Are you a young change maker looking to make an impact?
The Engine Room is a global virtual forum where young changemakers can forge connections, collaborate and mobilize their impact initiatives ahead of the SDG Summit to address the world’s greatest challenges.
The Engine Room is launched each year at the Big Brainstorm, a virtual event hosted by the United Nations Foundation’s Our Future Agenda program. The Big Brainstorm is an opportunity for young thinkers and activists to design their future. It is a two-week design sprint to explore, prototype, and launch solutions to tackle some of humanity’s biggest challenges.
In 2023, the Big Brainstorm brought together more than 2,500 young people from 136 countries with the mission to mobilize action ahead of the SDG Summit. These young people now continue to develop their ideas into action through the Engine Room.
The Engine Room works across eight different Action Groups which are led by Next Generation Fellows as well as Action Group Innovators, young people who have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to accelerating action ahead of the SDG Summit and beyond.
In addition to the SDG Summit, the Engine Room will use three key political moments to platform young change makers: the ECOSOC Youth Forum, the High-Level Political Forum, and COP 28.