is a project run by the British Council, led by our office in Switzerland, in partnership with the World Economic Forum. The initiative provides a space for individuals between the ages of 20-25 to discuss solutions to current problems in education and to share their vision for the future.
The program dates for the 2008 session were:
Two delegates were chosen from the US to attend the conference.
is a student at George Mason University interested in empowering socially conscious global citizens to make a difference. In partnership with Free the Children, the largest network of children helping children through education, she successfully led a high school initiative that raised $16,000 to build a school in Sierra Leone. The project also served to raise awareness throughout her community about the often dire situations that children around the world face. Echoing her belief that education should be a basic human right afforded to all children, Burton challenges world leaders to work collaboratively to ensure that the 120 million around the world who are currently denied the right to education will one day graduate from primary school.
is an activist seeking to foster the dialogue across faiths. A Social Thought major at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Swiderski is interested in initiating a conversation about the deep divide that separates all kinds of believers from those who champion vigorous and skeptical secularism. Modeled after the Archbishop of Canterbury’s “Building Bridges” seminar, the first undergraduate dialogue of its kind will take place at Georgetown University later this year. Swiderski hopes to bring the project with him to the UK during his study abroad tenure at the University of Oxford in 2008, and expects to hold the seminar at American universities in the Middle East (including Georgetown’s Qatar campus) by 2010.
