How we work

Connect

Connecting competencies to opportunity pathways

We activate ecosystem partners — NGOs, funders, and employers — to adopt the same standard for programmes, monitoring, and youth pathways. This means helping organisations design and run initiatives that develop whole people and communities, not just technical skills, and then recognise that development using the shared competency standard.

We support partners to re-imagine ownership — who leads, who benefits, whose voice counts — in ways that disrupt systemic bias and open up opportunity.

Case Study

Two girls laughing and enjoying a robotic project at a table, with one boy focused on a laptop nearby.

STEAMIE Centres of Excellence

In partnership with UNICEF South Africa and the Department of Basic Education, we activated 12 Coding and Robotics Hubs into STEAMIE Centres of Excellence — integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship into community-accessible learning spaces.

The activation brought together stakeholders at multiple levels — provincial and district officials, school management teams, governing bodies, educators, union representatives, community safety organisations, NGOs, and learners — in co-creation workshops that built shared ownership and demonstrated the value of the hubs. Each Centre now has:

A community-mapped set of use cases developed through multi-stakeholder co-creation
A locally grounded vision, mission, and five-year STEAMIE Learning Plan
Structured governance, safeguarding, and maintenance systems
Trained Hub Coordinators and educators facilitating ongoing programmes

Across the 12 sites, the Centres have directly reached 11,009 learners and 432 teachers, with 60+ cluster schools now accessing training, equipment demonstrations, and shared programmes.

This function ensures that the competencies developed and measured within formal education do not remain trapped there — they travel with young people into communities, programmes, and work pathways.

Partner with us

Whether you are a government department, development agency, foundation, corporate, or school network, we are ready to work with you.