4th World Youth Congress

The 4th World Youth Congress will bring 600 of the world's most dynamic young activists in the field of sustainable development to Québec from 120 different countries.

The congress offers a unique opportunity for delegates to meet and work alongside young journalists, cultural performers (e.g. dancers / actors / film makers / musicians), as well as those with an interest in sustainable development, but less personal experience in this area. Delegates will join forces with young Canadians to undertake hands-on community action projects across Québec, and will help shape international policy by documenting and showing governments what young people are doing to achieve the MDGs.

The main objectives of the Congress are:

• To supply participants with skills and support to enable them, more effectively, to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals;
• To honour the achievements of the most ambitious, most effective and most successful young practitioners of youth-led development and draw the attention of the world’s development professionals to the need to provide increased support to them to enable more youth to become agents of change.
• To join the continuum of the internationally-recognized World Youth Congress series and achieve a measurable step change in the level of support and acknowledgement for the positive role of youth in society worldwide.