ProjectTogether gGmbH
Davos
The non-profit organization ProjectTogether from Berlin received the Schwab Foundation’s Collective Social Innovation Award 2023 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. As the first awardee in this category, the Schwab Foundation recognizes ProjectTogether for the effective coordination between bottom-up innovators and top-down institutions. At the award ceremony, founder Philipp von der Wippel explained the vision of a Europe-wide approach for collective action – across sectors and political levels – to tackle current and future societal challenges.
Global, complex and networked crises are occurring more and more frequently. Both states and societies are looking for a model for effective cross-sectoral cooperation. The non-profit organization ProjectTogether is tackling this challenge by building an architecture for European collective action. ProjectTogether has so far involved more than 100,000 people and 80 state institutions in 10 mission-oriented processes such as #WirVsVirus, Alliance4Ukraine, UpdateGermany, Farm-Food-Climate and Circular Futures. More than 2,000 social initiatives have been supported in scaling solutions to societal challenges.
Philipp von der Wippel, ProjectTogether founder:
“We all know that the existential challenges we face can only be solved together. But our institutions do not reflect that. They are not designed to coordinate collective action. We must make collective action part of our democratic rulebook. Imagine a process in which thousands of organizations and individuals come together and address societal challenges, build trust, share resources and band together in collectives where they make a bigger difference than they ever could individually. This is not daydreaming, this is what we do at ProjectTogether. (…) Let’s make use of the greatest asset we have in our democracy: the power of the people!”
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Johannes Toedte
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www.projecttogether.org
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