Impact Hub Athens &

Social Impact Award Athens 2014

From Amsterdam to Johannesburg, from Singapore to San Francisco, what started as a studio at 2005 has evolved into a collaborative global community that inspires , unites and supports people all around the world so as to put into action a sustainable economy and society . The members of Impact Hub function 50 Impact Hubs in different cities of the world and 40 more are under construction .The global network, that has been created thanks to the existing Hubs and those that are going to born in time, is based mainly on the belief “think globally, act locally”. Unique ecosystem full of sources, inspiration and chances of cooperation in order to increase their impact.

  70+ cities 400+ makers 8000+ members

25.000 m2 space

• Social Impact Hub is a global network, locally linked, which is consisted of people that undertake viable and responsible initiatives, that can bring the change.

• The first local network of people, who believe that the actions of the business sector can and must meet the needs of society.

• Due to Social Impact Hub the city of Athens is linked with a global, polymorphic community, which includes 7.000 businesses

• Transfer of knowledge, methodology, resources of an empowering network for social entrepreneurship

• Hosting a community action-oriented and provide guidance, resources and opportunities.

• Acceleration the dissemination of ideas, methodologies and practices from and towards Greece and abroad.

 The concept of (social) entrepreneurship

• Model Redefinition

• Market research and social environment

• Creativity and innovation

• Viable and positive impact

The team• Anna Vasdeki- Entrepreneur

• Marian Spiggo- Productor/Event Manager

• The data lab

• Antoine Swarts-Founder of vouliwatch.gr

• Myrto Papadogeorgiou-Documentary producer & filmmaker/City of errors CEO | Founder

• Christos Gasteratos-Entrepreneur/ Founder of OwnFunding

• Antti Jadertpolm-Digital Artist

• Transfodesign: Neda Tozija –Partner/Marketing at Transfodesign

  

Social Impact Award (SIA)

• Mission of SIA is to spread social entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern European students. It is a European program designed to educate, guide, advise and prepare young people who want to carry out their own social enterprise. The program begins with seven training sessions, continues with a social entrepreneurship competition, which will be awarded the three best ideas and results in the implementation of these three ideas.• Started in 2009 in Austria and today operates in Austria, Romania, the Czech Republic,

Slovakia, Croatia, Switzerland, Russia and finally to Greece for the first time this year.

  For whom?• Aimed at students and young people who want to bring a change in society, utilizing innovative

and creative methods and developing their own business initiatives.• The theme ideas are various regarding poverty, health, education, environment, energy,

technology, human rights and much more.

What does the Social Impact Award offer to all participants?

 

• Expertise through free experiential workshops on social entrepreneurship,

• The space to share ideas, develop them, get feedback

• The opportunity to be awarded the three best ideas, having as criteria the

impact, innovation, sustainability and applicability of the business idea.

 

 

80% of the participants improved their business plan

81% of the participants decided that they want to occupy with business entrepreneurhip

60% of all the projects that have been submitted they have been implemented and they are operating until today

Social Impact AWARDS 2014FILISIAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iK_ltkCTcGU

This awarded action was created for helping people with special need during of their restitution by interacting actions with the basic element of music. By using all this interaction, this program was able to collect clues about its user and his progress and notifying the doctors or the family.

BLOOD-E It is known that platforms about health are really important and popular. So…Blood-e is one of the 3 winners of the SIA Athens 2014, which was chosen by the jury. Blood-e is an innovative service about blood donation at the hospitals. What it does? Through an app, the hospital which needs a certain type and amount of blood can inform the suitable, subscribed to the app donor immediately, who accepts the notification on his mobile phone and donates blood. This idea is surely unique, useful, practical, arises awareness and promotes volunteering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzVzWb2KIkI#t=38

OWNFUNDING Ownfunding.com is a web platform that provides the tools for entrepreneurs to fund and run their own startups and present investors with lucrative business opportunities. Everyone can be a creator and/or investor, as ownfunding.com draws its power from the entrepreneurial community. Basically it shows how small businesses and startups “crowds” are far more effective than the individuals while offering great opportunities for the whole community. Apart from the traditional reward based way to raise funds, it also offers equity crowd funding making the investors feel included in the process and giving the creator the proper traction and support. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr3KOz_kmEQ

ERGOSKOPIO The “ergoskopio” project is a platform for collaboration and networking of young inventors. This project aims to bring together the residents of Athens with the local creators their ideas and products. It is both a virtual as the idea starts through the online platform and a physical pop-up space as you could use a kiosk for being more creative. It works as an incubator for hybrid events, in which people can present, share, exchange, eat, make, buy, see, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIiAMMSPNuQ#t=84

F-eat Nowadays, with more and more people searching for youth elixirs in order to reach the coveted longevity Feat has come up with a healthy solution, which is no other than following proper nutrition. ‘F-eat’ (sounds “fit”, from the word “fitness”, but it is written “Feat” due to “eat”, like saying “eating food”) combines the two opposite meanings of ‘healthy food’ and ‘fast food’. Actually, it is a new entry with services such as customized healthy meals, hoping to bring a revolution in the fast food market while changing peoples’ minds about fast food, which could be very healthy after all. Apart from the rest, Feat’s function is based on environment (eco)-friendly and social-friendly procedures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmvEQHXqI04

School Hive The School Hive brings to every school community the multi-purpose space (“hive”) needed to make it easier for kids to freely develop their personality, creativity and social skills. The School Hive can design together with children, teachers and parents a modern and attractive space to relax, play, read, use digital media, build things, and engage in all sorts of creative activities by providing knowhow and by supporting to find resources needed to set it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrAniM3B4fA 

WishLuck.me This is a social network in the form of a mobile app in order to provide free psychological support to its users and their problems. This system can provide access to the database in which the user can receive advice from professionals, psychologists and counselors. More specifically, this app offers an innovative micro-counseling service. Users can also search the history to find support from same problems that have already been answered. The procedure is free, anonymous, fast and easy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1gavECM9R0

Prosferw This idea is about a mobile app that can get in touch people who want to donate something with the proper organization. In other words, through this app everybody who wants to give food, clothes, drugs or toys can find from the included organizations which one is nearby and has the structure and the ability to collect the donation. The purpose of this initiative is to help the community and people who are in need.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_SbBhK6ITc#t=74

Studybase This will help mostly young people and students to collect information about their education and professional training. They can learn about Undergraduate studies, Post-Graduate studies, PhD, MBA, European exchange programs, scholarships, students’ loans, seminars and conventions.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOR45Ceako

Mama DonkeyIt is all about the creation of a farm which produces milk of donkeys. Despite the fact that this sounds a little bit wired, it is good to know that milk from donkeys has so many advantages for our health. For example,, it has 60% more vitamin C than milk from cows and it is absolutely acceptable from people who have problem with lactose. Additionally it provides from heart diseases.

Able2As its name shows, Able2 has as purpose to help people with kinetic problems to be able to provide their lives, despite the difficulties. This is why, this action according to its mentors, has to be in every level of our lives as social and economical by exercising the ability of these people being successful and accepting challenges.

Mikrolimano center for childrenThis is about an institute for 100 children in need who are going to accept the help of couples being in the role of foster parents. The institute would provide programs like livestock and woodworking, so that these children will be raised in a exemplary way of life.

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