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• How to manage my digital existence? Sustainable and independent IT
  4 February 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  Come to learn how to make IT work for you, as opposed to making you work for it!
  In this workshop we will go through:
  – The consequence of electronic waste and responsibly buying technology
  – The importance of footprint / data minimization when using online services
  – The alternatives to Internet giants’ services and your options (self-hosting / federation)
  This workshop is organized by Julien Da. It is happening at Tribe, Pinninkatu 47, Blue room, on Wednesday Feb 12th, 17-19

• Meet Eveliina Asikainen: Education and Sustainable Development
  17 February 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  This topic discussion is organized by the Sustainability and Impact Club of Tampere Universities with Y-Kampus and the Continuous Learning project.
  Meet Eveliina Asikainen, TAMK Sustainability Coordinator, this week at the Sustainability and Impact Club.
  She is in charge of Learning and Education and very engaged in sustainability since decades. She’ll share about negotiations skills since, as we all know, not everybody is convinced that climate change is an emergency and many people (…)

• The Sustainability and Impact Club is now on-line
  21 March 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  The students and participants of the Club hosted at Y-Kampus and funded by the Continuous Learning project in TAMK are happy to share their new on-line platform!!
  Here you can read about the creative first challenges taken by the students since January, learn more about our upcoming events and access soon a series of podcasts. Soon we’ll also release the results of the big sustainable and impact challenges tackled by the students of the 2d session.
  https://club.sustainabletampere.fi/en (…)

• Meet Siiri Enoranta, sustainable fantasy writer
  27 October 2019, by Eva Wissenz

  Siiri Enoranta is a young writer living in Tampere. She’s very concerned by the environment and passionate about sustainable changes. She’s a writer of fantasy books and received numerous prestigious awards, such as the Finlandia Junior prize last year. I invite you to discover her universe here.
  Why do you write fictions that are focused on sustainability, or where sustainability plays an important role? What’s the deep motivation? I never start writing a new novel with the intention of (…)

• Meeting with Anne Savitie, art motivated by community spirit
  26 July 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Keeping a creative mind and believing that beauty is indispensable to our lives is sometimes hard. That’s why artists are so important to remind us that there is much more, that it can be bigger than daily life and to walk us through new worlds they can imagine.
  Anne Savitie is a great artist based in Tampere. She’s very involved in visual arts, environmental art, performance and community art.
  Be curious, watch our conversation and discover what Anne has to share about art and (…)

• Meet Saana Raatikainen: Sustainability at the University
  17 February 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  This topic discussion is organized by the Sustainability and Impact Club of Tampere Universities with Y-Kampus and the Continuous Learning project.
  Saana Ratikainen has a great energy and you are warmly invited to join!
  She was Ecocampus project coordinator at the University of Tampere 2001-
  2006, Environmental coordinator at the University of Tampere 2006-2018 and Responsible for Campus Services in Facilities Management of Tampere University since 2019. She is also Chairman of the (…)

• Meeting with Antti Sorri: shouldn’t we think and chill more?
  28 September 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Antti Sorri is passionate about philosophy and music. Thinking things through and being close to art and to people are for him very important to contribute to a sustainable society.
  Antti is the producer of Sata-Häme Soi, the world’s larger accordion festival and the creator of Puisto Filosofia based in Ikaalinen. He’s also managing the culture in Ikaalinen with the City.
  Be curious, watch our conversation and discover what Antti has to share for your beautiful minds!
  More about (…)

• Meeting with Jenni Lahtonen: creativity is needed everywhere
  4 October 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  In 2012, a group of professionals from arts, culture and well-being decided to live their dream. It happened in Nokia, on Tehdassaari, an island situated 10min from the city. They found a factory of more than 2000m2 and started to renovate everything by themselves, with recycling material, everybody volunteering and being autonomous as much as possible. The strength of this project is clearly the strength of the shared dream and the participant’s energy. All together they created Tehdas 108, (…)

• The Circular Economy Club of Tampere opening event!
  20 July 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  Isn’t great?!
  "CEC Tampere is open to everyone interested in the transition to a circular economy. We’ll be the diverse community and platform to citizens, entrepreneurs, established companies, startups, students, academics and all others to discuss circular economy and help in solving challenges. Currently we’re planning the first events and getting organized.
  We believe that collaboration is the key to circular economy and Tampere has a very unique opportunity for that. Therefore, we (…)

• Meeting with Vilma Rimpelä: information for the future
  23 August 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  At any century, being young wasn’t easy but we now can see that on top of dealing with a "traditional" amount of essential questions, the youth has to deal with a huge series of new challenges of all kind.
  Will they make it faster than the previous generations? Will they grow with enough focus and creativity? Are they ready?
  When you check out Rare Media, the answer is yes. It’s a "journalistic media for the youth by the youth that creates unapologetic audiovisual content to social media (…)