We have chosen! It was very difficult… Out of 39 super applications from around the world we had to select only a handful to be our and your Young Community Representatives at our Co-Creation Workshop in Brussels on December, 8-10. Obviously this made it a very tough job: trying to balance this small group of [...]

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My name is Dobromir Ivanov. I’m 23 years old. After I graduated public administration and international relations in the Sofia University, now I’m studying my master degree – marketing. For seven I’m one of the youth leaders in the social life of Bulgaria. I’m a coordinator of Bulgarian Red Cross youth – Sofia. I’m also [...]

Hello Greens! My name is Gulnara, 23 years old (soon will be 24) I am from Kyrgyzstan, which is the most beautiful country in Central Asia. Right now I am working for UN World Health Organisation in Osh Duty Station. I am the only CEHAPE Youth Network (WHO) representative in Kyrgyzstan. Before WHO I worked [...]

Here is my application for the GEF Co-creation Workshop!

Roxana Mihaela Stefanescu from Romania has recently finished her Ms in Management in Greece with a research paper on “Employability Skills and the attitude towards Entrepreneurship of students entering the job market”. Since, she has been working for Junior Achievement – Young Enterprise (JA-YE) Europe in Brussels. Roxana shares: “One of my main interests is education and during my international experiences I have been inspired in this field. I believe through education we can achieve sustainable development, life-long learning, and a better perspective for today’s youth and my vision is to help with the creation of better ways of both formal and informal education.”

Anu Olvik from Estonia is covering every angle of our Forum in one person: She is a student, a teacher, an entrepreneur and an activist. She teaches economics in high-school and studies law and history in university and organizes 24hour entrepreneurship camps and “manager for a day” events. Anu shares: “I am eager to find out the disposition of youth and their expectations of the world tomorrow. Where are we going and from where are we coming? Estonia is so small, it is really easy to start a change. I strongly feel it has lot to learn and already something to give.”

Hello! My name is Luca-Dan Ciceu and I was born in Romania. After getting a degree in Communications and PR, and a MBA at the Faculty of Economics in Bucharest, I have moved to Denmark, where I am following the MSc in Innovation Management. As a compulsory part of my master, I am an Erasmus [...]

I am 26 years old Islamabad, Pakistan based youth activist and student of Commonwealth Postgraduate Diploma: Youth in Development Work, working on youth issues since last 4 years. And represented Pakistani youth on local and international platforms. Basically I belong to remote and very rural area where people don’t have access to facilities like urban [...]

Tariq Al Olaimy is the Co-founder and Director of Al Tamasuk (Meaning ‘Cohesion’ in Arabic), an award winning, Bahrain based, social enterprise that addresses diabetes prevention and education, through a model that is intended to foster a healthier and more socially cohesive, inclusive, and responsible society. Tariq is also a co-founder of 3BL Associates: a strategy consultancy meets think-tank, which offers a boutique suite of services including Sustainability, Innovation, and Leadership. 3BL Associates align the pursuit of profits with social and environmental development, and are a playground for the convergence of ideas and innovation in Bahrain.