Design, the Great Ally of Sustainability

Students from the IE School of Architecture and Design present projects that intend to improve our everyday life on matters such as global warming or social media addiction.

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Pearl Project

Chiara Mesureur and Mariana Atala, two IE Law School students, have been supporting an NGO which seeks justice for mass atrocities such as enforced disappearances and genocide. They look at statutes, case law on enforced appearances and genocide, exploring accountability avenues such as the International Court of Justice or Universal Jurisdiction, etc. 

Food Culture Lab

Felicia Laudeberger, a 4th year BIR student, had the chance to participate in the Food Culture Lab. This year’s mission was to create a restaurant concept for Guia Repsol, integrating a regenerative farm, implementing smart technologies; in order to bring locally produced food to the table.

MOLABO

The IE-student-led startup MOLABO, has just finished developing their first product: an electric drive for marine applications which allows the replacement of fuel-driven boats by much cleaner electric ones.

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Edible Sea-Scapes

Alejandra Alonso-Majagranzas found an alternative to overfishing in the coastal town of A Guarda, in Galicia, creating a future agricultural system based on seaweed. 

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WelcomPost

Yoko Hwang Kaetsu, a student in the Architecture & Design program, has created WelcomPost, which aims to restore the relationship between urban households and where their food comes from. It uses a communal compost system that repurposes the nutrients of the food that has gone into its production.

Follows Organism

Alejandra Diaz Zulueta created Follows Organism, a project which proposes the creation of biotextiles with sea-based materials such as red algae, sea water and green microalgae like spirulina.

Alltee

Verus Von Haefton is the face behind Alltee - a dual use golf ball packaging system that thrives for 100% material efficiency.

BCDM - Bachelor in Communication and Digital Media

Global Challenge + Project Management courses. Team projects were developed during these courses in collaboration with the IE Africa Center and Ashoka with topics ranging from micro-credits for affordable housing in South Africa to sustainable farming in Nigeria.

ATIL Documentary

Second year students have created a documentary about life in a refugee camp in the Sahara. One of the students lived in that camp, and the documentary includes the stories of 4 other refugees.

The focus of this capstone project, composed by Stanislas Durand, Paula Cantuarias, Marta Valero Masiá, and Alberto Sebastian Trujillano Marino, was to analyze the main competitors, commercial alliances, official legislation, and technologies as well as to analyze possible products and services to sell and find out which will give more commercial value. Students helped to create a marketing plan and the ways it could be implemented. The final report includes business profitability (costs analysis, investments, medium-term profitability) as well as possible strategic action proposals.

This project, led by Pablo Llordén de Paz, Sandra López López, Gema Bernabeu Carrasco, and Alicia del Pozo Domínguez;  focused on a proposal of a tool that linked the COFOG (Classification of Functions of Government) expenditure to the SDGs, which could be applied across different years and countries and could serve as a reference for governments and parliaments towards budgeting for the SDG. For more info, please visit http://www.congreso.es

For this Capstone Project, Arturo Marzal Higuero, Paula Ortiz Puchades, Victoria Gallar Martínes, and Natalia Jiméneez de Parga Alcubilla helped inform the WFP’s guidance to reporting on collective outcomes for programs entered into jointly with other humanitarian and development actors. The team performed a landscape analysis of the sector to recognize trends on joint reporting best practices and identified clear recommendations for implementation within WFP’s annual reporting cycle. The team’s efforts included an analysis of the constraints and challenges collective accountability may cause before formalizing recommendations to overcome those challenges and transform them into opportunities to enable the WFP to coherently report on its shared contributions to leaving no one behind.

This research project, with the participation of Jaime Celaya Camuñas, Giorgio Fouarge, and Alessandra Rigoni, helps the ICRC project team better understand the options, benefits, risks and opportunities of a new digital platform for populations affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence, to self-register and access humanitarian services, with the objective to increase the reach to more people, in a safe and secure way.

This capstone project, composed by Pia Serra, Cristina Carazo, Veronica Angulo, and Felicia Laudenberg, is an analysis of the key indicators for a successful expansion of the International Mentoring Foundation for the Advancement of Higher Education (IMFAHE) to other countries.  Based on the previous analysis, the project presents a sustainable international expansion strategy.  The students evaluated the current international partnership strategy and proposed improvements.  Further they enumerated potential challenges in the international expansion and partnership expansion and provided recommendations to overcome them.

This research project, with the participation of Jaime Celaya Camuñas, Giorgio Fouarge, and Alessandra Rigoni, helps the ICRC project team better understand the options, benefits, risks and opportunities of a new digital platform for populations affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence, to self-register and access humanitarian services, with the objective to increase the reach to more people, in a safe and secure way.

This research project, carried out by Arianna Meoni, Mikel Beranga Garrido, Marie Inés Sarrado-Helbich, and Clara Castaño-Gómez, aims to map the externalities of European and Spanish companies with respect to environmental and social issues in the Amazonia region. The students identified the most relevant European and Spanish companies investing in the Amazonia from the agribusiness and energy sector; and the investors behind these companies. They further analyzed the negative and positive practices in terms of sustainability issues, and looked for civil groups that are raising awareness on these practices in order to analyze how European and Latin-American societies could engage on these issues. 

This project, lead by Cristina Guerola Pejenaute, Carmen Girona Olavarrieta, Cristina Herran Casado, and Alfonso Sanz, aims to analyze how European governments are driving and adapting AI’s accelerating development. The project tries to illustrate the scale of the current process  of AI concentration, in order to understand the political, economic and social implications that government AI ownership has for today’s global order. 

This project, composed by Beatriz Castro Guerra, Pilar Escobedo Mata, Carolina Clara Rojas, and Sofia Almeida Ferreiro; consists of a comparative study of the approach that national governments are adopting for the definition and implementation of normative frameworks, policies and strategies related to urban issues in federal states or those with a high degree of decentralization.

This project, carried out by Maria de Medrano Mattera Ricigliano, Irene Saez-Diaz, and Stefan Henri Gontheiz, aims to review the GNH Certification framework and carry out a comparative analysis with other leading social performance indicators for businesses around the globe.

This project, led by Gonzalo Rodriguez Haas, Ignacio Lopez-Chicheri, Ana Ibarra Parra, and Jean-Baptiste Azais, aims to produce the first-ever dataset on SWFs and public investors on pharma, healthcare, pre and during pandemic outbreak. They also aim to develop an analysis report on the current and forecasted positioning of countries post-COVID; and present the main results to SWF clients. 

This project, with the participation of Larissa van Moorsel Orssich, Paula de los Ríos Garcia, Ana Hernández de la Cruz, and Clara Muñoz Delgado; aims to provide students with extensive knowledge in the areas of gender and development, social enterprise and social marketing. The students provide support in the description and further research on context and problem analysis, as well as the development of marketing and partnership strategies for the European market. 

This project, composed by Javier Fernández Pérez, Mariah Graterol Faroh, Radia Alami Lahjouji, and Maria Victoria Gomez, aims to fight against stereotypes and prejudices, while visualizing diversity and promoting women’s football in the Lavapies district of Madrid. The program consists of 3 hours of training per week, accompaniment and mentoring focused on study and transition to adult life.  

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