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See how innovators from across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and beyond are reimagining solutions to today’s humanitarian challenges. Dive into more than 200 projects — from early pilots to scaled impact — spanning service, process, and business model innovation.

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Data Tools / Analytics
Disasters and Crisis

It Takes a Village to Prepare for Disasters

What if disaster preparedness could be learned by doing? The Citizen Preparedness Village uses hands-on activities to help people build practical skills and confidence before [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Climate change and Environment

How the Costa Rican Red Cross turns car parking services into resources for humanitarian action

The Costa Rican Red Cross operates visitor services like parking lots, souvenir shops, and cafés within national parks through official government agreements. This model operates [...]
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Community Facilitation
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Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

Communities as engines of change: How to build a culture of Community Facilitation

How the French Red Cross is building a culture of community facilitation to strengthen volunteer engagement, peer connections and organizational resilience.
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Disasters and Crisis

Strengthening emergency care systems by connecting underserved populations with Community‑Based First Responders

Across many African communities, people face significant delays in accessing lifesaving emergency care due to limited emergency transport, shortages of trained responders, poor referral coordination, [...]
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Mindset
Frugal / No-Tech
Climate change and Environment

LIFE PACT: a people-driven approach to urban adaptation

Cities across Europe are facing two converging pressures: intensifying heatwaves and growing social inequalities. Children—especially in low-income districts—are among the most exposed to climate risks [...]
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Process
Video / Podcast
Migration and Displacement

A participatory podcast and media training project to transform the narrative on migration in Europe

Refugees and migrants are often spoken about, rather than listened to. Their stories are filtered, reduced to legal or political status, and rarely reflect the [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Mein Blut: a mobile app that digitalises blood donation

At its blood bank in Upper Austria, the Austrian Red Cross is witnessing a steadily increasing demand for blood products. At the same time, however, [...]
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Service
Offline / Low-Connectivity Tech
Migration and Displacement

Lexiway Online: A Revolutionary Approach to Language Teaching

Lexiway Online is a web-based application that allows teachers and volunteers to teach language classes using the Lexiway teaching methodology, which is especially effective with absolute beginners. The teacher has [...]
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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Migration and Displacement

Llum Social: Connecting People Experiencing Homelessness to Essential Services

Llum Social aims to digitize support for people experiencing homelessness by centralising essential resources and players within a single platform.
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Process
Data Tools / Analytics
Health and Wellbeing

Research within the framework of the CREARED Project

The research carried out within the framework of the CREARED project focuses on the analysis of unwanted loneliness in elderly people residing in rural areas [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Disasters and Crisis

Enhancing Anticipatory Action Through Impact-Based Forecasting

510 has co-developed the Impact-Based Forecasting (IBF) Portal - a digital one-stop-shop of information supporting disaster managers in decision-making. The IBF Portal collects forecasting information [...]
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Business Model
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

The Guest House of the Beninese Red Cross: A Solidarity-Based Accommodation Serving Humanitarian Action

The Guest House of the Beninese Red Cross is an accommodation solution in Porto Novo designed to host volunteers, travelers, and visiting partners in a [...]
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