Together with DFB-Stiftung Egidius Braun, we gathered 30 teenagers from Ukraine and Germany for a 6-day online intensive using the method of Wladimir Klitschko "F.A.C.E. - the Challenge »

Challenge Academy is an educational project designed to help teenagers realize their potential for society and learn to use it for the public good.

The mission of the project is to teach teenagers to be socially active, to perceive the world rationally and to become change agents in local communities through intercultural exchange. Participants learn from each other, build interpersonal relationships, and initiate their own projects to improve society.

Although the Challenge Academy was launched online for the first time, it did not stop the International Children's Association. They actively communicated, shared experiences, broadened each other's worldviews, and thus strengthened ties between them and their countries.

The project program is unique and built on the method of Wladimir Klitschko "F.A.C.E. - the Challenge”, which is implemented thanks to Klitschko Ventures and the Competence Center for Intrapreneurship of the University of St. Gallen. Here is a more detailed consideration of the components of the method:

F - Focus - focusing, which is a combination of personal and collective vision;

A - Agility - agility, which means initiative and planning of our actions;

C - Coordination - coordination, which is to find synergies with the environment;

E - Endurance - endurance, which consists in the long-term introduction of positive actions.

On the Challenge Academy project, one of the blocks of the method "F.A.C.E. - the Challenge». The four components of the method are considered at three levels: personal, group, and global. Due to this intensive structure, the participants developed gradually and comprehensively, while gaining useful knowledge.

As a result of the project, in September, each of the participants will create their own local project. Destinations are chosen by the participants themselves, but the ultimate goal is to improve their community. Enterprising and active teenagers do not have to wait to grow up to be able to make resources and make changes - they will start doing it this fall!

More about the Challenge Academy project can be found at: https://www.klitschkofoundation.org/projects/education/challenge-academy/