Inspire your students to tackle real-world environmental challenges

Key Benefits

Start our challenge today! It is a free, ready-to-use classroom programme where students create solutions to the biodiversity crisis… and compete to win a share of the £5000 prize pot!

🌱 Explore biodiversity in Northern Ireland

💼 Discover green careers

🧠 Develop creative solutions

🎤 Pitch ideas like real entrepreneurs

Get started today and bring biodiversity to life in your classroom!

Inspire your students to tackle real-world environmental challenges

Challenge Biodiversity is a 3-module programme to help students engage with the Biodiversity crisis that we face in Northern Ireland and learn how businesses here have changed their methods to try and combat this. It also gives students an insight into the huge range of “green” jobs available, encouraging them to consider this as a viable career option. The programme concludes with an ideation activity, where students are given the chance to create their own scheme, product or service and then pitch this to try and secure a £1million grant for their business.

The best concepts from each school can then be entered into the national competition for a chance to win a share of £5000 worth of prizes.

Programme Overview

    1. Introduction - Video (2min)

    2. What is Biodiversity? - Video (3m30s)

    3. Biodiversity in NI - Interactive Quiz (6 questions:10min)

    4. How do industries in NI negatively impact biodiversity? - Discussion Question (10min)

    5. How does NI compare when it comes to biodiversity loss? - Interactive Activity (5min)

    6. Green careers - Video & Audio (8min)

    7. Coming up in Module 2 - Audio (1min)

    1. Introduction - Video (1min)

    2. What have you seen businesses do in NI to safeguard or promote biodiversity? - Discussion Question (10min)

    3. Business and Biodiversity - Videos (3 choices: from 3-5min)

    4. Ideation activity introduction - Audio (2min)

    5. Problems, solutions and concept ideation - Group work (20min)

    6. Coming up in Module 3 - Audio (1min)

    1. Introduction - Video (1min)

    2. Business and Biodiversity - Videos (2 choices: from 3-5min)

    3. Get down to business: Concept branding, finance and pitch - Group work (20min)

    4. Team investment pitches - Up front presentations & judging (Timing as required)

    5. Congratulations! - Audio (1min)

If you have any issues in delivering Challenge: Biodiversity, please contact programmes@yeni.co.uk