Innovators Magazine celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2025. Since 2015 the Magazine, curated for innovators – by innovators, has collaborated with partners across Europe and worldwide to produce digital editions, lead events and spearhead new initiatives. Below are some highlights of the journey so far.
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2015Launch
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Innovators Magazine launches in early 2015, the year the UN Global Goals were officially adopted. Susan Robertson and Iain Robertson (wife and husband) decide to pool their skills in journalism and strategic communications to launch a new European magazine with a vision to connect and inspire cross sector and societal innovation for the Goals.
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2016Innovation workshops
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Hold innovation and creativity workshops to inspire cross-sector collaboration.
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2016Apple News
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Innovators Magazine channel added to Apple News.
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2016Pact for Innovation
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Co-founder, Susan Robertson speaks at the 8th European Innovation Summit, European Parliament, Brussels, where she signs the Pact for Innovation, as media partners with organisers Knowledge for Innovation.
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2017Global Goals awards
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Created world’s first cross-sector Global Goals awards, attracting entries from brands including Budweiser and Barclays.
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2017COP23 Bonn
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Sign Memorandum of Understanding with the UNFCCC at COP23 in Bonn.
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2017Closing ceremony
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Co-host the closing ceremony of the European Innovation Summit at the European Parliament, Brussels.
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2018
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Communication community of experts and friends grows.
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2018Impact Comms Programme
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Impact Comms programme for under 25s launches, a paid internship putting young voices at the heart of the sustainability agenda. Carlotta De Toni excels in the role, visiting and reporting on cross sector events across Europe, a circular economy event in Taiwan, and also giving a keynote speech for the magazine.
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2018Twitter chat
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Co-host twitter chat with Knowledge4Innovation, with a great panel, including two Members of the European Parliament, Ivana Maletić and Angelika Mlinar; and Katherine Manuel – Senior Vice President, Innovation, Thomson Reuters – on #womeninSTEM
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2018Official ACHEMA 2018 publisher of event edition
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“Innovators Magazine – the name already implies why it’s a perfect match for ACHEMA,” says Dr Marlene Etschmann, ACHEMA communications. “Always on the forefront of technology and covering a broad range of topics, the magazine is just like our trade show.”
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2018Marc Buckley named Editor-at-large
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Marc is an official UN SDG Advocate and member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network.
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2018EIS 10th anniversary edition
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Produce the 10th anniversary edition magazine for the European Innovation Summit in Brussels.
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2019Resilience Frontiers
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Produce the introductory digital brochure for Resilience Frontiers via our OnePoint5Media sister brand.
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2019Holly meets Hindou
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Youngest connection Holly Robertson meets Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim at the launch event of Resilience Frontiers in South Korea, an initiative exploring pathways beyond the Global Goals. Innovators Magazine and OnePoint5Media support the event.
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2020Readers in 100+ countries
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Digital editions produced since 2015 have been read in 105 countries worldwide.
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2020MenuB
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Menu B: planet-saving food solutions is launching in 2020
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20205th annual biotech digital edition
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The biotech & theme explores the sector’s impact in reshaping areas including the circular economy, food, fashion, the SDGs, and cities.
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2020Innovate Now
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Launch Innovate Now newsletter to share information on online challenges, funding calls, and initiatives dedicated to tackling COVID-19: to help accelerate global solutions to the deadly pandemic.
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2020Inside Ideas
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Marc Buckley’s new OnePoint5Media + Innovators Magazine podcast show Inside Ideas launches.
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2021100th Inside Ideas podcast
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The Inside Ideas podcast with Marc Buckley celebrates its 100th episode with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus as guest.
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2022#ACopHalfFull at COP27 in Egypt #ACopHalfFull series
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At COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, innovators and leaders share #ACopHalfFull vision of a better future, including Professor Johan Rockström, pictured, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research He said: “We have so much evidence that if we succeed in this transition, a more resilient, secure, peaceful and healthy future” lies ahead.
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2023New Year edition presented to European Commissioner for Innovation, Mariya Gabriel
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At a ceremony held by the K4I in the European Parliament, a special edition of Innovators Magazine was presented to then European Commissioner for Innovation, Mariya Gabriel. by Maria da Graça Carvalho, Portugal’s Minister for Environment and Energy.
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2023Dubai COP28 partnership with A4F
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Innovators Magazine/OnePoint5Media and Allied4Future collaborate to produce coverage of COP28 in Dubai. Pictured: Arvea Marieni, technical director of the Regenerative Society Foundation, the leading alliance for a regenerative economy.
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2024World Future Forum in Lisbon
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen welcomes the first-ever World Future Forum in our new special event edition produced in partnership with organisers, Allied4Future.
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2024Special edition presented to President of the Assembly Parliament of North Macedonia
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World Future Forum 2024 special edition of Innovators Magazine presented to Afrim Gashi, President of the Assembly Parliament of North Macedonia, by EU Climate Pact Ambassador, IIija Vuchkov.
