6 IMPACT PROJECTS
Impact Club 2025-2026
In 2025, together with the Investors’ Club, we selected 6 impact projects to take part in the Impact Logic and Strategy program. From August to November 2025, the teams are supported with the goal of defining or evolving their impact logic as the foundation for building a sustainable business model.
TexDesign
Pregassona
TexDesign reduces textile waste destined for landfill in Ticino, offering a replicable model of sustainability and social ransom. It transforms used clothing into minimalist furniture, made from rigid material without additives and assembled without screws or hinges, for minimal environmental impact. Production involves an industrial partner and the Caritas Ticino workshops, offering reintegration pathways and new skills in the circular economy.
With this project, sustainable design becomes an expression of a local supply chain in which the recovery of used textiles generates value, giving back space and opportunities to the community through work.
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Cristiano Proia and Nicola di Feo participate as representatives of the Caritas Ticino Project Development team.
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Locarno
Radice was founded by a group of young people who believe in a way of living based on solidarity, support, and mutual respect.
The common goal is to create public interest housing organized as a housing cooperative. This means that each member is a co-owner of the entire apartment building and shares responsibility for its proper functioning. On this foundation, the initiative aims to promote a more sustainable way of living.
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Giulia Agugliaro and Hermes Killer participate in the program on behalf of the Cooperative, serving respectively as President and Project Group Coordinator.
Bologna, Lugano
Il Fungo Eclettico is a project born in Bologna that cultivates edible mushrooms in the city, enabling everyone to enjoy more sustainable foods without compromising on taste.
The team builds circular economies by collaborating with local producers to recover food waste such as brewer’s grains, coffee silver skin, and olive pits. They produce locally, reducing emissions and the consumption of space, water, and energy. Mushrooms are grown seasonally and intelligently to ensure variety and freshness. The remaining waste is transformed into compost or biomaterials.
The team aims to replicate the model in other Italian locations and in Ticino.
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Marco di Cecco and Luca D’Agostino co-founded Il Fungo Eclettico with Ylenia Ravani
Lugano
Netta combines neuroscience and learning sciences to transform education.
The organization conducts applied research and evaluations, co-develops educational tools, and organizes outreach events.
It designs and coordinates evidence-based educational initiatives with public and private institutions, measuring their impact to improve learning across the lifespan, ensuring that everyone can benefit from an innovative, science-based educational system.
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Ivana Juric and Rita Cosoli co-founded Netta.
Vita ai Giardini
Giubiasco
Vita ai Giardini designs and creates high-quality green spaces following the principles of permaculture and biodiversity, transforming private gardens and urban areas into dynamic, life-filled habitats with a positive impact on the environment, the microclimate, and the well-being of their inhabitants. It promotes native plants, supports the development of insects and local wildlife, spreads ecological knowledge, and actively involves people.
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From small urban vegetable plots to community gardens, and from schoolyards to corporate green spaces, we create welcoming, functional, and easy-to-manage environments. Our goal is to build a network of professionals who, by combining different skills, can accelerate the spread of sustainable and innovative green practices.
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Stephanie Rauer and Maria Chiara Cerinotti co-founded Vita ai Giardini.
Milano, Lugano
YearOut is an independent Italian association that, since 2006, has promoted international volunteering opportunities worldwide, collaborating with local partners on development projects.
The association supports young volunteers throughout the entire process: training, selection, organization, practical guidance, and on-site support, offering meaningful, responsible, and transformative experiences. The team aims to open a branch in Ticino to expand its activities across Switzerland.
Alice Riva and Chiara Beppato participate in the program on behalf of the association, serving respectively as President and Volunteer & Marketing Coordinator.
