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.
Pharmacy produces disinfectant with community support
A German pharmacy produces disinfect with ingredients obtained through wide community outreach.
Children’s university goes online
The children’s university in Vienna has started an online programme with scientists explaining their work to children in short videos.
Robot greets visitors
A robot greets visitors in an Austrian care home, takes their temperature and reminds them of wearing a mask.
Government loans for small businesses
To support businesses with fewer than 500 employees, the city of New York offers a loan-based Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
Hostel as accommodation for health workers
Hostel rooms serve as accommodation for health workers, who worry about putting their families at risk.
Free online workshop on how to design digital services during Covid-19
Apolitical is offering a workshop teaching civil servants and policy a method that solves problems through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users.
Contactless food delivery
To reduce the risk of infection, a food delivery company defines strict rules for restaurants and delivery staff.
Women in detention make face masks
A reintegration programme for women in prison responded to the coronavirus outbreak by producing face masks from recycled materials.
A platform for businesses to collaborate against Covid-19
A platform connects businesses providing solutions for Covid-19 with those who need help.
Creating a transparent system of financing and providing assistance
An initiative set up the largest database of requests for medical facilities and retirement homes in Slovakia. Within one month of its founding, the initiative managed to provide protective equipment and devices worth 1.3 million EUR.
A research centre goes fully digital
The Oxford Research Centre of Humanities provides a variety of exciting competitions, articles, flash-fiction contests, podcasts and like online.
Hotels offer rooms to Covid-19 patients’ families and care staff
At a new online platform, hotels offer their rooms at cost price to care staff and family members of Covid-19 patients.