Talk to that one
Ideally 20 people join, fill out a questionnaire, this gets run through a scanner and a script, calculating optimal matches, thus rather giving 10 people 10 meetings with 6 minutes, we can give everyone the best 3 matches in a group of 20
What it sets out to do
Speed Friending
Who it reaches
Rhein-Neckar Region
Who runs it
NGO
What seems to make it work
Variable choice optimises for friendship likelihood – platonic sympathy
What gets in the way
Marketing is very difficult
How it is funded
Initiative GemEinsamkeit
Moving it somewhere else
Can be picked up and used
The record
- Lead organisation
- NGO
- Target populations
- Children and young people, General population
- Countries
- Germany
- Evaluation status
- Not yet evaluated
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Publication
- https://www.talktothatone.de
- Contributed by
- Initiative GemEinsamkeit
These details are reported by the member who registered the intervention.
Where this entry comes from
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Cite this entry
Initiative GemEinsamkeit (2026). Talk to that one. LONELY-EU Intervention Registry, entry LEU-029. https://buddyboss.silc-exchange.com/interventions/talk-to-that-one/
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