Inspire Europe with crowd-based ideas!

This challenge gathers inspiring ideas and examples on a wide range of subjects that reflect crowd-based disruption for Europe. Share, inspire and provoke ideas that matter!

Background: On 8thSeptember 2016 the Crowd Dialog Europe will take place in Graz, Austria.In the light of this event, the European Commission organizes a work shop in the afternoon of September 7, where your most inspiring ideas and examples will be presented, discussed and potentially followed up.

Specific challenges:

Crowd Funding

• Is Crowd Funding on the cusp of becoming mainstream? What are main challenges?
• How will future alternative financing models in Europe look like?

Crowd Sourcing

• How will Crowd Sourcing, i.e. the collaboration in between heterogeneous people impact the future of work in Europe?
• Is Crowd Sourcing evolving to a key practices upon which our economy is built?

Crowd Innovation

• How can we leverage transparency and collaboration in between the European crowds to unleash cross-border opportunities?
• How can we foster crowd driven innovation in Europe?

Why should you participate?

• Engage the dialogue in Europe and become part of the community of relevant thought leaders from the 28 European Member States.
• Contribute to the growth and development of a disruptive and agile crowd-based ecosystem in Europe!
• Inspire crowdfunding experts, EU policymakers, Entrepreneurs and Academia etc. to discuss how crowd-based solutions can impact Europe.

Prizes:

The TOP 10 ideas voted by the Jury will receive a ticket for the Crowd Dialog 2016 in Graz.

The TOP 3 ideas voted by the Jury will be invited to

Additional prizes (sponsored by the EU commission and our regional partners; further prizes might come up along the challenge):

1st place: Travel-expenses (return-ticket; May 7th-8th) and accomodation (May 7th-8th) to the Crowd Dialog 2016 in Graz for the duration of the event.  

2nd place: 1x Sunny BAG FACTION - harvest sun energy whereever you go and charge your mobile devices with this innovative Stryrian product made by Sunny BAG!

3rd place: 1x Zipp-Hut (Zip-Hat) - Kepka is a unique millinery from Graz, manufacturing beautiful hats; the "Zipp-Hut" is one of their newest creations.