Support the project at   Kickstarter Soundsight Training . The training method is experience based, so the users will be guided through monitored experiences that allow them understand the differences between different environment, different scenarios and different objects, and they will understand how sound bounce off them creating a huge amount of different echoes. Support the project at   Kickstarter Soundsight Training First Step: Environment Detection  At first the exercises of our SoundSight Training will be static, basically our users should start understand how manage and perceive sound, and how sound change with different environment and with the presence of obstacles nearby. After macroscopic exercises the users should detect where a predefined obstacle is, on the right or on the left, for example. Support the project at   Kickstarter Soundsight Training   Second Step: Object Detection The next step is the interaction with obstacle...

Blind people could do jogging with you, if they only could echolocate themselves. SoundSight Training will make them see with sound.  All of us could echolocate themselves inside the space, using our tongue click, and listening to the echo of that click, that contains information about the environment, about obstacles and their distance and their general form factor.     There are roughly 285 million visually impaired people in the world, 39 million are totally blind. Let this number sink: it means 1 in 20 people does not experience the world as you do. Together we can improve their quality of life, and offer them the opportunity of fulfil their potential. SoundSight Training is the name of our ICT educational programme that takes up this challenge: helping blind people navigating and orienteering themselves in a living/moving world as naturally as you, without relying on vision. Or rather, training a form of vision that does not rely on eyes, but on sound. ...

It was Irene that came up with this conclusion, thinking out loud. The reality check of her statement was an eye opener: "All these projects have one thing in common, that they promise a second chance!" That is the major realization that came out of the workshop done with the people leading each one of the projects, done in September 2015. Let's go back a moment and play from the start, so is clear what we are doing ... LEGO Serious Play is a method that prompts the players to focus on one aspect of the scene while extracting content from another perspective. The idea was to get the project leads connected in such a way that we could understand the landscape of the project portfolio within the umbrella of the foundation. The result is that while the players were busy discussing how their projects interface, the very fundamental reasons why some of these projects exist came afloat. We also learned the expected timelines, the worries and the uncertainties of each...

Ready to accelerate! The first two days are the acceleration phase. During this time the projects are aligned, reviewed, polished and prepared for the presentations. These sessions are private with each participating project team and a small group composed of coaches, mentors, experts in different fields. Acceleration builds up energy charge. Alignment prepares for collision, and 69192.7 is the timestamp of the first collision, the first of a series continuing for two and half days. What happens during a collision? the interaction of the charges and the friction of the participants creates a synergy, resulting in collateral effects that benefit all parties involved. The collection of these effects is what brings new ideas, new approaches and opportunities to bring the projects to reality. Many presentations will be live streamed or recorded. Details about how to connect to each session will be posted one day before the presentation. If you want to participate remotely or at...

The SCimPULSE foundation invites to a global collision event We believe that addressing the present issues of humanity is more important than promising a better future, because the impact is right now, within our lifetime. Global talents, scientists and entrepreneurs get together to co-create realistic solutions for major human conditions and issues affecting humanity today, and you can actually make it happen.  Start by sharing this event with your contacts! The event is hosted at CERN in Geneva and spaces are limited. If you want to participate in person or online, please email foundation@scimpulse.org Agenda: Sept 23 morning from 9 to noon:  Projects presentations and workshops. starting at noon:         foundation strategy workshop (members only) Sept 24 morning and afternoon:  Projects presentations and workshops . evening social event:     at CERN (RSVP required). Sept 25 ...

We are looking for a Fundraiser interested?  write a mail to Donations@scimpulse.org As a fundraiser you will increase the amount of donations made to the foundation.  You do this by contacting potential donors and coming up with new ideas to raise funds. If you’ve got excellent communication skills and love the idea of supporting a charity, this could be a career that offers what you’re looking for. To be successful you need creativity, drive and enthusiasm to motivate people to donate funds and to come up with new fundraising ideas. Excellent organizational skills will help you to plan successful events.  The ability to network is paramount for this job, since success in the role depends heavily on being able to forge positive relationships with supporters. Fundraisers also work to raise awareness of the charity's work, aims and goals. You have a combination of at least some of these qualities, in no particular sequence:  creativity and im...