Television, national newspapers, trade magazines and local press: what the media have said about Isola, from the beginning to today.
Il Posto Giusto
The Rai 3 weekly programme about work: stories of people looking for a job, people hiring and people trying to build a career. The episode features the coworking space at Isola and the people who work there.
Linea Verde Life
The Rai 1 programme that tells the story of Italian cities through the environment, sustainability and the people who are changing them. The Catania episode goes inside the Isola spaces at Palazzo Biscari.
The articles that tell the story of our model, our programmes and our results.
Isola is the only Italian and Southern European business among the cases presented as examples in the European Commission’s DG GROW report on impact-driven businesses. By Biagio Semilia.
Read the articleFondazione Snam describes its trust-based approach to philanthropy and cites Isola as an example: Restart Italia at the start, skills-based volunteering as it grew, then Energie con il Sud. By Alessio Nisi.
Read the articleThe essay by Carola Carazzone, Secretary General of Assifero, opens with a visit to Sicily to see the work of two social entrepreneurs, and names Isola alongside Farm Cultural Park. Published in the journal founded by Carlo Borzaga, the academic point of reference for Italian social enterprise.
Read the articleIsola’s development plan: at least 500 job contracts following its training programmes and 25 new companies in seven years, linking the programmes to the jobs the market actually needs.
Read the articleFrom the national assembly of Assifero in Catania, organised with Fondazione Marea and Isola: Sicily as the place where models of the social economy are tested, and skills-based volunteering as capital reinvested in the local area.
Read the articleFrom the Pitch, Match, Deal format hosted at Isola: the lack of financial literacy as an obstacle to the growth of Sicilian businesses. By Nino Amadore.
Read the articleThe first edition of the festival, with remote working seen as a lever to revive the South of Italy.
Read the articleThe journey to becoming a social enterprise, and the idea that gives meaning to Isola’s work: the future clearly lies in the South. By Francesco Pontorno.
Read the articleMore than 1,800 students involved, in partnership with JA Italia and the University of Catania, with the support of the Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale.
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