Our Sustainable Future
A global call for ideas from creative thinkers across the world
Our Sustainable Future is a global one-minute video challenge. The initiative is a stage for the next generation to showcase their creativity and help us build a better world.
The initiative is based on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the "Global Goals” or the “SDGs”.
Our Sustainable Future combines creativity, ideas, imagination and, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, teaching young people how to use creativity to address real-life challenges.
Our Sustainable future is both a school initiative for children age 9-17 and a competition for the Creative Industries age 18-30. Based on the Global Goals, we invite children and young people to create ideas or a vision that can help change the world for the better.
On April 21st, The United Nations’ World Creativity and Innovation Day, we showcase the films created across the world from autumn 2021 to spring 2022.
Our Sustainable Future
School Initiative (Age 9-17)
Our Sustainable Future is held as a one-minute video challenge for children age 9-17. The children will work with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and creative problem solving. Using their creativity, they will make one-minute videos with new ideas and visions that can make a difference and help us achieve one or more of the UN’s 17 Global Goals.
For school year 2021-2022, we invite schools around the world to participate in Our Sustainable Future one-minute video challenge for children age 9-17. The initiative has a focus on creative thinking and how to address real-life challenges. It can be held as a school project of preferably 3-5 days between October 1st. 2021 and January 31st. 2022. The films will be showcased on World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21st, 2022.
To be part of Our Sustainable Future School Initiative you can download the Creative Brief for 2022 on this website. The brief will be available soon.
Our Sustainable Future 2021
In 2021, children from nine European countries participated in the School Initiative. Here are three of the many films created by the children. You can see all the films on Our Sustainable Future YouTube channel.
Creative Industries Competition
Age 18-30
Our Sustainable Future is also held as a competition for creative talents from the creative industries age
18-30. The participants use their creative skills to make one-minute videos with new ideas and visions that can make a difference and help us achieve one or more of the UN’s 17 Global Goals.
To be part of the Creative Industries Competition you can download the Creative Brief for 2022 on this website. The brief will be available soon.
Creative Industries Competition in 2021
Here is the winner of the Creative Industries Competition in 2021: ”End-of-the-World-credits”.
A stage for the next generations
On April 21st. 2021, Our Sustainable Future was shown on nine billboards on Times Square.
To celebrate UN’s World Creativity & Innovation Day, billboards showed some of the children who participated in the School Initiative in 2021. Furthermore, we showcased the winning film of the Our Sustainable Future Creative Industries Competition: ”End-of-the-World-credits”.
In 2022 the initiative will be showcased on April 21st on our YouTube Channel and given exposure in various media around the globe. We invite you to join us. Help us to make a difference. Sign up below to be part of Our Sustainable Future 2021-2022!
Join us for 2022
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Submission details
Submission details will be available by the 1st of September.
The deadline for submission is January 31st.
