Start with real questions.
Connect learning to students' surroundings, interests and communities. Help them investigate a meaningful problem before developing a response.
NIM School Innovation Curriculum Program
Bring innovation
into school life.
School Innovation Courses
Give students the space, structure and support to turn real-world questions into thoughtful project ideas. Build innovation learning into your school's own curriculum.
School-ledYour teachers, your learning community
Flexible by designCourses, clubs and project experiences
A foundation for moreFrom first ideas to deeper project work
Our philosophy
Make innovation a capability
your school can grow.
NIM helps students turn ideas, research and project work into outcomes they can explain, document and share. Our school curriculum program brings that approach into everyday learning through practical course frameworks, project tasks and teaching resources.
Give ideas a structure.
Use guided tasks, research, collaboration and reflection to help students move from a first thought to a project plan they can explain.
Build lasting school capacity.
Develop teaching experience, reusable resources and examples of student work that strengthen your school's innovation curriculum over time.
Explore the curriculum
One program.
Growing possibilities.
We are developing courses across multiple innovation directions. Each course brings its own framework, student tasks, teacher materials and implementation tools. Start with our first available course.
First available course
Explore. Question. Create.
A more sustainable world
starts with a better question.
- Environment
- Society
- Economy
- Technology
For middle & high school students
NIM Sustainability
Innovation Course
A structured introduction to sustainability innovation, connecting global challenges with the places students know: their campus, community and everyday lives.
- 8 sessions
- 4–6 students per team
- 1 initial project plan
Students investigate a problem, develop an innovation concept and create an initial project proposal through guided tasks, AI-assisted research and peer feedback.
Explore the Sustainability CourseMore courses will follow. New directions will be added here as their teaching resources and implementation tools become available.
Designed for school life
Start small.
Make room to grow.
For full-time international schools and international curriculum centers, the program can fit around existing schedules, student interests and teaching priorities.
A first experience
Use selected activities for an Innovation Day, School Day or a themed club session to introduce students to a new way of thinking.
A focused project experience
Build a sequence of learning and teamwork into Project Week, Innovation Week or an enrichment program.
A place in the curriculum
Develop a course over several weeks, a semester elective or a sustained innovation club, adapted to your school's learning goals.
What schools receive
A curriculum that keeps evolving.
Support throughout the year.
Your school subscribes to an actively developed course and an ongoing service. NIM continually refines the curriculum, adds content and tools, and supports implementation so teachers can keep developing the learning experience.
Continuously evolving curriculum
Access course frameworks, project tasks and teaching resources, with updated content, new activities and new tools as they are developed and released.
Ongoing service & support
Receive implementation guidance, teacher support and access to maintained course systems, alongside ongoing improvements to the tools and resources your school uses.
Authorization & recognition
Authorization to run the course at your school, with course completion documentation for students and support for building your school's own innovation learning provision.
Sustainability Innovation Course
Annual authorization & subscription
US$200 per school / year
One annual fee combines authorization to deliver the course with a subscription to its continued development and operation. Throughout the subscription year, your school receives course updates, new content and tools as released, system access and ongoing implementation support.
No additional NIM in-school course fee per student.
A pathway for student growth
First a learning experience.
Then a next step.
The course helps students build an initial project plan or proposal. Students can then continue developing their work, with more mature projects progressing toward official NIM project accreditation.
- 01
Learn & explore
Investigate a question, build knowledge and explore possible responses.
- 02
Plan & present
Shape an initial project proposal, share the thinking and reflect on feedback.
- 03
Develop & document
Continue project execution and build a fuller record of the work and its outcomes.
- 04
Progress to review
When ready, follow the official NIM project submission and accreditation process.
Course completion documentation recognizes the learning experience. Official NIM project accreditation is a separate process with its own submission and review requirements. Explore the NIM process →
Let's build it in your school
Give your students
a place to begin.
Tell us about your students, curriculum and preferred format. We can discuss course content, school authorization and implementation support.