Impact Iceland 2016 is crowdfunding Iceland’s first conference on social entrepreneurship on Karolina Fund.  It will be the first in a series of conferences in Iceland focusing on social innovation as a profitable, sustainable, and impactful response to today’s challenges. Tanja Wohlrab-Ryan writes at Startup Iceland about making Iceland not only a vibrant startup community, but a hub of social …

Denmark is riding on a green wave.  The country has been lauded for its focus on sustainable energy, recycling, and high quality of life.   The Danish startup Miljøskærm,  based at the science park at Scion DTU, uses all these values to make its defense against traffic noise – the company builds barriers out of old windmills. The Danish startup …

It started as a university project to ensure that the creators could get a ticket to the Roskilde Festival.  But after four yeas of development on a hobby basis at the festival, the project has now become a living.  Meet Peefence, the startup that makes mobile urinals. The Roskilde Festival is a large annual music festival in Denmark that is …