Social Impact
Lab Bologna.
A programme that connects non-profit organisations and teams of innovators to turn real local needs into solutions that can be piloted.
Submit your challengeWhy it exists
The challenges are there.
What's needed is the chance to tackle them together.
Non-profit organisations face complex needs every day, often with limited resources and little time to experiment. TechGarage creates common working ground between those who know a challenge and those who have the ideas, tools and skills to build a response. The programme keeps the need grounded in reality while opening up the space needed to imagine alternatives.
- Brings the challengeNon-profit organisation listed in the RUNTS (Italian Third Sector Register)
- Builds the responseTeams of innovators, aspiring founders and professionals
- Enables the journeyPartners, mentors and local organisations
How it works
From challenge
to field test.
01 Challenge collection
- 01
Challenge collection
We select the organisations and work with them to pin down a concrete operational need. The people involved, the constraints and the desired change become a clear challenge, open to outside contributions.
- 02
Call for Solutions
We look for teams and innovators interested in working on the selected challenges. The call makes clear the context, the useful skills and the conditions under which a proposal will be tested.
- 03
Hackathon
Skills come together, hypotheses are built and the most promising solutions take shape. Working directly with the organisations avoids generic answers and quickly leads to a first tangible model.
- 04
Matchmaking and mentoring
Organisations and teams are supported in moving from a proposal to a feasible pilot. Goals, responsibilities, resources and indicators are made concrete before the test.
- 05
Demo Day
Prototypes, lessons and prospects are presented publicly and shared with the community. The finale does not just celebrate a result: it clarifies what can continue, with which alliances and under what conditions.
What it produces
Not just ideas.
Verifiable relationships.
- Challenges defined together with the organisations
- Multidisciplinary teams activated
- Proposals built on real needs
- Prototypes and pilot plans
- Lessons shared with the community
Bring a challenge into the Garage
Do you have a concrete need
to work on?
Write to us describing the context, the people involved and the change you would like to make possible.
Submit your challenge