Während US-amerikanische Tech-Giganten und ihre Plattformen zunehmend politischen Einfluss nehmen, formiert sich in Europa eine bemerkenswerte Gegenbewegung. Mit „The European Social Stack“ haben sich führende Akteure des offenen Webs – darunter Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube und viele mehr – zu einer gemeinsamen Erklärung zusammengefunden.

https://infodienst-makeit.social/europas-antwort-auf-big-tech-the-european-social-stack/

#Digitalisierung #Vernetzung #Nachhaltigkeit #Zivilgesellschaft #Europa #DigitaleTeilhabe #SozialeInnovation #SocialInnovation

Cigarette butts for free food? How one group is asking people to rethink litter

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/28/wastebar-cigarette-butts-waste-free-food-netherlands

#Environment #Waste #SocialInnovation

Too often, young people are invited to participate only after the system has already been built.

Real youth-led change begins when they can reshape the rules, not just comment on them.

Peace is not something we ask the next generation to inherit.

It is something they should be allowed to redesign.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/peace-but-make-it-systemic-a-blueprint-161?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#PeaceEducation #YouthLedChange #CivicEducation #SystemsThinking #DemocracyEducation #CivicIntelligence #YouthParticipation #EmpathyInAction #SocialInnovation #REDefine

So often, women’s safety is framed as personal responsibility: be careful, stay alert, don’t go alone.

But CindyUp asks a better question: why do we keep asking women to adapt to unsafe environments instead of redesigning the environments themselves?

Innovation can be care. Sometimes, it glows under UV light.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/designing-safety-how-five-students-761?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#CivicInnovation #WomenSafety #DesignJustice #Youth #SocialInnovation #STEM #CivicIntelligence #Women #Womenempowerment

Do the places where we live and work have enough infrastructure for sustainable entrepreneurship — not just funding and desks, but trust, mentorship, belonging, and room to prototype?

Casa do Impacto made that question feel urgent.

Democracy needs places where better futures can be rehearsed.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/casa-do-impacto-where-change-has?r=6l8ed8

#CivicIntelligence #SocialInnovation #SustainableEntrepreneurship #Democracy #CivicInnovation #Youth4Peace #Lisbon #ImpactEntrepreneurship

They are five young women who refused to accept that safety is a privilege.

CindyUp began as a school project about drink spiking.

But the deeper story is about young people turning fear into design, silence into public language, and “be careful” into “why is this still acceptable?”

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/designing-safety-how-five-students?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#CindyUp #YouthInnovation #DrinkSpikingAwareness #GenderSafety #YouthAgency #SocialInnovation #WomenInSTEM #EntrepreneurshipEducation #SafetyByDesign

You start noticing it once you see it.

Not just in kitchens, but everywhere: the gap between contribution and recognition. Between what sustains a system, and what gets named as valuable.

And once you see it, it becomes harder to ignore how much of the world still runs on invisible hands.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/more-than-food-how-we-cheffes-is-696?r=6l8ed8

#InvisibleLabour
#WomensWork
#SocialInnovation
#MigrationStories
#CareEconomy
#InclusionMatters
#SystemicChange
#Recognition
#EverydayPower

Some places make belonging feel effortless.

Everything is structured in a way that leaves no friction: paths are clear, rhythms are shared, nothing pushes you to the edges.

It looks natural from the outside.

But it’s not accidental.

It’s the result of systems designed well enough that people don’t have to fight to be part of them.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/the-civic-architecture-of-a-city-c69?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Education #Belonging #PublicSystems #SocialInnovation #LearningBeyondSchool #CivicDesign #Democracy #YouthEngagement #SystemsThinking

Manchester’s ‘dress rehearsal’ for life is getting homeless men back to work

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.optimistdaily.com/2026/04/manchesters-dress-rehearsal-for-life-is-getting-homeless-men-back-to-work/