Description
An easy and fast way to generate ideas for an array of problems and opportunities. These sorts of competitions can be done in many ways depending on the resources you have available and how you wish to collect and judge contributions.
Target Audience
- Adult citizens
- Children 3-6
- Children 7-12
- Families
- Policymakers
- Stakeholders
- Teenagers
You can do it with all those groups, but we did it with professionals from different fields like public engagement or the cultural and creative sector.
Benefits
Benefits
These events are easy to organise and require minimal resources (depending on how you wish to collate, read, and judge suggestions. This activity helps with the promotion of dialogue and cooperation between both external and internal collaborators.
Preparations
As stated above, very little preparation is necessary to run an idea competition, just a means for people to share their ideas, a way to monitor suggestions, and a criterion for how to judge these ideas. It is important to stick to this judging criterion through the event, to ensure fairness. Before the event takes place, a suitable prized should be decided upon, the available prize should be announced before the event takes place.
Resources
The Big Idea Challenge is the competition for you! You will learn how to develop your idea into a powerful business model and pitch it to the world. Whether it’s an innovative mobile app, a new medical service or a national dance club (all past winners).
The Big Idea Challenge is a multi-stage process of pitching, workshopping and idea development, which is a more complex version of an event of this type than you may need.
