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.
S-Competition
In 2019 the Südtiroler Sparkasse chose LDV20 as the space to launch S-Competition, a contest open to students enrolled at the Universities of Trento and Bolzano. The objective was to introduce products and services and integrate them with the current banking offers for young people.
Ninety young people, divided into teams, took part in the contest: they developed 30 projects, focusing in particular on improving the user experience and new needs of so-called “digital natives”. The five best proposals were then selected, with the chosen teams then participating in the final phase of the contest, the Sparkasse Campus, two days of in-depth work where they were led and supported by mentors and experts who guided them in honing and putting the finishing touches on their proposals. The 5 finalist teams then tried to convince the jury with their proposal in an intense pitching session. After careful deliberation, the first prize was awarded to two teams whose members were: Gaia Salizzoni, Andrea Fortugno, Matteo Carbone, Serena Sandrini, Valentina Marana, and Demian Zendron. The latter team in particular had the opportunity to further develop the project within the bank.
Artificial Intelligence
In LDV20 we are not afraid of computers and artificial intelligence, simply because we know that they can only help us to perform better and make better use of our skills.
Together with the Free University of Bolzano, we therefore launched a project for Südtiroler Sparkasse, which tackled one of the most disruptive innovations of the present and the immediate future in one of the world’s oldest businesses, banking.
The goal was to create algorithms that could enable young people to smartly invest their salary, set saving targets for the latest technological gadget, or which insurance to pick for their travels. We achieved this goal in true LDV20 fashion through collaborative innovation that connected the brilliant minds of the Free University of Bolzano with Südtiroler Sparkasse.
