Normally, this time of the year we would be making travel arrangements for over 100 activists from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia to come together at the MEGAPHONE 2020 event in one of the European cities. But this year has been nothing like normal that is why, for everyone’s safety, MEGAPHONE 2020 will be happening online. All the participants will meet […]
Game Changer’s CAMP is a free interactive 4-day ONLINE event coming 13-14, 20-21 October 2020. This is an inclusive and participant-driven unconference that examines and strengthens the relationship between online and offline technology and tools, and organisations working to address radicalization and polarisation among young people. Mission Our aim is to gather and build a network of […]
On September 1st, Kick-Off Event “Meet And Code” 2020 will begin two months of coding! On September 1st, at 11.00 CET Germany‘s Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI) including State Secretary Dr. Markus Richter for the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Hartmut Thomsen (President Middle & Eastern Europe, SAP) and Fabrizia Benini, Head of […]
Meet and Code 2019 has come to an end with Virtual Awards Ceremony. Lots of inspiring projects and progressive ideas were brought to life within the Meet and Code project. Today we met the best ideas in four categories: Community, Diversity, Girls Do IT!, Code for Planet. Scheduled to take place in Budapest during the month […]
On March 31, 2020, TechSoup Europe organised a webinar “True or False? How to Respond to Disinformation”. It was a local event in Poland dedicated to teachers, educators and academic lecturers. The numbers of registrations were 905, with 305 participants and a variety of partners who helped us spread the word about the webinar. The […]
The strategic development of NGOs is not possible without good leadership, but also without the wise use of technology. Digital tools can help organizations accomplish their mission better – but you must learn to use them well. ✅What is the role of NGO leaders in the digital transformation of their organization? ✅How should organizations improve […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) has an enormous potential in finding solutions that can solve problems that disadvantaged people are facing on a daily basis. Take part in the first Central & Eastern European AI Hackathon organised by VIA Association, TechSoup Partner from the Czech Republic, with support of Microsoft. The event is coming on February 4, […]
Earlier this year 100 activists, NGO professionals and journalists gathered in Budapest for MEGAPHONE 2019 – a 2-day event which centred around collaborative discussions and peer-to-peer learning. Participants came from 28 countries in Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia to share their experiences from working on the issues such as the environment, women’s rights, LGBT+ […]
14-15 November 2019, TechSoup Italy will host TechSoup Days – an event for nonprofits interested in digital transformation. Join TechSoup Days and start your digital transformation path. CONNECT We want to help Nonprofits connect with each other, activate and build those synergies and skills needed to start a conscious digital transformation. ACTIVATE We are […]
On the weekend from March, 8 to 10, the time had finally come: More than 700 organisations from all over Europe had applied – 15 made it to the finals. The Meet and Code Coding Initiative awarded the Meet and Code Award for the first time to the most creative ideas for getting children and […]
105 participants from 26 countries, 66% women, grass-roots activists and representants of NGOs attending 21 workshops – these are numbers of MEGAPHONE 2018, activists’ response to shrinking civic spaces. Facing a global pushback and struggling in the era of misinformation and social media algorithms, we, the changemakers need to find the ways how to strengthen our narratives, get people involved […]
The Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland has released the new version of its public data website – dane.gov.pl. The Ministry has selected TechSoup to be its service provider organising a very unique hackathon which aims to make the open data portal of the government more accessible and useful for citizens and businesses. Search […]
Join us in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, November 13-15, 2018 at MEGAPHONE – activists’ response to shrinking civic spaces. Activists and NGOs are facing a global pushback. Technology is accelerating that process and we need to better understand how it’s happening. But technology can also connect us and amplify our activist response. In reaction to the attacks we must tell […]
This year we joined European Venture Philanthropy Association and we will be a part of EVPA 14th Annual Conference. The conference is ultimate event in the social investment and venture philanthropy sector, bringing together different actors from all over Europe, all seeking to create and collaborate in an impactful way. Europe is facing serious societal challenges, from immigration-integration, […]
Over the last 6 months, 160 high school students from 9 counties from Romania have worked with Microsoft mentors to create technology products: from complex games that amazed gaming industry specialists, to a low-cost, self-contained water quality detection, or a productivity app that helps pupils, students and teachers to help them better organize their time […]
