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IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge

Deadline: November 25, 2024

The IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge is MIT’s longest running social entrepreneurship program housed in the PKG Public Service Center. Since its founding in 2001, IDEAS has enabled MIT student-led teams to apply their education and expertise in collaboration with community partners to address social and environmental challenges around the world.

IDEAS is first and foremost an experiential learning program, boasting learning outcomes within Teaming and Collaboration, Systems Thinking, and Impact Measurement. Teams must be led by current MIT students, but can have alumni and people unconnected to MIT as team members or collaborate as community partners. Teams are evaluated on a rubric based on the following criteria: 

Innovation in context 

Feasibility of implementation

Impact potential

 

APPLY Here

 

Eligibility

Read in details regarding the team structure, service, ethics, location and participation: HERE

 

Deadline: November 25, 2024
Posted on: September 12, 2024
Key Words:
#SocialInnovation, #GlobalCollaboration #EnvironmentalSolutions

The IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge is MIT’s longest running social entrepreneurship program housed in the PKG Public Service Center. Since its founding in 2001, IDEAS has enabled MIT student-led teams to apply their education and expertise in collaboration with community partners to address social and environmental challenges around the world.

IDEAS is first and foremost an experiential learning program, boasting learning outcomes within Teaming and Collaboration, Systems Thinking, and Impact Measurement. Teams must be led by current MIT students, but can have alumni and people unconnected to MIT as team members or collaborate as community partners. Teams are evaluated on a rubric based on the following criteria: 

Innovation in context 

Feasibility of implementation

Impact potential

 

APPLY Here

 

Eligibility

Read in details regarding the team structure, service, ethics, location and participation: HERE

 

Key Dates & Application preparation

Deadline
Nov 25 2024 11:59 AM (EST)

APPLY Here

 

Prepare your Application

 

Register for any of our Social Innovation Workshop series or events this fall to learn more about social innovation and prepare to submit a strong proposal by November 25.

Register here

  • Social Innovations for Systems-Change (9/19 3-4:30PM)
  • How to develop community partnerships (9/24 5-6:30PM)
  • Pitch2Match Social Impact co-hosted with the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship at MIT: Find a team to join or recruit teammates (10/1 5-7PM)
  • Mapping Systems & Unmet Needs (10/7 2-3:30PM)
  • Creative Cafe with IDEAS & the Arts Startup Incubator (10/17 12-1:15PM)
  • Developing a Theory of Change (10/22 5-6:30PM)
  • How to write a successful application (11/5 5-6:30PM) 
  • AI for Social Impact (11/14 5-6:30PM)
  • Key Dates & Application preparation
    Deadline
    Nov 25 2024 11:59 AM (EST)

    APPLY Here

     

    Prepare your Application

     

    Register for any of our Social Innovation Workshop series or events this fall to learn more about social innovation and prepare to submit a strong proposal by November 25.

    Register here

    • Social Innovations for Systems-Change (9/19 3-4:30PM)
    • How to develop community partnerships (9/24 5-6:30PM)
    • Pitch2Match Social Impact co-hosted with the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship at MIT: Find a team to join or recruit teammates (10/1 5-7PM)
    • Mapping Systems & Unmet Needs (10/7 2-3:30PM)
    • Creative Cafe with IDEAS & the Arts Startup Incubator (10/17 12-1:15PM)
    • Developing a Theory of Change (10/22 5-6:30PM)
    • How to write a successful application (11/5 5-6:30PM) 
    • AI for Social Impact (11/14 5-6:30PM)

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