Brain awareness project
Our goal is to raise awareness among all age groups about brain functioning and the meaning of healthy brain and its influence on everyday life, no matter who you are, your age, occupation and life goals.
The goal is to raise awareness about the meaning of public utility in relation to a healthy life style.
About You
About You
First Name
spela
Last Name
mihevc
About Your Organization
Organization Name
Centre for people with acquired brain injury Zarja
Organization Website
Organization Phone
00386-1-547-1775
Organization Address
Hladilniška pot 34, 1000 Ljubljana
Organization Country
Slovenia
Country where this project is creating social impact
Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
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Innovation
Entry Form title
Brain awareness project
What change do you want to bring to the world?
Our goal is to raise awareness among all age groups about brain functioning and the meaning of healthy brain and its influence on everyday life, no matter who you are, your age, occupation and life goals.
The goal is to raise awareness about the meaning of public utility in relation to a healthy life style.
What are the primary activities of your project?
- A year-long competition for all school-age children
- Finding project partners
- Coherent activities appropriate for target audience
- Dissemination of achieved goals in individual activities
- Preparing, obtaining and distributing materials for precaution and education
- Training regular co-workers
- Establishing and maintaining cooperation with the public
- Connecting the public and experts and bringing neuroscientific discoveries closer to the public
- Setting up a web page and other online resources of information
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
With the project of raising awareness about the brain we want to encourage healthy people to actively think about their precious organ, the brain. We want to raise awareness about a lifestyle that encourages better functioning of the brain. We want to find as many project partners as possible, partners who would work towards healthy lifestyle in their private and business lives because they know how the brain functions. We want every person to know that the brain is the organ that is responsible for our life and that we need to respect and protect it. During brain awareness week (12-18 March 2012) Center Zarja will organize a study visit called »Where does our brain drive? «. The Study Visits Program is part of the EU’s lifelong learning program. We have just finished Leonardo Da Vinci Mobility Project »Exchange of knowledge and experience with the aim to improve the quality of services for persons after acquired brain injury«. We develop and prepare various prevention programs in the field of brain awareness. In 2010 we started with a national Brain Awareness Project (http://www.pom.si/), which will continue hopefully at the international level. With our knowledge and enthusiasm we would like to help people with ABI and in the Brain awareness project we would like to cooperate with people who want to be healthy and want to bring positive changes to this field.
What stage is your project in?
Operating for 1‐5 years
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenija in this page thera are few information about Slovenia and its characteristics.
Otherwise we have few organizations which goals are directed in prevention in traffic, in primary schools children are learning about functioning of human body etc., they can participate in different actions. We have very succesful Slovenian neuro science association Sinapsa(www.sinapsa.org). But the Brain awareness project is the one and only who thinks more wide and open and wants to get involve with many organizations and non professionals to spread brain awareness based also on neuroscience.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
Centre for people with acquired brain injury, Zarja provides a Wide range of programmes of long-term rehabilitation designed specially for people with an acquired brain injury.
It recognizes the needs of society by providing ABI prevention programmes and services, education, training and counselling for persons with ABI, their families, staff and the general public.
www.zavod-zarja.si
Acquired brain injury is a pervasive
health and social problem worldwide. Over
1.000.000, 00 Europeans have an ABI each year.
Medical and surgical advances have improved the
odds for surviving an ABI. Of those who survive
their initial injury, approximately 10.000, 00
Europeans each year become permanently disabled,
according to the Brain Injury Association (EBIS,
www.ebissociety.org). A slow, very often lifelong,
healing process is common.
Long-term experience in working with individuals with ABI and the people close to them has lead us to decide that we would try to lessen the drastic consequences that a brain injury inflict on the person, the people close to them and the society by raising public awareness.
Social Impact
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Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
In the year of the project, we organised a competition entitled »Mysterious brain« in cooperation with the multimedia portal of RTV Slovenija. More than 70 primary schools participated in it and more than 300 children, mentors and teachers. We found small sponsors to help us carry out the competition successfully. Firstly, the winning items will be exposed at the Neuroscience conference 2011 in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, and after that at other institutions in Slovenia. Certain motives that were developed during the competition will be printed on various media (t-shirts, postcards, invitations …) that will serve as future means of precaution and education.
We organised numerous activities in cooperation with the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health, Sinapsa, the Slovenian Neuroscience Association and many others; for example the participation at Otroški bazar (Child Bazaar), the biggest family event in Slovenia.
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How many people have been impacted by your project?
1,001- 10,000
How many people could be impacted by your project in the next three years?
More than 10,000
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
In september 2011 we will start with a competition entitled " Youth, brains of Europe" for children od age 15-18. We will cooperate with European parliament information office for Slovenia.
Task 1
Till Sept 15th 2011invite all Slovenian secondary schools
Task 2
Till April 2012 leading the competition with cooperation with others organizations and implement other activities related to the project
Task 3
Dissemination achivements and planning for new activities.
Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Looking for partnership, networking.
Operating on a highly professional basis, individually adjusted to each target group,searching for innovative ways to approach each target group individually.
Task 1
Geting active partners in Slovenia and abroad to actively participate in different fields; create synergy in our efforts to spread brain awareness.
Task 2
Create and maintain effective cooperation with professionals and bring neuroscience discoveries and expert knowledge to general public.
Task 3
Create interactive and professionally supported website; make different materials for the general public in Slovenia and abroad.
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
We will find up to 5 leading partners in the project and with their help we will employ competent personnel for organising a wide selection of precaution and education activities, we will open the borders for worldwide cooperation.
We will employ experts that will create a wide network of active operators in cooperation with external experts, universities, associations…
Everybody will have the opportunity to participate in the partnership under the condition of being active, connected and searching for synergies to achieve our common goals.
Sustainability
What barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
We need general sponzors to achieve our goals which are related to cooperation with different organisations, professionals and individuals and connect them into partnership. Each partner in its own field and according to its abilities contributes to healthy brain. Main goal is to include as many partners as possible in order to participate in this socially responsible project.
Tell us about your partnerships
www.pom.si , a list of all project partners with links to their web pages
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
Less than $1,000
Explain your selections
For financing the project we would like to get general multinational sponzors for longer period of time(5 years)for regularly employement professionals who create a wide network of active implementers in cooperation with external professionals, universities, associations.
Partnership in the project is open for everyone. Conditions are acting, connecting and searching for synergies in order to reach common goals.
In this stage of project we are receiving support just for actions and materials that individuals are interested in.
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
1. To design interactive web pages with expert support, various materials for general public in Slovenia and abroad.
2. Systematically reach out to the majority of Slovenia’s population by various innovative activities and create a network of agents for different local activities in Slovenia and present it abroad as a model of good practice.
3. To establish and maintain a good cooperation with the expert public and present neuroscientific discoveries and expert knowledge to the general public.
4. To find numerous active partners in Slovenia and abroad that would help us with activities on various fields and creating synergy in efforts to raise awareness about the brain.
5. To become a highly recognisable movement for the public good in Slovenia and abroad in five-year time.
Challenges
Which barriers to health and well-being does your innovation address?
Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
PRIMARY
Health behavior change
SECONDARY
Incentives for unhealthy living
TERTIARY
Limited access to preventative tools or resources
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
By cooperation and goal directed activities reaching to each human being, leting him know or remind him how can he take care of his brain.
How are you growing the impact of your organization or initiative?
Please select up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Grown geographic reach: Multi-country
SECONDARY
Influenced other organizations and institutions through the spread of best practices
TERTIARY
Grown geographic reach: Global
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
Collaboration with Slovenian partners, presenting one year practice in Europe, seeking for global partners.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
Technology providers, NGOs/Nonprofits, For profit companies, Academia/universities.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
They all have capatibilities to spread the idea of brain awareness.
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