The world is facing huge challenges and the current education systems display gaps in preparing young people with the right innovation mindset to tackle these social challenges. We 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
Future Ready Skills for Teenagers
- 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
State of our Education System
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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
Schools need to reinvent their education system with content that would teach these core competencies to students in a fun and interactive way.
Empowering Young People to Change the World
Because everyone is an Innovator
We need young people to be
To solve huge social challenges
GIMI IMPACT is a certified course designed to empower secondary school and university students to build a more compassionate and innovative society.
This is the world's first globally recognized professional certification for Community and Social Innovation designed to equip students with the 21st century skills such as problem solving, innovation, empathy and compassion.
The purpose is to empower them as they become the 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, focusing on teaching social innovation to young adults.
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.
GIMI Impact is divided into three phases of building mastery
Inspire to Build Innovative Skills
Apply and Compete to solve Real-World Social Challenges
Commit by Presenting to others
Together we want to...
The programme offers a fully fledged package including the facilitation, course materials, booklets, e-learning system and international certificate for teachers and students.
What do we provide?
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
What is the Impact?
Empowered Active Global Citizens
Addressing Community Challenges
Community of Innovation Skill Trainers
For Updated School System
Work with us to sponsor a challenge or school, integrate curricula with your programme, or get certified
Sponsor a Challenge or School
Sponsor a challenge for your community or school and we will facilitate the programme to create the desired impact
Integrate Curricula with Existing Program
Work with us to embed our curricula in your youth camps, events or trainings
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.
Who is driving this initiative?
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.
In Malaysia, Clarus Consulting is working with organisations to sponsor this initiative, training school and university students to solve their community-related challenges. Clarus is partnering with Yayasan Inovasi Malaysia (YIM), therefore all contributions are tax exempted.
"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."
Dr Hitendra Patel
Executive Director GIM Institute
"It’s the start where we can develop our students to think critically and speak up confidently, and where leaders can provide a platform to nurture talent. All in all, this is our Malaysia." Full post
Dr Cynthia Ee
Managing Director, Clarus Consulting
Photos and Testimonials
Co-founded by Dr. Hitendra Patel and Ahmad Ashkar, Hult Prize created the world's largest and highest impact high school competition through its proprietary crowdsource innovation model. The High School Prize mobilized students around the world, providing them with a platform to raise awareness, develop and implement solutions to challenges faced by their own generation. Since 2009, the Hult Prize has launched market-based start-ups in five sectors and has been recognized as the "Nobel Prize for Young People".
"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
Manager SWRL
Testimonials from Teachers
"I’ve really enjoyed giving students the chance to connect our learnings from class to issues that they care about. Seeing students able to articulate the issues they see in the world around them and learn how to make meaningful change to address those issues has been incredibly rewarding. And students have appreciated the chance to learn and apply creative/lateral thinking!"
SWR Teachers
"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."
SWR Teachers
"The SWRIL Pilot Program has been a unique learning experience as we partnered with curious teachers, supportive administrators and knowledgeable folks at the Innovation Lab. Throughout the process we were given enough guidelines to know what the outlines of the project were intended to be but enough freedom to carve our own way through. This type of programming is for teachers looking to blow the metaphorical walls off their classroom in pursuit of student-led learning that authentically has them work through the inquiry process. The benefits are hard-won, to be sure, but when students are able to take control of their learning then the rewards are great. Students feel ownership of their learning and are intrinsically motivated to do more and to go further in their learning. What teacher could ask for more?!"
SWR Teachers
Testimonials from Students
"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 Vanderhout, Student
"The amount of creative freedom we have had, the opportunity to reach out and speak with many people from various communities and being able to broaden my awareness of the needs within a society."
Sara McBean, Student
"My favorite part of the design thinking project was just getting to be creative. I'm very passionate about sustainable living and being able to have full creativity over a project that connects to one of the SDGs has been so amazing."
Zoe Faulkner, Student
Contact us
Clarus Consulting is a certified training partner of the Global Innovation Management Institute and GIMI Impact.
For more details, contact Chiew Chi at chiewchi@clarus.my or +6016 441 7538.
We are partnering with Yayasan Inovasi Malaysia (YIM), a grassroots innovation development agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), established on 20 October 2008.
Program developed by:
Global Innovation Management Institute is the world's largest certifying body in innovation and innovation management. It's vision is to democratize innovation worldwide by certifying one million individuals and companies.
Smart Waterloo Region Innovation Lab is creating an Oasis of wonder and possibility for Children of all ages and abilities in the Waterloo Region. SWR is creating the benchmark community in Canada for Children & Youth by actively seeking out and engaging communities and individuals furthest from opportunity.