Friday the 16th
marked the conclusion of the Youth in Action project “Social
Impact and Job Creation”.
The main idea of the
program was to foster social innovation and business ideas
using two powerful means: an exchange experience between Italian and Catalan
youths and an in depth analysis of business models and social business.
To do this, the Italian and
Catalan partners (AVEC Onlus and Tandem Social) worked with the young
participants to explain how a business model works and how to work on your
business ideas. Thanks to this initial work, both the groups were able to collaborate
and build together upon different social businesses proposals they
came up with: there is no better way to understand how something works (i.e.
social business) than to actually tinker with it!
After an initial exchange
in Barcelona, the project conclusion involved another trip: this time the
Catalan youth came to Florence to present the business ideas they worked upon
with the Italian group.
During these 4 days, the
participants met Italian social businesses, like I Ragazzi di Sipario,
a restaurant where most of the workers have mental and psychic disabilities.
Another
interesting visited social business was MYGRANTOUR, a walking
tour of Florence with a migrant guide that showed the youths a different, more
multicultural take on the city of Dante. Walking in the streets near Santa
Maria Novella the Italian-Catalan group met different realities of the migrant
culture: from “Anelli Mancanti”, a volunteer association that helps migrant
people with the often-painful process of integration, to various ethnic shops
where the boundary between Italy and other countries became more and more
blurred.
All of this while preparing
for Friday the 16: on that day, the Italian and Catalan youths presented their
business ideas during a special event, held by Impact HUB Firenze,
which saw the contribution of Luca De Biase, an important Italian journalist.
To know more about the
first part of the project, you can visit the blog of the project: http://europeansocialentrepreneurs.blogspot.it/
You can also watch some photos of the event on the Impact HUB Facebook page
You can also watch some photos of the event on the Impact HUB Facebook page
Duccio Mondanelli
Florence
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