Its undergraduate integrated Masters’ course allows students to combine a more traditional core discipline such as anthropology, computer science, or physics (among others) with modules focusing on creativity, design and systems thinking, problem-solving, and creating new business ventures. The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s degrees bring together enterprise skills with the creative processes used in innovation. Now it’s literally top of their list as they walk through the door, and they really mean it.” “Sustainability used to be a consideration, and then an aspiration. Parker has seen the mind set of his students change dramatically: Over the 20 years he has been teaching, Dr. They have such power and energy, but it needs direction to be effective.” Changing mind set among youth “Change is difficult for everybody - our students come in with the problems they see around them and we help them turn that into a value system, into a new dialogue with industry and with society. “If we do anything here at the Centre, we have got to empower our students to become change makers,” says Dr. Don Parker, Education Director at the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Bristol, echoes these statements: Setting entrepreneurial education apart from the standard business school, the late Professor Alan Gibb described the impetus behind entrepreneurial education as “preparing young people for a life world of greater uncertainty and complexity in both work, social and consumer contexts with enhanced pressures to see and take opportunities on the basis of individual initiative.”ĭr. These personal skills of resilience, creativity, initiative and problem-solving lie at the heart of entrepreneurial education. When young people are given the opportunity to develop the skills involved, such as creativity, collaboration, resilience, inventiveness and initiative, they will be much better equipped to tackle the uncertain and challenging future they currently face.
The Berlin statement issued in May 2021 by the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) describes ESD as: “providing everyone with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to become change agents for sustainable development … to develop their cognitive and non-cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and competences for collaboration, problem solving, coping with complexity and risk, building resilience, thinking systemically and creatively, and empowering them to take responsible action as citizens…” Young people are demanding an education that reflects the nature of the task ahead of them, and in this, they have high profile support. But I have also heard ask to be included in meaningful participation, and for improved education and training.” (Photo: Courtesy of Alpha Core School, Pakistan) Equipping youth to become agents of sustainable developmentĪs Alok Sharma, President of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, said in a video message: “The key message from the British Council’s Global Youth Letter is that young people are motivated, they are ready to learn and inspired to act on climate. In so doing, they developed a range of entrepreneurial skills and with their creativity quickly expanded their product range. So, how do we empower more young people to take action, to invent, create, and innovate solutions to some of the grave problems facing our world? Deforestation is a priority for the Alpha Core primary school and led them to their idea of recycling paper to make saleable products and to reduce the use of virgin paper. The survey showed that 67 percent of young people believe their leaders cannot address climate change alone. Similarly, in September 2021, the British Council launched the findings of its Global Youth Letter on Climate Action - research spanning 8,000 young people from 23 countries. The World Economic Forum’s recent work with their Global Shapers Community reached over 2.3 million young people and worked with them to develop a Youth Recovery Plan, which includes a commitment to conscious consumerism, environmental protection, ethical technology and innovation and action on climate change. Nor are the principles behind these actions held only by a few young people.
These are exceptional stories, but not every teenager can (or should have to) drop out of school, go on strike, or take legal action to achieve their goals.
When his 2012 TEDx talk went viral, he dropped out of school to create the technology behind the Ocean Cleanup organization. Video: Dutch teenager Boyan Slate presented the passive clean-up concept that led him to create the technology behind the Ocean Cleanup organization at 2012 TEDxDelf.Īnd at the age of 16, Dutch teenager Boyan Slat came up with innovative ideas to rid the ocean of its plastic waste.
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