The Challenge

There are around 1.5 billion young people in the world today

40% of the population is under 24 years of age

 

UNICEF and Wellcome are united behind the idea that young people deserve to have a say in the big issues that are shaping the world: the decisions made today will be the consequences they face tomorrow.

Together they are supporting a global participatory research project exploring how to increase young people’s involvement in shaping solutions for global challenges.

Our response

Shift’s research team

• Leading the UK based research work
• Working with Beatfreaks, the youth engagement and insight agency
• Surfacing the factors that encourage young people and science research to engage one another
• Building a team of young co-leads aged 13-25 to design this participatory research with us
• Undertalking research primarily through social networks.

Shift’s creative team

• Designing up and socialising the research findings from across the global programme
• Targeting people working in health, science, development and humanitarian programming who could better involve young people in their research, policy making and practice.
• Working with a team of young creatives from around the world aged 13-25
• Created an identity for the programme and an online hub (futureweavers.org).
• Publishing insights from large-scale participatory research work  – including youth-led community radio, news broadcasting and social media research
• Research activity happening in 12 countries across West Africa, East and Southern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and the UK.