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We opened the day with Oriol Reull presenting us Too Good To Go vision about how to avoid #FoodWaste. 

A really inspiring example of how to create new business models adding social and environmental value at the same time!

A MedTech discussion took place with Santiago Ruiz-Valdepeñas from Up-Devices and Alfredo Azabal from Cerqana ! Two ways to leverage technology and social innovation to improve the life of patients in the health sector!

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A round table hold by the wonderful Jeanne Roche, super energetic volunteer of makesense in Madrid !

Participants had the possibility to pitch and organise their own 45 min workshop. 

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Eddie Capstick and Gianpietro Pucciariello helped on mapping a social impact map for Madrid to identify the "social impact" ecosytem of the city.

David Venegas presented his app project - Timeline - whose objective is to allow users to keep memories & reflections in a safe place and pass on a legacy to the next generations. The idea was to brainstorm how to best position it on the market.

Jeyashree Haridoss also had feedbacks to make her translate solution app project economically sustainable. 

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We also had interesting discussions with Lauren Miller, European Community Manager, Jeanne Roche and Valentine Dehay, active volunteers in Madrid about makesense and the volunteers community in Madrid! By the way, don't hesitate to contact us if you are interested in participating to one of our next events or in helping organizing one! 

Arancha Martinez, co-funder of itwillbe.org did inspire the audience by presenting Child PPa, an app enabling NGOs and social workers to digitally identify street children using a specific biometry technology. 

Carla Fernández presented Equalia, an association struggling to enhance animal rights respect until slaughter houses. 

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It was a good example of how technologies used for a good purpose can help raise awareness and change the bad practices for better ones.

Marvin Frömming  taught us how to use technology to help enhancing democracy!

Kuorum is currently providing local governments and institutions with the proper tools to foster citizen engagement and to run consultations, debates and participatory budgets.

"How can we convince potential lenders to use cryptocurrency to contribute to EthicHub?"was Ethic Hub's challenge to the 12 participants of this Hold Up, creativity workshop.

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Ethic Hub, a raising fund platform for farmers to solve this issue! The session ended with several pitches of creative solutions! During two hours participants used their creativity to help Iñigo Molero and Raul Martinez, to solve this challenge. 

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HoldUp organized by our wonderful Madrid volunteers: Ines Jacobsen & Damien Condorcel

"How to get more people 'organically' download El Coco app?"

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The participants  helped Jean-Baptiste Boubault, funder of El Coco App, to find new ways to increase the number of downloads without using paid media. 

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El Coco is an app that helps people know better the nutritional values of the food they buy and eat.

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HoldUp facilitated and organized by our two wonderful makesense volunteers: Ségolène Daval et Charlotte Du Peyrat.

Alex Casas talked on how cryptocurrencies can be used to help funding social projects or organizations, especially by presenting us his project on Blockchain for Humanity.

"How can we best encourage citizens to use the Green Urban Data app to access and use the environmental data collected through it? "

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Here was the challenge the 10 participants of this Hold Up worked on this Sunday to help María Royo from Green Urban Data! 

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Green Urban Data is a platform that collects and use citizens data to create healthier and more sustainable cities! 

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A quite challenging HoldUp, succesfully held by Damien Condorcel & Ines Jacobsen!