A festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness.
The third edition of Berlin Maker Faire is expecting to host over 1000 Makers at 250 booths presenting to an audience of 25,000 visitors. Discover what Berlin Maker Faire has to offer: Robots breathing fire, incredible inventions, and a colorful mixture of several hundred Makers. You’re invited to join in, touch, and learn, take part in workshops and learn how to solder, code or sew.
Read More ...The OpenTechSummit brings the exciting ideas and creators of the open-Technology community in Berlin. Subjects range from open hardware, over encyclopedias of free knowledge, software development and free networks to questions.
Read More ...Dr. Christian Voigt from Zentrum für Soziale Innovation – ZSI (Centre for Social Innovation), Vienna, will give a presentation about “Design Thinking: opportunities and risks in the innovation process” at the Kongress Innovationen für die Gesellschaft – Neue Wege und Methoden zur Entfaltung des Potenzials sozialer Innovationen – (Congress innovations for society – New approaches and methods for unleashing the potential of social innovation –).
More information at http://sfs.tu-dortmund.de/cms/innovationskongress/de/programm/sessions/design-thinking/index.html
Read More ...This event brought together old and new CAPS projects, discussing ideas for the next workprogramme, defining clusters of projects, and ultimately establishing a working community of innovation entities that will actively cooperate with the EC on Digital Social Innovation over the coming years.
This community meeting was open not only to the 36 CAPS projects, but also to any external participant interesting in gathering knowledge about the current developments and interacting first-hand the current CAPS activities, from peer to peer. More than half of the 100+ participants were not affiliated with any current CAPS project.
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