Good Practice from Germany
The Refugee Innovation Challenge (RIC) is a 12-week incubation program where participants, the RIC Fellows, focus on building game-changing solutions to problems in the context of mass migration. The RIC is created to apply state of the art Methodologies from the Start Up world to the challenges that emerged in the context of mass migration. Its expressed goal to find nationally and historically significant solutions. Additionally, RIC are experimenting with new forms of idea generation and incubation for social entrepreneurs.
The process is designed to accelerate learning by keeping focused on the essentials so that the teams have a steep learning curve and build something that truly makes a difference. It is based on state-of-the-art methods such as Design Thinking, The Lean Start Up and the Business Model Canvas. The participants are a highly diverse crowd from different countries. The participants formed teams focusing on housing and integration, leveraging the potential of refugees even before they are allowed to work, improving language learning opportunities for high potentials, making information on higher education more accessible for refugees and creating opportunities for higher education.
Source of information: www.stage.refugeeinnovationchallenge.org/