A three-year program to promote Social Business in Pistoia, Toscana, has been inagurated yesterday. This program will support research, training, technical assistance for students, citizens, entrepreneurs and local authorities which want to invest in a “new economy”.
Thanks to the agreement signed by the Yunus Social Business Centre University of Florence, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia and Fondazione Un Raggio di Luce Onlus, Pistoia is the first Social Business City in Italy.
The program will focus on a series of activities which will give the an opportunity to citizens, entrepreneurs and local administrators to acquire specific competencies on Social Business and to get in touch with similar experiences worldwide.