Education & Work changemakers

The selection

• 350.orgWashington DC, USA“Anchoring a global movement to a single number gave the climate fight a clear line to hold.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Audrey BourolleauLévis-Saint-Nom, FranceRecommended by Constance Albanel
• Billion Oyster ProjectNew York, USA“Urban ecological restoration at scale with an exemplary educational dimension, a rare model of city/ocean reconciliation.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• BiofabricateNew York, USA“Suzanne Lee built the community that lets grown materials move from the lab into real making.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Birdgirl (Mya-Rose Craig)Bristol, UK“Mya-Rose opens birdwatching and nature to communities too often left outside it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• BôndyAntananarivo, Madagascar“Reconnecting Madagascar's communities with the forest they depend on is regeneration done with people.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Café MarulandaYotoco, Colombia“A former guerrilla growing peace through coffee is the kind of second life worth celebrating.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• CarbocultureHelsinki, Finland“Turning farm waste into stable carbon is a quiet, useful answer to a loud problem.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• CecosesolaBarquisimeto, Venezuela“A hundred thousand families running their own markets and clinics by assembly, since 1967, humbles me.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Cesar Jung-Harada / ProteiHong Kong, China“Cesar treats open-source hardware as a public good, and that generosity is rare in invention.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Ellen MacArthur FoundationLondon, UK“Ellen gave the circular economy its language, and that language shaped real policy.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Elman Peace and Human Rights CentreMogadishu, Somalia“Ilwad chose to return to Mogadishu to do this work, and that choice tells you everything.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• FairphoneAmsterdam, Netherlands“Bas showed that a phone can be built with repair and fair sourcing in mind, and that pressures the whole industry.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Final SparkLausanne, Switzerland“Running computation on living neurons sounds impossible, and they actually let scientists try it from anywhere.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Florence RizzoParis, FranceRecommended by Constance Albanel
• Fonds ExploreConcarneau, France“They back the expeditions that help us understand a world we are still learning to protect.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Ford FoundationNew York, USA“Aiming their giving squarely at inequality, and divesting from fossil fuels, is leadership worth naming.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Fortuna CoolsManila, PhilippinesRecommended by Simon Bernard
• Gesda FoundationGeneva, Switzerland“Anticipating where science and diplomacy will collide is patient, necessary work.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Grain de SailConcarneau, France“A company that shows decarbonised freight is a real, running operation, sailing out of Saint-Malo across the Atlantic.”Recommended by Simon Bernard
• HasdeoRaipur, India“Alok stands between the forest and the mine, and he does it by amplifying the people who live there.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Hepburn WindLeonards Hill, AustraliaRecommended by Søren Hermansen
• Hindou Oumarou IbrahimN'Djamena, Chad“Hindou carries her community's knowledge of the land onto the world stage, and we need that voice.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Instituto TerraAimorés, Brazil“The Salgados replanted a dead farm into forest, and the springs and animals came back, which gives me hope.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• isiMpondoXolobeni, South Africa“Their stand for ancestral land reminds me that protecting a place and honoring the people on it are one and the same.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• JazzilePutignano, Italy“Jazzile is a social cooperative that supports wine producers with the aim of creating a community cellar based on agroecological principles and natural, artisanal winemaking, for those who wish to share spaces and knowledge while respecting the diversity of the people, businesses and territories involved. Because the idea of sharing the means of production by building a network of solidarity is a beautiful one.”Recommended by Ilaria Gaspari
• KadeyaChicago, USARecommended by Simon Bernard
• Knepp Wildland / Isabella TreeDorset, UK“Letting a worn-out farm go wild brought back turtle doves and nightingales, and that story changed how I think about land.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Kufunda Learning VillageHarare, ZimbabweRecommended by Søren Hermansen
• Les Beaux MetsMarseille, France“A Marseille kitchen where excellence and second chances grow together, and the food is genuinely good.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Live Love RecycleBeyruth, LebanonRecommended by Simon Bernard
• Low-Tech LabConcarneau, France“What stays with me is that every solution they test gets open-sourced, so the knowledge belongs to everyone.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Lucas Davaze, Médiation ClimatGRENOBLE, France“Taking people to stand on a dying glacier turns climate from an idea into a memory they keep.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• makesenseParis, France“They put collective intelligence to work for changemakers, two hours at a time.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Malene LundenSamsø, DenmarkRecommended by Søren Hermansen
• Maram KaïréDakar, Senegal“He opens the sky to young Africans and shows that space science belongs to the whole continent.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• MareBluGarabito, Costa RicaRecommended by Simon Bernard
• Mellon FoundationNew York, USA“Putting the arts and humanities first in their giving is a stance I find quietly brave.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• MIT Media LabBoston, MA, USA“I keep coming back to their belief that the best ideas live between disciplines.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Muriel Richard-NocaLausanne, SwitzerlandRecommended by Katy Foraz
• Nicolas NovaGenève, Switzerland“Nicolas taught designers to think like anthropologists, and it makes their work matter more.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• NotplaLondon, UK“Packaging you can eat or compost from seaweed feels like common sense we somehow forgot.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Novo Nordisk FoundationCopenhagen, Denmark“The scale of their giving is enormous, and I respect that so much of it reaches health that touches ordinary lives.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Ocean AliveSetúbal, Portugal“Raquel hands the work of protecting the seagrass to the fisherwomen who know the estuary best.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• OceanWellLos Angeles, USARecommended by Simon Bernard
• Philo BoxeMontreal, CanadaRecommended by JJ Hazoumé
• Plastic FlamingoMuntinlupa City, PhilippinesRecommended by Simon Bernard
• Plastic OdysseyMarseille, France“Simon's ship shows coastal towns how to make plastic a local resource they can use.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Proxima FusionMunich, Germany“A European route to fusion that runs continuously is a bet worth watching closely.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Ralph NaderWashington D.C, USA“Because he demonstrated that one person armed with rigorous research and moral clarity can reshape entire systems of power, and because he never confused access to elites with actual influence over them.”Recommended by Alberto Alemanno
• Raphaël HaumontParis-Saclay, FranceRecommended by Katy Foraz
• RobriesSurabaya, IndonesiaRecommended by Simon Bernard
• SailcoopVannes, France“I like that they make crossing the Atlantic by sail feel like a real option again.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Sara TurettaCernavodă, Romania“Sara Turetta decided, before turning 30, that she would devote her life to helping animals. She left her job in advertising after a trip to Romania that had shaken her deeply, opening her eyes to the tragedy of stray animals beyond any control and the brutality with which dogs were treated. She then founded Save the dogs and other animals, a foundation active in Italy and Romania, dedicated to rescuing dogs and other animals from the violence of a world that treats them as invisible. Her love for animals turned into concrete action. Her work is immense and unrelenting, and it allows thousands of dogs and other animals to escape a horrific fate.”Recommended by Ilaria Gaspari
• ScarabTechJohannesburg, South AfricaRecommended by Simon Bernard
• Songhaï CenterPorto-Novo, BeninRecommended by JJ Hazoumé
• Sungai WatchBali, IndonesiaRecommended by Simon Bernard
• Svalbard Global Seed VaultSvalbard, Norway“A cold mountain holding more than a million seeds is the most patient insurance humanity has.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• The Child MovementGreater Noida, India“Licypriya started at eight, and she carries the voice of her generation with real force.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Under The PoleConcarneau, France“They dive where science cannot easily reach and share everything they find.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• VelaParis, FranceRecommended by Simon Bernard
• WindcoopLorient, FranceRecommended by Simon Bernard
• Yellow Dot StudiosLos Angeles, USA“Using sharp humor to name greenwashing is a way to keep people awake that I enjoy.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Éliane Vogel-PolskyBrussels, Belgium“Because she used strategic litigation to establish gender equality as a fundamental EU principle, and because she showed how a single well-crafted legal case can reshape an entire constitutional order.”Recommended by Alberto Alemanno