Stories

How Startup Communities Can Help You Build a Successful Business

March 8, 2023 | Mustafa Ozer

Entrepreneurship is often described as a game of luck. While execution, perseverance, and a great idea-market fit are essential ingredients for success, there’s no denying that some element of luck […]
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3 Ways on How Curated Connections Among Impact Entrepreneurs Accelerate their Learning

December 5, 2022 | Mustafa Ozer

3 Ways on How Curated Connections Among Impact Entrepreneurs Accelerate their Learning The initial response to COVID19 followed the waves of survival, adaptation, and resilience to develop an act of […]
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Erste Group’s new social finance instrument boosts growth of the social sector

November 16, 2021 | Alina Moldovan

Erste Social Finance Holding, a joint venture of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation, has recently launched a new social finance instrument “Quasi-equity”. This new funding opportunity supports social organizations […]
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Impact Days ’21: The Future of Finance

October 1, 2021 | Florin Avram

Impact Days have been an incredible and inspiring experience. We’ve looked at ways to support and develop the social economy, including building social resilience, looking at different methods of funding, […]
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CULTURAL SENSITIVITY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN AND HOW CAN IT DEEPEN YOUR AWARENESS ON DIVERSITY?

July 10, 2021 | Leni Piech

We live in a time where globalization fastens the exchange and transfer among nations and interconnected societies are experiencing a complexity of multicultural subgroups¹. As cities are becoming more and […]
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CREATING A SUSTAINABLE MINDSET: AN INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

June 30, 2021 | Leni Piech

Design has an important role to play in transitioning to more sustainable ways of living. It can encourage us to shift away from a reductionist, exploitative and dualistic approach to […]
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Welcome to The Hybrid Stage

May 1, 2021 | Silvia Galli Paglia

2020 reshuffled priorities, demanded different settings and took away events as we knew them. It asked us to think about the future of our spaces – and pushed us to […]
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Habemus Accelerator!

April 15, 2021 | Alexander Diesenreiter

The pandemic still has a grip on all of us and caused changes in many aspects of our lives. It made us rethink our routines, slowed down or even paused […]
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11 years ago today…

March 25, 2021 | Hinnerk Hansen

11 years ago today, we stepped into the atelier space at Lindengasse 56 and welcomed the founding community of Impact Hub. The paint was still fresh, light bulbs were […]
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Better together

March 19, 2021 | Florin Avram

We believe there is no “I” in team but there is “we” in awesome and when great minds come together everything gets better. This Spring‘s Issue not only validates the […]
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Education and social impact in the time of COVID-19

March 5, 2021 | Alina Cristea

We have been battling through this pandemic long enough to know precisely what the arguments behind the restrictions are and what effects we could end up facing if we do […]
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Better together: How cooperation plays a major role in achieving SDG goals

February 25, 2021 | Dominik Pernat

For more than one year now the global COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to turn the whole world upside down. With the current outroll of vaccines gaining traction, there is finally […]
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The times they are a changin’ – Corporates boosting efforts to do better

February 23, 2021 | Dominik Pernat

In 1987 the United Nations published their report “Our Common Future” describing sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations […]
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Together for a greener future

February 10, 2021 | Florin Avram

2021 has just begun, and wherever we look it has come with renewed inspiration, dedication, hope and commitment to jointly build a more just, sustainable, and resilient world. As we […]
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From the get-go: Entrepreneurs working on a better future for everybody

February 9, 2021 | Dominik Pernat

In recent years climate change and the importance of immediate measures to tackle the most fundamental issues of our time have reached a new level of awareness among people around […]
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