Prepare your students for impactful careers
in today's fast-changing workforce
and empower your educators to support them

Experiential Student Bootcamps

Real-world, project-based learning
Interdisciplinary & multi-institutional teams
Globally diverse experts & stakeholders
Delivered synchronously online across 3-4 days
Multiple Bootcamp dates available
Digital credentials upon completion
Experiential Prizes and 'Careers Nights' opportunities
Currently focused on diverse social, economic and environmental community sustainability challenges

Experiential Educator Training

Training in ‘at scale’ and online experiential learning methods
Approaches for integrating experiential learning and sustainability throughout courses & programs
Virtual experiential workshops led by world class professors
Multiple workshop dates available
Digital credentials on completion
Free practicum opportunities for additional credentials
Opportunities to engage with corporate & industry colleagues

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FAQs

Some of the companies represented at our Careers Nights (for students who complete a Bootcamp):

Some of our current and recent higher ed partners:

"equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to tackle real-world sustainability and innovation challenges."

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The Student Experience

During our bootcamps, students from across disciplines and institutions work together in small teams within larger cohorts. Each student team identifies, and then tackles, a focused problem within the broad sustainability challenges faced by a real-world community. Along the way, teams engage with local community representatives and globally diverse experts, and are supported by an experienced teaching team. At the end, each team produces a multimedia summary of their work, and are interviewed by academic and industry experts. All students get Digital Certificates, and ‘winning’ teams receive additional Digital Badges and prizes!

What students & graduates say about the experience

View a showcase of student team ideas

Bootcamp outline with learning outcomes

Careers Nights & Experiential Prizes

Careers Nights
for every student

Every student who completes one of our Bootcamps gets exclusive access to our Careers Nights.

During every Careers Nights, students have a series of private small-group discussions with sustainability leaders and professionals from a diverse range of companies and organisations. These discussions provide opportunities to get career advice, build a professional network, and even find unique internship and job opportunities.

Some of the companies represented at recent Careers Nights:

”It was great exposure for our company to identify future talents.”
– DWB Consultants
“What an unreal event. Good chats with all the great students.”
– EllisDon
“I was amazed to attend an event with several representatives focused on sustainability who genuinely care about the cause.”
– student attendee

Experiential Prizes
for "winning" students

Top students and teams for all of our Bootcamps "win" experiential prizes that help further advance their careers.

For example, we are delighted to be partnering with Times Higher Education (THE) as a Knowledge Partner for their Global Sustainable Development Congress. This is enabling us to provide:

potential Grand Prizes of trips to attend the Congress; and
Runner-Up Prizes of virtual participation in exclusive "Imagine a World" workshops contributing directly to the Congress.

These Prizes will provide visibility for both the students and their university or college during and surrounding the Congress.

Other experiential prize opportunities include exclusive opportunities to participate in Corporate Sustainability Hackathons, attend other virtual and in-person conferences, and to have private meetings with professional leaders from across the global How to Change the World network.

The Educator Experience

One of our aims as a social enterprise is to support our higher ed partners to expand their ability to deliver exceptional experiential learning. Our Experiential Educator Training program provides educators at all stages of their career with a unique professional development opportunity. Our training provides pedagogical frameworks and practical methods for both designing and delivering experiential learning. Our multimedia materials provide foundational content and our live virtual training workshops provide interactive hands-on experience. Post-training, educators have the opportunity to join our student bootcamp teaching teams for an experiential teaching & learning practicum.

What educators say about the experience

Why we're currently focused on sustainability

Since 2017 there has been a 36x increase in companies setting sustainability targets. Unfortunately, only 17% of these companies say they have employees with the skills they need to start even making progress towards reaching these targets, meaning that up to 150 million employees will need to learn sustainability skills within the next decade. (BCG 2023) Meanwhile, an additional 395 million new jobs could be created by 2030 if companies prioritise the ‘nature-positive’ solutions we know are needed. (WEF 2020)

Students want to learn sustainability skills

Given the accelerating demand for sustainability and green skills, it's no wonder that 84% of higher education students want much more sustainability knowledge and skills provided throughout their courses, and 70% want more sustainability-focused experiential learning! (SOS 2021; Yale 2022) The green transition is an opportunity for the next generation to make its mark building a more sustainable and equitable world!

Closing the sustainability skills gap

Students have the passion and drive to tackle sustainability challenges and help companies achieve their targets, but they need experiential opportunities that provide the mindsets, frameworks and skills – as well as hands-on experience – that companies are looking for.

Our Bootcamps equip students to make a positive impact through practical, real-world experience. We link this with our Experiential Educator Training to support our higher education partners with their efforts to provide more opportunities throughout their courses and programs for students to tackle real-world sustainability challenges.

Learn more about our vision, mission, values and origins as a social enterprise here.

We also deliver credit-bearing courses in partnership with many of our higher ed partners.
While we recommend that new partners start with our extracurricular Bootcamps and Educator Training, you are welcome to book a call with us to learn more about our credit-bearing courses.