Why a CICAE & IDEO Social Entrepreneurship Club?

Education must foster a mentality of belonging to a socially conscious citizenship in students from an early age.

It is necessary that students become aware of the problems that surround them and take an active role in their solution for the improvement of their social environment. To this end, throughout their educational process they should be accompanied and motivated to develop the capacity to know and identify social difficulties and problems, and also to foster their creative skills and innovative thinking so that they are capable of providing solutions.

The CICAE- IDEO Social Entrepreneurship Club aims to encourage this reflection and learning by offering students the necessary tools to help them in the process of becoming agents of change.

Aimed at students in the 3rd and 4th years of E.S.O. and Bachillerato.

Objectives

• To develop entrepreneurial and social problem-solving skills among our students.
• To increase social responsibility and ethics among young people.
• Encourage student empowerment by creating a space to collectively design and launch their own projects.
• Provide students with design thinking and change maker tools.

What are the main pillars of the CICAE Entrepreneurship Club?

The Design Thinking methodology will be used for the development of social projects, widely used in the business world.

Students will be provided with tools to follow creative processes that start with the analysis of the problem before defining proposed solutions.

This methodology facilitates reflection and empathy as well as drawing the first short-term proposals.

What are the activities in which the teams will be able to participate?

Preliminary Phase: Presentation to the schools and opening of the team registration period.

Phase 1: Faculty may participate as facilitators during the Hackathon. To do so, it is necessary to participate in the training day that will take place in the first quarter.

Phase 2: Hackathon:

• A day in which the teams will identify a social problem and devise a proposed solution to the problem.
• Schools will be able to register for the on-site modality, which will take place in Madrid, or for the online modality.

Phase 3: Project development:

• Online training that will provide the teams with the knowledge and tools to approach the chosen social problem and be able to develop and improve their solution projects.
• For 6 weeks, training sessions will be organized one day a week, 2 hours each.
• At the end of the training, teams wishing to participate in the final must submit their improved project. The finalists will be selected from among all the participants.
• For 6 weeks, training sessions will be organized one day a week, 2 hours each.
• At the end of the training, teams wishing to participate in the final must submit their improved project. The finalists will be selected from among all the participants.

Phase 4: The grand finale:

• Face-to-face seminar to be held in Madrid.
• In the morning, the finalist teams will receive personalized feedback on their project and training for the final presentation.
• In the afternoon, the finalist teams will present their proposals to a jury that will choose the best three projects.

What are the dates to keep in mind?

September: the project will be made known through an informative meeting to which the schools will be invited.

October: official launch of the call for entries and registration of teams.

November: a practical training day focused on Design Thinking will be offered for teachers interested in the methodology and in participating as a facilitator in the Hackathon.

December: the face-to-face and online Hackathon will take place.

From January to February: online training will be offered to develop and improve the projects.

Teams will submit their improved projects to participate in the grand final and the finalist teams will be announced.

April: the grand finale.