The EU-funded project SoTecIn Factory just launched its first open call for social innovators with €3.3M for individuals & organisations, as civil society members, developing tech-driven solutions based on circular economy and social innovation in textiles, food, water & nutrient and plastics & packaging key industry value chains.

The Open Call 1 will award 25 European social innovators with up to 15,000 EUR for their ideas as solutions to circular challenges in the context of the specific project Mission (either a concrete problem proposed by the applicant or selected from one of the circular challenges coming directly from industry).

From this group, 15 innovators will engage in a pre-market technological demonstration with additional funding support of up to 85,000 EUR.

Besides equity-free funding, the beneficiaries will receive additional support in training, mentoring, and peer-to-peer engagement and pilot development, as detailed down below.

The benefits will be:

• SoTecIn Factory grants up to €100K (equity-free)
• Pre-market technological demonstration
• Capacity-building for social entrepreneurship & circular business support

Who can apply?

• Individuals as part of a legal entity
• Single organisations
• Consortium (Individual/Single organisation + Challenge (owner) that is not listed in Annex B) are eligible for this call
• Entities legally established/resident in the European Union or Horizon Europe Associated Countries

Target value changes?

• Plastics and packaging
• Textiles
• Food, water and nutrients

The deadine for application is 28 September 2023, 18h CET

Join SoTecIn Factory Open Call Info Webinars on Sept 05 2023, at 2pm CET and Sept 20 2023, at 11am CET

Find out more on the SoTecIn Factory website.

As part of the co-implementation process of the Social Economy Action Plan, the Commission encourages, collects, promotes and supports public and private stakeholder commitments for concrete actions to move towards the green and digital transition of the ecosystem.

The European Commission addressed stakeholders through a call for pledges on ‘proximity and social economy’ published on 14 November. The initial deadline to submit pledges was set for 28 February 2023. The next deadlines are 1 July 2023 and 1 December 2023. The call for pledges will remain open during the entire implementation of the transition pathway.

Torino Social Impact participated in the first call and 4 of its pledges have been included related to stakeholder engagement, data for social impact, impact finance and the Social Impact Stock Exchange, the support to social enterprises provided thanks to the SocialTech4EU project.

Sweden holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2023, and from June 7 to 9, Europe’s most important players in the field of the social economy will gather in Gothenburg, at a conference highlighting the role of the social economy in creating a stronger and more resilient Europe.

The “Social Economy 2023 – Building a Stronger and Resilient Europe” conference is organized with European experts and stakeholders and focuses on the Social Economy Action Plan approved in 2021 and its implementation. It builds on last year’s Strasbourg conference “Social Economy – Future of Europe,” included in the official program of the French presidency, and bridges with equivalent events to be held under the upcoming Spanish presidency in San Sebastian (November 2023) and the Belgian presidency in Liège (February 2024).

Torino Social Impact with the City of Turin will be present to present the advancements of the activities carried out under some European projects. Respondet, funded by the COSME – Social Economy Mission (Missions for the Social Economy) program, and dedicated to promoting the social economy with a focus on circular economy and energy transition issues. Socialtech4EU, dedicated to fostering the development of social economy clusters by strengthening their key players, funded by the European Innovation Council and the SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) through the Joint Cluster Initiatives (EUROCLUSTERS) for European Recovery (SMP- COSME-2021-CLUSTER).

TSI will also participate in the Annual Meeting of Reves – European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy, of which it is an active member, which will take place as part of the Conference.

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The Consorzio Sociale Abele Lavoro together with the European Association Ensie (European Network of Social Integration Enterprises), is organising an event on the theme: “Social Enterprises for Social Integration. Uno sguardo europeo”, on 25 May 2023 at Sermig – Arsenale della Pace, in Piazza Borgo Dora 61 in Turin.

A European comparison of good practices, similarities and differences, and ideas for innovative collaborations between public authorities and social enterprises for social and labour insertion.
The event will be held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Consorzio Sociale Abele Lavoro, as well as the Ensie Annual General Meeting.

Ensie is the European network of social insertion enterprises and brings together 31 national and regional networks, representing 21 countries of the European Union, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine. These networks pursue, adapting to local needs, objectives of social reintegration of disadvantaged groups. In total, the network comprises 2,800 social work integration enterprises and more than 184,000 employees.Ensie therefore works for the social integration of groups at risk into the labour market, for the economic viability of social work integration enterprises and for the promotion of equal opportunities.

PROGRAMME

14.00 Registration of participants
14.30 “Social Enterprises: Turin is Europe” – Opening by Massimo D’Amico (Director Consorzio Sociale Abele Lavoro)
Speakers: Patrizia Bussi (Director ENSIE and Vice President Social Economy Europe) and Raffaella Scalisi (Senior Advisor Torino Social Impact)
15.00 “Co-planning and Co-programming: a double interview between the Third Sector and the Public Entity” (Massimo D’Amico and Federica Giuliani from the Division of Social, Socio-Health, Housing and Labour Services of the City of Turin)
Edited by Gianfranco Marocchi (Director of the magazine Impresa Sociale)
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 “Socio-occupational integration of disadvantaged people: experiences and ideas for different collaborations between public and private social institutions around Europe” (Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, Austria and Italy); moderated by Gianfranco Marocchi and Piera Lepore (Consorzio Sociale Abele Lavoro)
17.30 Audience Interaction
18.00 Closing remarks and greetings

Live stream on YouTube channel

As part of the European RESPONDET (Regional Social Economy Policies for sustainable community-Driven Environmental Transition) project, the City of Turin and the Turin Chamber of Commerce, as part of the Turin Social Impact activities, organized a workshop yesterday at Open Incet spaces entitled “Reflections on the Circular Economy.”

The project aims to promote local and regional development in order to strengthen the social economy, making common management of resources the main element of social sustainability in the Green transition process, with a focus on the issues of circular economy and energy transition.

The goal of the workshop, attended by 11 organizations from the TSI ecosystem, was to gather experiences, suggestions and needs on the topic of circular economy from the local area in order to identify common intentions and strengthen the dialogue with local government.

The reflections that have emerged regarding the project will feed into the development of an Action Plan of the City of Turin, which will be submitted next June to the European Commission along with that of other regions.

The meeting was opened by greetings from Councillor for Ecological and Digital Transition Chiara Foglietta, who stressed the importance of collaboration with local stakeholders to fortify the city’s circular economy practices.

The meeting, led by Circular Market SB, was also an opportunity to reinforce the collective dimension of the Torino Social Impact ecosystem; in fact, during the morning, a new ecosystem project on strengthening communities of practice, implemented with the contribution of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, was presented. The partners were involved in a working group on the circular economy theme that, modeled after TSI’s table of benefit companies, will discuss common issues and challenges, pooling skills and experiences in a peer-to-peer learning logic to generate shared value.

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On March 16 and 17, more than 750 participants from all over Europe will meet at the OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin for the fifth edition of the Cities Forum.

The Forum is a biannual event, organized by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy, which will bring together key urban actors, including mayors and representatives of large, medium and small cities to discuss policies, actions and initiatives that will lead to addressing the urban challenges of ecological transition and social inclusion.

The City of Turin was chosen as the venue for the event, among 19 European candidates, due to its long experience in deploying community resources to support urban regeneration and social inclusion processes, as well as the availability of a unique location such as the OGR that emblematically represents Turin’s profound transformation.

Two intense days of work and appointments that will offer high-level debates, participatory sessions and interactive workshops on city cohesion and recovery.

The Forum will offer participants a unique opportunity to network and discuss recent developments in various EU initiatives and policies, as well as to explore the host city through several site visits planned for the morning of March 16, which will take 400 people to discover the sites of major urban transformations in Turin that have been financed over the past 20 years by European funds.

The forum will shine a spotlight on recent developments in key policies and initiatives involving cities, such as the EU Urban Agenda, the EU Mission for 100 Climate Neutral Cities and the New European Bauhaus applied as a paradigm for inclusive, sustainable and beautiful development.

You can find out the schedule of sessions and following the webstreaming, starting tomorrow at 1:15 p.m. at the following link.

Coinciding with the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union, leading European players in the social economy are gathering in Gothenburg for a conference highlighting the role of the social economy in creating a stronger and more resilient Europe.

The conference, “Social Economy 2023 – Building a Stronger and Resilient Europe,” has been planned in close collaboration with European experts and stakeholders and will focus on the Social Economy Action Plan and its implementation. It builds on last year’s Strasbourg conference “Social Economy – Future of Europe,” which was included in the official program of the French presidency, and bridges to the equivalent event to be held under the upcoming Spanish presidency in San Sebastian, November 13-14, 2023.

The conference, organized by Coompanion in collaboration with Social Economy Europe, REVES, and CECOP, with support from the Västra Götaland Region, the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, and Fremia, also aims to highlight the state of the social economy in southern and northern Europe, thus providing a basis for the Council’s further work in this area.

For Torino Social Impact will be an opportunity to share the results of the Respondet project, an international consortium funded by COSME under social economy missions, dedicated to implementing local policies for improving the social economy in connection with the circular economy, with a focus on energy communities.

The Respondet project is led by Generalitat Cataluna and accompanied by REVES, which will also organize its annual meeting on the same days in the Swedish city.

Torino Social Impact participated in the first deadline of the Call for Pledges of the European Commission’s Transition Pathway for the Proximity and Social Economy, contributing several projects on stakeholder engagement, digitization of social economy actors, data for good, social procurement and networking.

The co-implementation phase of the EU Transition Pathway for the Proximity and Social Economy Industrial Ecosystem began on November 14 following a co-creation process. Stakeholders were encouraged to submit concrete commitments in the implementation of the dual green and digital ecosystem transition.

The initial deadline for submitting commitments was February 28, 2023. By that date, the European Commission collects and reviews the submitted commitments, although the call will remain open as the collection is done on a rolling basis.

This initiative is part of the updated EU Industrial Policy and the European Social Economy Action Plan. The purpose of the call was to collect pledges from stakeholders on the concrete actions they will take to help implement the shared action areas identified in the transition pathway.

Indeed, this is an important way to demonstrate stakeholders’ willingness to support the goals of this transition pathway and their commitment to work together to support the dual transition of the ecosystem and strengthen its resilience. Commitments will help fill gaps, pool resources to achieve common goals, and mobilize support at all levels.

The commitments collected will contribute to the co-implementation of the Transition Pathway. The Commission will work with stakeholders to support them in implementing their commitments by facilitating the exchange of knowledge and best practices.

All information on how to proceed is available at the following link.

The City of Turin intends to respond to the Call for Proposal European Urban Initiative – Innovative Actions (EUI-IA) with a deadline of January 19, 2023 as the lead partner and intends to identify the best project proposals and partnership for the subsequent co-design of the application. It has therefore published a Public Notice to seek partners with whom to participate in the EUI-IA Call.

Project proposals should focus on the theme of rediscovering and revitalizing historic villages in post-industrial cities through concrete and tangible actions and interventions centered on the three core values of the new European Bauhaus: sustainability, inclusiveness and aesthetics.

The objective of the projects should be to contribute to the rediscovery, enhancement and promotion of the historical value of the two Boroughs of the City of Turin, supporting their cultural/economic/artistic/social vocation by integrating local participatory development actions, cultural animation, accompaniment and social innovation and interventions to improve the quality and usability of public space.

This year’s Open Living Lab Days – the annual global gathering of Living Labs organised by ENoLL -European Network of Living Labs – will be held in Turin, Italy, from 20 to 23 September at the OGR and is co-organised by the City of Turin, CTE NEXT and Torino City Lab.

The main theme of the event is ‘The city as a Lab, but now for real!”Re-working open innovation environments for inclusive, green and digital transition through emerging technologies’, to which five sub-tracks are linked: Society, Governance, Green & Sustainable, Transformation and Beyond the City.

It will be a specially designed meeting place for policy makers, companies, entrepreneurs, academics and innovators to explore, connect and work together.

Around 400 innovators from Europe and the rest of the world are expected to participate in this annual Living Lab event.

The programme is structured as follows: a training day on the fundamentals of the living lab, two days of international conferences, workshops and ted talks, and study visits to discover the city’s innovation locations.

The City of Turin, specifically, organised the following sessions:

Wednesday 21 September from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

Comparing the Urban Living Labs Models, from large cities to small urban centres: it will be illustrated how city labs are a unique tool to promote innovation in a holistic and inclusive way, involving societal stakeholders in creating long-term impacts for the city to foster the green and digital transition.

Wednesday 21 September from 2.00 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.

Scaling up, scaling out and scaling deep for social innovation, this session will start with an analysis of the role of public authorities and the third sector in social innovation, exploring the replicability of social innovation systems (scaling out) and delving into the roots of social innovation (scaling deep).

Thursday 22 September from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

The House of Emergency Technology in Italy and Beyond, a session in which the project and the first results of CTE NEXT one year after its inception will be illustrated, and the benefits of using 5G and emerging technologies for citizens will be analysed.

Thursday 22 September from 3.45 p.m. to 5.15 p.m.

Living Labs as enablers of the transformation of European cities towards climate neutrality, realised in collaboration with the Energy Center of Turin, the panel aims to analyse how living labs can help to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. The reflection will take place in the context defined by the EU Mission “Climate Neutral and Smart Cities” and the related goal of having the first 100 climate neutral cities by 2030, including Turin.

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On 13 and 14 September, the first meeting of the Respondet project will take place in Barcelona, where all the partners involved, such as the City of Turin, the Chamber of Commerce of Turin, Generalitat of Catalonia – Business and Labor Department (Capofila-ES) Confederation of Cooperatives of Catalonia (ES), European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy (ES), Service Public de Wallonie Economie, Emploi, Recherche (BE), Concertation des organisations représentatives de l’économie sociale (BE), Malopolska Voivodship-Regional Centre for Social Policy in Cracow (ROPS) (PL).

The RESPONDET (Regional Social Economy Policies for Sustainable Community-Driven Enviromental Transition) project, within the framework of the COSME European call for proposals, aims to promote local and regional development in order to strengthen the social economy by making common resource management the main element of social sustainability in the Green transition process.

RESPONDET will thus facilitate the convergence of policy lines and an effective transfer of knowledge, but also the building of local and transnational partnerships able to guarantee the sustainability of the project results.

To do so, it will organise its actions around four main thematic strands:

• Promoting the role of the social economy in the constitution of local energy policies
• Strengthening the role of the social economy as a key actor in the development of the local circular economy
• Fostering capacity building within the social economy, within community initiatives and public administration with regard to building a vision guided by the social economy and wise management of resources
• Stimulate cooperation between social economy and organisations

The project’s inaugural meeting will focus on the topic of local energy communities, providing an opportunity for the Turin delegation to exchange views with other European partners in order to foster the growth of these initiatives in our territory.

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The European project  SEED – Social Inovation Ecosystem Development launches a program of Capacity Building activities from September 2022 to April 2023 that includes 11 modules divided into 6 thematic areas:

• Co-design and co-production
• Social Innovation policy
• Financial support for Social Innovation
• Social Innovation business models and new forms of entrepreneurship
• Social Innovation monitoring and assessing
• Digital SI

The SEED Capacity Building program, coordinated by the Politecnico di Milano and by the University of Bologna, is part of the path leading towards the creation the National Competence Centers for Social Innovation in the four partner Countries: Greece, Italy, Romania and Slovenia. Stakeholders from these countries are particularly welcome to attend the programme, which is however free and open to anyone interested to better understand the meaning and implications behind the concept of Social Innovation.

You can check out the full program here.

On Tuesday, September 20, the first meeting entitled “Managing Social Innovation: from past challenges to future opportunities” is scheduled with the following agenda:

12.30 – 12.50: Introduction: Utopic scaling: what went wrong  – Mario Calderini and Ambra Giuliano, Politecnico di Milano
Panel discussion: Federico Mento, Ashoka – Marco Nannini, ImpactHub – SocialFare
12.50 – 13.05: What are the main challenges in managing SI processes and initiatives?
13.05 – 13.20: What are the main challenges in scaling SI?
13.20 – 13.35: What leadership for social innovation?
13.35 – 14.00: Q&A – Discussion with participants

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SEED – Social innovation EcosystEm Development, is funded by the European program EaSI with the City of Turin involved in the role of Lead Partner in partnership with Fondazione Brodolini, Politecnico di Milano, University of Bologna, Politecnico di Torino, Euricse, Fondazione Italia Sociale.

The goal of the project is to support the creation and development of a national Center of Competence for Social Innovation with the aim of enhancing already existing and recognized skills, and at the same time offering tools for training, learning, exchange and growth.

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.

The Commission launch event for the new action plan for the social economy took place in-person in Brussels and online on 16 December 2021.

The European Commission has adopted on December 9 a new action plan to support the social economy. With the action plan the Commission proposes a coherent set of measures aimed at creating enabling conditions for the social economy to fulfil its potential to contribute to fair, sustainable and inclusive growth.

Since last week, the activities of many of the winning projects of the European project Tonite have officially started with events, co-design meetings and preliminary presentations to the public.

The aim of these actions is to make more livable, especially in the evening hours, the areas of Aurora and Vanchiglia/Cle, as if the two districts were “illuminated” by a new beginning.

During the sixteenth edition of the Festival of Popular Cultures was presented one of the winners of the call Tonite: the Gardens on the Dora, a concierge community in the Aurora district. Project designed to transform aesthetically and functionally a stretch of the long Dora Savona, between Bologna bridge and the bridge of Corso Regio Parco, from a corridor of passage and parking in a place of encounter and human and cultural exchange.

In addition, as part of the Grandangolo project, the boys and girls of the 5C Parini School began to paint the sidewalk in front of the entrance of the school: a transformation rich in colors that has seen the children together with the students of the Course of Territorial Planning and Design of the Polytechnic of Turin.

As for the Vanchiglia-Cle area, the project Bocciofila 2.0 organized at the Bocciofila Vanchiglietta Rami Secchi a yellow-comic dinner of Commissioner Pautasso “The Mystery of the cemetery” for the night of Halloween in the sign of theater and Piedmontese cuisine.

For the project Per.Notte instead, in the area of the “Benches” of Borgo Rossini, was set up a mobile social health center aimed at preventing the abuse of alcohol and substances, designed by Cooperativa Frassati Onlus and Cooperativa Italiana Artisti Soc., aimed at preventing alcohol and substance abuse.

Finally, on November 20, in Via Chivasso 10, from 3 pm to 6 pm it will also be possible to participate in the first Yalla Aurora co-planning event: the new participation center for communities and young people, a multifunctional space of socialization, study, training, cultural animation and youth participation, as well as a reference point for the entire community of the Aurora district, promoted by the Islamic Association of the Alps – Turin and Generation Bridge.

Discover more about ToNite project.

The Family Sharing project was conceived and implemented by the Social Cooperative il Margine, born from the overcoming of psychiatric asylum and operates in the social health, educational, social inclusion, active labor policies, local development.

Family Sharing is the first mutual-foster project between families in a state of fragility and represents an innovative system of foster family, day or residential: it provides support between two families who are going through a period of difficulty, but who can help each other to overcome them.

The innovative and meaningful idea of the project is just “reciprocity”: even if families are going through a period of difficulty (they need help), they may still want to share their resources with another family (they can be of help). Each family will then have the opportunity to receive practical help in relation to its own needs, but at the same time to respond to the needs of the other.

Families are therefore no longer a taxable person receiving aid defined by others, but become an active part of a process of union, cohesion and sharing.

Family Sharing is part of the logic of social co-design through the instrument of “horizontal subsidiarity”. The principle that supports the intervention is that the service is not “provided”, but co-projected together with the beneficiary families. Families thus have the opportunity to live the experience of “becoming a resource” for another family, enhancing their social image (the family internalizes a positive image of itself) and activating a virtuous process capable of operating a cultural inversion of perspective: from model caregiver-care receiver (family Competent family-Disagiata family) with peer support model.

The project is aimed at families in the east of Turin with particular reference to peripheral areas, but can be inserted in any territorial context.

The project then sees the first phase of identification of families, which follows a path of support/ mentoring by a dedicated operator (family coach, with the function of matching facilitator), whose intervention will gradually reduce, until being completely absorbed thanks to a virtuous regenerative process activated by the interaction between the two families (which will be followed for a period of follow-up).

After periods of arrest due to Covid, Family Sharing has been active since June 2021: some beneficiary families have already been contacted and the first exploratory talks have been made through a careful evaluation of the mutual resources and needs, conduct of the psychologists of the cooperative The Margin.

The Covid has necessarily made it appropriate to reshape the project that is now going on in a slightly different way from how it was designed, because it is necessary to identify the new needs and new fragilities that emerged during the pandemic and it is also necessary to give different answers because it was not possible to work exclusively on proximity and meeting, which was a bit the focus of the project, the cooperative had to reinvent some partially different operating modes.

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Da Capo is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link.

Da Capo is a project of generative economy promoted by the social cooperative Giuliano Accomazzi, born in Turin in 1989, which for over 30 years has focused on the value of people, the value of rights, the value of the meeting, taking care of people and the environment by regenerating social tissues and contributing to the well-being of the community.

The Project develops around the idea of giving life to used garments and at the same time offering people the opportunity to get back into the game through work paths: regeneration therefore not only of objects but also of relations both territorial and human given by the creation of a network of traders and inhabitants who live in and near Piazza Savoia where the store is located.

In this last year, despite the difficulties and obstacles brought by the pandemic that have seen the opening of the store’s commercial activity, some significant initiatives have been developed: Covid’s arrest turned out to be a time for reflection on new perspectives and skills development and the creation of a network of contacts in the district where Da Capo operates.

The project has the ambition to become a reference point for the community by promoting relationships based on the exchange of opportunities.

During the summer of 2020, a tailoring workshop was set up, equipped with industrial sewing machines and an ironing station, a space in which women, in employment, had the opportunity to experiment and learn sartorial skills.

This has allowed the workers involved in the project, even during the closing of the store in lockdown last November, to give a second life to the garments not only through repairs, but also through refashion and upcycling in the perspective of a truly circular economy.

A Crowdfunding campaign called Da Capo Baby was also launched: thanks to the contribution of 127 donors, it was possible to create 20 birth kits consisting of clothing and products for the newborn and new mother,for 20 families living in a situation of fragility but also books, clothes, linen and hygiene products have been collected, all goods with which new kits will be made or which, simply, can be donated to other families.

From Capo not only stops at a store, but becomes a real reference point of a positive movement: customers contribute with the donation of clothes, propose new ideas and become ambassadors of a brand that “sees no flaws but only diversity, the positive, stimulating.”

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Da Capo is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link.

The City of Turin has been selected to participate in the international learning program promoted by the project RRR – Respond Rebuild Reinvent on the theme of ecosystems of the social and solidarity economy.

RRR, funded by the European Union under its foreign policy instruments, is part of the initiative of the OECD – Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development called ‘Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems Global Action’ launched in 2020 that involves over 30 countries.

Turin is the only Italian city that will participate in the training program and comparison with international realities. It has been chosen because of the commitment it has shown for years to support the local ecosystem of social innovation, in particular through the initiative Torino Social Impact’. The Turin context is in fact recognized as one of the richest on the international level for the experiences that promote the social economy and solidarity.

During the Covid-19 health emergency, the City has activated initiatives such as ‘Torino Solidale’ that have mobilized the territory in favor of the weakest and most affected by the socio-economic consequences of the pandemic.

Respond Rebuild Reinvent – which will involve 16 organizations worldwide, including Upsocial (the lead subject) and city networks Eurocities and Metropolis – wants to highlight and enhance the impact that the actions implemented by local governments can have in providing quick and effective responses during critical situations such as the recent health emergency.

The other cities selected, with which Turin will deal, are Dublin, Bilbao, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Belo Horizonte and Warsaw.

Pandan Social Hub, whose headquarters is in the heart of the district of San Salvario, is the project managed by the Cooperative Esserci that for more than 30 years offers services to people, in the territory of Turin, with the aim of helping them to feel better.

The project is born from the desire to promote a conscious and sustainable approach to living and consumption in economic, environmental, social and cultural terms; through the promotion of the culture of artisanal work attentive to the quality of raw materials, the marketing of environmentally friendly products and the enhancement of social and cooperative work.

Pandan Social Hub diversifies its activities on two levels:

The business plan with:
a bar and diner, which become a place of exchange, chatter, meetings and events;

The social plan with:
1. Financial Assistance Desk: assistance and assistance to people who are in difficulty in their economic management at home (family budget management, indebtedness and over-indebtedness, definition of relationships with banks, finance, pathological gambling, banking and criminal usury).

2. . Alzheimer’s coffee: active since 2020, it supports families who have loved ones who are suffering from dementia with the help of professionals who can meet informally, spending a few hours in a friendly atmosphere and focused on listening.

Pandan Social Hub is primarily a physical and virtual space that holds together chanting (fa Pandan) people, food, services, conviviality, protagonism and proximity: in fact, most of the people who attend the club have a relationship with all those who work there because you just want to give a different cut both from the commercial and from the social point of view.

Pandan also promotes the employment of people with disabilities, and in the last year an indefinite contract has been concluded for a person with intellectual disabilities, within the premises. Starting next June, with the evening opening, will be added to the staff another boy with intellectual disabilities.

The project started at the same time as the Covid-19, but this was not an obstacle, but it gave rise to the possibility of having a greater design and of being able to establish new relationships that have proved useful for the continuation of the various initiatives promoted that obviously had a brief setback but then they immediately resumed and continue to be carried forward in these months.

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Pandan Social Hub is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link.

Fattore comunità is a project carried out by the ACLI of the Metropolitan City of Turin that are the leader, with its patronage services and CAF, together with the Unione Sportiva Acli and the two cooperatives Project Education and Solidarity.

The project provides a network of services and territorial proposals that facilitate the daily management of the family and support it on issues related to health, home care, bureaucracy, taxation, home and its unforeseen.

The goal of community factor is to achieve an experimental model of community welfare based on the realization of integrated places where families can receive services, support each other and delegate care tasks in order to regain time/energy to assume a role of social and cultural actor of the territory, thus becoming also a generator of sociality that stimulates exchange and dialogue between people.

The project consists of three different types of activities:

– family services: assistance and support services for the use of welfare services;
– pre vocational training courses and workshops aimed at people with a certain fragility who have moved away from the labour market;
– community activities: strengthening community ties through opportunities for mutual assistance between families.

Factor Community acts in the district between Lingotto and Mirafiori, neighborhood very rich in initiatives but in which poverty is unfortunately present: It is therefore addressed both to people who have been expelled from the labour market and to young people who have somewhat lost hope of finding employment.

To date and despite the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 1300 families have been offered services and courses and workshops for about a hundred people have been activated. Among the latter ten are women, especially foreigners, who want to enter the profession of family assistant.

The others, about 90, are young people, who, through workshops conducted by experienced animators, have acquired a specific training on social animation and community animation.

Starting from 2020 there were also two events in the District as:

– a Trash Challenge: a job with a hundred young people caring and cleaning their neighborhood from waste;
– a cultural event with seminars, theatrical performances on the theme of social participation and environmental care.

During the Covid were suspended some workshops and pre professionalizing courses because, being mainly people with a certain fragility, “it is essential to center the educational relationship to avoid not having the added value that is given by working on the group so from being able to have an experience that also increases one’s self-esteem and not simply acquire theoretical skills“, declares Raffaella Dispenza – President of the ACLI of Turin.

In the coming months it is expected the implementation of other initiatives and even small events that will serve to regain that familiarity with relationships as the pandemic has somewhat forced everyone to a forced isolation or at least to see the reports from a certain distance.

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Fattore Comunità is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link.

It started the fundraising campaign, organized by Arci Torino, for the restart of the Circolo l’Anatra Zoppa in via Courmayeur 5: a project to reopen the historic club of the city, a place that for more than 30 years has intertwined the individual and collective history of many and many, for Barriera di Milano as well as for all of Turin.

In the last year it has been a place of solidarity in the emergency , of response to the social crisis arising with the pandemic: hundreds of families in the territory have found here a material and immaterial support, as well as one of the few spaces of relationship with others.

Many families have crossed this place in the last year and they will be the first to participate, through workshops of DIY, open to citizenship, to give new life to a place so dear to all.

The aim of the campaign is to return to fill the space of Via Courmayeur 5, when more than ever its protagonists have missed it, to regenerate spaces of common life and collective care.

The Restart Zoppa Duck project wants to be a common heritage, where anyone can feel at home.

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The project is promoted by Panacea Social Farm, a “young” social cooperative type B, which produces bread and bakery products and promotes sustainable production chains.

Only unrefined mother pasta and flours from the Stupinigi Nature Park are used. The aim is to promote sustainable agriculture and provide healthy food at this time more than ever.

Non Di Solo Pane has as its fulcrum the Barriera district of Milan, in fact it was born and developed in the context of the Laboratory of Barriera di Via Baltea 3, a multicultural hub with many different activities but which over the years has become a reference meeting place for the inhabitants of the neighborhood, managed by the cooperative Sumisura s.c. – Resources for the Environment and the City (where the Bakery of Panacea is located).

It is primarily a social entrepreneurship project that aims to develop work, citizenship and well-being. It deals with the integration into employment of disadvantaged people – in particular young immigrants and refugees – through training and accompaniment at the entry of the world of work, making them autonomous and allowing them to become active citizens aware of the neighbourhood and social network in which they live and work.

These are the activities undertaken:

Training courses in the three fields of production: pastry, bread, pizza

• Lessons of applied Mathematics and Italian
• n. 5 workshops open to the public dedicated to bakery and pastry
• n. 10 meetings dedicated to health in collaboration with the Medical Collaboration Committee (CCM)
• n. 1 language training course with practical part in the kitchen (36 hours)
• Guidance activities, and support to job research

The first goal reached, two years after the start of the project, is to have hired 2 people: some of them come from tiring paths or job loss or job search.

In addition, 15 people were given specific training, from Italian language teaching to mathematics, necessary and useful knowledge for the understanding and preparation of recipes of bakery products which has been accompanied by practical training with a period of training.

Unfortunately with the arrival of the pandemic and during the first lockdown the internships were suspended, but were reactivated in the second phase.

Non Di Solo Pane intend therefore to continue its journey, thought as an experiment that can be supported autonomously that aims at the creation of well-being through new paths of accompaniment to work and citizenship and through the production of new healthy and good products for those who have food intolerance or love simply the simple and genuine food.

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Non di solo pane is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link.

Loving the Alien is an articulated path of urban and social regeneration, started in partnership with Mufant – Museum of Fantasy and Science Fiction and the Cooperativa Sociale Onlus Altra Mente, cooperative that deals with the rehabilitation of people suffering from psychological distress.

Loving the Alien is also a brand that combines psychiatry and imaginary fantasy through four main activities:

• Tailoring for cosplayer
• Scenography Laboratory
• Fanatsy Park
• Fantasy Festival 

Central is the idea that all the planned activities produce revenues: the two workshops are designed to support themselves over time through the sale of products, while the Park and the Festival will support themselves through activities aimed at visitors and tourists.

Through the activation of the two workshops, the tailoring costume designer and the workshop of scenography has obtained an important result: it has been offered to people with psychic distress, the possibility to work in a stable and continuous inside.

Today, in fact, there are 8 people who work permanently in the two laboratories.

The Fantasy Park is an ambitious project for the regeneration of public space outside the Mufant Museum that houses works of urban furniture inspired by the protagonists of the modern fantasy. The aim is to create an area of attraction, interest and cultural tourism.

On September 18, 19 and 20, 2020, the Loving the Alien Festival was held: an annual festival dedicated to urban regeneration and social inclusion, with alien and utopian connotations that has achieved great public success.

The project is pursuing its actions both in relation to the possibility of giving continuity to workers, through the search for funds, both in the redevelopment work of the outdoor garden where at the moment 7 artistic installations have been placed and is expected to place another 8 by the end of 2021 .

Considering also the good results of the first edition of the Festival, we are working on the realization of the second edition scheduled for next June, Covid limitations permitting.

The main objective of the entire project is therefore to regenerate, not in a structural sense but in a sense of vitality of movement of people, through the Park and the Festival and make active and involved in the project, weaker people who through work and dexterity become stronger and part of a community.

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Loving the Alien is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link.

On the days of 19 and 20 May 2021 will be held the final event of the project Innovato-R entitled “Everybody’s an innovator: two years of experiments in innovating the city”.

Launched as a best practice in Turin, after more than two years, this fantastic journey into social innovation within the PA is now coming to an end. During the final event will be presented the results of the 7 pilot projects, with the 7 partners involved: Turin, Rotterdam, Cluj-Napoca, Vezprem, Porto, Métropole Du Grand Paris, Murcia.

The meeting will be divided into two parts: the first day on May 19th, open to the public, will present the panel entitled “The Innovative City” with speakers of international renown such as Charles Landry, author of The Creative Bureaucracy, Amalia Zepou, Founder of Kollectiva NGO and Arwin Van Buuren, Full Professor of Public Administration at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

The second day, May 20th, reserved only to the Partners of the project, will instead be a time for discussion and exchange of views and reflections on the issues of sustainability of the action and capitalization.

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Register to the event (deadline for registration, May 17th).

For any updates about Innovato-R, visit the website.

The Mirafiorisìcura project involves the participation of three social cooperatives: Cooperativa Sociale Mirafiori , the project leader, Cooperativa Sociale l’Arcobaleno and Cooperativa Sociale i Passi.

All three cooperatives work in the district of Mirafiori Sud for the prevention of social distress and for the creation of well-being for the weaker groups. The project aims to design, design and activate three proximity services responding to the needs of food, mobility, sociality and cultural entertainment of the citizens of the district.

A challenge that puts the community at the center, offering opportunities for participation and meeting able to value its resources by promoting solidarity and sense of care for their neighborhood.

Three proximity services to citizenship have been developed, such as:

• MiraBike service: a popular Cyclofficina to promote the use of bicycles between adults and children by offering citizens an effective and rooted assistance service;
• MiraSocial service: creation of a social oven available to citizens;
• MiraCulture service: a “cultural” bar, able to combine culture, entertainment and art in its aggregative offer.

The Cooperative is committed to promoting to the inhabitants of the neighborhood, the services proposed to make them increasingly accessible to all. The design of each service is in fact the result of a collaborative approach with well-defined target groups, the activation of events and laboratories aimed at workshops aimed at promoting the mobility of cycling home-school and home-work and through the realization of events for young people in the neighborhood.

In recent months, guidance and training courses have also been set up for the young citizens of the neighbourhood who have provided them with basic knowledge on specific issues such as: the profession of bartender, bread making, industrial cleaning, security and financial education.

At the end of the training course, three students were placed in training placements at the structures of the reality with which the cooperative collaborates in Turin.

Covid 19 impacted negatively on the project with a sharp halt in the spring and a hiccup restart. Despite this, Mirafiorisìcura managed to start and activate these services and ensure that they were a proactive presence in the neighborhood, at such a difficult time.

“For the future, we hope that these collaborations will become fixed and ongoing within the services and that the services themselves will become the drivers for the culture of well-being and sociality within the neighborhood, In short, to do what cooperatives have been doing for years, that is, to promote the participation and the development of the community.”says Massimiliano Giannelli (Miracultura service).

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Progetto Abito is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link.

The Project Abito, started in 2019, is a project of clothing exchange and inclusion activities to combat poverty and social exclusion and foster integration, which develops on the districts of the Quadrilateral and Porta Palazzo, marked by multiculturality and very evident social differences.

The project is carried out by the San Vincenzo de Paoli Association in collaboration with the Youth Team of the Green Cross Turin and aims to give greater dignity to people living in conditions of economic or social distress, stimulate participatory dynamics in society, reactivate relational networks, recover and regenerate used clothes.

In fact, Abito involves citizens (supporters, beneficiaries, volunteers) and local authorities, thus including all people who live or use the neighborhood. All the actors involved in the project come into synergy by creating a circular relationship where everyone contributes with their own resources.

The project develops mainly according to three axes:

• The store: where the collection and distribution, through the Social Factory show room, of the clothes donated by the citizens takes place;
• Reciprocity: the persons enrolled in the service can take free clothes and in return give back their time and skills to the service of the community;
• Tailoring: where a part of the clothes that are not distributed become new ethical and sustainable fashion garments. Tailoring therefore also becomes a place of training, inclusion and job opportunities.

The heart of the Abito project is the circularity. The help received through the donation of clothes promotes the integration of people who, in turn, can offer time and skills at the disposal of the community.

One year after opening, about 1000 people joined the service and the impact on the neighborhood was important in terms of promoting volunteering and citizenship activities, thus encouraging the registration of new volunteers.

Collaborations have also been launched with associations in the neighborhood, with a fashion institute and with small businesses.

During the Covid 19 pandemic, the project was successful, thanks to the help of other local organizations, to provide a basic service to all members.

In these months many initiatives have flourished such as:

• Collection of elegant clothes, then made available to anyone who was looking for work and needed a formal dress for an interview;
• Launch of an online platform to foster community actions and volunteering;
• In March ended the first course of tailoring;
• In April, a crowfunding campaign to support tailoring courses has just ended.

“The pandemic has made us much more aware of the impact that our systems of life have on the ecosystem,” says Giorgio Ceste, Project Coordinator.

The goal that Abito aims for the coming months is therefore to start courses and training that include the themes of sustainability together with those of social justice, elements which are closely interlinked and which, in addition to training participants, can also give them employment opportunities.

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Progetto Abito is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link.

36 activities were launched, followed by 200 users of which 15 were free to access.

Cuqù – la Culla del quartiere is a center of activities and services for girls, boys, mothers and dads open in the heart of the multi-ethnic district of San Salvario, where they live families in situations of social distress and precariousness, but also families in a situation of economic well-being.

Families today need space to socialize and find support, to reorganize their work or to look for it. Families are often lonely: parents without a family or community network, foreign mothers far from their family of origin, fragile families, single-parent families.

Cuqù, born from the collaboration of a team of 3 partners active in the social and cultural promotion of the District (Ass. Local Development Agency of San Salvario onlus, Coop. Soc. Atypica, Ass. Mondo di Joele onlus)It therefore chooses to invest in early childhood and parenthood, assuming that this is a long-term investment, which constitutes capital for the entire community.

36 activities have been launched, such as:

• TANA cuqù: a baby parking with long and flexible hours;
• TANA of the game: creative workshops for children with coworking space for parents;
• A playroom for children and parents to play together;
• Support activities “around birth” (obstetric counter, Doule counter, baby massage, etc.) and “around growth” (courses for nannies, yoga and children’s theatre, etc.);
• Support and support services for mothers and fathers in difficulty (psychological support, educational counselling, etc.).

These activities and services were followed by data from 200 users of which 15 were able to access free of charge (provision is made for free or quiet access to all activities for those in economic difficulty).

In addition, the reception service, run by neighborhood mothers, welcomed 80 people who were accompanied to basic services and 16 other people who were accompanied more punctually and with a personalized path by neighborhood mothers.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the service was closed but the choice was to animate the community of Cuqù, which had been created in the meantime, primarily with online services, meetings and activities managed remotely by the operators of the center but also with some basic services for people in difficulty that have been carried out in the presence.

Watch the video of the project to learn more.

The Spaccio di Cultura – Portineria di Comunità is part of the 15 projects of generative welfare of Turin Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Operational Program Metropolitan City and the European Union, European Social Fund, made within the framework of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it, go to this link.

Over 250 residents involved, 120 young people “brought back” to DAD, an international recognition: these are some results of the Spaccio di Cultura one year after opening.

Initially started with the name of project Biagio, mainly aimed at listening and assistance to people at risk of social exclusion – the Biagi precisely -, thanks to the thrust and energy of the promoter, or the ITALIAN NETWORK OF POPULAR CULTURE, and its director Antonio Damasco, together with the collaboration with “NES Nessuno è straniero” and “Ufficio Pastorale Migranti”, the project has been realized in the Spaccio di Cultura – Portineria di Comunità.

The design of the initiative began at the end of 2018 through various instruments of listening and activation of communities, with specific meetings with the social actors of the place (Porta Palazzo, Aurora, Quadrilatero and Borgo Dora). The main detection tool was the Portale dei Saperi , where the narratives of over 250 dialogues with residents, traders, artisans, small and large businesses, Third Sector were inserted. These meetings were intended to collect the stories of the people who gravitate around the Concierge.

The initiative then found its physical location and its symbol in the former newsstand, now in disuse, taken and renovated and made beautiful, in the square of the most important multicultural market in Turin, at the corner of Via Milano and the exedra of Piazza della Repubblica and they called it the Spaccio di cultura, because the route is primarily cultural.

Culture is the table to which the rules of sharing can be played and which better square if not that of the history of immigration of this city: Piazza della Repubblica>>, Antonio Damasco, Director Network of Popular Culture.

During the Covid-19 pandemic (first lockdown 2020), the Concierge of Community promoted the first services related to the needs of daily life, dealing mainly with the supply of basic necessities such as medicines to people who had no means or possibilities.

Special attention was paid to children: along with some schools a project was built against the school leaving. In fact, more than 120 young people were mapped who no longer connected to DAD and managed to recover 70, who were involved in a Web Radio editorial staff. From then on, they moved closer to the studio thanks to the volunteer activity of many professors.

In October 2020 the European Social Fund website reported Lo Spaccio di Cultura – Portineria di Comunità di Torino as a good practice of innovation and social cohesion at European level, an important result brought home by the project.

In addition, the Spaccio di Cultura has not forgotten its first vocation towards people at risk of social exclusion and in January 2021 the faces of the migrants of the former Moi entered the project dealing with becoming the traveling concierge, with the informal group Ctrl Community and the City of Turin with which it was stipulated the collaboration pact for the management of common goods.

Today the concierge is a place to ask for any kind of service from the reception of packages to the translation of texts in various languages, from cleaning to craft repairs, to get to technological support services, practical processing and babysitting, but at the same time it is a relational place to build a community of proximity.

Watch the video of the project to learn more

The Spaccio di Cultura – Portineria di Comunità is part of the 15 projects of generative welfare of Turin Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Operational Program Metropolitan City and the European Union, European Social Fund, made within the framework of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it, go to this link.