Future Sustainability Leaders program 2025

11 October 2024

Invitation to participation in the Future Sustainability Leaders Program 2025

Youth 4 Sustainability (Y4S) – Masdar’s global invitative developing the sustainability leaders of tomorrow – invites all universities to partcipate in the seventh edition of the Future Sustainability Leaders (FSL) program, a key pillar of Masdar’s Y4S platform.

Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Mohamed bin Zayed AI Nahyan, Y4S invests in and actively supports the development of our most valuable asset, our young people, with the objective of enabling them to become the sustainability leaders of tomorrow.

The year-long FSL program is designed to educate and empower university students and young professionals to become the next generation of sustainability leaders capable of carrying forward the global sustainability agenda.

Offering participants hands-on experimential learning, self-paced studues of comprehensive content, and unique networking opportunities, FSL equipes young people with key the skills to succeed in the green jobs of the future in an ever more digitally advanced and complex world.

FSL psrtucipants will have the opportunity to participate in Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) 2025, the region’s largest sustainability gathering. At ADSW, participants can interect with the Y4S Sustainability Hub, a dedicated space to educate, empower and inspire youth, which attracts around 3,000 students over the course of the week, and hosts high-level national and international delegats.

The Y4S Forum, which takes place at the Hub, is a three-day youth-led program aimed at exploring ways for young people to play an active role in the implementation of the UAE national agenda and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Since the launch of 4YS in 2016, more than 800 members have grduates from its programs.

FSL participants must commit to the year-long program and comply with the following:

  • Be a UAE national or international student aged between 19 and 35
  • Hold an undergraduate degree, or be pursuing one, at an accredited institution (open to all majors)
  • Have excellent spoken English
  • Submit a statement demonstrating onterest in sustainability-related fields
  • Complete the online application form before Saturday, November 30, 2024.

Future Sustainability Leaders roles and responsibilities:

  • Complete the SkillUp Series online learning units
  • Attend all Virtual Series webinars and events throughout the year, such as Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, etc.
  • Participate in the Y4S Innovation Lab through the Ecothon Innovation Challenge
  • Help promote the FSL program through social network, when applicable
  • Work Collaboratively and under pressure
  • Have a positive attitude and be a ‘people person’

For more information, please visit https://masdar.ae/en/strategic-global-initiatives/y4s or contact the Y4S team at: Y4S@masdar.ae