[IVECA Save the Date!] The UN ECOSOC Partnership Forum Follow-Up Event 2026: Youth Digital Collaboration for a Sustainable Planet
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🗓 Date: February 5, 2026
⏰ Time: 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST
🏛 Location: ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations HQ in New York
Cities are places of possibility. They are where cultures meet, ideas circulate, and daily life unfolds through shared spaces, services, and connections. They are also where global ambitions, on sustainability, inclusion, and equity, are tested most directly in people’s everyday experiences.
Against this backdrop, and building on ongoing UN policy discussions following the 2026 ECOSOC Partnership Forum alongside the Commission for Social Development, this event engages with priorities reflected in the Pact for the Future, the Global Digital Compact, and UNESCO’s work on Global Citizenship Education. It focuses on how young people, connected through digital collaboration, are engaging with these global agendas by examining challenges rooted in their own communities.
During the program, Iveca students will present projects they developed through virtual exchange and intercultural teamwork. From rethinking water and energy systems to redesigning public spaces and enhancing digital inclusion, these youth-led initiatives reflect what sustainable development can look like when young people are given the tools to lead. The event will also feature insights from representatives of UN Member States, the UN system, civil society, academia, and the private sector. Their role is not only to respond, but to listen, and to explore how institutions can better partner with youth and help move promising ideas toward real-world impact.
We invite you to join us for an afternoon of fresh thinking, cross-cultural exchange, and forward-looking collaboration. If you are eager to see what the next generation envisions for our shared planet, and how digital connection can help make those visions possible, this is the moment.
More details coming soon!