Today, there are over 1.2 billion young people in the world. They are a positive force for development and are able to thrive when provided with requisite knowledge and opportunities.
Youth are the innovators, creators and entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Young people in all regions are driving change and carving pathways towards a better future and they are using their creativity and ingenuity for that purpose. Yet, the needs, concerns, endeavors and further development of young inventors, creators and entrepreneurs are not sufficiently addressed.
The rise of digital technology has granted students and educators innovative ways of interacting, learning, creating, and sharing their creations. Today youth are digital natives and they have the potential and versatile advantage over senior digital immigrants. Nevertheless, they produce best when they work in partnership with the support of senior role models who guide and coach them through required steps to create and invent using IP systems.
Our IP education activities for youth are designed for maximum impact and for a world where creativity and IP education for youth everywhere is supported for the good of everyone.
The IP Youth Camp is a flagship experiential learning initiative under the IP for Youth & Teachers Program of the WIPO Academy. It is designed to empower young people with practical skills in creativity, innovation, IP, and entrepreneurship. The camp is designed to cultivate an early understanding of how ideas can be transformed into protected, valuable, and market-ready solutions among youth aged 14 to 24.
The IP Youth Camp introduces participants to their role in supporting innovation and entrepreneurship through hands-on, youth-friendly methodologies and core IP concepts. Young participants engage in creative challenges, innovation games, team-based problem-solving activities, and real-life case studies that demonstrate how IP tools such as patents, trademarks, and copyright can be applied to their ideas. The camp emphasizes experiential learning, encouraging youth to think critically, collaborate, and explore entrepreneurial pathways linked to their creative outputs.
Delivered through intensive in-person camps and complementary interactive sessions, the program creates a safe and inspiring environment where youth can experiment, iterate, and innovate. By the end of the camp, participants gain foundational innovation and IP literacy; enhanced creative confidence, and a clearer understanding of how IP supports the journey from ideas to impact. The IP Youth Camp empowers young people to become informed creators and future innovators, ready to contribute meaningfully to local, national, and global innovation ecosystems.
The IP4Youth Camps and Innovation Clubs deliver seminars that involve group activities, trivia quizzes, out-of-the-box thinking, and practical creativity exercises on IP using the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ). This method is particularly useful and easily integrated in STEM activities and is supported by a Hub of online resources and other learning material provided through WIPO Academy’s online Youth Corner.
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