From work experience to a great opportunity. These girls have become green entrepreneurs
Green entrepreneurs just 18 years old? They made it. Between a version of Latin and a math test, they experimented with budgets, budgeting and feasibility studies, transforming what on paper seemed only a boring school duty into a 'opportunities for the future.
Is called school-work and it is one of the novelty of the 2015 reform. It obliges high school students to do internships and professional training courses.
Two years after the start, however, the project did not always work and there was no lack of criticism. But there are also very positive experiences. Like Green Jobs, the training course carried out by the Cariplo Foundation with JA Italia and InVento Innovation Lab. It involved 1.200 students between 16 and 19 from 30 high schools in Lombardy, teaching them to create a start-up that helps the environment.
One way to raise awareness among young people about the opportunities that the "green professions" offer. But also to develop their ecological spirit.
Alessandra and her start-up that produces biodegradable ice cream cups
Alessandra is one of the 18-year-old green entrepreneurs. His start up produces biodegradable ice cream cups equipped with a substrate that contains seeds to plant. The cup can also be planted because it is compostable. It is made in Pla, i.e. polylactic acid, a derivative of corn, wheat or beet.
Producing cups is laborious and expensive. Alessandra and her class, for this reason, are looking for a company to sponsor them.
A start-up that produces cosmetics produced with the cocoon of butterflies
Octavia, together with his class, he has created a start-up that sells cosmetic products made from the cocoon of the butterfly. The idea was born from the union between the desire to produce natural cosmetics and the hobby of a classmate to breed butterflies. The Brescia species of the Samia Cynthia she was in danger of extinction and so they decided to use her cocoon to make cosmetics. A way also to enhance the territory. Thanks to this important experience, Ottavia is thus part of the group of green entrepreneurs.
An App against food waste (Magic Fridge)
Will be, together with his class, he invented a clever way to not waste food. It is a "smart" App. It scans the barcode because most of the products found in supermarkets are already inserted. Using it is very simple: you shop, scan purchases and, when they are due, receive the notification.
This first version is only for Android. Now Sara, a green entrepreneur, together with her companions, will also develop the one for the iPhone.
