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SOCIAL INNOVATION TRENDS LIBRARY

Recycle Up! Ghana: youth entrepreneurial education for sustainable waste solutions

Interview with Alhassan Baba Muniru, Co-founder of Recycle Up! Ghana  Recycle Up! Ghana is a social enterprise focused on youth entrepreneurial education and the co-creation of solutions to waste in Ghana; one of the biggest challenges in the country. This social...

Performing in social innovation – does it matter?

Fabienne Colling is the founder of Touchpoints, an NGO helping refugees in Luxembourg to pave their way to employment. I met her during the course on social innovation and sustainability at the University of Luxembourg. She is a very bright, impressively skilled and...

How to create eco-friendly accessories to solve environmental problems and encourage the idea of responsible shopping: insights from Upside Down’s founder

Upside Down is a start-up aiming to help the environment and persuade consumers/customers to make responsible decisions. Read an interview to get inspired.

Youth and social entrepreneurship in Mexico Interview with Jorge Meléndez and Cecilia Cárdenas, co-founders of Emprendimiento Social México (ESMEX)

Social entrepreneurship in Mexico, as elsewhere, has become a source of innovative solutions to most pressing problems our society. These solutions have been created by social entrepreneurs, and have led to new ways of citizen participation, new business models with...

How to open a government: Insight from LAAAB founder, Raúl Oliván

LAAAB is a Trojan device that enables open government innovation from within. Civic participation, new technologies & public sector and social innovation.

How to reach over 60,000 users worldwide with social innovation in eye health: insights from a chief Executive Officer at Smart Optometry

Over 150 million children worldwide suffer from lazy eye, strabismus, or convergence insufficiency. These issues significantly impact the quality of life – if nothing else, our school system delivers 80% of all knowledge through vision and if we don’t see well, we...

Increasing the Visibility of Community Participation Opportunities through Open Badges

Lessons learned from exploring digital social innovation through Open Badges to enable greater visibility of community participation opportunities.

ARIZMENDI IKASTOLA: SOCIAL INNOVATION THROUGH EDUCATION

    Arizmendi Ikastola is a non-profit cooperative school in the Basque Country that is highly committed to social innovation. The aim of the school goes far beyond the curricular contents and focuses on the development of the person. A model of a person...

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