Activities

Aim of the activities: Participants collaborate and explore ways to reduce strains on natural resources, increase eco-friendly clean and renewable energy, and innovate green business models to make them more sustainable.

Activity 1: Teamwork where participants carry out online research. Teams to share research tasks among member to maximise time (60 minutes, including breaks):

1. Each team selects one video to review
2. Team critique one video each and addressing the given question
3. What skills and mindset must be developed to run a green business venture? 
4. Relate this to your green business proposition laid out in their completed BMC from session 3.

Activity 2: Teams give a pitch as a small start-up venture that is pro-environment and committed to sustainable development. (60minutes, including breaks):

Each team will produce a professionally looking, glossy-type pitch deck. Review and update your team’s VPC and the BMC produced during session 3. Based on the team’s BMC, prepare a pitch presentation that covers the following:

1. business name and logo
2. green mission statement
3. problem definition and research
4. Ideation and options analysis
5. value proposition canvas
6. business model canvas
7. entrepreneur skills and competencies 
8. References

Questions to think about when working in teams:

1. What is your product or service; what value does it create? 
2. Who is your market? 
3. What is your revenue model? 
4. Who is behind the company? 
5. Who is your competition? 
6. What is your competitive advantage?