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– Stará tržnica, Bratislava
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They received a green light from prime minister Cameron. They founded a globally unique institution which shows that people sometimes only need a little nudge to pay their taxes or save energy. By combining psychology, data and research, they are now doing big things in Britain.
A woman with a story about how a group of enthusiastic researchers and activists managed to delve into the state and create a stable, public base for mapping of design. She will talk about what we can learn from them and what challenges a free woman must face, when her business card labels her as the director and she becomes part of the establishment.
Everyone tries to gamify, it’s hyped up. We see many attempts and failures. How can we transform gamification into a useful tool? What are its basic principles about what works? And how can it be used to solve big global challenges?
Is fairness in Slovakia only for the big guns? How much does it cost and what are firms sacrificing for it?
Adam Znášik (communication strategist, Komplot), Michal Vyšinský (researcher, 2muse). Hosted by Zuzana Wienk.
How to solve problems with the help of people from the inside. Lars advises not to bring consultants from the outside, but instead correctly define the problem in the community and identify people within the community who are already solving the issue using their own methods. He calls them positive deviants and will tell us how to use them effectively.
Andrej is a researcher. He wants us to test our ideas and solutions and quantify their success. He will show us the failures of those, who haven’t done this and explain how science-based research can help us towards better results.
The world-known psychologist Philip Zimbardo has shown, that even good people tend to do bad things. Their wrong-doings often happen due to their carelessness. Ever since then, Zimbardo tries to find out what is needed for everyday heroism and what qualities we must possess in order to stand up to evil and injustice. Daniel’s Hősök Tere from Budapest cooperates with Zimbardo and knows how to approach this.
She has plenty of friends in the “Bratislava Cafe”. From Poprad, she is responsible for the marketing of one of the most-know Slovak charities. Where do the misunderstandings between Bratislava and the rest of Slovakia come from? Is it just a myth, or is Bratislava really unable to understand the regions?
Lunch at venue is included in the ticket.
The order of speakers within presentation blocks may change.
The exact times of workshops and discussions may slightly change, however the overall schedule of the afternoon programme will be kept.
The afternoon workshops will be held at different places simultaneously.
Stories of firm directors, who decided to reject the unfair game.
Story of a 15-year-old activist, who uses his knowledge of the law to teach a lesson to the Czech officials. He keeps an eye on the state council from the age of 10 and writes complaints better than many adults.
How to bring difficult changes and start obeying rules in environments, which reject them?
Andrej will bring one fresh case study from Slovakia. He will use it to show what hypothesis were at the beginning of the problem, where they changed throughout the experiment and how research changed initial plans and ideas of a planned campaign. He will certainly be open to questions and debates.
With the participants, Luke will go through real-life cases from his years of experience and use them to show the power of behavioural economics and nudging.
Martin will go deeper into the concepts of gamification. He will answer specific questions, evaluate ideas and use exercises to show, how to grasp gamification so that the result is more than just a shiny, unused app.
Lars will show the effect of positive deviance on real cases and problems brought in by the participants themselves. He will choose those, that scare people in their sleep, and will work on them with other participants in groups as well as in a mutual discussion.
Rado will react to problems brought in by the participants. He will try to identify where their contact with the state sector could’ve been ineffective and help them to approach the issue from a better side next time.
Magdaléna will guide participants through the process of ethical training in her firm Skanska. How can ethics be trained in a practical, fun and interactive way. Simply, school by game.
Daniel will show us how to work on personal qualities and how important an individual is for social change. We can all become everyday heroes. He will use one of the methods used by Philip Zimbardo and maybe he will take you out into the streets.
Asia works on MojePanstwo.pl, a project that collects tools for monitoring the work of public institutions in Poland. It gives people a quick and free access to acts of law, court rulings, regional finances or connections between different organizations. Asia will introduce the philosophy of MojePanstwo.pl and answer questions regarding the differences of such projects in Slovakia and Poland.
It doesn’t really matter if we are from Bardejov or Bratislava, if we are 20 or 40 years old, if we prefer coffee or beer. We are all equally worried about decency and fairness disappearing from public life, about being hopelessly underrepresented in politics.
There are thousands of us – in hospitals, schools, non-profits, businesses, among hockey players, creatives… We want to live in a country that is good for us. In our professional lives, however, we constantly encounter failing state and corruption.
Despite that, we go on. We can offer positive energy, expertise, good solutions and passionate debate.
Even the good and public interest need their own strong network, so that voices saying "Decency pays off" and "Fairness and humanism are not a laughing matter" can echo ever stronger.
That is why we came up with Network – a meeting that will fill us with energy and hope. A meeting that will interconnect and offer new skills and experiences. A meeting that will bring shared space for open discussion on how to gradually enforce fairness in Slovakia.
If you cannot afford the ticket but you are doing something interesting and you feel that Network would help you soak up new ideas or energy, sends us a couple of sentences about yourself and about why you want to come to Network. If we can get more resources from our kind donors, we will make sure to secure free entry for at least a portion of you.
If you have many friends or you are a business that wants to buy tickets for employees and you do not want to fill in all of their personal details, send us an e-mail. We will get in touch with you with detailed instructions. Invoice payment only in this case, thank you.
We want Network to be a great, useful place for everybody. Preparation costs us a lot of hard work, money and time. That is why we aim to set up capacity, refreshments and all the pretty things the best way we can. Whenever you learn that you cannot come to see us, please, forward the ticket to somebody close to you or let us know, so that we have a chance to offer the ticket to somebody else. This will help us create the best possible experience for the biggest possible number of people.
Stará tržnica (Old Market Hall)
Námestie SNP 25
811 01 Bratislava
GPS Position
S: 48° 8’ 40.444”
V: 17° 6’ 41.987”
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Several bike racks are placed in front of the Old Market Hall. Cyclists are warmly welcome!
Old Market Hall is situated in the city centre. Following public transport stops are in immediate distance from it: Kamenné Námestie (lines 3, 4, 9), Námestie SNP (lines 1, 8, 9). Following stops are a short walking distance from the venue: Poštová (lines 1, 5, 8), Hodžovo námestie (lines 83, 84, 93, 212, 203, 207, 208). Walking to the venue in a couple of minutes is also possible from Šafarikovo námestie, Zochova bus stop or from under the bridge (Most SNP – SNP bridge). More on public transport options here.
Due to the timing of the event and general lack of parking space in downtown Bratislava, we strongly recommend using public transportation or using parking spaces outside of city center. You will find paid parking on Uršulínska street, Jesenského street or in front of former hotel Kyjev.
Our partners in organising this event are České Centrum Pro Investigativní Žurnalistiku, the polish Fundacja ePaństwo a Noémi Alexa of Hungary. This event can take place thanks to the kind and generous support of the following donors:
