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Dear Friends of GIG,

we hope you and your families are safe in these moved times!

While many of us are practising physical distancing and our countries are closing their borders due to the current coronavirus pandemic, we see an unprecedented rise of collaboration, creativity and solidarity. Makers, innovators and thinkers are collaborating and coming together across geographical and organisational borders to share skills and knowledge and jointly develop solutions.

In this newsletter we want to introduce you to some of these initiatives but also shine a spotlight on our community's ongoing projects that contribute to building resilience and keep us going in times like these.


Take care of yourself and each other, we are in this together. 

We are what we create together.

Corona Care Maker Initiatives

To support makers across the world in their fight against the current Covid-19 pandemy, Careables is collecting and sharing information from open hardware and maker initiatives, Careables items, databases, open knowledge to funding calls.

Find the open resource here!

Kids' Tinker Studio - Corona Edition

Play is the most joyful form of learning! How can we make our different initiatives and approaches to playful learning available to as many kids and their parents and caretakers in times of Corona? That is the challenge we are tackling with a group of GIGers and affiliates.

If you want to get involved, please read the doc and reach out to Vicy!

Makers develop low-cost & Open-Source Covid-19 detection kits

A new project has started up on JOGL to develop more accessible and safe methods for detecting the new Covid-19 virus and is looking for a wide variety of supporters:

1. Those with access to a biolab to test protocols and share back results

2. Those with the time available to help research existing methods and possible new methods worth testing

3. Connections to experts for guidance

This sounds like you? Find the project on JOGL.
Coronavirus Tech Handbook

The Coronavirus Tech Handbook provides a library for technologists, civic organisations, public and private institutions, researchers and specialists of all kinds to collaborate on an agile and sophisticated response to the coronavirus outbreak and subsequent impacts. It is a rapidly evolving resource with thousands of active expert contributors.


Find the handbook here!
#i4Policy launches  #SeparateAndTogether Wiki

#i4Policy is initiating an open access, free culture, community project to ensure that important information is available and understandable to the people in our communities. 

If you want to learn more or contribute by updating information for your country or help to translate content for your community, visit http://pollyz.wiki!
CoAct

In January 2020 we kicked off our CoAct project which aims to position and demonstrate the scientific relevance and social impact of citizen social science! It connotes a radically participatory approach where citizens are considered in-the-field experts and co-researchers.


Read more on our website and the project on Facebook and Twitter for news and updates!

Careables 2020: Innovation, Collaboration and Free Technologies for People-Centered Health

On February 5, the Careables America Latina was launched in Olinda, Recife State, Brazil. The project is an international cooperation between the Brazilian organisations Casa Criatura, Centro Cultural Coco de Umbigada, Coletivo 3D, Grupo de Pesquisa TAPIOCA/UFRPE, Instituto Procomum and Secretaria de Saúde de Olinda and IRD (France) and Global Innovation Gathering – GIG (Berlin). The platform will use digital manufacturing, distributed and decentralised manufacturing and collaborative production to create products and solutions for people’s health.

Find the event report here and read more in this blog post!

Careables Olinda Diary

The aim of our Careables work package in Olinda is to engage stakeholder communities, bring existing communities together and connect them in the field of open source healthcare solutions.

We take you with us for our first 15 days of Careables Olinda in our blog post!

Fundraiser: Engineering Good

Toys for kids from disadvantaged families? Yes! Leveraging the power of engineering to reach this goal? Even better! Plus community-building? Please help us to support GIG's Saad Chinoy's initiative.

Find the campaign here!

Collaboration and arts against the economic crisis and precarious work

The Project A Colaboradora – Arts and Communities of the Instituto Procomum has selected the 12 artists participating in the second edition via open call.

They will be part of an open and cooperative arts school that will help them to develop their own abilities and their projects. In addition to project development and mentoring, artists must also exchange services with each other to stimulate an alternative economy. 

Curious? Find all details on our blog post

Job Alert: Pitchworthy is hiring!

Are you an awesome project manager, love people development and nurturing relationships and growth, a super nerd about pedagogy and learning by doing design? Arabic/French language is a bonus! We're building tools for and running our own virtual accelerators to help unleash a superbloom of solutions for a challenged planet. If you know anyone that might fit, please share this opportunity!

Find all details here!

Find out how LAB Procomum is creating a citizen innovation Lab to promote the commons and read more in our blog post!

Celebrating the creativity and the transformation of  social entrepreneurship

On March 14th, Lab Procomum celebrated the 2019 cycle ventures of their social entrepreneurship school, A Colaboradora – Empreender e Transfomar (Entrepreneurship and Transform).

You can read more about the event here!

Upcoming Events

European Citizen Science Conference, September 6-8 Trieste, Italy. Date moved!

re:publica Berlin, August 10-12,  Berlin, Germany. Date moved!


Calls for Applications and Proposals

Volkswagen Foundation: Academic Cooperative Research Projects in Germany and Sub-Saharan Africa. Rolling applications.

Cities Alliance Call “Stronger Partnerships: Local Innovations for New Climate Realities in Cities”. Deadline 30 March 2020, 14:00 CET.

EU Horizon 2020,  Deadline April 2020.


Find all upcoming dates at globalinnovationgathering.org/events






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