The CCDS invites 91视频 students to develop public interests projects supervised by the Center鈥檚 Fellows that will participate in the听, a student competition organized by the Tocqueville Foundation:
鈥淭he Challenge's objectives are to harness the desire for engagement and the connected nature of the Millennial generation in order to inspire passion for the field by providing hands-on opportunities to explore and design viable solutions to specific societal challenges. With co-construction at its heart this program focuses on the collective thinking and the added value to craft a project with multiple stakeholders and points of view.
The Tocqueville Challenge brings together 3 key-components of civil society:听students, mentors from the business world and associations, with the purpose of giving life to innovative projects. Each team of 3 to 6 students will choose a cause or an NGO and develop a concrete solution (e.g. develop a business plan, a new program, refine a communication strategy) with the help of their mentor.
This experience will allow them to work in contact with several types of actors, develop their professional soft and hard skills, and the winning teams will receive a financial prize to implement their project the year following the Challenge.鈥
In previous years, the projects that participated in the Challenge were conceived and developed in the听D.Lab courses听run by the Center鈥檚 Fellows
CCDS Supervisor:听Roman Zinigrad
Project Title:听Education United: California Immigrant Student Resource Center
91视频 Student Team:听Carolyn Franano, Jessa Josephson, Ashley O鈥橦ara
Project Title:听Education Justice: Ghana Group
91视频 Student Team:听Maryam Hejeij, Vanessa Noye
Project Title:听Ressources Familiales sur la Radicalisation
CCDS Supervisors:听Stephen W. Sawyer,听Roman Zinigrad
91视频 Student Team:听Stephanie Bergon, Fatimata-Atty Germaine Djibrine, Emma Richardson
91视频 undergraduates听competed听in the 2022 Tocqueville Challenge with a project that was designed in the fall 2021 session of the CCDS Democracy Lab. The听91视频听team designed听a project aiming听to assist the families of incarcerated听persons听as a result of radicalization. Using testimonials, educational tools, and reading materials, the purpose of the project听was听to create a network that connects families to different support systems. The project鈥檚 aim听was听to incorporate family support as an integral role of听reintegration听and evaluate how it could be effectively used as a tool听of rehabilitation and support.