Impact Week gUG

About us

Impact Week gUG aims to promote entrepreneurship, innovation, and intercultural exchange through Design Thinking in the Global South. We are a volunteer-driven organization and give underserved communities the opportunity to learn the innovation methodology of design thinking in order to develop self-sustaining entrepreneurial solutions from pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges in their region. In doing so, we promote social entrepreneurship and innovation in the very places where startups hold promise for reducing poverty and improving lives. Our Impact Weeks, 7-day Design Thinking Workshops, are primarily aimed at young people between 17 and 25 with the goal of combating youth unemployment and opening up new perspectives. In addition, we train local coaches from local institutions to act as multipliers in order to anchor the knowledge in the country.