Global shapers hub Kaliningrad Projects presentation for Moscow WEF meeting

2. 
November, 2012
– first meeting of future curator and vice curator
with Global Shapers Community
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January, 2013
– first meeting of Global Shapers Hub Kaliningrad
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February, 2013
– non –official opening of the Global Shapers Hub Kaliningrad
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April, 2014
– start of the project activity period

3. INSPI
RE
ME !

4. Inspire Kaliningrad people for change
by bringing global agenda
to local community…

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Project Description:
The project started in January 2012 when applying
for an official TEDx license. In August 2012 the
TEDxKaliningrad team was put in place, October
2012 - first TEDxKaliningrad conference took place,
and this has spurred many local initiatives. The
TEDxKaliningrad team has been growing
continuously, also helping many other non-profit
projects in the region, and it is a big part of Global
Shapers HUB Kaliningrad.
Regional reach, medium, 50% hub involvement
Project Objective:
• popularize speaking in public
• aid networking of active people from different fields
• create conditions for building new teams and
projects
Results:
• 2 events are organized
• Over 200 people are inspired
• Loyal audience in social networks is
created
• Around 10 projects started at TEDxplatform

6. Project Description:
Independent travels, citizens of foreign
countries and expats share their experience,
impressions, helpful tips and opinions.
Local reach, light, 100% hub involvement
Project Objective:
 Inspire people for change by travelling and gaining
new experience
 Giving first-hand information about foreign
countries, breaking stereotypes;
 Crowd-funding for other social projects
Results:
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9 meetings are conducted
Around 250 people are inspired
Collected money are directed to
renovation of new public space in the
region “Vorota”
Loyal audience is attracted

7. Project Description:
Informal meetings where people discuss some
science topics during the cup of coffee or tea.
Every meeting has one speaker and one
subject, any questions are welcome.
Local reach, light, 100% hub involvement
Project Objective:
 Inspire people for change by gaining new
knowledge
 Giving first-hand information about scientific facts
and theories, break stereotypes
 “Bring science to culture”
 Crowd-funding for other social projects
Results:
 5 meetings are conducted
 Around 100 people are inspired
 Collected money are directed to
renovation of new public space in the
region “Vorota”
 Loyal audience is attracted
 First experience of interacting with nonscientific audience took place

8. Project Description:
Search for new tendencies in public life,
presentation of these tendencies by people
who regularly do it .
Project Objective:
 Inspire people for change by gaining new
knowledge in sphere of world-trends
 Giving first-hand information about world-trends,
break stereotypes
 Crowd-funding for other social projects
Local reach, light, 50% hub involvement
Results:
 2 meetings are conducted
 Around 50 people are inspired
 Web-site is created

9. Project Description:
Project Objective:
The project started as a series of startup events in collaboration with
Kaliningrad IT-cluster. Later has become a complex project with the
aim of building a strong ecosystem in the region.
Stages:
1. February 2013, the first ever hackathon in the region.
2. March 2013, first Regional Final “ImagineCup” by Microsoft.
3. April 2013, the first local event of “Russian Startup Tour Road
Show”
4. May 2013, Kaliningrad startups participating in the Global Russian
Startup Village in Moscow. Anna Khan (Global Shaper HUB
Kaliningrad) was invited as a speaker of main panel
5. May-July 2013 Opening/ Closing of the first co-working center in
Kaliningrad
6. August 2013,The first international hackathon Garage48 in
Kaliningrad.
7. September 2013, The first Startup Sauna Warm Up in Kaliningrad.
8. September 2013, Kaliningrad startups participating in Startup event
in Poland.
9. November 2013, Kaliningrad startups go to the international startup
conference "Slush" in Helsinki.
10. Earlydays Kaliningrad
11. Plans are to build an IT-park, IT-education center, produce new
English-speaking Media, organize a Startup Weekend.
- increase the number of qualified IT-specialists graduating every year
- involve engineers into the business environment
- involve businessman into the IT-industry
- create new Media (English-speaking talking about startups of the region)
- help Government in building an IT-park in Kaliningrad
- attract ventures, business angels, investors
- attract startups and engineers from abroad and Russia to move to Kaliningrad
- promote the region abroad
Regional reach, high, 20% hub involvement
Results:
• Startup community exist and has been growing
• Visible improvement of all objectives

10. Project Description:
Every evening several volunteers give a soup
and a bread to homeless people. Also they
communicate, suggest some help and give
information about helping centers as social
flophouses, drug and alcohol treatment
centers, hospitals.
Project Objective:
 Inspire homeless people for change by giving
support and some useful information
 Socialization of homeless people
Local reach, medium, 20% hub involvement
Results:
• 2 volunteers from Global shapers hub
Kaliningrad participate in the project
• Sustainable source of support for
homeless people is created
• 5 people turned back to normal life

11. Project Description:
Creation of the programme and conducting
the session within the main international
north-west youth forum “Baltic Artek – 2013”
Regional reach, medium, 50% hub involvement
Project Objective:
Creation of community of “future shapers” in the
north-western part of Russia
Results:
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26 federal experts participated
3 projects tasks are completed
3 new formats of meeting are conducted
Over 200 young people are inspired and
ready “ to be the change”
• Recommendations on project results are
presented to Government representatives
of Kaliningrad and Vologda regions

12. 12 free web-sites
for Kaliningrad libraries are created
in cooperation with Kharkov Hub
International Day of Girls is celebrated in Kaliningrad
by screening GirlsRising movie and having discussion
on girls’ access to education.
Projects was initiated by St. Petersburg GSH and
supported by Kaliningrad, Sevastopol, Moscow,
Samara, Yaroslavl, Yekatirenburg.

13.  Lack of experts
 Lack of financial support
 Lack of local crowd-funding culture
 Bureaucracy
 Low interest to interact

15. Project Description:
Renovation of the old German building “Zakheim
tor” into public space for young people, and
supporting some social initiatives there
(exhibitions, discussions, gatherings, etc)
Local reach, medium, 20% hub involvement
Project Objective:
 Create new public space for young people of
Kaliningrad by renovation of an old building
 Attract local community to creation of the new public
space using crowd-funding tools
 Improve comfort level of local environment , by
making this district more attractive for local citizens
and tourists
 Inspire local community for action on improving their
environment by themselves
Results:
• Series of local gatherings are conducted
• Place is ready for hosting social events
• First Kaliningrad example of crowdsourcing on federal platform took place
• 50% of necessary sum is collected

16. Project Description:
The Working Group on the law of WTO is the
result of cooperation of the Ministry of industrial
policy, development of entrpreneurship and
trade of Kaliningrad region, Center for WTO Law
of I. Kant Baltic Federal University and Global
Shapers Hub Kaliningrad.
The group is intended to conduct research on
the hot issues of the law of WTO which are
provided by the Ministry.
The group consists of 12 students and 4
supervisors – lecturers at the I. Kant BFU.
As a result of research the group submits a
paper with conclusions to the Ministry.
Local reach, medium, 20% hub involvement
Project Objective:
• Practical application of the academic research by
interested state organs and enterprises
• Preparation of specialists of WTO law
• Education of students on legal issues of WTO
Results:
• Working group is created
• Fields of research are defined
• Motivating meeting in regional ministry of
industry is conducted
• Introductory lectures are conducted

17. Project Description:
An event which is devoted to blind people, which is
going to be in a city restaurant. Every guest will get
an opportunity to fell blindness and to have dinner in
complete darkness, served by blind people as
waitresses.
Project Objective:
• Collecting money for association of blind people (%
of profit)
• Increasing loyalty level to blind people
Local reach, medium, 50% hub involvement

18. Project Description:
Educational course created in San-Francisko by
Yuriy Lifshitz for active entrepreneurs or early
stage project leaders, Idea-stage entrepreneurs
and teams, lifestyle entrepreneurs, wishing to
make a hobby into a business, professionals,
creating your own business instead of working
for someone else. Consists of online part - 20
video-lectures, and offline - individual
consultings with local experts, focus on first
revenue and three months plan. Graduation day
and choosing the best projects and support
after finish
Local reach, medium, 20% hub involvement
Project Objective:
Inspire entrepreneurs by giving access to the
worldwide level of education,
Create a new wave business community

19. www.globalshapers.org
diana.jarovskih
GlobalShapersKaliningradHub
E-mail:
dianajarovskih@gmail.com
GlobalShaperKLD
Phone:
+79114874855
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