WIPO Academy IP for Youth & Teachers
In 2018 WIPO Academy launched IP for Youth and Teachers as a comprehensive, on-demand service to kick-start educators and youth on their intellectual property (IP) learning journeys to harness the creative and innovative potential of future generations.
The service includes support to ministries of education, schoolteachers and students in primary and secondary schools, in addition to young innovators, creators and entrepreneurs.
WIPO Academy IP For Youth & Teachers brochure
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2024
Areas of support
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Working with ministries of education to set up IP curricula for schools.
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Equipping teachers with the tools and skills needed to integrate IP into their classrooms.
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Empowering young innovators, creators and entrepreneurs to harness their potential through IP knowledge.
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Youth camps for intensive and practical IP knowledge and skills-building over the school summer holidays.
WIPO IP Youth Ambassadors Program
WIPO spotlights young innovators, creators and entrepreneurs who are users of the IP system through its IP Youth Ambassadorship Program. The program supports the ambassadors in engaging with youth in their countries and regions to promote IP education, fosters a network for collaboration among fellow winners of the title, and offers tailored IP education and mentorship.
The WIPO IP Youth Ambassadors are selected following an extensive assessment triggered by their nomination through a national or regional IP authority.
Meet WIPO’s first IP Youth Ambassador: Santiago Mena López, Peru’s youngest author.
Salome Tateshvili, Tamari Tateshvili and Saba Zedginidze are the three teenagers behind GoGeoGo, a mobile application that helps tourists explore Georgia with the locals.
DO Trong Minh Duc, TRAN Nguyen Khanh An and NGUYEN Hoang Phuc are a group of young Vietnamese inventors who saving the world, one helmet at a time.
Neeam Al Harrasi is saving the oceans from plastic pollution with her innovative bioplastic that uses natural elements available in her home country, Oman.
Călin-Tudor Topan is one of Romania’s nationally-recognized up and coming painters for his unique and award-winning art.
Dayana S. Meléndez Vargas is WIPO’s youngest IP Youth Ambassador. The eleven-year-old is an equestrian and writer from the Peruvian Amazon jungle who is inspiring children in her community to chase their dreams and promote gender equality in sports.
Josefino Nino O. Ligan, David Elijah Corsini C. Atup, Chesyne Danielle Galura Pepito, and Yzhae Marrione Capuno Villaruel are four gifted high schoolers from the Philippines who have created groundbreaking innovations for the environment and road safety.
Oxana Zaporoniuc is a Moldovan designer who created an innovative packaging design for fragile glass bottles, which minimizes the use of cardboard and other materials for ecological purposes.
