InnovaWelfare

In 2023, the Foundation launched the InnovaWelfare project, with the aim of enhancing the innovation capacity of non-profit entities working in the welfare system to improve responses to needs in the short and medium to long term. The Project is jointly promoted by the Social & Human Services Area and theScientific Research Area, together with Cariplo Factory srl benefit company and the Giordano dell’Amore Social Venture Foundation. It works according to three axes:  

• a Technological Observatory
• the InnovaWelfare Call for Proposals to support non-profit organisations in trialling innovative solutions enabled by technology and/or digital
• Impact Investing activities to provide further support for the best solutions tested in the Call for Proposals.

As part of the Observatory, theUniversity of Bergamo has conducted a study that outlined the opportunities offered by technology and digital technology in innovating in welfare services in the light of the social transformations underway. In the first two Calls for Proposals, 17 projects were supported to implement pilots and trials of technological solutions for the improvement of welfare services. Any investment in the best solutions supported by the call is currently under evaluation.

Based on the results of the actions carried out, the Foundation is working on an evolution of the Call for Proposals to continue to support non-profit organisations that intend to improve their welfare services through new technologies.