Impact Prototypes Labs. The Memorandum of Understanding signed today.

Cottino Social Impact Campus launches Impact Prototypes Labs (IPLabs). The Memorandum of Understanding was signed today, with the aim of activating an experimental training offer for #SMEs in order to support them in developing prototype solutions with a Social Impact. Thus, SMEs will reinforce their ability to develop enterprises towards contemporary social challenges and to seize the new opportunities that the next #InvestEU programming will provide.

The first path of entrepreneurial transformation for SMEs in the North West  of Italy will be carried out with the Cottino Foundation, Unicredit North West, Turin Polytechnic, Turin Industrial Union and the Turin Chamber of Commerce.

The new agreement between Turin Polytechnic and Cottino Foundation

The agreement between Turin Polytechnic and Giovanni and Annamaria Cottino Foundation officially starts.

The Rector Guido Saracco: “We will build together the first campus dedicated to Impact Education: it will be the heart of the innovative teaching of our University and of the Foundation, but it will also be an iconic building, somehow impacting itself. We are now aware that only thanks to the contamination with external subjects we will be able to train the engineers of the future and this collaboration with one of our former students as illustrious as the engineer Giovanni Cottino, whom I thank for having chosen us for his project, is an example that makes us more and more certain that this is the right direction to undertake “.

Eng. Giovanni Cottino, after signing the agreement: “Developing an ecosystem in which training, research and social impact dialogue with each other to generate new knowledge and values for a more equitable and sustainable future is a key project of our Foundation. Being able to do it through the Cottino Social Impact Campus at the Politecnico di Torino, bringing our vision and investing our resources, is certainly a great satisfaction for me. I thank the Rector Prof. Guido Saracco and his staff for showing sensitivity and ability to interpret a future that places new hybrid skills at the center of sustainable development “.