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Impactory & Sportunity at PaperJam Business Club 10×6 Startup

2 June, 2014 in news

PaperJam Business Club host a evening event on May 28th invited 10 startups to share with experiences about their projects and Luxembourg’s startup environment. Per-Fredrik represented Impactory, a network of creativity, workspace and place to provide opportunities to entrepreneurs to work together and build projects.

Irina Aleksandrova, a Impactory member presented her project “Sportunity‘ a platform promoting sports talent in developing countries, who do not have access to necessary funds and infrastructure. She is also one of the three finalists of Creative Young Entrepreneur Luxembourg, organized by Young Economic Chamber.

http://www.paperjam.lu/article/fr/entrepreneurs-d-aujourd-hui-succes-de-demain

1st Rails Girls Luxembourg was successful!

21 May, 2014 in news, The Impactory

1st Rails Girls Luxembourg was successful!

A fun and friendly event above all!

 

The 1st Rails Girls edition took place last week on Friday evening and Saturday in Luxembourg at the Impactory, a co-working place and business incubator at the heart of the city. Rails Girls was born in Finland in 2012, and already took place in more than 100 cities worldwide. The aim is to allow women to learn how to create websites and web applications.

The event gathered about 40 women (from 15 to 59), and 14 volunteer coaches (5 women & 9 men), passionate programmers, who were there to share their knowledge in programming.

The workshop was organised by Marina THIRIET from The Impactory and Claudine Kariger from Service des médias & communications, sponsor of the workshop.

During the weekend, the coaches made an analogy between cooking and programming, which allowed the attendees to better understand the ‘recipe’ to create an app.

 

Creating an app only in few hours!

Far from being a formal training, a variety of activities were offered to the participants with presentations and practical activities. The participants were able to try programming with simple exercises and then later create a web app at their own pace.

The workshop was available in Luxembourgish, English and French. The attendees, beginners and advanced programmers, were introduced to Ruby, an open source computer language created in 2004 which has become very popular supported by a  large community.

 

The attendees were also there to meet new people and see the event as a networking opportunity: ‘I’ve got a great app idea, but I don’t know how to create it’ or ‘I’m working within an IT team, I’m the only girl and I would like to communicate better with my colleagues”

 

‘I am very impressed with the active role that the Luxembourgish Government is taking towards encouraging the female population to broaden their technical horizons. So much lasting goodwill and cohesion came to life during such a short frame of time.

Learning programming has always been on my list of things I would like to learn and it couldn’t have happened at a better time or better place.

If you care to read a brief blog post about the Rails Girls Workshop, I invite you to consult the latest posting on my blog : yvonnekoechig.com
’ – said Yvonne.

 

Happy attendees and new events are likely to happen

Some women already planned to meet each other again, in order to continue working on projects and learn further. Several coaches, who met each other during the event,  got along very well and are now planning to offer new activities to raise awareness of IT for the public: they will of course be welcomed at The Impactory!

We received 80 applications, had to choose the 40 women and selected the most highly motivated.

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Impactory at EIB Social Platform Fourth Meeting

15 May, 2014 in news

The Impactory @ EIB Fourth meeting of the Social Platform

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Hedda Pahlson-Moller, presented The Impactory on fourth meeting of the Social Platform on Thursday 15 May, 2014.
Ms Pahlson-Moller described The Impactory as a “laboratory for innovation and a factory for impact.” In practical terms.

The meeting was chaired by Robert Wagener, chairperson of the Social Platform, and Luisa Ferreira, Head of the Social Programme at the EIB institute.

https://institute.eib.org/programmes/social/social-platform/fourth-meeting-of-the-social-platform/

Impactory & Rails Girls @ Radio 100.7

14 May, 2014 in news, The Impactory

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Marina Thiriet, project manager at Impactory was at Radio 100.7 at 7.30 this morning to talk about first Rails Girls upcoming event in Luxembourg on May 16 & May 17, 2014.
Visit http://railsgirls.com/luxembourg for more information & registration for the event.

Marina in Malta for “Promoting the culture of entrepreneurship” training

11 May, 2014 in news, The Impactory

At the beginning of April I attended a training called ” Promoting entrepreneurship” at Foundation for Women Entrepreneurs in Malta. This training was funded as part of the European Grundtvig program, now Erasmus +.

I was very interesting to learn more about Malta which I visited for the first time. Malta, an island, is located between Sicilia & the North Africa coast, is also one of the smalest country and densely populated country in the World. Malta joined the European Union just 10 years ago and has two official languages, Maltese and English, both widely spoken.

First of all, do you know the common point between Malta and Luxembourg?
The 2 countries are one of the smallest state of the EU member states with 400 000 (for Malta) and 500 000 inhabitants (Luxembourg).

I choose the Foundation for Women Entrepreneurs in Malta to follow a training on ” How to promote the culture of entrepreneurship” which seems very interesting & relevant do what we do here at the Impactory. The 5-day training focused on introducing entrepreneurship as a way of life, sharing of success stories and visits to real life projects and organisations that assist start-ups & SMEs

I was welcomed by MaryRose who is the Executive manager for the foundation and used to be an entrepreneur and started to work for the Foundation 11 years ago supporting other women in entrepreneurship and taking part in great projects accross the EU.

Even if the course was not solely focused on Women entrepreneurship, the gender subject was important for me. Indeed, I learned that being a Women and an entrepreneur is very uncommon in Malta. Even if very educated or in sucessful career, most of Maltese mums tend to to stay at home after the birth of their first child. As in Luxembourg and probably eveywhere else in the World, the Foundation notices that women lack of confidence and support, think they do not have the skills to start a business (event if they do) and often feel guilty to spend more time at work than at home with their family.

I also had the chance to visit one of the national Business incubator, Kordin Business Incubation Centre (KBIC), ran by Malta Enterprise, which host more than 10 young innovative companies. KBIC provides a cost-effective business environment, a professional image with managerial expertise geared to the needs of small business. The business incubated there are mainly in the field of Maritime, ITC & Biotech. The manager, Steve, explained that Malta welcome entrepreneurs from all over Europe. Entrepreneur may relocate to Malta to enjoy the sunny climate but also because Malta is the perfect EU State to do business with North Africa (Malta is only 600 km away from Tripoly) and The Middle East.

I also had the chance to meet the people at E-skills fondation and MITA (Malta Information Technology agency) and we discuss the opportunity to partner on a project on e-skills and coding, field we have been very active in at The Impactory. I was also pleased to meet with Matthew Gatt, chairman of the foundation & EU Code week ambassador for Malta (I am EU Code Week ambassador for Luxembourg since last year).

On my last day I had the pleasure to train with Angela the President of the Foundation. She introduced me to the possibility of EU fundings for education, SME and innovation. She also took me through Eramus + in details as well as Horizon 2020. I found this overview very interesting and I hope we will have the chance to get more involved at The Impactory in the future.

Finally, I was lucky to be able to visit the beautiful capital city of Valletta, Sliema & had the best business lunch in the superb ancient capital Mdina on the last day.

The training has been really beneficial in terms of learning how to promote the culture of entrepreneurship, exchanging experience, and discovering the culture and the context of a other European country. It was also a great opportunity to meet interesting people and generate new contacts for potential future projects.I certainly will be back in Malta and will keep in touch with the team at The Foundation. No doubt that this week has created a great connexion between The Impactory in Luxembourg & several new partners in Malta.

Marina THIRIET

The first Annual Report for the Impactory is out!

10 May, 2014 in news

It’s a great milestone to be able to look back at 2013 and what we have achieved in one short year. The team, sponsors, partners and most of all our members have made this happen. Please download and read our first annual report. See for yourself what you have been part of creating. Please share with pride!

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Workshop on Intellectual property is now reschedule on June 3rd

7 May, 2014 in news

Kindly note that the Intellectual property planned is rescheduled to June 3rd at 12:15. Kindly refer event link https://theimpactory.com/events/intellectual-property-impactory/
Thanks for your understanding!

Impactory hits the radio waves

2 May, 2014 in news

Impactory hits the radio waves!
HP-ARA Interview

Radio ARA (Natasha Liati-Jones ) has welcomed the Impactory to share its story and regular updates – the first interview kicked off with one of the co-founders, Hedda Pahlson-Moller .

She shared the story of the Impactory’s journey from the imagination of the members of the Entrepreneur Task Force of Luxembourg (ETFL) to a living space ‘For Entrepreneurs By Entrepreneurs,’ and has evolved into a community of creative people and projects with societal impact.
The interview highlights the value of connecting, sharing, and learning. Whether peer-to-peer workshops, access to experts and advisors, a community lunch or sharing an evening of music at the Jampactory, the Impactory was born to keep creative ideas alive and thriving. Social Impact is at the heart of the Impactory so Hedda discussed some of our social entrepreneurs (Mamie et Moi, Sportunity and Code Club) and of course Girls In Tech!

The Impactory is a celebration of diversity and co-creation buoyed by partnerships with the Luxembourg ecosystem for entrepreneurs and social innovation. A warm welcome to new friends that come to join us! Click here to listen the interview.

Don’t forget to listen the next Radio session on May 7th at 1pm with Marina Thiriet – Community and Project Manager at The Impactory.

Apéro Pitch with Belgian Brewery & Malinshopper is now postponed

24 April, 2014 in news

Kindly note that the Apéro Pitch planned for April 29th has been postponed.
The event will be rescheduled in May.
Thanks for your understanding!

Impactory mentoring institution for the EIB European Social Innovation Awards

23 April, 2014 in news, The Impactory

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Maria Luisa Ferreira Head of Social Program, EIB Institue mentioned Impactory as mentoring institute for EIB European Social Innovation Award

“Maria Luisa Ferreira: «Ce mentoring a été mis en place par Impactory, une asbl luxembourgeoise». (source: Paperjam 04.23.2014)”

Read the full article on http://www.paperjam.lu/questions/le-concours-cible-la-creation-de-valeur-sociale

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