Torino Impact City is the vision of the City of Torino to keep promoting a generative and vibrant local innovation ecosystem with a strong focus on creating long lasting value for all and with a growing attention on social and environmental sustainability. After almost 10 years from the first application as Innovation Capital, Torino is a leading example of responsible urban innovation policy framework, combining its industrial base with a curious and experimental approach to emerging technologies, social innovation experiences now also applied to impact financing as well a convincing strategy for the transition towards Climate Neutrality by 2030, already supported by a 900 million investment plan.

A young person with intellectual disabilities who becomes an adult must do more to achieve their dreams than others: Living in a home, choosing with whom to live, attend university, have a job, have a sentiment relationship, etc. through the Moon Climbers project, we intended to develop and promote an innovative, effective and replicable methodological model, with the aim of supporting people with intellectual disabilities (from now on) in the process of adulthood, autonomy and self-determination, while demonstrating the validity of these innovations and promoting their dissemination at Italian and European level. The project, which started in September 2018, was due to close in September 2020 but, due to the COVID-19 emergency, it was extended until 31.05.2021, with a total duration of 33 months. Project partners were: The social cooperative Il Sogno di una Cosa (leader), the Municipality of Turin, the Prodis Foundation of Madrid and Acta Center in Oradea. ‘Action research’ was carried out, on the basis of common working protocols, and ‘methodological research’, through which the work carried out was redesigned and linked to the existing literature on the subjects covered and other similar experiences. End recipients: 45 so called intellectual (15 in each country), 50 in the second year, aged between 18 and 35. OBJECTIVES: — Promoting adulthood, autonomy and self-determination of intellectual matters, with a view to actively combating institutionalisation and segregation. — Promote the social inclusion of intellectual activities, including through pathways at Community level in which they can perceive themselves and be perceived as a resource for the community. — Promote a transformation of approach in services for so-called services, with a view to overcoming the vision of care and fostering empowerment and active life, helping to trigger effective and economically viable processes. RESULTS ACHIEVED: PREPARATION OF FOUR I.O.: 1. Development of Peer Education for people with Intellectual disabilities2. Training for adult life 3. Pedagogical system of “Industrious life” 4. Study on the inclusion of people with Intellectual disabilities in the university BROADENING AND STRENGTHENING THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP NETWORKConstruction of three L.T.T.A.:Professional training on Peer Education and Training for adulthood, Turin — October 2018. Training of professionals in the Industrious life system and on the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the University, Turin — September 2019. Final testing with people with intellectual disabilities involved (in virtual mode) December 2020 and January 2021. Construction of three T.P.M.: Madrid, December 2018 Oradea, June 2019 Virtual Mode, September 2020. Implementation of three M.E.: Rimini — November 2019 Oradea — January 2021 Turin — May 2021 in webinar mode Results, impacts, long-term benefits.In drawing up the “methodological guides”, we realised how closely the various I.Os were interlinked with each other, with the Training for adulthood as the main focus of the project.For this reason, contrary to what was established at the design stage, following a comparison with the Agency Indire, it was considered appropriate to draw up a single methodological guide, subdivided into the various chapters specific to each I.O, in order to improve their systematisation and to disseminate them more effectively.The organisations involved have been able to implement the methodological approach, project capacity and the construction of a European cooperation network.Coop. Il Sogno di una Cosa — Italy.Work is ongoing in Turin to create an innovative supply of services for living in an evolutionary way; The co-housing of the Cooperative was transformed into a Service for Autonomy, with an area dedicated to adult learning experiments. A co-design table is in place with the Municipality of Turin to include Training in the service chain in Turin, assuming in January 2022. New projects are being developed for the inclusion of ‘people with intellectual disabilities’ in the university, starting with the Spanish model (in collaboration with the University of Turin and Urbino). A discussion table was set up at national level on training for adult life, for the moment in remote mode.Prodis Foundation — Spain.In addition to introducing the Peer Education approach into their educational practices, Moon Climbers has enriched and consolidated the Promentor University Master’s degree (currently 27 other Spanish universities have decided to replicate the model of the U.A.M.). ACTA Center — RomaniaRomania has promoted a change of perspective of family and society on the real possibilities of participating young people, leading to significant changes in the lives of some of them. Two of them found a job.

Com’ON Europe connects two specific aspects, youth participation and participatory budgeting, and this way it becomes original, unique. The reason for this is that it keeps the principle of participatory budgeting (deciding on public money’s faith) but it provides a double-sided platform through the engagement with mostly unorganised young people willing to organise themselves but not in legally established organisations. This enables bringing forward untapped energies of young people in shaping community life in cities.All partners came from former European Youth Capital cities: Torino 2010, Braga 2012, Maribor 2013, Thessaloniki 2014, Cluj-Napoca 2015, Varna 2017 and Cascais 2018. The European Youth Capital is a title awarded by the European Youth Forum designed to empower young people, boost youth participation and strengthen European identity. Each year, a new European city is given the chance to showcase its innovative ideas, projects and activities that aim to raise up young voices and bring a new youth perspective to all aspects of city life.The GOAL of this project was to create an open source framework for European cities in implementing participatory budgeting processes for youth, which address young people not just as creators and initiators but also as decision makers themselves while also creating a platform for cooperation for cities which applied similar processes or are willing to apply it in the future.The GENERAL OBJECTIVE of this project was to contribute to the improvement of civic participation of young people in local life through local level participatory budgeting mechanisms. It sought to contribute to the increase young people’s spirit of creativity, associativity, entrepreneurship, and community development by providing a safe environment for planning and coming forward as informal groups with small-scale initiatives, while providing funding on behalf of the municipalities, and delegating decisions towards the local community about which initiatives to be supported.The project worked to achieve the following SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:O1: to create a clear general policy framework in order to increase civic participation of young people through dedicated participatory budgeting processes for youth in urban communities based on theory and practice which connects European policies with local level practical implementation, while also bringing up local experience to the European playfield (LOCAL-EUROPEAN),O2: to provide participatory urban environments for young people and for public authorities based on trust, assistance and easy access and with the active contribution of the civil society (DECISION, VOTE), to reach out to young people and to enable their creativity serving the quality of life and the sense of belonging and ownership in cities (IDEA, INITIATIVE),O3: to enable other cities to adopt similar participatory processes and to consolidate the cooperation of European cities (and especially cities involved in the Network of European Youth Capitals) regarding youth participation through the creation of the Citizen Y Resource Centre and an open source methodology and toolkit (NETWORK, FRAMEWORK).The project’s results in key numbers:* 1 framework in 7 European languages, available open source for scaling and multiplication,* 1 new brand for participatory budgeting for youth: Com’ON Europe, * 5 key elements of a framework for Participatory Budgeting for Youth in Europe (white paper, resource centre, toolkit for participatory budgeting processes and the European group of youth facilitators),* 7 Participatory Budgeting for Youth Action Plans in 7 cities from 6 countries for 2019, which are harmonised by methodology,* 24 tools of empowering young people at local level collected in a single toolkit,* 28 youth facilitators organised in a European network which can be deployed in an international environment in order to provide further scaling,* 2,885 young people involved in co-creating ideas and proposals for initiatives to be funded by participatory budgeting for youth,* 6,000 European level stakeholders targeted by dissemination activities and publications,* 63,550 people expressing their choice for initiatives proposed by young people,* 625,000 euro allocated for small scale initiatives of informal groups of young people through participatory budgeting for youth processes,* 1.611 million people reached altogether.The strategic project was built on 14 management activities, 4 intellectual outputs with a total of 12 activities, 2 training activities of staff (short term) and 4 multiplier events.

GNSS user technology is now widely available in mass market devices including personal devices, connected vehicles, Internet of Things (IoT) objects, etc. The widespread availability of GNSS receivers, joint with ubiquitous communication capabilities of devices and the ability of cloud-based ICT platforms to federate with each other through open standards and APIs, is enabling a new generation of Location Based Services (LBS) able to support highly-scalable pervasive applications where large number of geographically-distributed users are engaged e.g. in immersive games and commercial services. While GNSS proves to be able to support such applications successfully, a major drawback prevents such approach to be used in more serious (and potentially highly rewarding) mass market applications i.e. the lack of authentication features, resulting in high difficulties in preventing users from spoofing position information to gain advantages or damage other users. GOEASY will leverage unique Galileo features such as increased trust and improved availability, joint with interoperability with existing Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures to enable more secure and privacy-savvy mass-market applications of LBS. GOESY will be evaluated by means of two concrete use cases, namely the ApesMobility and the AsthmaWatch, both evaluated engaging real users in a medium-scale pilot in Torino (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden).

"100% Youth City is KA2 Strategic partnership to develop an innovative approach to new generation of City Youth friendly Policies.The project aims to create and develop a quality label ""100% Youth City"", on Youth Friendly policies city and the all certification process to implement it.Project will combine the Structured Dialogue methodology and a new and innovative tool defined by the European Union on the Lisbon Treaty, the Open Method of Coordination. Project will start with short learning activity to learn how to work with the methodology and define milestones and budget and inance procedure for the implementation of 100% Youth City.The methodology will be implemented by defining the overall key topics and subtopics, identifying priorities and a division of learning outcomes in the certification process of ""100% Youth City"", emphasizing the key role of the youngsters and decision makers in collaboration with the project partners, Youth sector, experts and policy makers designing high quality transnational seminars and putting in place a good communication practice between transnational seminars all contribute towards good coherence in the partnership.The project will gather 7 Cities recognized by their good practices on Youth policies all future and actual European Youth Capitals, are partners of this project and we gather two more cities, Valencia as a good practice on the development of long term Strategic Youth Plans and the City of Riga as good practice on inclusion and work with minorities.The structure of the project activities is the management of one short Learning activity with all project coordinators and the management of 4 Transnational seminars.Each Transnational Seminar will conclude on process of certification, or stage as 100% Youth City and start another one. Partner will have six months between each Transnational Seminar to implement the tools and necessary indicators to achieve the certification on each stage.The project will be concluded with all 7 partners with certified as 100% Youth City and all certification process on Youth Friendly Cities ready to be disseminated as an innovative, new and powerful process to have Cities with real youth friendly policies."