Makesense began with volunteers, people around the world who wanted to help social entrepreneurs develop solutions to global challenges. It was their way of taking action on issues that were much bigger than them. Over the years, more and more volunteers and social entrepreneurs joined along the way, creating a global network of thousands of engaged people.
Volunteers organize offline events gathering citizens and social entrepreneurs to create or develop social projects. There are all sorts of events; some last a couple of hours when others last several days. Most of them are based on collective intelligence principles and methodologies. There are many reasons to join this community: meet actors of the inspiring change, contribute to the fight for climate change or for the development of circular economy, act in favour of the refugees, creating links between people…