PARTNERS

FONDAZIONE CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI TORINO (promoter)

The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino is a non-profit organization entirely devoted to the economic, social and cultural development and growth of Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta. It was born in 1991 by the Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, from whom it inherited the philanthropic spirit. The Fondazione is a non-profit and private entity, with full managerial autonomy. Its main goals are social welfare and the promotion of economic development.

The Fondazione operates in three main areas – Art and Culture, Research and Education, Territory and Welfare – according to three complementary modes of operation: support, design, venture philanthropy. Since its establishment, it gives contributions to the realities, which enrich the cultural, educational and economic life of the territory. Alongside this activity, Fondazione CRT implements its own projects, designed to meet local needs in different sectors, especially focusing on the opportunities for growth, training and employment, for young people mostly. By applying venture philanthropy methodology, it also pays attention to the economical sustainability of the funded projects and to the people who actually make these projects happen. Fondazione CRT pays particular attention to the world of sustainability and disability, according to its mission and history, aimed at supporting an open and cohesive society. The commitment in supporting initiatives for vulnerable groups is in the mission of Fondazione CRT, in fact sustaining actions oriented to the welfare in in the Fondazione CRT’s bylaws both by funding grants and open calls – such as Vivomeglio program, which aims to improve life quality for people with disabilities – and by offering opportunities to access international circuits in which Fondazione CRT works with the aim of promoting integration, competitiveness and new development opportunities in Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta.

Fondazione CRT participates the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the umbrella organizations of European philanthropy: the European Venture Philanthropy Association and the European Foundation Center, in which Fondazione CRT adheres to the League of Historical Accessible Cities, which aims to improve the accessibility of city centers and to promote the development of sustainable tourism in order to improve leisure time of people with disabilities and their families.

IsITT (project design and management)

The Istituto Italiano per il Turismo per Tutti , founded in 2009, the Istituto Italiano per il Turismo per Tutti is an association committed to the promotion implementation of a real culture for accessibility tourism. The association offers advice and support to all the organizations that intend to achieve an improvement in the quality of their touristic experience and is engaged on several fronts: from training to verification of accessibility, from research and outreach to the implementation of projects and local initiatives for All. It also offers advice in the process of elimination of architectural barriers and according to the principles of Universal Design and of aesthetically and functionally valid design. Featuring a multidisciplinary working group, made up of people with disabilities, architects skilled in the elimination of architectural barriers and inclusive design and by tourism professionals, IsITT has quickly become a preminent actor on a national and international scale regarding accessible tourism. The philosophy of the association is to place at the center the tourist (whether he/she is a child, elderly, person with disabilities, etc.), offering an accessible experience in all its single parts, form promotion to fruition. The association, in fact, believes that only through the adaptation and improvement of all aspects of the tourism industry you can achieve a high quality touristic product that can respond to the needs, expectations, desires and needs of all tourists, including travelers with disabilities and special needs.

CPD

The Consulta per le Persone in Difficoltà onlus is a voluntary non-profit organization working since 1988 to promote social inclusion of people with physical, mental and social disadvantage. The association operates in various areas: from health care to school, from welfare to mobility, from elimination of architectural barriers to accessible tourism. CPD provides people with disabilities with direct services and also carries out awareness-raising and protection of the rights activities. Since 2007, CPD has developed the regional project Turismabile and it is an active member of the main regional and national working groups on the topic of accessible tourism.

TURISMO TORINO E PROVINCIA

Turismo Torino e Provincia is the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Turin and its surrounding area for tourism in all its aspects: leisure, sports, nature, culture, individual and group travel, conferences, conventions, incentive travel and business tourism. It organizes many activities: promotion of the territory, hospitality and tourist information through the creation of touristic products and services, communication and promotion for both national and international press, leisure professionals and Meetings Incentives Conventions Exhibitions and for direct customers as well. In the last years Turismo Torino e Provincia has been working on accessible tourism as well.

CREDITS

ToTo is a project by IsITT in collaboration with the CPD and Turismo Torino e Provincia, fully funded by Fondazione CRT.

• Project Management: Anna Follo (IsITT) with Nadia Bravo (CPD) and Eugenia Monzeglio (IsITT). Definition of the itinerary by Anna Follo and Eugenia Monzeglio. Texts of the app and the website by Anna Follo. Itinerary description and analysis of the accessibility by Eugenia Monzeglio and Nadia Bravo. Logo and category icons by Nello Russo.

• The app and website were developed by Bmooble.

• Translation in Italian sign language (LIS) and sign language videos by Culturabile Onlus. Vera Arma wrote the subtitles. Paola Cruciani is the LIS interpreter. Video shooting and mounting by Carlo Caffarella.

• Thank you to Alessio Lenzi, advisor of the Digital Committee of the Unione Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti (UICI) in Turin for his insight, for testing the app and website, and for his advice on usability.

• Stereocopy relief drawings and maps by Rocco Rolli and Andrea Lo Cascio (Tactile Vision Onlus).

• The promotional video was conceived and directed by Paolo Severini.

• A heartfelt thanks to all the friends of IsITT and CPD who accompanied us on the user-group tour for testing the app and took part in the video: Giuseppe Antonucci (regional advisor of the Paralympic Italian Committe and of SportDiPiù) and Clara Santin, Francesco Fratta (head of cultural department of the Turin Unione Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti Onlus), Sara Aquilino ed Elisabetta Mascherucci (Ente Nazionale Sordi in Turin).