The youth solutions: sharing ideas, changing the world

The House of Experiments science centre in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, is designed to bring together visitors of all ages to learn, exchange ideas and, of course, to experiment.

Twenty-nine-year-old Lea Kosmač works at the centre. She says she wants to apply those same principles to her life outside her job.

“I’m always searching for new knowledge, new ways of how to make the world a better place – or maybe just the community.”

It’s precisely in order to have a more active voice in society that Lea is taking part in a meeting of young people from Slovenia, Finland, Nepal and Bangladesh, where they debate themes like political activism and human rights.

“This is a good way to start,” Kosmač says.

Sharing ideas

The workshop was set up by Demo Finland, a pro-democracy platform that started cooperating with Nepalese youth organisations in 2007. The concept was extended and is now directed to the exchange of ideas between young activists around the world.

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