The VSA will present the awarenet programme at this year’s Online Educa Conference in Berlin (28.-30.11.12). The title of the Talking Heads Session is “awarenet: Educating Socially Responsible, Collaborative Minds” (29.11.12 at 2.30pm in room Potsdam III). Come if you are skeptical about social media in the classroom, but enthusiastic about cultural exchange. Try awarenet‘s Read more about VSA and awarenet at Online Educa Berlin[…]
iq consult offers a mentoring programme “Initiative MENT” for social entrepreneurs and small and medium sized companies. They promise a win-win situation, in which social entrepreneurs will profit from SMBs’ market experience while SMBs will enhance their corporate social responsibility. We have now applied after a very informative and promising meeting last week. We are Read more about VSA applied for the MENT Programme[…]
The VSA was invited to a panel discussion about “Business cooperation and digital Operation – Must-Haves for successful social entrepreneurs?!” On the panel were Dr. Hartmut Kopf, Head of the World Vision Institute For Research and Innovation, Carolin Silbernagl, Chairperson und Founder Member of dotHIV, Nadine Schön, MP, Norbert Kunz, CEO of iq consult, and Read more about VSA at telefonica’s Panel Discussion about Social Entrepreneurship in Cooperation with Traditional Businesses[…]
Today, we have received a wonderful letter from one of “our” schools, CM Vellem Higher Primary School. This school has used awarenet for more than two years regularly and in a passionate way. They have committed teachers and an open policy, the learners are kind and polite and very, very motivated to learn and reach Read more about Positive feed-back for awarenet: We do make a Difference![…]
The VSA has received a generous donation by an overseas member to produce another 100 awarenet Peace Song Collection CDs. This means that every participant in the awarenet Peace Song Project will receive their own copy, and the rest can be used for advertising our programme and hopefully to attract more funding to repeat the Read more about A generous donation leads to an official awarenet CD release party![…]
awarenet coordinators and learners were invited and attended a special AIDS Day together, which was hosted by Rhodes University (30/10/12) under the theme “Getting to Zero”. It included a special address by Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron on the topic “Four big issues in AIDS: prevention, testing, treatment and stigma – a Judge’s personal perspective” and Read more about AIDS online, offline and by UBOM! for awarenet[…]
The VSA went to one of the famous SenseDrinks by MakeSense on Tuesday 13/11/12 at Cafe Conde In Berlin. MakeSense connects Social Entrepreneurs with “supercool individuals” ready to take up their challenges online and offline through specifically designed workshops also called MakeSense Hold-ups. “A hold-up is a 1h30 creativity workshop which gathers 15 persons maximum Read more about VSA at MakeSense[…]
Three blazers to be worn at choir were handed over yesterday (13/11/12) to three grade 8 learners from CM Vellem Higher Primary School in Grahamstown. This donation was made by the VG High School Representative Council of Learners, and the money was raised during a third term market day. CM Vellem learners are very active Read more about VG High School learners raise funds for CM Vellem HPS learners’ Choir Blazers[…]
Do you have any idea what this is? This is a cootie-catcher. Our new playful promotion for awarenet – made by Vega Design School in Cape Town. Visit us at the Talking Heads Session at Online Educa Berlin (29/11/12, 2.30-4.30pm) and find out more about how awarenet is educating socially responsible, collaborative minds… and what Read more about awarenet promotion by Vega Design School[…]
Vega’s new branding strategy for awarenet also includes a new logo and tagline, which I am going to present here today: Here is some background to the smallfry team’s ideas: The logo is 75% visual and 25% words. Simple icons make it easy to understand what the brand is about. Colourful icons represent the playfulness Read more about The new awarenet logo[…]