You know here who works every day for a more sustainable, more balanced, more conscious, more human future!

55+

Programme that promotes the active life and knowledge of people aged 55 and over who provide quality and reliable services in their neighbourhoods by creating informal support networks.

Access Lab

A company that provides access to culture and entertainment for people with disabilities and deaf people as a fundamental human right.

Actif

Provides ready-to-use content that has physical and cognitive benefits and is entertaining. In addition, it helps institutions plan activities to improve their services to their users, giving them more time for individual care and exceptional cases.

Afrikanizm Art

A platform that sells original, unique art with an identity, focused on promoting and supporting contemporary African artists by facilitating the resources needed to make art a viable occupation.

AirCo2

360° carbon footprint management for companies and organizations.

Animob

The solution is to share land and livestock through specialized training for “modern shepherds” who take care of animal mobility.

Café-Escola Joyeux Cascais

Trains and employs young adults with Intellectual and Developmental Difficulties (IDD) in Cascais.

Carbono Biodiverso – Associação Verde

Portugal’s first carbon offset project, preserving large trees and planting future trees.

Careceiver

Digital application for caregivers that provides management solutions, information and training.

Ciclo Expresso – Bicicultura

It promotes sustainable mobility to school through “bicycle trains”, contributing to children’s autonomy and health.

Circular Economy Portugal

Inspires and empowers public entities, companies and organizations to adopt circular strategies.

Civic Tech Field Guide

The Civic Tech Field Guide is a crowdsourced, global collection of tech for good tools and projects. We catalog not only the tools, but also the social side of our field: the conferences, funders, awards, design principles and playbooks. It’s a free, and Creative-Commons-licensed collection curated to help you in your work. Whether you want to add your own project(s), learn from others’, or research our field, we invite you to explore the field.

Class of Wonders

Class of Wonders develops games that disrupt the one-size-fits-all classroom experience. Our scalable technology allows every child, in any school, to learn with engagement and at their own pace, reaching their full potential.

Clynx

It aims to make Physiotherapy a motivating and enjoyable experience for patients through a video game-based solution used both in the clinic and at home.

Clube de Autores

The world’s first self-publishing online platform for Portuguese-language books. All writers can publish both print and digital versions for free, freely stipulating their royalties.

Code for All_

Code for All_ operates in the field of tech education, offering a wide range of programming courses for everyone. Through beginner, intensive and specialization courses, discover your potential in one of the most sought-after areas of the market.

DEMwell

A digital application that helps focus on the individual, dedicated to institutions and caregivers.

Digna Engenharia

Digna Engenharia de Impacto aims to ensure that vulnerable communities have access to dignity in their homes through internal remodeling services, at fair prices and access to microcredits.

Donorsee

A donation platform focused on people who care about the impact of their donations.

Dreamwaves

Designs spatial audio solutions that empower people. Their app, waveOut, combines 3D sound and augmented reality to make navigation easy for everyone.

Escola Oficina

It offers students a new way to develop and enhance personal and professional skills. The most enterprising students can implement their projects with the support of the school and the network of partners.

Equal Food Co.

It fights food waste through its valorisation, thus minimizing waste and generating value.

Equivalence

Equivalence is a Startup with a mission to make an Impact. We promote the integration of migrants into receiving societies, harnessing technology to create tailor made tools, like our Equivalent Profile, to empower and connect them to fully realize their potential and contribute to collective well-being.

Forest Impact

An organization that follows a methodology allowing forests to grow faster, denser, and attract more biodiversity, 100% native and organic.

Future Films

Platform that offers a unique selection of films about sustainability and social justice, together with organizations and projects that create solutions and good practices, to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It’s information and action in one place!

GAS Nova

Youth association with NGDO status aims to bring youth closer to the world’s most significant challenges and create agents of social transformation that trigger Global Sustainable Development.

Generosa

Portuguese startup with a mission to revolutionize how we care for plants in our homes.

Ginásio do Empreendedor

The Entrepreneur Gymnasium (EG) is an innovative Entrepreneurship education methodology that combines project-based learning, gamification and peer-to-peer mentoring into a unique experience. At the end of the school year, the best teams win prizes at the GE League National Final.

Glooma

It aims to create awareness about the importance of preventing breast cancer. In addition, it strives for more Women to have an early diagnosis, avoiding more aggressive treatments, mutilating surgeries, or even death.

GoParity

A platform for investment in sustainability projects, which promotes the widening of access to opportunities and the sharing of benefits (financial, social and environmental).

Hephaesnus

Startup focused on fighting forest fires efficiently, safely, economically and with an environmentally sustainable strategy.

Humiverso

Cutting edge, modular, flow-through vermicomposters to convert organic waste into organic fertilizer, enabling local circular economies.

IES – Social Business School

Business school focused on social innovation and sustainable business solutions, which offers training, research and consultancy.

Kitchen Dates

A food literacy project encouraging people and organizations to adopt more sustainable practices and reduce their environmental impact.

Koiki

It aims to solve the problem of the increased emissions generated by last-mile delivery through a sustainable distribution model and creating jobs for people in situations of social exclusion in Greater Lisbon and Porto.

La Virgule

It is making the world of sport and the outdoors a circular reality by converting technical equipment that would usually incinerate into functional, cool and durable backpacks.

Matterpieces

It proposes recycling and reusing demolition waste (RCDs) by separating, treating and upcycling RCDs to transform them into cladding materials.

Mella Supply

MellaSupply is a platform dedicated to empowering and supporting BIPOC-owned businesses in the beauty, wellness, and lifestyle sectors. We focus on inclusion and connect entrepreneurs with opportunities for growth and global visibility.

Mykor

Biotechnology and manufacturing company developing commercially viable and sustainable building materials made from waste and fungi.

Manicómio

Pioneer Portuguese co-workspace/ atelier and art gallery, which brings together mental illness artists and other creatives. A project dedicated to training, psychosocial and professional reintegration.

MyPolis

App which aims to connect politicians with citizens, bringing the sphere of civic participation into the 21st century, in a logic of gamification. 21st century, in a logic of gamification.

Net zero Insights

Eutopia is an AI-powered platform to access information about 27k climate startups in Europe and North America such as climate impact metrics, financials, patents, traction, contacts and much more – essentially a Crunchbase for Climate.

Nevaro

Develops digital health solutions for mental health management, therapeutics, well-being and performance optimization based on clinically validated gamification strategies and biofeedback.

No Code Institute

Offers a digital reskilling platform that allows “underestimated” transitioning talents to reboot their careers by learning to build software without code.

Pedalar sem Idade Portugal

Develops a simple and innovative solution to a growing problem: the unwanted social isolation and loneliness of older people and people with reduced mobility through trishaw rides carried out by volunteer pilots.

Penylon by Circular Ocean

Encourages the recycling of ocean plastic waste through the upcycling of fishing nets into high-performance materials for customers truly dedicated to sustainability, such as designers, architects and high-end manufacturing companies.

Ra-Ro

We find, select and promote unique regional products at risk of extinction, preserving the heritage of craftsmanship, biodiversity and ancestral techniques. Our mission is to bring this heritage to all who recognize its true value and Impact.

Rastro

Rastro is your personal home decorator. We’ll find you the perfect second hand couch to go with your coffee table, at no additional cost to you. We’re building a future where buying used home decor is as easy as shopping at Ikea, starting with the US market.

Ravel

Circular Economy Solution for Textile Waste.

Reshape

It aims to positively impact the lives within the prison community, creating equal and better opportunities for successful and dignified integration into society.

ROYALTEA

ROYALTEA represents the first line of natural iced teas in Portugal. Having struggled with obesity during their childhood, the founders used their master’s thesis to find that this new era of consumers needs an extension of what already exists, in a more natural way. This means: 0 sugars, 0 calories, 100% natural composition. That’s what this brand stands for – 100% guilt-free.

Scan4MyHealth

A platform providing an integrated solution for managing and monitoring patient vital signs.

Sea Shepherd (+ Ghost NetWork)

Sea Shepherd is a direct action marine conservation organization founded in 1977 by Captain Paul Watson. It aims to defend, conserve and protect marine wildlife and ecosystems worldwide.

SeaTheFuture

SeaTheFuture is an online platform dedicated to protecting and restore the Ocean, by connecting science-backed conservation projects around the globe to those who want to support them.

SEMEAR

“MERCEARIA SEMEAR” is an Inclusive social business that aims to employ people with disabilities and combat food waste through producing, exploiting, preparing, confection, transforming, and selling artisanal food products.

Sempre a Rodar

It helps children and young people acquire fit-size bicycles, promoting their health and reducing their environmental footprint.

Speak

A programme for sharing languages and cultures between migrants and local people that promotes inclusion, multilingualism and democratisation of learning.

Taip

Taip is a Portuguese brand of washable underwear for women with mild to moderate urine leaks. We wanted to create a reliable, comfortable, dignified, healthy solution for the body and a more sustainable alternative to disposables. One in five women over the age of 40 suffer from incontinence, you’d think.

Teach for Portugal

A non-profit organization whose vision is that one day, all children in Portugal will have an education that allows them to reach their full potential.

Ubbu

It wants to prepare all young minds (6 to 12 years old) to master logical thinking and problem solving. It offers a solution for introducing computer science teaching in the classroom.

Une.Idades

Our non-profit association aims to address two societal issues: the loneliness and social isolation of the elderly and the lack of housing for university students.
Through an Intergenerational House-Sharing Service, we seek to improve the living conditions of seniors who are often in situations of social and emotional vulnerability, while Increasing accommodation options for displaced students with more affordable prices and safer conditions to guarantee their academic success.

Vencer Autismo

It promotes the inclusion of people with autism through comprehension and reduction of negative stigma. Over 55.000 people from 60 cities have already attended Vencer Autismo events and lectures.

Venn Foods

Online delivery service of vegan food kits and recipes. Deliveries in Lisbon, Porto, Aveiro and Braga.

We Guide

The project created by “Terra dos Sonhos” Association aims to support and empower patients and caregivers to manage cancer diseases, increasing their quality of life and improving health outcomes.

WindCredible

Unique and patented design that allows you to increase energy production while minimizing noise pollution.

Youth Climate Leaders

Created in 2018 in Brazil and 2020 in Portugal, it aims to catalyze climate action by providing youth with training, networks, and concrete opportunities to start their careers in the field of climate change.