OUR STORY
20 YEARS ON THE TIDAL WAVE OF POSITIVE CHANGE
Our Origin Story
“But, all this here shows that … the solutions for almost everything exist … we just have to copy-paste these thousands of solutions all over the planet. Imagine adapting just 100 to a city district, it’ll make it Paradise. This knowledge must get to the people. Into all schools,” Eric gasped at expo2000, the Universal World Exposition with focus on sustainable development
“Yes, but how?” the old gentlemen in the UN Pavillon smiled and shrugged helplessly.
“Like this,” Eric said, pointing at a positive newspaper full of solution stories and hero*ine interviews on the table, “tuned for youth and use at school.”
The future of all species and generations to come depends entirely on the people alive right now.
– Kinari Webb, Health In Harmony
The solutions exist, even the support networks are in place. What’s needed is the demand. The problem is, the people don’t know, even governments don’t.
– Ashoka CEO, reworktheworld, Taellberg Forum 2009
YL Timeline
Evolution
YL’s vision remains the same from day #1. To form the missing link between humanity’s finest and the global young generation at school and their adult allies.
As we strode forward to manifest it, we went through different phases of evolution to add new elements that help people learn, support and localize model solutions at record pace and scale, like today’s hero*ines do.
These YL Eras built up organically and logically. You can see them reflected in the annual chronology below.
Major Phases
Pre-YL
2000 Enlightenment Vision expo2000
2001-4 Experimentation – exploring people’s response on tour and online
2005-12 Digital Communications Era – Magazine, diverse content partners, online volunteer powered production in 14 languages fit for all classroms
2013-14 Core Community Building Era – integrating hero*ines as speakers, project partners, coaches
2014-15 Event Era – Finetuning methodology
2016-17 Programs Design – for diverse user groups
2017-20 Print Publication Era – to equip users for self-organization
2020 Formal Training Era – to train users and coaches, provide status
2021 Tribe Activation Era – distribution, outreach, team building, training
It’s been an incredible journey so far, and we have no intention to slow down. On the contrary. Be part!
YL Magazine re-launch
Magical Coaches Map pilot region Berlin-Brandenburg
YL Programs Manual
YL Youth Leadership 101 Manual
2021
YL Magazine Bosnia-Herzegovina Issue #1
YL Africa
Video Coaching for Community Organizers
8 Nations video conference on ending sexual violence against girls with Red Brigade Trust, convened with La Fondation Aicha
YL LearnPlanet Map migration to openstreetmap
Pilot Regions program with RCE Berlin
Watershed Wisdom Councils partnership
#SaveAmazonia
YL Bosnia-Herzegovina
YL Germany
YL India
German RCE Meeting
West-East European School Partnerships
European RCE Meeting
Project-oriented Youth Exchanges with Hero*ines’ youth teams
TribalTravel journeys to hero*ines
#bemoreawesome Changemaker Training for youth age 8 to 18
RCE World Conference, UNITED NATIONS University, Scotland
Pan-European Collaboration Tour 2021-24
Germany, France, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Scouting Eastern Europe for YL Summer Camps and Project Partners
Scouting for boosting rural youth leadership in Africa with Community Organizers, LearnSpaces + Project Partnerships with schools, youth teams in the North
German-African Youth Exchange Conference via weltwaerts program, BMZ, Johannesburg, South Africa
2020
Certification of Youth Creative Coaches via Corona*tion Academy
Global SDG Class Challenge Manual + Pack
Global SDG School Challenge Manual + Pack
#bemoreawesome Crash Course Pack
#bemoreawesome Online Crash Course
Corona*tion Academy : online + home + family activities
YL Boost! Club crowdfunding community
YL Magical Coaches
YL LearnSpaces manual + Pack
YL Coach Training + Certification
XXL Ambience Posters
RCE Berlin launch
Kalima Design Fair Fashion partnership
sevengardens Magazine
Pocket Garden children’s manual, Qumara International
Red Brigade, India International Board
#ParentsForFuture
#TeachersForFuture
2019
RCE-Berlin co-founder
Red Brigade European Tour partnership
RCE Ruhr partnership
sevengardens partnership
YL School Starter Pack
Level Up! Crash Course
YL Book My True Hero*ines 2nd edition
Activate Your City manual
Activate Yourself online crash course for youth and adults
Online Tutorial Discover Youth Leadership
Online Exhibit Youth Leadership
#FridaysForFuture
#ExtinctionRebellion
2018
Podcast trial
Book translation – english – german
YL Book My True Hero*ines book 1st edition
Vlog trial
March For Our Lives
Adventures in France : focus on France’s handicaps preventing Youth Leadership at and beyond school, and ways how to change this
2017
YL Advent Calendar YL Charity Store
The Hero’s 7 Virtues coloring book
YL Berlin : focus on Germany’s / Europe’s unease
Eric’s Adventures in France : scouting YL camp locations
Eric’s Adventures in Italy
2016
YL Booklet This Young Generation in 7 languages
YL Workshop session #1 design
YL Presentation session #1 at schools
YL Poster Exhibits
2015
COP21 Paris, France
YL Project Partnerships development
YL goes Kilimanjaro
IYONS Conference, and Loyola College, India YL
Poster translation to 10 languages
YL Poster Set
2014
COP 20 Lima, Peru
Berlin conferences, Konferenz der Visionäre
Erde Nach Vorn Kindergipfel
Frieden Festival Berlin
7 Virtues Currency Edition with YL Hero*iens
Battlefield Love Memorial Berlin-Vienna
NightScience Conference, Paris, France
Climate Extraction Impact Graphic – LINGO Leave It In The Ground
2013
YL goes Antarctica
Hero video transcription and translation
YL Youtube Channel
YL Speakers
YL Cardgame
UN Day of Youth – YL 13h Livestream
2012
YL Cartoons
IVOH World Conference, New York, USA
YL Magazine – Peace Edition
YL Magazine – Oceania Edition
Member of UNESCO Round Table for the implementation of the UN Decade of ESD in Germany
2011
YL Magazine Indigenous People Edition
2010
G8 Summit, Germany
YL Omnicultural Calendar
YL Magazine India
YL team at Hub Mumbai, India
esbz school Berlin, workshops
Zukunft Lokt Festival, Berlin
2009
European Business Campus – sustainable student companies, Berlin, Germany
Media In Time Of Crisis, YL Pakistan Training For Young Journalists
ecoclubes, Poland
UNESCO World Conference on ESD, UN Decade half-time conference, Bonn, Germany
Kosmos Journal Spring Edition
David Wasdell video – Planet Earth, We Have A Problem
N+ Noticias Positivas Radio Magazine Argentina
YL Magazine
2008
fez Berlin workshops
Vision Summit on Social Business, Berlin, Germany
ecoclubes Europe, Barcelona, Spain
YL Water Special Edition Water & Youth Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007
Good News Boards in Canada and Argentina
PNYV Magazine in 10 languages
2006
idec – International Democratic Education Conference, Sydney, Australia
Global Learn Day 24h online conference
The Unifying Aspects of Culture TUAC, inst at, Vienna, Austria
PNYV Magazine in 6 languages
2005
idec – International Democratic Education Conference, Berlin, Germany
PNYV Positive News Youth Views Magazine
PRE-HISTORY & Experimentation 2000-2004
2002 – tour 21 – Swimming Future Classroom on waterways 5 week-tour from Hannover to Berlin, Germany
2002 – future sounds music CD
Eric at expo2000 – 5 months at the Universal World Exposition on Sustainable Development, Hannover, Germany
HISTORIC MOMENTS
For YL, but also for youth leadership, humanity and specific causes.
OCEAN GLOBAL NEWS
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RACHEL O'LEARY
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XIUHTEZCATL AT BIONEERS
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CHLOE ELECTED SENATOR
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ALICIA FILM
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EMMA 49 COMMUNITIES
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EMMA WORLD'S CHILDREN'S PRIZE
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50 WE DAYS
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ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION CAMPS COMMUNITY
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SEVENGARDENS UNESCO STRUCTURE
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BABAR ROTARY WORLD TEACHER AWARD
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BABAR NEW SCHOOL
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BABAR BBC YOUNGEST HEADMASTER
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RED BRIGADE 30,000 GIRLS TRAINED
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BAL MANCH 25,000 KIDS INTO SCHOOL
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ORANGE CAFÉ OPENED
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LULU MONSTER HIGH
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AVALON WORLD YOGA SPORTS CHAMPION
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CASSANDRA PRESIDENT'S ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD
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FIRE MANE ALBUM "MAMA'S HOME"
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RACHEL & VANDANA SHIVA
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RACHEL & JANE GOODALL & ... AUTHOR
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ROBIN'S PARENTING FOR A PEACEFUL WORLD, CHINA
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XIUHTEZCATL & ITZCUATHLI PROTECT CITY OF BOULDER FROM FRACKING
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ROBYN MADE 30 CITIES "BLUE COMMUNITIES"
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NELLIE GETS HONG KONG TO BAN ILLEGAL IVORY
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NOTICIAS POSITIVAS 3 MILLION LISTENERS
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ABBIE CLIMBS MOUNT KILIMAJARO
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RACHEL IN INDIA
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RACHEL TRIAL AGAINST MONSANTO
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RACHEL RONA AMBROSE
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RACHEL MONSANTO SHAREHOLDER MEETING
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CHLOE WINS HER DISTRICT AS DEMOCRAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN U.S. HISTORY
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DIVEST HARVARD WINS
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NEHA WINS WORLD'S CHILDREN'S PEACE PRIZE
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NAMASTE NEPAL SCORE 40,000€ SPONSOR RUN
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NAMASTE NEPAL BUILD 7 SCHOOLS IN 3 YEARS
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BABAR'S STORY IN INDIA'S ENGLISH TEXTBOOK
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N+ RADIO MAGAZINE FIRST MEDIUM CERTIFIED BY SYSTEMA B
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HOLLEY ROCKS AUDIENCE OF 500 AT LOYOLA VIA VIDEO
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EMMA, RACHEL, XIUHTEZCATl, ADORA SPEAK AT WE DAY
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AVALON'S GLOBAL VEGAN TRAVELLER JOURNEYS
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ALICIA & ANABELLE DELIVER 1 TON OF LEGO
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LULU PUBLISHES PHILANTHRO-PARTY BOOK
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XIUHTEZCATL PUBLISHES WE RISE
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FIRST EARTH GUARDIANS INDIGENOUS YOUTH CAMP
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TAYLOR GETS SHARK FINNING BANNED IN NZ
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HOLLEY SINGS ANTHEM, BENTLEY BLOCKADE IS VICTORIOUS
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MARCH FOR OUR LIVES IN WASHINGTON DC
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XIUHTEZCATL HEADS CHILDREN'S CLIMATE LAWSUIT - BEAT OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
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CORAL TRASHES DR.OZ
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EMMA ON TV SHOW
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AURORA PUBLISHES THE SEED
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XIUHTEZCATL SPEAKS AT UN AS REPRESENTATIVE OF CIVIL SOCIETY
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XIUHTEZCATL PERFORMS AT BLACK HILLS CONCERT
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XIUHTEZCATL WITH GRETA
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ELSIE LUNA XR BERLIN
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CHLOE SCORES GREEN NEW DEAL FOR MAINE
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ABBIE LAUNCHES YOUTUBE CHANNEL
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ABBIE RUNS BBC NATL. PARKS CHALLENGE
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SIARAH'S CROSSES GERMANY ON HORSEBACK
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SARAYACU VICTORIOUS AGAINST OIL COMPANY
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YL MILESTONES
YL 16 HOUR WEBCAST UN YOUTH DAY
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YL BHUTAN & HIMUN
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YL INDIA MAGAZINE TEAM WINS UNOV AWARD
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ERIC MEMBER UNESCO NATIONAL ROUND TABLE FOR ESD DECADE
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YOUTH LEADERSHIP MADE ESD PRIORITY IN GERMANY 2012
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YL MAGAZINE FOR RIO+20 WITH UBA, GERMAN ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
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UNOV AWARD FOR YL'S YOUTH RISING FOR PEACE PUBLICATION TEAM
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PACHA'S PAJAMAS MUSICAL WINS MULTIPLE AWARDS
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YL IN PACHA'S PAJAMAS VR ANIMATED CHILDREN'S BOOK
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FIRST YL HONOR SHIRTS
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XIUHTEZCATL AND RACHEL AT UPLIFT, AUSTRALIA
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EMMA WINS NATIONAL CONTEST; STORY ON CEREAL BOXES
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ERIC ORGANIZES YL SPEAKERS FOR NIGHTSCIENCE CONFERENCE, PARIS
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ERIC AT COP 21 WITH EARTH GUARDIANS, GREEN SCHOOL BALI
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ERIC ORGANIZES YL SPEAKERS FOR IYONS WORLD CONFERENCE, INDIA
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ERIC SPEAKS AT EVOLUTION WORLD ORDER CONFERENCE
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YL IN ANTARCTICA
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ERIC SPEAKS AT GLOBAL LEARN DAY
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ERIC MEETS POLLY HIGGINS
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YL SESSION AT GERMAN GOVERNMENT'S WHOLE DAY SCHOOL SUMMIT
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IVOH SUMIT, NEW YORK
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ERIC MEETS GARY SLUTKIN AT WHO SUMMIT
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ERIC AT G8 SUMMIT, GERMANY
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YL'S THE HERO SHOW EPISODE 1
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YL CARDGAME
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YL POSTER SETS
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YL BOOK
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YL TOUR DE FRANCE
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YL XXL POSTER SET
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SOUTH AFRICA VISIT
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YL LEARNSPACE PACK
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YL + QUMARA COLLABORATION ON CHILDREN'S SCIENCE WORKBOOK
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FIRST YL COACH CERTIFICATION
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YL SESSION AT INTL. DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION CONF., IDEC AUSTRALIA
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ERIC VIDEO SPEECH TO 300 STUDENTS ON INDIA NATIONAL DAY
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CHANGE GENERATION RISING SCORES PACESETTER STATUS IN ASHOKA'S RE:IMAGINE LEARNING CHALLENGE
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EUROPEAN TOUR TINY HOUSE TRUCK
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SARAJEVO SCOUTING TOUR
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YL TRAVELLING SCOUTS
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We need YL in all of Canada’s schools.
– Emma Mogus, Books With No Bounds