Welcome to our Partner Handbook – a page to help current and potential partners navigate our initiative.
Next Generation City Action is an initiative managed by the Technical University of Denmark and enabled through strong partnerships with a variety of actors who provide essential pieces to the puzzle.
Please note that this page is a living document and subject to continues change as the initiative progresses.
Through the initiative, you gain direct access to talented international students & researchers from leading technical universities as well as young professionals that are skilled and eager to make an impact.
DTU Skylab not only operates at the core of the Danish innovation system – but through Next Generation grants you access to promising early-stage startups around the globe, hungry to disrupt the industry.
Ideas and solutions proposed by our participants provide you with inspiration and the latest insights – and help you stay at the beat of the industry!
We connect public and private partners in the industry across borders, enabling opportunities for new partnerships on a corporate level.
We provide the branding and communication platform to make your engagement visible at a global scale.
We create strong platforms to showcase ideas by the next generation at global summits or congresses. Four editions have been brought to life since 2018.
The initiative is funded and enabled by strong partnerships with industry leading foundations, public partners and industry. These sponsorships can vary in size from becoming a main sponsor behind the initiative financing the machine room behind it all to sponsoring individual activities in the programme.
We are still looking for both main and supportive sponsors for the 2023 initiative, so please contact us if you or your organisation are interested.
The young academics track builds around the students solving real life challenges proposed by a partnering organisation. As a challenge partner you get to propose a sustainability and inclusion challenge that links to one or several of the themes of the congress. We then match your challenge with 3-5 student teams from our partnering countries and support their process in developing relevant ideas and concptual solutions that will be showcasd at the congress.
There are many ways in which you and your organisation can join the initiative apart from providing sponsorships or challenges. We are looking for mentors, speakers, judges, companies to visit and much more.
If you are interested in hearing more about the possibility of collaboration, please contact us.
Young and passionate change-makers from youth organisations across the world (advocating and creating change within one or several of the 6 congress themes) are given a voice to bring forward insights and visions from their work into the summit with a focus on “SUSTAINABLE FUTURES – LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND”. Resulting in a strengthened and new international network of youth organisations who have given their voice and perspectives in the congress for joint action.
The Next Generation City Action 2023 initiative runs through a series of preparatory stages leading up to full-time engagement from participating young academics, entrepreneurs and influencers in June, followed by attending the UIA congress at the beginning of July.
PROJECT MANAGER
Marie is the Project Manager behind the Next Generation Project. She has worked on multiple youth initiatives that target sustainable innovation and has brought a global perspective into the project’s core identity.
PROJECT COORDINATOR
Björgvin is the Project Coordinator behind Next Generation Water Action 2022. He comes from a design engineering background and is passionate about using innovation as a tool for positive social change.
