Everyone can be a changemaker!

Together they started the project: 'KUE gives back'. A food distribution project for homeless people in Zurich.

​Timo is Youth Embassador for the Ashoka Fellow Christiane Daepp's 'Ideenbüro' project in Biel. This initiative receives letterbox problems from younger pupils, organizes consultations and looks for solutions together. Having co-pioneered this initiative in a co-working space some years ago, Timo is currently working in the cultural sector of his town and engaging in politics. He wrote his matura thesis on 'the school of the future'. 

In her 'Democracy Kitchen' project, she develops recipes to strengthen democratic awareness. She brings people with different opinions together over coffee, asks teachers about their needs in the area of political education, and motivates young people to participate more in politics.

Liza is studying health sciences in Lucerne and has been interested in sex education and STI prevention for a long time. She would like to reform sex education in Switzerland. In connection with her studies, I developed a theoretical prevention program for STIs, which she would now like to implement and roll out in Switzerland. 

The trained medical practice assistant is the Co-President of the Federal Youth Session, where he and his team try to promote the political participation of young people. The federal youth session is one of the largest participatory projects for and by young people in Switzerland. Each year, 200 young people get the chance to spend four days formulating their concerns and presenting them to the president of the National council

She is Co-President of the Federal Youth Session and a personal assistant to a National Councillor.​ Elma took over from National Council President Martin Candinas on 29 September 2023 as part of the #GirlsTakeover campaign.

Founder of ComposTerra. ComposTerra develops sustainable and circular materials by transforming organic waste streams into functional products. 

Manon is part of the Future Council U24, a citizens' council for young people made up of 80 people aged 16-24 who live in Switzerland and have been selected on a representative basis, who work together to develop and publicize recommendations for action on a topic relevant to the future. At the moment, they are working on the topic of 'mental health'. 

Remo is part of the Future Council U24, a citizens' council for young people made up of 80 people aged 16-24 who live in Switzerland and have been selected on a representative basis to jointly develop recommendations for action on a topic relevant to the future and make them public. At the moment, they are working on the topic of mental health. ​
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Initiator of 'once again': Weekly acDviDes for students and young people who are otherwise unable to find a connection.

In his role as the chairman of the Liechtenstein Youth Parliament, Michael stands for expanding local youth participation. Alongside his apprenticeship as a software developer, he co-founded 'Bookspread', a start-up that makes it possible to find suitable publishers and submit your manuscript through an intuitive process.

Eduardo, Lorena and Julia are part of the association​
Youth Energy. ​Together with their teacher, they organized money for photovoltaic systems in Liechtenstein. Which they all installed together on the roofs at the end of 2023. 

Asal came to Austria when she was 7 years old. During her school years, she fell in love with reading, writing and the world of literature. Asal has written an anthology of short stories that focus on the various aspects of the coronavirus pandemic. She is currently finishing school and would like to to move many more people with her words.

Has invited actors from the 2nd-hand sector in Tirol to join him in transforming the school gym into a 2nd-hand store.​
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Holds lectures and workshops at his school on topics such as sustainable​ shopping and healthy eating.

Initiator of the "WeStitch" project, which is aimed at disadvantaged women in the labour market. Integration Ambassador (Red Cross) and winner of the "Sag's Multi" award (ORF's multilingual speech competition). She has already spoken at the UN.​ Theatre is her passion, she has already been an actress and co-developer of the following projects at the Vienna State Opera: "The Strat-Up" and "Sugar Revolution". Banan has written and published a book about her escape story entitled "Meine Flucht und ihre Begleiterinnen". 

Thomas is in a wheelchair himself and is developing an app that connects people seeking assistance with helpers quickly and smoothly.

Founder of AHA -Lernen, an alternative to conventional tutoring and traditional face-to-face teaching. 

Luis is trying to use artificial intelligence for a good cause. In particular, he focuses on environmental issues. For example, he has developed a forecasting algorithm that predicts food requirements in supermarkets with a high degree of accuracy. 

Anna and her colleagues have launched a product that aims to make everyday life with period pain easier with an innovative, heatable device. 

​With her impact startup uptraded, she is pursuing her personal "purpose", namely to close the gap between consumer needs and climate protection goals through exciting circular economy tools. Together with her team, she is currently developing a clothes swap app to promote second-hand fashion and drive forward the circular economy.

Valentin and Daniel are launching a project that aims to strengthen the neighborhood. Young people take on small everyday tasks for their elderly and disabled neighbors. 

Nevena is currently building a community for women who meet regularly and exchange ideas on how to help us as a society live longer, healthier and happier lives. 

Maya is currently completing an apprenticeship as a forwarding agent. She has also been working for the social enterprise Sindbad since 2016. She is a mentor there and manages a location. Maya supports people who have been displaced and would soon like to start a project on a topic that is particularly close to her heart: racism and bullying.

Together with Team 2022, she implemented the topic of mental health in the successful "Good, and yourself?" youth initiative (including the successful Mental Health Youth Referendum) and developed the communication strategy for mobilizing young people. The initiative won the National Youth State Prize and the Austrian PRVA PR State Prize.

Advocates for equal opportunities for women in the STEM sector. She is the youngest ambassador of the WomenInICT initiative, and the AI Ambassador for the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ASAI). ​Lilia works in the field of data science and has, for example, developed a project to recognise soil sealing using AI and satellite data as part of a team.

Founded the platform Youth Power Network (www.youthpowernetwork.at), which offers young people in Austria access to educational programmes and opportunities to develop their potential. Larissa is one of the Youth Experts at the Sinnbildungsstiftung. She won the Hans Riegel Fachpreispreisin (1st place Computer Science) for her VWA on the topic "Correlation of Artificial Intelligence and Brain Research". She is active in education and research at Women in AI Austria, and is a law student and captain of the national English-speaking debate team.

Studies JUS and was a member of the chair team of the Innsbruck faculty representation. There she worked on new curricula and organised excursions and training courses. Together with the faculty and the publisher LexisNexis, the chair team also published the starting code for first-semester students for the first time. She has been a member of the Executive Board since December 2020 and President of the Alpbach Tirol Club since October 2023, where she organises scholarships and events. Most recently she organised a poster campaign and workshop day to mark the EU elections, and a panel on parenthood and equal rights.

Adrian is now part of the Moonshot Pirates team. He was the initiator of 'Eusync'. Their goal was to centralize European rail transport in order to strengthen public transport, be it local or long distance. 

Oliver is completing his apprenticeship at A1.​
He is an advocate for other apprentices and is also the former regional spokesperson for vocational schools (Vienna).

As part of her work at the Red Cross, she is committed to the topic of mental health. 

Sophie pursues her passion as a presenter and now hosts well-known events. She also uses her talent to represent and reshape key youth issues in the media. Co-founder of the GREEN initiative and active in organisations, her focus is on promoting sustainability and environmental friendliness. 

Florian is a student at the University of Applied Arts and Chairman of the educational organisation "HPV vaccination now!" With his association, he has created an alliance that has achieved an extension of free HPV vaccination up to an individual's 30th birthday.

With her company Pro4uture, Luiza wants to help people with a migration background to find a job in Austria and provide them with long-term, individual support.

Franz had the idea for Kärnten Ride Share: an environmentally friendly mobility concept in Austria that enables people to share journeys and thus reduce private transport. The platform connects drivers and passengers, promotes social interaction, reduces CO2 emissions and offers a cost-effective transport alternative.