Upcoming Event:
Feb. 16th - 21st, 2025. Orillia, Canada
The Global Citizenship Summit for Youth Voice, Policy and Action
About the Global Youth Experience
The
Global Youth Experience (
GYE) is a forum for young, globally-minded citizens
(ages 18-25)
from 10 to 15 countries worldwide to foreground youth voices and empower youth as active participants in our increasingly complex, global world. This experience will begin with a 4 virtual session in November 2024 for 100 to 120 youth, followed by a February 2025 in-person Summit at Lakehead University, Orillia, for approximately 40 youth (20 local and 20 international youth). International youth will be selected through partner organisations of the Commonwealth Youth Work Micro-credentials project from the Pacific, Southern Africa, and the Caribbean. Local youth will be selected from partner programs including the Youth Policy-Makers Hub (YPH) of the Organisation for International Cooperation (OCIC), the Rama Youth Council, and Lakehead International.
Benefits for Youth Participation:
- Chance to interact with youth from other cultural contexts in real time
- Entitled to receive a certificate of participation at the completion of all four sessions
- Become eligible to be considered for the in-person Global Citizenship Summit in Orillia, Canada in February, 2025.
Project Objectives Include:
- Learning about global citizenship from the vantage points of youth from many different countries.
- Deliberating on contemporary global issues that are important to youth through first-hand dialogue with international youth.
- Convening space for connecting, sharing, and co-creating an agenda to educate their peers about pressing global issues around the world.
- Enabling refinement of a list of global issues that are most relevant for today’s youth.
- Developing a series of audio and video podcasts for wider dissemination amongst youth.
A Special Thanks to our Partners for their support with the Global Youth Experience and the Global Citizenship Summit!
