As part of the Civil Week and MIND Innovation Week, Fondazione Triulza ETS has organized in collaboration with Tiresia – Politecnico di Milano and Comune di Milano the meeting “New Social Economy in Europe. First trials of social procurement“. Over 80 experts and practitioners from different fields and sectors attended the meeting interested in understanding how to generate a new generation of social economy that involves the entire economic system. After the keynote speech of Professor Mario Calderini and the intervention of the Undersecretary of MEF On. Lucia Albano and the councillor of the Municipality of Milan Emmanuel Conte, were presented the first strategic plans of the Metropolitan Cities of Turin and Bologna, the solidarity economy districts of Trento and the experimentation in MIND of Social Procurement in partnership with Federated Innovation. All the speakers stressed the fundamental role of the territories and the National Plan in continuing to promote the social economy, despite the recent reorganisation of the European Commission, which has transferred responsibilities in this area from the Directorate-General for Growth to the Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL). The promotion of the social economy is essential to strengthen the entire economic and industrial system, increase competitiveness and increase the environmental, social and democratic impact through participation and governance models.
Watch the full video of the event below.
Furthermore, on this page you can browse all the materials shared by the speakers:
- the program of the day
- the presentations of the territorial plans presented
- Strategic Plan for the Social Economy of the Metropolitan City of Turin
- Strategic Plan for the Social Economy of the Metropolitan City of Bologna
- Trento Solidarity Economy Districts
- Social procurement in Turin
- the VIDEO contributions of
- Lucia Albano, Honorable Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (on the National Plan for the Social Economy)
- Irene Tinagli, Member of the European Parliament (on the news in the EU context)
The meeting took place on 9 May, Europe Day, on the occasion of MIND Innovation Week, Civil Week and the 10th anniversary of Expo2015.
The proposal is based on MIND, the new international science and technology innovation district which, in addition to hosting an IRCCS, universities, research centres, technology companies and the Skydeck incubator, has a unique specificity: the active presence of the social economy with Fondazione Triulza and its Social Innovation Academy from which a Cluster of Social Economy recognized by the European Commission was born. In an increasingly complex and rapidly changing society, it is of strategic importance for social organisations to promote initiatives with significant economic value, which look at development from different angles and are based on relationships, Collaborations and connections with all actors in the world of institutions, business, finance, research. MIND represents the ideal gym in which Fondazione Triulza is already experimenting paths for the social economy of technology transfer, capacity building and social procurement in partnership with Federated Innovation.
Images of the meeting
Programme of the meeting
First part – Moderator: Stefano Arduini, VITA Director
09:45 – 10:00 Keynote speech by Mario Calderini, Professor of the Politecnico di Milano and Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Social Innovation Academy in MIND
10.00 – 10.10 Intervention by Lucia Albano, Honorable Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy and Finance
10:10 -10:50 The role of institutions and intermediate bodies
- Massimo Minelli, President of the Triulza ETS Foundation – Confcooperative Lombardia
- Mauro Capitanio, Commercial Director Programming Sustainability Arexpo
- Luigi Gallo, Head of Incentives and Innovation Invitalia
- Sarah de Heusch, Director Social Economy Europe
10.50 – 11.00 Intervention by Emmanuel Conte, Assessor to the Budget, Estate and Extraordinary Plan House – City of Milan
11:00 – 11:20 Good practices of Social Procurement in Italy
- Simona De Giorgio, Coordinator of the Committee for Social Entrepreneurship and of Turin Social Impact – Chamber of Commerce of Turin
- Daniela Freddi, Head of the Social Economy Plan at the Metropolitan City of Bologna
- Stefano Musaico, Co-head of the Trentino Centre for Solidarity Economy and DES – Consorzio Consolida
Part Two – Moderator: Valerio Pedroni, City Councillor of Milan, President of the Commission on Civil Economy
11.25 – 11.30 Speech by Irene Tinagli, European Parliament Member
11:30 – 12:00 Round table: Social Procurement and Open Innovation
- Chiara Pennasi, Director Triulza ETS Foundation
- Fabrizio Grillo, President Federated Innovation @MIND
- Sabina Bellione, Technical Director Design Area National CGM Consortium
- Marco Fazio, Resp. sustainability and energy communities Legacoop Lombardia
- Raffaella Scalisi, Advisor of Torino Social Impact
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