Congratulations to our first cohort of Certified Professional Innovators! By graduating this first cohort from the program of Project Mercury Innovators Forum, we keep on building and strengthening the NATO Innovation Community. We look forward to hosting Cohort 2 in Brussels next year!
From jumpstart to graduation, our first Project Mercury @NATO cohort has successfully completed our Professional Innovator program! Congratulations to all participants who can now call themselves Certified Professional Innovators and becoming a part of the NATO innovation community and the NATO Innovation Network (NIN). Participants worked in teams on hand-on problems they experience in their professional work, for which they built solutions using the Competing Values Framework understanding by Jeff DeGraff of professional innovation. Of course, now the cohort has graduated, we aim for their solutions to find their way into operating practice! For an overview of the projects our team worked on, check their graduation pitch videos using the link below and do not hesitate to reach out to the teams: https://lnkd.in/eWXVA9xj Project Mercury Innovators Forum, a 3-month program developed by the Innovatrium, brings innovation theory to practice. Project Mercury helps build innovation culture, competency, and communities that NATO and its strategic partners need in order to maintain free and vibrant societies. As such, we are proud to have brought this first cohort to completion, and are already looking forward to NATO Cohort 2! Special thanks to our staff at the NATO Innovation Hub, lead coach Melissa "Cleo" Smith from the Innovatrium, their supporting staff and our alumni coaches for making this possible! #WeAreNATO #WeAreInnovators