AIM 2022 celebrates the organization’s global membership reaching over 50 countries. Co-curated and co-designed by youth from 10 countries, the event will focus on three pillars of impact: political, economic and social, and how they intersect. The emphasis is on youth being provided with a platform for co-creating a collective future where the outputs lead to outcomes shared by all of society. Together, we can AIM higher!
Events 2022
Launch of the Young Leaders for the SDGs
Following an open call for applications for the 2022-2024 Class of 17 Young Leaders for the SDGs, which resulted in 5,434 total applications submitted from 194 countries, the UN Envoy on Youth is excited to announce that the next class of Young Leaders for the SDGs will be held on 21 September 2022, with the support of a High-Level Selection Committee. These remarkable young change-makers are recognized for their ability to inspire and mobilize their constituents. Stay tuned for the announcement!
Global Week of Action – SDG 13
Climate change is the greatest existential threat of our century. With sea levels rising, the ice caps melting, and natural disasters occurring on a regular basis, the time for action is NOW!
Join MUN Impact for their Global Week of Action (GWoA) for SDG 13 from September 2-11. Register for a fun week of workshops from expert presenters, forum discussions, and a climate action campaign!
Faith in the future: How faith-based organizations are tackling the hunger crisis
The world is facing an unprecedented hunger crisis. Many food systems are on the brink of collapse due to a combination of conflict, climate change, and the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Faith-based organizations and philanthropies are leveraging their close ties with communities to not only tackle these ongoing crises, but also to build the local-level resilience needed to withstand future shocks. The discussion will include: how tried and tested initiatives are tackling hunger at community levels; why faith-based organizations need more investment to scale up anti-hunger initiatives; and best practices from WFP USA and partners in building local resilience.
Talking TB: The Road to 2030
Devex and the Stop TB Partnership will bring global health leaders together to focus on what’s needed to accelerate progress for ending TB by 2030. The discussion will explore: the actions and funding needed to implement the Global Plan to End TB 2023-2030; what needs to be accomplished at next year’s 2023 U.N. high-Level meeting on TB; and the digital innovations, vaccine candidates, and promising clinical trials that could lead us to better accessible treatment.
Reversing alarming declines in immunization: Building sustainable vaccine demand with and for communities
This event will focus on COVID-19 vaccinations and routine childhood immunizations, and will explore: barriers to restoring and sustaining high acceptance and demand for both COVID-19 vaccines and routine immunizations in LMICs; how misinformation and limited health services are particularly holding back progress for equitable vaccine access and demand; and pioneering practices from LMICs we can build on to drive high vaccination rates through community engagement.
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings
Convening at the same time as the United Nations General Assembly, the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings will bring together communities of purpose that integrate business leaders, policy-makers, international and civil society organizations, innovators and entrepreneurs. In a series of carefully curated impact-driven dialogues, these alliances will use the meetings to advance their work and make concrete progress on the SDGs and to build momentum on other key milestones ahead.
Unlocking Impact: Data With Purpose
At the 2022 General Assembly, the United Nations and the World Bank will convene global leaders to explore how new data ecosystems can unlock exponential value for the big challenges of our time.
Moderated by Folly Bah Thibault, and co-hosted by Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and Mari Pangestu, World Bank Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships, the event will feature top leaders from governments, the private sector, multilateral institutions, academia, and foundations. The UN’s Technology Envoy, Amandeep Singh Gill will use this opportunity to set out a vision for more sustainable, impactful, and well-governed data and digital ecosystems for people and planet.
Transforming Education Summit
The United Nations Secretary-General is convening the Transforming Education Summit during the 77th UN General Assembly, on September 16 (Mobilization Day), 17 (Solutions Day) and 19 (Leaders Day). The Summit seeks to mobilize political ambition, action, solutions, and solidarity to transform education. This includes taking stock of efforts to recover pandemic-related learning losses; reimagining education systems for the world of today and tomorrow; and revitalizing national and global efforts to achieve SDG 4.
Baltic Gastronomic Festival
The Baltic Gastronomic Festival is an international event that takes place in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: three sibling countries that offer a wide range of environmentally conscious farming and cooking, and a diversity of local foods across the region. Running from October 1-30, the festival focuses on sustainable and social gastronomy with four themes: farm-to-fork, culinary heritage, circular shift and food waste.
SDG Moment 2022
The SDG Moment serves to place an annual spotlight on the Sustainable Development Goals. It takes place as the world faces a deepening cost-of-living crisis that carries huge implications for the advancement of the SDGs, especially in developing countries. Convened by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the Moment will provide world leaders with a platform to showcase the bold actions and solutions that are needed to set the world on course towards achieving the SDGs. The SDG Moment event will set the scene and lead into the Transforming Education Summit, and is expected to build the momentum as we head towards the SDG Summit in 2023.
Tackling the Climate Change and Nature Loss Twin Crises
This 50-minute digital dialogue, hosted by the Financial Times in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), will bring financial regulators, supervisors, central banks, scientists, NGOs and policymakers together to discuss the mobilization of mainstream finance in support of the transition to a sustainable global economy. Discussion will zero in on the preventative and preemptive actions central banks and supervisors can take now, the importance of addressing climate change and nature loss simultaneously, and the financial instruments that will incentivize swift and systemic change.
Integrating Intuition to Achieve the 2030 Agenda
This class will be a practical lesson on the Mechanism of Intuition, and will show how intuition, as an integrated language, can allow the people and communities who practice it to achieve sustainable development. The class will also show how the SDGs can be achieved in the short term as well as statistics, results, and how to accomplish the SDGs with scarce resources.
Good Food For All – Beans Is How: Unlocking The Power of Pulses
Good Food For All – Beans Is How: Unlocking The Power of Pulses will convene a range of stakeholders across our food systems to elevate the power of beans and pulses as a delicious, affordable food solution for people and the planet. It will raise the distinct challenges and opportunities we see for beans (as a crop) to become more accessible and widely leveraged across the food supply chain. Insights from leaders across science, business, agriculture and food will shape this interactive event.
Forever Youth Festival
Youth is both a physical and mental state of being. Through emphasizing holistic health and well-being, we can build a sound and sustainable foundation for humankind to better co-exist with our planet.
Emphasizing healthtech, biotech, medtech and foodtech, the Forever Youth Festival is co-curated by youth from around the world, and will feature presentations by young health advocates, showcases by young researchers, and case studies of higher learning in health.
Climate Action Project: Global Project Kickoff
Let’s take action for SDG 13! Join us as we welcome classrooms from 145+ countries as they kick off six weeks of research, collaboration, and ACTION! Free and open to all.
Climate Action Project Launch Event
It’s time to take action for the planet — the Climate Action Project is back welcoming classrooms from 145+ countries. Let’s kick things off live from NYC at Global Goals Week. Join us in person and online for live interviews, school visits, teacher chats, and social media takeovers: #ClimateActionEdu
Kick Off Reception – United Nations General Assembly
Coming back together after years apart, we are gathering with like-minded, action-oriented decision makers! From Davos, to the Cannes International Festival of Creativity, to UNGA, the Kick-Off Receptions have been a platform for optimists to create networks of support for collective action and convene with like-minded leaders that care to make a change happen. After such a difficult time, we look forward to coming back together and collaborating once again.
Better Together World Congress
Co-creating and co-collaborating on our collective future is an important step in our global recovery. How can we advance an intergenerational approach towards the 2030 Agenda? Join youth from around the world as they present their real-life impact through building intergenerational initiatives.
Co-designed by youth from 10 countries, this World Congress will feature SDG Project Showcases, SDG Focus Groups, and SDG Network Events.
Imagining a Greener Future
Imagining a Greener Future is a conversation aimed at bringing together thought leaders from across professional sectors to discuss the role imagination has in exploring the UN Sustainable Development Goals, such as climate action, and the impact of climate change on people’s lives and prosperity. Organized in collaboration with Litrof Consulting and the Dais.