And the winners in Turin are…

• Relationships Architects, they want to redesign the reception area of a new Social Inclusion Service;
• Civil Servant Life Cycle, they provide the Municipality with an archive of processes related to the working life cycle of employees;
• Green Competition, to promote the adoption of virtuous behaviors in terms of energy consumption within the municipal buildings through a virtuous competition;
• Borgo Open, enhance communication about one of the cultural attractions of the City ("Borgo Medievale") to boost it as a space for the citizens;
• The precious heritage, in an aging working contest how not to loose knowledge and experience planning a valuable exit path.

These are the five projects chosen by a Commission composed by internal Head Management, and awarded the 16th December at the presence of all the 70 employees who participated to the call for the European project Innovato-R.

These projects will be implemented thanks to the resources made available through the Urbact European Transfer Network Program, with the help of a specialized technical assistance provided by Environment Park one of the local innovative accelerator.

Since all the 44 proposals submitted in response to the Innovato-R call for action were judged interesting, the municipality has showed a strong commitment to help innovation inside the PA to become a reality.

The Deputy Mayor for Innovation Marco Pironti stressed that the success of the initiative is primarily the result of the concrete commitment of civil servants: "Alongside to the daily activity, imagining, studying and planning transformations to modernize services for citizens and, incorporating ideas, have voluntarily added value to the work. It is this motivating context in which moving from the ordinary creates innovation, the positive and auspicious factor that the Municipality needs".