From Classroom Idea to Funded Global Impact

By the year 2050, today's schoolchildren will be the leaders shaping our world.

At Empowered for Peace, we believe the journey to global peace and sustainable innovation must begin now—by tapping into the unencumbered creativity of young minds and guiding them through a trajectory of real-world learning, cross-cultural collaboration, and meaningful impact.

We are proud to present the Empowered for Peace Innovation Pyramid, a bold educational framework that enables students from primary school through to university to co-create innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time.

This is more than an education project—it’s a peace building movement powered by the imagination and brilliance of the next generation.

Our Vision:

To ignite a global movement where young people learn by doing, creating, and co-leading the transformation of our world. We envision a generation raised to think critically, collaborate globally, and lead with compassion.

Our Mission:

The Innovation Pyramid builds on a foundation of proven methodologies. The Spaghetti Challenge has demonstrated that children often outperform adults in open-ended design thinking. We are scaling this principle into a global innovation platform.

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Each layer relies on individuals and organisations that are happy, confident, and aligned with purpose. When people feel good from the inside out, they bring more to the table.

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Implementation steps

  • STEP 1

    Issue the Challenge

    Present students (ages 10 and up) with a real-world problem—local, regional, national, or global.

    Inspired by the “Spaghetti Challenge,” students are encouraged to use unfiltered creativity to generate bold solutions.

  • STEP 2

    Student-Led Group Formation

    The school offers a menu of different projects for the students to make their choices. Groups are not assigned by the teacher.

    Students self-select their groups (minimum of 2, maximum of 5) based on interest—encouraging authentic collaboration, pure ownership and agency.

  • STEP 3

    Curriculum Integration

    Dedicate weekly or fortnightly sessions to developing solutions. Iterative, hands-on engagement builds critical thinking and practical innovation skills throughout the semester.

  • STEP 4

    Solution Presentation

    Each group presents their project in a format of their choice—live presentation, video, digital media, etc.—by a set submission deadline.

  • STEP 5

    Peer Voting

    The school children get to vote on the best solutions to the problems.

    They are given ten votes each – they can give them all to one project or spread their votes over several projects.

  • STEP 6

    Advancement to the Innovation Pyramid

    The top 3 projects move to the next level of the Innovation Pyramid. Feasibility studies by university students, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and mentorship.

  • STEP 7

    Collaboration with Higher Education

    Higher education students self-select projects to assess, offering real-world academic engagement across faculties.

  • STEP 8

    From Vision to Venture — Pitching for Real-World Impact

    Universities elect to pitch one or more of the feasibility studies to venture capital groups who will be made aware of this initiative by Empowered for Peace.

    VCs will receive only proposals which have been vigorously reviewed for practicability.