This Award Ceremony marks the end of the found! 2020 5-month accelerator program for social entrepreneurs whose projects help to prepare refugees for the Austrian labor market! Traditionally, the found! jury event and program finalists announcement is taking place in person. However, due to recent events, we are moving the final event online!

Join us from the comfort of your house to find out which two startups will be the winners of the found! accelerator program and receive 25.000€ in total to further invest in their impactful ideas to help refugees transition into the Austrian labor market!

We look forward to seeing you there!

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About found!

found! is a 5-month accelerator program for social entrepreneurs whose projects help to prepare refugees for the Austrian labor market, creating job opportunities, and helping them to build a life and livelihood in their new country.

It is an established initiative in the Austrian social impact community by the Deloitte Future Fund, executed in cooperation with the Impact Hub Vienna. The 2020 edition of found! marked the 4th round of the program. This year’s cohort participants are:

frida offers free, independent legal counselling for refugees and migrants, combining the two areas of law. We believe everyone must be able to enforce their rights.

FoodStories is a kitchen hub where refugee women are employed as cooks and cooking instructors, cooking their traditional dishes for delivery and catering and running cooking classes for individuals and groups.

The Connection has been helping young migrants integrate and acquire language, school and social skills for 8 years.

The Vienna Hobby Lobby offers free leisure program for children and young people from a disadvantaged social background. For many families leisure courses are very expensive, so that they can’t afford them. We work with ambitious young people with migrant background to give these courses.

ÖkonoWie? is a young start-up from Styria. The team wants to assist refugees and migrants in understanding the basic business and economic knowledge necessary for the Austrian labor market, thus filling knowledge gaps as well as offering additional qualifications.

Ahl@n uses technology and utilizes the untapped capabilities of skilled refugees and migrants to provide affordable translation/interpretation services. This solution helps refugees and migrants overcome language barriers and contributes to their integration in the Austrian society.

The found! 2020 participants

(Top row, left to right) Farah Saad (frida), Ariane Olschak (frida), Petra Aji (FoodStories), Rosa Haltmeyer (Vienna Hobby Lobby), Leila Salehiravesh (Ahl@n), (Bottom row, left to right) Valerie Mühlenburg (the CONNECTION), Diana Reuchlin (the CONNECTION), Denise Diex (ÖkonoWie?), Jasmin Abou Ahmed (ÖkonoWie). Photo by Lea Fabienne

Humans of Impact: Sh!t Happens

For the pilot session of Humans of Impact, we are focusing on a very timely topic that most of us probably went through: Shitty Things that happened in the New Realm. (COVID-19 Edition).

In this run, speakers will be sharing the following:

• setbacks, mishaps and unfortunate events
• how it impacted their life, business, loved ones etc.
• lessons learned
• Advice

About Humans of Impact

Humans of Impact is an event series led by Impact Hub Asia Pacific. The series enjoys different themes and topics per month, allowing different entrepreneurs’ points of view to come to life through relaxed, conversational webinars. It aims to share all kinds of impact that key opinion leaders, subject matter experts, thought leaders, and impact entrepreneurs have used to leave their mark on the world while encouraging dialogue among its panelists and viewers.

Not sure what your business will look like post-lockdown, or as businesses start to re-open? Do you need help understanding what the risks are to your organization as we get ready to face a new normal?

Emilie’s expertise in risk management, scenario planning and contingency planning will help you chart a way through the uncertainty!

Emilie Wilcox is the Managing Partner at Baiame Consulting, specializing in risk and performance management. With over 15 years of experience helping businesses identify and manage their risks to better their performance, Emilie has worked with organizations of all sizes and kinds in numerous countries and industries. Reach out to Emilie to schedule a session to talk through your organizations’ next steps.

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Brown Bag Lunches are Impact Hub Ottawa’s weekly lunch & learns led by Hubbers, for members and non-members alike. Topics vary each week, but you’re always sure to learn something new! Can’t make it at 12 PM? Register and we’ll email you a recording of the presentation to watch at your convenience.

Free tickets – Available to Members and anyone for whom cost is a barrier to attending.

We have removed our ‘Helping Hand Donation’ ticketing option and offer the following suggestions should you wish to donate, instead, to an organization working to support anti-racism in Canada:

• Black Health Alliance
• Black Lives Matter Toronto
• Justice for Regis
• Canadian Civil Liberties Association
• A Fund for Black-led Mental Health Supports
• Black Legal Action Centre
• Black Youth Helpline

* A Zoom link will be provided once you sign up via Eventbrite!*

We know that data has the power to make change. But how specifically can that power be harnessed to make a positive difference, locally and globally?

This week, Hubber Jennifer Shellinck will talk about going from high-level goals to the nuts and bolts of working with data, and how to connect these dots.

Jennifer Shellinck is an Ottawa-based data scientist who founded the data science company Sysabee to help organizations tackle thorny data problems that matter.

Jen’s passion is in bringing cutting-edge data technology to organizations wanting to form the best analysis and decisions. Sysabee applies the very latest machine-learning and systems-modeling to help organizations achieve their greater potential.

Jennifer is also the founding member of the Data Science Experts Group, an association of specialists who customize data-driven solutions for each client. Jennifer’s machine learning and simulation expertise comes from her background in Cognitive Science, earning a Ph.D. in 2009. As an adjunct professor at Carleton University, she remains active in academic research and keeps up-to-date on the latest research.

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Brown Bag Lunches are Impact Hub Ottawa’s weekly lunch & learns led by Hubbers, for members and non-members alike. Topics vary each week, but you’re always sure to learn something new! Can’t make it at 12 PM? Register and we’ll email you a recording of the presentation to watch at your convenience.

Free tickets – Available to Members and anyone for whom cost is a barrier to attending.

We have removed our ‘Helping Hand Donation’ ticketing option and offer the following suggestions should you wish to donate, instead, to an organization working to support anti-racism in Canada:

• Black Health Alliance
• Black Lives Matter Toronto
• Justice for Regis
• Canadian Civil Liberties Association
• A Fund for Black-led Mental Health Supports
• Black Legal Action Centre
• Black Youth Helpline

* A Zoom link will be provided once you sign up via Eventbrite!*

#FOODTALKS: How food can save the world

Join us on Tuesday 30th June 2020 (5.00-6.30pm) for Food Talks, where we’ll explore how we can all tackle the climate crisis through the lens of food.

This is part of our 2020 #FoodTalks series, which has an overarching theme this year of ‘We are all emergency respondents now’. We will discover how we can transform our food systems to tackle the climate, nature, obesity and democracy emergencies.

Carolyn Steel, in conversation with our moderator, will be sharing insights from her brand new book ‘Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World’. Carolyn also wrote ‘Hungry City’ and is a leading authority on food, cities and transformative change. In addition, we will hear stories of people taking positive climate action on the ground (to be announced soon). Crucially, there will also be an opportunity for you to get involved in the discussion about how we can all be emergency respondents now.

#FoodTalks is brought to you by a partnership of the Food Ethics Council, Impact Hub Kings Cross, Organico, and London Food Link, part of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.

There is an optional donation to this event. This will help us cover our costs and time for the event, but we still want to be accessible to everyone, so only give if you can!

It’s all over social media, newspapers, magazines, TV. But are we really in this together?

Isn’t it rather that we’re weathering the same storm but on different boats? Although the pandemic narrative makes us look equally impacted, COVID-19 is affecting people in very different ways. If your ship is shipwrecked or you’re navigating on a solid transatlantic, how you get out of the storm might look very different.

In the first event of the Gender Equity & Social Justice Tribe, we’ll dive into how and if the coronavirus crisis is amplifying existent inequalities. We’ll listen to each other’s stories about how we are experiencing the world in crisis through an intersectional and gender lens. We’ll observe where the stories are connected and notice how it all comes together on a collective and societal level.

Join us for an honest, online conversation in a safe space, and bring along your open mind and willingness to listen without judgment.

This event is brought to you by the Gender Equity & Social Justice Tribe at Impact Hub Berlin – where change goes to work.

Entrepreneurs embrace opportunities and transform them into value for our societies. Besides all the challenges it brings, the post-covid world also includes significant opportunities for those who would like to approach it with an entrepreneurial mindset.

The workshop Spotting opportunities in the new normal – An entrepreneurial mindset builds on an established framework to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are at the basis of entrepreneurship. The focus will be on the time we are living in – the ‘new normal’, which does not just bring challenges but could also create opportunities, if we learn how to spot them.

Through a combination of key learnings and practical exercises, the workshop will provide participants with strategic competences to boost their entrepreneurial mindset and explore new trends and opportunities.

The workshop will be held on Thursday 11 June from 6 to 8:00pm and will be facilitated by Semih Boyaci, cofounder of Impact Hub Istanbul.

Please note that Zoom link to participate in the workshop will be provided upon registration. The event will be held in English

*The project “PEP – Promotion of Economic Prospects” is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in cooperation with Re:Coded & Impact Hub Istanbul.