The Youth Assembloids Case Competition is a case competition concept 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 competition will be the first of its kind that will create a roadmap for institutions embarking on meeting this goal for the time while critically analyzing an entity's current plans to organically shape the next Global Goals.
Youth from different nations are brought together in global teams to collaborate on developing solutions to critical challenges highlighted by "SDG 18" and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
COMPETITION 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 competition’s winning solutions for organizations to implement and Global Futurist Initiative to advocate for in meeting "SDG 18"
- Cultivate a long-term relationship with at least one academic faculty member to conduct impactful research between youth and sustainable development
- Generate and spread awareness about Global Futurist Initiative’s mission
KEY PRINCIPLES
- Develop a case study 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 youth to get involved in
- Gather leaders from a variety of disciplines who are open to working with youth to enhance their entity's value, 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 competition’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 case competitions
- Foster appreciation of multidisciplinary and intergenerational collaboration through leadership and student composition and opportunity
- The case 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