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WOMEN FOUNDERS OF IMPACT STARTUPS Article by Siôn Lawrence-Geschwindt , Managing Editor of Impact Loop Across Europe, thousands of female founders are building and leading startups that could transform entire industries. Impact Loop has profiled ten female founders who are deploying cutting-edge science and technology to fix very tricky problems – from mental health and climate change, to the plastic crisis. All of these women leaders have raised fresh capital with the last few weeks – and...

Impact Morning: "Impact investing cannot be done without real ESG" Blog by the "Business Model Innovation project team": Markus Ressl , Ressolutions GmbH  (Austria) Frank Jungmann , Starkmacher Impact GmbH  (Germany) Dr. Tibor Héjj , PMC (Hungary) Jean-Marc Ziade , Stichting Mariapoli Marienkroon (Netherlands) How can companies deeply embed environmental and social responsibility (ESG) into their business models? We offer an insight into our Erasmus+ project and demonstrate how we are...

BLOG SERIES by Erzsébet Ábrám Caring is costly, but so is waiting. This is my journey of opting out of “impact later.” Impact is a long game, one that requires patience. But younger generations don’t really have the luxury to wait anymore. Many of us start our careers with a quietly inherited assumption: impact is something that comes after , once the “real” life is already in place. It’s a comforting story, but it doesn’t match the pace or scale of what we’re living through. We grew up...