News from Switzerland

Timo, a young changemaker from Switzerland, is on a path to reimagine education through design thinking and project-based learning. Embedded within his story are the early years of social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow Christiane Daepp, an ally, and advocate for young people like Timo to be...

Ashoka in partnership with Nestlé are launching the Nestlé Creating Shared Value (CSV) Prize 2020, which aims to reward innovations that can address the following challenge “How do we create a waste-free future?”. We trust that this challenge is a great opportunity to accelerate related initiatives...

We are truly pleased to announce that the newly-selected Ashoka Fellow in Switzerland is Alain Werner, Founder and Director at Civitas Maxima. He is is creating new spaces for stakeholders of the international criminal justice system, such as victims, NGOs, investigators, and lawyers, to work...

While necessary, the challenging context in which we now find ourselves can make it very difficult to work on creating a better future. Much about the Covid-19 pandemic remains uncertain, including its long-term social and economic consequences. And beyond this, climate change and other ongoing...

We are thrilled to announce that Ashoka, in partnership with Zalando, kick-started Changemakers United. This initiative will enable our worldwide network of social entrepreneurs to scale solutions for the challenges around COVID-19. Between April and October 2020, we will: 1. Source & map innovators...

The Covid crises is putting our society in serious danger: not only is there the health risk, but also the economy, the education system, the working place, etc are touched. These hardships are touching social entrepreneurs too, at a time in which they are needed the most. Ashoka, with its 40 years...

This issue of Social Innovations Journal is devoted to articles by Ashoka that paint a rich portrait of how and what it takes for social entrepreneurs, identified by Ashoka as changemakers, to thrive and succeed in rapidly changing contexts. In the introductory and framing article, Ashoka President...

Jonas Staub, founder of Blindspot, is the new Swiss Ashoka Fellow 2018

Entretien avec Olivier Fruchaud, directeur d'Ashoka Suisse.

While working at Merck Serono in the research and development (R&D) knowledge management department, Caroline Kant discovered many drugs sitting on the company’s shelves, waiting to be researched on, and which could become part of a much needed solution to treat rare diseases.

The UBS Social Innovators Program was launched with support from Ashoka in July 2016. It aims at selecting and supporting social entrepreneurs, who deliver innovative solutions to society's most pressing challenges at the national and international level. This tailored package of support will...