🛳️Community Workshop Series: Regenerative Finance (ReFi): Building Inclusive & Regenerative Economies🛳️
Our current financial systems extract, exploit, and exclude. ReFi offers a regenerative alternative - built on transparency, decentralization, and climate inclusion. This workshop series unpacks how blockchain can be used to build more sustainable, equitable economic systems.
You’ll:
● Learn blockchain basics (no previous knowledge needed).
● Explore how ReFi can support climate, community & regeneration.
● Dive into real use cases and ReFi startups.
● Get hands-on with tasks, breakout sessions and a small project
For whom:
This series is for anyone curious about how blockchain and finance can drive sustainability. No previous knowledge needed - just an open mind and interest in making systems work better for people and the planet. It is especially relevant if you are undertaking, or have taken, the Improve the Global Impact Challenge
When and where
📅Dates: 13, 20 & 25 November 2025
🕒Time: 18
- 20
CET (Note Part 3 is two hours 18:30-20
CET)
📍Location: Course Room Event Space
Workshop Series Breakdown
Part 1: Introduction to Blockchain & ReFi
📅 Date: Thursday 13 November 18
- 20
CET
Blockchain 101: Understand key concepts like decentralization, smart contracts, and real- world use cases beyond crypto.
📊 Intro to Regenerative Finance: What is ReFi and how can it transform finance into a force for sustainability and inclusion?
📊 ReFi in Action - Preview: Explore current projects and how they work, with examples across climate, biodiversity, and social impact.
Part 2: ReFi, Sustainability & Business Models
📅 Date: Thursday 20 November 18
- 20
CET
📊 How ReFi supports sustainability: Dive into ReFi’s alignment with circular economy goals, climate finance, and social equity.
📊 Business Models & Funding: Learn about regenerative financial flows, DAOs, and how ReFi projects sustain themselves.
📊 Deep Dive into Case Studies: Analyze how standout ReFi projects generate impact and navigate challenges.
Part 3: Hands-On Tasks & Use Cases
📅 Date: Tuesday 25 November, 18
- 20
CET
📊 Practical Task: In small teams, design your own ReFi-based solution—define the problem, stakeholders, and funding logic.
📊 Group Sharing & Discussion: Present your idea and get feedback from peers.
📊 Final Reflections: Explore further learning paths and ways to stay engaged with the topic.
What you'll get
✅ A beginner-friendly, step-by-step journey into blockchain and regenerative finance
✅ A clear understanding of how tech and sustainability intersect
✅ Exposure to real ReFi projects - and the chance to design your own
✅ Interactive tasks, peer collaboration, and space for discussion
✅ No prior knowledge required- just curiosity and an open mind
Who you'll learn from
💡Luis is a Senior Sustainability Manager in Siemens Energy, specialized in decarbonization and sustainable + circular innovation. He is actively engaged in the climate action community as a speaker and co-founder of impact projects including CL-AI-MATE, which levers art and technology to deliver effective climate communication.
💡Dominik is a Solutions Consultant, experienced with democratizing data for teams. In his current Master’s studies in Sustainability, Entrepreneurship & Technology, he started focussing on building impactful solutions and behavioural change, rethinking current systems to achieve a lasting change for good. As a blockchain enthusiast for over 3 years already, ReFi is the perfect intersection between these fields.