Our approach to learning through responsibility joins 100 education innovations recognised in the Global Collection 2027 for its impact and scalability.
We have been selected for the HundrED Global Collection 2027, following our inclusion in the Global Collection 2026 report. The new collection launches today at the HundrED Innovation Summit in Madrid.
Chosen from more than 800 submissions, we join 100 education innovations assessed for their impact and potential to spread. Thank you to HundrED and the Academy reviewers for recognising the education we are shaping together across SINA Communities.
HundrED, a Helsinki-based education organisation, identifies promising practices internationally and helps educators and organisations learn from them. Its selection process examines two central questions: does an approach produce a valuable improvement in its own context, and can it be adopted in other settings? For the 2027 collection, an international Academy reviewed shortlisted submissions before the HundrED Research Team made the final selection.
For us, the community itself is a learning environment. At SINA, we learn much of what we need to know by running our communities together. Taking responsibility for finances, for example, means figuring out how to create a budget and discussing with others what we can afford. What we need to learn grows out of the work we take on. Through these responsibilities, we discover what we can contribute and how others depend on that contribution.
We call this freesponsibility: freedom combined with responsibility. We distribute authority through defined roles and shared decision-making processes. Mentoring and peer feedback help us reflect on our choices, work through mistakes, and gradually take on greater responsibility.
Education also becomes a process of reconsidering who we can be. We question limiting beliefs, explore our own sense of purpose, and develop abilities through work that matters to others. Social enterprises grow from this experience as scholars turn challenges they know firsthand into solutions, test their ideas, and work towards sustaining them.
The Academy feedback published on our HundrED innovation page speaks directly to this relationship between learning and agency. One reviewer highlighted how freesponsibility allows young people to direct their education toward concerns that matter to them. Another connected freedom and responsibility with communities’ ability to determine their own direction, describing young people coming to “see themselves as part of the solution.”
The page’s broader assessment also identifies a condition for further growth: reliable funding and adaptation to local circumstances remain important as our approach reaches new settings. That qualification matters to us. We cannot reproduce a community simply by transferring a curriculum. We need time to develop the capacity to run it, work through disagreements, and establish practices that fit our circumstances. Each of our locally owned SINA Communities develops the approach in its own setting. A shared framework connects us, and we continue to shape it through experience and exchange.
The 2027 collection places this work within a wider discussion of human flourishing. HundrED’s framework considers access to opportunity, personal growth and wellbeing, relationships and belonging, and the environments that enable learning. In preparing this year’s report, its Research Team confirmed our connections to access, personal development, and enabling environments. We see these connections in everyday decisions. Growing confidence can make it possible to take on a difficult responsibility.
We share this recognition across our communities, with the scholars, teams, and partners whose daily work keeps developing what education at SINA can be.
Explore our innovation profile and Academy feedback, read the Global Collection 2026 report, or discover the Global Collection 2027.