YouthSpeak Forum

YouthSpeak: BELGIUM IN 2030

2017-2018

Our Why

AIESEC

We strive to achieve Peace and Fulfillment of Humankind’s potential.

Our How How Our We are the largest youth-led organization in the world.

We provide leadership development through global internships and team experiences.

Our Goal Engage and Develop Every young Person in the world by equipping them with 4 leadership qualities:

AIESEC is present in

126 Countries and territories We have

35,000+ active members around the world We work with

9,000+ Partners Every year we run

800+ conferences around the world Every year we deliver

90,000+ experiences We have

1,000,000+ Alumni

In Facts

WHERE ARE WE IN BELGIUM ?

Through selective recruitment we usually have an active membership varying of more than 400 students annually.

Online Presence ●

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External Facebook Fanpage 10,000+ followers 45% 18-24 age; 49% 25-34 age Internal Facebook Fanpage 3,144 followers 66% 18-24 age; 31% 25-34 age

Internal Facebook Group 1,301 members

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www.aiesec.be 80,167 page views in the last year 18,932 visitors 68% new visitors 3,500 returning visitors with 26,886 sessions

Local Offices Universiteit Antwerpen Universiteit Gent KU Leuven KU Leuven Campus Brussel VUB Universite Saint Louis Bruxelles ULB Solvay Business School IHECS Academy UCL-LLN

AIESEC in Belgium Our members 400+ members

42%

58%

+90% are between the age of

19 & 26 Personal competencies ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Multi-functional skills Teamwork and leadership skills Cross-cultural understanding Motivated and flexible Can-do attitude Eagerness to learn Drive to generate results

AIESEC and the UN

Youth4GlobalGoals Initiative Youth 4GG is divided in three phases:

In December 2015 AIESEC’s young global leaders and it’s representatives from 126 countries and territories gathered at the United Nations headquarters and signed an agreement to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s.)

Since that moment, AIESEC aligned more than 20.000 volunteering experiences with the SDGs and

Youth 4 Global Goals (Youth4GG) is an initiative powered by AIESEC. It aims to activate the leadership potential of young people by engaging them in purposeful and cross-cultural projects around the globe designed to impact the Sustainable Development Goals.

Awareness

We raise awareness about the SDG’s through global campaigns in Social Media, TV, universities, Metro stations, buildings all over the world

We organize YouthSpeak Forums globally gathering together companies, organisations and young people to discuss the most relevant SDGs Understanding for the country/region

We mobilize +32,000 volunteers every year to be part of our projects aligned with the SDGs

http://youth4globalgoals.org/ Action

12,506,074 people reached through SDG campaigns

32,189 Young individuals involved in SDG projects globally

YouthSpeak Forum Concept

Theme

YouthSpeak Forum is an event that brings youth 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.

INSPIRE

ENGAGE

ACT

Thought leaders are invited to share their knowledge with the delegates. This section of the day is delivered through powerful talks and aims to inspire delegates and help to form their opinions.

Our partner organizations engage with the youth delegates to give them e new persepctive on the social topics through workshop 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.

Youth and businesses will come up with a social media campaign for the running projects OR The youth will help you to improve your projects by adding the youth perspective.

Date, time & venue March 24 2018

300 delegates

Facts Themes

• 21,5% of the Belgian youth is unemployed.

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80% of youth thinks that the most useful learning opportunity is learning via practical experience.

• 29%

of youth thinks that the biggest benefit of studying in university/college is acquiring skills to prepare for a career.

• 85 million young people are living in extreme poverty.

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Less than 3% of the world’s water is fresh (drinkable), of which 2.5% is frozen in the Antarctica, Arctic and glaciers.

• 2 503 million tonnes of waste was created

through economic activities and household within Europe, from which 95.0 million tonns was classified as hazardous for human health.

• 50 million refugees as a result of climate change.

In Facts

YouthSpeak Forum had

70,000 Delegates since 2016 AIESEC had

230 Forums since 2016 For the YouthSpeak Forum we had

1,000+ Partners

Delegates profile

65% was female

35%

51% Studied Business

21% Studied Marketing and comm.

was man

70% was between

20 and 25 years old.

Some Previous Partners

21% Studied Social sciences

8% Studied Engineering or IT

Agenda

Agenda Blocks KEYNOTES

PANEL

Keynotes are 15 minute inspiring speeches for the entire for the entire audience that feature experts, business, civil society and thought leaders, who share their experiences and knowledge. The variety of speakers ensures cross-sector perspectives and presentation of different methods for reimaginig solutions to global challenge.

INSPIRE

ENGAGE

This 45 minute panel session will consist of presentations and open discussion by 4-6 panelists directly engaging with the conference audience.

ACT NETWORKING

Space where partners will have a specific booths during lunch to have a close approach with the delegates , answer questions, provide materials, etc. for 60 min.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops are 75 minute interactive sessions, during which participants learn more deeply about a specific topic and through hands-on approach work to develop actionable ideas to design projects and commitment.

ACTION SPACE

During this space businesses can go deeper in conversation with the youth. Create a awareness campaign or involve the youth in your sustainability campaing by collecting the insights from youth or come up with a collaboration plan.

Opening (30 minutes) Keynote 1 (15 minutes) Keynote 2 (15 minutes) Keynote 3 (15 minutes) Panel (45 minutes) Networking Lunch (60 minutes) Workshops (75 minutes) coffee break (30 minutes) Action Space: Designing ideas (120 minutes) Break (15 minutes) Closing (30 minutes) Reception (60 minutes)

Participation Options Package 1 - Premium Being the Premium partner is a very exclusive partnership.

Your brand will be exclusively associated with the event which will be announced the following “YouthSpeak Forum 2018 powered by AIESEC & XX”. As the Premium Partner you have the exclusive opportunity to inspire the youth audience of 300 people with a keynote speech. ✓ Be the only corporate partner with an inspiring key note for the whole delegation of 300 young people. ✓ Deliver an interactive workshop for around 40 young people to engage them for the SDGs.

✓ Guide one of the four action spaces about one of the SDGs for a group of 75-100 young persons. Interact directly with the youth and empower them to take action for the SDGs or create a project together with the young people. ✓ Position your company online (through our online channels) and offline. As a Premium partner you are the only corporation that can have promotion material on the main stage during the opening and the keynote speeches

Participation Options Package 2 – Action

Package 2 - Engage

The Action partner is a special partnership to be the exclusive ambassador of one specific SDG.

Being an Engage partner is an excellent opportunity to position your brand and to gather the insights form Millennials.

✓ Guide one of the four action spaces about one of the SDGs for a group of 75-100 young persons.

Interact directly with the youth and empower them to take action for the SDGs. ✓ Deliver a workshop to 40 make the young people engage around the SDGs. ✓ Position your company online and offline.

✓ Deliver an interactive workshop for 40 young people to engage them around the SDGs. ✓ Position your company online through our social media channels.

Thank You! For more information, please contact:

Naomi Koelemans Head Partnership Development for the SDGs Naomi.koelemans@aiesec.be +32 470184839

AIESEC in Belgium | aiesec.org Rue Royale, 221, 1210, Brussels, Belgium Phone: +32 02 217 47 93 | Mobile: +32 498 914 231