Tim enters the first European acceleration project for companies with a social and environmental impact promoted by the CRT Foundation and OGR Turin with Microsoft, alongside Banca Sella, Snam Foundation, City of Turin. The program Impact Deal – whose call will end on April 3, 2022 – is aimed at generating a positive impact in Italy, in Europe and in the world and pushing on the accelerator of sustainable change with digital.
The call for impact enterprises, accessible on program site, will make it possible to identify European companies that will be able to access the hybrid acceleration program, in person and online, divided into two phases:
- The first phase, lasting about two months, consists of a course aimed at providing specific skills in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and entrepreneurship;
- The second phase, lasting approximately 3 months, will access a subset of companies and the focus will be on accelerating the business through the development of real projects and data-enabled solutions and thanks to mentorships and strategic collaborations. The second phase will end with a Demo Day in which the accelerated companies will show their progress to an audience of potential investors with a particular vocation for impact investing.
The Italian telephone company will actively participate in the project, making its datasets available and joining the working group born from the collaboration with TOP-IX, The Data Science for Social Good Center active in OGR, Impact Hub, Ashoka and The Data Appeal Company.
Massimo Lapucci, General Secretary of the CRT Foundation and CEO of OGR Torino, said: “Impact Deal was created with the aim of stimulating, through the application of data science, the growth of entrepreneurial activities with social and environmental goals, also favoring the evolution of more traditional ones through the integration between existing models and new business plans”.
"In the near future it will be essential to govern the digital transformation so that data and new technologies are at the service of the objectives of social and environmental sustainability - he declared Alexander Picardi, Executive Vice President Chief Public Affairs Officer Tim -. Through our technologies we want to support economic and social development and, at the same time, spread increasingly sustainable behaviors".
