2. What is the Global Shapers
Community?
The Global Shapers Community is a network of hubs founded
and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential,
their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to
their communities.
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3. What is the Global
Shapers
Community?
The Global Shapers Community is:
— united by a common desire to channel the members’
tremendous energy and enthusiasm into building a more
peaceful and inclusive world.
— diverse in demographics, geographical areas, social
backgrounds and sectors
The Global Shapers Community
— provides youth with a global platform to shape the future,
integrating the personal, community and global dimension.
— catalyses and enhances, individually and collectively, fresh ideas
and entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most pressing
challenges.
— Provides the shapers with the opportunity to get involved in
crossmentoring with the communities of the World Economic
Forum
4. Why the Global Shapers?
“We are becoming increasingly aware that solutions to our
global challenges must purposefully engage youth, at all levels
– locally, regionally, nationally and globally. This generation has
the passion, dynamism and entrepreneurial spirit to shape the
future.”
Professor Klaus Schwab
World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman
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5. Why the Global
Shapers?
— 50% of the world’s population is under the age of 27, the majority of
whom live in urban areas
— the millennial generation consider themselves as “active agents of
change” rather than passive bystanders. In a recent study
— 92% agree that the world must change;
— 84% consider it their duty to drive this change
— almost 82% believe they have the power to make it happen
— this generation is increasingly self-empowered and thanks to
information and technology has catalysed tremendous opportunities
for interaction and collaboration
6. Why the World Economic
Forum?
The World Economic Forum has successfully
established a history of engaging young leaders to
positively and proactively impact the global agenda.
7. What is the World
Economic Forum?
— The World Economic Forum is:
— an independent international organization committed to improving the
state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other
leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
— not-for-profit foundation, tied to no political, partisan or national interests.
— The World Economic Forum engages its members and constituents
into responsible and responsive global citizenship, integrating four
pillars into a unique value proposition:
— Communities
— Interaction
— Insight
— Impact
8. What is the World
Economic Forum?
— The World Economic Forum is the world’s foremost
multistakeholder community, engaging leaders from business
(members) and non-business (constituents).
Constituents
— Governments and Political Leaders
— Labour Leaders and NGO Leaders
— Global Agenda Councils
— Global Issues Group
— Media Leaders
— Young Global Leaders
— Social Entrepreneurs
— Global Shapers
— Cultural and Spiritual Leaders
— Women Leaders
Members
— International Business Council
— Strategic Partners
— Industry Partners
— Foundation Members
— Global Growth Companies
— Technology Pioneers
9. Why the World
Economic Forum?
— The World Economic Forum is uniquely positioned to provide
Shapers with the knowledge and insights that engender a better
understanding of the global, regional and industry agendas.
— The World Economic Forum will help the Global Shapers achieve
their objectives by:
— Establishing a privileged interaction with some of the existing
Forum communities, such as the Young Global Leaders, the
Social Entrepreneurs and the Technology Pioneers
— Providing access to all its other communities - the top leaders
from politics, business, civil society, media, science, arts and
culture, faith - with the objective to provide a maximum of
possibilities for interaction and mutual mentorship.
— Selected Shapers will be asked to attend and actively participate in
some of the World Economic Forum Annual Meetings and
Regional Summits (e.g. as speakers in panels, as discussion
facilitators, etc)
10. Who are the Global Shapers?
Young extraordinary individuals with great potential for future
leadership roles in society.
Between 20 and 30 years of age, they represent all walks of life
and share a spirit of entrepreneurship in the global public
interest.
11. Who are the Global
Shapers?
— between 20 and 30 years of age at the time of nomination
— from all walks of life and socio-economic backgrounds
— highly committed to developing their leadership potential towards
serving society
— adhering to the highest standards of moral and intellectual integrity
— possessing unique qualities that set them distinctly apart from the
mainstream
— entrepreneurial track record, having already initiated and delivered a
major project or founded a company or organization, exceptionally
contributing to serving society at large
— ready to deeply engage in the community, reinforcing its mission
and objectives and supporting fellow shapers in their individual and
professional development
12. What do Global Shapers do?
Global Shapers undertake activities that generate a positive
impact by increasing each individual Shaper’s ability to
improve the state of their community and by providing
opportunities for Shapers to have local and global impact.
The Global Shapers Community is energised by the many
interactions generated inside each hub, between hubs and on a
global level.
13. What do they do?
Local Hubs
— Local Hubs are established in major cities around the world
— Joining the Global Shapers Community begins by joining a local
hub. Local hubs are committed to local impact and are designed
to be local in focus, activity and governance.
— Local Hubs interact and collaborate across borders on global or
regional projects, to gain insight and impact the global dimension
— Hubs will provide Shapers with the opportunity to actively develop
and contribute to initiatives which focus on future-oriented
challenges that this community is uniquely positioned to address
— The local hub must remain impartial and independent and therefore
cannot be formed on any political, cultural, racial or religious basis
14. What do they do?
Local Hubs
— Each local hub is organised in an autonomous way and must
develop its own Guidelines
— Each hub develops its own activities/programming, including:
— events that facilitate interaction between members of a hub - strengthen linkages
between Shapers and the local community - strengthen linkages between Shapers and
the global community
(i.e. Social gathering, Hub visits, regional shapers meetings, trainings,…)
— opportunities to give Shapers the knowledge and the insight that leads to a deeper
understanding of global, regional, national and industry issues
(i.e meet Young Global Leaders, Social Entrepreneurs, Technology Pioneers,…)
— undertaking at least one project with local impact each year
— Each hub selects a « Curator » to act as the hub Chair. The Curator,
together with the « past » Curator and the « next » Curator, form the
Curatorship of each Hub and are responsible for governing its
affairs and ensuring that its activities reflect positively on the Global
Shapers Community and the World Economic Forum in the spirit of
entrepreneurship in the global public interest.
15. What do they do?
Global Hub
— The Global Hub is the aggregation of interactions between local
hubs and focuses on increasing the profile and the exposure of
individual Shapers or individual hubs at the global level
— Global Hub activities include:
— Inter-hub activity based on a sub-region, region or issue
— Multi-hub participation in special activities (Intellectual activities,
attendance of special events, Local projects with impact in one or more
places)And more…
— The Global Hub is facilitated by the head office of the Global
Shapers Community based in Geneva, Switzerland. Other activities
of the Head Office include:
— governance of the Global Shapers Community: mainly via a Board of
Trustees which is appointed in a process that includes Global Shapers.
— Annual Curators Meeting: workshops for incoming Curators (leaders) of
hubs.
16. Online presence
“Complementing face-to-face meetings, particular emphasis will
be placed on the virtual dimension – enabling shapers to
collaborate and learn from each other through the community
platform..”
The Global Hub exists continually in the private virtual
network of the Global Shapers Community.
17. Online presence:
Private Platform
— Private platform: a dedicated, private interaction platform
for Shapers, based on off-the-shelf enterprise collaboration software
(Tibbr).
— Familiar interface & standard functionalities:
— Directory of Hubs and Issues
— Discussions
— People directory and rich profiles
— Integrated chat
— Mobile Apps available
— Possibility to develop new features
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19. Where to find Global Shapers
Public website: www.weforum.org/globalshapers
Twitter: @globalshapers http://twitter.com/GlobalShapers
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GlobalShapers
Email contact: globalshapers@weforum.org
