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.
The live creative briefs at the heart of our latest student awards programme will go live in a phased launch between now and the beginning of 2021. You can see what's already shared and everything else needed to take part here.
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.