In a report for the European Commission’s DG GROW, Isola is one of four European examples of impact-driven businessWe are a European example of impact-driven business. Find out why 

Una Sicilia possibile

A possible Sicily.

We are the social innovation hub that unlocks the potential of new generations in Sicily, creating real opportunities for work and entrepreneurship.

The Isola Catania community at Palazzo Biscari
What we do

Spaces, programmes and meaningful connections.

We give new generations a place where social innovation happens, programmes that turn potential into work and enterprise, and a network that multiplies impact.

The Isola coworking space inside Palazzo Biscari

Spaces

A coworking space and event spaces inside Palazzo Biscari, where different worlds meet and the best ideas are born.

Explore the spaces 
Young people at work during an Isola programme

Programmes

Free programmes for new generations, to find work and start a business, starting with those most at risk of being left behind.

Explore the programmes 
A working session with partners from the Isola ecosystem

Meaningful connections

An archipelago of organisations that take part in our governance and contribute to our impact goals.

Explore the archipelago 
Agenda · events open to the public

What’s on at Isola

17 November · 10:30

Forum on the social economy

Sicilia che Innova

The social economy Forum: Sicilian businesses that create value and impact meet institutions, companies, finance and the third sector, to grow a new way of doing business.

Find out more about the event See the agenda 
Inside the social economy

Business is the lever, not the goal.

We made a deliberate choice to be a social enterprise: an organisation that operates in the market and creates value, not only economic value, putting people and the region before profit.

Find out who we are 

Social enterprise

We operate in the market like a business and pursue a social purpose like a third-sector organisation: profit and non-profit in the same entity.

Certified B Corp

An international standard that measures the social and environmental quality of how a business operates.

Impact measured and reported

Change has to be measured, and opportunities have to be concrete.

Recognised in Europe

The European Commission points to our model as one of its example cases of impact-driven business.

About the European report 

Let’s do it together

No one builds a better island alone

Whether you want to work here, take part in a programme or support a project, tell us what you have in mind and let’s talk it through.