The Zinc Academy is the education arm of Zinc and focuses on accelerating the impact of mission-driven individuals. Combining diverse talent with a common mission, the Academy launches changemakers along a variety of routes to impact.

The Academy is currently running two part-time programmes: Pioneer and Catalyst. More information on the pioneer programme in mental health can be found below, and for more details of the Catalyst programme for researchers interested in healthy ageing, please click here.

Overview

For those driven by the Mission of Mental Health, but frustrated by their current level of impact. For those that know they can do more, but don’t know where to start. For those that want to create a game-plan alongside their current role.

Zinc is on a mission to mobilise talent to tackle the world’s most important problems, and to generate maximum impact. Now, we are going further.

We have recruited 30 impact-driven people to take part in our first Pioneer Programme.

The Pioneer Programme accelerates the impact of those individuals who want to contribute other system-level solutions to Zinc’s missions. It’s a place for changemakers – from healthcare professionals to policymakers, charity workers to entrepreneurs, researchers to creative designers – who are passionate about making progress on complex problems. Zinc believes if exposed to the right people, the right domain content, the right fuel and the right individual game plan, big change can happen in the missions that matter. And we are starting with Mental Health.

During our 9 month part-time programme, the cohort of pioneers will be exposed to the best in mental health learning and expertise, meet a powerful network of speakers and Fellows, be connected to unique placements and a portfolio of mental health start-ups, and build connections with a cohort of like minded individuals.

Current programme dates: September 2020 – June 2021