The world is facing huge challenges and the current education systems displays some gaps in preparing young people with the right innovation mindset to tackle these social challenges. There is need to shape our young people into future active citizens who will solve the planet’s challenges with innovative minds and compassionate spirits.

What is the problem?

The rising internet generation of young learners needs new future ready skills which are often not taught in schools

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Future Ready Skills for Teenagers​

State of our Education System​

  • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
  • Collaboration across networks & leading by influence
  • Initiative & Entrepreneurship
  • Emotional & Social Intelligence
  • Agility & Adaptability
  • Curiosity & Imagination
  • Digital Literacy
  • Effective Oral & Written Communication
  • Two major trends that are challenging the education system
  • The shift from industrial economy to knowledge economy
  • The rise of internet generation of students who have different motivations
  • This means that the skills for the future are often not taught in schools today

This means that the skills for the future are often not taught in schools today

Empowering Young People to Change the World

Because everyone is an Innovator
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We Need Young People to be

Active Global Citizens​

Social Innovators​

Change Leaders​

Creative & Futuristic​

To Solve Huge Social Challenges

Climate change

Water scarcity

Poverty

Ageing

Child labour

Refugee crisis

Mental health

Drug use

Loneliness

Racism

Unemployment

Food security

GIMI IMPACT is a certified course designed to empower high school students to build a more Compassionate and Innovative Society

GIMI IMPACT is developed to specifically build capacity by supporting educators and empowering high school Youth to build a more Compassionate and more Innovative Society.

This is the world’s first globally recognized professional certification for Community and Social Innovation designed to equip high school students with the 21st century skills such as problem solving, innovation, empathy and compassion.

The purpose is to empower them as they become next generation of leaders to tackle the biggest social challenges the world is facing.

GIMI IMPACT is equivalent to the GIMI Level 1 Innovation Associate designation and based on the globally recognized GIMI training curriculum and focused on teaching social innovation to younger ages

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GIMI Impact is divided into three phases of building mastery​

GIMI IMPACT uses a well-structured course aiming to inspire young people to innovate, create innovative solutions around social challenges and present these solutions to the others

Inspire to Build Innovative Skills

Apply and Compete to solve Real-World Social Challenges

Commit by Presenting to others

Students create a better understanding of big social challenges, the costs if not solved and benefits for the society if these challenges find solutions.
Students learn the importance of innovation and innovators in the world by learning more about their characteristics.
Students learn about innovation process and techniques how to find solutions.
Students identify the challenge they will solve as a team, analyse the reasons of importance, costs and benefits if the problem is solved.
Students identify the challenge they will solve as a team, analyse the reasons of importance, costs and benefits if the problem is solved.
Students identify, select and describe 3-4 solution concepts as a team.
Students prioritize a solution concept and draw a poster for the prioritized solution concept.
Students create an action to get over challenges for implementation and develop a brochure as a visual artefact for the prioritized solution concept.
Students show & tell their results to a panel of judges.

Our pedagogy drives experiential learning and collaborative learning, and students love it

Individuals to contribute in teams, do instead of talk, and build artefacts tested through Show & Tell.

Individual

Pairs

Groups

By working individually, in pairs and groups we encourage information sharing and working on better, bigger and bolder things.

Learn

How to

Do

Our learn by doing methodology approach makes concepts and tools stick in people and companies so that they can apply them going forward.

Artefacts

Iterate

Show & Tell

By making public commitments we encourage people to stay truthful to the purpose and vision.

What do we Provide?

The program offers a fully fledged package including the course, e-learning system, software, booklets, pilot reference and international certificate for teachers and high school students.
  • Course Curricula
  • E-learning System & Software to simulate exercises
  • Support & Pilot reference
  • Innovation tools & ideation techniques to embed in the course
  • Booklet of challenges affecting young people & the world
  • Certifications for teachers & students

What is the Impact?

With GIMI Impact we are empowering future entrepreneurs and creating a community of innovation skill trainers who are building a highly dynamic learning environment to tackle community challenges
 
 
 
 
 
Empowered Active Global Citizens

We are empowering entrepreneurs of the future to navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with world-class problem-solving and innovation skills by training 100,000 high school students around the world

 
 
 
 
 
Addressing Community Challenges

We are enabling schools to adapt and respond to a highly dynamic learning environment and changing student behaviours and make them future ready

 
 
 
 
 
 
For Updated School System

The network of schools, teachers and students are together tackling and navigating complex social and community challenges with empathy and compassion through implementation of 10,000 micro-projects

 
 
 
 
Community of Innovation Skill Trainers

We are creating a community of 5,000 teachers who are enriching and simplifying the teaching of innovation in the school system using GIMI IMPACT methodology

Smart Waterloo Region Lab Case Study

The Smart Waterloo Region is the first region to adopt GIMI Impact Program

Some Results

  • 400 students
  • 3 school boards (French, Catholic & Public)
  • urban_design Piloted in 3 rural & 2 urban schools
  • team work Stimulated student led "inquiry based learning"
  • 20 teachers (2 in French, 1 in Catholic, 14-17 in Public)
  • Montessori effect of curricula as a tool of collaboration
  • Interest from French school board to implement it at scale
  • Interest of public board to use it for senior leadership

Who is Driving this Initiative?

GIMI has created GIMI IMPACT course and certificate to spread and embed innovation in the early ages. In partnership with SWRL has piloted with 200 high school students and 20 teachers in Waterloo.

GIMI is the world’s largest certifying body in innovation and innovation management. It’s vision is to democratize innovation worldwide. GIM Institute has create Hult Prize, the biggest accelerator on social innovation, Innovation Olympics, the world largest contest involving students to solve corporate challenges, NET Impact etc. GIMI Impact is the most recent program focused on social innovation. This program marks the start of a global movement to teach innovation, compassion, and complex problem solving to K-12 students around the world.

GIMI has partnered with the Smart Waterloo Region Innovation Lab (SWIRL) to pilot GIMI IMPACT in the public school system in Canada. SWIRL aims to embed the program in the public school curricula after its pilot in Waterloo and expand in Ontario and across Canada.

Hitendra Patel
Hitendra PatelExecutive Director
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"All children begin with an innovation and growth mindset until parents and schools begin to teach them to follow the rules! We do need to teach them to follow the rules but we also need to teach them to when to break the rules and when to make the rules."

You can work with us as a franchise, as a GIMI Partner, Sponsor a challenge or just get certified

Become a Franchise

Private schools, formal & informal training providers, NGOs

Get trained to be our exclusive local partners for a community

GIMI Partners

Certified Training Partners

Get trained to be our exclusive partner for a region and train and certify other local partners

Sponsor a Challenge

Private, Institutional Donors, Municipalities, Public Institutions

Sponsor a challenge for your community and we will facilitate the program to create the desired impact

Get Certified

Schools and teachers

Get trained and certified to become the next generation of leaders or change makers

Testimonials

"My favorite part would be the group aspect. I enjoyed being able to work through all of the steps with a strong group that I had and being able to build off of each other's ideas. I enjoyed the steps that we went through as well it was very helpful and also super organized to be able to sort out my thoughts and build off of them and be able to think present time but future as well. "
Alivia VanderhoutStudent
"This was so inspiring on so many levels. My vision is that our high schools one day will teach all grades, all year - in this way: integrated curriculum focused on children solving real world issues and innovating/creating solutions for themselves/community/world and in this way get all the credits they need. This is what the research tells us is the best way for students to learn and ultimately if we are preparing them for life in the world they are going into- this IS the way."
Jeewan ChanickaDirector of Education
"SWRL piloted GIMI Impact to 300 high school students and 20 teachers. In all my work, I can say that the only true sustainable competitive advantage is Compassion. Innovation - or complex problem solving - is one of the most efficient mediums I know of to unlock the Compassion-state in all of us. If we want a better world, we need to raise and empower more Compassionate Children & Youth and unlock and enhance their natural ability to be innovative and compassionate."
Grayson Bass
Grayson BassManager SWRL
"I enjoy hearing from and working alongside other teachers, both in my school and across the pilot. The design thinking structure is straightforward, and though I didn't use many of the activities as others may have, I can see their benefit for teachers/students who are working through this structure for the first time or if their curriculum doesn't lend itself immediately to DT structure. Students connected well with the empathetic approach and worked to develop that lens throughout the project period. I can see that they are building critical understanding towards compassionate action and that they are excited about the potential their projects may create."
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