Majbritt Kristensen is my guest today on Inside Ideas. The co-founder of ACT, which started out in 2018 when a group of friends came together and united on a goal to implement positive change in Malta, Majbritt has been heavily influenced by both her Mediterranean and Scandinavian upbringing. Majbritt’s background has been the trigger for …
The 12th European Innovation Summit will take place in Brussels from 7-11 December. This is our fifth year as media partners with the summit, organised by Knowledge4Innovation (K4I), which takes place annually in the European Parliament. Nonprofit K4I, which has the support of dozens of MEPs, sits at the crossroads between businesses, startups, academia and wider …
A new €11m project funded by the European Commission will apply novel solutions such as urban nature-based interventions, big data analysis and citizen science to investigate the links between green spaces and human health and well-being – a topic that has gained worldwide attention in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a network of almost …
“The Times They Are A Changing…” Bob Dylan sang long before anyone imagined that, in 2020, the expression is not a mere euphemism. The change that the Covid-19 crisis imposed is sudden, profound and transformative of the way we live and even of our individual and collective convictions. At the present moment, we realize that… …
In 2018, around 380 million tonnes of plastic were produced globally. Only a small percentage of this is recycled, with most of flooding our oceans, poisoning marine life and seabirds, or going into landfills. Researchers estimate that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by weight by 2050, and meanwhile, villages in… …
Whether in technology or in the food industry, the waste we produce is not properly recycled. We are all aware of the plastic pollution in the oceans and the growing impact on marine life. In 2018, around 380 million tonnes of plastic were produced globally. Only a small percentage of this is recycled, with most… …
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Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a series focusing on social impact startups. Stay tuned for more. Inspired by LEGO. Unlimited number of designs with a limited number of components. Leader in sustainable and circular construction. These are just some of the phrases Sustainer Homes uses to describe its building system and software platform. The… …
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Since 2017, the weSAVEeat app has been working to prevent food waste in Barcelona and Madrid by partnering with hundreds of establishments. Too Good To Go has now acquired the app, along with its partnerships in Spain. The weSAVEeat is no longer available, and its users can continue saving food through the Too Good To Go app…. …
“The circular economy is not only respectful of the environment, but it can mean saving billions of euros,” said Jules Coignard, the director and co-founder of the circular economy platform Circul’r at a conference on the circular economy yesterday at the Barcelona campus of TBS Business School. Founded in 2014, Circul’r is a Paris-based network of over 500 companies… …
Helsinki-based IoT sensor startup Soil Scout has closed a significant late-seed funding round led by Husqvarna Group, with private investment closing out the round. Soil Scout plans to use the funding to scale production so they can help more farmers, sports venues, and managers of green spaces around the world better manage their water resources. “We are extremely… …