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Lasse Leponiemi

Chairman, The HundrED Foundation
first.last@hundred.org

Lumi Network

Build Human-AI collaboration and durable skills through applied, facilitated sprints

Lumi is not a workshop or a content library. It is a facilitated, tech-enabled journey where participants solve real problems while building practical AI judgement and durable skills. Teams work through a structured, repeatable sprint, using AI responsibly to research, prototype, test, and improve solutions. The journey ends with a Digital Skills Passport that shows credible evidence of capability
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Overview

HundrED has selected this innovation to

Gamified Curricula

Updated March 2026
Web presence

2020

Established

8

Countries
Other
Target group
Lumi is a platform and learning experience that helps people build the skills needed for an AI-shaped world. Through online project-based sprints, participants work on real challenges, collaborate in teams, submit practical work, and receive structured real-time feedback throughout the process. Alongside this, Lumi captures evidence of skill development and turns it into a clear digital Skills Passport that helps learners, educators, and employers understand growth over time.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

We created Lumi because traditional education and training often struggle to show how skills are actually built in practice. Too often, people complete programmes without clear evidence of how they think, collaborate, use AI, solve problems, or improve over time.

Lumi was built to change that. We wanted to create an experience where people build meaningful skills through doing real work, while receiving feedback as they go, not only at the end. We also wanted to make those skills more visible through evidence, so that learners, institutions, and employers can make better decisions.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

In practice, Lumi runs online project-based sprints where participants work through a structured process to solve real problems. They investigate, define opportunities, generate ideas, build concepts, test them, and refine their thinking. Throughout the sprint, they collaborate with peers, use digital and AI tools, and receive feedback from facilitators and the platform.

The experience is supported by the Lumi platform, where participants can access session content, upload work, review feedback, track progress, and interact with LumiAI. As they move through the sprint, Lumi captures evidence of both AI and durable skill development. This evidence contributes to a digital Skills Passport that gives a clearer picture of each participant’s strengths, progress, and areas for improvement.

How has it been spreading?

Lumi has worked with schools, universities, employers, and ecosystem partners across different markets. The model is flexible enough to support different use cases, from student development and employability to early talent, innovation, and AI upskilling.

Its spread has been driven by a clear need. Organisations want more than content delivery. They want people to apply what they learn, build real capability, and show progress in a credible way. Lumi’s blend of live facilitation, practical challenge-based work, AI integration, and observable feedback has made it relevant across multiple contexts.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

Start by identifying the learner group, capability area, or problem you want to focus on. Lumi works best when the experience is linked to a real challenge, a clear development goal, or a practical use case for AI and skill building.

From there, Lumi can help shape the sprint structure, delivery format, and feedback approach to fit your context. This can include education, workforce development, graduate recruitment, innovation, or AI upskilling programmes
For either of the options above, just contact us on hello@lumi.network or write to Prashant@lumi.network

Impact & scalability

HundrED Advisory Board Reviews

The platform nurtures in students global challenges awareness, incorporates cutting edge AI development thus providing kids with 21 century skills. It assists educators in creating game based learning activities

This innovation is extremely scalable, integrates easily with traditional schooling, and has the potential to provide young people with an equitable Skills Passport to assure a better future.

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Implementation steps

Partner to upskill, innovate, deliver impact
A school or a company discusses, evaluates and agrees to partner with Lumi to run or sponsor Quests for young people to develop their entrepreneurial, design thinking and AI skills.
Choose which young people to target
Lumi works with 10-25 year olds in various capacities, including middle school students, sixth form students, interns, apprentices and/or graduates from corporate businesses, as well as university students/potential hires - our facilitators are drawn from top universities whilst we can also engage this demographic in pre-employment initiatives which prime a warm future talent pipeline. We work in the UK, GCC region and internationally, focusing on underserved students including girls.
Choose the topic relevant to you and your target
You can choose from Lumi's pre-existing Quests on the topics of Climate Change, Health, Sustainable Cities or Inequality, or else work with us to co-develop a new topic either related to the curriculum or to your business (e.g., a Big 4 firm chose cybersecurity for their apprentices while a bank chose Green Homes to run Quests with 14 and 17 year olds).
Choose the format
You can either integrate Lumi into the school term and run it as part of your curriculum or extracurricular activities OR run a Hackathon during lean periods in the school (e.g., after the GCSE exams) or during school holidays. Companies can also choose to either run this as a training programme young people do alongside their normal work schedule OR to set aside an entire week for the Hackathon.
Launch
Launch the Quest and allow Lumi to do the hard work while your staff teams get involved as either a) subject matter experts, b) volunteers who provide support, feedback and guide young people at various stages of their Lumi journey, whether that's research, iteration or final prototyping, or c) as a panellist during the Final Presentation, where they can pose questions in order to draw the best out of the young people and their ideas during the culmination of their 15-week project.

Spread of the innovation

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