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The Concept

Youth to Business Forum is an event that takes place in multiple locations around the world; bringing top young leaders together with business leaders, thought leaders, and experts for a conversation around pressing global issues with the aim to generate new, but most importantly, actionable ideas to that will impact the world and its future.

We make this happen through taking delegates through a unique and interactive framework of:

Inspire

Engage

Act

Where Youth and Business meet to switch ideas into actions that will !impact the world.

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!Inspire

Engage

Act

The Framework

Top business and thought leaders from around the world are invited to share their knowledge with the delegates about the chosen forum theme. This section of the day is delivered through short and powerful talks and aims to inspire delegates and help to form their opinions for the rest of the day.

Our partner organisations engage with the youth delegates to give new perspectives on issues relating to the forum theme through workshops, conversations and idea generation spaces. Youth and business are able to interact, exchange opinions and understand what is being done in the world already to address the question of the day.

The youth delegates take their learnings and insights from the day into a space where they are able to develop their opinions, but also co-create ideas and solutions with their peers and experts in the room. The aim is to switch their ideas into actions that each stakeholder can take forward to contribute to the theme of the day.

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The Forum generates the Youth to Business Output of ideas and actions which will be collected and circulated to our network of 100,000 young people, over 1,000,000 alumni

and our partner groups.

The 2014 Forums

Mainland of China February 25, 2014

Taiwan August 2014

The Philippines March 24, 2014

Mexico March 31, 2014

Poland April 7, 2014

Europe faces a "demographic time bomb" as its population ages and a record amount of young people remain out of work. Among the under-25s, the unemployment rate is close to 24 percent, and Spain and Greece sit at a

staggering youth unemployment rate above 50 percent. !German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that youth unemployment is "perhaps

the most pressing European problem.” With multiple programmes, structures and agreements happening across the region, it is time to include the most important

stakeholder in the process on how to solve this issue - the youth themselves.

Panel Discussion on Education meeting the needs of the job market

Panel Discussion on the Expectations of Youth and Employers

Workshops from our Partners on skills needed today

Roundtable discussions on the Actions we can take to bridge the gap

AGENDA - Flipping the Switch to Solve Youth Unemployment in Europe

April 7, 2014 in Warsaw, Poland

The Europe Youth to Business Forum aims to bring business, government, educators and youth together for a day of conversation, understanding and

idea generation to finally come up with collaborative solutions to solving youth unemployment in this region.

!Past Collaborators

Phil Clothier Ulrich Bartsch Thomas Madsen-Mygdal Carsten Sudhoff Anantha Krishnan Clare Ashamallah Vishen Lakhiani Chris Weeks Max St. John Ruben Vardanian Henry Njoroge Dr. Lisa Anderson Will McInnes Jessika Fraser Yasmin Helal Miranda Ash Lee-Anne Ragan Alex Schneider Gert Van Mol Marianne Knuth Jon Froda David Bacon Fernando Lanzer Nirvana Cable

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