COBIS Generation: Enterprise Competition
📚TL;DR
🌍 Sophia students are taking part in the global COBIS Generation Enterprise Competition.
🧠 They are developing creative, meaningful solutions to real world challenges.
🤝 Teams worked intensively during our PBL collapsed curriculum day.
🎥 All groups are preparing digital pitch videos for the 12 December deadline.
💡 Shortlisted teams will join expert feedback sessions and respond to a curveball.
C-Suite of Competencies: Creativity, Communication, Critical Thinking, Computational Mindset and Collaboration.
At Sophia High School, learning is active, meaningful and rooted in real world impact. This year, pupils from Primary through Sixth Form are taking part in COBIS Generation Enterprise, a global competition that invites young people to think boldly, innovate responsibly and apply their creativity to issues that matter.
As a COBIS member school, Sophia joins an international network of learners who are developing solutions for challenges in their schools, communities and the wider world.
What Generation Enterprise Involves
The competition is designed by Global Edge, a leading organisation in enterprise and innovation education. Students work in teams to respond to a challenge prompt tailored to their age group.
- Primary pupils explore school based issues.
- Junior pupils focus on community challenges.
- Senior pupils tackle global problems with wider impact.
Using the Global Edge enterprise framework, teams research, design and refine an innovative solution. They then communicate their idea through a digital pitch video, combining storytelling, persuasion and creativity.
All teams submit a three to five minute pitch for Round One. A panel will review submissions from schools across the COBIS network and shortlist entries that will move to the next stage of the competition.
What Happens in Round Two and Beyond
Shortlisted teams progress to Round Two in early 2026, where they receive feedback from Global Edge experts, take part in optional coaching sessions and produce a more developed pitch of up to eight minutes. In this round, students must also respond to a curveball, a sudden challenge that tests adaptability and resilience in real time.
Finalists will be invited to the Global Final Showcase, where their work will be reviewed by educators, business leaders and changemakers. It is a rare opportunity for young people to share their ideas on an international stage and to see themselves as designers of solutions, not just learners of content.
How Sophia Students Prepared
On 21 November, Sophia held a collapsed curriculum day fully dedicated to Generation Enterprise. For one day, the school became a creative studio. Pupils worked intensively in teams, analysing their challenge, brainstorming solutions and beginning the first structure of their pitch.
Prior to this, students engaged with the competition in Project Based Learning and Holistic Horizons lessons. They watched the official COBIS and Global Edge guidance videos, explored past winning entries and learned how strong ideas evolve through feedback and iteration.
Here’s a taster of the first outcomes:
During the week of 8 to 12 December, students continue to refine their solutions, strengthen their storytelling and record their pitch videos ahead of the Round One deadline of 12 December 2025.
In practice
Generation Enterprise turns Sophia into a learning laboratory where pupils move through the full cycle of innovation. They identify a problem, design a response, test their thinking through feedback and present their ideas to an authentic audience.
Why It Matters for Sophia Students
Generation Enterprise is more than a competition. It is a direct expression of the Sophia C Suite, the set of core capabilities we purposefully develop in our learners.
Creativity 🎨
Communication 💬
Critical Thinking 🧠
Computational Mindset 🧮
Collaboration 🤝
Students are not simply learning about enterprise. They are living it. They are working with purpose, solving problems that affect others and translating ideas into action. The process asks them to listen carefully, think critically, compromise thoughtfully and communicate their message with clarity and confidence.
The ideas emerging across the school are thoughtful, ambitious and deeply human. We are incredibly proud of the teamwork, resilience and maturity our pupils have shown so far.
We look forward to sharing their pitches as they progress through the competition and to celebrating their achievements on the global stage.
Curious to learn more about how Sophia High School designs future ready learning experiences for children aged 4 to 18? You are warmly invited to book a Guided Tour with our Leadership and Admissions Team and see our C Suite in action across the school.
