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While away on her work term, Jennifer Kinnunen and her colleagues entered the What Design Can Do 2016 Refugee Challenge. On听July 1st it was publicly announced that their project Eat&Meet has been selected as one of the five winning projects to be launched by WDCD, the UNHCR and IKEA Foundation in the European refugee crisis.

The is a global design competition听in search for听game-changing ideas听for accommodating, connecting, integrating and helping the personal development of refugees. The challenge specifically focuses on refugees in urban areas, as nearly 60 percent of the world鈥檚 20 million refugees now live in urban areas.

The听听met in Amsterdam to determine the 5 winning projects who will now receive听10,000 euros of funding each and expert guidance听to turn their ideas into reality.

The ultimate goal of this 鈥楢ccelerate鈥� phase, which ends on 2 October 2016, is to build a viable and sustainable start-up around each winner鈥檚 concept. By realising five exemplifying cases in close collaboration with key stakeholders, the aim is to听inspire governments, NGOs, and businesses to harness the power of creativity.

Eat & Meet
Entrants: Jennifer Kinnunen (AV俱乐部 MArch student), Marie Legleye, Camille Marshall, Elias Sougrati,听Camille Marshall 鈥� Brazil

Eat & Meet uses food to foster relationships and warm hearts, presenting refugees as an indispensable part of modernity. The project turns renovated city buses into food trucks where refugees can cook and sell food from their culinary tradition, with proceeds going to the workers as well as integration projects. The jury remarked: 鈥淭his multidimensional plan taps in on the age-old natural law that eating a stranger鈥檚 food is the first form of intercultural trust. The concept has great potential for scaling, and it also offers lots of opportunities, especially to women.鈥�