This week, CHEST will be at the 1st International Conference of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), at the Kulturbrauerei venue, in Berlin. CHEST will be represented by EIPCM – Prof. Dr. Jasminko Novak will chair Session 6 on Friday 20th May at 14:00 (CET). Session 6 Citizen engagement and collective intelligence for participatory Digital […]
This week, CHEST will be at the 1st International Conference of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), at the Kulturbrauerei venue, in Berlin. CHEST will be represented by EIPCM – Prof. Dr. Jasminko Novak will chair Session 6 on Friday 20th May at 14:00 (CET). Session 6 Citizen engagement and collective intelligence for participatory Digital […]
CHEST is presenting at the next CAPS Concertation Meeting, at NetFutures, in Brussels, on 20/04/2016. We are delighted to announce that 3 of our Call 3 projects will feature in CHEST’s session at this event. The featured projects are: W4P: http://w4p.be/ Hybrid Letterbox: http://www.design-research-lab.org/projects/hybrid-letter-box/ YouSense: http://www.yousense.eu/ For more information on CHEST, you can visit our […]
Buzzin-coins (previously Payeze) is a CHEST Call 3 winner from Sparta Digital, where users are awarded coins for qualifying actions. These coins can then be used to purchase rewards including gift cards and vouchers at participating retailers. Where Buzzin takes a novel approach is by developing a differentiated model of virtual currency whereby users can […]
The European Commission will have a CAPS concertation meeting, as a pre-conference session at NetFutures 2016, on 20th April. This meeting feature presentations by CHEST and IA4SI. It will focus on current CAPS results and analyse key questions, such as: What impact can we have? How can social innovation offer civil society and grass-root communities […]
Tender-IT, a CHEST Call 3 winner, is an innovative platform that is being developed to create a truly global marketplace for online tenders. The platform will connect those who are searching for products and services (“Seekers”) with those who can solve these needs (“Solvers”). With the ever increasing digitisation of government procurement, being able to […]
SchulePLUS is an innovative matching platform for schools and their external partners. It allows stakeholders like foundations, universities, companies, individual experts, NGOs or cultural institutions to post their cooperation offers for schools. On the other side, teachers are able to very easily find the offers that best meet their needs due to a tagging and […]
SourceIT is a CHEST Call 3 winning project from Macroom E (a Cork County Council initiative), which aims to build a mapping tool to support enterprises, whether new or existing, both social and commercial, and which have a specific focus on the reuse and recycling of materials, in locating unwanted resources/waste materials which are essential […]
Serlo is a German non-profit organisation that makes education freely available with an online platform of learning resources. Today, we are very happy to present the first glimpses into their “Serlo ABC” project, which is funded by CHEST as a Call 3 winner. Communicative competence and literacy skills are necessary requirements for participating and integrating […]
W4P, a CHEST Call 3 winner, is the development of a social crowdsourcing platform by Open Knowledge Belgium, iDROPS (a digital innovation agency) and Underlined (a creative and co-design agency). The concept is for an open source template that “will give anyone access to a one-project-a-time platform to ask for funding, volunteers, coaches and/or materials” […]