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Frugal Innovation & the Quadruple Helix: Lessons from the GIAN Training in India

How can frugal innovation drive sustainable impact in diverse global contexts? This...

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Film Screening & Panel Debate: Home Game

What does it mean to call a place home? How do migrants navigate the duality of belonging...

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Frugal Insights: Tackling Water Scarcity in Rural Kenya

Imagine if your studies extended beyond the classroom and into communities where...

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Polymorphic grassroots networks and implications for disaster resilience in popular settlements in Sierra Leone, India and Kenya

What grassroots networks are (re)activated during disasters in urban poor communities? How...

Journal Cleaner Responsible Consumption

The triggers, motivations, experiments, diffusions, and stakeholders of frugal innovation what we learn from Thai case studies

Frugal innovators creatively apply existing technologies to address local challenges...

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Quadruple Helix and Strengthening Knowledge Interactions for Frugal Innovation

This Week: Quadruple Helix & Frugal Innovation in New Delhi From February 17 to 21, 2025...

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Inclusive cities and energy transitions: insights from the post-industrial city of Rotterdam

Rotterdam is a post-industrial city confronted with energy transitions and the inclusion...

Urban Uncovered Podcast Series (9) - "Digital Futures", hosted by Mandipa Ndlovu

Episode 9: Digital Futures As cities rush to embrace digital solutions, who really...

Urban Uncovered Podcast Series (8) - "Urbanity and Security", hosted by Mandipa Ndlovu

Episode 8: Urbanity and Security Urban growth and identity are intertwined with security...

Urban Climate Resilience Training in Kenya

Launch Urban Climate Resilience Training in Kenya

The ICFI Kenya Hub / Nuvoni, is set to deliver an intensive Training of Trainers (ToTs)...

Events

Blog series

Crises are lurking on several fronts. We have just come through a mega crisis – the Corona pandemic – which disrupted our lives in ways which were unimaginable in 2019. In the course of 2020 and 2021, Governments intervened in drastic ways which we would have thought unacceptable beforehand.

When did it all go wrong?

Most of us feel that the prospects for our future are very uncertain because we are facing...

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Urban heatwaves and senior citizens: Frugal solutions in The Hague

As The Netherlands is currently suffering from extreme heat this summer, it is worth...

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Frugal Innovation and Development: insights and experiences from the minor FI4SGD

The third edition of the Minor Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development...

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Frugal Innovation during the COVID-19 crisis: Examples from East Africa

In this blog series staff members, students and affiliated researchers of the...

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Blog: Connectivity, profit and what else? Women entrepreneurs benefiting from ICT innovations

How can ICT innovations, in combination with mobile phone ownership, open up new...

CFIA in de media, INCLUDE; Connectivity, profit and what else? Women entrepreneurs benefiting from ICT innovations.

Connectivity, profit and what else? Women entrepreneurs benefiting from ICT innovations.

How can ICT innovations, in combination with mobile phone ownership, open up new...