Enabling next-generation thinkers and doers
Since 2001 we've been connecting universities, colleges and art & design schools with industry partners for mutually valuable learning, centred on live business challenges. Enriching, real-world learning that leads to relevant new campaigns, services and experiences.
Here we shine a light on all commended as part of our annual creative education programme for 2020/21. Congratulations to those commended and a huge thanks to all who took part!
Our industry partners connect the freshest creative talent around the world, engaging them around live creative, marketing and business challenges. Learn more about partnering.
Our mini-collection of live business challenges, invited bright creative thinking this summer. Here we share details of those who shone.
Explore in full, all the submissions that bagged a commendation as part of our annual creative education programme for 2019/20.
An immediate challenge to create the next generation of mattress packaging for the innovators in mattress delivery, eve sleep.
We're supporting students, their tutors and course leaders around the world with rich, and relevant and industry-led learning that connects them with each other in the process
Join an interactive and insightful session; aimed at teachers, trainers, tutors and course leaders, in which we'll raise awareness and open conversation around the concept of neurodiversity, and more neuroinclusive learning environments.
Meaningful partnerships, with forward thinking brands
We team up with organisations — from Google to Greenpeace — connecting them to the freshest and most diverse creative thinking around the world, and focussing it on live business challenges.
Course partnerships
Through course partnerships, we support students and their tutors with collaborative and continual learning centred on in-demand skills — whether critical thinking or successful remote learning — connecting them with experts, and with each other.
Education learning partnerships
Examples of real-world-learning around live business challenges
Sensitively, visually engaging and supporting people online is the focus of our ongoing learning partnership with the NSPCC and Childline.
As part of their longstanding Think! campaign, the DfT engaged students and graduates nationally inviting creative thinking on discouraging drink driving.
Creatively driven students and graduates applied their thinking to new print and packaging concepts to grab the attention of discerning customers.
Engaging emerging talent through YCN's education programmes should be a page in every marketer's playbook.
Since we began in 2001 we've designed mutually valuable ways to connect forward-thinking organisations with bright, diverse and emerging thinkers within universities, colleges and art and design schools around the world — for real-world and relevant learning.