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 […]
An app that strengthens users’ ability to recognize fake news or a tool for building good check-in habits – are just two examples of 17 amazing ideas that emerged during the first educational hackathon – “Edukaton” which TechSoup Europe has co-organized with Kids Code Fun & WarsawJS in Warsaw. It was an inspiring 48 hours long coding event […]
2nd European Industry Day took place in Brussels on 22-23 February 2018 and gathered over 700 participants from business, academia, European institutions and social partners organizations. Civil society organizations’ representatives were in minority, but they slowly emerge as partners in a discussion on the future of the EU industrial policy. Jyrki Katainen, EC Vice-President for […]
Regardless if you are new to fundraising or you consider yourself senior in that role, with the three days courses „Developing Major Gifts” in Berlin an „Fundraising Intensive” & „Building your Major Donor Journey” in Vienna, you lift your fundraising to the next level. The CFRE certified European Fundraising School takes place in Vienna […]
If you are interested in technology for social change, and want to learn examples of solutions that really work, join an inspiring meeting with Marnie Webb – the CEO of Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup, organised by TechSoup Europe and Code for Poland. Tuesday, February 27, 19.00, Bracka 25, Warsaw. Caravan Studios build apps […]
TechSoup Europe is co-organising a new initiative – Educathon: Half the Truth Is Often a Whole Lie, taking place in Warsaw, Poland, February 16 – 18. We want to teach people how to avoid being deceived and manipulated by the content published on the Internet. Idea “It’s people’s own fault they get scammed”. This is the most popular comment […]
TechSoup partner Solidatech speaks about digital transformation in the third sector to a gathering of 4,708 non-profits, 70 exhibitors, 70 workshops and 300 experts at the French National Association and Foundation Forum. The National Association and Foundation Forum takes place each October in Paris. It is a major event for non-profits and this year […]
How to increase outreach and social impact of TechSoup Europe Network partner organizations? We took a challenge and organised a training for our network. December 2017, TechSoup Europe invited professionals from RNTC to train TS partners’ staff how to reach their audience with persuasive storytelling. 15 partner organisations attended the training and acquired skills and tools to […]
November 8, 2017, SOCIALware invited 100 representatives of various Belgian nonprofits for a couple of digital transformation informal discussions. Together with inspirational speakers they shared and discussed the best practices in social technology. The meeting took place in beautiful space of Mundaneum, based in Mons, Belgium. The Mundaneum created in 1910, has been identified as a milestone in […]
The first Italian event for non-profits eager to innovate At first it was a challenge, or perhaps even a hazard. Eventually, it ended up on being an unexpected success. Techsoup Italy and three of the most major and influential foundations in Italy – Cariplo Foundation, St. Paul’s Company and CRT Foundation – have begun to […]
