Youth & SSE Pre-Forum
May 1 to 2, 2023
A look back at the Youth & SSE Pre-Forum
Read the report on the two days of the Youth & SSE Pre-Forum, held on Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 May 2023 in Dakar, in the Forum Proceedings! Read the co-organisers’ editorial, the programme of sessions and activities, and the Call of the Youth !
The Youth & SSE Pre-Forum on video
Collective and sustainable entrepreneurship for the territories: the answers to the inclusion of young people from here and elsewhere.
The Consortium Jeunesse Sénégal (CJS) has been selected by the Network of Actors and Territorial Communities for SSE (RACTES) and the city of Dakar to organize the Pre-Forum jeun’ESS on May 1 to 2, 2023, to ensure the participation, involvement and enhancement of youth in the whole device of the Dakar World Forum GSEF Dakar 2023.
The SJC is an association of young social innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers, and researchers among others. Its key allies include public institutions, international partners, CSOs, and private actors committed to supporting youth empowerment in Senegal.
Youth & SSE Pre-Forum :
50 to 100 inspiring actors (speakers, entrepreneurs, lecturers, innovators,...)
from Africa and the whole world: entrepreneurs, companies, investors, schools, research and training centers, universities and solution providers
Representatives from over 20 countries
Canada, South Korea, West Africa, Australia, Tunisia
More than 10 self-organized workshops + panels with 20 world-renowned speakers
+2000 participants
desired on site for 2 days and 30,000 people online in 30 countries minimum
A team of 100 volunteers
to welcome you and make your SSE experience unique in the country of "Teranga".
Two great evenings
and artistic performances with renowned young artists
30 stockings
present to cover the event
An advocacy project (the call of the youth)
To support our legislation for the development of the social and solidarity economy
Objectives of the Youth & SSE Pre-Forum :
The Youth & SSE Pre-Forum is being organised with and for young people on Dakar’s Corniche Ouest, bringing together initiatives and young people from several cities around the world.
- Promoting youth projects in the SSE
A village dedicated to the 17 The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals will promote the innovative and inspiring projects of young people in the SSE and encourage the dissemination of their entrepreneurial know-how.
If you are a young person or if you have a solution for young people, if your project contributes to one or more of the SDGs, apply to exhibit your solution at the SDG Village before February 28 at this link: http://bit.ly/jeunESSodd
- Give youth a privileged place in the development agency process: design, implementation, decision
The program consists of inspiring presentations, experience sharing workshops and opportunity fairs: employment, entrepreneurship, research, social innovation, solidarity economy…
- Draft and distribute a "Youth Appeal" at the conclusion of the Pre-Forum. This call will be the starting point for the action plan for young people in the social and solidarity economy after the Forum.
- Advocate for the adoption of a resolution at the UN General Assembly on SSE in 2023, aiming to strengthen the recognition of the work done by SSE organizations in achieving the SDGs.
- Creating together a decisive turning point for a fairer and more sustainable global economy with and for the younger generation
Persons to contact
To be a partner of the Jeun'ESS Pre-Forum:
- The visibility of your commitment
- An exhibition space in the SDO village
- Your participation as a speaker during the highlights of the Forum:
- Privileged access for your employees and partners
- An interview in the media
- Reservation of the VIP area during the Forum and during the 2 exceptional concert evenings
- At your request, the organization of privileged meetings with key players: