10XImpact

Climate change, geopolitical crises and the pandemic – the last few years have been rich in challenges for Germany, Europe and the world. But challenges are always also opportunities; opportunities to create a future that works sustainably better than current systems. It is our task to prepare tomorrow’s movers and shakers to take on these challenges. Because as Albert Einstein said, “You can never solve problems with the same mindset that created them.” A new EU project is promoting a new way of thinking by bringing together STEM, business and the highly required “future skills”.

Stakeholders from around the value chain come together to reinvent plastic as an asset that is owned and tracked. Instead of being sold, disgarded and arduously recovered, plastic should be a token of value. The goal of this initiative is to create a system of multi-lateral contracts, like a trading platform which incentivises deposit schemes and economically viable synergies. Early members of PlasTrade benefit from fast, agile, goal-oriented action that no one could achieve alone. They will be the fortrunners in this new market, sustainability pioneers, and the beneficiaries of its economic advantage.

The ScienceX platform is the toolbox to collaborate everywhere, inside and outside of academia, even connecting laboratories across societies and to external resources, funding opportunities and corporates. It integrates cutting-edge technology, with a reliable legal frame-work, networking activity in the scientific community, and your everyday digital tools like lab books or shared documents, all while aiming to revolutionise publishing and funding.

Regenerative Reboot is a project that seeks to achieve an ecological, social and systemic transformation within various territories (bio-regions). The project is about integrating and aligning the strategy and impact of the organisations that live or operate in these bio-regions and moving them towards regeneration.

In order to scale renewable energy schemes to a competitive size and price, multiple stakeholders from industry, production, regulation and society have to act together. By building an ecosystem platform, a consortium of industry thought leaders, financers, experts from research and economy, NGOs, and policy makers creates the conditions, tools, network and lobby to incubate projects from idea to scaling.

In response to an emergent necessity for a life-affirming, symbiotic collaboration between politics, economy, science and the civic society, we create a Chamber of Purpose (CoP) in addition to the established Chambers of Commerce. The CoP connects stakeholders committed to act responsibly and design legal and economic standards that benefit the environment and all life. Pioneering a climate law in Germany together with GermanZero since 2019, the goal is to scale the initiative in Europe.