The 50 Percent – A Global Network of Youth Changing Systems
The 50 Percent empowers young changemakers to tackle our world’s most complex challenges through systems thinking and compelling storytelling, with the aim of systems change. We equip youth with practical tools to understand how interconnected elements shape our world, enabling them to identify powerful leverage points for change.
By fostering global solidarity and collaboration among young leaders, we’re building a worldwide community united in purpose. Our initiative doesn’t just explain systems—it provides actionable strategies for reimagining and redesigning them, transforming how the next generation approaches everything from climate action to social equity.
A New Generational Contract
The St. Gallen Symposium and The Club of Rome have united to launch a joint initiative for a New Generational Contract. Guided by seven key principles, based on global surveys, hundreds of student essays, and dialogues, the platform engages diverse actors and launches impactful projects to enable cross-generational leadership and learning.
The aim is to foster more long-term thinking and regenerative strategies across business and policymaking.
Young Person’s Guide to Systems Change
The Young Person’s Guide to Systems Change empowers youth to understand and transform complex societal systems through collaborative learning and practical tools. It introduces systems thinking concepts, enabling participants to see how interconnected elements influence each other.
The guide fosters leadership and adaptability, encouraging young people to co-create solutions for pressing social issues. By developing a shared toolbox of strategies, it inspires a collective effort towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. This program is a call to action for young leaders to envision and actively shape the systems they are part of, driving meaningful change in their communities.
Story-telling fellowship
The Storytelling Fellowship by The 50 Percent is a free, online 10-week program designed to cultivate communication, storytelling, and advocacy skills among youth. Through guided discussions, mentorship, and peer engagement, participants learn to harness their voices and create impactful narratives.
The fellowship focuses on themes such as systems thinking, sustainability, community mobilisation and social justice, empowering young people to reflect on issues that matter and drive meaningful change. Fellows will have the opportunity to publish their stories, share insights, and connect with a network of like-minded changemakers, ultimately receiving an official program certificate.
