ATS2170 Social entrepreneurship challenge in the Indo-Pacific

The Social Entrepreneurship Challenge in the Indo-Pacific (SECIP) Program is a two-week virtual, experiential initiative that gives students hands-on experience in establishing a social enterprise or solution that can have immediate social impact. Delivered with partner universities around the Indo-Pacific, students are placed into cross-cultural, interdisciplinary teams to undertake in an intensive model incubator program. Based on the principles of design-thinking, frugal innovation and rapid prototyping, the program focuses on creating tangible solutions to pressing local, regional and global challenges in sustainable ways. 

Over the course of the program, students attend in-depth panel discussions to learn from leaders in the business, government and non-government sector, participate in the hands-on skills bazaars, and work with leading industry mentors from around the world to better understand contemporary challenges, develop and test their ideas and assumptions, and then make, break and re-create solutions.

Delivered entirely online, the SECIP program prepares students for a rapidly changing contemporary work place. Through the program, students develop the skills to effectively operate and engage in virtual teams made up of colleagues and partners based around our region.

In joining this unit, students will be required to complete a series of Moodle lessons prior to the intensive program. Students have two weeks to complete the lessons, all of which provide an introduction to the key topics and frameworks that will be used throughout the program. Then, over two weeks students are required to participate in daily seminars, workshops, skill development sessions, mentor and teamwork sessions to develop their social enterprise or innovation idea. Student then have two weeks to complete the team and individual assessment tasks.