We are so excited to tell you that we have now selected the 1,000 talents who will be going to Shenzhen, China in November. Congratulations to all selected talents - comment if you are one of the lucky ones going to
#UNLEASH2019
!
Do you have what it takes to be one of the 1,000 talents who will collaborate on creating solutions to the
@UN
Sustainable Development Goals? Apply for
#UNLEASH2019
now at ! 🚀
#SDGs
We are so excited to be able to share the news with you that
#UNLEASH2019
is taking place in Shenzhen, China!
The program will take place November 6-13 and applications will open March 18!
@UNLEASHlab
@Deloitte
#UNLEASHLAB2018
is open for applications!
Join the next generation of young leaders and share your vision for making the world a better place. Apply now at !
We are happy to announce that
#UNLEASHLAB2018
will take place in
#Singapore
– and you can be part of it! Apply with your
#SDGs
idea or insight from January 15, 2018, at !
We are honored to have the support of Rwanda's Ministry of ICT and Innovation (
@rwandaICT
) for UNLEASH Rwanda and we look forward to Hon. Minister Paula Ingabire (
@MusoniPaula
) joining us for the Opening Ceremony on Saturday, December 2. Three days to go!
#UNLEASHRwanda
The
#ClimateCrisis
is the biggest challenge of our generation.
Next week, young thought leaders from 153 countries will meet @
#UNLEASH2019
in China to try & solve it!
They'll be joined by 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners:
@Yunus_Centre
&
@LeymahRGbowee
Please help spread the word!
We are excited to have applications from 182 countries and territories! We have started the evaluation process and are already very impressed by your applications. We cannot wait to welcome 1,000 of you to
#UNLEASH2019
!
We received almost 8,000 applications for
#UNLEASH2019
! With 182 nationalities represented,
#India
was the country with the most applicants.
A huge thank you to everyone who has helped in spreading awareness of this opportunity. It's going to be hard to pick only 1,000!
This year, we will have more countries represented than ever before. 157 nationalities have been invited to
#UNLEASH2019
and this is more than we have had in the past two years combined! Let us know which country you are representing in the comment section👇
As 2019 is almost over we wanted to say a huge thank you to all of our amazing partners, talents, facilitators, volunteers and everyone else who makes UNLEASH possible.
#UNLEASH2019
was our biggest program to date and we cannot wait to tell you what 2020 has in store! 🎉
#UNLEASH2019
is officially over and what an end it it all! Two Nobel Peace Prize winners, amazing talents, incredible partners and a party to celebrate everyone’s dedication to the
#SDGs
!
"Dear youth the future rests in your hands. Use today to shape the tomorrow and the future you want. Develop solutions knowing that your voice matters, your ideas are needed & your action is more urgent than ever." - Rt. Hon. E. Ngirente (
@EdNgirente
), Prime Minister of Rwanda
Tomorrow we are asking all our supporters and talents to show their support to
@UNLEASHlab
by posting their favorite
#SDGs
and the country they are from! Please join in using
#UNLEASH2019
and use your flag to show
#diversity
! 🇰🇪🇧🇷🇸🇪🇨🇦🇩🇰🇨🇳🇫🇴🇺🇸🇷🇼🇯🇵🇵🇪🇪🇬🇳🇬🇵🇦🇫🇯🇮🇳🇫🇷🇬🇧🇹🇭🇩🇪🇹🇿🇨🇭🇾🇪🇮🇷🇳🇴🇦🇷
.
@ForestWhitaker
, who will be keynote speaker at
#UNLEASHLAB2018
, just penned this brilliant op-ed on
@CNN
, on youth movements in politics.
"Young people have ideas on peace, and they should be heard."
Applications to
#UNLEASHRwanda
are now closed!!! 🥂A massive THANK YOU to the UNLEASH Community, all our partners, and networks that shared this opportunity far and wide! 🙏 All the best to all applicants as we start reviewing your submissions. 🤞🍀
While we are evaluating applications, we had a look at who the typical applicant for
#UNLEASH2019
is. We are excited to have had more females apply this year and cannot wait to welcome people to China from November 6-13!
#SDGs
We're really excited to announce that our next innovation lab will launch in India next year! The PM of Denmark Mette Frederiksen and the PM of India Narendra Modi made a joint statement revealing the big news. Check our website to know more about this amazing opportunity
Congratulations to the UNLEASH Rwanda Dragons' Den winning Teams🥳🥳 Thanks to support from BESTSELLER Foundation,
@Chemonics
, and
@MastercardFdn
winners were collectively awarded a total of $35,000!
#UNLEASHRwanda
We are so excited to have been nominated for the SDG Tech Awards in Denmark. Help us win for our work for
#SDG17
: Partnerships for the Goals by voting on the below link and share with your friends.
#UNLEASH2019
!
Yesterday's UNLEASH Facilitator, + Mentors, and Experts training was a powerful synergy of collaboration and learning. We are excited to see the remarkable impact they will bring to UNLEASH Rwanda!
#UNLEASHRwanda
We know you are all very curious about when you will receive an answer to your application! We promise to get back no later than July 1st. Our
#UNLEASH2019
evaluators are currently working very hard to give a fair judgement. We can't wait for
#UNLEASH2019
! 🎉
#SDG3
talents can look forward to learning from and working at the China National Genebank, which is one of the key scientific infrastructures in Shenzhen.
The talents will then move to BGI, which was founded with the vision of using genomics to benefit mankind.
#UNLEASH2019
We’re very excited to bring
#UNLEASH2022
to Karnataka and couldn’t be any luckier with our hosts
@infosys
. Looking forward to being part of the melting pot of innovation and youth that
@Infosys
represents!
To know more about
#UNLEASHIndia
, sign up here:
We are happy to have 20 young and passionate storytellers, who will be perfecting their skills in the new storyteller program. With Emmy nominated facilitators, they will be creating new ideas on how to tell stories of global challenges!
#UNLEASH2019
"I am happy UNLEASH is in Africa and specifically in Rwanda because this is our time. This is our time to bring solutions to the rest of the world." - Albert Munyabugingo (
@A_Munyabugingo
), Co-Founder & CEO Vuba Vuba Africa LTD
Yesterday we held a press conference to let all of China know that our amazing talents are coming in less than two weeks. It was great to see the many questions that local journalists have and explain why we think Shenzhen is going to be an incredible host for
#UNLEASH2019
!
We are excited that TV Presenter, author and newly appointed Director of Creative Diversity at
@BBC
,
@JuneSarpong
will be joining us at
@UNLEASHLAB
as the MC of our
#UNLEASH2019
Closing Ceremony on November 13 in Shenzhen, China!
We are enjoying reading through the applications for
#UNLEASHLAB2018
in Singapore. Applicants will be notified in the beginning of March, so stay turned!
Excited to welcome new global talents to the
#UNLEASHLAB2018
community! All applicants will receive an email with the results. We cannot wait to see everyone in
#Singapore
soon!
People really took their time in submitting their applications this year! With 4,4 application submitted every minute in the final hours, we were lucky the system didn't collapse 😅. We can't wait to give everyone an answer to their application for
#UNLEASH2019
.
We're thrilled to announce that
@ForestWhitaker
will keynote
#UNLEASHLAB2018
in Singapore this June. He is founder/CEO of the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative & UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace & Reconciliation.
What an epic ending to UNLEASH Rwanda!!!
1000 UNLEASH Rwanda Talents joined
@HangaPitchfest
at the Kigali Convention Center for Rwanda’s largest in-person tech event, and the seven Innovation Lab Team Finalists pitched to Hanga judges.
#UNLEASHRwanda
#HangaPitchfest23
For talents working on
#SDG4
, you can look forward to working at Shenzhen Polytechnic. It is one of the first institutions to provide higher vocational and technical education and training in China and the perfect place to work on quality education for all!
#UNLEASH2019
Who has waited for the last day to apply to UNLEASH Rwanda?! Raise your hand! 🙋🏽 We are pretty sure you’re probably not alone. 😂 Remember that today is the last full day for you to prepare and submit your application! Apply now:
"Develop solutions knowing that your voice matters, your ideas are needed and your action is more urgent than ever." - Édouard Ngirente (
@EdNgirente
), Rt. Hon. Prime Minister of Rwanda
#unleash2019
is in the history books — with more than 200 solutions to the UN
#SDGs
created in Shenzhen last week!
To read a detailed account of the day-by-day events of the conference, visit our UNLEASH publication on Medium:
The 1,000 Talents who will join
#UNLEASHIndia
have been selected. Congratulations!
📩 If you applied and didn't hear from us, make sure to check your email
💻 Did you get selected? Make sure to register to secure your spot!🚀
💬 Where will you join us from? Leave us a comment!
We have a message from our Chairman
@Besenbacher2012
to all the talents who got selected for
#UNLEASH2019
- and also for those who did not make the cut, but still deserve a round of applause for all their amazing work!
#SDGs
Today we experienced the most hectic day at
#UNLEASHIndia
so far with 200 Teams presenting their solutions simultaneously in the SDG Pitching Showcase!!! 🤯 The best solution from each track will be announced during Dragons' Den 🐉 and they will pitch in front of the entire Lab!
One year. 9,000 applications. 150+ countries. We are now ready to welcome the 1000 selected talents traveling from 24 different time zones to this year's
#UNLEASH2019
in Shenzhen, China! 🌎💪💡🎈
UNLEASH Rwanda Teams have framed their problems and identified the communities they will impact. Now, they are ready to ideate to create scalable, sustainable solutions that can be implemented.
Meet some of the Teams and the Problems they are solving for.
#UNLEASHRwanda
The Little Blue Penguin -- the planet's smallest penguin species --
is so tiny that in Australia they are called "fairy penguins."
We need to protect their habitat, and fight to achieve
#SDG14
&
#SDG15
.
#WorldPenguinDay
#UNLEASHLab2018
The UNLEASH Global Innovation Lab is finally back!!!! We’ve been dreaming about this moment for the past three years, and we are thrilled to have 1000 Talents from +100 countries experience a week of innovation for the SDGs!
#UNLEASHIndia
#UNLEASH2022
#SDGs
#Innovation
UNLEASH Rwanda opened today with a press conference featuring Professor
@Besenbacher2012
and Minister
@MusoniPaula
discussing what is ahead for the week and the infinite possibilities that lie ahead. Thank you
@RwandaICT
for supporting UNLEASH coming to Rwanda.
#UNLEASHRwanda
Calling all change makers! 📣Do you have what it takes to be one of the 1,000 talents who will collaborate on creating solutions to the
@UN
Sustainable Development Goals? Apply for
#UNLEASH2019
before April 25 at ! 🚀
#SDGs
Talents who will be working on
#SDG7
will feel like they are on top of the world, when working at the Shenzhen Energy Building. It consists of two towers: the North Building which is about 220 meters high and the South Building which is about 110 meters!
#UNLEASH2019
UNLEASH Rwanda Day 1: The Innovation process is underway! The journey to creating solutions begins with getting to know each other and identifying a problem that the team wants to solve.
#UNLEASHRwanda
The UNLEASH Community is growing! Meet the UNLEASH Rwanda Talents, the UNLEASH Plus Teams, and the Facilitators, Experts, and Mentors. They are the core of UNLEASH and now they are forever a part of the global UNLEASH Community! (cont...)
#UNLEASHRwanda
Can you feel the energy? We are only 4 days away from UNLEASH Rwanda! Mireille Umutoni (
@MireilleAlix
), an UNLEASH China Alumni shares three things to remember: Treat your team as your anchor, this is a learning journey and have fun!
#UNLEASHRwanda
The day we have all been waiting for has finally arrived!!! APPLICATIONS FOR
#UNLEASHINDIA
ARE NOW OPEN! 🍾🚀🙌🏼 Read all you need to know about our next Innovation Lab on our new website ➡️
#UNLEASH2022
Wondering who are evaluators are? Meet Yolwin Jed Perales, who is a Metallurgical Engineer from the Philippines, a World Water Week 2017 Prize Winner and the winner of the
#SDG6
Silver Award at
@UNLEASHlab
2018.
#UNLEASH2019
We are almost halfway through our evaluations and we have been very impressed by everyone!
As former UNLEASH talent and public health activist, Ellen Soebiantoro says: "Evaluating UNLEASH applicants made me realize that optimism is contagious."
#UNLEASH2019
172! That’s the total number of countries & territories where we have received applications from for
#UNLEASHIndia
this year.
This diversity is what makes UNLEASH a global movement. Less than 3 months left for
#UNLEASH2022
& we can’t wait.
Comment below where did you apply from?
Applications for
#UNLEASH2019
are officially closed! We are so thankful for the incredible amount of interest and look forward to reading your applications!
“I want to make sure that girls are safe in the cities and rural areas as they travel to and from school. Every girl has a right to safety from danger in society, especially when they are trying to access education.”
- Christine Adero
#UNLEASH2019
Our talents are now back home and we are thinking back on everything accomplished in the past two weeks. What was your favorite moment of
#UNLEASH2019
? 💫
The Top 10 Teams from
#UNLEASHPlus
have been selected!!! 🗞️Today, they pitched their solution to their peers and a panel of judges, and these are the Teams that will get to pitch in front of everyone tomorrow in Dragons’ Den!!! 🐉 UNLEASH Plus is co-hosted with
@Chemonics
Advice on how we can achieve the SDGs from
@ForestWhitaker
: “We have to recognize that we are our brother’s keeper, for a more inclusive society.”
#UnleashLab2018
These are long days. It's important we stay hydrated🫧Thanks to
@jiburwanda
we were able to reduce waste and ensure every Talent, Facilitator, Expert, and Mentor received a reusable stainless steel water bottle. With >1,000 people for 7 days that's a huge impact!
#UNLEASHRwanda