Steps to find the best event space and event locations in Vienna
Choosing the right location for your event in Vienna can make all the difference. Vienna, with its fascinating past, cultural richness, and inspiring atmosphere, offers a wide range of stunning locations for your next event, whether it’s a corporate meeting, conference, seminar, workshop, or social event. How to pick the best event location in Vienna? […]
Exploring circular design: an inside look at ante up
Circular-designed objects are durable, reusable and reparable items that ultimately aim to generate zero waste. This viennesse-based studio offers product design services for furniture and home accessories. Founded in 2020, by Benedikt Stonawski and Hauke Unterburg, ante up has featured in Vienna Design Week, Design Month Graz, the Isola Design Week in Italy, and more. […]
Re:Wien Startup Success Story: Einzelstück
Einzelstück, founded by Astrid Aschenbrenner, gives textiles a second life by hand-embroidering. Oekobusiness Wien talked with this social enterprise and explored its impact on sustainability, and the vision that drives Astrid. What is Einzelstück? What does the company stand for? Einzelstück offers second-hand fashion hand-embroidered. Through my volunteer work in various clothing chambers in Vienna, […]
Sustainable and reusable packaging with Wilson Guide
The logistics industry deals daily with approximately 600 million euro pallets, all of which have to be secured to avoid transit and theft issues. Normally, this is done using single-use stretch film, contributing to the pressing global plastic waste problem. Wilson Guide offers an alternative that also contributes to solving the pressing global plastic waste […]
Impact Days: Where Courage meets Collaboration
On June 1-2, Impact Hub Vienna and Mercer hosted the 11th Impact Days, an annual conference for impact investors, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Along with inspiring keynotes and in-depth exchanges, participants raised critical questions about what has been accomplished so far and searched for new ideas and approaches to accelerate the transformation process towards a more […]
The Art of Learning Together: An Invitation for Impact Entrepreneurs
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on both businesses and individuals, presenting them with a range of multilayered challenges. These have included financial uncertainty, disrupted market dynamics, and the need to adapt to rapidly changing consumer behavior. As a result, many organizations and teams have responded in different ways, some struggling to survive, […]
Education and social impact in the time of COVID-19
We have been battling through this pandemic long enough to know precisely what the arguments behind the restrictions are and what effects we could end up facing if we do not stick to the current distancing measures: a healthcare system strained to the point of collapse and a string of ever-returning lockdowns bringing the national […]
Founder Spotlight: Philipp Etzlinger from uugot.it
What’s the future of language learning? Virtual reality, online classrooms, gamification, AI? While all of these exciting technological developments are happening, one cannot deny the effectiveness of watching TV with subtitles as one of the tools to learn a language. A Viennese start-up, uugot.it, decided to combine the TV approach with new technologies and developed […]
Let’s Talk Food Waste in Austria
Austrians throw away one-fifth of all food they buy (Source), of which 14.5% is avoidable or partly avoidable and amounts to 1 billion Euro per year (Source). Austrian consumers are responsible for almost half of the total waste, while agricultural production generates around 30 per cent of the total food waste. Farmers, manufacturers, retailers, and […]
How the Social Challenges Innovation Platform Matches Social Challenges with Innovative Solution Providers
How do small and medium-sized enterprises and social innovation fit together? Often referred to as the backbone of the European economy, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a focal point in shaping enterprise policy in the European Union. In 2015, SMEs represented 99 % of all enterprises in the EU! While social innovation has become […]
