We're excited to announce the 2023 dates of our annual festival: 12, 13 and 14 October. Mark them in you...
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Fam Studio helps young minds prepare for uncertain futures through hands-on learning. There are many challenges facing the young...
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“Slow Factory is infiltrating, challenging and enhancing traditional disciplinary education.” Access to good education is vital for a healthy...
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As you know, last month we held Fixing the Future Festival here in Barcelona and it was a blast! There...
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More than 70 international experts, with more than 50 ideas and projects to inspire change, will meet on 16–17 September...
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Innovating within an institution that is over one hundred years old is no easy feat, but that’s what Innovation Partnerships...
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Fixing the Future Festival, held on 16 & 17 of September at CCCB (Barcelona), is an all-encompassing experience, with talks,...
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Artist collective Basurama makes creative use of waste in order to re-think our relationship with unsustainable ways of living. ...
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Climate justice youth activist Shakila Islam has an impressive CV. She is Vice-Chair of the Protiki Jubo Sangshad (Bangladesh Model...
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Force of Nature responds to eco-anxiety through education programmes, consulting and campaigns, asking people to step up rather than shut...
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In the remote jungle of South Sumatra, Indonesia, conservationist Pungky Nanda Pratama walks for hours to reach every child with...
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Youth activism is on the rise, thanks in part to the actions and visibility of people like Greta Thunberg and...
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Calling all activists, creatives, educators, organisers, troublemakers, lawyers, collectives and communities sparking just climate action in Spain. We want to...
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To help preserve local heritage and provide formal and financial education, a rural community in Uganda is building its own...
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To stay ahead in an increasingly automated world, we’ll need to be more human than ever. You’ve probably heard the...
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Ice is vital for Alaskan ecosystems and communities. Plus, it’s fun to play with! Fresh Eyes on Ice uses citizen...
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Games for Change is the world’s largest community dedicated to the intersection of games and social impact, empowering game creators...
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Love choose-your-own-adventure books? They’re the inspiration for cellphone games that make financial, sexual, and health education accessible to remote communities....
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The non-profit Social Skate gets social change rolling on skateboards for vulnerable children and young adults. In the 1980s,...
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“I ended up taking surfing as my coping skill because every time I am in the water, I take the...
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The 2021 IPCC report is 3,949 pages. Too busy to read it? This card game makes climate education fun. ...
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“Do you remember a time when the sky was filled with birds and bees, and colourful fruit grew from the...
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“It’s not about the process creating a whole bunch of prototypes, it’s about the process actually being a vehicle to...
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“Art need not be fiddling while the world burns. Art can link with science and the full power of human...
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Bogotá has a new phone number for men who want to hang up on machismo and prevent domestic violence. ...
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The Feira Preta and PretaHub initiatives are turning identity into power and highlighting Brazil’s Black talent to make business a...
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La Caravana Escuela sets up blacksmithing schools in remote communities and sets off a future-fixing chain reaction. At over...
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Kids are running the show in Cotacachi. There’s a rabbit, a princess, a cowboy. Children dancing in circles, a human...
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Plant a seed, build a kite, and connect with the land at Aurora de Las Sierras. Analaura Antúnez and...
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This story starts with a pair of shoes and ends with a hotel chain that empowers women at risk of...
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The Caribbean Sharks Education Program uses empathy and social media to turn poachers into conservationists. “I spend about 50%...
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We are beyond thrilled to announce that our festival of hope, surprise, and inspiration is back in Barcelona. In fact,...
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In July, we embarked on a wild journey around our planet. We met weekly for our virtual Fixing the Future...
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Imagine the scene: you’re in the Russian Arctic and, suddenly you spot a tall, blonde woman descending from the sky...
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Primary school pupils and beach strolling enthusiasts have turned into leading allies for scientists fighting problems in marine ecosystems. ...
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Join us from 6 - 27 July 2021 for our second online edition of ‘Fixing the Future’: Nature talks, a...
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Occupy space, occupy history: can you hear the land you’re walking on? In Fitzroy, a historical inner suburb of Melbourne,...
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“We have this big vision that we would like every child to own a hundred books by the age of...
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This art collective serves society through the revival of inner city spaces and creates community spirit reflected in urban art....
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The Amsterdam based Black Archives boasts an inspiring mixture of educational resources, cultural projects, and political organisation, highlighting the diversity...
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‘Creative’ and ‘factory’: two words not often seen together. It’s time they were. About a Worker describes itself as...
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Bel Jacobs and other fashion experts talk to students about the ways that fashion can be damaging to human wellbeing...
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An orchestra made up of young people at risk of social exclusion turns rubbish from the largest landfill in Paraguay...
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A social enterprise in India is bringing much needed play into children’s lives with low-cost playscapes made from scrap tyres...
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The 'Clothing Man' has transformed the culture of giving – and receiving – in India with his treatment of clothing and...
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Despite artisan know-how stretching back to ancient times, independent clothes makers around the Mediterranean now struggle against powerful global brands...
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Need a distraction? Lots of people are turning to the world’s leading citizen science platform to help scientists without leaving...
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Is there anything sweeter than a library made from ice cream buckets? Yes. One whose facade spells out "books are...
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A self-trained robotics engineer is sparking creativity and accelerating science learning in Africa – with a strong focus on rural...
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Reopened in November 2020 after a major renovation, Sydney’s Australian Museum brings a focus on climate solutions and First Nations...
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Building on the trust and popularity of museums, this NY-based climate museum bakes action into everything it does, inspiring the...
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A museum created in Minecraft is craftily encouraging citizens to fight climate change in virtual worlds – to help solve...
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Most people’s concept of what a museum is needs updating. In response to the challenges of COVID, the digitisation of...
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Resonate unlocks leadership potential of women and girls in East Africa with a training programme dedicated to building self-confidence and leadership....
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Qatar has an extreme climate, fragile ecosystems and a high dependence on non-renewable energy. But that's starting to change thanks...
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It's been a rough and challenging year, but the good news is that societal problems can be solved by humanity itself...
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MyOmani hopes to inspire the residents and citizens of Oman by promoting sustainable projects and effective practices for a better...
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These dolls outsell Barbie in Nigeria and so they should. The colourful Queens of Africa help young African girls embrace their...
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Let us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills. This is a story...
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The current face of architecture is not an accurate reflection of what our cities look like. One woman in Detroit...
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In this storybook sisterhood, a diverse range of phenomenal women mirror characters from books to inspire girls to read for...
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Take a virtual walk through space and time with a walking audio book that tells a new story of the...
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Testing is not a motivator. But immersing yourself in a paper on civil movements, a climate change project or a...
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As Wales entered its first lockdown, Mymuna Soleman set up a virtual space for difficult conversations. She just never expected...
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Can words posted to social media suggest where a genocide might happen? This rumour police in Kenya fights misinformation with...
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The creative producers behind WADUP are making podcasts with teens across the world. Meet generation podcast. "Our ultimate goal...
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Two women are changing the narrative on Yemen by creating groundbreaking and authentic local artistic content in an extreme environment....
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Meet the people bringing the magic of music to youth in Palestine. In Bethlehem’s refugee camps, it can be hard...
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“Thanks to the confinement we have witnessed a profusion of creative people using social networks for the production and distribution...
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Beauty is being created in black and white just a few metres away from the Syrian border in an area...
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"I marvel at the talent of youth in impossible situations and their potential to move things.”– Martin Fernando Jakobsen Can...
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The spirit of Mahatma Gandhi lives on in western India, brightening the futures of underprivileged children thanks to NGO Manav Sadhna....
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On the banks of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad in western India, a small school is making a big noise...
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Do you segregate your wet and dry waste? Most people think it’s extra work, but if you can convert it...
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In the deprived slum locations in West India, Prabhat Education Foundation is replacing despair with hope. The community-based organisation helps children with special...
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If you feel that formal education doesn't hold the answers to a sustainable future, take a few tips from Enrol Yourself...
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Everything in nature is connected. That's why Berkley's Center for Ecoliteracy is cultivating education for sustainable living – encouraging sustainable practices and food...
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"Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing. You can learn anything." That's the motto...
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Online exchange and interaction between young people around the world is now a part of our daily lives, but how...
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Join us for a special online edition of 'Fixing the future' from 29 October-10 December 2020, as the future of education...
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David Price wants us to be curious in today's digitally connected world: to learn from hactivists, bloggers, citizen journalists,...
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New Roads School in California's Santa Monica is an independent school that gives away almost half of its income in the...
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Learn languages with native speakers in conversation sessions that offer hope to refugees who have lost everything. Looking to...
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Five years have passed since Berlin-based Vincent Zimmer and Markus Kressler launched Kiron Open Higher Education, the first online university...
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Did you know that we can enable African students to learn vital IT skills in addition to offsetting tonnes of...
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The Liger Leadership Academy in Phnom Penh is an astonishing secondary school set up by a couple of North American...
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Educating girls is fundamental for a sustainable future for East Africa, but only 5 percent of girls graduate. Most spend...
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Pathways for Promise, an initiative within the Asian University for Women, is providing free education to talented women from among Bangladeshi garment...
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Do you have an adult bicycle that’s gathering cobwebs in your garage, shed or attic? Life Cycle UK takes donations...
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Ready, set… STOP. This team of planners and pickers are putting an end to plastic pollution in South East Asia....
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“There is no question that plastic pollution is one of the most pressing problems of our time – and it’s...
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The cotton industry can be thirsty, toxic and exploitative, but the Barcelona/London based Cotton Diaries believes there are better ways to...
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“Storytelling is the most powerful tool that we can give to kids." Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cineastas del Futuro...
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When Morocco went into lock-down during the Covid19 crisis, the first thing that Amal Center did was set up a...
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Toni Massanés has been wondering what makes things good throughout his career – and has been finding answers at the...
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For aspiring chefs without a Caribbean friend on hand to reveal the secrets of the most authentic Creole cuisine or...
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Ivory Coast and Ghana produce about 60% of the world’s cocoa, but in the small state of Liberia, farmers cannot...
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Whether by sharing or by hiding their sexual orientation throughout their lives, LGBT older people often find themselves socially isolated...
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"Together we can make a significant impact in the fight against shark fishing and their declining populations." Barcelona's Regina Domingo has...
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Currently only 30% of roles in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are held by women. In...
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Games can transform how we live, work and play. This UN programme proves how people of all backgrounds and ages can show...
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People will always love books. While digital media has disrupted other industries, there really is nothing like a physical book...
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Today, the number of girls who opt for technical or scientific studies is much lower than boys. TecnoGirl wants to...
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Juan Gimenez is a technician at Diputació de Barcelona (DiBa). Every day, he has to analyse websites to search for...
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Meet Basma and Jad, the Muppets addressing the devastating impacts of crisis and displacement on children. American educational children’s television...
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Want to see what London's Abbey Road looked like in 1969, explore LGBT+ life in the sixties or map the...
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"Why should we study for a future we don’t have?" On 20 August 2018, a 15-year-old girl walked out of...
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Every night across the world’s former murder capital, young boys and girls study the four elements of hip-hop to transform...
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Hong Kong-born Bonnie Chiu is inviting everyone to step into the worlds of garment workers in Bangladesh, sex workers in...
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"We know that 'ethical' can mean very different things to different people. But for us, it's broadly about pursuing sustainability...
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In Democratic Republic of the Congo, poor educational access and poor quality education is linked with the historic instability the...
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Owing to crime, the neighbourhood of Kalihi in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, has a bad rap. That's where KVIBE (Kalihi Valley Instructional...
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Inspired by his own story, Stephen Addison created BoxUp Crime to change young people’s lives through the power of boxing....
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When you think about climate change, you’re likely to experience a range of emotions. Some of us naturally feel inspired...
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LitFilmFest wants to help kids save the day, write the future and appear on the giant cinema screen. The film festival is designed...
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Who doesn't want to discover new planets? With Exoplanet Explorers, citizen scientists search for exoplanets, the planets around other stars. One...
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With Snapshot Serengeti everyone can observe animals in their natural habitat, without disturbing them – so you feel like you’re seeing...
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Black holes are found at the centre of most, if not all, galaxies. The bigger the galaxy, the bigger the...
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Many children resist new foods, and encouraging them to make healthy choices about what to eat can look like an...
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The Incredible Edible Network started out in the small market town of Tomorden in the North of England. It was...
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Big in Japan: the global goals can seem too big to make a difference. That’s where the 2030 SDGs Game comes...
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Science and engineering is the most fascinating story on earth in the hands of the right storyteller. "It’s in the...
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In Pakistan, an award-winning startup is redefining special education with augmented reality games that are cheap, efficient, measurable and accessible for everyone....
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A photographer called Jose Martínez took the picture below. He calls it ‘End of discrimination’. Jose is one of the...
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"I recognise the power of the chef in today’s world. Traditions and cultural connections should be front and centre – chefs...
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Drawing from their backgrounds in fashion, advertising, the entertainment industries and social organizations (or NGOs), in 2011 four dynamic Paraguayan entrepreneurs cooked up Koga,...
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In old Norse mythology the Aesir are the principal gods of the pantheon. In present day Hong Kong AESIR are serious games for social inclusion....
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Brazil’s culture-friendly tax law, a bus trip in India where he met his future wife and a desire to dive...
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Our W.I.S.H : Wisdom through Well-being, Inspiring confidence and a creative mind set for the next generation, Shaping the future in...
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Noelia Morales wants to help evolve how society perceives breast cancer, femininity and beauty. Born out of personal necessity, her...
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Documentary filmmaker Stalin K Padma is convinced that the lack of diversity in India’s mainstream media results in large swathes...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind drunk...
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In the extreme north of India, the harsh mountain area of the Trans-Himalaya is experiencing acute water shortages; the desert's...
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The Last Stand is a funny project. But at its heart is a great idea... healing London's divisions. The street...
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FutureFun – Submitted by you: Circatronic is a retro futuristic steampunk electronic circus with robotic animals – that the WWF...
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We've had vultures with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads and pigeons with backpacks. Always ones to follow the crowd, now it's...
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A UK publication is on a mission to convey that it’s ok for men to talk about sensitive things and...
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The Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was a passionate advocate for women’s right to speak out and influence change, and...
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Insects often get a bad press. In reality, however, they can provide essential functions in agriculture and other areas. The...
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Now you are welcome to download a virtual van Gogh without having to pay an arm, a leg or an ear for...
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Trainee pilots get flight simulators and now medical students get 3D printed artificial organs that can be poked, prodded and...
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Two Afghan refugees are raising global awareness of a neglected topic: landmines. There are 110 million landmines worldwide – and every day ten...
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Pakistani human rights activist Gulalai Ismail set up Aware Girls when she was just 16-years-old to empower women and girls in her country....
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? AtlasEvent ► Meet Agamemnon Otero at Fixing the future 2019 in Barcelona. In South London, a ‘renewable dynamo’ is tackling fuel poverty with renewable...
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Submitted by you: Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project has been dedicated to the protection of wild and captive dolphins worldwide since...
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The late great comedian Bill Hicks said that we have, “just a single choice, between fear and love.” Too often,...
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Nearly one quarter of the world’s population live in off-grid communities. Without access to electricity, households grind to a halt after sunset. Work is limited,...
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We don’t really think too much about the story behind the soap that we wash with, but this is a...
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A young Ghanaian rising social entrepreneur is changing the face of transport in Ghana through her women-led Ghana Bamboo Bike project. Unemployment is one of...
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The next big thing in space is really, really small. The SunCube FemtoSat is a fully functioning spacecraft equipped with a camera, radio,...
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Our friends the bees are in scarily rapid decline worldwide due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a phenomenon caused by pesticides, parasites,...
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Chicken Town have come up with a recipe to reduce obesity in school children by offering an alternative to the...
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Mexico City’s masked superhero Peatónito (Little Pedestrian) has a mission - zero deaths on the roads. The safe streets crusader is delivering...
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Hundreds of students from universities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are signed-up to Soliya Connect,...
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Is there anything cooler than the misunderstood king of the sky, the vulture? Yes... A vulture with a GoPro camera...
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Nairobi's minibus taxis carry over three million people around the city every day. The loud and tightly packed matatu buses...
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The world isn’t just losing its biodiversity; human cultures are at risk as well. Across the globe indigenous peoples suffer...
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Understanding climate change is at times a perplexing business. Communicating it is a considerable challenge, especially for those who might...
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“What’s it like to be a real life Weki or Femi?” asks the blog for gritty teen drama MTV Shuga. Weki...
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Submitted by you: Rising global connectivity shows that mobile internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of information and knowledge...
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It is both amazing and disconcerting to know that we are surrounded by an invisible architecture of radio waves and...
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Aligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
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Spoiler Alert: In The Martian (2015), a stranded astronaut farms potatoes to survive on the Red Planet – and Matt...
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Bento Bio hopes to do for biotechnology what laptops have done for computing. The startup is currently developing the first...
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In the woods of Maine is a US Summer Camp like no other. Travelling thousands of miles from their homes...
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In Sweden up until the 21st century, there was no way to describe female genitalia other than using a clinical...
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GEOCOCO – Geography of Corporal Consciousness – is a form of therapy designed to enhance our daily lives by improving...
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With Google as an indispensable tool omnipresent in everyday life, it’s easy to feel like we have all the information...
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Amidst the mohawks and psychedelic shop fronts of London’s infamous Camden Town, the legendary Roundhouse boasts a rock’n’roll heritage stretching...
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As far as daunting projects go they don’t come much bigger than overhauling one of the worst performing schools in...
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The Human Rights Foundation is a small operation with an annual budget of $3.9 million, yet it has chosen to...
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Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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In just under three years M-KOPA Solar has provided affordable energy to over 200,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
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The self-published DIY ‘zine’ has always been the domain of those in search of alternatives. Its DIY nature eschews the...
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In 2005, Stockholm-based philanthropist Hans Rosling predicted that differentiating between hard data and opinion would be one of the digital...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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In the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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As we power forward into the future, many institutions have struggled to keep up. While education has changed the least...
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By 2030, Africa will have the world's largest working population, but few Africans currently have the technical and product development...
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Today’s highly competitive job market in the UK can make knowing which career path to follow difficult, so gap years...
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Technovation Challenge is an annual global technology entrepreneurship competition (currently held in 64 countries) for girls aged 10-18, helping them...
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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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Scallops with cultured caviar to start, followed by a stem cell pork shoulder, and a delicious beef-berry tart for dessert...
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SMS text messages are improving the lives of mothers-to-be and their newborns in Cameroon. The first mobile health platform in...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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To give it its full – if unwieldy – title, the Núcleo de Empreendedorismo da USP (Entrepreneurship Nucleus of the University of São...
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São Paulo’s women say enough and team up to map catcalling. Chega de Fiu Fiu, which translates into English...
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A new model for democratising software education is forcing top French universities to rethink accessible training. Conceived by a multi-billionaire...
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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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Today there is more content out there than ever, but digital doesn’t necessarily equal accessible. Millions of people worldwide suffer...
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Commercial trawling of the area just above the ocean floor, known as the benthic zone, is one of the biggest...
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