Young people see things that adults can’t. How can today’s leaders tap into that?
Facebook. Wordpress. Braille. 3 inventions that transformed the world, all invented by people under the age of 20.
The Tony Blair Institute sought to tap into young people’s unique creative spark to unlock tomorrow’s ideas, today.
The Future Leaders Program will introduce two new pathways for the UK’s most talented young adults to be involved in driving meaningful social change.
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The Future Leaders Program
Part I: Blair & Blair
The Tony Blair Institute will create a competitive process that challenges a select group of future leaders to meet with real people from across Britain. They’ll develop radical but practical policy manifestos find new ways of resolving age-old problems with tech and creative innovation. They’ll then be judged by father and son team, Tony & Euan Blair.
Factory workers in Sunderland
An entrepreneur in Glasgow
A community activist in Bradford
A farmer in Cornwall
The winning team will be picked and mentored by Tony and Euan Blair, to explore how their ideas can be turned into action, building a bold, pragmatic plan for Britain’s future.
The competative process and winning team’s journey will be documented and published in partnership with an external media partner.
Part II: Recruitment Platform
What if a recruitment platform existed that paired political leaders’ problems with the innovation of the brightest young talent who’d traditionally go to work in Silicon Valley?
The Tony Blair Institute assemble a talent pool of exceptional young minds from universities, startups, and apprenticeships and create an online platform that allows policymakers to pitch their problems and find innovative new ways of solving tough challenges that politics is struggling to fix.
Can AI reduce unemployment in my constituency?
Can tech help me cut emissions in my region?
How can I be a more accessible policymaker?
What do my constituents really want from me?
Leaders will be paired with the Institute’s pool of changemakers, who’ll find ways to tackle challenges and issues head on.
It will provide young people with the opportunity to make meaningful contributions, and it will equip political leaders with fresh, actionable ideas to address critical issues like climate change, public service innovation, and more.
