{"id":4718,"date":"2022-12-08T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T10:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klak.is\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2022-12-08T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:11:50","slug":"attending-community-problem-solved-in-smart-raedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/adstedjandi-samfelagsvandi-leystur-i-snjallraedi\/","title":{"rendered":"An accompanying social problem solved in Snjallr\u00e6\u00f0i"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Optimism and positivity floated over the waters in H\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0arsal Gr\u00f3ska on Wednesday, December 7, when the final day of Snjallr\u00e6\u00f0i took place, and nine start-up companies presented their projects, all of which are aimed at solving the surrounding social problem. For the past 16 weeks, a group of entrepreneurs has participated in the growth space (e.incubator) Sjjallr\u00e4\u00f0i and received education and training from national and foreign experts in the field of social issues and innovation, as well as meetings with experienced mentors who have followed them for the last few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each team presented for 3 minutes and then answered questions from the "sharks" Svana Gunnarsd\u00f3ttur, CEO of Frumtak and Kristj\u00e1ns Schram, founder and owner of Instr\u00fament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Examples of start-up companies presented on the final day include Fort, which works against muscle atrophy in long-term patients, Sara \u2013 a girl with ADHD who promotes increased awareness of the manifestation of ADHD in girls, and BioBuilding, who are developing Icelandic hemp concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final day marked the graduation of these start-ups who have dedicated themselves to solving society's challenges with ingenuity and a strong vision for the future, and it will be exciting to watch them in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A large number of people made their way to Gr\u00f3ska, but the presenter of the day was the comedian and former mayor J\u00f3n Gnarr. Among the guests could be seen \u00de\u00f3r Sigf\u00fasson, managing director of Sj\u00e1varklasan, Hrund Gunnsteinsd\u00f3ttir, managing director of Festa, J\u00f3n Atla Benediktsson, rector of H\u00cd, and L\u00f3u B\u00e1ra Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir, marketing director of Origo. People agreed that the event was successful and managed to fill people with hope and optimism for a better world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kolfinna Krist\u00ednard\u00f3ttir, Snjallr\u00e6\u00f0 project manager: "It's good to see this interest in social innovation and great to welcome over 150 people here today. The teams made a lot of progress during these 16 weeks and I am very happy with the results".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sjjallr\u00e4\u00f0i was founded in 2018 by the H\u00f6f\u00f0a Peace Center and now took place for the fourth time. KLAK \u2013 Icelandic Startups takes care of the growth space in the collaboration with MIT DesignX and the focal point is workshops where experts from MIT come to the country and share their knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The goal of the growth space is to promote innovation that tackles contemporary challenges and is thus an important platform for social start-ups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The project is supported by the City of Reykjav\u00edk, the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Labor Market, the University of Iceland, the University of Reykjav\u00edk, Marel, Origo, the Ministry of University, Industry and Innovation, Landsvirkjun and Deloitte. Other partners were the University of Akureyri, the Iceland University of the Arts and Festa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bjarts\u00fdni og j\u00e1kv\u00e6\u00f0ni sveif yfir v\u00f6tnum \u00ed H\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0arsal Gr\u00f3sku mi\u00f0vikudaginn 7. desember en \u00fear f\u00f3r fram lokadagur Snjallr\u00e6\u00f0is og kynntu n\u00edu sprotafyrirt\u00e6ki s\u00edn verkefni sem \u00f6ll sn\u00faa a\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 leysa a\u00f0ste\u00f0jandi samf\u00e9lagsvanda. H\u00f3pur frumkv\u00f6\u00f0la hefur s\u00ed\u00f0ustu 16 vikunnar teki\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed vaxtarr\u00fdminu (e.incubator) Snjallr\u00e6\u00f0i og fengi\u00f0 \u00fear fr\u00e6\u00f0slu og \u00fej\u00e1lfun fr\u00e1 innlendum og erlendum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_project":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[409,369,632,635,410,49,583,195,608,192,130,160,211,319,346,634,45,345,191,96,417,110,627,370],"project":[],"birta":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snjallraedi","tag-biobuilding","tag-deloitte","tag-felags-og-vinnumarkadsraduneytinu","tag-festa","tag-fort","tag-groska","tag-haskola","tag-haskoli-islands","tag-haskolinn-a-akureyri","tag-haskolinn-i-reykjavik","tag-klak","tag-klak-icelandic-startups-2","tag-kolfinna-kristinardottir","tag-kristjan-schram","tag-landsvirkjun","tag-listahaskoli-islands","tag-marel","tag-mit-designx","tag-origo","tag-reykjavikurborg","tag-sara-stelpa-med-adhd","tag-sprotafyrirtaeki","tag-svana-gunnarsdottir","tag-vaxtarymi"],"acf":{"tengd_verkefni":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"birta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/birta?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}