Oltre duecento partecipanti. Più di 20 nazionalità presenti. 60 tra speakers e knowledge advisor. Un intensissimo programma articolato alternando sessioni plenarie, keynote speech, panel tematici e workshop. Questo è stato il Social Enterprise Open camp-Planet & People, un evento di carattere internazionale, residenziale e immersivo che si è tenuto dal 23 al 26 ottobre nella splendida cornice dell’Isola di san Servolo a Venezia e che ha visto riunite le voci più significative dell’imprenditoria sociale livello mondiale.
Ideato e promosso da Fondazione Opes-Lcef e Consorzio Nazionale CGM, l’evento ha rappresentato una grande occasione d’incontro, dialogo, confronto tra imprenditori sociali, mondo della finanza d’impatto e grandi corporate, alla ricerca di nuovi alfabeti comuni e nuovi modelli di economia capace di generare profitto e allo stesso tempo trovare soluzioni alle grande sfide planetarie.
Moltissimi i temi esplorati: dalle nuove frontiere dell’agricoltura rigenerativa 4.0, all’ urgenza di inversione di rotta e di trasformazione di stile di vita imposti dai cambiamenti climatici e dalle crisi ambientali. Dalle opportunità offerte dal social procurement e dalla supply chain per creare catene di valore condiviso tra grandi corporate e imprese sociali, a un impact investing che sia realmente tale, oltre il green washing sempre più diffuso. Si è parlato di alleanze per trovare ‘nuovi modi di fare moda’ meno inquinante e più etica; di strategie di rigenerazione di rifiuti e scarti, in una logica di economia circolare; di azione per la valorizzazione dell’agrobiodiversità e di nuovi sistemi di produzione e distribuzione del cibo. Toccanti e profondi gli stimoli e le riflessioni suscitate dagli interventi di molti speakers: la necessità di passare dalla resilienza, all’antifragilità generativa; l’urgenza di cambiare il mondo, qui ed ora; l’opportunità di muoversi sul confine -inteso come linea di separazione, ma anche come punto di congiunzione tra mondi e modelli economici- nella logica del meticciamento e dell’ibridazione. Interessanti e significative le analisi proposte all’interno dei sei differenti workshop su partnership, strategie, modelli necessari per affrontare le sfide di scalabilità, crescita e auto sostenibilità delle imprese a impatto scelte come casi studio. Il Social Enterprise Open Camp è stato un vero e proprio laboratorio di idee, uno spazio di condivisione e dialogo dove dreamers di diversa età, provenienza geografica e professionale per quattro giorno hanno messo in comune ipotesi e pensieri e hanno cercato di disegnare nuovi scenari economici, con un’attenzione alla Terra e ai popoli che la abitano, nella logica, appunto, del Planet & People.
Patrizia Canova – Fondazione Opes-Lcef
Originaria del Gabon, Delisia è un’imprenditrice, coach, Afrofood blogger, ambasciatrice delle tradizioni culinarie dell’Africa francofona, ideatrice della Dieta Afrofood e fondatrice di Blackalicious Afrofood.
Learning Facilitator with the Social Enterprise Academy
Social-Business Consultant – Social Seed
Expert in Business Strategy and social innovation
Design Thinking, Service & Digital Design | Freelance
Tutor and Trainer of the Social Enterprise Academy – Scotland
Project manager School of Management of Politecnico di Milano
Teaching assistant School of Management of Politecnico di Milano
Designer and Social Entrepreneur
Originally from Gabon, Delisia is an entrepreneur, coach, Afrofood blogger, ambassador of the culinary traditions of French-speaking Africa, creator of the Afrofood Diet and founder of Blackalicious Afrofood .
Hamed Ahmadi (nato a Bamyan, Afghanistan nel 1981), ha fondato e ideato il concept per i ristoranti Orient Experience e Africa Experience, basati sull’esperienza culinaria di viaggio di migranti provenienti dal Medio Oriente e dall’Africa. Dopo l’infanzia e l’adolescenza trascorsi in Iran e il completamento degli studi universitari decide di tornare in Afghanistan. Qui sviluppa una passione per il cinema, che lo porta per la prima volta in Italia nel 2006, invitato alla Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia insieme a due colleghi. Il destino o il caso vuole che il corto da loro presentato non sia gradito da molti estremisti in Afghanistan. Hamed è costretto a richiedere l’asilo politico in Italia.
Marco Traversi is actually CEO of Project Ahead, a social enterprise involved in the management of projects funded by EU, national and regional programmes or private funders in the fields of enterprise creation, young employment services, third sector and social enterprise consultancy and social innovation.
La Rada Consortium, Italy
Proodos Consortium / ParteNeapolis Cooperative, Italy
Matteo is the financial director of the CGM Cooperative Group, the largest network of social enterprises in Italy. He is a specialist in management control and financial planning, acts as a consultant for the Group’s companies and runs training courses for the cooperatives of the network. Born in Cantù, a small city in northern Italy, in 1983, after a degree in Economics and a brief experience at FAO, he held the position of financial manager in a social enterprise before starting the collaboration with the CGM network. Since 2019 he has been elected as a board member of CGM Finance, the financial branch of CGM Group.
Ubi Banca, Italy
Co.Re. Consortium/Bambù Cooperative, Italy
An expert in Media Literacy, intercultural communication and cinema who has authored numerous educational and social documentaries, Patrizia has been a teacher by passion for 35 years. She served as Head of Communication and Advisor to the ACRA Foundation for 17 years. Since the early 1990s, Patrizia has also worked as a media and cinema consultant and trainer for Cinecittà Holding, MIUR, IRRSAE Lombardia, AGIS Lombarda, the Cinematographic Activity Sector of the Lombardy Region, the Autonomous Province of Trento and several other Italian provinces. She is a member of the Board of Directors of CEM (Centro educazione alla Mondialità).
Giuseppe has always been active in the world of cooperation. He approached it in 1992 as a volunteer in the cultural and environmental field with the association Movimento Azzurro, for which he became Chairman, and thereafter, in 1997, with the con l’Associazione L’Albero Azzurro. In 1999, he founded the social cooperative “Il Puzzle”, with a focus on childhood and adolescence, for which he was Chairman until 2015. In 2003 he specializes in the management of organizations of the third sector and completes a “Master in Management in social enterprise and social cooperation” in Trento. In the following years, he coordinates complex educational and socio-sanitary services. From 2010 to 2016 he was Chairman of the del Consorzio Reti Meridiane that associates cooperatives in Puglia, Basilicata, and Molise. He is currently Chairman of the Cooperative Group CGM and the consortium “La Città Essenziale”, for which he manages the business and institutional relationships and the strategic activities with a focus on welfare services and local development. He has developed innovative models in the field of energy, social tourism, social agriculture, housing, and urban regeneration, all aimed at work integration and community support. From 2010 to 2018 he was the Deputy Chairman of Federsolidarietà-Confcooperative. He is also a member of the board of Directors of Inecoop and since 2016 he is Chairman of Confcooperative Basilicata. From 2013 to 2019, he was board member of the Group Cooperativo CGM. From 2016 he was Deputy Chairman and, on May 24, 2019, he was elected Chairman.
Francesco Abbà, lodigiano, vanta una lunga esperienza come consulente e formatore sui temi della gestione e della finanza nelle imprese sociali nella rete afferente gruppo Cooperativo CGM. A partire dal 1990 svolge l’incarico di revisore per conto di Confcooperative svolgendo attività di ispezione ordinaria a cooperative. Diventa socio e viene assume il ruolo di amministratore in alcune cooperative e consorzi dell’area milanese (Spazio Aperto Servizi, Aurora 2000, Chico Mendes, consorzio SIS) con deleghe su attività economiche e finanziarie. Nel 2010 viene nominato consigliere di amministrazione di CGM Finance, e nel 2014, viene eletto Presidente. Dal 2017 è consigliere di amministrazione di Cooperfidi Italia, Consorzio Garanzia Fidi dell’economia cooperativa e sociale. Ha maturato esperienze come amministratore di imprese sociali, consorzi e cooperative sociali che operano nel settore della sanità, housing sociale e rigenerazione urbana.
She is a former development aid manager with 16 years’ experience in supporting social sustainability for the EU and UN.
Birgit is Senior Project Manager for Strategic Projects at Lufthansa Cargo. She has long experience in project management and global account management, heading international teams, developing new markets or industries, and setting up new processes and regional teams according to design thinking methods. She has been active as trainer of new leadership principles for managers of the Lufthansa Group and has been setting up a group wide change network. Previously she has had various business development positions in the Lufthansa Group and Bosch Telecom. She has a MBA from University of Cologne and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Japan and is fluent in German and English, as well as a good knowledge of French, Japanese and Latin.
Training in international relations, master in Management of Development (UN International Training Centre/ILO) and instructural design for distance learning, since 1999 working in development cooperation (decentralized cooperation, ong, UN). She holds a post in Cariplo Foundation since 2008. She is program officer in the Welfare department, in charge of the program “Innovation for development” and member of the team of the program Cariplo Social Innovation for the capacity building initiatives targeting civil society and social enterprises.
Sociologist, work in the field of social enterprise for about twenty years, carrying out research, training, consulting and publishing. He was senior researcher at Euricse where he deals in particular with the study of social innovation, community entrepreneurship and social regeneration of buildings and public spaces. He was also secretary of Iris Network, the network of research institutes for social enterprise where he was editor of the review “Impresa Sociale”, co-author of the Report on social enterprise in Italy and manager of the “Workshop on social enterprise”, the main event in Italy for social entrepreneurs based on the presentation and dissemination of good practices of social enterprise. Today is open innovation manager in the Cgm cooperative group in wich operate to promote communities of social entrepreneurs that want develop and disseminate innovation. He collaborates with the magazine Vita and manages “Tempi ibridi”, a blog dedicated to institutional innovation and the new value chains between profit and nonprofit. @editormanque
