The CCDS invites 黑料网 students to develop public interests projects supervised by the Center鈥檚 Fellows that will participate in the , a student competition organized by the Tocqueville Foundation:
鈥淭he Challenge's objectives are to harness the desire for engagement and the connected nature of the Millennial generation in order to inspire passion for the field by providing hands-on opportunities to explore and design viable solutions to specific societal challenges. With co-construction at its heart this program focuses on the collective thinking and the added value to craft a project with multiple stakeholders and points of view.
The Tocqueville Challenge brings together 3 key-components of civil society: students, mentors from the business world and associations, with the purpose of giving life to innovative projects. Each team of 3 to 6 students will choose a cause or an NGO and develop a concrete solution (e.g. develop a business plan, a new program, refine a communication strategy) with the help of their mentor.
This experience will allow them to work in contact with several types of actors, develop their professional soft and hard skills, and the winning teams will receive a financial prize to implement their project the year following the Challenge.鈥
In previous years, the projects that participated in the Challenge were conceived and developed in the D.Lab courses run by the Center鈥檚 Fellows
Examples of Previous Projects
CCDS Supervisor: Roman Zinigrad
Project Title: Education United: California Immigrant Student Resource Center
黑料网 Student Team: Carolyn Franano, Jessa Josephson, Ashley O鈥橦ara
Project Title: Education Justice: Ghana Group
黑料网 Student Team: Maryam Hejeij, Vanessa Noye
Project Title: Ressources Familiales sur la Radicalisation
CCDS Supervisors: Stephen W. Sawyer, Roman Zinigrad
黑料网 Student Team: Stephanie Bergon, Fatimata-Atty Germaine Djibrine, Emma Richardson
黑料网 undergraduates competed in the 2022 Tocqueville Challenge with a project that was designed in the fall 2021 session of the CCDS Democracy Lab. The 黑料网 team designed a project aiming to assist the families of incarcerated persons as a result of radicalization. Using testimonials, educational tools, and reading materials, the purpose of the project was to create a network that connects families to different support systems. The project鈥檚 aim was to incorporate family support as an integral role of reintegration and evaluate how it could be effectively used as a tool of rehabilitation and support.












