Calling all Youth - Join the "Noontime Knowledge" Conversation about Sustainability

Embrace the possible. That’s the call of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, a blueprint for a better world. We don’t have to wait for the future we want—we can create it right now. Everyone can join the global movement for change.

Hosted in collaboration with academia each Noontime Knowledge session brings together students, experts, researchers, advocates, and/or practitioners for 60-minute discussions on key strategic issues for Mauritius and Seychelles to:

1. Inform youth about the latest and emerging global and regional trends and their possible impact on the two countries both risks and opportunities.
2. Share experiences and stories from young “game-changers” acting at the local level to make transformations happen.
3. Listen to key solutions proposed by the youth, to feed in the dialogue at national, regional, and global levels, including the main global events (COP, SDG Summit, Food Systems Summits, etc.).

The most recent and third in the Noontime Knowledge series brought together youth advocates from UN Youth Seychelles, young entrepreneurs, students and teachers from the ITC course at the University of Seychelles, and United Nations experts to discuss how to harness digital transformation to boost progress on the SDGs and foster youth empowerment in the lead up to the SDG Summit being held in September. The first session of the Noontime Knowledge was organized in December 2022 with the students of the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Mauritius, and it explored the COP27 outcomes and their implications for small island states (SIDS) like Mauritius and Seychelles. The second edition was co-organized with the Students’ Environmental Club of the Charles Telfair Campus. It focused on food security and youth action, linking national debates and actions from the global dialogue around the Food Systems Summit with the next Summit to be held in July. The next session at the end of September is planned to be held with the African Leadership University in Mauritius on Circular Economy. Registration will be announced on the UN in Mauritius & Seychelles Facebook and on @UNinSeychelles twitter.