CHESS
Change Hubs for Ecosystemic Social Solutions
We support the change through social innovation
Project Ahead is a social enterprise that provides consulting service and supports social innovation
We address SMEs, non-profit organizations, public institutions, civil society aiming to develop enterprise creation process and to foster paths of shared innovation, facing social problems.
Entrepreneurs, freelance, innovators who want work, share their ideas and develop entrepreneurial projects with a positive impact on society and environment are welcome in our spaces and community.
Social innovation can be new ideas to tackle urgent social and environmental challenges that we face. It can be a new product, a process, a technology or also a principle, a policy, a movement, an action or the combination between those above. Especially, it represent the ability, the society strenght to understand, analys, tackle and solve its problems.
(Italian network the Hub – I-SIN – Kublai, 2011)
We experiment venture and ideas’ generation and contamition instruments
We facilitate international exchanges between entrepreneurs
Project Ahead was founded in 2001 as a cooperative active in consultation and planning in youth policies and in new multicultural experimentation models.
Since 2009 Project Ahead has joined an European Network. It designs and manages national and Community projects dedicated to innovation, social inclusion, social venture.
In 2011 takes part to the design and the organisation of Naples 2.0. International Social Innovation Competition for innovators and creatives from all over the world.
In 2012, for the first time in Italy, Project Ahead organized the Social Startup Weekend (from the Startup Weekend format) focused on the creation of social enterprises, later renamed Social Change Wave.
Since 2017 we have been managing Dialogue Place, an incubator of multicultural social innovation and coworking space based in the heart of Naples.
In 2020 Project Ahead became social enterprise cooperative.
Expert in business creation and social innovation. Director of Dialogue Place
Experience in management and reporting of projects and in consulting services to non-profit organizations. Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Programme Supervisor.
Chartered accountant, expert in tax system for SMEs, startups and third sector organizations. Consultant in sustainability analysis and CSR.
He works with words. He deals with cultural actions and social communication for public institutions and private-social organizations.
Expert in planning, development and monitoring of national and international projects concerning education and vocational training and social and economic promotion.
Competence and experience in cultural heritage, she advocates economic sustainability and social impact.
Experience with AEGEE student organization, he facilitates relationships between entrepreneurs under the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Programme
Expert in designing, planning and developing partnerships, managing and implementation of european and national projects,with focus on social interventions.
With an artistic background, she uses her creativity as the key to solve problems and manage the coworking space.
Graduated in linguistics and sociology, she has always be interested in the digital sphere and she manages communication.
“Young people and their creativity are the driving force for the economic development.”
“cultural differences are a competitive edge!”
“the best enterprise causes a significant impact on its life… and on the community”
Social enterprise is an exciting challenge: it combines solidarity and efficiency in a world dominated by the concept selfishness-profit.
“Circular economy, product and process innovation, efficiency are a driving force for the economic recovery of territories”
Sharing and participation are in themselves innovation.
"Female employment, the gender pay gap, the development of sustainable solutions to big social problems are the challenges of the 21st century. Women entrepreneurs are the instrument to deal with this problem."
"Promoting social innovation culture is essential to create new patterns of sustainable development. But they are really sustainable if they take into account not only the environment, but also the social and economic aspect."
Change Hubs for Ecosystemic Social Solutions (CHESS)
We can’t expect that things just change, if we keep doing the same things.
(A. Einstein)
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