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One Day · Tell me and I'll forget · Show me and I'll remember · Involve me and I'll understand
"One Day" experience gets young people in contact with passionate professionals, active in a field they find interesting, to meet up with them -on the job- for one day. Verifying the impact of the One Day experience, for young people to make bette
Symbiosis: Professional experience gain while attending class.
THE IDEA IS… To replace in-class theoretical problems & projects for real, modern and local ones. THAT TACKLES.... The absence of professional experience in recently graduated students and The lack of innovation of SMEs. BY..... A digita
Preflight: Real-world challenges in the classroom
Preflight challenges bring professionals into the classroom to engage with students through real world business challenges. The challenges give students a glimpse of career opportunities through role models, experience using relevant design-thinkin
Open-Source Business Models
Our idea is a social enterprise that tackles the problem of inclusive economic development. We will deliver a platform to individuals and local organisations, that offers a structured startup program, a database of validated business models and local
Millennial TechCorps
Modeled on Americorps, this initiative would place young adults from 18-25 in one-year paid internships (with the possibility of re-upping for a second year) with NGOs, start-ups, public entities and for-profit companies across the country and around
Pop Up Bus (and Boat) + Innovation Centre: Centres/Training Hubs and Mobile Workshops that Pop Up in Communities Around the Globe, Building Pathways and a Network of Employment Opportunities for Youth
Joint idea between Leigh Cullen + Alex Mokori. Pop Up Buses are workshops on wheels that travel the globe, popping up in developing and developed countries to cultivate opportunities for youth while extending employment networks throughout communitie
Kinderpreneur Launchbox
Lifelong (L)earning Gear
Delfee: An aggregator of the best youth employment support initiatives.
Much like the great thinkers and leaders of old visited Delphi to discover the right path from the Oracle, Delfee is a website that allows our future great thinkers and leaders find the right path to safe and fulfilling employment. The research phase
NiceNiche: Young people organizing young people for peer support and market research
Young people can be categorized according to a specific niche that they belong to or identify themselves with. Businesses need this information so they can market their products better. What if young people are empowered to organize and manage fellow
Innovation Centre: Fresh Ideas for Success by Youth for Youth
Innovation Centre is a University affiliated Nutrition Leadership, Mentorship and Business Incubation project targeting to reach at least 196 University students of age 14-28 years in Uganda during its 18 months pilot. The centre will address emplo
![The Social Getwork is a one-stop web/mobile app to explore career-opportunities leading towards many employment pathways for youth using social media.
[Idea Title by Dave Zinsman]
Note: Social media includes professional media sites too.](https://media-openideo-rwd.oiengine.com/media/{width}/e4a1ceeb-2d25-4fcc-881f-5942ffebb932.jpg)
The Social Getwork
The Social Getwork is a one-stop web/mobile app to explore career-opportunities leading towards many employment pathways for youth using social media. [Idea Title by Dave Zinsman] Note: Social media includes professional media sites too.
The Bridge Project: Building pathways to employment for youths in Kinshasa through volunteerism
The Bridge Project is an online and physical platform of young professionals, which invests in youth potential and aims at 'building bridges' between organizations and youths. The Bridge Project seeks to build pathways to employment for young women a
Social Media: In Real Life (SMIRL) 2.0 - Refinement Phase
An after school program on social media marketing that helps high school students from low-income communities leverage existing digital savviness to develop career awareness, build soft skills, and gain experience in the professional world.
Interviews for humans...not robots.
A platform that helps candidates and employers to humanise interviews and ensure both get the most out of the process. Everyone hates interviews - the interviewer and the interviewee. They feel like an obstacle course, full of trick questions and
Employing Youth through Big Data Analysis (Assimilation, Classification, Categorization)
Big Data = Big Business - the massive accumulation of data includes consumer purchases, social media messaging, scientific and healthcare research data...and more...5 zettabytes (10^21 bytes) of data every year is added (Science, 2012) to this mou
Micro-Business Incubator (MBI)
MBA in MBI: Small investments into big dreams that open doors for young people. Our idea is a business incubator that will work as a platform to tackle the problem of youth unemployment by identifying and training employable and entrepreneurial yo
FINAL UPDATE: Seed. A micro-consultancy firm that builds skills, confidence and a kick arse work portfolio.
Seed is micro-consultancy firm. It links college students and underemployed and unemployed people with small tasks that are designed to build skills, experience, personal brand, confidence and a kick-arse real world work portfolio.
Chama beta
Building on the existing informal cooperative society (Chama) model to create and explore different pathways to youth employment.
Promotion of eco-tourism through organic agriculture and women's handicrafts in rural Morocco
Youth employability is one of the most challenging issues in Morocco (20.2% under 34). In rural areas, it gets even worse espcially among women. one very effective industry to invest in is the eco-tourism and agriculture. Rural Morocco, especially in
Raise Your Flag
Raise Your Flag connects young people who are not going to college with meaningful career paths, companies that are hiring and jobs at each step of the path. Approx. 45% of students in US and Canada do not go to college after high school. Instead
Skills Advancement through Community Asset Building
It's universally acknowledge that the best way for people to learn is by doing and in the employment space this means On-job-trainings, Internships/apprenticeships and volunteerism. The opportunities for all the above are far in between. One way to i
