Programme / Youth at the WSF - Youth, Social Transformation and Science

Youth from UNESCO World Heritage and Biosphere sites are inviting the WSF participants to join them and discuss their topics in a fast rotating format.

The venue will be set up in a café format with guests joining a table/topic for 15 or 20 minutes. Each table will have a banner explaining the theme and questions for the conference participants. The host will recapitulate what previous guests have mentioned and invite further comments.

Each table will have a question displayed on a poster and posters capturing what previous guests have brought in.

Tentative questions are

• How can young people in rural areas be involved in ‘science’?
• Does science only offer opportunities for employment in cities?
• Does equal access to science just globalise so all societies become the same?
• To make us resilient against events like Covid, should science focus on making us less dependent on products from far away?
• Does digitalisation destroy local entrepreneurship?

UNESCO will support the youth group to produce a video and report with the outcomes; a young communication expert will be part of the event to produce social media content.