Green SUIte
We promoted in Sparkasse an employee engagement project dedicated to sustainability, called Green SUIte, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano and important Italian corporates. It was a real Open Innovation project, where we asked ourselves how to generate an impact on our customers and on the territories where we live, then developing a collaboration project with a startup: Up2You.
150 Sparkasse employees took part in the project, tackling environmental sustainability challenges in various forms: from sustainable mobility to food waste to the impact of digital. Each employee undertook an average of 32 missions over the six weeks of the challenge, reducing their carbon footprint by a total of 40,000 kg of CO2.
Radar
RADAR is the new Open Innovation service of the Südtiroler Sparkasse, developed by LDV20.
Practising Open Innovation means, as our motto goes, “reverse thinking”: changing perspective so as to discover new ways of doing things. Each edition of RADAR presents the innovation needs of local companies as part of a call for startups and innovative SMEs. The best proposals have the chance to work more closely with companies and introduce themselves at our annual event in October.
Advisory Board
In order to drive change, we have to be able to listen to local needs.
We have thus created in 2021 an Advisory Board that brings together leading figures from the academic and entrepreneurial worlds in the Province of Bolzano. Together we aim to identify the most urgent issues and the most disruptive technologies for the foreseeable future. We focused ourselves on two key themes for 2021: sustainability and digital transformation.
In 2022 the Board has been extended to the whole Triveneto region and pointed towards ESG themes. The results of the Board’s activity will serve to guide the search for startups and new technologies in the province.