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Another ClimateTech Podcast
Gen Z collabs with Aneta Londa of Moonshot Pirates and the winners of the Shape the Future competition
Aneta Londa is the founder of Moonshot Pirates, an organization that empowers young changemakers to tackle global challenges. In this episode, Aneta is joined by Annie Zountsa and Elanu Karakus, winners of the Shape the Future Challenge, to discuss their innovative project AEIFLORIA and the impact of youth-driven initiatives.
We talked about:
🏴☠️ How Moonshot Pirates teaches Gen Z to fight climate change through innovation
🏆 How four teenagers found a way to help bees find flowers with AEIFLORIA
🔮 How Moonshot Pirates is going to get involved in the future of food, and how you can help
👭 What it’s going to be like for four founders to meet for the very first time in person
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Welcome to another Climate Tech Podcast interviews with people trying to save us from ourselves. This was an especially rewarding experience talking with today's guests, because not only did I get to speak with Aneta Londa, the founder of Moonshot Pirates, but I also got to meet two incredible young changemakers, Annie Zunta and Elanu Karaks, the winners of this year's Shape the Future Challenge convened by Moonshot Pirates. I reached Aneta in Austria, Annie in Greece and Elanur in Turkey. I'm Ryan Grant. Little Thanks for being here. This is a very special episode because I get to introduce two amazing initiatives. This is a very special episode because I get to introduce two amazing initiatives. The first is Moonshot Pirates and its Shape the Future Challenge, and the second is , which is the winner of that challenge itself, and joining me are some of the founders of both. So I have on the line Aneta, Annie, Elanu, Hello, welcome to the podcast.
Ryan Grant Little:Hey, hi, it's great to be here, Annetta, let's start with you, because you're the founder of Moonshot Pirates. You're the person who made all of this happen. What is the organization about? It's got an awesome name. Give us the 101.
Aneta Londa:Right. So Moonshot Pirates. We are a global platform which is designed to empower young change makers to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges. We provide resources, mentorship and supportive community to help young people especially those that are between the ages 15 and 25, to turn their innovative ideas into impactful solutions. And really our mission here is to bridge the gap between the traditional education and those real world readiness which gives really young people the tools and the confidence they need to become the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs and you have a background working with entrepreneurs in climate tech, working with young people.
Ryan Grant Little:How did the idea come about and maybe give a bit of history about the organization?
Aneta Londa:Right. So we have started back in 2019. And the idea came from? Maybe?
Aneta Londa:I introduced a bit of my story, how I grew up. I grew up in a small town in Czech Republic with not really that many opportunities to get involved in entrepreneurship or innovation, and I took this traditional path of going to school, getting good grades, going to university, finding a good job, you know, and eventually being successful and happy. Right, and I was 27. All of it happened. I had a good job, well-paid, you know, moved to Austria, but I had a major, major burnout and I simply realized that the things that I was doing didn't really follow the purpose that I was having within me. It didn't really align with my values.
Aneta Londa:And back then I joined another community TEDx community in Austria and there I met incredible founders, change makers, innovators, and I saw what was possible when the right people connect and the right knowledge is given to you, right. And that was the moment where we were thinking, hey, wait a second, maybe so that people don't end up like me 27, having good grades, good university, good job, but being completely burned out because you know what they are doing doesn't align with their passion. What if we do something for young people out there. What if we help them to figure out what they are passionate about and how can they?
Ryan Grant Little:make an impact from an early age Amazing. And what are some of the different programs? So we're going to talk today about the Shape the Future Challenge, but what are some of the different kind of pillars that you work with and how does the program or how does Moonshot Pirates kind of express itself and work as part of a broader ecosystem?
Aneta Londa:Right. So I mean, we have kind of three pillars that we always focus on. The first one if you want to make a difference, it always starts with you, right? So it's a lot of personal development. We kind of call it Moonshot thinking that's why we are called Moonshot Pirates, but it's also this pirate way to figuring out what you want, what are your strengths, what are your skills, you know, and maybe not going the traditional way. So that's kind of this personal development pillar.
Aneta Londa:The second one is look, sure, we can develop the next game or a startup that makes a lot of money, but if it doesn't contribute to solving some of the world's biggest challenges, what are we doing here, right? So the second pillar is really look around you. What are the challenges that our world is facing and how can you contribute in solving them with the use of amazing technologies that are out there nowadays and that can be used, just you know, through your phone nowadays, really. So that's the second pillar. And the third pillar is one thing is knowing about yourself and knowing about those problems and technologies, but if you do not do anything with that, well, it goes to waste, right. So the third pillar is really taking action, and we do that through entrepreneurship and innovation. So this is the pillars that our programs are based on.
Ryan Grant Little:That's brilliant, and I often lament that. You know my generation, the millennials. Over the past 10 years, some of the greatest minds were put into finding ways to get your groceries delivered two minutes faster.
Annie Zountsa:And so it's great to see a bit of a reset here with some purpose Shape the future challenge.
Ryan Grant Little:I have some numbers here 1,500 people age 15 to 25, as you said, from 90 countries. Yeah, how did you manage this? So you know, as someone who puts together events from time to time, just from a purely tactical perspective, I'm really curious how you're able to put this together and get that kind of throughput.
Aneta Londa:So I mean, the numbers that you just mentioned are actually numbers just from the recent challenge that we've had, but maybe let me give you a bit of the bigger picture. So, as I said, we started Moonshot Pirates back in 2019. It was really a small bootcamp in Austria and since then, we've seen an amazing growth, growth, and I know for some people that was a really tough period, but for us, when COVID hit, we moved a lot of our programs online, which really really helped us to expand globally. And since then, we had the privilege and I say really privileged, because those young people and we will hear it today from Annie and Elano they're amazing. We had the privilege of working with over 12,000 young people from over 150 countries, and I think it's all about the way you communicate your mission, the vision, the thing that you stand for that attracts the right people, because we couldn't do this alone, right?
Aneta Londa:So we started small, but we were thinking big and we leaned a lot on social media word of mouth, but also on strong partnerships and the incredible, incredible dedication of our mentors and volunteers. So over the years, we had I think it's right now around 15,000 mentorship hours from our network of 450 people supporting these changemakers. We had incredible partnerships with Volkswagen Group, unicredit Bank, sos, children's Villages, and we also recently closed a strategic partnership with, for instance, esther Warchitzky, which is the person at education, a so-called godmother of Silicon Valley, and she has also three pretty successful children, so she knows what she's talking about when it comes to raising young people. One of her daughters is the former CEO of YouTube, for instance, and with that, we also hope to expand our programs more and more, for instance, in the United States.
Ryan Grant Little:Okay. So with partners like that and an alumni of 15,000 people so far who are going to go on to do great things and found great companies, I'm expecting that in five years you're going to have a bigger endowment than Harvard University and be able to scale things even more. So let's talk about the Shape, the Future Challenge itself. So this is not the first one. What are some of the past ones? How has it evolved? What are some of the different kind of topics that you've covered, and what was the theme of the one we're talking about today?
Aneta Londa:All right. So the Shade the Future Challenge. It's really a six-week journey where young people from all over the world come together to tackle big issues, such as was the last one, which was all about climate change. But there are also challenges that we run on the future of mobility. We are going to run on the future food very soon, as you mentioned, on energy and other topics that we have in our store.
Aneta Londa:We can say that, and within the challenge, basically, young people come together and they work in teams and are guided by really experienced mentors from the field to develop innovative solutions for some of those biggest challenges that we just talked about, and then they pitch it to a panel of experts and in the end there is a winner, which today we have Pani and Elano here, and they will share a bit more about that. But the reason why we are kind of running those challenges is that, you know, it really resonates with the mission that we have here and it is really about empowering young people to make a real difference. Maybe I can put some stats here into the conversation.
Ryan Grant Little:Please.
Aneta Londa:You know, when you look at the current generation, that you can call it right Gen Z. Those are aged between 12 and 27. They are really on the track to become the largest and the most diverse generation history, and there is a recent study, I think was done by Zen Business, that shows that 93% of Gen Z's has already taken steps toward exploring their business ownership and 75 percent of them want to eventually launch their businesses. The problem here is that's what we see and that's why we are running those shared future challenges is that the traditional entrepreneurship education isn't really cutting it. You you know it's too focused on theory, it doesn't tolerate failure and it really lacks this real world, resources and network to make a real difference. And that's where the shape, the future challenge comes in the bridge, really the gap offering young people the resources, the mentorship and the network they need to tackle those challenges heads on.
Ryan Grant Little:And so this last challenge was about climate change and, in particular, fighting climate change, and we'll hear from some of the winners in just a moment. But can you talk about some of the other amazing projects that you saw that didn't make it through the finish line, but that really stick out in your mind a couple of months after the challenge ended?
Aneta Londa:Yeah, right. So the Shape the Future challenge really always brings quite amazing and forward thinking ideas, and we need to think of these young people. I don't know any any, ilano, how old are you? I'm 18 and I'm 16. Right, so we have, you know, those 16 to 20 year olds coming together to develop these impactful solutions within four to six weeks period.
Aneta Londa:And some of the teams that stuck with me in my mind from the previous challenges that we've been running. There was, for instance, a team the name was Entrepreneurs and it was a team of high school students from Austria who, in just four weeks, developed an AI system that took traffic camera video streams to evaluate risk and prevent accidents, so they could really tell you if an accident is happening even before it happens. A second project was a team who was a 16 year old girl from Las Vegas and an 18 year old boy from Mexico, and they developed a wristband that can detect if you're getting a seizure through sweat compounds and notification to lay down you know, take a, find a safe space, notify your close ones. And I think, the last project that I want to also mention and that's maybe not success story from the project itself that was developed, but the follow-up, what happened with that project, which is, I think, really important because we are still in education business. Right, it was a project.
Aneta Londa:Firefly was one of the first challenges that we ran, which aimed to revolutionize the way we tackle wildfires. So they used drones and a sound vortex to push the wildfires away. And one of those founders I mean the project didn't. Eventually it didn't happen right, because it didn't simply fit all the boxes that needed to implement but one of the founders, through this path, discovering what she was passionate about, she decided to skip a college after the challenge and start her own prop tech company called FAURA in New York. So she moved from Las Vegas to New York and now she's really tackling climate-related insurance challenges, for instance, and just got funding of $500,000 for the first round of funding. So these are really just some examples of the incredible projects and stories coming out of our challenges, and there are so many more on personal level and the project level.
Ryan Grant Little:That's incredible. I mean you could do an entire challenge just on wildfires right now. Right, I mean it's such a massive issue speaking as a Canadian where we now have our annual wildfire season and it's a total travesty, annie Adanu. So first of all, massive congratulations on your win. This is a very, very competitive group, obviously, and I mean just phenomenal that you took the top place. So, ifloria, this is your winning project. Something about bees and flowers. Talk to us.
Annie Zountsa:Exactly so. Thank you so much. I'm going to start with a little fun fact here about how our name came to be. So iFloria, it's actually one word, but two words combined, so I, which means forever in Greek in ancient Greek actually and floria comes from flora and another part. So when we combine it, ifloria, it reminds us of another Greek word, which is euphoria, which essentially also means sustainability in Greek. So it's kind of like forever, flowers and sustainability, and this is kind of how our name came to be. But let's also dive a little bit deeper into the problem and the solution what exactly it is that we thought of creating.
Elanu Karakus:yeah, so the shape, the future challenge. All of the teams focused on climate change and its effects. Right, one thing that and the fact that climate change has on our ecosystem that not a lot of people know about is that it reduces the production of bee-attracting scents and nectar from flowers. So these climacist flowers no longer attract enough bees and the bees can no longer find enough nutrition because they cannot find flowers, and this is a vicious cycle. It keeps on and on, and right now there's not a lot of solutions in place. So we want to break a vicious cycle. It keeps on and on, and right now there's not a lot of solutions in place. So we want to break this vicious cycle and redesign our solution.
Annie Zountsa:And this is exactly what it does. Essentially, it disperses artificial scent across flower fields to help bees get guided back to these nectar hotspots. And actually in a few flower species, by increasing that bee flower interaction, which is what our flower aims to do, nectar and pollen production gets also increased and the nutrients that they produce also get increased. So essentially it's kind of a win-win situation Bees get guided back to flowers, flowers get pollinated and bees get the nutrients that they need in order to continue thriving and continue guiding this positive cycle forward.
Ryan Grant Little:And are these actual flowers? Are they synthetic flowers? Do they look like flowers to try to kind of trick the bees into going and pollinating them, or what? Should we imagine this, you know, paint the picture of what this actually looks like and kind of how it's on a field, who's putting it there and how the whole thing works.
Elanu Karakus:It's like a toy, more like a toy. Yeah, it's a 3D printed flower shape unit. It's just like a toy. Think about, like a children's flower I had I think I had something similar when I was good and a farmer is supposedly just dig a little hole and plant that toy into the soil and that our smart flower will disperse, uh be attracting scents, and then the bees in the field will find our toy, but then also find the flowers that are next to our toys.
Ryan Grant Little:Amazing. Okay, so there's real flowers around there and this is just kind of like the decoy that's putting off the scent and bringing the bees there and then, once they're within that distance, it's close enough that they can smell the other flowers.
Elanu Karakus:Exactly yes.
Ryan Grant Little:That's brilliant, and so do you need one per field? Do you need a hundred? Are you talking to farmers? What are they kind of saying about what this would actually look like in practice?
Annie Zountsa:So it really depends on the size of the field that we're talking about. Our goal with making these units small was to not limit them to big farms but also make them accessible to smaller farmers if they want to include them in their fields. Yes, it would take a little bit more of actual testing in said fields to understand where the efficiency goes and where we would need to add another one. But yes, we're talking probably, if it's a very big field, probably more than 10 units per field. But again, testing here would be needed. We've talked to a few flowers. Maybe, alana, you can add a little bit more here because you were the one who had the conversations. But yeah, definitely a lot more real world testing needed to answer that 100%. But more than 10 units if it's quite a big field.
Elanu Karakus:Yeah, we're talking with farmers right now and we wanna do our pilot testing to understand the exact question that you asked us. But one answer that we have is that if it's a bigger field we'll need more units. But the thing about bees, that they're actually really smart animals, right, and if you can just point them to where the flowers are, you just can like, if you just can help, and then we don't really need much of these units to kind of make our fields have a mesmerizing scent that even we can follow around. No, bees are smart, we just need to give them a little push.
Ryan Grant Little:I mean it sounds like a really cost-effective solution as well. It's like a scent diffuser that looks like a flower, and the issue isn't that the bees have lost their ability to smell, it's that the flowers. Isn't that the bees have lost their ability to smell, it's that the flowers don't smell as strongly and so you can't, kind of you know, it's out of radar range for them, basically. So I mean it sounds like a really elegant solution in its simplicity and its biomimicry as well.
Annie Zountsa:Yeah, and actually we were looking into existing solutions which is part of the reason why we ended up going with bees as well and the lack of help in that sector was that they were not only cost intensive but also very labor and time consuming. One solution that currently exists is to go and individually spray flowers with said synthetic smell. So someone would actually need to go out in the field with a spray bottle and spray, you know, long, long hectares of their fields with the scent to attract bees, or, you know, buy bees to actually, you know, take them to your field. There are a lot of solutions that we simply thought, hey, let's maybe try to create something better, and this is how it came to be, how iFlurry came to be.
Ryan Grant Little:Let's talk a little bit about bees themselves, because there's very little knowledge, I think, out there. I learned a fair bit about bees because of through a company called Melibio, which makes like a synthetic honey and is a very, very cool startup out of Slovenia. And I've just plant, like at home, I've just planted a whole bunch of English lavender because I literally Googled, like what is a plant that I can put in a sunny balcony that just won't die, because I cannot keep plants alive, at least not outside. And then, of course, what happens if you plant lavender is you start to get very acquainted with bees. So they've been on my mind the past few weeks as I've been sitting with my laptop next to the window and seeing lots of them. But why don't you kind of take it away and talk a bit about what's special about bees and maybe why they're so important to ecosystems?
Annie Zountsa:Yeah, so the thing with bees and pollination is that it drives plant reproduction. It is essentially how the majority of plant species are able to continue going for plant generations to come, if that's something that can be said, and that not only goes for flowers. So, yes, it does go for flowers Us seeing beautiful landscapes with gorgeous flowers. That's mostly the work of bees, and through pollination they're able to help flowers reproduce. But it also goes for food production. So, for example, strawberries, coffee beans, heavily relying on pollination for their reproduction, and also other plants such as cotton, which is used in the textile industry. That also partially has to do with pollination to continue thriving. So this is why they're very, very important to the ecosystem, because if they do not exist, we need to find other ways to keep all of these flower species going and thriving, which would be very challenging to do. So I think this is where mostly the importance of bees comes from when we talk about how ecosystems rely on them.
Ryan Grant Little:And food systems as well. So you just touched on that, and so probably when people think about bees and food, they think just about honey, but it actually goes a lot deeper than that, and part of this is because of pollination. I watched back your winning pitch this week and there were some very interesting stats that you had there as well, and I wonder if you want to share some of those about what bees mean to the food system globally.
Elanu Karakus:Yeah, 85% of our food supply in the world. World that depends on the 30-second interaction between a plant and a beast of pollination. And you know, if the beast population keeps declining as it is right now, rice and grains will be our diet, and that does not sound appealing to me, right? We humans? We enjoy having our choices fruits, veggies, meats so we need to find a way to rely on the bee population so that we make sure that our food supply is intact and we have our choices. And also pollinators like bees. They contribute to over $500 billion to agricultural landscape. That is a lot of money, and while money is money, we care about it as much as we care about food, and that's why bees hold so much more importance than I think a lot of people realize.
Ryan Grant Little:That's almost as much money as the moonshotates endowment will be worth in five years. I wonder, is this the only idea that you looked at Was it bees right from the beginning, or were there some other ideas that you played around with and you landed on this one?
Elanu Karakus:Yeah, there were. Actually. We had a lot of ideas in the beginning. All of us are very passionate about climate change and the challenge itself is about climate change. Climate change and the challenge itself is about climate change. So we looked into different problems such as dam failures, inefficiency of vertical farming, lights and wildfires. So a lot of variety, because there are a lot of problems to solve, right, but we landed on these because of the problems hidden importance and the lack of solutions in the place. Also, some of us some of my teammates, including me we have personal connection to agriculture. I have a farmer family members, my grandparents are farmers and I see how the crop yields or just generally the landscapes affected. It's been affected by the declining bee population. You don't see bees anymore at the flowers. They're not as colorful as they were and this needs. We knew that this needed to be sold and we realized that we could be the ones to solve it annie, you're in greece and I know you're in turkey.
Ryan Grant Little:you have two other co-founders, mar Mariam's in the UAE and Katarina's in Ukraine, and I wonder you know that's international, a founding team as I think I've probably ever seen. How did you all meet? How did you put this together? How did you decide to compete in this challenge together?
Annie Zountsa:So actually let me take it from the very, very beginning of how we met. So two years ago we both started on a program called the Knowledge Society, or TKS for short, which is based in Canada.
Ryan Grant Little:That's you and Elanu.
Annie Zountsa:Me, elanu, miriam and Katerina.
Ryan Grant Little:Oh, okay, all of you, all four of you.
Annie Zountsa:Yeah, all four of us and it's based in Canada, tks, but it has a global virtual program and this is where we all got acquainted sitting in our computers, going on weekly calls. And TKS actually resembles the mission of Moonshot Pirates a lot. So the description that TKS has is kind of Olympic training for innovators. It's a year-round program, it's 10 months, so we would go every week on weekly calls, three-hour sessions, learning about problems, learning about real-world skills, getting acquainted with what it really means to make a solution a reality, what it means to have moonshot thinking. That's actually one of the projects that we had to do as a moonshot project, so you can understand how we're naturally drawn towards that direction. But this is where we met through TKS and it was kind of through all of these projects that we got acquainted. Where we met through TKS and it was kind of through all of these projects that we got acquainted and Elan, who I think here can add a little bit more on how exactly you know we, we went towards Moonshine Pirates at the end.
Elanu Karakus:Yeah, so we did two years of TKS and towards the end we worked on a challenge that TKS provided and that's when we worked as a team for the first time and to the end we realized that we have so much complementary skill sets you know we have a similar base of thinking but also can raise the questions that needs to be raised to understand where we are lacking. So when the program was ending we thought, hey, like we need to keep working together. We can make something so impressive, so we can. We have to find a way to keep working because we knew that we just enjoyed doing that and we were successful.
Elanu Karakus:So Miriam shared the link of Michelle Pyers and say, hey, let's try this one. And we were like, yes, of course, let let's go. And we had so much fun working together and, I think, doing that step forward. So with international teams it's really hard to keep being connected right, keep in touch and by kind of getting out of our zone where we met and keep working together, we really make our relationship even more connected. And when this comes into the prize section, but when we're imagining lives, I think it's going to be a lot more fun and exciting.
Ryan Grant Little:Okay, this is amazing. So just as you're talking, I'm thinking you've been working together for two years. The four of you have probably not even met in real life yet.
Annie Zountsa:We haven't no.
Ryan Grant Little:Wow, Okay and yeah. I wanted to ask you if you get a prize as the winners of Shape the Future. I think you just answered that and I know it sounds like it's going to be an amazing reunion.
Annie Zountsa:Yeah, it's a very, very cool prize.
Annie Zountsa:We're going to get to meet all together in San Francisco, which is, if you told me a year ago that I would get to meet some of my best virtual friends in person in the US, like from Greece, turkey, ukraine and the UAE I would have told you not even in my wildest dreams, honestly.
Annie Zountsa:But yeah, we're going to get to meet all together in person pretty, pretty soon. And it's amazing because, as Alain said, like it's hard to form relationships online, like through a screen, like for the most part, I've only seen, you know that, the top part of the faces of these people. And it's crazy because you know, when you get to establish so close friendships without even having ever met in person, you can understand how really you are able to click with these people. So, just getting the chance to finally meet in person, I think it's going to be amazing. Apart from all of the other cool things we're going to do on the trip, like, don't get me wrong, we're super, super excited for all of the things as well, and getting to push our idea forward too. That's going to be thrilling, but especially getting to meet each other in person, I think this is just something else, like something I would have never imagined actually happen, and very, very excited for that.
Ryan Grant Little:And you don't have to pay for it even better. So what comes next? So you said pushing the idea forward. Presumably the four of you all have university ahead, potentially as well. But what happens with the project now?
Elanu Karakus:Yeah, so our teammates. We are all in different stages of life. Some of us are taking going into university this year, Some of us are taking gap years and well, Annie is still in high school. But one thing that we have in common is that we all are so passionate about bringing solutions to the world that are going to have impacts and presumably the climate sector and we have something in our hands. We have a floria and we're so excited moving this forward as much as we can, and we want to take this, take a prize trip to plan accordingly and understand what can we do now is the timing right and how and what are the next steps forward? But whatever like our decision comes to be, I know for a fact that the passion that we have to build things and build things that matter. You're going to hear our names, maybe with different projects, but still the same impact.
Ryan Grant Little:Amazing. I love that, and I love that you're focused on projects that matter. That's such an important distinction. And so what comes next? You're going to go on this trip. I'm working on a climate tech project.
Annie Zountsa:Like. Essentially, I think, whatever you're doing, even if it's something like in the healthcare sector or like in deep tech, you can always like. If you're a climate warrior, you're a climate warrior. Like, let me tell you that, like if you're climate conscious it comes in any project that you do.
Annie Zountsa:So I would say absolutely because, as Alain who said, like, we do have that passion about you know making it real and helping changing the world and doing that, you know caring about the environment. So I think, no matter if we continue working on like a climate tech project or if we go down different paths, I think this is always like that climate consciousness is always going to exist, no matter what path we end on.
Ryan Grant Little:For the greater good. Yeah, it's interesting, you know that we have this view that everyone has to be a startup founder, but on the podcast I have comedians, artists, policymakers, you know, of course, investors, activists, lots of activists as well. So there are lots of ways to make a difference in climate activists, lots of activists as well. So there are lots of ways to make a difference in climate. Aneta, I'm going to turn it to you for the last word, and that is for people who are as impressed as I am right now and want to get involved with Moonshot, pirates or the Next Shape, the Future Challenge. What's the best way for them to do that?
Aneta Londa:Right, but first of all, thank you so much for having us, ryan, and thank you for everything you do. You know, bringing different people together from different parts of life to really share how, how they are making a difference in their own way. We hear it from Annie and Elan already. You know you don't have to be the climate warrior, but you need to. You know, do your own work to make this world a little better. So thank you for that. And yeah, so how can the listeners get involved? And I hope that, after hearing Annie and Elanu, they really do. I mean, we are always on a lookout for amazing partners who believe in our mission, right? So all of our programs are free for these young change makers. We call them and we really depend on partners who want to help the next generation to acquire the right mindset and the skills to make a difference in our world. And, on the other hand, of course, the partners can get so much from working with these young changemakers. Anin recently also gave an interview talking about this naivety of a young person, which is actually a good thing, because the solutions that the young people come up with for those big challenges are really out of the box, creative solutions that you might not come up in your daily business. So it's really. There is a huge benefit also for companies to collaborate with these change makers, and so our next big event and you already mentioned it at the beginning is the next Shape, the Future Challenge, actually, which this time, is going to be focusing on something that is really close to me as a passionate vegan, actually, and it's going to be on shaping the future of food. We are going to be diving into a topic of alternative protein, but also feeding the next, you know, billions of people in our world, and how can we do that? How can we provide affordable nutrition? We are doing it this October, november, in partnership with a Swiss company called Sjewaudan, actually, but there is always a place for more partners to jump in. So that's the start.
Aneta Londa:We have also future challenges planned on the future of mobility, energy, climate change, and we also, for those that want to get involved even deeper, we are starting our Launchpad program, which is an accelerator for more advanced ideas, where it's not just about the idea development, but really going from that ideation to bringing it to market. We have different mentorship programs, gen Z advisory boards as well, so if you're interested in joining Moonshot Pirates, becoming a Moonshot Pirate, whether it is becoming a partner or a mentor. We work with incredible experts from all around the world. You can find us on LinkedIn, instagram, you can visit our website munchapirescom and simply, you know, get in touch and you know, for me, I truly believe that we can only make a change if we collaborate together, whether it's the young people, whether it's the companies, the startups, the experts you know the industry Only like that, we experts, you know the industry Only like that we can make a difference and, hopefully, make this world a bit better than it is right now.
Ryan Grant Little:As always, relevant links in the show notes Aneta Elanu. Annie, what a pleasure you made my week. Thank you so much for joining me today.
Annie Zountsa:Thank you for having us. Thank you, thank you.
Ryan Grant Little:Thanks for listening to another Climate Tech Podcast. It would mean a lot if you would subscribe, rate and share this podcast. Get in touch anytime with tips and guest recommendations at hello at climatetechpodcom. Find me, ryan Grant Little, on LinkedIn. I'll be back with another episode next week. Bye for now.
