📘 What You’ll Learn 

This course teaches young people and youth workers how to analyze social problems beyond surface symptoms: to identify root causes, question dominant narratives, map stakeholders and power, and ethically reframe problems into actionable challenges.  

🎯 Goals of This Course 

1. Distinguish symptoms from root causes for common social issues. 
2. Critically evaluate how media, policy, and culture frame social problems. 
3. Analyze stakeholder maps, identify marginalized voices and power dynamics. 
4. Apply ethical lenses to evaluate potential solutions (including tech/NFT approaches). 
5. Reframe broad social issues into locally actionable challenges connected to measurable impact. 
6. Produce a team “Critical Analysis & Opportunity Brief” ready to feed into the Problem-Solving module and NFT ideation. 

🎮 How You Level Up 

This is a Beginner-level course worth 1 credit. 

As you complete courses and collect credits, you unlock new roles — Lab Member and/or Lab Creator .

With your earned credits, you can join and/or create Innovative Labs and you’ll get access to the NFT section of the platform where you can: 

• 🎨 Create your own NFT collections (with AI support) 

• 🌍 Publish them on NFT marketplaces 

• 💰 Use the funds you earn to bring your own ideas and projects to life 

Start learning, earn credits, unlock opportunities — and turn your creativity into something real.