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Sustainable fashion at Onnistamo 2011
By joining Onnistamo 2011 you will not only have the chance to talk about social change through entrepreneurship, but also take a look on how that can be translated into fashion.
Remake EkoDesign, a Finnish company founded in 2007, will display a sample of the innovative and ethic pieces you can find on their store before Saturday’s program ends. Come and check out a good example of how fashion, business, society and environment can walk hand in hand!
Welcome to Onnistamo 2011, Remake!
Lights, camera, action (and parking)!
Two important notes to share with participants of Onnistamo 2011!
The event will be filmed by White Herring Productions in order to provide a visual register of all the action that we will have there. If you do not feel comfortable in being filmed and/or photographed, please inform the staff when you arrive at the registration desk.
Moreover, if you are coming to the event by car and are worried about where to park, here follow our tips: for Friday’s agenda the nearest parking facilities to Botta are Forum-P and P-Eliel; during the weekend, Hanasaari has its own parking place.
Still insecure? Click here to access a full and comprehensible guide about parking in the Helsinki area.
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Tagged filming, parking, pysäköinti, recording, valokuvaus, video
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Meet our speakers | Moussa N’Diaye
Moussa is the founder of Rapatac, a not for profit Swedish organization that aims to prepare children for the future adult world. What Rapatac does is to build a strong relationship with the boys and girls. Rapatac gives the opportunity for children to enriching their spare time with a variety of activities such as sports, music, dance, technique etc at the same time as Rapatac provides support with schoolwork. In order to get the chance to participate in the activities the children must sign a contract with a few rules. One of them is to do their homework. Moussa finds joy in his work when he sees children grow as human beings. Particularly when children with low self esteem can grow and feel that they are proud of themselves. Giving up is not in Moussa’s vocabulary: he has been working with his dream for more than a decade and will continue until the Rapatac house is ready. After that he wants the Rapatac concept to be spread to other places.
Welcome to Onnistamo 2011, Moussa!
Meet our speakers | Ulf Karlsson
Ulf is an advisor at a Swedish organization named Coompanion, an enterprise that provides free-of-charge advice for new entrepreneurs to start and be successful together. He finds joy in his job by meeting different people with ideas, dreams and visions and by helping these groups to make their dreams come true. His skills are in group processes, legal aspects of economic associations, marketing and encouraging people to get started. He also has international experiences from teaching co-operative advisors in Thailand. Other international experiences are for example Freja Forum on the western Balkans which Ulf has participated in at four occasions, holding workshops there twice.
Welcome to Onnistamo 2011, Ulf!
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Tagged associations, Coompanion, cooperatives, Freja Forum, group processes, legal, marketing
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Meet our speakers | Anne & Jonathan Bland
As part of the “meet our speakers” series, today we’ll present you Jonathan & Anne Bland, from Social Business International.
Social Business International (SBI) is a consultancy that specialises in social enterprise and social innovation. Established in 2009 with offices in the UK and Finland, SBI has undertaken a series of consultancy assignments, reports, study visits and events to help share know-how and “next practice” about social enterprise across international boundaries.
Anne Bland is co-founder of SBI and Chief Executive of its Finnish operations. Trained as an educationalist and with experience in the co-operative movement, Anne leads SBI’s work on learning and knowledge transfer. Anne is an entrepreneur and has run her own businesses in Finland and abroad. She spent 10 years living the UK and has also lived in France and has extensive knowledge of different models of social enterprise.
Jonathan Bland is the founder and Chairman of SBI. For 12 years he led the development of the social enterprise agenda in the UK and was the founding CEO of the Social Enterprise Coalition and prior to that Social Enterprise London. He has extensive international knowledge of social enterprise and spent 5 years in Spain as European Development Manager for FVECTA the Valencian of Worker Co-operatives. Jonathan advises national governments and other bodies on different aspects of social enterprise policy and practice.
Welcome to Onnistamo 2011, Anne & Jonathan!
Common flow/elements of an Unconference
Saturday:
Doors open, early birds arrive for some coffee/tea and networking.
The event opens normally with some welcome words and an explanation of how the days timetable along with a short explanation on how this event will work.
The grid opens, sessions posted by people who have prepared something. This is a short (often *very* intense) burst of activity around the board.
The Grid before sessions started to get added
Once the inital session posting has happened (some people will be inspired by other peoples sessions and so will add to the grid), the organisers will do a quick “sanity” check to try to “smooth” out the entries in the grid. The purpose of this is to prevent two sessions on similar topics at the same time, or combine smaller similar sessions. This can also be done by the attendees themselves (remember the more that the attendees contribute the better the day will be).
For many first timers this inital burst of activity can be scary and it sounds like it won’t work, but everytime, things sort themselves out.
Filled grid. Took 30 minutes to go from empty to full
The first session starts.
Most sessions will follow the same simple session flow: intro round (3 word introductions, stangest place you have eaten food etc), session plan/purpose, then session content, and some sort of wrap up. If you would like help to start and wrap up the session let the organisers know.
Sessions are scheduled to be 45 minutes, but there is a 15 minute break after each “slot” and sessions can run into this if really needed.
You can of course book multiple sessions in the same room if your workshop needs more time, but most sessions will start to circle back or dive into detail after 30-40 minutes, and so reach a natural conclusion.
At Onnistamo there will be a lunch break (some conferences just provide lighter food throughout the day, to allow an extra session).
At the end of the Saturday, there will be a short wrap-up session.
Sunday will follow a similar pattern to Saturday, but the intro will be shorter, and the werap-up longer.
Fow those that need it, there is “kahvi ja pulla” to help bring you down gently before you head home.
Meet our speakers | Jess Tyrrell
From now on we will regularly post short bios from some of the guest speakers that will give Onnistamo 2011 a special brightness. We’ll start today with Jess Tyrrell.
Jess is director of a British organization named Germination, a pro-social production company that runs communications campaigns for causes. She finds joy in her job by engaging people in issues that matter beyond our own self-interest, and lifting the apathy that often stops us trying to make the world a better place. Her skills are in event and film production, and increasingly running campaigns online, as more and more online networks are being used to drive campaigns and social media to link and mobilise people around events.
Welcome to Onnistamo 2011, Jess!