Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Name
Please add an English translation of the case name if necessary
Claim
(subtitle) synthetic description of the case, using a few key-words (150 characters)
Place
city, country (neighbourhood or district)
Development
(1000 characters)
• What was the initial idea? How was it generated? How was it innovative? How did
it differ from existing initiatives? (or does it reproduce a service-idea that exists
somewhere else?)
• How was the idea developed? How did it evolve/change as a result? Indicate a
timeframe for implementation. What is the current level of maturation of the solution?
What are the perspectives for the solution development in future?
• What were the roles and importance of: a single visionary social entrepreneur; a
network or constellation of people; availability of money; creation of an institution that
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could stand independent of a single visionary leader
Economic sustainability
(500 characters)
Few sentences on how the solution economically works:
• Who pays for what and how? Which are the costs for the user and for the different
actors of the value constellation?
• Who is paid for what and how?
• How was each development stage funded? What returns, if any, did funders get?
Organisation
(max 500 characters)
• Organisational structure, form, etc
• Number of people involved, functions?
• Was there adequate organisational capacity to spread the idea? How diffused is it? On
which scale (very local, national, international)? How people come to know about it?
• What are the solution elements/components: products, artefacts, physical spaces,
tools and equipments; services such as meetings, training seminars and other events;
technologies such as ICT (ex. a website), mechanical or electronic technologies
Sustainable lifestyle
(500 characters)
• Why this case can be considered as an example or an anticipation of a sustainable
lifestyle?
• How doest it help to reduce environmental impact? How does-it regenerate social
fabric? What are the benefits for the participants? For their surroundings? For the all
society?
• Why is it a promising steps toward socially and environmentally sustainable ways of
living?
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Part 2: communication and visualization
A visual description of the case
During the visit of the case, a complete photo-reportage should be made in order to
constitute a creative and suggestive visual description of the overall mood of the case. It
consists of a few images describing the solution by depicting the places, the persons, the
artefacts of the solution, the interaction among people, the environment and the overall
atmosphere, or “mood”.
• Downsize the selected images at 800x600 pixels, RVB and save them in .jpg
format quality 8. Place the images obtained on the Powerpoint template
(called “visualization template” see model) one image per slide, full slide;
• fill in the text box a short caption describing each slide and running from one
slide to the other (maximum 120 character per caption)
• send your Powerpoint to desis.brazil@gmail.com.
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