The Young Leaders Visitors Program (YLVP) is an initiative successfully launched by the SI in 2008 at the request of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Co-Organized by:
Swedish Institute in Stockholm (SI)
Swedish Institute Alexandria (SwedAlex)
Sponsored by:
Swedish Institute Alexandria (SwedAlex)
Hosted by:
Swedish Institute Alexandria (SwedAlex)
Event Theme:
Knowledge Society
YLVP is an intercultural leadership program supporting the development of young leaders through a combination of personal growth and practical experience, focusing on social media as a tool for positive change.
The From Ideas to Impact meeting consists of two parts:
- Follow up of personal development plans and group projects (SI and Hyperisland)
- The first part of the program is a follow up module of the three week training which the participants attended in the fall of 2008. This is facilitated by the SI and YLVP trainers from the Swedish digital media and leadership development school Hyperisland. The purpose here is to follow up personal development plans and group projects which were started in Sweden during 2008.
- Social media solutions to rework the world (SI & Tällberg Foundation)
- The second part of the program is a ‘Tällberg module’ which strives to give the participants an opportunity to reflect on the sustainability challenge and a possibility to explore how their information activities can benefit from and be used to create greater awareness around the interrelations between the development of ecosystems, economy, youth and employment, rights and democracy, peace and stability, etc. A systems perspective on these issues combined is necessary to find the sustainable solutions to our most pressing challenges.
The program is concluded by the ‘SI Young Leaders Network Seminar’ held at the Bibliotheca Alexandria and hosted by the SI, SwedAlex, Tällberg Foundation and Bibliotheca Alexandria. A selected number of key leaders from different sectors including the civil society will be invited to this seminar.
Background:
We are today facing a widening gap between what we know and what we do. Leaders in business, politics and society struggle to act decisively in a landscape of both uncertainty and interdependence. Young people are already paying the price for this as they grow up into a world of increased economic, ecological and social instability.
We need to close this gap. We need to attract people with concrete ideas to develop and inspire others around the world in the effort of change. Our focus must shift towards concrete ventures, real tasks, essential outcomes, and dynamic people worldwide must be meaningfully engaged. The next few years will need to see greater changes than ever before in history – and the sudden convergence of global problems leaves no choice but to take them on together.
Change starts with people – people with ideas, passion and drive to attract and persuade others to think and do differently. Their ideas and their stories can and do change the world.
What are the ideas and activities that will create new platforms for rethinking and reworking? How can small ventures and global policy changes remake our communities, our schools, social and human services, our sources of energy, food and water? What can young opinion leaders do to develop and connect ideas and initiatives, create interfaces between knowledge and action, help bottom up meet top down – That can take us towards a future that is ecologically and socially sound and vigorous?