An intuition shared out loud more than a year and a half ago, today it is a model recognized by the European Parliament with its High Patronage which cuts the ribbon on the third edition of the project in April. Social Impact Manager is the free higher education model of the Augurusa Foundation which since spring 2025 has brought together students, representatives of institutions, freelancers, entrepreneurs, academics and researchers from Italy and abroad in Calabria with a single objective: to train innovators, capable of interpreting the development paradigm according to the lenses of environmental and social impact and constructing value-generating interventions. A mission that we set ourselves from the first conceptual maps drawn up on who and what the SIM was for them, with many difficulties but with the certainty of offering something that did not exist, and for which they also felt a strong need. Social Impact Manager, and now its “Green” vertical, is what was missing in the training panorama and which now, thanks to the Augurusa Foundation, is first in Italy.
This was said by Gianluca Ansalone, professor at the Augurusa Foundation and Head of Public Affairs & Sustainability in Novartis Italia, on the occasion of the presentation of his volume “Extremes. The world in the balance between chaos and polarization” who in recent days attended the debate, moderated by the journalist Maurizio Bonanno, with students and the press: «Experiences like Green SIM are enormously useful for two reasons. The first is that they aggregate: they aggregate sensitivities, experiences, consciences. The second is that they stimulate that form of debate on in-depth content that we have unfortunately forgotten. Here we delve deeper, we study for days, for weeks, we analyze the problems in their essence and put solutions into place.”