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Swop Shop also becomes Swop App

In a world of overconsumption there is increased interest in shopping in a sustainable way. In 2013, a clothes swop shop opened in Malmö. Many visitors have since shown a strong interest in swopping and sharing their garments, but due to distance, membership has not been an option for those

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A home to enjoy living in, a city to enjoy living in

Malmö is battling and is today a segregated city where the gap increases for each passing day. According to Save the Children Annual Review 2015 on child poverty, Malmö ranks the highest, with every third child lives in poverty. Many people are ashamed to bring home friends because they do

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Understanding social understanding

What are the prerequisites for people to understand each other? How can we arrange our lives so as to conduce consensus? Patrizio Lo Presti asks this question in his thesis Norms in Social Interaction: Semantic, Epistemic, and Dynamic. The answer has practical implications on how we perceive an age marked

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Even more free maths help for Skåne

The non-profit association Mattecentrum offers help free of charge to everyone studying mathematics. The purpose of this project grant application is for managing and further developing the organisation in Skåne. It will allow even more help with maths homework to children and young people in Skåne and provide opportunity for

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Open all taps

The purpose is to help and inspire children and young people by changing attitudes and the attitude of how to relate to mental disorders. This constitutes a big problem in today’s Sweden where there is no apparent or accessible help available. Most dare not seek help because of the shame

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High turbidity was noted

The goal is to conduct ten lectures within six months at venues such as libraries and bookstores, in order to distribute and sell the book about the watercourse, the river Sege, “High turbidity was noted”. The distribution of the book has a broader purpose than the book itself. It raises

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SPOK publication

SPOK (Contemporary Production and Consumption) is a platform for production aimed at gathering and disseminating knowledge about local manufacturing opportunities, from crafts to industry. SPOK has Skåne as its starting point and strives to promote the development of local production and, in the long run, also more local consumption. The

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