FoW Explorer - toolkit -

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Get on track!

Hello!This toolkit will explain you how to

help FoW entrepreneurs in your city in 5 steps.

I’m Timothée, the community developer of FoWI can help you on Facebook or contact metim@futureofwaste.org

Future of Waste showcases projects and smart

solutions that show waste can be a restart: check

them out on futureofwaste.org.

FoW gathers entrepreneurs, innovators, passionates

and students wishing to support positive solutions for

the environment, sustainability and circular

economy.

You can contribute by solving the challenges of the

innovators in any city of the world.

About FoW

Get to know smart innovators

Get trained to facilitate the events

Travel in all cities as a FoW Explorer

Summary

1. Join the Explorers

2. Find an innovation

3. Solve a challenge

4. Facilitate an event

5. Share & improve it

Join the Explorers1

From Berlin, London, Cyprus, Los Angeles or Paris, the

active members of FoW are radically changing the

future of waste.

Join us to build the community from the inside.

On www.futureofwaste.org :

1. Go on “Community”

2. Click “Join”

3. Fill in the form

Timothée will add you to the FoW crew on Facebook.

Join the community

Find an innovationA FoW innovator with a stunning initiative related to waste

reduction and transformation might be waiting for you in any

part of the world!

FoW helps projects in every field of innovation:

1. Arts

2. Social Innovation

3. Renewable energy

4. Smart collection

5. New resources

6. Awareness

You can either find some projects on

futureofwaste.org, contact a friend, a project holder

you met in a conference, on internet, or ask the FoW

Crew on Facebook who’s in your city.

Ask him a 30min interview (skype, phone, coffee) to

know what are his/her challenges and his story. If he’s

not on the platform yet, offer him to “submit” his

project and challenge online.

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1. Connection: We help you connect to a variety of actors to develop new bridges and create opportunities.

2. Innovation: We create tools together to experiment or develop new possible transpositions of the existing solutions in various scales or contexts.

3. Diffusion: You control the level of information that you disclose to the public, but the contents and tools created within the community are accessible to everyone.

4. Small is beautiful: We focus on short-circuit initiatives and initiatives that open up a large scope of new possibilities.

5. Shared horizon: We promote innovations that foster a more circular economy, with an optimal environmental balance and a positive social impact.

6. Openness: We promote examples of innovators, citizens, artists, inventors, public players and private companies, who question our habits towards a better transformation of waste.

7. Impact: We are a global network with a positive impact on a local scale.

✓Check list> Check out the manifestow to be sure the

entrepreneur is in line with the attitudes of the

community:

Solve a challengeYou can help innovators around the world accelerate their

initiatives. Pick a challenge you want to solve on the platform

www.futureofwaste.org and share your ideas online.

Build an inspiration wall and solve a challenge at each

stage of the innovation process:

#NewTransformation - #NewService - #Prototype -

#UserExperience - #Replicate - #CloseTheLoop

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FoW Talk

FoW Remix

FoW Mapping

Facilitate an eventNow that you better understand the project, choose the best

format to answer the innovator’s need and boom your local

FoW group.

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Learn & Share:

> Drink: Get together and meet new Explorers while

one present a solution and inspire the participants.

> Talk: A panel of experts and innovators discuss a

subject with a challenging crowd.

Solve a challenge:

> Remix: The community works on one's challenge

to design a prototype or a toolkit.

> Mapping: The community builds a map to help the

innovator understand his ecosystem and balance

the opportunities.

FoW Drink

A FoW Drink is a perfect event to get to know each other and

meet Explorers in your city. Give more sense to your meeting

and invite a special guest to present an innovation!

Choose your format to present an innovation:

• PechaKucha: 20 slides x 20 sec (7 minutes

duration), short, fun and impactful.

• Demo: Set up a stage and have the speaker show

how his solution works!

• Presentation of 15 min: Followed by 15 min

questions, extended and debateful.

1h

- Entrepreneurs: Explain and challenge their

solutions, develop their network.

- Explorers: Get to know local initiatives and meet

passionate people.

Outputs

✓Check listBEFORE

> Don’t forget to prepare a presentation to

introduce FoW activity and questions to foster the

discussion!

> Find a quiet venue. Need help? Get in touch with

Timothée.

DURING

> Take pics & videos!

> Ping the participants on Facebook & tweet the best

quotes. Don't forget to mention @FOWaste

> Take time before and/or after to discuss with

Explorers and plan next events.

> Introduce participants to each other.

AFTER

> Publish and share the presentations and videos

> Send a thank you email to the speakers and

participants.

> Invite new Explorers to join the community.

FoW Talk

Give voice to the most off-beat and powerful innovations!

Discover a new subject with a panel of experts and

entrepreneurs.

A FoW Talk offers the opportunity to cross visions,

question and reinvent our innovation models. Invite

different speakers that cover the subject you picked.

Don't forget to leave time to participants so they can

express themselves and discuss with the panel.

Hint: Split the audience in small groups and let them

work for about 30min on questions you have prepared.

2h

- Speakers: Explain and challenge their solutions,

develop their network.

- Explorers: Get to know smart solutions and meet

passionate people.

Outputs

✓Check listBEFORE

> Get ready to animate the discussion and foster

the debate! Hint: Study the subjects and speakers

> Prepare your communication on social networks.

> Prepare the room.

> You lack of contacts to invite cool people? You are

in trouble with logistics? Timothée will help you.

DURING

> Take pics & videos! (Record the whole event if you

can).

> Ping the participants on Facebook & tweet the best

quotes.

> Ask the audience who they want to see in the next

Talk!

AFTER

> Publish and share the presentations and videos.

> Send a thank you email to the speakers and

participants.

Take a project, find related innovations that could

inspire it, and create a useful tool.

A Remix is a creativity workshops based on a design

thinking methodology. At the end, everybody leaves

with something concrete. Define what it will be:

• A prototype: For instance co-design the best bin, a

biodigester, a collection process,.… that could help

the entrepreneur and the community.

• A toolkit: Build a ready-to-use kit for the

entrepreneur and the community.

- Entrepreneurs: Find new ideas to improve their

project and increase visibility

- Explorers: Understand design thinking, provide

help and have fun.

FoW Remix2h30

Outputs

BEFORE

> Have you looked for all compatible innovations

that could take your entrepreneur’s project one step

forward? Look for projects on the platform & ask the

Facebook group FoW Crew if they have ideas!

> Download the Remix templates (sent by email by

Timothée).

> Ask for people’s ideas before the workshop and

invite them to build an inspiration wall on the

project’s page.

DURING

> Take pics and vids of the solutions!

AFTER

> Upload & Share the solutions with the community!

✓Check list

Invite innovators to help a projects to have a precise

vision of its environment and field (oil, paper, textile,...).

During a mapping session participants map the

project's ecosystem, co-define a dedicated

vocabulary and co-design a cartography.

Life-cycle - Value chain - Key players - User path

A mapping session enables to identify the hot spots

that the entrepreneur need to focus on and the trade

offs. At the end, different scenarii can be drawn and the

impact assessed.

•- Entrepreneurs: Spot collaboration opportunities,

learn more on its ecosystem.

- Explorers: Contribute and enrich their knowledge

of the circular economy model.

FoW Mapping2h30

Outputs

Format tested

but not

formalized

BEFORE

> Which actors of the field could come? Ask the

Facebook group FoW Crew if they have

connections, and don’t forget to invite some

companies!

> Download the templates for the Mapping (sent

by email by Timothée).

> Ask for people’s ideas before the workshop and

invite them to post them to build an inspiration

wall on the project’s page.

DURING

> Take pics and vids of the solutions!

AFTER

> Share the contents to the community!

✓Check list

Share & improve4

> Do you have writing/photograph talents? Take

pictures and post the images on the Facebook event.

> Do you have video skills? Film the solutions and share

them with the FoW Crew.

If someone wants to get involved, tell him to join us by

clicking “join the community” on the website or by

writing to tim@futureofwaste.org.

After each event, we collect the contacts of the

persons who want to take part in FoW, and we add

them to the FoW Crew Facebook Group.

Then, share your feedbacks and impressions to the

other FoW Explorers!