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