic and effective answers there is the need to connect and be available.

This appeal goes in this direction: we have worked on a small piece, now we hope to be able to stimulate a dialogue on possible concrete experiments to provide immediate and shared solutions. They will not be perfect, but they will be operational and available solutions. Activating a large-scale collaboration process seems essential to us and the words of the Minister motivate us to get involved in the first person. Humus teaches us how essential the mixing of elements is to generate new life. We are inspired by this model to try to create networks, connections and new integrated responses.

Let’s join forces: help us spread our platform and write us to collaborate!

The Ivrea date of the CSR roadshow “THE FACES OF SUSTAINABILITY – THE NEW COMPANY AND THE CORPORATE IMPACT”, which was supposed to be held in the Olivetti factories, moves to the virtual.

The appointment is for Tuesday 21 April, at 4.30 pm, for a 90-minute meeting.

The speakers are of great interest and over 200 online registrations have already been collected.

Read the program and the discover the speakers [ITA]

Register here to participate

Welfare, che impresa! the 4th edition of the competition in online

Until April 20th it’s possible to candidate your project in the “Welfare, che impresa!” competition, which rewards and supports the best community welfare projects promoted by actors able to produce benefits in terms of local development.

The competition will award the best four projects in the following areas:

• social agriculture
• enhancement of cultural heritage
• requalification of confiscated assets
• training and social inclusion for vulnerable categories
• environmental sustainability and fight against climate change

The competition is aimed at non-profit organizations, innovative start-ups with a social vocation, benefit companies, membership networks that have not been established for more than 5 years and to organizations that have not yet been established, which will have 6 months from the announcement of the winning projects to formalize the constitution.

> Download the the information sheet of the competition 

The competition is promoted by Fondazione Italiana Accenture, Fondazione Bracco, Fondazione Snam, Fondazione CON IL SUD, Fondazione Peppino Vismara e UBI Banca, con il contributo di AICCON, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano – Tiresia e Impacton e degli incubatori PoliHub, SocialFare, Hubble Acceleration Program, G-Factor, Make a Cube e Campania NewSteel.

// Early bird on registrations until April 3rd!

How to Become a Smart Company is the executive course for those companies that in the COVID-19 emergency have found themselves unprepared for smart working and who want to know practical and technical solutions of remote work management for their team.

The course, organized by Impact Hub Turin, is addressed to Startups, SMEs and Corporates who aim to improve the flexibility and digitalization standards within their company, even post-emergency.

THE CALENDAR

April 7th > SMART WORKING: REGULATIONS AND TAX ADVANTAGES

April 9th > HOW TO MAKE REMOTE MEETING EFFECTIVE

April 14th > INFRASTRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT: IT SOLUTIONS FOR TELEWORK

April 16th > COLLABORATION TOOLS: WORKING IN AGILE AND REMOTE MODE

April 21st > SMART WORKING: OBLIGATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EMPLOYER

April 23rd > HOW TO MOTIVATE YOUR TEAM IN AGILE MODE

The course will be held online.

For more information and to find out how to register, visit the website at https://torino.impacthub.net/how-to-become-a-smart-company/

Confesercenti, in collaboration with Torino Wireless and LINKS Foundation, has published a map of shops delivering food at home, during the coronavirus emergency: a useful service available to citizens in this moment of difficulty which can be consulted on the  Confesercenti Torino e Provincia web site.

> SEE THE MAP

 

The campaign in support of Fooding has started!

Fooding is a project to fight poverty and food waste, promoted by Arci Torino on 4 municipalities in the province of Turin. It offers 4 popular canteens and day centers, 4 poles for the recovery and redistribution of unsold food, together with some orientation and consultancy activities to give those living on the margins of our society the tools to rebuild their own path of autonomy.

In 15 months of activity, more than 20,000 meals were guaranteed to over 600 people living in conditions of serious social marginalization. Over 30 tons of food have been recovered preventing food waste, and then redistributed to about 400 people and groups in economic difficulty.

The project is carried out with the contribution of the Ministry of Labor in collaboration with the Piedmont Region, the Municipality of Turin and the District 1. It has the patronage of the Municipality of Moncalieri and the Circumscriptions 1, 3 and 5 of the City of Turin.

In these days, solidarity and responsibility towards the community are fundamental. Fooding has NOT suspended its activities but has adapted them to ensure the safety of the operator and beneficiaries. The project continues because the emergency is worse for the most fragile and poorest people.

Distribution of ready meals to those who do not have a home to live in, delivery of food parcels at home to households most economically exposed to the social crisis within the emergency that we all live. With Fooding, we want to continue giving support to those who live in a condition of need, today more than ever, despite the increasing difficulties that activities are brought to face in the Covid-19 emergency. But to do this we need everyone’s contribution.

Feed this solidarity with us, with a donation you will allow Fooding to continue distributing ready meals to those in need!

Feed NOW! Donate NOW!

It’s open until the 30th of April the call to select 30 social innovation projects, launched within the P.IN.S. Piedmont Social innovation, for the design and implementation of new models and methodologies  for improving or creating products and services characterized by elements of social and digital innovation.

The coronavirus emergency and the lockdown imposed by this situation does not prevent the Vol.To Volunteer Service Center from continuing to fulfill its role as a reference body for the world of the Third Sector of Turin and its province.

Even if the offices of Vol.To are currently closed to the public and the activities have been reorganized in accordance with current legislation relating to the current health emergency situation, the CSV with headquarters in via Giolitti 21 in Turin continues to be active in order to meet the many demands of associations and volunteers.

CSV operators can be reached:

• By telephone it is possible to contact the Vol.To staff by calling +39 011 8138711 and toll-free number 800-590-000. The service is active from Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 18.00.
• By email, you can instead write to centroservizi@volontariato.torino.it
• By filling in a specific on-line form, you can request consultations via whatsapp, Skype or Google Meet Hangout. After completing the form, a service center operator will contact the applicant using the chosen method.

On the website volontariatotorino.it some experiences of support for people in difficulty activated by the Turin associations are also available, as well as the indications dedicated to those who want to make themselves available as a volunteer in this moment of great difficulty, where the priority is the contrast and contain the spread of the virus COVID-19 throughout the country.

Are you a person with a disability or are you assisting someone, and you have difficulties with technology?

It’s a very common situation in these days: now everyone is trying to make a call, to choose and install a software or even to open a new e-mail account. These can be simple actions for some and extremely complex for others.

Hackability wants to help you!

Hackability, the non-profit association born to bring the skills of designers, makers, digital artisans together with the needs of people with disabilities, mobilizes its community with HACKABILITY@HOME.

On the one hand, in line with Hackability mission, we try from home and through teleconference to develop and co-plan ideas and objects to make the lives of people with disabilities and caregivers easier and more accessible in these days; on the other hand, the community is mobilized every day from 10 to 12 to give advice in solving small and large technological problems by calling +39 011 19117853.

A mobilization of volunteers that also caters to all geeks with skills, IT or design, who want to give a little practical help these days. All information on the site and the opportunity to apply as a volunteer at http://www.hackability.it/hackthevirus.

ATC-Turin and numerous students from Turin’s high schools have already joined the initiative.

Torino come stai? Turin how are you?
What are our new habits? Our new needs?

The #torinocomestai initiative, promoted by Experientia, Nesta Italia, SocialFare, Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società – UniTo, Links Foundation and Cottino Social Impact Campus, consists of a data collection platform addressed to individuals, that will help to better understand what it’s happening in our city and the related impacts, with the aim of developing immediate answers and designing the best tools that increase the responsiveness of our ecosystem, also for the future.

To answer the (anonymous) questionnaire, go to the #torinocomestai platform.

Please, help us to spread and disseminate the initiative so that the questionnaire is known and filled in by as many people as possible.

Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation has launched the call named “Insieme andrà tutto bene”, with the aim of helping to reduce the social problems associated with the spread of the COVID-19 virus and the restrictions associated with measures to limit its spread.

The specific objectives of the Call are:

• to promote activities, interventions of proximity and support actions in favor of fragile people, minors and families in situations of difficulty in the emergency phase;
• to support proximity networks activated in the territories and capable of providing rapid and effective responses to the specific needs of the weakest sections of the population during the emergency phase.

The call is addressed to Third Sector entities and religious entities that carry out their activities in Piedmont and / or Liguria.

The first deadline for submitting applications is scheduled for 23:59 on 22 March 2020.

Requests for contributions must be sent via e-mail to the address attivita.istituzionali@pec.compagnia.torino.it and indicating in the subject the name of the proposing body and the name of the call “Insiemeandràtuttobene”.

More information and the text of the call for proposals are available on the official web page [ITA].

To face the effects of COVID-19, the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation supports institutions from civil society and organizations with an initial budget of 6 million Euros. To this, approximately 10.5 million Euros more of liquidity immediately available for the social and cultural system of the territory.

See the details of the Plan for supporting the emergency (ITA)

Two new opportunities are open within GrandUP! iniztive, the program promoted by the CRC Foundation and the Chamber of commerce of Cuneo, with the technical partnership of SocialFare.

GrandUp! Open School
2 days of intensive training, to learn about social innovation processes and methods
Locations: Cuneo and Bra
Deadline registration: 16/03/20

Call GrandUP! Companies
12 days of mentoring and co-planning with experts, to develop or innovate your company with a social impact approach.
Locations: Cuneo, Alba, Mondovì
Deadline nominations: 20/04/20

 

More info on: www.grandup.org

The Labsus report on the common goods in Italy has been published by Labsus association.

> Download the Labsus Report 2019 (ITA)

In total 60 people, among makers, designers, people with disabilities and 15 mentors in a month and starting from real challenges, have co-designed small solutions and great ideas,for a mobility accessible to all.

This is the challenge launched by Hackability in its Hackability4Mobility edition, created with the support of Toyota Italia and Arriva Italia and under the patronage of the City of Turin.

The results will be presented on Sunday 23 February at 10.30, in the Sala delle Colonne, Piazza Palazzo di Città 1, in Turin.

The mayor of Turin Chiara Appendino, the councilor for transport Maria Lapietra and the deputy minister of infrastructure and transport Giancarlo Cancelleri guaranteed their presence.

Admission free, seats limited.

The City of Turin, in collaboration with the Agenzia per la Coesione Territoriale, organizes an event for the presentation of the first results of Torino Social Factory, the measure of the National Operational Program for Metropolitan Cities 2014-2020 (PON Metro Turin).

Torino Social Factory supported with a total budget of 1.5 million euros the creation of projects of social innovation, capable of triggering urban regeneration projects in the Turin suburbs.

This event will be an opportunity to let the 14 Metropolitan Cities of PON Metro and Turin citizens know about the 15 projects financed by the measure, and about the policies for social innovation of the City of Turin.

The event will be held on January 23rd, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the headquarters of Tricircolo and Glocal Factory (two of the funded projects), in via Giuseppe Regaldi, 7/11, Turin. Participation is free with registration on the torino-social-factory.eventbrite.it page.

 

An innovative project to support social housing in Turin, through the acquisition of buildings.

 

Together with the City of Turin, the project brings together private non-profit and for profit organizations, including Brainscapital, Homers, ACMOS, Turin Chamber of Commerce and Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation.

The project has already received a loan of 150 thousand Euros from the Italian government – as a first tranche of a contribution from the National Social Innovation Fund. To these resources, up to around 1,5 million Euros could be added, while another 150 thousand Euros are already available to private lenders, ready to be invested.

Homes4All will promote a brand-new social housing service strategy, starting from the identification of properties – free or occupied, coming either from judicial procedures or from other sources, such as unused apartments or ad hoc donations. Among the main objectives, special attention will be given to innovate the housing traditional dynamics of tenants in order to promote participative, collaborative and inclusive mechanisms.

The overall management of the properties – both those coming from private individuals and those purchased in the real estate market or coming from judicial auctions – will be entrusted to a NewCo, whose services will be double-oriented: in the case of a free property, it affords the renovation in the purpose of resale or re-introduce it in the social rental channels; in the case of a occupied house, the institute is responsible for removing the debt situation of the occupant, who will turn into a fixed rent. Based on the know-how of the Turin ecosystem, this implementing model is very important to answer to emerging social needs, according to the scheme of impact finance.

The estimated savings for the City of Turin, in relation to the cost incurred for the provision of facilities destined for the housing emergency, amounts to around 450 thousand Euros, making the use of public resources more efficient.