Collaboration between Villanova University and UNICEF’s Innovation Lab at BICU, Nicaragua

Abstract

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has established innovation labs throughout the world to develop innovative solutions to problems related to children and youth. The UNICEF Innovation lab in Nicaragua was located at the Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University (BICU) in Bluefields, Nicaragua. Faculty and students from Villanova University and Colleges and Universities in Managua, Nicaragua have worked with students and professors at BICU to deliver workshops in product design, solutions development, and entrepreneurship to students at BICU. This paper presents a description of these activities and the informal assessment of this work to date.