IMPACT GLOBAL
Celebration Event
IMPACT is a project that creates an opportunity for postgraduate students to use their research, skills and creativity, working in multidisciplinary teams, to impact the community around them and create viable solutions to real-world problems.
In 2019, a group of postgraduate students worked in blended teams alongside RCity Belfast, a group of young people from Ardoyne and the Shankill, to create innovative solutions that inspired positive social change both at home and internationally. The team travelled to South Africa for two weeks of design thinking and on their return, they worked with community leaders to devise an implementation and operations plan to see their solutions brought to life.
On 27 June, the young people from RCity Belfast visited the Graduate School for a celebration event during which they were congratulated for their contribution to the IMPACT Global project.
Find out more about the project by watching UTV's documentary, 'Not in my generation', which follows the group on their journey.