Our learnings so far_Ursel: How money comes into play

The lady from Democaris in Berlin is financing her project mainly through fundraising and via Ashoka. Of course she asks as well money from the schools, her clients. But they often don´t want to pay, because how do you price things like: "get more connected to each other", "create a safe learning environment", "find inspiration" and other non-material values? They are definitely valuable and our society is build in a way that all things that are deemed to have value cost money. Or not? Family and friends have a big value to people, but they are fro free. Should non-material things that people create themselves through good interaction have a price in money? No, I don´t belive so. But the process that is necessary to guide them there is a service that deserves a payment, since the value that is created, is of value. Not necessarily a financial one, but a human one.

Our learnings so far_Ursel: What is social innovation?

Social innovation - big word. I never knew what to associate with it. What does it mean? Now I know more. It is actually a concept about which I had already thought, but never under this label. It is about "how do you bring social change about?" How to make small things big. How do you, as an individual, have to act, or to be, if you want to trigger social change? Of course no individual can change the world alone. The people around him/her have to pick it up and help it grow. So it is also a lot about leadership. And the time has to be right. Anyways: social innovation for me would be, to notice what the time is right for and then be able to live it in a way that makes others follow. Otherwise it does not grow big. Followers of course don´t have to copy the idea, whatever it is, but they have to cooperate and further build on it.
Don´t dream it...be it!

Our learnings so far_Joris

So here we are! Two days to go before we actually set off in our Mercedes Benz 508 Firetruck. More and more we are getting into roles. What i learned is that you need two things in order to make a movie:

a lot of positivity

not giving up

Today we went to LLink who is the ideal broadcasting company for us. They are involved in travelling and in all the good stuff that we are connected too. Unfortunately they have this magical piles of papers that we will dive into.. And as the new director I'd like to stop worrying about finance and practical issues. I want to focus on the content from now on!

So if there are people out there who could sponsor us.. every euro will no be waisted!

Our learnings so far

This is a huge learning. On so many levels. Group process-wise, project-wise, personally. Everybody will be taking different things out of it, and they will most probably play a part in the movie as well.

During the next time there will be some stories about learnings to be found here, so hang on there!