The annual One Young World (OYW) Summit convenes the brightest young leaders from 190+ countries and 250+ organisations, working to accelerate social impact. Delegates are selected either by OYW partners or through scholarships. Delegates participate in four transformative days of speeches, workshops and networking.
Throughout the Summit, Delegates are counselled by influential political, business, and humanitarian leaders such as Justin Trudeau, Arianna Huffington and Professor Muhammad Yunus, amongst many other global figures.
Once the Summit is over, Delegates graduate as OYW Ambassadors, returning to their workplaces and communities with the means and motivation to make a difference. They benefit from access to mentorship, funding, speaking opportunities and a global network of 17,000+ young leaders to accelerate and create new initiatives.
Since 2010, One Young World has helped over 500 businesses support and develop young leaders by providing the tools, the network, and the platform to address the world’s most pressing issues - impacting the lives of 41.56 million people to date.
One Young World in Numbers
41 . 56 M
people directly impacted by Ambassador projects featured in Annual Impact Reports since 2010
5 . 77 M
people directly impacted by Ambassador projects featured in the 2022 Annual Impact Report
1 . 21 M
tonnes of CO2 mitigated by Ambassador-led projects featured in our Impact Reports since 2018
$ 975 K
distributed to young leaders working towards the SDGs in 2022
8 , 500 +
people attended 70 Community events in 2022
Ambassador Impact
PowerUp
Jacob Hamer / Sabrina Kolbeck
As a pair, Jacob and Sabrina created the PowerUp battery initiative. It repurposes high-voltage batteries that are usually removed from car prototypes, and upcycles them to create energy storage blocks for under-resourced schools in low-income communities.
The Sustainable Flight Challenge
Robin Spierings
Robin leads the Sky Group’s Sustainable Flight Initiative through her role in KLM’s sustainability team. This project aims to open-source sustainability innovations to transform the aviation industry, through a challenge whereby 17 participating airlines compete to run their “most sustainable flight”.
AI Fairness Initiative
Finn Janson / Marta Batlle
As data scientists at Roche, Finn and Marta are using AI to correct bias in datasets used for medical research, by generating synthetic data that is representative of underrepresented populations. The AI Fairness tool is designed to minimise risks in clinical treatments of adverse reactions for minority communities.