Better Together Award 2019
How might we encourage innovative cooperations between public sector institutions and starts ups and/or civil society organization to support local and global climate action?
Partners
Countries
Global
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The project aim is to highlight the relevance and value for innovative cooperations between public sector institutions and start ups and/or civil society initiatives for local & global climate protection and climate change mitigation & adaptation. The Award and its featured ventures will be part of the ICCA 2019 conference for Vertical Integration for Climate Action in Heidelberg, May 2019.
In collaboration with GIZ and BMU, Impact Hub Berlin focuses on four main action points:
- Raise awareness for innovation cooperation on a global level by writing a state-of-the-art trend report and facilitating a global call-for-application to find the five best-practices in public / start-up cooperation in the field of climate action
- Support the winning teams to generate impact at scale
- Honor and present the five best-practices at the ICCA 2019 conference
- Initiate and replicate innovative solution of public / start-up cooperations
SDG
- 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
- 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
- 13 Climate Action
- 17 Partnerships for the Goals
>> As part of the program we also did a corresponding research on “Collaborative Innovation for Urban Climate Futures – Trends for the 21st Century” – you can read about all our findings in the Trendreport. <<
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Fishbowl Discussion: Fostering the growth of impact entrepreneurs
How can cities and politics support Entrepreneurs? How can we build, support and connect local ecosystems that allow startups to scale?
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Countries:
Netherlands, Germany
Project
- Open Fishbowl discussion with our special guests from Den Haag and stakeholders in Berlin on how cities and governments can support impact entrepreneurs and which infrastructure cities need to grow a social innovation ecosystem
- Building a bridge between the Berlin and The Hague social innovation ecosystem to make scaling to Germany or the Netherlands easier
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Global Sustainability Trend Report
How can we access grass-route innovators to understand emerging trends and innovation that will affect business strategies in the future?
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Countries
Europe, Middle East & Africa, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific
Project
- Scouted +150 sustainable experts & pioneers via our global Impact Hub network to gain insights into industries such as: Agriculture, Automotive, Transportation, Electronics, Energy, Consumer, Goods, Food, Health and Construction
- Identified stakeholders and insights from different fields such as industry, regulations, NGO, investors, start-up / Entrepreneurs, Academia, science, digital experts, multipliers, opinion leaders, pioneers to conduct one-on-one interviews as well as a global survey
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Africa FinTech Challenge
How might we support local entrepreneurs in Africa to ensure economic growth and financial security?
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Countries:
Ghana, Kamerun, Germany
Project
- Run a design thinking workshop with 40 participants (representatives of fin tech scene berlin, giz/bmz, african diaspora) to gain understanding of method & provide perspective on platform needs
- Develop a digital prototype for an online platform enabling the transfer of remittances from Germany to Ghana & Kamerun, and leverage payments through German development aid
- Skype interviews with IH Khartoum and Kigali for provide local entrepreneurial perspective
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GIZ Lab of Tomorrow – Human-centered research to access emerging markets
How can you create new business ventures in emerging markets and establish strong local partnerships?
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Countries
Zambia, Kenya, Uganda
Project
- Define the challenge and select cross-sector partners
- Human-centered Research & Stakeholder Mapping to identify core needs, challenges and potentials
- Ideation & Prototyping Workshop to design new solutions and strengthen partnerships
- Test and Pilot new solutions in the field
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BMW Impact Safari for Purpose – Driven Leadership
How can we inspire and empower top-level management to create a purpose-driven environment for their employees?
Partners
Countries
Germany
Project
- We plug corporates into our local impact ecosystem to make them experience a new world
- 2-3 full day workshop with excursions across Berlin
- Tailored topics designed to inspire and leverage purpose-driven leadership
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GIZ Global Innovation
How-to-guide to Build Innovation Communities
Countries:
Germany, global
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Project:
- Identify need, ambition and outcome
- Global analysis of best practices formats for community-building and acceleration
- Screening of Impact Hub Berlin + global Impact Hub network for best case practices
- Synthesis, visualisation and creation of a hands-on guide with case studies
Challenge
How can we share our global expertise and empower others to build strong innovation communities and empower local entrepreneurial ecosystems?
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