Within this context, the VCW is curretly being used to support three finalist EU/ Horizon2020 applications in the fields of Earth Observation for Security, Oceans/Fishing, and Farming/Forests.

In the past, the VCW also supported different EU / Horizon2020 projects and helped to manage projects within consortiums across different countries. It played a critical role in guiding the decision making process and in the transference of technology to the market. This was the case of the following international consortiums:

• BETTER: https://www.ec-better.eu/

• Marine-EO: https://www.marine-eo.eu/

• MyFarm: HBR case-study; Video

• SenSyF: http://www.sensyf.eu/; Video 1, Video 2

• NextGEOSS: https://nextgeoss.eu/partners/

The VCW has been used for many years to address social sustainability issues. Just very recent it was organized in Portugal a conference about the VCW in Social Impact with over 800 participants (full conference; highlights; social leaders’ opinion), where it was explained how the VCW was to used to address and solve social issues in numerous organizations. An extensive list of VCW projects and videos in this field might also be found at the VCWsocial Youtube Channel. Moreover, it was recently published a VCWsocial Case-Study (Springer) about VCW Partnership with GirlMove.

“The VCW helps to think innovation and value capturing in companies and organizations in sectors as diverse as aerospace, biology, energy, etc. There are also great opportunities for innovation in the world, social opportunities in societal challenges, also very diverse as climate change, healthcare, unemployment, poverty, among others.”
Ana Teresa Lehmann, Secretary of State of Industry of Portugal

“(The VCW helped) working on an individual value proposition (…) After working with the VCW they did a career development plan,
and in this plan, they were much more focused, with a better grasp of what they want to be and want to do.”
Alexandra Machado, Executive Director of GirlMove (a Leadership and Entrepreneurship Academy)

“We serve 40 communities with 7000 volunteers and 6000 beneficiaries and about 1500 partners. (…) Due to our expansion and growth, we were searching for solutions for these new challenges, and in this case,
VCW was used as a tool to help us to deepen our understanding of different problems.”
Hunter Halder, Founder of ReFood (an International Voluntary Organization)

“Last year, we used this methodology to find solutions to improve the school meal. (…) This is an excellent framework to put the entire school community thinking together about the best solutions to improve the food served at school. This framework was very useful, but it was also good to make the children aware that their opinions matter and they can help solving problems that affect them too.”
Maria Elsa Lopes, Teacher at Sagrado Coração de Maria (Primary School)

Additional leaders’ opinions about
VCW Social Impact (video)