{"id":12656,"date":"2025-12-15T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionecariplo.it\/?post_type=progetto&#038;p=12656"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:17:50","slug":"innovation-for-development","status":"publish","type":"progetto","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionecariplo.it\/en\/progetto\/innovation-for-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation for Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><br><strong>Innovation for Development<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Innovation for Development<\/strong> is a programme led by Fondazione Cariplo together with <strong>Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo<\/strong>, aimed at <strong>supporting innovation<\/strong> in the field of <strong>international co-operation towards development<\/strong>, focusing in particular on strengthening <strong>ties between Italy and Africa<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Active since 2016, the programme\u2019s activities have been structured along three working axes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>calls for proposals and opportunities for collaboration<\/strong>&nbsp;between civil society organisations (CSOs) active in international co-operation and the world of Italian and African innovation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>training of human capital<\/strong>&nbsp;and creation of a&nbsp;<strong>community of practice<\/strong>&nbsp;with hybrid skills aimed at practitioners of international development co-operation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>events and meetings \u2013 digital and face-to-face \u2013 to encourage&nbsp;<strong>networking<\/strong>&nbsp;and continuous&nbsp;<strong>exchange of best practices<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>Project pathway and results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2016 to 2023, Innovation for Development supported&nbsp;<strong>59&nbsp;<\/strong>open innovation projects, reaching about&nbsp;<strong>40,000 direct beneficiaries<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>600,000 indirect beneficiaries<\/strong>, involving civil society organisations, innovators and local communities and institutions in both Italy and Africa. In the same period, the programme promoted&nbsp;<strong>26 training and capacity-building courses<\/strong>&nbsp;organised by&nbsp;<strong>17 technical partners<\/strong>. These focused on <strong>innovation topics<\/strong>&nbsp;(data for development, entrepreneurial approach and leadership, project management, impact), for which there were a total of&nbsp;<strong>2,200 applications<\/strong>&nbsp;and approximately <strong>1,400 participants<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The events served as opportunities for meeting and <strong>networking<\/strong> for the Innovation for Development community, in which <strong>10,000 people<\/strong> were involved in 2023. Over three editions (2017, 2019, 2023), the&nbsp;<strong>Innovation Open Days<\/strong> brought together around&nbsp;<strong>1,500 people<\/strong>, in person and in hybrid mode, whereas the&nbsp;<strong>Innovation Open Talks<\/strong> webinar series, created to run during the pandemic, reached&nbsp;<strong>600 participants<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>Consolidation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In 2024, the programme entered its consolidation phase with&nbsp;<strong>Innovation for Development \u2013 Next<\/strong>, focused on <strong>follow-up of projects funded<\/strong> with open innovation calls for proposals on the set-up of a <strong>legacy project<\/strong> to make available all learning materials and innovations produced (the website has become a multimedia consultation portal), including for <strong>training<\/strong> purposes. As part of the latter, support was provided for the 2024 <strong>Social Enterprise Open Camp<\/strong> (Catania, October 2024), led by Fondazione Opes-Lcef and CGM Consortium; the&nbsp;<strong>Low Code Academy of Impact Skills<\/strong>&nbsp;with CISV; the&nbsp;<strong>GET DATA!&nbsp;<\/strong>(data collection and management) course run by Gnucoop and Soleterre; the&nbsp;<strong>digital volunteering<\/strong>&nbsp;initiative led by the Digital for Humanity association.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12658,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"area-di-intervento":[755],"linea-di-mandato":[],"sfide-di-mandato":[],"tema":[762,767],"class_list":["post-12656","progetto","type-progetto","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","area-di-intervento-social-human-services-area","tema-innovation","tema-international-networks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Innovation for Development - Fondazione Cariplo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionecariplo.it\/en\/progetto\/innovation-for-development\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Innovation for Development - Fondazione Cariplo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Innovation for Development Innovation for Development is a programme led by Fondazione Cariplo together with Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, aimed at supporting innovation in the field of international co-operation towards development, focusing in particular on strengthening ties between Italy and Africa.&nbsp; 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