Vison development

Vision development in co-creation with youngsters from all over the world

We started One World Citizens (OWC) in 2012 as we noticed that the youngest generations were born to shape the new, sustainable society and world for the near future and next generations. Between 2012 up to 2015 we started the development of a Global Concept and Program by which youngsters, aged from 10 to 30 years, could share ideas for change online and help each other to work out their ideas into local projects or start-ups. The Concept and Program were about education on social and sustainable issues, ICT & Technology and Social Entrepreneurship.

In 2015 the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development (the SDGs) were launched by the UN with the call for action: No One Left Behind. We embraced this ‘global instrument’ as base of everything we would do in OWC because we saw: all change that we need worldwide is covered by these goals. To contribute directly to the SDGs with No One Left Behind we chose SDG 4, 8 and 17 as the base goals of OWC and the SDGs 2,6,7 and 10 as our frame for the projects and start-ups that would create by & for youngsters in the OWC Community.

From 2015 to 2020 we completed the Global Concept and Program by online collaboration, by learning by doing, by & for youngsters, working in their local communities. Sharing ideas, experience, outcome and feedback. During these years we invited youngsters from Nepal, Kenya, Kurdistan-Iraq, Rwanda, Austria, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Ireland, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden and Ukraine to the Netherlands for work visites of 2 months and Conferences, to work together on the international basic program that we were developing.

By doing this we created a unique Community and Program by which the youngest generations are able to take action towards the better society and future they want to achieve in collaboration with local governments and partners who want to work with them as partners for change together!