Within the project “INN@SE – Innovative Social Entrepreneurship with youth engagement” on June 6, in the Youth Center in the municipality of Centar “Matichno”, ARNO organized an Innovathon for ideas for social enterprises. Under the slogan “Only One Earth”, the event marked World Environment Day. The Innovathon offered a format of a dynamic, experimental event in which creative people and activists worked in teams with different stakeholders and institutions in order to find business solutions for environmental issues. Through the use of creative methodologies (open innovation and design thinking) the participants generated ideas through which they would revitalize abandoned vineyards, use rice harp, promote local compost facility, run a vegetarian pig ranch, presented an idea for repairing furniture that will be used by local institutions, and also ideated green hub for civic participation and green startups.
With this event, ARNO announced that all the Intellectual Outputs that were produced under the project will be available for free use: research, educational digital game, manual with new methodologies and a new Macedonian civic open data initiative for sharing news and resources for social entrepreneurship.
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