Hub Activities: This intercontinental initiative aims to encourage and facilitate dialogue and collective action between young participants from India, Nigeria and Germany to address burning issues in the area of Global Health. Participants will be divided into international teams and mentored towards taking up local projects in the area of public health. The boot camp is organized in three phases - 

 

Phase 1 - Skill development - Students chosen for this program will be equipped with fundamental leadership skills needed to become an exceptional future member of the Global Shapers community.

The participants will develop a social consciousness that will support the launching of in-house projects—the first step towards becoming socially responsible leaders and changing lives.

EMERGENCE WORKSHOP:

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  Dazzle me in the future: This is a super fun icebreaker session that serves as an opportunity for students to get to know each other, speak about their future aspirations and get acquainted with the environs of the Global Shapers Workshop. It sets the base for future skill set development sessions.
  


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  Greatest Holiday Destination Ever: One of the most well received modules of the Emergence Workshop, it focuses on introducing students to the concept of opinion development, appreciation, and expression. Often while working in cross-functional environments, the biggest issue is not a difference of opinion, but how to deal with it in order to reach a consensus. The session involves a fun activity that helps participants develop this skill.
  


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  The Avengers: Another exciting session for young adults! It requires all of them to assume the role of an avenger (they create a superhero of their own)and tackle a global issue that we are facing in today's world. The session will involve creative thinking, role playing, cross questioning and argumentation.
  


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  Diplomacy: A very important skill for any Global Shaper to develop, the session will involve a Model UN exercise in which students will try to solve a social issue (vaccine distribution to developing nations) that the world is facing today.
  


• Save Us Cuties: This session primarily teaches students the process of building their own campaigns and promoting different causes. Specifically, this particular one is going to focus on developing campaigns for saving endangered animals from across the world. It will also provide participants with a great global perspective towards things.


• My Very Own Continent - Reflect and Affect: In this session, students hone skills such as leadership, problem-solving, collaboration and design thinking through an activity in which they are divided into different groups. Each of these have to create their own continents with their own laws, policies etc. It will serve as a great starting point for future sessions and activities that the students are going to embark upon as a part of Global Shapers.


• Social Entrepreneurship Canvas: A module designed to assist students to start their own independent journey towards pro bono initiatives. This module introduces the participants to the multifaceted aspects of implementing an enterprise and helps them design a value proposition for their ideas, at the same time providing them with tools to assess feasibility and scalability of their ideas.


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  Project Implementation and Team Dynamics: The last module is set to bridge the gap between the skills acquired by students in all the previous modules, and actually implementing their ideas.
  

 

Phase 2 - Pre implementation project planning - The problem assessment and project ideation set training will focus on collective efforts at identifying areas of unmet needs, followed by interest mapping and project development. 

• Brainstorming and global need assessment


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  Group meetings and project idea submission (Group mentorship)
  


• Project structure presentation (Group mentorship)


• Pre-implementation check ins and plan presentation

 

Phase 3 - Project execution - The problem implementation set will be dedicated to launch and impact assessment of the projects developed by the students 

 

Problem statement: Fostering intercultural collaboration between students and youth from Germany, India and Nigeria, in order to learn team work while simultaneously launching local projects to address issues in global health.

 

Proposed solution: Responsible leadership is a personality that needs to be cultivated, and the earlier the seeds are sown, the more humanity can benefit from Responsible Leaders. GSC Junior Bootcamp is an attempt from Global Shapers Dusseldorf to identify and train young school students or youth in college, into responsible leadership and collaborative mode of functioning.

The major goal of this project is to identify young social changemakers and provide them with an accelerator-like environment to take up individual projects. It also aims at identifying unmet needs in public health and working collectively towards global health equity.

 

Available Metrics: Total of 32 participants of the age 15 – 20 years from India, Nigeria, and Germany. The Hub has held in association with our collaborators 8 workshops of 2.5h each and has trained 32 participants in responsible leadership, personality development and project implementation. By the end of the project, through the project launched by the participants in their local areas, we aim to impact around 300 people by spreading awareness about three main global health issues: menstrual health and hygiene, universal health coverage and mental health. Each team is undergoing 1 hour of mentoring session per week to come up with their own projects.

 

Collaborators: 

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  Skillsphere Education (Start-Up from India)

  
  


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  External Mentors: Dharrnesha Inbah Rajah (Chicago), Chinasa Imo (Chicago), Ann Njuguna (Nigeria) and Mona Gupta (India)