ABOUT THE PROGRAM
UN Junior Ambassadors for Sustainable Development and SE4All program is more than just an education program. This training session combine knowledge learning, real world hand on projects, and international service learning. Our ultimate goals is inspiring students to become change agents and SDGs leaders for the next generation.
UN Junior Ambassadors for Sustainable Development and SE4All program connects classrooms with international communities. As a result, we enhance student learning and address critical SDG objectives.
UN Junior Ambassadors program provides students a profound and lasting experience.Students will learn SDGs knowledge as well as conducting SDGs research during the training period. For example, students will work on their SDGs data research. Above all, This program include faculty members from famous university. For instance, Claremont Graduate University and MIT. Most importantly, we encourage students to be active citizens in their communities. Not to mention, we provides students the opportunity to participate in real world project.
WHO ARE WE
World Organization for Sustainability Leadership (WOSL) is an international non-profit organization committed to the SDGs goals set forth by the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Charter. (Commitment to action #24826)
WOSL’s mission is to education the next generation youth leaders. That is to say, WOSL inspire change through a unique pedagogy. For instance, we includes self-directed inquiry and first-hand experience in the rural and developing world.
2020 WOSL Special Keynote Speaker Session
We are happy to announce our special Keynote Speaker Session in this summer. We invited guest speakers from the top research institute like NASA JPL and MIT.
Check out our website to get the detail for attending the special session.!
2020 WOSL Online Training Starts on July 12!
2020 WOSL UN Junior Ambassador for SDGs/SE4ALL Online Program will start on July 12!
2020 Online program contains three training courses that will prepare students to meet the criteria for becoming a Candidate for ” UN Junior Ambassador for SDG/SE4ALL.”
Our virtual classroom aims to give students the first glimpse to the world of data science and how to apply those tools in real world program.
Find out more of our curriculum:
Warm Welcome from our Instructors
WOSL Announce Integration Partnership streamlining capacity building and candidate selection for the “UN Junior Ambassadors for Sustainable Development” Program in China Mainland
WOSL and today announced a strategic partnership with Wosou (Shanghai) Education Technology Co., Ltd. (沃搜(上海)教育科技有限公司) that will streamline the candidate selection process and in country training for high school and university
Chinese students participating in the “UN Junior Ambassadors for Sustainable Development“ Program. This relationship will not only speed up the identification and acquisition of key “talent” but also provide WOSL a Shang Hai based Headquarters for all institutional operations including, coordination of all country-wide recruitment, in-person education and training, and monitoring and oversight for all supporting activities.
At a local press briefing, WOSL’s Executive Director Dr. Paul C Bogaardt was quoted saying, “By aligning our vision and investing our resources in each other, WOSL and are making a bold and supportive statement to the United Nations and the
leadership of our home countries, USA and China, that we are committed to 2030 goals across ethnic, cultural, and national identities. As one planet and one family this is not just necessary; This is imperative.”
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals entail 17 goals, 169 targets and 232 indicators agreed upon by more than 193 member nations around the globe. With a deadline set for the year 2030, the SDGs represent the intersection of Environmental Responsibility, Economic Development, and Social Progress. WOSL, a US based non-profit institution is a United Nations Delivery Partner responsible for delivery and implementation of the “UN Junior Ambassadors for Sustainable Development and SE4All” program. Through international capacity building and technology transfer engagements, WOSL prepares today’s youth to become tomorrow’s leaders.
Beautiful Mind and Taking Action to contribute in the local communities-Ethiopia By 2018 Un Junior Ambassador ” Mr. Zimichael Damtew Gebeyehu”
“The Journey: from strong passion to future space leadership”
by Mr. Zimichael Damtew Gebeyehu
“Be the change agents”, a quote from my instructors at the UN Junior Ambassador 2018 summer program, guides my endeavors to take initiatives and help others to reach a common good. When I was ten years old, watching the Apollo 11 documentary ignited a well-fortified passion for space travel and rockets. That moment gave me the ultimate purpose to contribute to mankind’s efforts to explore outer space by advancing rocket technology.
To upheld this passion, I started to sketch my own spacecraft designs and engines. I was fifth grader when my general science teacher advised me to join the elite scientific society: The Ethiopian Space Science Society, a community which fostered my passion for space travel. On the first day I joined, the society gave me the chance to present my own design of a “Spy UFO spacecraft”, which at that time I was engrossed with ufology. I was really obsessed with new technologies and speculations about UFO’s flight systems. I even had a “UFO” as a nick at 5thgrade due the fact that I presented my own articles about UFO’s at class presentation and morning sessions. My presentation at the 5th General Assembly of the Ethiopian Space Science Society opened a new window for my space science career to grow. From that day, I am a prominent member of the Ethiopian Space Science Society and presented more than 13 researches in aerospace engineering and propulsion for the past 9 years. My reputation and involvement on community outreach activities at the society led me to win The Youth Leadership Award, which is organized by the World Organization for Sustainable Development (WOSL) in collaboration with the Ethiopian Space Science Society (ESSS). The award enabled me to be part of an intensive research summer program at Claremont Graduate University in CA, USA as UN Junior Ambassador for Sustainable Development. The program changed my whole career to professional level. With multidisciplinary lectures focusing on implementing UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), I got the opportunity to work on goal #9: Innovation, Industry, and Infrastructure. The independence nature of the program enabled me to connect the SDGs to space exploration and elimination of space debris in the end.
After the summer program, I continued my work in spreading the voice of the SDGs and the importance of space science in fulfilling those goals. Through this leadership program and my success at the Ethiopian Space Science Society, I was honored to be the Youth Space Ambassador, promoting and creating awareness about the uses of space science in my country. In conjunction with the responsibilities as a UN Junior Ambassador for Sustainable Development, I have been giving public lectures about my research on SDGs and the importance of space exploration to achieve those goals. I have travelled to universities outside the capital, Addis Ababa, and presented research experience on the SDGs and the significance of space exploration to students in the countryside. The UN Junior Ambassador program taught me teamwork and success can be easily achieved through collaboration and partnership. I used this principle to engage the youth in space activities, because I believe that the overall contribution of the youth in space science is crucial to support our space program. I have been able to bring the leadership skills I got form UN Junior Ambassador Program to my internship at ESSS. Overall, the UN Junior Ambassador program is a life changing experience that widened the glasses I used to view the world, and it gave me hope and fortitude to strive and solve global problem. After all, we, the youth are the change agents and future leaders that the world has been waiting for.
Interview: Parents Action to Support
2018 UN Junior Ambassador for SDGs/SE4ALL Commitments in Action
2018 UN Junior Ambassador Christmas Party
2018 UN Junior Ambassador Presentation on Media Press
President, WOSL Executive Director Discuss about Making Students Change Agents in Technology
President Mulatu Teshome and World Organization for Sustainability of Leadership Executive Director Paul Bogaardt held discussion about empowering Ethiopian students to become change agents in transforming sustainable development.
Read more on Ethiopian Government Official Website