How to protect businesses and employees during the crisis. How to optimise working from home. Ideas, services and technology that make our tasks easier in these extreme circumstances.
A digital stage for art, music and theatre ensembles
A project which was developed during the German government’s Hackathon empowers music and theatre ensembles to rehearse at home and to perform live on a digital stage in front of an audience.
Free accommodation for people in quarantine
A total of 53 individual accommodation spaces will be available for patients placed in Covid-19 quarantine at the Peleș Castle, one of the most beautiful castles in all of Europe.
Making humanitarian interventions Covid-19-compatible
To create evidence on how humanitarian programmes need to be adapted according to varying contexts and socio-cultural settings, three universities set up a platform.
Platform to help farmers find harvesters
An online platform connects farmers in need of harvesters with people looking for a job.
Open competition for Covid-19 innovations
A competition seeks to ensure that the most innovative solutions for the secondary effects of the coronavirus crisis are put into practice.
Financial support for local business vouchers
A municipality in Italy pays half of the cost for vouchers for local businesses that have been hit by the coronavirus crisis.
Care Workers Fund
Covid-19 Care Workers Crisis Grants support health care professionals who need to self-isolate.
Tools for transit agencies and cities
A selection of resources helps cities and transit agencies to respond to the coronavirus crisis.
Anonymous Shopping Donations
To support people in need, people can donate goods while doing their shopping. The donations are then distributed by the municipality.
Building a global open-source platform for low-cost solutions
The United Nations Development Programme and Hackster.io join forces with the world’s brightest technology companies to develop solutions for those who will be hardest hit by this pandemic.
Supporting the most vulnerable through the production of personal protection masks
The Sanctuary Mask Initiative (SMI) provides hygiene masks for people living in Direct Provision Centres and other vulnerable populations in the community, including the elderly.
Distilleries produce hand-sanitizer
During the outbreak of an infectious disease, more disinfectant is needed than usual. A temporary shortage of disinfectant occurred in many places during the current COVID-19 outbreak. Many health institutions worried that they would not