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Fondazione Golinelli is one of the Italian partners of the CLIMAte change teachers’ acaDEMY (CLIMADEMY), a project coordinated by the University of Crete that aims to create a European network to offer a comprehensive program where teachers will interact and learn how to educate the next generation of European citizens on climate change issues.

Climate change is unequivocally attributed to human activities and is already affecting Europe, leading to heat waves, extreme drought and flood events, forest fires, biodiversity loss, decreasing crop yields and affecting human health. The European Parliament acknowledges that ‘education for young people represents one of the most effective tools for compacting climate change’. However, climate change is not yet broadly incorporated in school science curricula.
CLIMADEMY (nr:101056066 – ERASMUS2027 Programme) aims to fill this gap by developing and establishing a network and community of practice to create innovative strategies and programs for preparatory and continuous professional development for serving and student teachers on climate change and its impacts.
One common virtual Climate Auditorium (CLAUDI) will be the basis for the Teachers’ Academy for climate change education and networking and will be connecting four hubs, one in each country, with specific foci driven by the regional particularities.
Educational material focused on the drivers causing the human-induced climate perturbations, the impacts of climate change and the measures for sustainability, will be tailored for initial education and professional development and made openly available to all education institutions across Europe. Serving and student teachers will have a key role in the design and development of the material, acting both as trainees and co-designers. The material will be easily accessed, adopted and replicated, using modern educational practices and tools.
The Italian Hub will focus on environmental education through a pedagogical approach. It will see the collaboration between Fondazione Golinelli and the University of Bologna (DIFA – Department of Physics and Astronomy), under the patronage of the Ministry of Education.
It will aim to reach over 2500 teachers of lower secondary schools from all over the country through a 3 years project in which face-to-face and online training activities are planned, including summer and winter international schools organized at the partner’s HQ. Several teachers, educational designers and planners will work side by side with the experts and tutor of Fondazione Golinelli and DIFA. The Italian Hub will exchange its work and results with the other international Climademy hubs in a collaborative perspective and, for Italian schools, there will be the possibility of activating KA1 projects of training and study visits in the European partners’ structures.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?
– The activity calendar 2023-2024 for the Italian hub is online now. Want to know more and subscribe to the activities? Follow this link.
– Climademy European Website
– Claudi: the e-learning platform
– Information Form: https://forms.gle/HZbKDcVdoTMRdr7E7
– For any other info and request you can write an email to: educareaeducare@fondazionegolinelli
The Italian version of the news is available here.

On 19 September, Fondazione Golinelli and Gruppo di ricerca in didattica e storia della fisica dell’Università di Bologna have scheduled an online meeting to present to the Italian teachers, trainers and players focused on education, the opportunities and resources of CLIMADEMY. The goal is to support I and II level secondary teachers of each discipline in facing the challenges of climate change in a STEAM key through:
– Workshops and courses (in Italian) online and in presence;
– International summer schools and winter schools in English held both in Italy and at the European project partners sites;
– Claudi: the European networking, sharing and e-learning platform for schools about climate change.
Follow this link for more information and registration for the event.

The main news about Climademy is available here.
For any further information: g.bellentani@fondazionegolinelli.it

During We Make Future 2023, CRIF and Fondazione Golinelli have jointly launched with their partners the third edition of the I-Tech Innovation Program.
This edition confirms the three Calls for Innovation in the Life Science & Digital Health, Fintech & InsurTech and AgriTech & FoodTech sectors, as well as the two Calls for Plug In trialed during the second edition of the program, Social Impact and Industry 4.0, IoT, Big Data & AI. Important news for this third edition is the addition of a third Call for Plug In in the Travel Tech & Smart Mobility sector.
This year’s investment consists of a total of 1.250.000 €, to be divided among a maximum of 15 startups.

The Calls are aimed at researchers, independent teams and startups who want to see their innovative idea grow.
Partners of I-Tech Innovation 2023-2024 are: Competence Center BI-REX, Emil Banca Credito Cooperativo, Gruppo BCC Iccrea, Areté – The Agri-Food Intelligence Company, the metropolitan city of Bologna, the municipality of Bologna, the municipality of Imola, Bologna International Airport and Search On Media Group.
Do you want to know more? Do you have questions on the initiative? Subscribe to the presentation webinars here or visit the G-Factor website.

It will be possible to apply until october 15th 2023.

Since the launch at the end of June 2022 of the European project for the establishment of the CLIMAte change teachers’ acaDEMY (CLIMADEMY) – (here you can find the brand new website) – Fondazione Golinelli, together with the research group in teaching and history of physics of the University of Bologna have worked on the creation of a network of professors and schools in Emilia Romagna.
12 teachers have been involved in the process, representing several schools from the region: Liceo Scientifico e Musicale “A. Einstein” (Rimini); Scuola delle Idee (Bologna); Istituto Tecnico Agrario Chimico Scarabelli Ghini (Imola); Liceo Leonardo da Vinci (Casalecchio di Reno); Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “Baracca” (Forlì).

Another important milestone for the Italian Hub has been the opening of the Italian section of CLAUDI, the project’s e-learning platform which, in addition to allowing access to educational and training contents in English, will allow teachers from Italy to attend online courses, and learn about teaching and training resources in their native language. They will also be able, through the platform, to get in touch with other colleagues from all over the country and all over Europe interested in developing activities in their own schools.

After the presentation during the european event Uniser Teacher Week a new series of initiatives have been scheduled for the Italian Hub community:
New events for the Italian community of Climademy
18 september, starting from 3pm, a launch webinar for the Italian Hub and the presentation of the activities and programs for the 2023-2024;
9, 10, 11 november, at Opificio Golinelli, the first residential training course in Bologna.

Teachers that speak Italian and want to help Fondazione Golinelli to make this project grow more and more can apply here.
The main news about Climademy is available here.
For any further information: g.bellentani@fondazionegolinelli.it

G-Factor, the incubator-accelerator of Fondazione Golinelli, will be part of the We Make Future 2023. The appointment with the International Festival dedicated to the world of innovation returns on 15, 16 and 17 June: Fiera di Rimini will once again bring together players from companies, startups, universities, NPOs and institutions from all around the globe.

As every year, there will be an International Startup Competition (the largest in Italy), the final ceremony of which will be held on 16 June 2023. Recornea, the life science startup from the batch 2020 of G-Factor, was one of the winners during the 2021 edition.

For the third consecutive edition, as part of the Startup Competition, G-Factor will deliver a special price to a startup. This year the award is called “Premio G-Factor – Fondazione Golinelli” and, with a value of 5,000 euros, it consists in:
– A direct access to the final selection phase of the evaluation for the Call For Innovation Life Science & Digital Health 2023-2024, which includes a series of one-to-one meetings with representatives of the scientific, industrial and venture capital world and offers to selected startups 130K (90 cash and 40 kind);
– A temporary workstations at G-Factor (4 persons for 3 months) and 9 hours of a tailor made training. 

The 10 startups selected by I-Tech Innovation 2022, the second edition of the acceleration program promoted by Fondazione Golinelli and CRIF, in partnership with Competence Center BI-REX, Emil Banca and Gruppo BCC Iccrea have pitched their ideas at the Investor Day.
After the institutional greetings and speeches by Andrea Zanotti, President of Fondazione Golinelli, Antonio Danieli, Vice President of Fondazione Golinelli and CEO of G-Factor, Loretta Chiusoli HR director of CRIF the teams have presented their projects to an audience of over 200 innovation professionals, investors and leading companies from all over Italy.

On the occasion, I-Tech Innovation Program 2023 was also announced, the third edition of the call which, starting from the month of June, will bring together new innovative companies from all over the world.

This edition of Investor Day also hosted some startups outside the acceleration program: from Startup Community (by Fondazione Golinelli & CRIF) Coboto and fagoterapia; from Almacube Neurality and SINBIOSYS.

More informations on the 10 young companies of the 2022 edition of the I-Tech innovation Program are available on the G-Factor website.

Two startups of the previous batches and six startups accelerated this year by G-Factor, the incubator-accelerator of Fondazione Golinelli, selected for I-Tech Innovation 2021, the program promoted by CRIF and Fondazione Golinelli, have been presented at the Investor Day: Drug Discovery & Clinics, InSimili, Novavido, MgShell, BCI Biocompatibility Innovation, Latitudo 40, Biorfarm, Fintastico and EvenFi

On the occasion, a further step was also announced to promote the technological and scientific innovation generated by startups: a new community, which will see the light at the beginning of 2022, promoted by Fondazione Golinelli and CRIF. It will be an ecosystem for new synergies, a place to support young entrepreneurs and the world of innovation and innovators.

After the institutional greetings and speeches by Carlo Gherardi, CEO of CRIF, and Andrea Zanotti, President of Fondazione Golinelli, the teams have presented their projects in the Life Sciences / Digital Health, Fintech / Insurtech and FoodTech / Agritech sectors, illustrating the business opportunities to over 100 potential industrial partners on the national scene, investors representing investment funds, venture capital, business angels and Family Offices.

The 10 startups selected by I-Tech Innovation 2022, the second edition of the acceleration program promoted by CRIF and Fondazione Golinelli, have been announced. The projects, that passed the final screening of the selection among more than 240 applications, received from Italy and several other countries all over the globe, will be accelerated by G-Factor, which will coordinate the technical-scientific partnership for innovation between CRIF, Fondazione Golinelli, Competence Center BI-REX, Emil Banca and Gruppo BCC Iccrea. 

They are divided in 5 different sectors:

3 in Life Science & Digital Health, 2 in Fintech & Insurtech, 1 in Agritech & Foodtech, and 2 for each of the new experimental fields, Social Impact and Industry 4.0, Big Data processing-HCP & Applied Artificial Intelligence. 

The goal of I-Tech Innovation 2022 – which this year is open to other partnerships with companies and institutions, such as the Competence Center BI-REX, Emil Banca, Gruppo BCC Iccrea – and BPER and Sara Assicurazioni in the Fintech/Insurtech segment – is to invest in new generations of entrepreneurs, to believe in their potential and encourage them to be part of the change for the the Italian Innovation Ecosystem which suffers a serious tech lag compared to other countries.

The teams will have access to G-Force, the acceleration program of G-Factor, the business incubator-accelerator of Fondazione Golinelli, that will allow them to grow in an entrepreneurial, tech, scientific, financial and industrial way.

During this 4 months mentorship path the participants will learn from entrepreneurs, professors and managers with an international experience how to engage potential industrial partners and investors, thus facilitating their entry into subsequent phases of growth and development. The G-Force acceleration program is unique in its kind: a mix of an academic approach with the principles of “venture building”, a tailor made experience designed and built on specificities and needs of every single project. 

The residential activities will take place in the G-Factor spaces inside Opificio Golinelli and in BOOM, the new knowledge and innovation hub by CRIF dedicated to education, training and innovation.

THE PROJECTS

CALL FOR INNOVATION

Life Science & Digital Health

AEQUIP

A startup and spin-off of the Politecnico di Torino. Aequip develops diagnostic support tools in the field of Digital Pathology, which integrate Artificial Intelligence with mathematical-statistical parameters in a new proprietary approach called MDI: Mathematical Driven Intelligence.

Docunque

Docunque is a medical practice management software that helps doctors in their daily work, improving prescriptive appropriateness and acting on citizen prevention, using artificial intelligence algorithms. Docunque innovates from the bottom up by intervening in what is often the only professional tool that doctors use every day.

UCme Bioscience s.r.l.

Spin-off dell’università degli Studi di Siena

UCme Bioscience is developing a new anti-angiogenic antibody of its own invention for the therapy of diseases with a neovascular component, such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration, for which the treatments currently used do not lead to a complete and lasting cure. Since angiogenesis is also involved in the development of cancer, important applications of the product are also expected in this field.

Fintech&Insurtech

Mopso

Mopso is a regtech company that develops two software to deal with anti-money laundering regulations, Brain and Amlet. Brain is a risk assessment tool and helps banks find suspicious transactions. Amlet makes due diligence data ‘portable’ and reusable within an ecosystem of intermediaries, simplifying the onboarding process. Mopso can handle all the complexities within the financial world, as they use the largest and most sophisticated ontology, FIBO (Financial Industry Business Ontology), together with AML ontology.

Notarify

Notarify solve several problems and risks related to the storage, sharing and signing of files. Notarify, in fact, is the first platform for the management of the entire lifecycle of documents with Blockchain validation, i.e. the so-called ‘notarization’, which allows to obtain a certain date and a proof of immutability of the content.

Area Agritech&Foodtech

Agrobit s.r.l.

Agrobit develops and sells innovative services and apps for digital farming. The app iAgro allows the farmer to transform his smartphone into a decision support system to map tree crops and optimize phytosanitary treatments, in a simple and scalable way. The service of remote sensing by drones provides the farmer with a complete mapping of his fields and crops in order to optimize the use of fertilizers, agrochemicals and water.

CALL FOR PLUG IN

Area Social Impact

Heaple

Heaple brings to market a cloud platform where patients play therapeutic games through an app from home. The neuropsychologist schedules and analyses the cognitive therapy with the assistance of artificial intelligence algorithms using a dedicated dashboard. The goal is to help people with cognitive impairment to achieve self-sufficiency through a platform accessible to everyone.

Justep

Justep is a medical device that aims to replace the white cane for the blind and visually impaired and to solve the problem of navigation. Justep thanks to its artificial intelligence works with a lidar sensor and a camera that detect and recognize any obstacle in front of the user, suggesting the best path to reach his/her destination.

Area Industry 4.0, Big Data processing-HCP & Applied Artificial Intelligence

AdapTronics

AdapTronics makes logistics more sustainable on Earth and in Space by reinventing how robots grasp objects of any shape, size and material thanks to a proprietary thin-film technology that becomes adhesive when electrically activated, with an impressive force density, irrelevant weight and minimal energy consumption.

Astreo s.r.l.

Astreo is an IoT (Internet of Things) start-up. Adopting innovative technologies, such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, LPWAN and 5G networks, Astreo aspires to build a software platform, which allows to develop smart city and smart industry applications. Using the concept of decentralization, Astreo will provide the infrastructure, devices and web platform for a fully working IoT network.

 

The second edition of the I-Tech Innovation program, presented all over Italy in universities and research centers, with webinars and physical events, exceeded the expected results: 247 valid applications were received, +19% in comparison with the last edition (207).

The total number of applications even rises to 423 if we also consider the projects that have started but not finished their applications on GUST. This is a very important result, for a program that, despite being only in its second edition, is already recognized nationally and internationally.

Overall, 58.5% of the candidate teams come from northern Italy (specifically 22% from Emilia-Romagna and 20% from Lombardy); 14% from Central Italy and almost 12% from the South and the Islands; 15.5% of the teams come from other countries.
The Call for Innovation has received 98 applications in the Life Science & Digital Health sector, 45 in the FinTech & InsurTech sector and 54 in the AgriTech & FoodTech sector. The Call for Plug In has received 33 applications in Industry 4.0 area and 17 in the Social Impact area. 53% of these teams are already set up as innovative startups.

The second edition of I-Tech Innovation, which opened this year to important partnerships with companies and institutions, such as BI-REX Competence Center, Emil Banca, Gruppo BCC Iccrea and BPER, will continue in the coming months with the evaluation of the applicants.The process will end on 10 October with the selection of 16 startups.

The teams will access the G-force acceleration program which will take place mainly at BOOM, CRIF’s new knowledge and innovation hub that will be inaugurated in the last months of the year at Osteria Grande, near Bologna.

In the meantime, you can follow the website of G-Factor and subscribe to the StartHub Newsletter to stay updated on all the activities connected to the startup and powered by CRIF and Fondazione Golinelli.