ING Innovation ISA has been fortunate to have partnered with The Missing Chapter Foundation, an organisation created by Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentine van Oranje, which promotes the role of children as agents of change through the creation of opportunities for discussion and
ee base to “collaborate with colleagues from around the world to develop ‘smart ideas’ to empower customers, and then to turn those ideas into reality.” The 2016 competition received almost 2000 submissions, which were judged and shortlisted, drilling down the candidates to
collaboration with global industry leaders.
a top 100, then down to 30 and eventually ending with 8
In the Spring of 2015, ISA’s Lower School Green
streamed around the world to ING offices and the win-
team worked in conjunction with The Missing Chapter Foundation, the Kikkoman Corporation and the Japanese School of Amsterdam to produce a publication on children’s approaches to healthy eating. Following the success of that project, the organisation once again contacted ISA to partner on a new and somewhat different project, this time in collaboration with financial services company, ING Bank.
finalist teams. The final ceremony was then live ning proposal was provided full funding and backing to put their proposal into action. It was in the last stages of this process that ISA students became involved, and were given the opportunity to not only evaluate the final proposals, but to also select their own winner to bestow a special 3D-printed award, designed by the students themselves, at the final ceremony. The Kids Counsel
The Challenge of Innovation
ISA Assistant Heads of Lower School, Susan Loban
One of the goals of The Missing Chapter Foundation
and Carolyn Lacey, took on the role of finding students
is to infuse the voice and perspectives of children into the working world of adults. With this in mind, the foundation contacted ING Bank to partner with them to discover a way for the voices of children to be heard in the company’s international challenge for innovation in
in grades 4 and 5 who were attracted to the idea of exploring innovation and how their daily classroom learning could drive real change in the world outside of ISA. The two recruited and set up an ISA Innovation Club which met once a week to incorporate the
their services.
IB Learner profile attributes into their own ideation
For the past three years, ING has run - the Innovation
business world. Twenty students participated through-
Bootcamp - an event to encourage it’s global employ-
processes to bring their own perspectives into the out the process and met during their lunch period to
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