Onesta: Nova SBE Students Present Idea to Mitigate Youth Mental Health Problems
Dorra Ben Tahar, Hannah Langenbach, Julia Rodriguez-Bustelo Fricke, and Lilian Friedrich, four Nova SBE students created Onesta – Your Safe Space, an app that connects students with volunteer-staffed psychology students and graduates to provide quick, cheap, and convenient peer-to-peer support.
Team Up for Climate
In Spring 2022, the Egis Foundation launched the first edition of the “Team Up for Climate Change Challenge”. 524 students from over 60 different nationalities participated.
Sixteen teams were selected to work on their ideas and develop business value propositions with the help of Egis mentors. Four of the 16 teams – Impact Seekers, Watershift, Acquamize, and Farmspire – were composed of Nova SBE students taking Anne-Laure Fayard’s course, Design Thinking for Social Innovation.
Impact Seekers was selected as one of the 4 finalists that will present their project on November 26 at the Earth University at UNESCO in Paris.
Inclusive Green Economy
Our first Social Innovator in Residence, Lisbeth Shepherd, shared her vision for an inclusive green economy.
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Anne-Laure Fayard wrote an opinion editorial article about “A praise of nuance“, featured in Observador (April 2024).
Anne-Laure Fayard wrote an opinion editorial article about “The Hare and the Tortoise: Pacing and Nurturing Open Social Innovation“, featured in Observador (January 2024).
Anne-Laure Fayard moderated a panel at Estoril Conferences, organized by Nova SBE, with Ezio Mazzini and Miguel Pinto Luz (September 2023).
Anne-Laure Fayard wrote an opinion editorial article about “Writing is a future-ready skill in the 21st century“, featured in Observador (October 2023).
On March 8th, 2023, Anne-Laure Fayard was interviewed by Líder on “Discrimination of the 21st Century – what are women’s challenges in science?”.
On November 28th, 2022, Anne-Laure Fayard was cited in “Privacy at work and the rise of the ‘quiet space’”, Financial Times, Emma Jacobs.
On September 30th, 2022, Anne-Laure Fayard was cited in the article “Tesla’s Optimus and the big questions in the quest to make a humanoid robot” by Trevor Laurence Jockims, for CNBC.
On May 20th, 2022, Anne-Laure Fayard discussed “Technology-as-Monster: a generative metaphor to explore artificial intelligence possibilities and risks” during the first R:ETRO webinar (Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford) from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Anne-Laure Fayard was one of the experts interviewed by Economist Impact for their multi-phase research programme to assess the prospects for hybrid work around the world.
On April 23rd, 2022, Anne-Laure Fayard was quoted in the opinion piece “New frontiers of hybrid work take shape for the post-Covid world” by Emma Jacobs, for the THE IRISH TIMES.
On March 30th, 2022, Anne-Laure Fayard was interviewed for the piece “What Libraries Say About the Future of Offices” written by Kevin J. Delaney for Time.
On March 4th, 2022, Anne-Laure Fayard was named one of the EUCLID Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise, featuring women leaders in social entrepreneurship and innovation.
On November 15th, 2021, Público published an opinion piece by Anne-Laure Fayard: “There is no magic formula for climate change: it is everyone’s responsibility and work!”.
Anne-Laure Fayard participated in The Return to Workplace Summit.
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On July 12th, 2021, Líder Magazine #14 published an opinion piece by Anne-Laure Fayard: “Reset work: crises as opportunities for change”.
Anne-Laure Fayard was the guest speaker in HBR IdeaCast, in the episode of Workplace Design, Post-Pandemic (Back to Work, Better).
The article “Collaborating is Hard Work” in Stanford Social Innovation Review (2018) featured Anne-Laure Fayard and Beth Bechky’s project.
Anne-Laure Fayard featured in three GovLabAcademy’s interviews:
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Anne-Laure Fayard was a keynote speaker at the Collective Intelligence Conference (2016).
Anne-Laure Fayard was a keynote speaker at the Collective Intelligence Conference at NYU Stern on June 3rd, 2016. She talked about the “The power of Communities for Social Impact”