Challenge Bank

Do you have a Challenge in your area that you think could be solved through Design Thinking? Take the next step in your Challenger journey by adding it to the bank!

Courses will be based on the Challenges that people like you, across the region, feel need fresh and innovative thinking. To do this, we’re asking everyone to submit the Challenges that they’d like to tackle collaboratively.

Like and comment on other people's Challenges to show support and increase its chance of being included in a Course. You can filter Challenges by county or category.

Roll over a Challenge for more details. Click to go to the Challenge and like it or leave a comment.

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Create New Community Woodlands

The Covid 19 2km and 5km restrictions further highlighted the the need for woodland in and near our towns. People of all ages have a renewed appreciation of the importance of woodlands to our health and well-being. We have a great opportunity to bring more woodland into our towns, making them healthier, more attractive places to live, work and visit, while also helping to improve biodiversity.

Monaghan

Migrant Community Strategy

Plans of action for integration into the community. Long term goals in each county to achieve inclusion of migrants arriving and living in their county. Taking action leading to education of both Irish and migrants living together. Reducing discrimination of a minority group. It would be great to develop a Multicultural Centre as a means to provide services to incoming migrants and for events related to integration. A fabulous way for Irish and migrants to come together.

Leitrim

Exclusive Design thinking community

The challenge is to bring together government agencies, social groups,business and individuals within our communities of all levels of understanding in relation to design thinking in an exclusive environment to recognise the value each has to offer in the development of our communities. To share and learn from each other, together.

Monaghan

Positive mental health through life-enhancing activities

Positive mental health through life-enhancing a...

Havin' a Laugh's mission is to assist with the promotion of positive mental health through life-enhancing activities, connecting to people and Havin’ a Laugh. They believe that life-enhancing activities will be acknowledged as a legitimate and essential part of mental health recovery in the near future and that those who are ‘up for it and at it’ have a platform from which they can support those who do not yet have that drive. Their values include teamwork, respect, fun, creativity, pro-activity and being an inspiration to others

Sligo

Services for young adults with an intellectual disability

Services for young adults with an intellectual ...

Rosses Sheltered Workshop and North West Parents and Friends want to examine changes to their day services to allow for more social involvement and community engagement

Leitrim, Sligo

Festivals - evolving to work in a new environment

Festival groups looking at the challenges brought by COVID restrictions, BREXIT, inflexibility of funding to meet these changes, new ways of delivery.

Sligo

Men's Shed Development

Men's Sheds from around the county addressing challenges around governance, membership recruitment, sustainability and succession planning

Sligo

Kilglass Village development

Kilglass Community Council generating ideas to repurpose vacant buildings in the community to address local needs and services

Sligo

Development of Traditional Music and Culture

Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann groups considering new ways of developing and promoting Irish Traditional Music and engaging with the diaspora

Sligo

Community Centres - a new way to work

Idea generation for new services and service delivery in community centres around the region

Sligo, Donegal, Leitrim, Cavan, Monaghan, Louth

Branley's Yard Creative Collective

Development of Branley's Yard as a creative hub and development of weekly market

Sligo

Tubbercurry Carbon Neutrality

Community, Business and Sporting Organisations in Tubbercurry examining Micro-Generation opportunities and becoming a carbon neutral town

Sligo

Moy River Conservation

awareness-raising and community-based conservation initiatives in Ox Mountain communities for the tributaries of the river Moy

Sligo

Sligo Communities Action Planning

Bringing Sligo Community groups together to identify priorities and actions for the area

Sligo

Adventure Tourism

Adventure Network looking at generating more business into shoulder season, particularly if there are opportunities to open for business in 2021

Sligo

Secondary school for Blackrock Co. Louth

The population of Blackrock/Haggardstown is growing and I've identified a need for a secondary school in the area. The first step with any idea is to find a problem and design a solution with the people at the core. The 3 primary schools in the area are full. With a local secondary school children could walk or cycle to school and wouldn't need to rely on public transportation as much. I've brought this idea to local TDs. I have a survey ready to go just need people to respond.

Louth

Rural Attractiveness - in areas such as Corcaghan

We do have a good community centre in Corcaghan but not the broadband nor any local link service - rural attractiveness goes hand in glove with good infrastructure such as broadband, schools, shops, transport, half decent roads; there is far less community togetherness in the rural areas like Corcaghan for projects like growing or improving the areas we live in, those sort of projects always seem to be in urban or village settings

Monaghan

Bringing together remote workers with a community driven digital hub in Enniscrone

Bringing together remote workers with a communi...

Our vision is to create a co-working and incubation centre for remote workers in the area. This was a pre COVID vision and we are trying to get the idea off the ground, to bring together a group of like-minded people to create a community of working professionals with a view to incubation and offering local growth and employment in the future

Sligo