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2021 Global Solutions Summer School & Summit

The Young Global Changers program identifies, connects and empowers young people from around the globe engaged in different areas of society who are already actively pushing for change in their communities, enabling them to have an even greater impact. Each year, young changemakers from academica, business and civil society are selected to participate in the Global Solutions Summit as Young Global Changers. The new cohort begins the Young Global Changers program with a comprehensive one-week Summer School in Berlin.

Watch the Young Global Changer´s “Global Challenges, Local Solutions”-Video or browse through the Summer School 2021 activities below!

I. FRAMING SESSION – THE GREAT REALIGNMENT – MAY 11, 2021

The Design Problem Laid Bare:  Why recoupling of social and economic prosperity is more urgent than ever. 

On May 11, the Young Global Changers joined the official Framing Session for the Global Solutions Summit 2021. The session focused on the central theme of the Global Solutions Summit 2021 – The Great Realignment. The Young Global Changers joined an open discussion with Prof. Dennis Snower (President of the Global Solutions Initiative) and Colm Kelly (Global Leader, Corporate Sustainability at PwC), moderated by Declan Curry.

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II. ONLINE SIMULATION GAME – MAY 18 – 21, 2021

Welcome Address by Martin Schulz, President, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Foto: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Reiner Zensen

As part of the Summer School 2021 the Young Global Changers participated in an interactive Online Simulation Game, which was played over several days from May 18 – 21, 2021. During the online simulation, up to 70 participants from around the world took on the roles of international decision makers and engaged in tackling some of the major challenges our globalized world is facing today.

The simulation game emphasized the need for systemic changes and underlined the importance of collaborative approaches. During the simulation, participants  received visual clues via the game’s interactive online platform. They were able chat with one another, deliberate, make allies, interact, discuss, bargain and negotiate. Within the simulation, all outcomes and effects of the participants’ decisions were visualized via several indicators of economic, environmental and social performance. 

III. EXPERT DIALOGUE SESSIONS – MAY 25 & 26, 2021

On May 25/26, 2021 we offered a series of several online dialogues, as part of the Global Solutions Summer School. The overarching theme of these sessions was: How can we advance realignments in and across policy areas and address the need for fundamental systemic changes in our economies and societies in the wake of the COVID pandemic?

Towards a
Green Recovery

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Session with CHARLOTTE SLAVEN (Senior Researcher, E3G), moderated by EDUARDA ZOGHBI (YGC Ambassador & Energy and Gender Consultant, SEforALL)

Smart Cities & Digital
Citizenship

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Session with FRANCESCA BRIA
(President, Italian National Innovation Fund), moderated by DEEPTI BHARTHUR
(YGC 2020 & Senior Research Associate, IT for Change)

Leadership for a
Changing World

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Session with BLAIR SHEPPARD
(Global Leader, Strategy & Leadership for the PwC network), moderated by SHUKRI TOEFY (YGC Ambassador & Entrepreneurship Expert, Saïd Business School University of Oxford)

Migration in a
(Post-)Covid World

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Session with ALBERTO-HORST NEIDHARDT (Policy Analyst for the European Diversity and Migration program, European Policy Centre), moderated by MICHAEL BOAMPONG (YGC 2020 & Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies, The Open University)

COVID and Urban
Epidemiology

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Session with TOLULLAH ONI
(Urban Epidemiologist, University of Cambridge), moderated by EIMEAR DUFF
(YGC 2019 & Medical Doctor, St. James’s Hospital Dublin)

Multilateralism
Renewed

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Session with MARÍA ELENA AGÜERO (Secretary General, Club de Madrid), moderated by NICOLE JORDAN PRUDENCIO (YGC 2020 & Project Coordinator, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)

Realigning our
Economy

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Session with MIATTA FAHNBULLEH
(Chief Executive, New Economics Foundation), moderated by KATHARINA LIMA DE MIRANDA (Research Director, Council for Global Problem-Solving)

Women Economic
Empowerment

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Session with MARGO THOMAS (President & CEO, Women’s Economic Imperative), moderated by NANCY HOQUE (YGC Ambassador & Manager, Americas Central Operations, Adobe)

IV. GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SUMMIT – YOUNG GLOBAL CHANGERS SESSION – MAY 27 & 28, 2021

GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SUMMIT
– MAY 27 & 28, 2021

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On May 27 & 28, the Young Global Changers joined the Global Solutions Summit 2021 as full participants – they have watched panels and interviews, took part in online exchanges and  actively contributed to the discussions during networking breaks and sessions.

“GLOBAL CHALLENGES, LOCAL SOLUTIONS” – SESSION BY THE YOUNG GLOBAL CHANGERS –  MAY 27, 2021

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Selected YGC projects & initiatives were presented at the Global Solutions Summit 2021! Watch the video and learn more about the projects from Program Lead, Ole Spies, and from participating Young Global Changers – Projects include circular coffee from Uganda & Australia (Kua Coffee, Brianna Kerr & Hamish Toohey), citizen enegagement in Honduras (NuupLab, Ana Rocio Sandres Mendoza & Angélica Moncada), empowering e-waste recyclers in India (E[co]work, Dea Wehrli & Natasha Sharma) and eductaing young girls in Algeria (STEPS, Oumaima Bendjama & Imène Hamiche). Find more projects by YGCs here.

V. YOUNG GLOBAL CHANGERS PUBLICATION – FALL, 2021

After the Global Solutions Summit 2021, the Young Global Changers were invited to submit articles containing their ideas, proposals or best practices on how to achieve progress to better recouple economic activities with social and environmental demands. Articles could be submitted by individuals or as collaborative projects by engagement groups.

The volume complies assessments, recommendations, proposals, and specific approaches aimed at addressing ongoing decoupling processes. It addresses the importance of a better inclusion of youth and upcoming generations in the decision-making process. The article provide ideas and analysis on how to address pressing global issues and presents concrete projects and initiatives that aim for more and better “recoupling” of social and economic prosperity.

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