IMPACT WEEK PERU 2025
We’re excited to bring Impact Week to Peru for the very first time—and you can be part of shaping this milestone experience! As a Junior Design Thinking Coach, you’ll join a vibrant team of local and international changemakers passionate about empowering young people through innovation and entrepreneurship. You’ll receive hands-on training and develop crucial coaching skills along the way.
With its rich cultural heritage and energetic youth population, Peru is a country full of creativity and potential. At the same time, it faces pressing challenges such as rural-urban inequality, climate vulnerability, and youth unemployment. As a Junior Coach, you’ll help unlock local talent and guide young participants in developing human-centered solutions that create real impact in their communities.
This is your chance to grow as a coach, connect across cultures, and contribute to a more inclusive and innovative future—together with an inspiring team in Peru.
Key facts
Dates
IW Challenge: November 10-13
Location
Local Partner
Universidad del Pacífico
Wanna Join?
Join us to create impact!
What to expect
With our two-module approach, we will train a new cohort of Junior Coaches by guiding them through a 3-day “Train-the-Coach” phase.
The international and local participants will then take their new role as Design Thinking Coaches and work together with students and other communities in Lima to find innovative solutions for local challenges. This defines the “practical phase” and will give the new Coaches the unique opportunity to directly implement what they have just learned while being guided by experienced Senior Coaches along the journey.
The innovative and customer-focused orientation of the Design Thinking methodology helps all participants to challenge their way of tackling a problem. The unique spirit of the Impact Week experience will definitely inspire you to look at entrepreneurship and social innovation in a completely different light.
What are the benefits of joining an Impact Week?
- Upon completion of the program, you will be a trained Junior Design Thinking Coach, having already applied the methodology.
- You’ll gain key skills through Design Thinking, such as innovation, customer focus, and implementation orientation.
- The intercultural experience at Impact Week will also help you gain different perspectives on problem solving as well as build your international network, which will be key to boosting your resourcefulness at work as well as creating avenues for future collaborations.
- In addition, Impact Week promotes local entrepreneurship and social innovation. We enable our local partners to apply Design Thinking themselves and run their own Impact Weeks.
What are the focus areas for challenges?
Each participating team will work on one focus area. The students can choose their focus area in the application process and get matched accordingly. Then it is up to them to own the challenge and create an innovative idea to tackle it – always keeping the Design Thinking methodology at heart.
Our tracks and the coaching experts will be published soon.
Timeline
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1 June |
Registration opens for participation |
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31 August |
Registration closes |
| Oktober tbd |
Virtual kick-off meeting for all participants |
| 3/4 November | Travel to Lima |
| 5-7 November | Train-the-Coach: Our Junior Coaches get a professional Design Thinking training |
| 10-13 November | Impact Week Peru – 4 days Design Thinking Challenge |
| 13 November | Pitch day and closing ceremony of Impact Week Peru 2025 |
Participation
FEE
3500€ training fee + 750€ local costs
We are open to discussing special pricing if you represent a smaller or local company or if you are only interested in participating in the Train-the-Coach phase.
Due to the longstanding relationship with the Lufthansa Group for almost 9 years, participants from any Lufthansa Group company can participate at a reduced fee of 3.175 €.
What’s
included
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Double-room accommodation
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Airport transfers
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Meals
Not
Included
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International flights to/from the local Airport
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Visa and vaccination fees
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Recreational activities
Our Team for Lima
Veronika Merlano
Organizer
Andrea Quintero
Communications
What our former participants say
“This experience was not only impactful but also deeply inspiring and incredibly fun. I am truly thankful for this opportunity and will always cherish the networks and friendships we created along the way.”