Inti Bertocchi
Municipality of Bologna (Italy)
S.A.L.U.S. W SPACE
A social innovation project in Bologna
Social Innovation Community Summer School
Bologna, 27 June 2017
BOLOGNA - 15 SEPTEMBER 2011
Urban Innovative Actions
15/12/2015 – Launch of the 1st Call for Proposals
Main goal: to identify and test new solutions which
address issues related to sustainable urban development.
Projects proposals: innovative, of good quality, designed
and implemented with the involvement of key
stakeholders, result oriented and transferable.
THEMATIC ISSUES OF THE FIRST CALL
'S.A.L.U.S. W SPACE' is focused on the 2nd action line
S.A.L.U.S. W SPACE
The main aim is converting Villa Salus, an abandoned
former hospital, into an innovative core-space for Wellbeing,
Welfare and Welcoming, operating towards the social,
cultural and economic inclusion of migrants/refugees, and as
a multilevel services facility to the whole metropolitan area
of Bologna (around 1 million inhab.).
S.A.L.U.S. W SPACE
Key-word: SALUS = HEALTH
Definition from World Health Organization:
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity”
THE LOCATION
The project is located in
Bologna – Emilia Romagna
About 380.000 inhabitants in
the City
About 1.000.000 in the
metropolitan area
Foreign population in the City:
43.600 citizens
THE LOCATION
THE LOCATION
THE EXISTING BUILDING
About 6.800 squared meters
SOME FIGURES
1. Refugees flow in Bologna (at 31.10.2016)
Asylum seekers, currently hosted in Bologna: 1948
People arrived in 2014:
2581 (weekly average: 108)
People arrived in 2015:
9172 (weekly average: 176)
People arrived in 2016:
10088 (weekly average: 229)
males: 8407, females: 1681
SOME FIGURES
2. Unemployment rate in Bologna (in 2015)
Average unemployment rate in the Metropolitan City of Bologna in
2015: 24% (males: 22,3%, Females: 26,0 %)
Total number of unemployed people: 35.000
(16000 males, 18000 females)
Unemployment rate by age groups:
15-24 yers (31%),
25-34 years (9,9%),
over 35 years (5%)
SOME FIGURES
3. Poverty in Bologna
Number of families who turns to the social services:
+ 30% since 2005
New categories of poverty:
unemployed people and laid-off workers;
 young people looking for the first employment;
 unstable workers with low income;
 unaccompanied minors,
 refugees or long-term immigrants that have lost their permit to
stay after loosing their job,
 people which are no more competetitive in the changing labour
market

THE PARTNERSHIP
17 Partners:

ASP CITY OF BOLOGNA PUBLIC
COMPANY

OPEN GROUP Soc. Coop.

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

ICIE COOPERATIVE INSTITUTE FOR
INNOVATION

ANTONIANO ONLUS

CAMELOT SOCIAL COOP.

ASSOCIATION CANTIERI METICCI

DOLCE SOCIETY

ETA BETA COOP. SOC. ONLUS

CIOFS FP EMILIA ROMAGNA

MICROFINANCE SRL

CEFAL EMILIA ROMAGNA
COOPERATIVE SOCIETY

CSAPSA

ACLI – Italian Workers
Christian association

UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA

ASSOCIATION MONDO DONNA
ONLUS
THE LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS
10 Stakeholders:

SPRAR (national Protection System)

Azienda USL (national Health Service)

CGIL, CISL e UIL (Trade Unions)

Confindustria Bologna (industry)

CNA Bologna (enterprises)

Lega Coop Bologna (cooperatives)

Urban Center Bologna

Arcidiocesi (Catholic Church)

Comunità musulmana (muslim community)

Comunità ebraica (jewish community)
THE PUBLIC CALL
The public call, issued by the Municipality of Bologna aimed
to collect innovative ideas and select the future partners to
present a shared project within the UIA programme.
We have received 11 proposals, by public and private actors,
single or multiple organizations (temporary parterships).
All proposals have been welcomed and joined the co-design
process, to share visions and create sinergies among all the
applicants.
THE CO-DESIGN PROCESS
THE CO-DESIGN PROCESS
Common understanding of the problem
Common solution
Collaborative design of services, products or processes, that
engages final users in the design process. Citizens, Service
providers and policy makers work together to share
knowledge and find innovative solutions to address the
problems that have been identified.
All stakeholders are thus involved in the design and
production of services, with a community centred and
multidisciplinary approach .
THE WORK PACKAGES
MAIN OBJECTIVES
It is articulated into 3 main macro-actions which correspond to WPs:
Wellbeing (WP4)
Welfare (WP5)
Welcome (WP6)
WELLBEING
The first macro-action aims to define the concept of the
project, that includes all aspects of Wellbeing, experimenting
new housing solutions, green areas, start-up of creative
enterprises.
In this stage of the project, the participated planning takes
place, engaging the inhabitants of the neighbourhood,
refugees and local stakeholders. A “Think tank” for a new
intercultural welfare is foreseen, to build possible and
innovative solutions of welcoming and hospitality, based on
the model of active social inclusion.
Villa Salus: attractive inclusive area where every activity
(accommodation, recreation, work, coworking, laboratories,
events, courses, professional paths) will offer chances and
interactions for the whole urban area.
WELLBEING
The Wellbeing WP includes the following Activities:
• Participatory planning (actions for sharing the concept of a
sustainable attractive place for migrants and citizens)
• Intercultural Welfare
• Housing: Creative & Social Living
• Green Spaces for agriculture & education
• Arts & Crafts
WELFARE
The second macro-action aims to achieve the generative
welfare model through the regeneration activity, as a first
practical training opportunity for disadvantaged people and
creation of professional teams of artists, artisans and
maintenance technicians, able to manage the new Villa Salus
when the project is completed and provide facilities to the
neighbourhood. In this phase a self-employment path is
accomplished to guide migrants and refugees in the
development a start-up of social enterprises, strongly linked
to the territorial needs.
WELFARE
WP5 will provide specific trainings and entrepreneurial assistance,
financial education and personalized guidance for business plan
implementation, with the final objective of launching start up
and enhance social economic empowerment.
WP5 will be articulated into five tasks, as follows:
5.1) Field training, internships and job placements;
5.2) Creation of artistic professional teams;
5.3) Creation of handcraft professional teams;
5.4) Training for accommodation, restoration and green
maintenance facilities;
5.5) Support to microentrepreneurship
WELCOME
The third macro-action aims to manage all new services and
facilities provided within New Villa Salus, with a direct role of
the social enterprises to welcome guests and citizens that
here can find green areas, spaces for psycological and
physical wellbeing, cultural amenities, artistic laboratories, a
coworking space, a hostel and a multiethnic restaurant.
All activities will be co-designes with local stakeholders and
engage actively refugees and asylum seekers, according to a
model of empowerment and reciprocity.
WELCOME
The ratio of this WP is experimenting a new model of Social
and Community Management, through active participation of
all the beneficiaries.
WP6 is articulated into five tasks, as follows:
6.1)
6.2)
6.3)
6.4)
6.5)
Collaborative social housing community startup;
Incoming startups (catering)
Gardens startups (kitchen garden & gardens care)
Art & Crafts startups
Coworking space: a community of startups.
THANK YOU!
Contacts @:
Inti Bertocchi
Institute for Social Inclusion
Municipality of Bologna
[email protected]
+39 051 2194319