Project Ahead
Organization Details
Project Ahead was founded in 2001 as a cooperative active in consultation and planning in youth policies and in new multicultural experimentation models.
Since 2009 Project Ahead has joined an European Network. It designs and manages national and Community projects dedicated to innovation, social inclusion, social venture.
In 2011 takes part to the design and the organisation of Naples 2.0. International Social Innovation Competition for innovators and creatives from all over the world.
In 2012, for the first time in Italy, Project Ahead organized the Social Startup Weekend (from the Startup Weekend format) focused on the creation of social enterprises, later renamed Social Change Wave.
Since 2017 we have been managing Dialogue Place, an incubator of multicultural social innovation and coworking space based in the heart of Naples.
In 2020 Project Ahead became social enterprise cooperative.
Impact Story
Project Ahead is a social enterprise that provides consulting service and supports social innovation
We address SMEs, non-profit organizations, public institutions, civil society aiming to develop enterprise creation process and to foster paths of shared innovation, facing social problems.
Entrepreneurs, freelance, innovators who want work, share their ideas and develop entrepreneurial projects with a positive impact on society and environment are welcome in our spaces and community.
We are a team of experts, part of national and international networks. We believe in the importance of creating goods, services, models and systems able to generate a positive social impact related to market dynamics.
We believe in the promotion of innovative and creative entrepreneurship as instrument for social change.
We encourage the creation of partnerships and support business communities that share innovative strategies, actions and opportunities for the economic and social development.
We strive for sharing of objectives at the institutional level, smart communities and responsible consumers.
We have a vision of the future aims at creating conditions for social change consistent with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the General Assembly, in particular with:
