May 22 – Three pioneering ideas to create new types of jobs and meet social needs were awarded in Brussels. And one of the three winners of the award for social innovation established by the European Commission in memory of the president of Social Innovation eXchange, Diogo Vasconcelos, is Italian. “From waste to wow! Quid project” received the award from the hands of Commissioner Michel Barnier along with two other proposals from Belgium (“Urban Farm Lease”) and Ireland (“Voidstarter”). The Quid Project seeks to recycle high quality waste from the fashion industry to produce new, limited collections by offering work to disadvantaged women, creating highly marketable products and thus producing social value through recycling.
