The Four Phases of IMPACT

In the first phase of IMPACT – Awareness – you will get the chance to become experts in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Take a look at what your team will be doing…

• Understand the context – get familiar with the UN SDGs, sustainability and social entrepreneurship.
• Start researching your allocated country in your teams!
• Bring your research to life using infographics and visuals.
• Use the SDGs to start thinking about the issues that might be impacting your allocated country.
• Create an Action Plan for a mock UN Youth Summit.

In the second phase – Action – you will interact with your peers, technology and the world, developing your skills of financial, sustainability and media literacy. Here’s what your team will be doing…

• Find out about the five stages of design thinking from the Stanford d.school.
• Narrow down your research to a single problem faced by your team’s country and start thinking about solutions.
• See design thinking in action (using a case study about Senegal).
• Use the design thinking method in your team to innovate and prototype.

In the third phase of IMPACT – Advocacy – you will work on your SDG Advocacy Project and you will learn some skills for presenting your project to the wider world.

• Create your SDG Advocacy Project – your journalist article or a video that will showcase your Action project work.
• Show your project management skills in action.
• Learn how to pitch to perfection.
• Make even more of an IMPACT. Can you use everything you have done so far to create an IMPACT delegation presentation to showcase your innovation?

By the final stage of IMPACT – Agency – it will be down to you! You will need to be ready to deliver your IMPACT delegation presentation and submit your SDG Advocacy Project. But you will also get the opportunity to amplify and promote your work to a wider audience. 

Your school will get the opportunity to share your extraordinary team innovations and examples of IMPACT in action. You will get the chance to be featured on the IMPACT website and for your innovation and work to be promoted to over 9,000 international schools – raising the profile of your team, your school and your amazing work as IMPACT Ambassadors.