YouthShare Initiatives · five labs
Ideas become territories for action
Five labs, five ways to open the conversation and move the world forward.
Our labs set urgent questions in motion with the people who live them.
The Digital Palaver questions artificial intelligence
Does AI have a memory? How is it reshaping rural life and education? This lab opens a palaver on artificial intelligence, in the spirit of traditional palavers: a circle where speech moves freely.
We look at what AI actually changes in young people’s lives, as close as possible to their daily reality, to document its real uses and its blind spots.
Explore The Digital PalaverThe New Agora Lab puts viewpoints in dialogue
A debate space where young people freely confront their views on the issues that matter most to them.
This lab gives contradiction a framework: learning to debate is also a way of learning to think together.
Explore The New Agora LabThe Southern Compass Lab looks towards the Global South
A deliberate orientation towards the realities and solutions of the Global South, documented by the young people who live there.
This lab gives priority to the voices directly concerned, so that solutions circulate first among peers in the South before being shared more widely.
Explore The Southern Compass LabThe New Forge Lab equips young leaders
Supporting young leaders who build concrete solutions on real projects.
This mentorship carries on over time: each cohort stays connected to the YouthShare network, and passes on in turn what it received.
Explore The New Forge LabThe Impossible Futures Lab gets young people debating the future
Giving young people a space to imagine the world of 2050 and debate it: climate, geopolitics, democracy, crises, everyday life.
This foresight rests on data, scenarios and methods that can be checked.
Explore The Impossible Futures LabDifferent voices.
One shared momentum
Every lab takes shape around a real need. It brings the right people together, documents what matters and turns collective intuition into concrete action.