Description
Date: 1st event: January 19, 2023 and 2nd: March 1, 2024
Place: Kyiv, Ukraine
Organizational partner: AroundB
Series of events “Makers Innovation Award” is a project aimed at fostering social cohesion/recovery in Ukraine and connecting makers and makers spaces to popularize makers movement by supporting innovative ideas from Ukrainian inventors.
The first event (Idea Cultivation Workshop) took place on January 19, 2024, in Kyiv. All makers (who have registered) participated in a workshop aimed at improving their existing and developing new ideas on how to help Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. The second (main event) – Makers Innovation Award occurred on March 1, 2024, also in Kyiv. Jury members chose and awarded 8 winners with a grant to grow their projects in terms of education, tech innovation, popularization, and new possibilities.
The “Makers Innovation Award” is organized by betterplace lab and Future Challenges in the framework of TOLOCAR, a project funded by the German Government and implemented by the GIZ with support of At Stake gGmbH in close collaboration with Ukrainian and international partners. AroundB acted as an organizational partner.
What has AroundB done:
Preparation and holding of two events for makers
An educational conference with trainers (Idea Cultivation Workshop)
- Social media management (creation of texts, banners, and videos for publications on social media);
- Selection of the venue, catering;
- Logistics and decoration of the location;
- Photo and video shooting;
- Zoom streaming;
- Travel and registration of participants;
- Full support during the event.
Winners awarding ceremony (Makers Innovation Award pitch event)
- Social media management (creation of texts, banners, and videos for publications on social media);
- Selection of the venue, catering;
- Logistics and decoration of the location;
- Photo and video shooting;
- Zoom streaming with simultaneous translation into English;
- Travel and registration of participants;
- Design and preparation of gifts for winners;
- Support of the voting process and full support during the whole event.
These two events were existing and very successful! All the participants will have the ability to participate in future like-minded events to empower social help for Ukrainian people during the war.
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