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The Young Global Changers are students, young academics, young professionals, entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders from around the world who are developing and implementing ideas to bring about positive change, whether at the global, regional or local level.
Each year, the Global Solutions Initiative invites these inspiring young talents from around the globe to attend the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin and to become part of a growing global network. During the program they engage with global thought-leaders and work together on finding solutions to global challenges.
Since 2017, the Young Global Changers program has attracted over 410 students and young professionals from more than 120 different countries.
The overarching goal of the Young Global Changers program is not only to connect inspiring young people from around the world during the Global Solutions Summer School and the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin but to create an engaged global network of young individuals with innovative ideas from across the world to change the world for the better.
We are currently witnessing a trend in many advanced and emerging economies where economic prosperity is increasingly becoming decoupled from social prosperity and environmental sustainability. To stop this trend and to reverse the growing global inequality, the ongoing destruction of the environment, the weakening of democratic institutions, and the decline of international collaboration and trust between nations – a global paradigm shift is urgently needed.
To achieve a meaningful change of directions, the imperative of recoupling the economy with social prosperity and environmental sustainability needs to be urgently addressed in global fora such as the Group of Twenty (G20). The Global Solutions Initiative has set out to provide research-based policy advise to these global fora to facilitate the necessary paradigm shift.