Antonio Perdichizzi
Founder and Chair of Isola Catania Impresa Sociale and of Fondazione Marea
Antonio Perdichizzi’s bio
Antonio Perdichizzi is a social entrepreneur. He is the founder and Chair of Isola Catania Impresa Sociale, a social innovation hub that gives new generations the spaces, programmes and connections they need to build their future in Sicily.
He is the founder and Chair of Fondazione Marea, which turns the Sicilian diaspora into a community, pooling philanthropic resources and skills-based volunteering to create opportunities to stay in, return to or move to Sicily.
He serves on the Board of Governors of JA Worldwide, the world’s largest non-profit organisation bringing entrepreneurship and financial education into schools, and on UniCredit’s Sicily Advisory Board. He previously chaired the Young Entrepreneurs Group and the Small Industry Committee of Confindustria Catania, and Junior Achievement Italia. He has spoken at four TEDx conferences.
Antonio Perdichizzi è un imprenditore sociale. Fondatore e Presidente di Isola Catania Impresa Sociale, hub di innovazione che si occupa di creare opportunità per le nuove generazioni in campo formativo, lavorativo, imprenditoriale e culturale.
È ideatore e Presidente della Fondazione Marea, che opera per trasformare la diaspora siciliana in comunità, aggregando risorse filantropiche e volontariato di competenze per costruire un ecosistema di imprenditorialità sociale e generare opportunità per restare, tornare e approdare in Sicilia.
È componente del board globale di Junior Achievement, la più grande organizzazione non-profit al mondo che porta l’educazione imprenditoriale e finanziaria a scuola, e dell’advisory board di UniCredit in Sicilia.
È stato Presidente del Gruppo Giovani Imprenditori e del Comitato Piccola Industria di Confindustria Catania e Presidente di Junior Achievement Italia. Ha partecipato come speaker a quattro conferenze TEDx, gli eventi locali del celebre format globale non-profit TED che mira a diffondere idee di valore.
Isola Catania Impresa Sociale
Founder and Chair of the social innovation hub.
Fondazione Marea (opens in a new tab)
Founder and Chair. Turning the Sicilian diaspora into a community.
Junior Achievement Worldwide (opens in a new tab)
Member of the global board of the world’s largest non-profit for entrepreneurship education.
UniCredit (opens in a new tab)
Member of the advisory board for Sicily (press release in Italian).
Tree (opens in a new tab)
Founder and CEO of the open innovation company, until its exit when it joined the Opinno group.
Confindustria Catania (opens in a new tab)
Chair of the Young Entrepreneurs Group and of the Small Industry Committee.
Junior Achievement Italia (opens in a new tab)
National Chair of the organisation in Italy (in Italian).
TEDx speaker
TEDx events are independent local events born from TED, the global non-profit that has been spreading ideas under the motto “Ideas Worth Spreading” since 1984. Each event is organised on a voluntary basis by a local community, under a licence granted by TED, and each speaker has a few minutes to share a single idea. Dozens of editions are held in Italy every year, often hosted by universities.
Da goccia nasce Marea
Alla ricerca di un movimento dal basso
L'innovazione salverà il Sud
La formula della Startup City è giovani + territorio = sviluppo
Interviews
Filantropia, una rete da 400 milioni pronta per le sfide del bene comune
From the national assembly of Assifero in Catania: the political value of choosing the South, and Sicily as the place where models of the social economy are tested.
Da Isola un piano per cambiare la città
Isola’s development plan: 500 job contracts following its training programmes and 25 new companies in seven years, linking the programmes to the jobs actually in demand.
A Catania si produce l’energia d’Europa, ma un giovane su tre è senza lavoro
From the first Job Day of Energie con il Sud: the paradox of a city that builds the future of Europe’s energy yet can’t hold on to its own potential.
Impatto. Nasce la rubrica di Isola sul social impact
A big-picture interview: the journey to becoming a social enterprise, and the thesis that gives meaning to Isola’s work: the future lies in the South.
Un’Isola che non è più tale. A Catania talenti e innovatori fanno comunità
How the hub was born between the two lockdowns, and the ambition to make it a point of reference for innovation in the Mediterranean.
Scuola, a Catania i giovani di tutta Europa per presentare le idee imprenditoriali di domani
From the Gen-E festival, with young entrepreneurs from over forty countries: bringing events of this scale to where the need is greatest.
Isola Catania, l’hub per il Sud di Antonio Perdichizzi
The most extensive interview: the hybrid form between profit and non-profit, the four words of the code of ethics gathered in C.U.R.A., and the case for shared responsibility.
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