Industry Futur{e} Challenge
Futur{e} Challenge is a national initiative designed to bring together the public and private sector to join forces and establish programs to address the skills gap facing many organizations.
Flexible Upskilling Network Program
Flexible Upskilling Network (F.U.N) program is a blended learning program, where participants receive opportunities to combine valuable work experience with accelerated skills training.
Innovative Solutions for the Future of Work
Gain valuable insights from our speakers and panelists on future skills, disruptive technologies and how we can create meaningful opportunities for work-integrated learning.
Unlock Your Infinite Potential
Prepr empowers individuals and teams to build both soft and hard skills by tackling real-world challenges to create business opportunities and unlock their infinite learning potential.
Who We Help
Post-Secondary Institutions
Prepr empowers educators to create innovative work-integrated and experiential learning programs for students and recent graduates through, challenge-based, project-based learning.
Problem Solvers
Prepr connects problem solvers and innovators with organizations looking to solve big challenges and attract new talent.
Innovation Labs
Prepr Labs is where solvers and innovators connect to build and develop future solutions to big challenges.
Organizations
Prepr helps organizations tackle internal and external challenges by connecting them with innovators and problem solvers.
co-LEARN. co-LAB. co-SOLVE.®
Mission is to build a Global Lab Network of Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, & Educators and to co-LEARN, co-LAB, and co-SOLVE® real world challenges and create business opportunities.
LEARN PIE
PIE is an interdisciplinary problem solving framework with 3-phases, and 15 steps to help you go from an idea to market in 90 days or less.
FUTURE PROOF YOUR SKILLS
Apply the PIE method to real-world challenges by co-creating solutions in your portfolio to showcase your skills that matter.
BECOME A VERIFIED SOLVER
Get recognized for solving challenges over time and become a verified member of the
Prepr Network.
Get Recognized by Employers with the PIE Method
Here are the phases of PIE that will help you build projects and create your portfolio.
Project Leadership
Build a cross-functional agile team and learn to get things done.
Innovation
Understand your users' problem and create solutions that delight them.
Entrepreneurship
Experiment with channels, customer segments and your value story to find a story that fits.
Future Proof Your Skills With The Prepr Network
Become a Verified Problem Solver. Gain Skills by Tackling Challenges. Win Prizes, Unlock Trophies, and Get Recognized by Employers. We help students future proof their skills by helping them tackle real world problems, create projects to build a portfolio, and showcase their skills.
Explore Challenges
Explore our collection of challenges in the Network and select ones that you’re most passionate about working on. Save them to your list and explore Labs near you to form a team and begin starting a project to tackle that challenge with a team who shares the same passion as you. From tackling one of the 17 UN Global Goals to exploring Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, you set your path.
Join a Lab
Labs are places where like-minded people co-create together by co-learning to co-lab and co-solve real-world challenges and create business opportunities. From your school, to a nearby co-working space, incubator, corporate innovation lab or entrepreneurship support organization, we’ve made it easy for you to discover teams, experts and resources near you.
Create Projects
Build and manage your portfolio of projects on the Prepr Lab Network. Learn how to master the use of the PIE method solve problems quickly and get your project showcased!
You can store all of your work-in-progress and share with your team – once you’re done, store your final pitch assets and short elevator pitch in your project overview along with key artifacts in your project gallery for other solvers and experts in the network to provide you with feedback.
You choose whether your projects are viewed publicly or kept private in your portfolio. Track your project over the course of your school and get rewarded along the way by maximizing your ILP™ (Infinite Learning Potential).
Showcase Your Skills
By continuing to tackle challenges, join labs, create projects, build teams and provide feedback on other projects, you earn Prepr Points. Overtime, you rank up your ILP™ and unlock key medals and trophies to showcase your skills an talent.
By successfully winning challenges and participating, you can receive rewards from our partners and sponsors and trade your points to unlock additional resources, tools, and programs to continue to build of your Infinite Learning Potential (ILP™).
Featured Challenges
Start tackling real world problems with featured challenges from the United Nations sustainable development goals.
Beyond Covid-19 Challenge
This is a global crisis needs input and action from every community around the globe to solve.
Future Challenge
Futur{e} Challenge is a national initiative designed to bring together the public and private sector to join forces and establish programs to address the skills gap facing many organizations.
Zero Poverty Challenge
Eradicating poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice and the key to unlocking an enormous human potential.
Zero Hunger Challenge
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Good Health & Well Being Challenge
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Education Challenge
Over 265 million children are currently out of school and 22% of them are of primary school age.
Equality Challenge
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
Clean Water And Sanitation Challenge
3 in 10 people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 6 in 10 people lack access to safely managed sanitation facilities.
Affordable & Clean Energy Challenge
Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity the world faces today.
Economic Growth Challenge
There needs to be increased access to financial services to manage incomes, accumulate assets and make productive investments.
Innovation & Infrastructure Challenge
Manufacturing is an important driver of economic development and employment.
Reduced Inequalities Challenge
A world where 1% of humanity controls as much wealth as the bottom 99% will never be stable.
Sustainable Cities & Communities Challenge
Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more.
Consumption & Production Challenge
If people worldwide switched to energy efficient lightbulbs, the world would save US$120 billion annually.
Climate Action Challenge
The warming of the earth has continued through 2016, setting a new record of about 1.1 degrees centigrade above the pre-industrialized period.
Life On Land Challenge
By protecting forests, we will also be able to strengthen natural resource management and increase land productivity.
Peace, Justice And Strong Intuitions Challenge
Among the institutions most affected by corruption are the judiciary and police.
Partnership For The Goals Challenge
A successful sustainable development agenda requires partnerships between governments, the private sector and civil society.
Futur{e} Challenge is a national initiative designed to bring together the public and private sector to join forces and establish programs to address the skills gap facing many organizations.
Through workshops and an open challenge call, it explores the intersection of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence with key industries such as Automotive, Food or Energy. Want to explore what’s new and next while looking at where and how industries should focus on up-skilling? Get involved today.
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