Get Innovating
What ideas are we looking for?
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We are looking for the innovative ideas of young people that can make a practical difference to society covering 3 key areas:
Youth
Community
Innovative Access
Ideas must fit within one of these categories. However, if they cover more, then that is fine too.
We want ideas that allow you to Create, Compete or Collaborate with young people in other countries. You must have or be willing to develop international connections with other young people. We can help you make links with young people in other countries.
Your idea needs to be realistic and practical. It needs to have the potential to be delivered. We want ideas that are commercially viable (i.e. they are doable, and could become new products or even new businesses)
Your idea needs to ultimately benefit people from the South East who are disadvantaged by the area they live in, their circumstances or by their disability. The people your idea is aimed at should be clearly involved in project design
Your project must be non-political and non-discriminatory in relation to ethnicity, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation and religion or faith
What might your innovative idea look like?
Below we have explained in a little bit more detail what sort of questions you should be asking yourselves to get you thinking on the right lines. As we have stated above, innovative, inspirational, and imaginative ideas are what we are looking for…
Be creative and challenge yourselves to come up with something that would make your lives, and the lives of others, better.
Your project must broadly meet the needs of those living in disadvantage or based around access for all.
Youth
What are the problems affecting young people today? What’s it like being a young person today? What would improve my chances of getting a job? What could be done to improve my skills and raise my aspirations? How could we improve our life locally or globally? What would we like to see changed or done differently? How could we make our community safer? How could we better interact with others in our community, region, country or overseas? How could we improve fitness and health, and encourage more to exercise?
Community
What are the issues affecting my area? How can we make people feel safer in the places that they live? How can we improve the local economy? What would we improve to increase the quality of life for local people? What would bring different sections of communities closer together? How could we make links to newly settled residents or encourage closer working between young and older communities? What would we improve our community? How would we improve the shared spaces in our communities?
Innovative Access
How could we improve our access and connection for all parts of our community? How can we improve the services available to us? How can we improve the networks that we have? How can we make a difference to our health? Where could technology be improved to assist us in day-to-day life?