The Consortium Il Nodo was established in 2000 by 14 social cooperatives operating in the province of Catania, in order to respond to a shared need to act “in a network” to address the issues and problems of social entrepreneurship and to concretise the connection between the experiences and competences of cooperatives that have been operating for years in the field of personal services management and that deal with the work placement of socially disadvantaged persons.

The term “Nodo” wants to evoke a living network, a structure that promotes, protects and accompanies the consolidation and development of social cooperation in Sicily. It wants to present itself as a system capable of producing real change in its own territory, focusing on the protagonism of young people, on reception and integration, on the support of people in difficulty, on the promotion of Social Enterprise as a tool to realize dreams and projects, also and above all in our land.

It is a network that, as well as enhancing the fact that independent enterprises share resources and missions, also stands out for its ability to innovate both organizational models, partnerships and management, in order to enter into innovation as a permanent management strategy for the enterprise system.

It is not simply a matter of providing services, but of working, together with the institutions and other entities present, in the territory and for the territory, having as its objective the well-being, present and future, of the community.