Manè is a social enterprise committed daily to social and technological innovation, including through the use of assistive technologies, and to experimenting with solutions

to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities or hardships.

Manè was not born out of nothing but is the natural transformation, also in the wake of the recent reform of the Third Sector, of a group of women and men who until some time ago made up the work team of the Ausilioteca Mediterranea Onlus and the e-LSA Onlus Association, realities born in 2007 in Naples and in 2008 in Bari. It has over fifteen years of experimentation behind it and several collaborations with other profit and non-profit organisations.

The transformation required to provide us with the legal framework best suited to the challenges of the future has left us with a long horizon on the challenges of welfare, on the desire to contribute to the construction of new public policies to support people, to experiment in the private sector with scenarios based on autonomy, inclusion and social innovation

particularly in favour of persons with disabilities and non-self-sufficiency.

Over the years, confirming our strong competences in the field of disability, our work has been increasingly contaminated by the social innovation approach, broadening the audience of people with whom we have come into contact.

In this spirit, the projects started to involve an ever-wider category of people,

no longer only those with disabilities but all those who are excluded, outside the processes of participation and social inclusion.

Today, our social enterprise is made up of: biomedical and rehabilitation engineers, design and cooperation experts; psychoanalysts and psychologists; experts in enterprise and social innovation; educators and pedagogues; computer and assistive technology technicians.