Fixing the Future

Windmill restoring and museum in Ukraine

I am Denys Kabanenko, head of the non-profit public organization School of Robotics «Forward to the Future», located at Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine. Our team plans to restore and make an acting museum of cultural heritage Windmill built by the Mennonite Germans in 1888, located in the Zaporizhzhya region, Ukraine. In August 2021, thanks to grant opportunity program I-portunus by European Community our team visited the UNESCO Museum Kinderdijk Windmill Region at the Netherlands, where we met with miller community. After the visit, we already made a model of the windmill with mechanisms and prepared a preliminary reconstruction project. We hope that this museum will become a national symbol of Ukraine as an agricultural grain country. It will also become a popular tourist point for Ukrainian and international visitors. There is no future without history.

Social 31. Dezember 2021

Cultural and Innovative Tourist Center

I am Denys Kabanenko, head of the non-profit public organization School of Robotics «Forward to the Future», located at Zaporozhye, Ukraine. I present a project of Culturally and Innovative Tourist Center with a clock of Unity at Zaporozhye Ukraine as a plan or reconstruction of the urban square. Purpose: 1. Main Cultural and Tourist Place of the City - 1 km Zaporozhye. 2. The place of meeting citizens. 3. Pointer of Time, the largest in Europe 12 meters. 4. Center of culture - the area of professions and workshops. 5. Children's circles. 6. City Museum. 7. Observation platform. 8. Center of ethnic groups. 8. Toilet. 9. Waterfall. 10. Cafe. 11. Ecological design and technology. Additional main quirks: 1. Changing the shape and length of the clock hands - as in the painting by Salvador Dali. 2. Autonomy - will run on solar and wind energy. And much more. Sphere: public space, tourism, leisure, innovation, energy efficiency. We hope that this project will become a center th...

Social 31. Dezember 2021

BINDEE 🖇

We are the group of young enthusiasts from Ukraine, Norway, Belgium and Italy, who want to create a digital social platform to connect mentors and mentees over their passions and interests. We want to facilitate the opportunity to share one's passion by creating a passion-sharing platform. We noticed that during the lockdown a lot of people suffer from the lack of communication. That’s why we wanted to provide an opportunity for socialising safely. Our project creates a unique platform for collecting experiences, knowledge and passions and sharing it with others. In order to kickstart the platform by 1st of September 2022, we want to find 15 mentors by the 1st of August 2022 to host at least one mentorship programme/session on their passion and interests by the 30th of September 2022. Contact: alyapetrakova@gmail.com

Social 26. Oktober 2021

The Green List

What is the problem? A few months ago, I sat down with a few of my friends to watch a football game. In the half-time we decided to order some sushi, each one of us picked 2-3 rolls and once we were done eating we realised how much trash we were leaving behind us - there were 57 different single-used items in that order alone. We had to throw away napkins, plastic utensils, boxes, sauces and other papers just because we couldn’t use them in our next order. We did some research and realised that this phenomenon is much bigger than we expected - in the EU alone we use over 2 billion takeaway containers each year. Your carbon footprint grows by 450% if you spend more than 60€ on takeaway each week and almost half of the plastics in the ocean can be linked to takeout foods. Who are we? We are the “green list”, an organisation based in Jerusalem (yet working mostly in Tel Aviv) that connects restaurants in order to help them fulfill a better and greener model of food deliverie...

Social 17. Oktober 2021

Ngbaka EP

FULU MIZIKI roughly translates as “music from the garbage”, which in a literal sense is an accurate description of the thrillingly chaotic eco-friendly Afro-Futurist collective. The instruments they design, build and play are masterclasses in upcycling. From guembris built out of computer casing, to jerry-can drum-kits, keyboard inventions from wood, springs and aluminium pipes, and old flip-flops used as pads by plastic tube-wielding percussion players, the Democratic Republic of Congo-formed group’s ethos lies in the respect of nature, the celebration of its gifts and the importance of its preservation through environmentalism. The band explain on new single 'Bivada' - “This is for the man who walks without shoes in the middle of the bush to find food for their loved ones, this is for the Congolese women who have lost their lives trying to protect and raise us. This is to all the standing and fallen men and women around the world who wake up with nothing but manage to find f...

Social 7. Oktober 2021

On equals: Only your talent makes you special

According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine the number of people with disabilities of working age is about 2.7 million, of which only 26% are employed. Therefore, the project "On equals" was created that progressed towards resolution of this problem: 1. a sociological study was conducted; 2. an informative and educational campaign is being carried out on social networks; 3. we shot public service videos and a short film about the active life and work of people with disabilities; 4. we developed an online platform that collects vacancies from various fields for people with disabilities. Why is there a need for a separate platform? In an ideal world, any vacancy is equally available for everyone, namely for people with needed qualifications and experience. Unfortunately, the situation in Ukraine is different. Based on the experience of nongovernmental organizations engaged in the employment of people with disabilities, there is a tendency for people to be more encouraged...

Social 15. September 2021

Artemis

We are a group of Palestinian and Israeli students in “MEET” program working together and developing an app that helps sexual assault victims. This app will start voice recording your surroundings when you say a certain word by your choice, in addition to sending an SOS message to 3 phone numbers. If you find yourself in a situation where you have been sexually assaulted, you just have to say your word, and you'll have recorded evidence against your offender, helping you report them to the police. The app also offers the victims the ability to share their experiences and support each other. And it also offers educational videos, articles, and lectures about sexual harassment, how to defend yourself, and information on emergency hotlines for victims of sexual assault.

Social 10. Juni 2021

Ilithyia

Hi! We are a group of Israeli and Palestinian Students from an organization called MEET in Israel. Our project is a discreet, multilingual, professionally sourced sex ed app. In our country, many teenagers don't have access to proper sex ed, if its because of the cultural and religious barriers, or simply because it isn't taught properly at schools. While anyone can go on the internet and look up some questions, not all the answers will be correct, and some may even be harmful. Our App will tackle the informational problem by using professionals as our sources, will be multilingual so that anyone no matter their language may understand it, and discreet - so that no one will be outed or put in danger. To top it all off, we plan to include gamification and "modern" ways of conveying the information (videos, games, memes, jokes) in addition to the more traditional paragraphs and articles. There may be many apps and books on Sexual Education, but very few are By Teenagers For Teenagers...

Social 10. Juni 2021

Political polarization (intrey)

We at Intrey recognized a problem of political polarization caused by unconsciously viewing political content while scrolling over social media platforms and chose to provide a social media platform that curates content from all sides of the political spectrum and allows you to converse and express your opinions out loud. We believe that the first step in healing our troubled world is to engage in true discourse.

Social 9. Juni 2021

North-South Exchange: Sustainable Development

My name is Crislin Lind and I am 27 years old Estonian. I am a Project Assistant working through Manpower Group in Finland. I have been living in Finland since the beginning of 2018. There are a lot of people in Finland who hold a degree but cannot find a job due to the competitive market. There are so many people in underdeveloped countries, who would appreciate getting the chance to learn the research that we have done in Finland. I want to create a chance for a North-South exchange, where underdeveloped nations learn Sustainable Development from Finland. By spending time learning the research that the degree holders did and together implementing the research in underdeveloped countries, we are one step closer to a more balanced and sustainable world.

Social 9. Juni 2021

Guiti News

Guiti News is an online independent media in french and english. Our goal: talk about migration differently. In order to do that we are seeking to humanize trajectories of migrant people and rationalize a topic which is subject to a lot of fake news. The subject is omnipresent, but its treatment is incomplete and biased Our specificity: We work in pairs of exiled and French journalists for a more balanced and complex perspective. As journalists, we had all experienced a certain frustration with the treatment of migration and had the impression that ideologies and hatreds often prevailed. We wanted to break that, change the narrative.

Social 9. Juni 2021

Social Courier

Social Courier is the first and only idea of this nature so far, which supports lonely, elderly people, people with disabilities, people who lost their income and includes catering establishments. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many social problems, mainly the lack of help for dependent, elderly and lonely people who need help from another human being, which is why the idea of establishing social couriers was born in the Opolskie Voivodeship, who reach the farthest corners of cities and communes every day , their daily work and effort put into their activities is appreciated by the smile of the residents, which can be seen in the film :) Couriers do shopping, help with housework and much, much more, as Magda says from the movie "They are such Angels". This innovation / project was implemented by the Regional Center for Social Policy in Opole from April 1, 2020 as a response to social isolation, but also to help people who lost their income.

Social 6. Juni 2021

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