Past Challenge winners – where are they now?
See how 5 winners of WDCD Challenges continue to grow their impact today
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Challenge winners are actually helping refugees
On World Refugee Day an update on the WDCD Refugee Challenge finalists
Em três semanas começaremos o primeiro agrishelter!
Projeto aperfeiçoado de abrigo de emergência sustentável está pronto para ser implementado
E OS VENCEDORES SÃO…
Veja os 5 finalistas do WDCD Refugee Challenge
‘In three weeks we start building the first real AGRIshelter’
Improved design of sustainable emergency shelter now ready for implementation
‘We are on track to become a healthy social enterprise’
The WDCD Refugee Challenge update 2: Makers Unite
‘The current immigration system is entirely obsolete’
The WDCD Refugee Challenge update 1: The Welcome Card
Makers Unite starts crowdfunding campaign
Organization in support of creative refugees wants to become a social enterprise in Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum exhibits design for refugees
Cucula team with chairs produced in the Berlin based workshopWDCD attendants can opt for a Breakfast & Guided Exhibition Tour on 24 May
Life-vests turned into refugee support flags
Makers Unite and Refugee Nation join forces to create both jobs and awareness for refugees
‘The Refugee Challenge has been a very uplifting experience’
Demo Day: Five finalists of WDCD Refugee Challenge showed how far they have come so far
Syrian refugee helps the poor in Amsterdam
Young Syrian programmer designs website with all available offers for people in need
‘To build with straw bales you need a wooden structural frame’
Young engineers of Arup joined the WDCD Refugee Challenge to make AGRIshelter reality
INSPIRATIONAL FIGURES AT THE WDCD REFUGEE CHALLENGE GRAND FINALE
The programme on 7 March will include talks by humanitarian experts Goof van Dormolen and Willemijn Verloop
Alternatives for an alternative platform
How a detour will help WDCD Refugee Challenge finalist Reframe Refugees to reach its goal
A nice meeting over chorba and guima
WDCD Refugee Challenge finalist Eat & Meet experienced the first test dinner in Paris
WDCD Refugee Challenge showcased in Taipei
Refugee Challenge exhibition and WDCD goodies part of 100 Years of Dutch Design exhibition in Taiwan Design Museum
Better Shelter selected Design of the Year
Design Museum London awards top prize to IKEA Foundation’s improved shelter
Makers Unite explores expanding to food production
In collaboration with IKEA's Space10 Makers Unite investigates sustainable food production in Social Living Labs
A card that tells refugees everything they want to know
The Welcome Card team has come a long way since the initial concept entered for the WDCD Refugee Challenge
WDCD Refugee Challenge works towards grand finale
Five finalist teams will present their business plans on 7 March in Amsterdam
A forgotten story of cruelty against refugees
Australia deports refugees to quasi-prisons with no view on future
‘Colombia has a huge refugee issue too’
WDCD SP speaker Jan Rothuizen tells about his new project, a soft atlas of Colombia
Meeting place for newcomers and locals opens doors
De Voorkamer stimulates talents of refugees and facilitates acquaintance with locals