Just Innovate

🚀 Last weekend's Workshop Highlights: Prototyping and Testing! 🚀 We are at the halfway mark for the 2024 C4SI Program! This past weekend, during our latest C4SI workshop series, we explored the crucial steps of design thinking and a speed session on Courageous Design! ✨ Workshop 5: Prototyping We enjoyed learning from Frederic Freitag and Jana Hägele Haegele from Creative Dock Group. Participants explored innovative approaches to quickly transform their ideas into tangible prototypes, pushing the boundaries of creativity and iteration. 🛠️💡 ✨ Workshop 6: Testing Next up, we focused on Testing our prototypes with Frederic and Jana, guiding us through structured methods for gathering feedback, refining ideas, and creating user-centered solutions. The iterative process helped us get closer to real-world impact! 📊👥 Thank you to the team at Creative Spark for sharing your expertise and to our participants for your energy and passion. Thank you to C4SI alum, Shefali Gupta for the speed session covering color theory and courageous design decks. Let’s continue driving social innovation forward together! 🌍💥 #DesignThinking #Prototyping #Testing #Innovation #SocialImpact #C4SI #JustInnovate #CreativeDock Geneva Graduate Institute GISA IHEID

🌍 C4SI + International Trade Centre for a winning Friday!🌎 35 students attended a tour and series of presentations by the ITC staff yesterday. Thank you Adriana De Oro (she/her) and C4SI board members Jennifer Thornquest & Shefali Gupta for organizing and facilitating this valuable day for teams as they develop their projects. Geneva Graduate Institute GISA IHEID

🚀 Wrapping Up Our Second Workshop Weekend! 🚀 We’re excited to share the highlights from our latest C4SI workshop sessions! Workshop 3: Design Thinking Step 2 - Define was skillfully led by Ole Werner, Activity Co-Creator, and Catarina Batista, Educational Programs Co-Coordinator, from the innovative team at IdeaSquare - the innovation space at CERN. They helped our teams dive deep into defining their project challenges! 🌍✨ Workshop 4: Design Thinking Step 3 - Ideate kept momentum as Ole Werner and Catarina Batista guided our teams through creative ideation exercises, sparking fresh ideas and unique solutions for real-world impact. 💡💪 Thanks to Ole and Catarina for their training and energy! Our teams are one step closer to bringing their ideas to life. 🚀 #C4SI #socialinnovation #designthinking #teamwork #collaboration #CERN #IdeaSquare #graduateinstitute #IHEID #GISA #innovation Geneva Graduate Institute GISA IHEID

🚀 Kicking Off Our First Workshop Series! 🚀 We are happy to announce the success of our first workshop series for C4SI Teams! 🎉 Workshop 1, Leveraging the Power of Play: Support for Team Projects, was expertly facilitated by Dr. Yousef Jalali and Valentina Rossi from The 3T Play Project at the Center for Learning Sciences LEARN - EPFL for Learning Sciences LEARN—EPFL. Yes, Legos were involved! Workshop 2: Social Innovation and Intro to Design Thinking, led by Laura Jacqueline Diaz from the International Trade Centre, gave participants an invaluable foundation for tackling real-world challenges. Thank you to our fantastic facilitators for sharing your expertise and passion with our teams! 🌍💡 #C4SI #socialinnovation #designthinking #teamwork #collaboration #ITC #EPFL #graduateinstitute Geneva Graduate Institute GISA IHEID the fab IHEID

🌟 Exciting Start to C4SI's 11th Year! 🌟 Our C4SI (Collaborate for Social Innovation) kickoff event had a fantastic turnout! It was genuinely inspiring to see so many passionate participants, challenge setters, mentors, workshop facilitators, and supporters come together to kick off this student-led initiative. Thank you to Bénédicte Gilbert, representing the State of Geneva, and Adriana De Oro, Innovation Lead at the International Trade Centre, for their inspiring opening remarks. Your words set the stage for what promises to be a powerful and impactful journey this year. Thank you to the 2024 C4SI board ( Shefali Gupta, Kripi Dua, Jennifer Thornquest, Jiaying Zheng, and Epsa Diya Bhatia) for your hard work in facilitating this event! Here's to a year of collaboration, learning, and real-world impact through social innovation! 🌍💡 #C4SI #socialinnovation #teamwork #Geneva #InternationalTradeCentre #impact #collaboration #students #11thyear Geneva Graduate Institute GISA IHEID

Meeting today at IHEID | 16h15 | Graduate Institute, The Fab

What is C4SI?  It is a student-led initiative that offers graduate students the possibility to use social innovation approaches to real-world problems through team-work collaboration and design-thinking methodology, and equips them with presentation skills to pitch their ideas. How? We adopt a learn by doing approach. Over one month, students attend workshops delivered by experts and receive the support of experienced mentors to progressively co-create an innovative solution to a real social challenge that is presented by one of our partnering challenge setters. Who? Participants are motivated students and young professionals based in Switzerland from any discipline, ranging from business and technology, to international affairs and development. Mentors are either academic or professional experts, or experienced entrepreneurs who are willing to make themselves available for the duration of the programme. They are a source of advice and support to participating teams as they develop their innovations. Workshop Leaders are skilled and experienced people in a particular field that are willing to share their knowledge and passion with our participants through an interactive workshop to introduce specific tools that will be used by the teams to tackle one aspect of their challenge. Challenge Setters are leading international affairs and development organizations, NGOs and private companies. They provide concrete social challenges based on issues they have identified in their respective fieldwork. When? Where? The 2024 edition will run from the first week of October to the first week of November 2024, in Geneva. Workshops take place every Saturday and teams also work in-between.

We are recruiting for the 2024 Executive Board! 🎊 C4SI is an opportunity to network with some incredible international organisations and gain experience in leadership in social innovation. Fill in the Google form by March 7th 23:59 (CET), and you are good to go! Link: https://lnkd.in/eub53KFZ

Applications for C4SI 2024 Co-Directors are officially open! Want to take the lead in continuing this amazing social innovation program? Apply here by 9 February: https://lnkd.in/e2XRb-8X

📢 #Update 🙌 ILO's Cooperatives Unit contributes as a 'Challenge Setter' at the 10th edition of #C4SI 🤝 The Student team worked on the challenge 'The role of youth in strengthening the Social and Solidarity Economy #SSE in #Asia' 🔗 Read More: http://www.bit.ly/c4SI