Innovation4Change - 7th edition
60 young managers, scientists and storytellers present their visions for the future!
On Monday, June 27, the seventh edition of Innovation4Change, the Impact Innovation program organized by the Collège des Ingénieurs Italia, CERN IdeaSquare and the Politecnico di Torino, came to a close.
This year's winner was Team Ferrovie dello Stato Italiano, with their Greensect waste processing system. Second place went to Team UNICRI, while third place was shared by Team Movyon and Team CNH Industrial.
After five months of work that saw the 10 teams explore challenges brought by multinational corporations and institutions, the participants gathered at Turin's Valentino Castle to present their solutions to an audience of executives and representatives from partner companies.
In this year's edition we saw very interesting topics: Grimaldi and Ferrovie dello Stato brought challenges focused on reuse and waste management. Snam and TELT, on the other hand, focused on how to preserve the environment during the construction of infrastructure. Movyon - Gruppo Autostrade per l’Italia and the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility brought challenges related to making the way we move more sustainable. CNH Industrial focused on the welfare of workers in agricultural fields, while DSM focused on the welfare of animals on livestock farms. Rai Way brought a challenge on the interaction between television and the gaming world, and finally UNICRI proposed a challenge on combating child exploitation and abuse online.
Each team developed a project to solve their challenge while having a measurable impact that married a strategy over a 20-week development timeframe, 20-month market entry strategy and 20-year vision and long-term impact.