Welcome to Inspired: your window into innovation at the ICRC

Welcome to Inspired: your window into innovation at the ICRC

For us, innovation is much more than a buzzword. It is an opportunity to change for the better: for the populations we serve, for our organization, and for our partners. ...

Drones, Infrared Cameras and AI join the search for mines

Drones, Infrared Cameras and AI join the search for mines

16 June 2020, New technologies / Weapon contamination

Landmine detection is often an inexact and inefficient process, and that’s a problem ICRC is trying to solve. Doing so involves some surprisingly ...

Innovation in the time of COVID-19

Innovation in the time of COVID-19

28 April 2020, ICRC Innovates

It seems there is hardly anything left to say on the subject of COVID-19: it is (or is not) the great equalizer, it ...

Interactive training for tricky interviews

Interactive training for tricky interviews

28 January 2020, Detention

How can you understand what it’s like to interview a person in detention until you’ve done it? A new interactive scenario-based simulation to ...

Innovative products and the ICRC

Innovative products and the ICRC

16 January 2020, ICRC Innovates

Challenges in the field need solutions, but solutions need careful analysis, planning and expertise. It sometimes seems as if a new product is ...

Understanding innovation at the ICRC

Understanding innovation at the ICRC

20 December 2019, ICRC Innovates

The InspiRED Days was the first time that the ICRC organized a global innovation workshop, bringing together staff from different departments and delegations ...

ICRC’s virtual reality unit puts International Conference participants into a virtual battlefield

ICRC’s virtual reality unit puts International Conference participants into a virtual battlefield

17 December 2019, Behavior change / Law and policy / New technologies

On 10 December at the 33rd International Conference, a spotlight session entitled ‘Influencing Behavior to Enhance Respect for IHL’ was presented. The 90-minute ...