Samsung Electronics is unveiling international themes for its youth innovation program Samsung Solve for Tomorrow in a daring step to empower younger individuals world wide to resolve challenges collectively and drive constructive social change.
Sustainability and Social Change Explored by Youth Around the World
Launched within the United States in 2010, Solve for Tomorrow is a STEM (science, know-how, engineering and math) schooling competitors that has reached greater than 2.9 million college students throughout 68 nations over the previous 15 years. The program encourages college students to suggest artistic options to social points of their native communities, serving to them construct important vital pondering and problem-solving expertise.
Starting in 2025 with the introduction of world themes, Solve for Tomorrow will go one step additional to evolve right into a platform for youth to collaborate and deal with common issues that transcend native boundaries.
This 12 months’s international themes are “Environmental Sustainability via Technology” and “Social Change through Sport & Technology with International Olympic Committee.”
“Environmental issues are among the most difficult challenges facing humanity today,” stated Soojin Kim, Head of the Corporate Sustainability Center at Samsung Electronics. “We are pleased to join youth around the world on this journey to overcome these issues with technology.”
▲ A poster celebrating the 15th anniversary of Solve for Tomorrow and introducing the worldwide themes
Global Themes Selected Through ‘Together for Tomorrow’ Olympic Partnership
As the Worldwide smartphone Partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Games final 12 months, IOC and Samsung partnered to launch ‘Together for Tomorrow, Enabling People’ — a digital group created to enrich Solve for Tomorrow. The platform goals to have interaction younger individuals from throughout the globe with the Olympic Movement and harness the transformative energy of know-how and sport to drive significant change.
During the Olympic Games Paris 2024, 10 college students from the profitable groups of the earlier 12 months’s Solve for Tomorrow program served as ambassadors for “Together for Tomorrow, Enabling People.”
The theme “Social Change Through Sport & Technology” was voted on by the general public within the Together for Tomorrow, Enabling People group. Samsung and IOC plan to nominate people who exemplify this theme as international ambassadors and collaborate with them to develop options.
“We are delighted to work with our Worldwide Olympic Partner Samsung on the creation of this new sport-driven theme,” stated Ollie Dudfield, Associate Director of Olympism 365 at IOC. “It’s an thrilling step ahead in keeping with the ambitions of IOC’s Olympism 365 technique — empowering younger individuals world wide to assume boldly about how sport and know-how can drive constructive change.’’
Leveraging Samsung’s Expertise To Strengthen Support for Participants
Samsung is leveraging its distinctive assets and experience to strengthen Solve for Tomorrow. By integrating the Samsung Design Thinking methodology into this system, the corporate hopes to encourage the event of sensible, user-centered options. Samsung additionally plans to develop worker mentoring to assist individuals additional refine their concepts with steerage from specialists with real-world expertise.
IOC Young Leaders Programme can even have a task to play in serving to college students perceive how sport and know-how can combine to generate revolutionary options to social challenges. “Through Samsung Solve for Tomorrow, I’ve realized that even a small thought can spark massive change,” stated Solve for Tomorrow US ambassador Ngan Huu Kim Le.
“Working alongside friends from around the world motivates me to keep seeking creative solutions for a better future.”
Solve for Tomorrow 2025 lately kicked off in Vietnam and India, and can quickly be launched in Indonesia, Türkiye, Singapore…
