Shows
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagCatherine Nicholson | The Agency - Support young people to make positive change in their communitiesThe Agency in UK supports and empowers young people to make positive change in their communities through social enterprises. For my very first interview of this Changemaker Tour, I made a visit to The Agency offices in London, located in the Battersea Arts Centre, and i asked questions to the young people, producer and leaders part of this organization. In this episode, Catherine Nicholson, the producer of The Agency in Battersea, told me the story of this organization and how it works in detail.
2020-06-3035 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagDulcie Usher - With the Agency, sheโs taking young women at risk on retreatsThe Agency in UK supports and empowers young people to make positive change in their communities through social enterprises. For my very first interview of this Changemaker Tour, I made a visit to The Agency offices in London, located in the Battersea Arts Centre, and i asked questions to the young people, producer and leaders part of this organization. In this episode, youโll listen the story of Dulcie Usher, sheโs 22 years old and sheโs part of the Cycle 2 of The Agency. Her project ? Sheโs leading Horizon Retreats, a programme taking young women at risk on retreats to broad...
2020-06-3012 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagPrince - With The Agency, heโs leading a community album created with young talentThe Agency in UK supports and empowers young people to make positive change in their communities through social enterprises. For my very first interview of this Changemaker Tour, I made a visit to The Agency offices in London, located in the Battersea Arts Centre, and i asked questions to the young people, producer and leaders part of this organization. In this episode, youโll listen the story of Prince, heโs 24 years old and heโs part of the Cycle 2 of The Agency. His project ? Heโs leading ViZION, a community album created with young talent from across Wandsworth, in the sout...
2020-06-3005 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagMikhi - Heโs 16 and he received a micro-grant from The Agency to pursue his passion for photographyThe Agency in UK supports and empowers young people to make positive change in their communities through social enterprises. For my very first interview of this Changemaker Tour, I made a visit to The Agency offices in London, located in the Battersea Arts Centre, and i asked questions to the young people, producer and leaders part of this organization. In this episode, i met Mikhi, heโs 16 and he joined The Agency this year. He received a micro-grant to pursue his passion for photography and be a documenter for the different projects.
2020-06-3009 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagSydney - She created a skin care line that uses only natural ingredients with The AgencyThe Agency in UK supports and empowers young people to make positive change in their communities through social enterprises. For my very first interview of this Changemaker Tour, I made a visit to The Agency offices in London, located in the Battersea Arts Centre, and i asked questions to the young people, producer and leaders part of this organization. In this episode, youโll listen the story of Sydney, she did The Agency six years ago and her project was โSydney naturalโ which was a skin care line that uses only natural ingredients. Sheโs now a mentor for the project...
2020-06-3004 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagKay Rufai - Leader artist for The Agency in the Battersea Arts Centre (London)The Agency in UK supports and empowers young people to make positive change in their communities through social enterprises. For my very first interview of this Changemaker Tour, I made a visit to The Agency offices in London, located in the Battersea Arts Centre, and i asked questions to the young people, producer and leaders part of this organization. In this episode, youโll listen the story of Kay Rufai with the Agency in Battersea. Kay is a leader artist and supports the young people in their projects.
2020-06-3006 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaag(In French) Marie Dobenesque - Corporate ChangemakerMarie Dobenesque is a corporate changemaker, she tries to tackle the obsolete codes of hierarchical leadership in her enterprise with a group of 10 volunteers. Beside, she has started a side project called Corporate Game Changers (CGC) to help others to become corporate changemakers as well !
2020-06-3054 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagKim Zuiver - The Repair Cafe save tons of wasteI made a visit to the Repair Cafe De Meevaart located in the North-East part of Amsterdam. Inside, on the first three Wednesdays of the month and the last Saturday of the month, volunteers of all ages and all nationalities organize repair sessions for objects such as vacuum cleaners and maaany coffee machines. This, in order to avoid people buying them back unnecessarily and save tons of waste. I had a very interesting discussion on many different points with Kim, the leader of the place, the mother as she is called here. Martine Postma who created the very first Repair...
2020-06-3016 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagAnnabella Rijksen | Block-E - Pay your coffee with clean energySheโs only 22 and sheโs already a sustainable young leader in Holland. Annabella Rijksen was running Block-E, with its team in 2018-2019, as an experimentation in the field of Clean Energy. Block-E is a little powerbank, that looks like as a wallet and that can be charged while cycling. From there, energy can be transferred via a Dock: a payment system which allows us make transactions with the green currency generated.
2020-06-3031 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagNiek Oldenburg | WeFuture - Protecting the earth through a sustainable digital platformI Amsterdam, I talked with Niek Oldenburg, the co-founder of We Future, a team of dedicated change-makers from all over the world. They are developing a sustainable digital platform that will promote, educate and connect people in order to provide assistance to the conservation and protection of the earth and all living organisms.
2020-06-3018 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagMarjan De Blok | Schoonschip - The most sustainable floating village in EuropeI wanted so bad to see this sustainable floating village called Schoonschip (105 inhabitants, 46 houseolds, 30 floating plots, 500 solar panels...) from my own eyes. Meeting for 2 hours in the North of Amsterdam its co-founder Marjan De Blok who has worked on this project for 12 years of her life in partnership especially with the inhabitants was incredible. I even had the chance to visit her floating house. As a television producer, Marjan De Blok started from scratch in 2008 when she first started to work on what will become the most sustainable floating village in Europe twelve years later, in January 2020. She shows us...
2020-06-2941 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagRajiv Raj Jagasia - Fighting textile pollution with KlothbergRajiv Raj Jagasia is a real changemaker with great values trying to tackle the problem of textile pollution. He took 3 years to think about his concept : KLOTHBERG. With his wife by his side as co-founder, theyโre working with ethical factories in India to make happen the ideas of their community of fashion ethical designers and bring conscious and ecological friendly products to wholesale business platform.
2020-06-2932 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagKolja Kugler - Creator of a robot band made entirely from scrap metalsKolja Kugler is the kind of artist you donโt often meet in your life. With its robot band, the One love Machine Band, made entirely from his own hands using scrap metals found in scrapyard, he performs music shows all over the world and proves to us how imagination and creativity is an endless world that can really help as well the planet. Meeting him on the Wild Waste Gallery site, a super creative alternative place in Prenzlauer Berg, where he is working with other groups of artists, opened my eyes to a parallel and magical world where imagination re...
2020-06-2941 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagLuise Beier - A first job opportunity for young people and refugees in the Breakout Cafe in BerlinLuise Beier is the co-founder of the Breakout Cafeฬ, itโs a social cafeฬ trying to have an impact on its local community in Kreuzberg, in Berlin. It offers a first job opportunity for young people and refugees. But more than that, it tries to give them confidence, a passion, a reason to grow in their daily life.
2020-06-2948 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagSimon Thies - Cleaning air in urban cities with the City TreeIn Berlin, i met Simon Thies. He is part of the management team of Green City Solutions, the initiators of the City Tree. We talked for one hour about his story and this innovation that cleans air in urban cities in combination of engineering, irrigation, moss and IOT.
2020-06-2940 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagHouse of One - A synagogue, a church and a mosquee in the same building in BerlinA new place of worship called House Of One in Berlin will allow people of different faith to pray side by side in about 4 years. This interreligious project founded by Christians, Muslims and Jewish aims to build a building that will be at the same time a synagogue, a church and a mosquee. I had the chance to talk with representatives of the 3 communities involved in this unique project : Frithjof Timm, for the Christian Community, Esther Hirsch, for the Jewish Community and Osman Oฬrs for the Muslim Community. They told me about their wish to bring people together into d...
2020-06-2907 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagLuise and Anny - They help people finding out their true potential with the Mindful MovementLuise and Anny are two inspiring and passionate young womens. With their movement, the Mindful Movement, theyโre trying to help people finding out their true potential and creating meaningful lives and work through mindfulness, self-discovery and social entrepreneurship education.
2020-06-2939 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagPeter Just | Hubbster - Connecting people in public spaces through gamesIn Copenhagen, i met Peter Just, the founder and CEO of Hubbster, in his offices near Christiana. With his team and his partners in the world, he wants to tackle the problem of the "connected loneliness", it means that people can be physically isolated due to the spread of digital technology. As a solution, Hubbster tries to connect people of all ages, and develop their creativity, in public spaces thanks to connected little boxes or "hubs" full of 20 different games (like Petanque, Ping Pong, Beach Volley, Street Basketball, Football, Pole Tennis, Kubb, or Moฬllky). Our talk was really inspiring, w...
2020-06-2950 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagCamilla Ibsen - Fighting stereotypes with The Human LibraryThe Human Library or ยซย Menneskebiblioteketย ยป is an international organization and movement created in Copenhagen in 2000 by Ronni Abergel and his brother Dany and colleagues Asma Mouna and Christoffer Erichsen. This concept is about offering people as books, a sort of human books. Books have titles that aim to represent a stigmatized or stereotyped group of people in the community. As Camilla Ibsen, the national events coordinator in Denmark for the Human Library told me, adults, students can chat, during private or public events, for the first time with people they would never have met in their daily lives.
2020-06-2947 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagMy Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaag (Trailer)
2020-06-2900 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagOslo Soup - A micro-funding foodie event in Oslo to help local community projectsOslo Soup is a micro-funding foodie experience. The Oslo Soup team : Tara, Nikkie, Margot, Lucy and Leeanne organize 3 events a year for which they try to reach local community projects in Oslo and help to fund them in small ways that can make their community idea really happen. People coming at these events make a donation (Oslo Soup recommend 50 Nok), listen to 4 people pitch their community idea and can vote for the project they would like to support, they also get soup, bread, cake...At the end of the evening, the project with the most votes gets the collected donations.
2020-06-2943 min
My Changemaker Tour in Northern Europe ๐| Season 2 @mediajaagElin Fjellvang - A community garden in Oslo to learn and share in the community spirit !Interview with Elin Fjellvang who is part of a gardening project in Oslo called ยซย Voksenenga Nรฆrmiljรธhageย ยป. Itโs a community garden that focuses on growing organic vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits and berries. During the spring, summer and fall, young and old come together, as part of workshops and social activities, to learn, build and share in the community spirit.
2020-06-2926 min