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Positive Impact Event


A positive impact event prioritises social and environmental responsibilities throughout its planning and execution. For Graphene Week, this means fostering an inclusive and equitable atmosphere, focusing on attendee experience and wellness, minimising waste, and encouraging eco-friendly transport and dining options. We partner with our host city and venue to provide these choices and are committed to ongoing improvement.

Join us at Graphene Week 2025 where we are hosting in the World Heritage Site of Vicenza at a venue that takes its corporate social responsibility seriously. Learn more about what we, our host city and venue are doing to contribute to making this Graphene Week one to remember! 

Vicenza tower

Vicenza

The UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994, Vicenza municipality promotes and coordinates diverse awareness-raising initiatives, projects and actions about environmental sustainability, and its policy-making is oriented towards improving the local framework.

  • The historic center closed to traffic since 1996 
  • Logistic is managed exclusively through Electric Vehicles
  • Participates in the Inclusive Cities for Sustainable Cities project*
* A global Alliance of Territories promoted by the International Federation for Family Development that aim to be inclusive of sustainable families by being responsive to their needs in these ten issues, based on 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda: Housing, New Technologies, Education, Healthcare, Safety, Clean Air, Transportation, Affordability, Leisure and Tourism, and Vulnerable Families.
Food for Good

Venue

At Vicenza Convention Centre as a part of their corporate social responsibility, they recover leftover food from events and donate it to local charities.  

ViCC endorses Food For Good - from meeting to solidarity, a national initiative launched in collaboration with Federcongressi, Banco Alimentare and Equoevento.

Food for Good has become one of the best practices on the EU Platform on the issue of food loss and waste - a result that gratifies all the players who actively participate in the recovery of excess food.

Corporate Social Responsibility
GW2023 social smiles

GW 2025

What we do to make this a positive impact event:

  • Prioritise equity, inclusion and accessibility; includes special diversity session
  • Focus on attendee experience and well-being through our social programme
  • Serve quality, local food with vegetarian options; donate unused food 
  • Bring change-makers together to connect and join forces for good 
  • Minimise printed materials and other waste
  • Encourage taking public transportation and other sustainable modes of transport to-from and around the event