Ana Florescu

Head of @goodproblems_sp @sciencepractice | Designs problem-led funding initiatives. Speaks science, innovation & design.

[Ana Florescu @anaMflorescu]

Come join our team @goodproblems_sp! We're looking for someone passionate about global issues and designing funding programmes to help solve them! Deadline 9am, 1 Sept👇

[Good Problems Team @goodproblems_sp]

🤝 Are you a researcher or designer interested in developing impactful, evidence-led funding programmes?
🙌 Join our team @sciencepractice and help us design a more inclusive, transparent, and strategic funding sector!
👉 More info: https://t.co/XBa0aH9uS7

[Good Problems Team @goodproblems_sp]

We’ve started doing a #JournalClub and this week’s paper was ‘The Price of Civil Rights: Black Lives, White Funding, and Movement Capture’ by @meganfrancis
https://t.co/lBHgkfa7qH 1/10

[Ana Florescu @anaMflorescu]

We're hiring a researcher! Deadline Monday, 13 Jan, 9am. 👇

[Good Problems Team @goodproblems_sp]

Deadline Monday 9am: We're hiring a researcher to help design innovation funding programmes for the humanitarian sector. If you want a job that helps solve pressing global problems, get in touch! Details: https://t.co/EguJMlKqVX #HumanitarianJobs #humanitarian #wash #gbv

[Good Problems Team @goodproblems_sp]

Team's on tour today – @anaMflorescu is facilitating a workshop on 21st century skills in primary education & Richard is at @nesta_uk's conference on #collectiveintelligence. Keen to explore how #CI skills can be embedded into early education.

[Ana Florescu @anaMflorescu]

Looking forward to an exciting day of discussions at #NPCIgnites today. Will be tweeting from @goodproblems_sp

[Ana Florescu @anaMflorescu]

Good luck to @zincvc's new cohort of Founders looking to add 5 more years of high-quality to later life. #ZincM3 🙌

[Ana Florescu @anaMflorescu]

@WestMids_CA @Tracsis Was handed this survey at Coventry station. No information as to why the data is being collected, how it's going to be used or stored. Data (postcode level detail) about people's daily commutes. Are you expecting people to fill these out?

[Good Problems Team @goodproblems_sp]

Helsinki this week: we facilitated a workshop with some impressive Finnish foundations on how to collaboratively develop problem-led programmes. Thanks to @lounasjouni, @kallekorh & @MinttuJaakkola for hosting us and to everyone for the inspiring conversation!

[Ana Florescu @anaMflorescu]

@We_Are_Liminal @rolandharwood It's happening. https://t.co/kJo5IK1juC

[Jess McEvoy @jessicalakevoy]

Great keynote from @AndreaSiodmok this morning at #opsi2018 although did have to google ‘liminality’ 😊

[Good Problems Team @goodproblems_sp]

.@metaculus is a cool project - users make predictions about the future which are then aggregated together to create a community prediction. Lots of science and tech questions such as whether there will be a restaurant serving cultured meat by 2021 https://t.co/kbLKffcTQK

[Innovate UK @innovateuk]

Announced today by @hmtreasury an extra £780m #funding to expand @Catapult_UK centres across the UK: https://t.co/YDKOXiQOPB @UKRI_News #Robotics #Satellites #GeneTherapy #Manufacturing #IndustrialStrategy

[Ana Florescu @anaMflorescu]

@nxcoventry Please print and add this notice to affected bus stops in the future. There were no signs & festival organisers didn't know what to advise. Went past several bus stops were people had been waiting >30 minutes & didn't know whether the stop was serviced or not. Thanks

[Ana Florescu @anaMflorescu]

Nice 👉 Designing the First Year @MIT - a practical design-led course asking senior students to develop concrete recommendations on how to enhance the experience of first year students. https://t.co/iqproK152d

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

Tackling the ultimate problem set: The first year at MIT https://t.co/YGpIaGQrhd

[Ana Florescu @anaMflorescu]

We're branching out! Follow us @goodproblems_sp 👈 https://t.co/qLw3P8oR9g

[Science Practice @sciencepractice]

📣 Our Good Problems Team has a new twitter account: @goodproblems_sp Follow if you’d like to hear about problems that matter, how to find them & how to incentivise solutions. 💫 https://t.co/biYsejVCkE

[DeepScienceVentures @deepsciventures]

Forget the "95% of startups fail". What PhD graduates and postdocs get wrong when evaluating opportunities in science entrepreneurship. #tbt
https://t.co/Hr3wRDpIJ6

[Ana Florescu @anaMflorescu]

@davidaltabev @vickipurewal @sciencepractice Yes! Please do! I'll send through some dates now.

[Bethnal Green Ventures @bg_ventures]

We're proud to work with the @MayorofLondon and partners on the Civic Innovation Challenge.

#Startups working in this space, check out the website + apply for funding to test your solutions #TechForGood #CivicTech #LDNCivicInnovation

https://t.co/r75mfCTUDM https://t.co/SBUy6r0HM4

[Jenn Gustetic 🚀💪🏻 @jenngustetic]

Exploring how #innovation policies and place-making interrelate... @jvey1 describes the rise of innovation districts, what they are made of, where they are, & how to build them. Cities like cambridge, Detroit, and Seattle highlighted. See: https://t.co/NuSGUWWBiv #IGL2018 #cities

[Ana Florescu @anaMflorescu]

Excellent (& beautiful) post from the BioDesign team @sciencepractice on 5 principles for information experience in the #lifesciences. #OpenVisConf #dataviz https://t.co/M9cfnee8QB

[Science Practice @sciencepractice]

We presented our BioDesign team’s work @PistoiaAlliance UXLS Conference in Boston🇺🇸 and the @OpenVisConf OpenVis Conf 2018 workshops in Paris🇫🇷. We spoke about 5 principles for information experience in the life sciences, take a look here👀: https://t.co/nJa7RCdTfW