BE OPEN Celebrates the Designing Futures 2050 Winners at the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi
From December 8th to 12th, BE OPEN attended the
7th session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) held by the UN
Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. The foundation took that opportunity
to reward and celebrate the winners of the Designing Futures 2050 competition finalized earlier this year.
UNEA
is the world's highest decision-making body on the environment; and it is
critical for addressing the shared environmental threats. The Assembly brings
together ministers, intergovernmental organizations, multilateral environmental
agreements, the broader UN system, civil society groups, scientists, activists
and the private sector to shape global environmental policy.
The
theme of UNEA this year - Advancing sustainable
solutions for a resilient planet - is in total unison with the ethos and
purpose of the multiyear student competition programme BE OPEN launched in
2019. Its aim is to raise awareness among young professionals in creative and
engineering fields about the urgent need for action guided by the Sustainable
Development Goals – with a new goal selected as the competition focus each
year.
On the occasion, Founder of BE OPEN Elena Baturina commented: "BE OPEN's approach is to raise awareness and educate about the SDGs. Through our competitions, we highlight, promote, support and celebrate the ability of young people to create positive innovative ideas. We do our best to build a platform that motivates and helps to self-educate, research, build connections with mentors and like-minded peers, develop and present solutions, and much more.
"Boosting young people's confidence and helping them realize their importance in shaping the future pays back tenfold, because every year we see consistent, thoughtful, meaningful, well-researched and innovative ideas. We get reassurance that educating and motivating young people to become leaders of sustainable change is the best way forward."
Designing Futures 2050 aimed at encouraging
young creatives to reframe and update the SDGs agenda based on today's
realities, to go beyond the 2030 agenda, and actively participate in developing
and implementing realistic and sustainable action plans favourable for their
own more distant future.
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