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CircleVET | Final meeting
It was the final meeting of the CircleVET project, an ambitious adventure to offer an educational framework to train Circular Economy in the Vocational Education Training level. Finalizing our work, we had a fertile debate on what is next, what would be our policy...
CircleVET | Circular Economy in action
Nara SK hosted the third and last CircleVET Online Lab. We had the pleasure of learning about their plans of expanding circularity approach all over the country and somehow influencing the world. On the first days, we heard from Ivana Škriniarová, from Nara SK, how...
CircleVET | Sewing from İzmir
Our 2nd lab had a relevant topic for today’s world: Circular Economy in the Fashion Industry. Hosted by our partners from ITMBO, Chamber of Textile Manufacturers of İzmir, with the collaboration of Circular Berlin and Arianna Nicoletti from Future Fashion Forward, we...
CircleVET | Online tools and the Berlin Lab
Our second online lab was a reaffirmation that we can keep on training circular economy practices even during hard times, using the right digital tools. Once again, we had seven days of sessions training, using Jitsi, Miro, Zoom, GDrive... So many tools are available...
CircleVET | Meeting online instead of flying to Zvolen
After planning our trips to meet again, sadly, we had to cancel our flights’ reservations and hotels bookings because of the situation of #COVID19. Nevertheless, we were able to gather together online and start a series of successful virtual meetings. At this time we...
CircleVET | Visiting and meeting in İzmir
Next stop: İzmir, Turkey! Hosted by our partners ITMBO, Chamber of Textile Manufacturers of İzmir, we were able to take a close look at the development of the textile industry and how they are applying circular economy principles. On the first day, we were invited to...
CircleVET | Meeting and learning in Helsinki
Thanks to our Finnish partners Sykli, we enjoyed the great weather in Helsinki during middle June and were pleased to visit Stadin ammattiopisto Vocational School and to know stories of students that have opened their own business based on the concepts of the circular...
CircleVET | Receiving our partners in Madrid
Now it's our turn! As partners of the CircleVET project, we have prepared the second transnational meeting so that all partners can meet and continue developing practices that train educators in Circular Economy in Vocational Educational Training. We have received our...
CircleVET | Meeting our partners in Berlin
The first meeting of the CircleVET consortium took place in Berlin, the city of the project coordinating organization, Comparative Research Network (CRN). In this transnational meeting, we have outlined the bases of the project and how we will organize ourselves to...
Hey activators! We’re cooking up the Toolkit to harness Collective Intelligence in your organization
We want to enable a wider community to do what we love to do: enhance collaboration through activating collective intelligence. It’s time indeed for Somos Más to share what we’ve learnt during years of working with pan-European organizations. We’ve chosen to channel...
How to become a learning organization: insights from our workshop at Online Educa Berlin 2016
In our networking session, last Thursday, December 1st at OEB 2016 we have experienced a two-hour structured process of learning through dialogue called the world cafe method. The purpose of this world cafe session was to activate the collective intelligence of the...
Hubperitivo – or 20 for 4!
Last tuesday we have hosted the Hubperitivo: 20 creative souls giving input to 4 projects with a challenge for social entrepreneurship! The Hubperitivo takes place at the co-working space Impact Hub Berlin once a month and is a fun, inspiring and networking event....