Meet our speakers
Meet our speakers
If you are interested in being a Shaping Horizons volunteer, press the button below to apply. We welcome applications for all our positions. To have a better idea of the structure of our team and where you could fit, you can have a look here.
If you are interested in being a Shaping Horizons volunteer, press the button below to apply. We welcome applications for all our positions. To have a better idea of the structure of our team and where you could fit, you can have a look here.
Collective Social Innovation
Shaping Horizons organises innovation programmes to educate young people on building social enterprises and upskill young employees through corporate volunteerism. For each employee upskilled with us, we provide free training to four young people outside our partner´s organisation. We strive for excellence in entrepreneurial and transferable skills learning through a real-life collective experience with impact.
They have trusted us:
Award-winning methodology
Thanks to R&D done at the University of Cambridge, Shaping Horizons created a unique innovation approach and over 26 digital tools to drive collective impact.
We propose a user-centred collaborative concept that helps analyse complex challenges common to many and develop local solutions with a global perspective.
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250+
Young innovators and corporate employees trained
120,000
volunteering hours
30%
Success rate of social projects created and active after one year
8.92/10
degree of learning
Young innovators and corporate volunteers learn and drive impact collectively.
How we work
Our team of over 100 young motivated staff and volunteers organise open innovation programmes along a theme defined by prospective analysis according to our partner's priorities and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Each programme upskills 100-150 young people and 30-50 corporate employees on transferable, cross-cultural and entrepreneurial skills.
Young innovators
Shaping Horizons organises one-year social innovation programmes for young people. The participants of the programme work in international teams to identify issues facing their local communities. During the programme, we guide the teams using research-inspired innovation tools. We also match them with corporate employees trained by us to receive mentoring and accelerate their projects.
Corporate volunteers
Shaping Horizons is the only global provider of a corporate volunteering experience that develops employees’ transferable skills and international experience while quantifying how it impacts our partners' performance and young people worldwide. On top of providing purposeful upskilling, our solution also gives our corporate partners an opportunity to engage with the youth and access early-stage solutions.
"Shaping Horizons is absolutely driven by the sense of entrepreneurship, innovation, and ideas of the young people involved. It is fascinating to see the proposals that come out."
Nigel Baker
OBE MVO, former Head of the Latin America Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
"What Shaping Horizons is indeed doing is talking about relations between companies and communities and making those as productive and friendly as possible."
John Mattick
CEO, Genomics England
INTERNATIONAL
We shape new frontiers in international collaboration using social innovation.
INCLUSIVE
We promote the participation of people with diverse backgrounds and cultures.
INTERDISCIPLINARY
We build cross-disciplinary networks between young people and companies.
FOCUSED
We start new open innovation projects aligned with the United Nations SDGs.
