Learning and exchange
Youth Training Program for High School Students
The World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) offers a training program tailored to secondary and high school students who display an early interest in international affairs. The Youth Training Program (YTP) at the United Nations examines the activities of the UN and relevant global issues. In addition, WFUNA will provide training and information on how to build a career within the UN system and with international NGOs.
Visits, Meetings & Debates with UN Experts
During these meetings, organized by the Eduki Foundation, specialists of the topic explain in lively and interactive ways their role and the actions of their organization. On these occasions, students can debate and ask questions on often complex topics.
These activities can be part of a pedagogical sequence or broaden students’ reflection on a topical issue. The Eduki Foundation can organize one or more activities for the same class.
SDG Workshops
The workshops offered by the Eduki Foundation familiarize students with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by exploring the interconnections between the different goals and the major challenges faced at the global, national, and local levels.
Through interactive quizzes and group activities, participants address a wide range of topics related to international cooperation and are encouraged to reflect on their own role and actions in building a more sustainable world.
IP Youth Camps on Education and Creativity
The IP Youth Camp is a flagship experiential learning initiative under the IP for Youth & Teachers Program of the WIPO Academy. It is designed to empower young people with practical skills in creativity, innovation, IP, and entrepreneurship. The camp is designed to cultivate an early understanding of how ideas can be transformed into protected, valuable, and market-ready solutions among youth aged 14 to 24.
Activities and Challenges
Robotics for Good Youth Challenge
Participants of this ITU-led challenge design, build, and program a robot to complete a mission based on a selected global challenge. While learning AI and robotics, students between 10 and 18 years gain more than just technical skills; they also develop essential workplace and future-ready competencies such as teamwork, problem-solving, project management, critical thinking, and information literacy.
Eduki Competition
A bi-annual competition, under the high patronage of the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, that invites young people from all over Switzerland to share their vision of the future, to imagine, create and act for a sustainable world, through artistic works, media productions or concrete actions.