STAND Ideas Collective Bootcamp Award

STAND Ideas Collective Bootcamp Award

Issued on 25 Jun 2025 by

STAND

This award recognises that the holder has completed the Bootcamp part of STAND's Ideas Collective programme. The bootcamp equips the holder to navigate and understand complex social and environmental challenges and their root causes and to develop strategies for applying design thinking and social innovation approaches in order to effectively develop innovative social entrepreneurial projects addressing social and environmental problems and build skills, confidence, and capacity to create positive change.
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Issuer

STAND

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Criteria

After completing the Bootcamp part of STAND's Ideas Collective programme, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the core principles of global citizenship and the importance of Global Citizenship Education in the current global climate.

  • Understand local and global challenges, exploring project ideas in the context of systems and finding root causes of the problems they are attempting to address.

  • Explore their project ideas and solutions through a critical thinking lens.

  • Be introduced to key social innovation approaches influenced by design thinking sprint methodologies.

  • Understand the importance of understanding the systemic and root causes of their issues through desk research and empathy interviews.

  • Acquire the tools to generate ideas in a short-time frame, understand the potential societal impacts of their ideas, and acquire the tools and resources to create and test prototypes learning from failure as well as success.

  • Learn the tools and space to reflect on themselves as social innovators who have a societal impact.

  • Acquire leadership and team-building skills, and pitching and presenting skills.

Alignments

Social entreprise

http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/2f4cdc7e-d98d-4e6c-9811-3dc28255c7ff

The business that uses its profits to reinvest in social missions, which have a social or environmental impact on the society.