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Blooom vzw facilitates workshops
within the framework of the Global Goals. We respond to the universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. |
For current activities have a look here |
Past activities
WeForRefugees
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@ shortfilm a co-creation between refugees and students
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Innovation, creativity and digital technologies can be the engine for social change in an urban context. WeForRefugees wants to take these insights create a space for migrants and asylumseekers to generate hands-on, entrepreneurial ideas or actions, and to engage in multidisciplinary and cross-border collaborations.
WeForRefugees hopes that more and more people realize that through the participatory involvement of citizens and people applying for citizenship, policymakers and professionals from different backgrounds, complex issues can be resolved through a design process. WeForRefugees should also evoke a sense of urgency! We are, in fact, facing serious challenges in several areas, both in terms of economy, ecology, welfare, education, mobility, social inequality and migration. These are challenges where the existing, more familiar ways of thinking often provide no solution. So, the desire for concrete action grows. |
FoodRebels |
WEEK VAN DE FAIR TRADE 4 tot 14 oktober |
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BLOOOMCAMP
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FAIRTRADEHACK
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We organize a hackathon around Fair Trade in Borgerhout.
Through a human centered design approach young people are coached to set up digital projects around Fairtrade. A hackathon is organized in a Hackers Retreat in Borgerhout to find out how digital applications (services and services) can be developed regarding Fairtrade. The young people learn to write design challenges, pitch their ideas and draw up a user-journey and a business model canvas, etc. After that they can use their coding skills to make a digital prototype. Coaches guide the process from A to Z. |
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When the youngsters manage to make a digital prototype, extra resources can be found to have the app developed effectively, but the ultimate goal is for young people to develop the app themselves, which is why a longer coaching process is needed (2018, 2019, 2020). ) The influencers concept of the Foodrebels (Cf. Last year) will also be used to share the progress of young people in their network. The call is again aimed at 16/17 year olds for whom digital is inextricably linked to her life. The young people are part of Generation D, a generation with a passion for everything that is digital. The young people have a huge digital network: 10 young people x 1000 friends = 10,000 people !!!
Blooom vzw currently puts BoHoGeek on the market, an innovative and technology hub that aims to promote the flow of young people with a migration background to the digital economy. BoHoGeek needs a physical place in Borgerhout to be active around digital entrepreneurship and technology. Just like MolenGeek (see below), BoHoGeek wants to offer a wide range of activities in which young people come into contact with 21st century skills and thus develop their digital skills and improve their entrepreneurial spirit.
The Borgerhout hub is inspired by Molengeek and, as a coding school, wants to offer a generation of young people a future as computer geeks.
The Molenbeek tech incubator, MolenGeek, was honored in New York in September 2017 during a conference on digital innovation in the margins of the UN General Assembly. The aim of the event was to show the importance of technology and digital skills in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In other words, Molengeek is more than a proof of concept that Blooom wants to bring to Borgerhout. Molengeek first started organizing thematic hackathons before opening a permanent place for geeks. We follow the same start-up, Blooom recently received financial support from the King Baudouin Foundation (KBS) and Stadsmakers (Antwerp) for the start-up of BoHoGeek. (Logo design, website, computers ...)
Blooom vzw currently puts BoHoGeek on the market, an innovative and technology hub that aims to promote the flow of young people with a migration background to the digital economy. BoHoGeek needs a physical place in Borgerhout to be active around digital entrepreneurship and technology. Just like MolenGeek (see below), BoHoGeek wants to offer a wide range of activities in which young people come into contact with 21st century skills and thus develop their digital skills and improve their entrepreneurial spirit.
The Borgerhout hub is inspired by Molengeek and, as a coding school, wants to offer a generation of young people a future as computer geeks.
The Molenbeek tech incubator, MolenGeek, was honored in New York in September 2017 during a conference on digital innovation in the margins of the UN General Assembly. The aim of the event was to show the importance of technology and digital skills in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In other words, Molengeek is more than a proof of concept that Blooom wants to bring to Borgerhout. Molengeek first started organizing thematic hackathons before opening a permanent place for geeks. We follow the same start-up, Blooom recently received financial support from the King Baudouin Foundation (KBS) and Stadsmakers (Antwerp) for the start-up of BoHoGeek. (Logo design, website, computers ...)
Nowasteland
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Hackathon
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