ThinkYoung is the first think tank that focuses on young people.
It was founded in 2007 and has expanded to have offices in Brussels, Geneva and Hong Kong.
It is a not for profit organisation, with the aim of making the world a better place for young people, by involving them in decision making processes and by providing decision makers with high quality researches on youth’s conditions.
ThinkYoung makes studies, surveys, documentaries, policy proposals in five fields of research: entrepreneurship, education, EU-Asia relations, EU enlargement, and environment. Up to today, ThinkYoung projects have reached over 300’000 young people.
Based on its research on young people`s necessities, ThinkYoung creates trainings and workshops to empower youth with the tools to have a positive impact and make a change. Through the entrepreneurship schools set up in Europe and Asia, every year 300 young people from all continents are given the opportunity to cooperate, the chance to learn first hand experience from successful entrepreneurs, and the skills to create their own company.
At ThinkYoung Audiovisual Laboratory, young researchers are trained in filmmaking and multimedia projects. So far, our team has produced about 100 documentaries on youth in more than 30 different European and Asian countries.
To make “Brussels” aware of what young people think.
To make Europe think young
– Bridging Gaps: We want to show young Europeans the diverse living conditions and the variety of cultures within our continent. We think that mutual understanding is the first step in improving integration and therefore European strength.
– Entrepreneurship: Because young entrepreneurs are key to innovation and growth, we are acting to inspire young Europeans,
boosting confidence levels and encouraging them to pursue entrepreneurial dreams.
– Education: This is a particularly focal point at ThinkYoung.
We invest in young people’s education with a vision to create better citizens for tomorrow. Our goal is to develop an infrastructure where we offer highly beneficial learning programmes.
– Eu-Asia: We aim to connect the European young generation with their Asian counterparts. Through this, our goal is to extract best practices in educational, entrepreneurial and environmental cultures from the two environments, highlight similarities and acquire a greater degree of awareness.
– Energy and Environment: As these issues are undoubtedly a growing concern on a global level, it would seem only fair that young Europeans are provided the opportunities to comment on this topic.
Our future projects will focus on developing a platform offering European youth associations concerned with sustainable development, more visibility.
