In 2021, CEPS launched the Young Thinkers Initiative with the aim of including young and diverse voices in the European policy debate. The goal of the project is to give students and young professionals a platform to express their ideas and connect them with current policymakers and leaders.
CEPS Young Thinkers is part of a wider initiative, the CEPS Sustainable Diversity Goals , an Open Society Foundation-funded project that aims to promote diversity in the field of research.
CEPS launched its “Young Thinkers Initiative” in May 2021 during its annual flagship conference, Ideas Lab. CEPS selected 30 brilliant young minds from over 20 different countries who engaged in a series of activities throughout the year. The project aims to provide students and young professionals with a platform to express fresh and innovative ideas.
CEPS organised a series of events throughout the year in order to continue engaging with the Young Thinker Class of 2021 and follow up on the concrete proposals that emerged at Ideas Lab 2021. These activities included a cycle of five webinars and conferences entitled “Over to Youth: a CEPS series”, focused on five different topics: climate change and sustainability, migration and human rights, hybrid threats to security, innovation, digitalisation and artificial intelligence, and democracy, citizenship, and rights.
This project was in part funded by a grant from the United States Department of State. The opinions, findings and conclusions stated herein and emanating from the roundtable discussions are those of the individuals participating in the Young Thinkers Initiative and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of State.
Chloe Ludden
26, France and UK
Francisco Jose López Vélez
24, Colombia and Italy
Weiming Huang
23, China
Pablo Rasmussen
24, United States
Signe Eline Kossmann
26, Denmark and The Netherlands
Mihail Murgashanski
27, North Macedonia
Sarah F. Gerwens
26, Germany
Isaac Opoku
28, Ghana
Sosé Mayilyan
27, Armenia
Keire Murphy
27, Ireland
Anna Kenn
23, Germany and Luxembourg
Dan Ziebarth
25, United States
Stella Meyer
27, Germany
Giorgi Ukhurgunashvili
34, Georgia
Inés Satué Crespo
26, Spain
Kate Lancaster-Ryan
22, Ireland
Marin Pitavy
25, France
Niclas Johann
22, Germany
Yoanna Vergilova
23, Bulgaria
Nikita Pravilshchikov
21, Russia
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