IMPACT GLOBAL
About The Programme:
R-CITY partnered up with Queens University Graduate school for a semester-long social innovation challenge. Ten QUB postgraduate students work in trans-disciplinary teams with ten young people from R-CITY.
The aim of the project is to create innovative solutions to social challenges and to increase the number of young people from disadvantaged communities who see university as a viable option for themselves.
Programme Stages
Phase 1 -
The students and young people work together in four teams to gain an insight into Design Thinking, build relationships, fundraise and work on local challenges.
Phase 2 -
The group travel to South Africa to work alongside young people and students from local townships, using design thinking to come up with innovative solutions to challenges that the residents of the township face on a daily basis.
The two-week challenge will end with a showcase event in Cape Town where the teams will present their prototyped solutions back to the local community and will have the opportunity to work with the residents to implement the solutions.
Phase 3 -
On returning from South Africa, the teams will work with the community leaders to devise an implementation & operations plan for their solutions, handing it over to the hosts.
“GETTING THE CHANCE TO GO TO Cape Town WAS LIFE CHANGING. GETTING TO SEE AND LEARN SO MUCH, ESPECIALLY AROUND GANG CULTURE AND CHOICES WAS MIND BLOWING.”
— Nathan, 18