Fondazione CRT and OGR Torino with Microsoft strengthen their commitment and launch Impact Deal, the first acceleration program for social and environmental impact enterprises at European level.

The first call for impact enterprises will be accessible on impactdeal.eu from February 3 to April 3, 2022.

The project, realized in collaboration with TOP-IX, The Data Science for Social Good Center, Impact Hub, Ashoka and The Data Appeal Company will be developed in OGR Tech, hub for innovation and applied research of OGR Torino.

With Impact Deal, Fondazione CRT, OGR Torino and Microsoft start a system of concrete actions to enhance data and data skills, aware that any public or private initiative, must and will have measurable objectives of long-term impact.

Impact Deal was therefore created with the aim of stimulating, through the application of data science, the growth of entrepreneurial activities with social and environmental purposes, also encouraging the evolution of more traditional ones through the integration of existing models and new business plans.

Thanks to the synergy with partners from both the corporate world and the public administration – such as Banca Sella, Fondazione Snam and the City of Turin – training and mentorship paths, resources and data – open and proprietary – will be made available to accelerate the social and environmental impact of the selected enterprises.

Through the Call for Impact Enterprises, European companies will be selected to access the hybrid acceleration program, in presence and online, divided into two phases.

The first phase, lasting about two months, consists of a path aimed at providing specific skills in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and entrepreneurship.

The second phase, lasting about 3 months, will be accessed by a subset of companies and the focus will be on business acceleration through the development of real projects and solutions enabled by data and thanks to the mentorship and strategic partnerships.

A fundamental element of the program will be the group of companies and organizations, public and private entities, renamed Data Club, that will make possible the acceleration of companies bringing their datasets in a collaborative perspective and with the aim of generating social and environmental impact. The initial nucleus of the Data Club consists of: Banca Sella, Snam Foundation and the City of Turin.

The second phase will end with a Demo Day in which the accelerated companies will show their progress to an audience of potential investors with a particular vocation for impact investing.

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