Ice Academy: How early preparation yields better entrepreneurial and professional success Refugees are often more likely to start new businesses but they face more barriers to success than the average entrepreneur. It’s not a question of talent or potential....
Seizing the opportunity of refugee entrepreneurship What does it take to be an entrepreneur in 2020? Resilience, creativity, adaptability and a willingness to stick with it when the going gets tough. Coincidentally, these are also the skills that refugees naturally...
What happens when new innovators take over old spaces The concept of space is inherent to innovation. There is a reason you think differently from one space to another – spaces have intentions, they have outputs. When launching PLACE in 2016, the question of...
Resilient people, and communities, are built through languages The British Council is a global actor and PLACEmaker that actively builds resilience and promotes diversity in communities around the world. Active in many host societies for refugees, the British Council...
#WeBelieveinNew On Thursday January 16th, we all took an active role in changing the narrative around migration. PLACE and Ecole des Ponts Business School brought together private sector actors to speak on how they are paving the way in investing in and recruiting...
Thoughts on three years of PLACE PLACE, like all innovation, was born from necessity. A necessity that was clear to see across disciplines and borders – to change the migrant narrative. In 2016, media-fueled rhetoric around the dangers of migration clouded...
