The Alliance was created on International Youth Day, August 12, 2025, as a cosmo-local platform for imagination, dialogue, and collaboration. It brings together youth, organizations, and allies across generations to nurture new pathways for wellbeing, shared understanding, and regenerative futures.
The Youth Social Art Award is not framed as a competition, but as an invitation to sense and imagine together. Young people aged 15 to 30 are encouraged to express their visions of peace and health for all — human and more-than-human through music, visual art, poetry, performance, film, and multimedia storytelling.
Submissions will be seen and celebrated in ways that connect local voices to global stages. Selected works will travel from the intimacy of community screens to the vast gatherings of humanity — presented at the Sound of Peace Festival on St. Peter's Square (May 2026) and at the COP30 Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil (10-21 November 2025). Through these journeys, youth creativity will help weave cosmo-local intelligence: connecting imagination with collective meaning-making, and inspiring regenerative (digital) ecosystems of collaboration.
This first open call on peace and health marks the beginning of a series of annual calls. Future themes will invite reflections on science and wisdom-based decision-making, climate justice, and intergenerational solidarity. Each call will deepen the shared exploration of what it means to co-create positive futures.
Entries will be accompanied by a process of listening and exchange, combining perspectives from international experts, youth jurors selected through an open process, and community voices through public voting. Together, they will help surface the works that resonate most deeply across cultures and generations.
The Alliance for Youth-Led Futures is an international coalition committed to amplifying youth imagination and intergenerational collaboration. It unites leading organizations across global health, social design, youth empowerment, climate justice, and digital innovation, including the WHO and WHO Youth Council, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Youth4Planet and Earthbeat, 1GEN, AIME, Rewired Earth, Audiotool, All for One Earth, LunARC, We Don't Have Time, Syntezia Sàrl, the Institute for Art and Innovation (IFAI), and The Futuring Alliance (TFA), with more partners joining.
The open call is live here. Submissions close January 20, 2026.
