The 2,3,4th of October 2020 we facilitated for greenlab.brussels, a hackathon REBOOTCAMP for industrial circular projects, in Tranforma bxl.
Participants had 2 days to find solutions to problematics like Tiny house for Homeless people, Reprocessing Textile, Recycled insulating material and more!
How to move from an idea to a project ready to be implemented?
This is the challenge we facilitated with Bruxelles participation, PARTICITIZ and facilitators from all horizons for “LE FESTIVALS DES IDEES” held in Neder-Over-Heembeeck.
1 million euros has been unlocked by La Ville de Bruxelles to realize the dreams and projects citizens have for their city.
How to improve green areas, mobility and social cohesion?
Motivated citizens proposed solutions that made us, maybe, want to move from Ixelles to Neder-Over-Heembeeck. 😉
The French city of Le Havre Seine Métropole was chosen to be an experimental city on the subject climate-neutral and smart cities. During 1 day, we focused on the point of view of a representative sample of citizens from Le Havre. Their concerns, their dreams and ideas for the city of 2030 have been tackled.
We participated as facilitators of collective intelligence. Online.
Bonding and leveraging collective intelligence is possible with everyone !! 😉
Martin Germeau, Superhero, oversaw this cool project. Thanks to him we spent a positive day, helping citizens reflecting on questions that touch them and their communities 💜
Listening to the opinion of all is how you imagine a sustainable future and generate engagement and passion for this future. We keep going!
After two successful editions, the Green Mind was held on the 28th of May in Brussels. Around 300 people attended this event where various opinion leaders and specialists from the private and the public sectors, as well as the academic world, came to share and exchange their views on the transition to a low-carbon economy. Sustainable challenges in Mobility, Circular Economy, and Energy will be tackled. This annual gathering offered a comprehensive one-day and evening program along with exclusive opportunities to learn, network, and get deals done.
The prime objective of the Green Mind is to share new perspectives on sustainability. The Green Mind is a unique opportunity to learn from academics and daring entrepreneurs who are turning environmental challenges into concrete business opportunities, thereby accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy.
For its first edition, the Impact Trophy gathered 6 leading companies in the Belgium landscape! AXA Belgium, BMS, bpost Bank, CISCO, Davidson Consulting and IPG Mediabrands sent 1 or 2 teams of 10 innovation champions to experiment during 3 days a cross-corporate hackathon dedicated to solve one of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Amongst a list of more than 45 local NonProfit Organisations (NPO), each company has selected one social organisation to support. During 3 days, 10 of their employees used their creativity and energy to solve a specific challenge of their selected NPO and help them to realize their dream !
The Impact Summit is an enriching and inspiring experience for leaders willing to shape their vision and mission, taking into account new societal challenges at stake.
This event gathered more than 45 participants (leaders, directors, managers, and experts from change-leading organizations).
This event was a unique opportunity to learn how Innovation can create both business value and societal impact and discover how Corporate Entrepreneurship can become a new way of doing CSR.
Programme
This collaborative experimentation connected corporates through interactive talks where inspiring speakers shared some best-practices where they had business and/or societal impact.Following a common thread, each of them answered these key questions:
VISION
By AYMERIC OLIBET, Intrapreneur – BNP Paribas Fortis
How did we integrate the SDG’s into our vision in order to create business value and societal impact?
STRATEGY
By EMILIE DELACROIX, Head of CSR & Innovation – Befimmo SA
Which challenge did we identify and which strategy did we deploy to solve it?
CULTURE
By FILIP VAN MULLEM, Founder – Human-Business (Hu-Bu)
How can we better connect non-profit and for-profit organizations to foster a real culture of innovation?
COMPETENCE
By HUGUES DE PRA, Solutions Sales Specialist Manager & Data Center Lead – CISCO
How do we train our talents to think and act as a corporate societal entrepreneur?
ACTION
By FRANK TRIBOUT, Co-founder – Power 2 Apartments
How did we launch a business innovation project that will potentially generate positive impact?
LEADERSHIP
How do we pave the way towards the societal transition, leading by example?
Stimulate entrepreneurship among young people under 30 years old, increase awareness about the new economic models (circular, cooperative and collaborative) and support the creation of projects in these models, promote the newly created technical hub of Ustart and leverage their technical expertise to create innovative solutions with new technologies.
Solution
The impact challenge gathered almost 60 individuals around 11 projects. The 11 teams co-created each an entrepreneurial project during one weekend based on ideas that were pitched at the first night. The teams were coached by experts in the new economic models in order to make their idea as sustainable as possible.
Impact
57 individuals were educated about the new economic models and collaborated on 11 projects. Thanks to the rewards delivered to the winning teams, some of the start up created their legal structure and are now having their first clients.
Stimulate entrepreneurship and increase awareness about the new economic models (circular, cooperative and collaborative) and support the creation of projects in these models
Solution
The Sharify Hackathon, a hackathon where 8 teams of young individuals co-created an entrepreneurial project during one weekend based on ideas that were pitched at the first night. The teams were coached by experts in the new economic models in order to make their idea as sustainable as possible.
Impact
40 individuals were educated about the new economic models and collaborated on 8 projects. Thanks to the rewards delivered to the winning teams, three start up created their legal structure and are now having their first clients.
Create a community of change makers, animate the co-working space of Silversquare and bring talented people together to create a more responsible and sustainable future. Increase awareness about new economic models and make them work on impactful challenges.
Solution
First startup weekend around circular economy ever organized in Belgium. 60 want to be entrepreneurs have settled in the co-working space of Silversquare Louise and co-created 7 projects within the new economic models.
Impact
Sharify community was created after this first event and is now gathering almost 1.000 people. People that have participated to this first event have become part of our super heroes database and are now facilitating our event. Winning teams were rewarded with free access to Silversquare and the possibility to connect with other change makers and launch their projects. Three start up have been created.
