Crash Course: Social Innovation
- Difficulty level: Beginner
- Learn about a specific topic of your choice in one week. You get one email per day with the best resources about global issues.
- Open your mailbox wherever you are and whenever you have time.
- The only thing you have to pay is your attention.
What can you learn during the course?
- Expand your knowledge about social innovation, the types of social innovation
- Understand the importance of design thinking for designing social innovation projects specifically targeting the needs of marginalised social groups
- Understand current problems that social innovators and organisations are facing in the impact world and learn the meaning of the Catch-22 paradox, and how to overcome it by creating news ideas and speed up innovation with the help of design thinking
- Learn how social innovators use design thinking as a method to come up with ideas and implement them.
- Understand the 5 human-centered steps of design thinking
- Learn about the goals, objectives of design thinking, and understand why sense and sensibility are the core values of creating social projects
- Be able to analyse and understand social innovation projects based on case studies in the US and in Europe as ell
- Be capable of finding out the underlying issues when it comes to a social problem, how to identify what the systemic problem is, and how to create innovative solutions together with the community.
What is included in this Crash Course?
- 6 emails with valuable resources about Social Innovation and Design Thinking
- An exclusive 50% discount on the membership to our ONE DAY Community Platform
Frequently Asked Questions
- What are these crash courses?
- The crash courses are free e-mail courses. Sign up and get one resource a day right to your mailbox about a topic you want to learn about.
- Do I need any prior knowledge?
- No, the courses are designed for everyone who is interested in learning about social and environmental issues.
- Are the courses free?
- Yes, you just need to sign up with your email address.
- What do I have to do?
- You only need to sign up and confirm your subscription. We do the rest.