The international initiative “youthinkgreen - jugend denkt um.welt" organises the 1st
World Youth Sustainability Summit in Berlin
between the 10th and 20th May 2013. The international educational youth
initiative is under the patronage of the Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel,
the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Christiana Figueres as well as the former
President of the European Parliament, MEP Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering. The members
of the youthinkgreen movement currently numbers 220 youth from 10 countries. Together they campaign against the
climate change and for the environment as well as more sustainable ways of
living.
The 1st World Youth
Sustainability Summit will revolve around the evocative theme of “Youth and
Sustainability in Everyday Life - Challenge, Reflect on and Develop New Global
Ways of Living” seen as a great, worldwide challenge and collective task. More
than 150 young people from industrialised, emerging and developing countries
will come to Berlin
to participate in the conference, along with top-class speakers from the
scientific, cultural, economic, political and media world to analyse, question
and develop the topic through speeches, discussions as well as various
workshops.
The objective is to draft a
common, activity-oriented position paper in which the young people from the
whole world will develop collective suggestions, impulses and demands for a
more responsible future by which they will stand.
Which
lifestyle do I support for today – tomorrow – the future?
Fundamental questions are
raised everyday about all kinds of aspects of our social existence throughout
the world: how can the individual live, how does s/he orient her/himself? What
are the responsibilities of politics, economy and civil society in the
organisation of a humane life? Where lie the limits of individual freedoms?
Doesn’t the wish for a future socially and ecologically secured belong to the
catalogue of human rights?
youthinkgreen
calls for an “open competition” and with this invites young people, who would
like to enrich the 1st World Youth Sustainability Summit with their personal experiences, to
get involved in dialogs among one another and design common solutions.
Formal
conditions/requirements
The participants must meet
the following formal requirements to apply:
- be aged between 15 and 20,
- possess basic knowledge on
the fields sustainability and environmental policies,
- have a good command of
English (the language of the conference will be English, simultaneous
interpretation between English and German will be offered),
- be in good and healthy
physical condition for the length of the stay,
- be in possession of a valid
passport.
Both applications from
individuals and groups are possible. However, in the case of group application,
only the representatives of the group can be invited.
Application
procedure
To participate, the applicant
must provide the following documents:
1. Résumé including personal
information and annotation on the education as well as extracurricular
activities
2. Cover letter (1-2 pages):
state and explain your reasons for applying to take part in the Summit.
3. Topic-specific key points
of your application: select one or more submission possibility that you would
like to use to present yourself:
a. Presentation of a
distinct, exemplary sustainable project (see youthinkgreen website – Summit
2013 – Project Presentation youthinkgreen – jugend denkt um.welt (PDF))
b. Position report on the
topic “Youth and Sustainability in Everyday Life - Challenge, Reflect on and
Develop New Global Ways of Living” in the form of: a comprehensive experience
report, interviews, structural model, wish list, a contribution video (at least
10 minutes), cartoons, a caricature, a drawing or a comic strip. Research and
question the ways of living in industrial, emerging and developing countries. Take
the position of a world citizen and try to develop ways of living that would
fairly address the big challenges of our time related to the topics “climate
change and sustainable development”. Draw on the postulates sustainable
mobility, sustainable consumption and sustainable use of energies and
resources. To do so, you can base your reflection on the basic existential
functions: live, work, support oneself (food, clothing etc.), educate oneself,
get well, procreate, live collectively, recycle, contribute to commerce and get
involved in communication.
c. Draft a concept
“Environmental school: school of the future”. Describe the stepping-stones of
your environmental school and create a model out of it.
d. Presentation of a script
(idea, treatment, storyboard) for an environment-oriented advertisement (see
http://www.youthinkgreen.org/project-news/).
e. Performance of songs that
you composed on the topics sustainability and/or climate change.
Please send
your submission in electronic format at: info@youthinkgreen.org
Selection
procedure/financing
The winners will be selected
on the basis of their submission by the jury of the project, composed of
experts in sustainable education and who are invited to come to the summit in Berlin. The conference
and tours programme, accommodation, catering along with the travelling expenses
during the ten-days stay in Berlin
are free of charge. In justified cases, travel and visa expenses can be
subsidised.
Closing date
for applications
The closing date for
applications is February 28th 2013.
For more information go to: http://www.youthinkgreen.org/1st-world-youth-sustainability-summit-2013/
For contact
and questions: info@youthinkgreen.org
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