We take part in various meetings of NGOs and others.
Over the past five years, EquipSent has celebrated several successful equipment tansfers, and now it’s time to ask how we can scale up our achievements to improve global access to higher education! That is the key question that students of this year’s joint ETH Zurich and University of St.Gallen EMBAx Read more…
On Thurday, 10.12.2020, the first ever EquipSent Pub opened its virtual doors, and eight brave and adventurous teams followed the call! To strenghten our contestants we made sure that (non-virtual) pizza was delivered to their locations for a distributed pizza break, which was kindly sponsored by our partner organisation AVETH. Read more…
Today we reviewed our progress on the Sarajevo- and Congo-Cases, made future Plans for 2019 and had a great social evening! A very positive and productive “Work-Mezze-Balance” 😉
As last year, we were invited to the Clinton Global Initiative conference, an event for roughly 1000 social entrepreneurs from all parts of the world, driving topics such as equality, public health, poverty alleviation, etc. We were part of the “Educational Access” section. It was another fantastic experience to network Read more…
We had a super exciting and productive brain-storming and thought-organizing workshop tonight to define what we at EquipSent believe is a long-term sustainable and fair way to set up equipment donations. These considerations will eventually become our major guidelines to future donation decisions. Big shout-out and huge thanks to Marie Read more…
We had a great time discussing ongoing cases and future plans during a meeting in Basel. Afterwards we celebrated the Swiss National Day and watched the fireworks. Team building at its best!
We are thrilled to have made it to the list of finalists for the Swiss Student Sustainability Challenge! Jan’s energetic pitching payed off, and now we are on the track for some advanced coaching. The final pitching and decision will be in October, and we will work hard to implement Read more…
We have been selected to present our activities at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative (CGI U) conference in Chicago! Like last year, we will meet around 1000 other social entrepreneurs active in the fields of poverty alleviation, education, public health, etc., attend workshops, and benefit from a great network of Read more…
Our new flyers, thanks to everyone who worked hard on the design, especially Alena!
The EquipSent team was busy looking for future partners at Polymesse 2018! Pitching to companies is definitely a unique way of experiencing this great event, and we were encouraged by the many positive responses we got. (more…)
Wilfred and Jan had a great time at CGI U 2017 in Boston – what an experience!! We networked with over 1000 Social Entrepreneurs, attended workshops and panel discussions led by Bill and Chelsea Clinton about a better future, and pitched our idea! We made useful connections with people with Read more…