Deadline: February 28, 2018 00:00 CET
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Dates: May 31 - June 4, 2018
Eligibility: Citizens of any country across the world, not younger than 18 and not older than 35 years old
Location: Malmö, Sweden
Youth to Youth Summit 2018
The only way we can develop and solve problems is by coming together and starting a dialogue!
In the 4th edition, International Youth to Youth Summit is going back from where it started.
During the 1st Y2Y Summit in Lithuania, 100 young leaders from more than 30 countries have developed recommendations for actions for business, governments, civil society organizations on the six most sensitive and relevant topics for the youth community in the world.
Y2Y Summit 2018 will be based on the action plan, which expresses the needs and priorities of the world youth community nowadays.
The Summit will cover the following topics
- Gender equality
- Sustainable economic growth and the future of the business
- Social entrepreneurship as an answer to the youth unemployment
- Education for all
- Peace through Intercultural Dialogue
- Youth co-creating sustainable cities and communities
The aim of Youth to Youth Summit
to provide a platform for young leaders of the world to hone their leadership, diplomacy, cultural and intercultural communication, critical thinking and self-development skills.
The mission
to bring together the brightest students, youth activists, leaders in the society, social entrepreneurs, professors and businessmen/businesswomen to start a dialogue on global challenges of today and tomorrow and to make certain steps on the ways to solve them.
Summit’s objectives
- To develop 6 specific actions which will be implemented back in the home countries of the participants after the summit for each of the 6 main topics covered during the Summit
- To select the topic and set a framework of the Y2Y Summit 2019 in Asia
- To find answers to the key questions, explore the topic from different perspectives, share knowledge, best practices, and unique experience, connect active youth with practitioners and experts for building an integral atlas of opportunities and actions that will foster change and help to move forward to the sustainable tomorrow
- To provide participants of the Summit with a unique set of skills, necessary for their development as leaders and professionals for the creation of a pool of competitive activists with a great potential for fostering change and co-creating sustainable communities.
The event will include various activities such as
- Inspirational speeches
- Discussions
- Interactive workshops
- Cultural performances
- Networking and knowledge transfer sessions
- Y2Y Action Hub contest for socially-beneficial ideas and initiatives
- Development of solutions, scenarios, and strategies of their implementation on the local level
- City tour
Eligibility
To participate in the 4th International Youth to Youth Summit in Sweden, you have to:
- be a citizen of any country across the world;
- be no younger than 18 and no older than 35 years old;
- demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and potential to become a key leader in your community;
- have a passion to create positive social change and willingness to use Y2Y experience in your leadership position;
- have some experience active either in politics (local, national, or international), civil society organizations, media, the business sector, local communities, faith-based movements, and other fields;
- have a good working knowledge of written and spoken English;
Benefits of attending
By finding answers to the key questions, by exploring the topics from different perspectives, by sharing knowledge, best practices and unique experience, by connecting active youth with practitioners and experts, the organisers want to build an integral atlas of opportunities and actions that will foster change and help to move forward to the sustainable tomorrow.
Interested in attending Youth to Youth Summit 2018? Register your participation by following the registration link and taking he suggested steps.
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