Another year, another jam
The Global Sustainability Jam is back for a second edition. After a huge success in 2011 this year’s jam will take place in at least 55+ places around the world. One of the locations is Berlin, once again …
Concept: Bikergy
‘Bikergy’ is a service concept for group biking for families. It generates energy to power shared experience via Wi-Fi. It is developed for groups and families who want to spent their free time in a funny and communicative way.
Concept: Silver Rangers
‘Silver Rangers’ is yet another service concept creating during the 48 hours of the Global Sustainability Jam, aiming on sustainable relations in society. Silver Rangers is a system to connect our best generations personally. It aims to bridge gaps between the generations …
Concept: Fabricator
‘Fabricator’ is one of the six concepts developed during the 48 hours of the Global Sustainability Jam Berlin. Fabricator is a device similar to a 3D printer, which gives the user the possibility to print the object desired and to recycle it later on.
The jam is over
The Global Sustainability Jam Berlin just started with a great get-together, watching the global challenge video presentation and listening to the first input lecture by social entrepreneur Johanna Richter. Day 1 closed with the all-time classics pizza and beer and a surprising fire show. After arriving at the offices of Fjord Berlin in Berlin’s heart...
Supporters of the jam
The Berlin Global Sustainability Jam would not have been possible without the incredible support of various companies and producers of sustainable and organic products. Many thanks to the following businesses for generously sponsoring the jam: Germany’s biggest organic beverage brand Bionade was so kind to let us a couple of crates of their organic lemonade...
Impressions – Day 3
The last day of the jam was full of wild prototyping and ended with the presentations of 6 fantastic concepts. You will find more photos about day 3 here soon. Stay tuned… The morning started with a vivid input by Raul Krauthausen of Sozialhelden, presenting their way of working as well as realised project of...
Impressions – Day 2
After getting to know each other on Friday evening the participants started on Saturday working on their challenge. Having had a huge breakfast and input from three morning lectures the 6 teams defined their different approaches of tackling the global ‘Playground’ topic. A physical profile wall was created so while having a coffee break one...
Impressions — Day 1
The Global Sustainability Jam Berlin started with a great get-together, watching the global challenge video presentation and listening to the first input lecture by social entrepreneur Johanna Richter from agbe e.V. Day 1 closed with the all-time classics pizza and beer and a surprising fire show. After arriving at the Fjord office in the heart...
Promoting financial sustainability in microfinance
We are very happy to make a last-minute speaker announcement: Yvonne Rusche and Karim Tarraf will be giving a talk on financial sustainability in microfinance on Sunday morning and will thus bring a very interesting perspective to the Berlin Jam. People in poor countries remain poor because the majority of them do not have the...
Slow Food Germany
We are happy to announce that Veronica Veneziano from Slow Food Germany will give an insight into two of their recent project. Veronica will show that Slow Food deals with food in many ways and is not ‘just a fancy way of eating’. One of the projects Veronica will talk about is called “Teller statt...
3M
Bionade
Coffee Circle
Etsy
Fjord
Lemke
Lemonaid
Living Crafts
Märkisches Landbrot
RatioDrink