Most (The bridge) is our latest creation: a cooperative board game in which players must jointly rebuild a settlement destroyed in the wake of a flood. During the game, they must cross the bridge, find the necessary materials to repair the damage suffered and get away in time from the storms.
August 2, 2025
Talking about migration in the classroom is fundamental for civic education and social cohesion among young people. However, teachers face significant challenges in addressing these issues. To support teachers and students, we have launched the Invisible Stories project.
March 2, 2025
In 2018, we embarked on a journey to transform the teaching of mathematics in European primary schools through the Added Value Project. Together with our amazing partners we developed innovative approaches to make math more relevant to real-life problem-solving in elementary schools. Today, we are thrilled to announce that the second phase of the project, Added Value Level Up, has been approved!
October 7, 2024
In an ever-changing world driven by technological development, the internet, social media and artificial intelligence give us access to an overflow of information that, unfortunately, can lead to misinformation. At Smilemundo, we understand the importance of tackling this challenge from the root: understanding how our emotions and internal states are affected by interacting with content based on false information.
June 19, 2024
For years, Barcelona has stood out as a benchmark in innovation and the implementation of bold local policies. The city has successfully integrated new technologies with a deep social sensitivity and openness to diversity. In the book “Co-created: Social Innovation in Barcelona”, Aleksandra Zemke, founder and director of Smilemundo, shares her experience working in the social innovation sector in this vibrant city and highlights four exemplary projects and entities.
December 20, 2023
Last May, we celebrated with excitement when we learned that our Insignia project was selected among more than 120 initiatives from around the world as one of the four winners of the Erase Indifference Challenge. This challenge, promoted by the Auschwitz Pledge Foundation, aims to find and fund innovative, imaginative and measurable projects that drive concrete action to eradicate indifference, foster empathy and promote acceptance and celebration of our differences.
December 5, 2023
We have started this new academic year with two exciting projects (Invisible Stories and FAKE kNOw MORE) – yet another valuable experience and one more step in the educational work we have been developing in recent years.
November 5, 2022
We have designed the training workshop ‘SDGs and Human Rights Defenders’, which has been given to technical staff of the public administration, in the framework of a project funded by the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation.
November 10, 2021
Within the framework of our project ‘Added Value’, we have organized two free sessions for primary and secondary education professionals in which we will share tools aimed at making the teaching of STEAM subjects (mathematics, natural sciences, technology, biology …) more practical, fun and transversal.
December 9, 2019
More than 4,000 employees of the Catalan public administration will attend the ‘Introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals’ course, with the aim of acquiring general knowledge about the 17 SDGs established by the UN, so that they can apply them in their day to day life, both in the professional and personal field.
May 19, 2019
In April around 170 students of the Governance and Inclusive Development Studies of the University of Amsterdam will play our SmileUrbo role-playing game. The purpose of the activity is to let the students, through the simulation, learn to represent and defend a specific role within a certain conflict.
April 22, 2019
We have started a program with the municipality of Słupsk to support the creation of a social and solidarity economy network in this city. A delegation from the town hall led by its mayor Robert Biedroń visited Barcelona to learn firsthand about some successful practices in the area.
November 27, 2017
One of our last projects was requested by the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) who asked us to design a training methodology that could be used by the representants of local and regional governments to locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
November 23, 2017
In September 2015, the United Nations adopted their Sustainable Development Goals in New York, USA. Half of the world´s population live in cities (by 2030 the number will grow to 70%). For this reason, cities play a leading role in reaching the sustainable development of the planet.
December 15, 2015
SmileUrbo, the interactive role-playing game developed by the organisation Smilemundo, has been named a finalist in the World Summit Youth Award. Each year, this international competition brings together young entrepreneurs from around the world who use the internet and mobile technology to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 2014, there were nearly 1,900 submissions from over 140 countries, from which only 18 winning projects were selected from among the various categories.
November 15, 2015