The whole April in Moscow will work “art incubator” -an open laboratory connecting art and technology, where artists participate in solving social problems. The theme for the laboratory will be the physical and information inclusion of people with various forms of disability. Invited artists will work with local artists, designers, sociologists, teachers, members of local communities and specialists to use modern art tactics to solve the problem.

Every year, partners of the International Social Advertising Festival LIME establish special nominations devoted to the most urgent problems. This year, representatives of the Fudstering movement and the Charity Fund “Center for the Renaissance of the Cultural Heritage of Krokhino” will choose the best works. Do you know that food waste accounts for more than 40% of the garbage on landfills? Or maybe you wondered how many products restaurants and supermarkets are thrown daily?

At the hackathon of social IT projects SSH: Voronezh was Dmitry Podnorov , head of the company Manufactory It Production & Graphic Design . The expert spoke about the steps that need to go through the teams on Hakaton in order to most effectively use the time of the event and successfully present their jury project. Dmitry allocated five main steps for the participants of Hakaton Once again, read the task of the organizers and criteria for evaluating projects.

On March 9, 2017, in Irkutsk, Mitap of the greenhouses of social technologies “How to create a corporate identity for your organization” took place. The expert of the meeting Igor Martynenko , designer of the Yozh studio, spoke about the creation of a corporate identity for NPOs. “On average, a person sees about 30 logos in a day.

Imagine that NPO experts are able to predict how many donations will be in the organization’s account in a few months or in a year. They also know what actions influenced the “bursts” of the receipts, for example, in the spring, and, moreover, understand what needs to be done to call them again. You can get such information from the future now, thanks to machine learning algorithms.

Mikhail Aksenov , co -chair of the Voronezh branch of the public organization City and Transport , spoke about successful examples of urban activism in Voronezh. Mikhail showed that, together with activists and citizens, changes can be achieved in the city. With the help of research and petitions on Change.org, it became possible to achieve the installation of a traffic light on a lively street and show the need to transfer one of the stops of public transport.

To learn about the environmental problems of the Nizhny Novgorod region and become part of the city community of environmentally responsible citizens will help the new website of the Public Movement “Ecological Center“ Dront ” , one of the oldest groups of environmentalists in Russia. The opening of a new site is dedicated to an hour of land, an environmental action held on March 25, 2017. On the site you can learn about the work of the ecocenter "Dront", its history, and the main projects.