Assembloids is a program designed as a series of miniature assemblies, or "assembloids," for youth and professionals to come together and develop solutions to the critical challenges for achieving youth equity, inspired by "SDG 18." This program aims to create a roadmap for institutions embarking on meeting this goal for the time while critically analyzing an organization's current plans to organically shape the Global Goals.
Youth and seasons professionals from different backgrounds are brought together in intergenerational teams to collaborate on developing solutions to critical challenges highlighted by "SDG 18" and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
GOALS
- Increase the number of young people involved in developing high-level strategies
- Provide better opportunities for implementation of youth-led solutions within established institutions
- Critically analyze the way people think about meeting global goals
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
- Utilize at least one of the proposed solutions for organizations to implement and Global Futurist Initiative to advocate for in meeting "SDG 18"
- Cultivate a long-term relationship with experts to fortify data-driven research
- Generate and spread awareness about Global Futurist Initiative’s mission
KEY PRINCIPLES
- Develop a thematic area of interest that is a real-world challenge for youth to solve
- The case topic should encourage solutions that can be applied by meeting "SDG 18 Youth Equity"
- Develop collaborations that can influence real-world decisions and change for intergenerational teams to get involved in
- Gather leaders from a variety of disciplines who are open to working with youth to enhance their institution's values, feasibility, rigor and representation of the voice of youth in strategy development capacities
- Gather academic experts from a variety of disciplines as advisors to ensure the program's educational value, feasibility, rigor, and representation of the multi-sectorial nature of decision-making bodies
- The advisory panel should represent a variety of disciplines appropriate to the case topic to encourage long term relationships
- The panel should also have familiarity with mediation, facilitation, and design thinking
- Foster appreciation of multidisciplinary and intergenerational collaboration through leadership and youth composition and opportunity
- The topic will require teams to incorporate methodologies, perspectives, and terminologies of multiple disciplines, and the teams’ recommendations must incorporate diverse viewpoints
- Each team must have a minimum of 2 academic or vocational disciplines represented