U21/PwC Innovation Challenge 2021

2021

In 2021, we asked graduate students to respond to the recent Upskilling for Shared Prosperity  report by the World Economic Forum and PwC. The report makes the case for providing employees with learning and development opportunities to expand their horizons while minimising skills gaps. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted on the global economy in ways we could not have imagined and further exposed the inadequacies of our current economic structures. It further highlighted a growing mismatch between people’s current skills and those needed for the jobs at the heart of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The skills gap is widening and causing greater inequality in the workplace.

Graduate students from across the network submitted 3-minute videos with suggestions for an initiative that can be undertaken by governments and/or businesses and/or education providers that can help improve and maintain shared and sustainable prosperity.

All entries can be viewed below.