SpinOff A.p.s.

SpinOff A.p.s. is a no profit organization born in early 2016 as an informal group of social and business designers and youth workers: our main project - Spazio S.p.IN - is a space in the heart of Apulia region aimed at connecting the youth, people and organizations and let them realize ideas, following the whole project cycle. In a few months we worked with more than 15 informal groups - leading them to the creation of startups and no profit organizations - and we created a regional network in order to pursue our main objectives: • Promote the youngster growth and self-determination encouraging the exchange of skills and know-how; • Shape active citizens, capable of contributing to the emergence of a participatory culture, especially thorough the use of visual thinking tools; • Gather the development of strategies that contribute to build a multicultural society; • Promote the sustainable development and the circular economy bring benefits for both the environment and the economy. Nowadays SpinOff A.p.s. is a no profit organization that is expanding its horizons working close to associations and social cooperatives, nurturing the creation of a national and international network of profit and no profit organizations: the association believes in the free circulation of ideas and knowledge and it considers the network as an engine to create social and economic value. Our team, working in partnership with local and international associations, participated in various Erasmus + Youth Exchange as partner. SpinOff A.p.s. works in education projects collaborating with high schools about the topic of entrepreneurship, sustainable development and circular economy, mixing the visual thinking tools with non-formal and peer learning methodology.