OPEN INNOVATION at XYZ:::

WHAT´S OPEN INNOVATION?

What does it have to do with our TEAMLABS/ community?

Our learning model is complemented by two basic elements:

1/ User-Centered Innovation (Design Thinking).

2/ Tools and rationales of the Learning Organizations or Team Learning.

In this way, at the same time that the teams work on a specific challenge acquiring new team innovation tools, they incorporate logic, culture and mentality of constant and agile learning, enhancing their decision-making skills and constant training. In addition, by establishing project development as a central learning vehicle, our users are trained in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation, among others.

When we talk about incorporating Open Innovation logics with XYZ/, what we propose is to open our community to other communities in an intentional and proactive way, to be able to collaborate with others and thus learn more and increase the impact we generate.

Open Ideo understands Open Innovation as:

"A collaborative approach to Design Thinking for social impact that brings diverse people together to share ideas and leverage each other's knowledge and learnings. We've found that this openness drives bigger change and faster."

WHAT IT A BIG F*CKING PROBLEM FOR US?

According to our friends at Unreasonable Institute Boulder, B.F.P. (Big Fucking Problems), are "problems or challenges such as poverty, water, health... that have the potential to impact a million lives. This doesn't mean that it has to reach that number in one, two or three years, but that it has that potential for the future."

Link to the interview with Sara Rodriguez from Unreasonable Institute (now Uncharted).

In short, we are talking about CHALLENGES, GLOBAL NEEDS, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), for which we want to make our capability, our learning and our mission available.

In this XYZ #FinnishMission, concretely in the coming XYZ Hackathon we will be putting all our efforts on:

As intolerance, racism, and violent movements are increasing mostly in every European country, instead of solidarity, cooperation, empathy and diversity ones:

>> How can we, as international civil society, companies, public and private institutions help to fight this kind of attitude and create something tangible to solve it?

>> How might we foster a culture of peace within European youngsters?