Our objectives/goals and the target group

Through the creation of an internal school journal, we have sought to raise awareness among young people about issues affecting inclusion and the environment. With the publication of articles we wanted to spread good practices and combat inequalities and discrimination. Thanks to young people, the school can promote a change of mentality in society, combine fragility and foster digitization and social inclusion.

Our cooperative “Il Quarto SA” is formed by six cooperatives that deal with several fields, therefore also the targets are different even if closely connected to each other. The fragility of which every cooperative is concerned becomes a strength in the reciprocal relationship that is created between them and in the bi-univocal generational transmigration:

“Equality”: it has as a privileged target, the disabled both Italian and foreign people of working age who need skills and opportunities to show their talent. If social and employment integration is difficult for a disabled person, let us imagine the difficulties of a disabled foreigner.

“Il parco dell’incontro”: Its target are the elderly alone and increasingly marginalized by a society now digitalized and with single-parent families. They are alone but incredibly rich in skills and experience, the elderly seek opportunities to transfer their wealth and still feel useful.

“Il cinema corso 2.0”: our target are the young people of Spoleto to whom offer a place of social and cultural aggregation, redeveloping an old cinema in the historical city center. In fact, compared to the young people of the last century we no longer have places of aggregation offered by the school, speakers and parties and this void has been filled only by the virtual squares of social where, however, there is no relationship and physical contact.

“Digital friends”: This cooperative is aimed at older people (boomers) and people who are inexperienced in the use of computers (x generation) in order to promote the digitization of society and combat exclusion.

“Greeny”: This cooperative is aimed at an undifferentiated target for age but sensitive to climate change, to which it offers more environmentally friendly means of transport to develop sustainable mobility.

“Recycling Forum Department”: promotes a cleaner city environment, disseminates good practices and fosters environmental knowledge through an app. Therefore its target, as for “Greeny”, is of undifferentiated age but sensitive to respect for the environment, aware of the importance of separate collection and recycling because it is concerned about climate change.

Our core activities

The core business of our cooperative is to create communities between generations, also rediscovering the fundamental role of nature in our lives. Our company is attentive to people, the community and the environment. We want to improve the quality of life of the most fragile people in the community through shared actions and we want diversity to be seen by young people as a value and an opportunity for growth. By activating virtuous networks, first among students within the school and then with the world of associations, we want to contribute to the objectives of the Agenda 2030.

The best way to do this is by promoting a change of mentality that must start with us younger and then involve others, and there is no better place in the school environment within which there can be a continuous exchange of ideas and opinions. The essential tool to reach the community that surrounds us is our newspaper “Il Quarto SA” that allows us to spread the activities we carry out inside and outside. “brand journalism”, as it is defined in the company, means communicating history, activity and projects using journalistic techniques. We need this in order to be able to take on a role of responsibility towards the community, fostering mutual assistance between the younger and the older, those who know and use technology and who are projected towards the future, the other holders of a heritage of experience and skills that bear witness to traditions and territorial identity from the past. However, it is essential to give young people the opportunity to have their own place of aggregation, culturally significant in which to form their identity and produce ideas. Therefore we propose to redevelop the old building of the “Cinema Corso” in the historic center of the city and make it available for social activities. We also try to involve the whole of society to respect this environment that surrounds us, because even through our small actions we can make a difference. Therefore we raise awareness through the newspaper about the respect for separate collection and the use of sustainable mobility tools. Particular importance and attention is paid to the most fragile and marginalized subjects of society, who generally have secondary roles. Instead, we make the disabled, foreigners and especially foreigners disabled, forgotten by all, the protagonists of our activities, so as to involve them in the world of work. The work that should be a right of all, as is also enshrined, among other articles of our Constitution, in Article one, which constitutes one of the twelve fundamental principles.. “il Quarto SA” sensitizes, informs, forms and promotes the good practices that our cooperative and not only, in fact our newspaper will also be the meeting point of all the other companies and associations of the third sector that together with us will carry out our values and ideals.

We are looking for…

We would like to meet partners who are involved in promoting communities that have as their values the improvement of the quality of life and that have as their objectives the increase of the rate of happiness.