GenRiseLabs - The GenRise Model

BUILDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN YOUNG TALENT AND LOCAL ENTERPRISE

At the heart of the GenRise model is to create a bridge between students developing new digital capabilities and local micro-entrepreneurs who could benefit from them.

Across the communities where GenRise works, small entrepreneurs bring experience, local knowledge and an understanding of their customers, but may have limited access to digital marketing, AI tools and other resources that could support their businesses.

At the same time, students need more than exercises to develop meaningful skills. They need real problems, real people and a reason to make their work matter.

GenRise brings the two together.

The entrepreneur brings experience and a real-world need.
The student brings new tools, creativity and fresh thinking.

Value flows both ways.

In that exchange, learning would gain purpose and new skills could create practical value within the community.

The student support is provided at no cost to participating micro-entrepreneurs, ensuring that the opportunity to benefit is not limited by their ability to pay. For students, the value lies not in a commercial transaction, but in the opportunity to apply their learning to a genuine need and create something useful for someone else.

A STRUCTURED JOURNEY FROM LEARNING TO REAL-WORLD IMPACT

GenRise combines digital and GenAI learning, entrepreneurial thinking and real-world application in a structured three-phase journey designed to take students from building skills to using them with purpose.

The Genrise Curriculum builds progressively

PHASE 1 — LEARN & DISCOVER
Explore Weeks 1-4

PHASE 2 — BUILD SKILLS & CREATE

Explore Weeks 5-8

PHASE 3 — APPLY & CONTRIBUTE

Explore Weeks 9-12

MORE THAN A CURRICULUM

Across all three phases, students are developing more than technical capability. They learn to communicate, collaborate, ask questions, solve problems, respond to feedback, present ideas and take ownership of their work.

Every opportunity to create something useful gives students evidence of their own capability — helping build confidence, self-belief and agency.

SKILLS → APPLICATION → CONFIDENCE → AGENCY

GenRise was created not only to equip young people with skills for a changing world, but to help them recognise that they can contribute to it.

BUILDING LOCAL CAPABILITY

GenRise follows a train-the-trainer approach, working with teachers and local facilitators so that learning can continue beyond individual workshops and visits.

GenRise provides curriculum resources, project frameworks, mentoring and ongoing support, while local educators provide the relationships, guidance and continuity that enable students to continue learning and creating.

The aim is not simply to deliver a programme. It is to build the local capability to sustain it

FROM AN IDEA TO A GROWING COMMUNITY

Today, that original idea is being put into practice across GenRise's learning centres and Entrepreneurship Clubs in Bihar.

As GenRise grows, the ambition remains the same: to connect learning with opportunity, young people with local enterprise, and new capabilities with meaningful application.

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