Do you know your yellow-browed warbler from your bluethroat? Then Ornitho.cat wants you. The online citizen science project is dedicated...
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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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With faith in politics at an all-time low and thorny and divisive issues aplenty in these volatile and politically corrosive...
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“I’m not trying to replace the system, but I think the system is missing an essential component, which is the...
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"We craft furniture that benefits people and planet; gifts that do good." The problem of waste is a global one...
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What looks like an insect, roams around southern Africa, and farts out balls of fire? A giant dung beetle made...
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Since the 1970s, development initiative Sekem has been revitalising the hot, arid sands of a once untouched part of the Egyptian desert, transforming...
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Marine conservation successes are happening all over the world. Green sea turtles in Mexico are no longer listed as endangered,...
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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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The F.A.K.E. Movement is a platform where vegan and ethical designers can promote proudly their clothes and accessories. Created by Jonathan...
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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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"It’s important to bring open-ended tools for discovery to a broad spectrum of users without dumbing down the tools." –...
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In a sea of pharmacies, stationery sellers and coffee shops, one social enterprise in a swarming Lewisham shopping centre, London,...
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Let us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills near San Javier....
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Excited by biofertilisers? Want to know about biodynamic vines, Catalonian chickens and compost tea – or get down and dirty...
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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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Plankton are a critically important food source. No plankton = No life in the ocean. Plankton also play an important...
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What's more majestic than seeing lions and wildlife in the African landscape – while outside of their pouncing range? With Zooniverse’s...
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🎫 ►AtlasEvent: Meet Bee Wilson (chair of TastEd). the UK’s most influential food writer at Fixing the future 2019. Many children...
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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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In an ever-changing creative landscape, today's youth need to become multi-disciplinary – skilled at being creative in different mediums. Pitch Futures...
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If not us, then who? When it comes to keeping trees standing, that’s the question the inhabitants of the world’s...
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"It's time to change the conversation about climate change from polar bears to people.” – Dominique Browning Forget Thunderbirds, these moms...
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"Music gives children a new language – which they can use to meet and communicate with others, and makes them...
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“With a collective effort and more awareness we can work against gangsterism. The way I see it, culture is a...
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"I really do believe in the community. I really do believe in the genius in every person. And that's not...
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"The more parasites you find, the more data you contribute to fighting the disease." MalariaSpot allows gaming time to be...
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In the small Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco in Brazil, an arts-as-transformation project is addressing the survival and transformation of...
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Word has it that Winston Churchill enjoyed playing card games like Gin Rummy and Mah Jong with his family before...
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“Gastronomical culture and food heritage is very important. We have a responsibility to acknowledge Bolivian products and work with them...
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An experimental organic farmers’ market set up by a ‘culinary activist’ is breaking down religious and cultural barriers in the...
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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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Described as “The Glastonbury of business“ (minus the wellington boots, silent disco and huge clean-up operation), Meaning is an edgy...
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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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In Argentina, the term villa miseria is used to describe the impoverished shanty towns that exist within large urban settlements. And in Buenos...
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Out of the mouths of babes… come wondrous ideas and fantastical plans. Ever seen a rucksack with wings? How about...
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Ever seen a newsreader rap the news? In Senegal news is being made accessible – and super cool – by...
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Back in 2011 in Rwanda, 16 years after the genocide against the Tutsi sent shock waves across the world, creative...
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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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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is all about – a...
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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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“All people can be as powerful as Odin or Thor with the right and appropriate support. We are all unique...
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Wrapped in a colourful sari and holding her hand to her heart, the green-eyed Priya rides a tiger: “Speak without...
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Imagine being stuck in a room you can’t escape. You hear voices: “Do it!” “Stop it!” Light shoots out of...
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A video shows a local football match kicking off in El Madania, Algeria; another takes us to Cotonou, Benin, to...
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Girl motorbikers, transgender activists, divorcee entrepreneurs and female cricket journalists; digital platform Aurat Raaj shows you a different side of...
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Turning the silver screen green and providing a ray of light in South Africa (literally), Sunshine Cinema is not just an...
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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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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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One person’s toxic e-waste dump is another’s treasure workshop. That's why a Ghana-based architect duo have launched AMP (Agbogbloshie Makerspace...
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Are you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
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What do you get if you cross a community centre, a laboratory, a studio, a gallery, science centre and a...
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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon Cooper...
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The world is full of different people and cultures, each with their own unique stories to tell. Getting children to...
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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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“When you need a doctor, you phone someone, when you are in trouble, you phone someone. If you want to...
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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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Every year in Senegal thousands of tonnes of fruit are thrown away due to the lack of initiatives for processing...
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Curiscope's Virtuali-Tee is a t-shirt with guts. The ‘smart’ garment projects biology onto children in order to teach them about anatomy. Described by...
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Happiful is a new monthly UK magazine that aims to create a healthier, happier and more sustainable society. Their first mission...
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Block by Block wants to involve young people in the planning of urban public spaces. A partnership between Mojang, the makers of...
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Imagine living in a rural area and not having a local gastroenterologist, or psychologist, or infectious or chronic disease specialist?...
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Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cineastas del Futuro (Future Filmmakers) is an international filmmaking school and digital platform for kids...
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Language is a tricky thing: vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and numerous irregularities and inconsistencies. If that’s not enough, regional differences and...
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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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Located in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
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Just as the Atlas mission is to 'Democratise the Future', littleBits is on a mission to 'Democratise Hardware' by empowering everyone –...
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Submitted by: Skateistan Universe Awareness (UNAWE) believes that learning about our cosmos and space can help expand children’s worldview and...
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Submitted by: Skateistan Since 2002, Tony Hawk Foundation has been helping youth and their communities connect with their local leaders to...
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Submitted by: Skateistan Waves for Change uses surfing to help children and young adults cope with the emotional and psychological stress...
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Submitted by: Skateistan In the quiet port town of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, over 1000 children work and live on the beaches,...
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Life used to pause with the setting sun in the bleak Azraq refugee camp in Jordan's remote and harsh desert. But...
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Submitted by: Skateistan Khrousar Thmey ('New Family' in Cambodian) is a school for children who are deaf or blind living in...
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Design education is being given a radical redesign by extreme experience designer – and Atlas FutureHero – Nelly Ben Hayoun. The...
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Over the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
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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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Submitted by you: A stay at Good Hotel in the UNESCO-protected Antigua, Guatemala is a contribution to the local community. Within its social business model, the...
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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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Satellite Archeology is all about perspective. From the outer edges of the planet’s atmosphere, where sky meets space, the view...
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In the late 19th century a travelling book salesman had a revolutionary idea – to get women to sell beauty...
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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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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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What does the future of business look like? How will developments from big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things to driverless vehicles, 3D printing and synthetic biology...
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Submitted by you: Communities for Development was created when engineers Iñigo Ruiz Apilánez and Sandra Díaz returned from a stint...
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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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Imagine living on a massive ice shelf thousands of miles away from anyone else, that when the weather gets warmer...
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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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On a personal journey to Afghanistan, passionate skateboarder Oliver Percovich found himself ‘rolling’ the rugged streets of Kabul. Captivated by how...
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"Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing. You can learn anything." So ends the...
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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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