Impact Invest Scandinavia

Founded in 2012, Impact Invest Scandinavia is the first impact investor membership network in Scandinavia. Our mission to promote the growth of social and sustainable enterprises in Scandinavia and around the world by supporting investments in companies that deliver measurable social as well as financial returns. We offer a community of practice to facilitate and support impact investing.

Learning environment. Members get a peer-to-peer learning environment in the area of social and ecological impact in a Scandinavian context. Impact Invest offers a pipeline of pre-vetted entrepreneurs and businesses that have potential for social and economic returns in all sectors.

Secondly, we offer our clients knowledge about how to invest across asset classes for larger impact and can help asset managers and investors evaluate the impact of existing investments.

Global Network. Global Deals. Impact investing is still in a nascent space and the Nordics have a lot of learn from other countries. We therefore connect our members and clients to international impact investors and funds for access to learning and to investment opportunities at scale.

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Synbiotic Kitchen

We know that the food we eat feed us. It also feeds our health and our diseases - and a great deal of that is because of the impact different foods have on our gut microbiome (the collection of microorganisms that we host inside our gut). With the Synbiotic Kitchen, we want to provide knowledge and tools to promote healthy (and happy) living.

Through food education and technology, we are increasing the awareness about the relevance of the microbiome in health maintenance, as well enabling people to make more conscious food choices following the synbiotic nutrition principles.

Synbiotic Nutrition is a new nutritional approach that aims to promote inclusion of probiotic- and prebiotic-rich foods into the diet for the optimization of the gut microbiome.

Do you want to know more about it? Join our next workshop and learn about not only what is the difference between probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics, but also which ones are the best, and how to combine them to create delicious recipes.

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Fun2Know

Fun2Know är ett kunskapsspel som berättar om vardagsSverige och det används av skolor, bibliotek, kommuner, studieförbund, språkvänner, församlingar och många fler. Att komma till ett nytt och främmande land är att mötas av nya traditioner, ett nytt språk, ny mat, nytt klimat och en annorlunda kultur.
Spelet Fun2Know Sverige berättar om Sverige på ett roligt och enkelt sätt. Vi använder bilder så att spelet är lätt att ta till sig för alla från barn till vuxna. Och spelet finns på olika språk, så man behöver inte kunna svenska för att lära sig om Sverige och svenskarna.

Varje spelkort (ca 40 stycken per kategori, med 8 kategorier) handlar om ett ämne så som lucia, allemansrätt, Zlatan, föräldraledighet osv och har 3 frågor anpassade för olika åldrar. Barn kan spela med vuxna och människor med olika språk kan spela med varandra.

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Celpax

Measure Workplace Morale with our pulse survey!

1. Employees press the green OR red smiley feedback button
2. Online dashboard shows the pulse survey results
3. Talk about the green or red, discover how to improve team morale

Our employee mood data shows that some workplaces know how to improve employee satisfaction faster than others.

What do they do different?

They regularly sit down to have conversations about how people feel at work. They quickly discover what causes low employee morale.

So we recommend you do exactly that

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off2off

Digital ecosystem for reuse of existing products
off2off implements, operates and develops digital ecosystems for reuse of functional surpluses* based on organizations’ own operations.
The platform is developed and provides a cloud-based communications service specifically designed for structured reuse*, which visualizes and matches user needs and functional surplus* with each other and peripheral services.
The platform is available to all types of organizations.

* Functional surplus is a term used to describe leftover products that can be classified as too good to be thrown away.

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Initiativet

The initiative is an innovative political party that, through a factual, honest and engaging political culture, wants to bring about a revitalized and deepened democracy. The vision is to create sustainable political solutions for prosperous people on a prosperous planet.



"The purpose of the initiative is to catalyze new policies that reach far beyond current reality. We focus on commitment and co-creation, participation and awareness rather than choice. On values ​​beyond ideology, on a future based on human needs within planetary boundaries and includes, does not exclude. We value solutions, challenges and better issues. Behind the democratic deficit there is a lack of imagination and vision. Through political laboratories, creative leadership and a listening culture, we are launching a peaceful revolution in which we want to support all residents to a deep commitment to the complex challenges facing our society and biosphere. ”

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Mossy Earth

Mossy Earth is a social enterprise whose main aim is, by restoring ecosystems, to deliver real environmental change and make a positive impact on the state of the planet's wilderness. Our love for nature compelled us to build this platform where you can interact with conservation in a whole new way.

We help businesses and individuals assess their carbon footprint, reduce it and then offset the remaining CO2 emissions through native tree planting. We strive to bring the ultimate level of transparency to our reforestation projects. This is why we photograph and map each tree we plant.

Almost everyone loves nature but when it comes to protecting our wild spaces there seems to be a missing link between love and action. Our aim is to bring rewilding to life in the digital world so that more people can enjoy it. 360° photos, camera traps, GPS trackers and much more!

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Ashoka Scandinavia

The world is defined by change and requires a new mindset.

Ashoka envisions a world in which everyone is a changemaker:
a world where all citizens are powerful and contribute to change in positive ways.

Ashoka identifies and supports the world's leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an "everyone a changemaker world."

Raoul Wallenberg Differencemakers

Raoul Wallenberg Differencemakers is a non-profit association open to anyone under the age of 35 who wants to work in the Raoul Wallenberg spirit. In addition, it serves as an alumni association for those who have completed the Raoul Wallenberg Academy leadership training.

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Mer Organdonation

MOD arbetar för att alla i behov av en transplantation skall få det i tid och att ingen skall behöva dö i väntan på organ. MOD – Mer organdonation är en ideell förening som arbetar för att minska donationsköerna och för att fler AKTIVT säger JA till organdonation.

Ambitionen är att starta en rörelse kring frågan för att öka kunskapen och förståelsen kring organdonation hos allmänheten, så att fler aktivt säger JA! till organdonation. MOD arbetar även för att förnya det politiska regelverket, och organisationen och tydligheten inom sjukvården, för att på så sätt minska köerna för de som väntar på en transplantation.

Vi riktar oss till allmänheten, sjukvården, politiker och media.

MOD – Mer organdonation är religiöst och partipolitiskt obundet.

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ResQ Club

Every month, people like you use ResQ to save tens of thousands of meals from ending up in the trash bin. With a 97% satisfaction rate on all orders, saving the world has never tasted this good! For consumers, using ResQ means discovering new restaurants at a 50% discount and creating a more sustainable environment around you.

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Airmates

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Fastest Offer
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Best Price
Hundreds of flight connections scanned in seconds to get the most favorable price.

Global Network
More than 12,000 airmates located on 6 continents in more than 50 countries.

Reliability
Experienced and trustworthy airmates, verified and trained by time:matters.

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My Dream Now

Our vision is that all students should feel their value in society and find their own paths to jobs and dreams.

We engage volunteers from working life and college who inspire students to see the opportunities in working life. My Dream Now offers a concrete program for inspiring collaboration between school and working life. A rbetsgivare who want to take active social responsibility are paying partners and offers its employees to get involved.

We prioritize areas with great potential, such as Tensta, Biskopsgården and Rosengård, where many young people lack role models in working life.

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Jobbentrén

Jobbentréns mål är att hjälpa företag till lyckade anställningar. Så här går det till:
- Vi hittar nyanlända talanger: För att hitta talanger som är rätt för just ert företag arbetar Jobbentrén uppsökande. Vi intervjuar löpande talanger på boenden och skolor för nyanlända i hela Stockholm
- Vi ser till att anställningen fungerar: Efter lyckad rekrytering får den nyanställde ta del av Jobbentréns coachningsprogram, som ger kunskap och vägledning att utvecklas på arbetsplatsen och integreras i samhället.
- Det är lönsamt: När ni anställer via Jobbentrén får ni lägre personalkostnader via stöd från Arbetsförmedlingen - upp till 78 550 kronor per år. Då ingår Jobbentréns arbete.

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Fair Photo Agency

We are an online agency connecting responsible companies that practice sustainability with international photographers. Our ambition is to aid sustainable companies to obtain bigger market shares through impactful imagery. If your products or services are in line with our mission, we can provide you with proposals from various suitable photographers for your project. If you are a fair photographer that wants to make a change in the world and receive meaningful job opportunities - then you have found the right place.

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SnappCar

In Europe, we have more than 15 million cars. Did you know that an average car is left unused for 23 hours a day? A total waste, isn't it? SnappCar brings car owners and those once who are looking for a car together.

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Global Business Labs

Global Business Labs (GBL) is a non-profit organization specializing in the early stages of business development, accelerating growth and decreasing risk in start-ups. It is based on a model that has been researched and empirically proven in Sweden for the last twelve years.

So far GBL has established its model of venture acceleration in Namibia, Botswana and Uganda. All of the labs work in close cooperation with local universities as well as knowledge partners in law, marketing and auditing in order to provide entrepreneurial talents with the best possible environment to launch their scalable business ideas.

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Lindhea

Lindhea is a strategy consultancy firm based in Uppsala that specializes in science-based startups. We work with researchers and inventors to develop their innovations into viable and successful business.

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GIVEWATTS

GIVEWATTS provides access to clean energy household solutions in off-grid areas. GIVEWATTS process has been developed into a process where the initial funding starts the distribution wheel. Our aim is to keep a balance between business efficiency and impact. In some projects, the wheel continues rolling without additional funds, in other projects we close down when our targets are reached.

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Retoy

In the game everything is possible! At Retoy we use the magic power of the game and create meeting places where children can experience how fun it is to be environmentally friendly and learn more about their rights based on the UN Children's Convention.

Vision: A loving world where adults and children live in harmony with each other, nature and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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Naturkartan

Naturkartan is your guide to nature.
Here you will find trails in Norrköping, nature reserves in Jämtlands län, bathing in Tyresta, exercise trails in Motala and a lot of other exciting and beautiful places to visit.

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Squid London

Squid is an award winning British colour changing rainwear brand for adults and children. All our products magically change colour in the rain! Founded in 2008, the idea and inspiration was colourful interaction with the rain, inspired by the artist Jackson Pollock and his incredible colour explosions. During our time at the London College of Fashion (2004-2008) we, Emma-Jayne Parkes and Viviane Jaeger, studied Product Design and Development, we looked down on Oxford Circus at a sea of black umbrellas and thought: ‘How cool would it be to walk down the street, it starts to rain and your clothes change colour?!” Squids brand philosophy is to bring colour into everyday life and brighten up grey and rainy days.

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Superlumen

We are a team of supercreators, superdesigners, supermodellers and superprogrammers in love with technology and virtual worlds.

We are in constant exploration of new incredible ways of story-telling. We specialise in creating virtual worlds and experiences which impact peoples’ senses, making the impossible a reality.

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Leksell Social Ventures

Leksell Social Ventures is an investment company supporting social enterprises and social innovation for a better Sweden. Leksell Social Ventures is an initiative by the Leksell family. Today the operation is supported by Laurent, Caroline and Richard as well as Jonas Ahlén, our CEO and advisors affiliated LSV such as previous CEO, Henrik Storm Dyrssen.

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Startup Guide Stockholm

Startup Guide is a publishing and media company that produces guidebooks and online content to help entrepreneurs navigate and connect with different startup scenes across the world.
As the world of work changes, its mission is to guide, empower and inspire people to start their own business anywhere.

Founded by Sissel Hansen in 2014, Startup Guide today has books in over 20 cities in Europe, the Middle East and the USA, including Copenhagen, London, Tel Aviv and NYC. In autumn 2018, the company launched a media website, startupguide.com, which was born out of the desire to explore different types of content and reach a wider audience by taking advantage of the digital medium.

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The Good Tribe

Do you want to share your knowledge and need a format to reach out? Or do you want us share our knowledge in one of the following fields: sustainable development, social entrepreneurship and innovation, circular economy, zero waste and up-cycling, developing an impact driven business and pitching?

We’re happy to help you find the right path to build awareness for your cause.

Do you plan to reach out to people and build a community on or offline? Do you aspire to create new business opportunities or a grassroots movement? Whether we’re talking customers, clients, employees, beneficiaries or citizens we help you build a community supporting your cause.

Together we set your stakeholders in motion!

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Workaround

We help you find the right one of thousands of offices for free. Easily compare hundreds of options and find the ones that best suit you. Contact the host directly and suggest a day for viewing - feedback takes place the same day. Sign a nice deal, we have standard contracts for your security.

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Working for Change

Working for change arbetar för kulturell mångfald i näringslivet. Vi är en stiftelse, en tankesmedja och Sveriges ledande konferens i ämnet. Det finns nämligen en självklar affärsnytta i mångfald. Vår uppgift är att hjälpa företag och organisationer att se och ta tillvara på den. Genom att göra det bidrar vi till ett välmående samhälle och vår vision: Ett integrerat Sverige som gynnar alla.

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Sustainergies

Sustainergies create opportunities for students to work with sustainability in practice. In this way, we contribute to strengthening the competence on sustainability among students at Swedish universities and colleges. We conduct competitions, mediate student assignments and internships, lead workshops and design projects in close collaboration with the academy as well as companies and organizations in the private, public and idea-based sector.

Our participants gain experience of real sustainability work, which may include, for example, eco-innovations, sustainable business development, environmental management, climate reporting, human rights, supplier follow-ups, diversity and gender equality work, change work, education etc. Sustainergies are run as a non-profit organization and the business is located throughout Sweden.

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British Council Sweden

We connect people with learning opportunities and creative ideas from the UK. Whether you want to learn or teach English, take an exam, study in the UK or find out about our forthcoming events, this is the place to start. British Council Sweden is the United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.

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SE Forum

SE Forum contributes to a more just and sustainable world by unleashing the potential of entrepreneurship to address society ́s most pressing problems. We promote, inspire and empower entrepreneurs to start and scale businesses that address global challenges in Sweden and beyond. SE Forum is a non-profit membership organisation based in Sweden that advocates responsible business solutions to address local and global challenges. SE Forum was founded in 2004 and has since provided a variety of programmes and services that aim to transform the norms around the way business is done and the composition of the private sector. We promote, inspire and empower entrepreneurs all over the world to use business to do good, with our members and partners working to improve some of society’s most pressing problems and achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

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Help to Help

Traditional aid is based on the concept that if someone is ill, a doctor will be sent. If a doctor is sent to work for a few months, that person will be able to treat a few hundred people. However, a local doctor can treat thousands during his or her professional life. Our research shows 80 % of our graduated students increase the family income and 60 % pays school fees for atl east one sibling. Through crowdfunding, Help to Help enables scholarships to university students in East Africa. Students who otherwise would not get the opportunity to study.

We call this the Help to Help-effect.

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Reach for Change

Reach for Change är en svensk ideell organisation som hjälper sociala entreprenörer att utveckla innovationer som skapar en bättre värld för barn. Organisationen bildades 2009, och finns idag i 18 länder på tre kontinenter. Vi stöder över 100 sociala entreprenörer runtom i världen genom ett inkubatorprogram. Entreprenörernas innovationer bidrar i sin tur till att skapa bättre förutsättningar för flera hundra tusen barn varje år.

Reach for Change har ett 90-konto och är medlem av Frii , Frivilligorganisationernas insamlingsråd. Som medlem i Frii förbinder vi oss att tillgängliggöra dokumentation om verksamheten i enlighet med Friis kvalitetskod.

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Time Village

Share your skills and get help from your neighbours – Welcome to the Time Village community!
Time Village was born in Stockholm in 2013 and been growing and evolving since then. You will now find Time Villagers scattered around the world, but we are still caring for our Stockholm community first.

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DayCape

Hjälp en eller flera personer att planera sin dag!
DayCape är en interaktiv bildkalender där du som förälder, lärare och vän kan hjälpa en eller flera personer att planera sin dag. Med DayCape i din mobil eller surfplatta är det enkelt att överblicka vad som händer under dagen.

När du som förälder, vän eller lärare lägger in dagens aktiviteter laddas de direkt in i appen hos den person som behöver stöd. Dagen blir lättare och roligare med:
-Påminnelse direkt i mobilen.
-Tidmätare för varje aktivitet
-Registering av humör för varje aktivitet.

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Heycom

Heycom är en oberoende telekområdgivare som hjälper företag och organisationer att fatta smarta och strategiska beslut inom kommunikation.

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Talkyard

Create a place to talk Where your users can find answers and suggest ideas. And also, friendly discussions and chat. Place it at community.yoursite.com You can install Talkyard on your own server. One installation can host many communities. Automatic software updates.

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Akasha Agency

Akasha Agency is a consultancy practice founded by Juri Wawra with a focus on aligning developed world company resources and capabilities with opportunities in emerging markets in Asia and Africa that are capable of creating significant social, economic and environmental impact.

Juri has been specialising on market entry strategies for young enterprises in Europe, Asia and Africa that create poverty alleviating products and services. In the past he has lead an SBU in the production and retail distribution of natural and organic health- and personal care products and co-founded a start-up that worked on the development of a monitoring and load management tool for decentralised renewable energy systems. Juri earned an MBA with Merit from Warwick University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in the Comparative Study of Religions from the University of London, SOAS.

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Orbieye

Orbieye is a network company, specialized within the OTC segment. We connect the best companies on a global level.

The core of the business is to be the link between product owners and distributors world wide. (remove one space) Orbieye support product owners to find the right partners on new markets and support distributors to find the right products for their country.
We make prospecting easy.

We make prospecting easy. We are a catalyst to growth.

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Fun2Know

Att komma till ett nytt och främmande land är att mötas av nya traditioner, ett nytt språk, ny mat, nytt klimat och en annorlunda kultur.

Spelet Fun2Know Sverige berättar om Sverige på ett roligt och enkelt sätt. Vi använder bilder så att spelet är lätt att ta till sig för alla från barn till vuxna. Och spelet finns på olika språk, så man behöver inte kunna svenska för att lära sig om Sverige och svenskarna.

Vi hoppas att alla genom spelet kan ta del av det som ter sig naturligt och vardagligt för oss som bott länge i Sverige.
Det här är spelet som gör Sverige mindre otydligt, mindre främmande och mer välkomnande!

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Initiativet

Det är lätt att känna att världen är på väg åt fel håll. Dagliga rapporter om orättvisor, terrorism, flyktingar, psykisk ohälsa, problem i välfärden och klimathot gör att många idag upplever oro eller har tappat hoppet om framtiden. Samtidigt lever de flesta av oss i ett fritt, rikt och demokratiskt samhälle med fler möjligheter än någon generation före oss. Vi lever helt enkelt i en tid av motsägelser.

Vår vision är kort sagt: Välmående människor på en välmående planet.

Det är med dessa tankar vi startar Initiativet. Vi verkar för en ny, värderingsstyrd, politisk kultur. En kultur som präglas av en mer inbjudande ton i samtal och debatter. Där beslut tas så nära de som berörs som möjligt och förutsättningarna för att påverka politiken finns även mellan valen.

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Kombicha

KOMBICHA is kombucha with attitude from Bagarmossen south of Söder in Stockholm. KOMBICHA is refreshingly sour, slightly sparkling and with clear taste, eg. of freshly squeezed ginger or wild elderflowers. KOMBICHA is handcrafted made in Bagarmossen of organic tea of an experienced kombucha maker with roots in Asia and a sustainability enthusiast with a spring in their step.

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Celpax

Celpax is a for-profit social venture that generates a better quality of life for workplaces worldwide. Companies have a responsibility to create good workplaces, and right now, global employee engagement numbers show that we, as a society, are failing in that responsibility. Being a for-profit company is strategic for us. When you have a social impact that generates benefits, it’s going to spread. It also attracts more talent to our venture. It’s a win-win. Improving your workplace culture doesn’t just make economic sense for the company. It’s also the “right thing to do” and has a positive impact both on the individual and all the way up to a country level.

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Mapflat

Offers technical design of data-intensive products, data architecture and implementation of data features, such as recommendation systems and business insight systems. Designs small and lean systems for quickly extracting value from data, or scalable systems that handle large volumes of incoming data that drive the work of dozens of developers and data scientists.

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Rizoden

Rizoden is a Dutch design company that helps startups innovate and grow - working from a human-centered approach in which design thinking and imagineering are key elements. We design unique and actionable business strategies aimed at creating impact. We visualize the patterns by which an organization creates, delivers and maintains value. We identify new value propositions and translate them to sustainable growth.

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Synk Arkitektur

Synk Arkitektur är arkitektkontor som vill bygga ett bättre samhälle med hjälp av innovativ arkitektur. Vi är en del av Impact Hub, ett internationellt nätverk av sociala entreprenörer som vi har ett flertal samarbetsprojekt med.

Vi är mest engagerade i stadsutveckling, bostadsutveckling och kontorsombyggnader men har även tagit fram ett eget online-verktyg för medborgardialoger (Medborgarkartan) och vi har ett separat fastighetsbolag Synk Fastigheter, där vi bygger bostäder med höga krav på arkitektur och hållbarhet.

Vi är medlemmar i Byggande Arkitekter och var med och grundade den svenska föreningen för Byggemenskaper.

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