1. This document provides instructions for FoW Explorers on how to help entrepreneurs through a 5 step process: join the Explorers community, find an innovation to support, solve challenges for the innovation, facilitate an event to provide support, and share outcomes to improve innovations. 2. Explorers are asked to connect with innovators, identify challenges to address, and organize events like talks, workshops and mapping sessions to generate solutions. 3. The goal is to help innovators accelerate their initiatives through community support and cross-pollination of ideas. Outputs are shared online to spread knowledge and continue developing the Future of Waste platform.

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3. Hello!
This toolkit will explain you how to
help FoW entrepreneurs in your city
in 5 steps.
I’m Timothée, the community developer of
FoW
I can help you on Facebook or contact me
tim@futureofwaste.org

4. Future of Waste showcases projects and smart
solutions that show waste can be a restart: check
them out on futureofwaste.org.
FoW gathers entrepreneurs, innovators, passionates
and students wishing to support positive solutions for
the environment, sustainability and circular
economy.
You can contribute by solving the challenges of the
innovators in any city of the world.
About FoW
Get to know smart innovators
Get trained to facilitate the events
Travel in all cities as a FoW Explorer

5. Summary
1.Join the Explorers
2.Find an innovation
3.Solve a challenge
4.Facilitate an event
5.Share & improve it

7. Join the Explorers1
From Berlin, London, Cyprus, Los Angeles or Paris, the
active members of FoW are radically changing the
future of waste.
Join us to build the community from the inside.
On www.futureofwaste.org :
1. Go on “Community”
2. Click “Join”
3. Fill in the form
Timothée will add you to the FoW crew on Facebook.
Join the community

9. Find an innovation
A FoW innovator with a stunning initiative related to waste
reduction and transformation might be waiting for you in any
part of the world!
FoW helps projects in every field of innovation:
1. Arts
2. Social Innovation
3. Renewable energy
4. Smart collection
5. New resources
6. Awareness
You can either find some projects on
futureofwaste.org, contact a friend, a project holder
you met in a conference, on internet, or ask the FoW
Crew on Facebook who’s in your city.
Ask him a 30min interview (skype, phone, coffee) to
know what are his/her challenges and his story. If he’s
not on the platform yet, offer him to “submit” his
project and challenge online.
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10. 1. Connection: We help you connect to a variety of actors to
develop new bridges and create opportunities.
2. Innovation: We create tools together to experiment or
develop new possible transpositions of the existing solutions
in various scales or contexts.
3. Diffusion: You control the level of information that you
disclose to the public, but the contents and tools created
within the community are accessible to everyone.
4. Small is beautiful: We focus on short-circuit initiatives and
initiatives that open up a large scope of new possibilities.
5. Shared horizon: We promote innovations that foster a more
circular economy, with an optimal environmental balance and
a positive social impact.
6. Openness: We promote examples of innovators, citizens,
artists, inventors, public players and private companies, who
question our habits towards a better transformation of waste.
7. Impact: We are a global network with a positive impact on a
local scale.
✓Check list
> Check out the manifestow to be sure the
entrepreneur is in line with the attitudes of the
community:

11. Solve a challenge
You can help innovators around the world accelerate their
initiatives. Pick a challenge you want to solve on the platform
www.futureofwaste.org and share your ideas online.
Build an inspiration wall and solve a challenge at each
stage of the innovation process:
#NewTransformation - #NewService - #Prototype -
#UserExperience - #Replicate - #CloseTheLoop
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13. FoW Talk
FoW Remix
FoW Mapping

14. Facilitate an event
Now that you better understand the project, choose the best
format to answer the innovator’s need and boom your local
FoW group.
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Learn & Share:
> Drink: Get together and meet new Explorers while
one present a solution and inspire the participants.
> Talk: A panel of experts and innovators discuss a
subject with a challenging crowd.
Solve a challenge:
> Remix: The community works on one's challenge
to design a prototype or a toolkit.
> Mapping: The community builds a map to help the
innovator understand his ecosystem and balance
the opportunities.

16. FoW Drink
A FoW Drink is a perfect event to get to know each other and
meet Explorers in your city. Give more sense to your meeting
and invite a special guest to present an innovation!
Choose your format to present an innovation:
• PechaKucha: 20 slides x 20 sec (7 minutes
duration), short, fun and impactful.
• Demo: Set up a stage and have the speaker show
how his solution works!
• Presentation of 15 min: Followed by 15 min
questions, extended and debateful.
1h
- Entrepreneurs: Explain and challenge their
solutions, develop their network.
- Explorers: Get to know local initiatives and meet
passionate people.
Outputs

17. ✓Check list
BEFORE
> Don’t forget to prepare a presentation to
introduce FoW activity and questions to foster the
discussion!
> Find a quiet venue. Need help? Get in touch with
Timothée.
DURING
> Take pics & videos!
> Ping the participants on Facebook & tweet the best
quotes. Don't forget to mention @FOWaste
> Take time before and/or after to discuss with
Explorers and plan next events.
> Introduce participants to each other.
AFTER
> Publish and share the presentations and videos
> Send a thank you email to the speakers and
participants.
> Invite new Explorers to join the community.

19. FoW Talk
Give voice to the most off-beat and powerful innovations!
Discover a new subject with a panel of experts and
entrepreneurs.
A FoW Talk offers the opportunity to cross visions,
question and reinvent our innovation models. Invite
different speakers that cover the subject you picked.
Don't forget to leave time to participants so they can
express themselves and discuss with the panel.
Hint: Split the audience in small groups and let them
work for about 30min on questions you have prepared.
2h
- Speakers: Explain and challenge their solutions,
develop their network.
- Explorers: Get to know smart solutions and meet
passionate people.
Outputs

20. ✓Check list
BEFORE
> Get ready to animate the discussion and foster
the debate! Hint: Study the subjects and speakers
> Prepare your communication on social networks.
> Prepare the room.
> You lack of contacts to invite cool people? You are
in trouble with logistics? Timothée will help you.
DURING
> Take pics & videos! (Record the whole event if you
can).
> Ping the participants on Facebook & tweet the best
quotes.
> Ask the audience who they want to see in the next
Talk!
AFTER
> Publish and share the presentations and videos.
> Send a thank you email to the speakers and
participants.

22. Take a project, find related innovations that could
inspire it, and create a useful tool.
A Remix is a creativity workshops based on a design
thinking methodology. At the end, everybody leaves
with something concrete. Define what it will be:
• A prototype: For instance co-design the best bin, a
biodigester, a collection process,.… that could help
the entrepreneur and the community.
• A toolkit: Build a ready-to-use kit for the
entrepreneur and the community.
- Entrepreneurs: Find new ideas to improve their
project and increase visibility
- Explorers: Understand design thinking, provide
help and have fun.
FoW Remix2h30
Outputs

23. BEFORE
> Have you looked for all compatible innovations
that could take your entrepreneur’s project one step
forward? Look for projects on the platform & ask the
Facebook group FoW Crew if they have ideas!
> Download the Remix templates (sent by email by
Timothée).
> Ask for people’s ideas before the workshop and
invite them to build an inspiration wall on the
project’s page.
DURING
> Take pics and vids of the solutions!
AFTER
> Upload & Share the solutions with the community!
✓Check list

26. Invite innovators to help a projects to have a precise
vision of its environment and field (oil, paper, textile,...).
During a mapping session participants map the
project's ecosystem, co-define a dedicated
vocabulary and co-design a cartography.
Life-cycle - Value chain - Key players - User path
A mapping session enables to identify the hot spots
that the entrepreneur need to focus on and the trade
offs. At the end, different scenarii can be drawn and the
impact assessed.
•- Entrepreneurs: Spot collaboration opportunities,
learn more on its ecosystem.
- Explorers: Contribute and enrich their knowledge
of the circular economy model.
FoW Mapping2h30
Outputs
Format tested
but not
formalized

27. BEFORE
> Which actors of the field could come? Ask the
Facebook group FoW Crew if they have
connections, and don’t forget to invite some
companies!
> Download the templates for the Mapping (sent
by email by Timothée).
> Ask for people’s ideas before the workshop and
invite them to post them to build an inspiration
wall on the project’s page.
DURING
> Take pics and vids of the solutions!
AFTER
> Share the contents to the community!
✓Check list

29. Share & improve4
> Do you have writing/photograph talents? Take
pictures and post the images on the Facebook event.
> Do you have video skills? Film the solutions and share
them with the FoW Crew.
If someone wants to get involved, tell him to join us by
clicking “join the community” on the website or by
writing to tim@futureofwaste.org.
After each event, we collect the contacts of the
persons who want to take part in FoW, and we add
them to the FoW Crew Facebook Group.
Then, share your feedbacks and impressions to the
other FoW Explorers!