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YouthShare Initiatives is an international think-action tank: an association under French law, based in Massy, France, where young people from around the world think together, before acting together, in five labs.
YouthShare Initiatives is an international think-action tank: an association under French law, governed by the Act of 1 July 1901 and based in Massy, France, that gives young people worldwide a space to think together, before acting together. Born in October 2023 as the Youth Experience Sharing movement, it became an association on 19 February 2025. Its five labs (The Digital Palaver, The New Agora Lab, The Southern Compass Lab, The New Forge Lab and The Impossible Futures Lab) carry out research, advocacy, mentorship, international dialogue and foresight. Contributors from Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas sign analyses published in English and French, after source checks and editorial board review. Its members have spoken at the United Nations in Geneva, for the Campus 2045 session; at FAO’s World Food Forum, one of them presented a poster online. Every role at YouthShare is a volunteer role, and its international team works mostly remotely.
The reference formats, and a line from the association to quote.
Example: Roberto Carlos Tientcheu, “Three people per job: what the dependency ratio does not count”, YouthShare Initiatives, 7 August 2026, https://youthshareinitiatives.org/en/publications/three-people-per-job.
What we wanted from the start, we still want today, at a larger scale: labs where young people worldwide build their own answers, with the rigour of knowledge and the strength of fieldwork.
In Central Africa, each job supports nearly three people. Yet the age dependency ratio, used to date the demographic dividend, ranks Gabon first, the country that employs the smallest share of its population: the indicator equates working age with work.
The world spent nearly $1.5 trillion supporting fossil fuels in 2022, while the savings of the African diaspora sit far from the green projects that need them. The money for the climate exists: what it lacks is a channel, and diaspora bonds offer one.
Could the housing crisis solution be a former Lego maker? Intended for small-scale prototypes, from cable clips to draw dividers, 3D printing poses as a strong candidate to revolutionise the housing industry.
The events where our members represented YouthShare. Each photo carries its credit; reusing it requires the rights holder’s permission.
In October 2025, YouthShare Initiatives took part in the World Food Forum, held by FAO in Rome. One of our members presented a poster on new technologies and food security online, in the session “YI16 – Youth-Led Science for Better Food Futures” run by the Young Scientists Group; another took part as a youth observer at the Forum’s Youth Assembly.
With Roberto Carlos Tientcheu (online speaker, “YI16 – Youth-Led Science for Better Food Futures” session, poster on new technologies and food security) and Carine Joëlle Kwakem (youth observer at the World Food Forum Youth Assembly)
In September 2025, YouthShare Initiatives took part in the 11th Eating City Summer Campus at La Bergerie de Villarceaux, in France’s Val‑d’Oise. Its theme, “Fighting Food Waste in Public Foodservice”, centred on food waste in public catering: school canteens, hospitals and municipal services.
On 18 March 2025, YouthShare Initiatives was at the United Nations, in the Palais des Nations in Geneva, for the Campus 2045 session, where three of our members spoke.
With Roberto Carlos Tientcheu, Guy Rostand and Leslie Maéva
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