Applications are open for the 2021 SDG Summer School in Geneva. The summer school is going to be held from 5th July to 30 thJuly 2021 and is open to all nationalities. The deadline for the application is 14th June 2021. The 2021 SDG Summer School is hybrid ie. in maker spaces locally and online globally.

The SDG Summer School is inspired by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, launched by the UN in 2015. To achieve these goals, we need to enable today’s youth to play an active and meaningful role in tackling them. The motivation of the SDG Summer School is for teams of university students, in close collaboration with International Organisations in Geneva, to conceive ways to use open data, crowdsourcing technologies, and low-cost open source solutions to achieve concrete steps towards the SDGs, at a local, regional or global level.

The SDG Summer School is all about team-based problem solving and hands-on prototype development, going from a conception phase to producing practical demos. All accepted participants receive intensive mentoring and coaching to help transform their ideas into impactful projects, and become part of a global community of civic innovators. The SDG Summer School includes study visits to UN Agencies, International Organisations, NGOs and other partnering organisations in Geneva.

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In the 2021 edition of the SDG Summer School, we are looking to build on the achievements of previous generations of students who have worked on Open Source Health Solutions, including:

• Prototyping a hardware device to help the seeing-impaired navigate city streets
• Developing a phone app that supports early-stage cervical cancer detection
• Assisting health researchers with rapid analysis of Covid publications by developing a crowdsourcing tool
• Creating a business model that provides women with free access to environmentally safe menstrual health products
• Mapping open source diagnostic tests and local manufacturing of diagnostics in the Global South
• Developing a breathing game controller for and with people in Geneva
• Mapping human-animal interactions to prevent the next pandemic
• Creating an information package on non-communicable diseases for an existing WHO open source app
• Developing a set of solutions to make playtime in school more inclusive for children living with disabilities

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2021 SDG Summer School in Geneva challenges

This year’s Summer School is inspired by the challenge of finding Open Source Health Solutions. How can young innovators use Crowdsourcing and OPEN DATA, combined with new technologies and social networks, to maximize the impact of SDG Education?

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Eligibility for 2021 SDG Summer School in Geneva

The SDG Summer School targets undergraduate (Bachelor) students from all relevant fields, and also considers well-motivated Master students.

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