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Introduction
Future Anything transforms young people’s passion and creativity into innovative ideas that make their world a better place. Our mission is to create enterprising students, empowered educators, and future-ready schools.
What do we mean by ‘enterprising’? “Enterprising (adj) : marked by an independent energetic spirit and by a readiness to act.”
Who is involved in the IDEEC project?
Nicole Dyson is a multi-award-winning educator and entrepreneur, and a global authority on project-based learning and youth entrepreneurship.
An experienced former school leader within the public education system in Australia, she is the founder of Future Anything, an award-winning education provider that works with 15000+ young people (and their educators) each year, YouthX, Australia’s only startup accelerator program for school-aged entrepreneurs, and Catapult Cards, a design thinking toolkit for classrooms and corporates that donates 50% of its profits back to providing micro-grants for youth-led startups.
What motivated your organisation to participate in the IDEEC project?
As an organisation that is founded and led by an experienced educator, Future Anything was thrilled to contribute to the ‘collective genius’ of impact-led entrepreneurship education in the hope of making it easier and more accessible for more educators in more schools to unlock this approach for their young people.
What positive impacts do you foresee the IDEEC project having on education and the next generation of entrepreneurs?
For us at Future Anything, this project is about more than just creating more ‘entrepreneurs’. Our work at Future Anything is focussed on building a generation of ‘enterprising’ thinkers and doers. We believe impact-led entrepreneurship, within curriculum, can catalyse the creative potential of young people to make a tangible change to the challenges that effect their communities. In this way, we’re making the world a better place, for generations to come.
How has collaborating with other organizations in the IDEEC project enriched your perspective or approach to impact-driven entrepreneurial education?
There is an African proverb that says, “If you want to go far, go together.” It’s always enriching learning and doing to work alongside like-minded, values-led organisations to achieve a common goal.
If you want to go far, go together.
African proverb
How do you envision the IDEEC Competence Framework influencing the way entrepreneurship education is approached globally?
As the only organisation in the southern hemisphere to contribute, we’re excited about the possibility for a global shift in the implementation of impact-led entrepreneurship education to be agnostic – rather than a bolt-on that is most often ‘housed’ within business or STEM classrooms. This approach to teaching and learning can be powerful across all curriculum areas. We envisage that the products from this collective work will make easier for more educators in more schools to unlock this approach for their young people