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.
Prepr empowers educators to create innovative work-integrated and experiential learning programs for students and recent graduates through, challenge-based, project-based learning.
Prepr connects problem solvers and innovators with organizations looking to solve big challenges and attract new talent.
Prepr Labs is where solvers and innovators connect to build and develop future solutions to big challenges.
Prepr helps organizations tackle internal and external challenges by connecting them with innovators and problem solvers.
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.
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.
Apply the PIE method to real-world challenges by co-creating solutions in your portfolio to showcase your skills that matter.
Get recognized for solving challenges over time and become a verified member of the
Prepr Network.
Here are the phases of PIE that will help you build projects and create your portfolio.
Build a cross-functional agile team and learn to get things done.
Understand your users' problem and create solutions that delight them.
Experiment with channels, customer segments and your value story to find a story that fits.
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 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.
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.
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).
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™).
Start tackling real world problems with featured challenges from the United Nations sustainable development goals.
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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