Our Annual Centerpiece Event

Young Adults 4 New Results is the annual centerpiece event of the GHF’s Youth Forum. In June 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland we held our inaugural event, marking a starting point in developing initiatives on youth action about climate change. Young Adults 4 New Results aims to bring together bright, outstanding and enthusiastic young adults from all over the world to discuss ideas and come up with creative solutions to humanitarian challenges. 

Not just another conference!

Young Adults 4 New Results gathers young people from diverse international, educational and professional backgrounds. With our exclusive high-level access as part of our intergenerational dialogue, the young adults engage with some of the most important decision makers in the world. We look for committed, dedicated individuals who want to take an action-oriented approach – we like to “walk the talk”. Then, with the support of the Global Humanitarian Forum, we foster and develop concrete ideas, hence the term, Young Adults 4 New Results.

Brainstorming sessions at the Youth Forum aren’t your average pen and paper job. Young Adults 4 New Results uses a high-tech innovative brainstorming tool in collaboration with a German company called Nextpractice, which specializes in idea generation and brainstorming mechanisms. Young adults are able to feed ideas directly into a computerized system. The hundreds of thoughts are stored and then analyzed to be developed into initiatives. This 21st century technological tool works well with our state-of-the-art and innovative idea creation process. We want young adults to think, and think outside the box!

 
Our other events

So what else are we doing aside from our annual centerpiece event? Well, the GHF’s Youth Forum also organizes a number of other events throughout the year. We aim to give you, the young adults, opportunities to attend some of the most important international high-level conferences, participate in intergenerational debate and engage in creative and awareness raising activities.

One such event was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall which took place November 9th 2009, where two Youth Forum 2009 participants had the opportunity to attend, Julia Schwank and Rocio Escobar. The young women helped paint a 2.5 meter high domino tile, to be featured in a live re-fall of the Berlin wall as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations. They also had the chance to join in the festivities in Berlin, where more than 1,000 domino foam “stones” toppled upon one another, symbolizing the fall of the wall once again. It was a hopeful reminder that, despite walls of poverty, war and suffering from climate change, anything is possible as long as we put our efforts together. More info here …