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Innovation and Futures
IFRC’s Global Innovation Team promotes and develops strategies and tactics aimed at transforming business as usual. Our team works to localize a range of innovation and futures approaches ensuring that organizations and programs remain agile while cultivating an anticipatory mindset to meet the needs of vulnerable communities.
What We Do
Futures and Foresight
The Solferino Academy is a think tank and ‘do’ tank – that undertakes horizon scanning, trends analysis and futures exploration to help the Movement understand the future of vulnerability and risk and to develop strategies to enable change.
Innovative Finance
The global innovative finance team aims to unlock private capital and help further leverage public funding to mobilize various new sources of investment for public policy, social services and development goals, while at the same time realigning interests of various partners and creating new investment opportunities.
Local Innovation
The hype of technology has quieted initiatives driven by local people in local contexts. Therefore, we help Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies to surface their own local innovations and to find others in their communities and how to better support them.
Culture and capacity
Our single greatest asset is our people. In National Societies all around the world, we have talented individuals who are creative, entrepreneurial and who are trying innovative approaches in their work. We work closely with staff and volunteers sharing methods to foster a culture of experimentation within the network.
Inspiring Stories
Mastering Skills Using Alien Technology?
The aliens have invaded Europe and youth is last hope! Youth will kick the aliens out while developing personal skills through exciting missions. EuropAlien is a cooperative strategy game created in the context of Play4Change project and supported by Erasmus+ Youth in...
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Innovation Events Across the Red Cross Red Crescent Network
You may not have heard much about them yet, but you will see a lot of them this year. National Societies are investing more in bringing together staff, volunteers, and external experts in the innovation to explore new approaches to humanitarian work. From emerging...
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Robotic Snakes Crawled for Survivals after Mexico City’s Deadly Earthquake
Mexican Red Cross On the 19th of September 2017, a deadly earthquake shook the centre area of Mexico. The disaster affected Mexico City and neighbouring cities severely. Almost 300 people died, and thousands more lost everything. As part of the search and rescue...
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Catalyzing Sustainable Financing with Duty and Dignity
The UN estimates developing countries will need 2.5 Trillion USD a year to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and that the vast majority of these funds must come from non-government sources. There is an urgency for new financing sources that complement...
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Can New Technologies Change Hospitalized Children’s Views of the World?
In partnership with TECSOS Foundation, Spanish Red Cross Youth launched a project to incorporate new technologies into their volunteering programs with hospitalized children. The project merges Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) to help children in...
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Join the Future Red Cross Red Crescent
The world is changing rapidly. The way we live is also changing: how we interact, how we learn, how we feel. Every ten years, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Network has a chance to stop, reflect and look forward. This is a time for us to prepare ourselves...
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EXPERIENTIAL FUTURES EXHIBITION
A virtual visit to speculative artefacts from 2030.
INNOVATION TALKING SERIES
Watch external experts in innovation and futures topics.
WHATFUTURES
An online game played by 4000 youth volunteers.
