Samsung Electronics is unveiling world themes for its youth innovation program Samsung Remedy for Tomorrow in a daring step to empower younger individuals all over the world to unravel challenges collectively and drive optimistic social change.

Sustainability and Social Change Explored by Youth Across the World

Launched in the US in 2010, Remedy for Tomorrow is a STEM (science, expertise, engineering and math) schooling competitors that has reached greater than 2.9 million college students throughout 68 nations over the previous 15 years. This system encourages college students to suggest inventive options to social points of their native communities, serving to them construct important crucial considering and problem-solving expertise.

Beginning in 2025 with the introduction of worldwide themes, Remedy for Tomorrow will go one step additional to evolve right into a platform for youth to collaborate and deal with common issues that transcend native boundaries.

This yr’s world themes are “Environmental Sustainability through Expertise” and “Social Change by way of Sport & Expertise with Worldwide Olympic Committee.”

“Environmental points are among the many most tough challenges dealing with humanity at present,” stated Soojin Kim, Head of the Company Sustainability Heart at Samsung Electronics. “We’re happy to affix youth all over the world on this journey to beat these points with expertise.”

▲ A poster celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Remedy for Tomorrow and introducing the worldwide themes

World Themes Chosen By way of ‘Collectively for Tomorrow’ Olympic Partnership

Because the Worldwide smartphone Associate of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games final yr, IOC and Samsung partnered to launch ‘Collectively for Tomorrow, Enabling Folks’ — a digital neighborhood created to enrich Remedy for Tomorrow. The platform goals to interact younger individuals from throughout the globe with the Olympic Motion and harness the transformative energy of expertise and sport to drive significant change.

In the course of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024, 10 college students from the successful groups of the earlier yr’s Remedy for Tomorrow program served as ambassadors for “Collectively for Tomorrow, Enabling Folks.”

The theme “Social Change By way of Sport & Expertise” was voted on by the general public within the Collectively for Tomorrow, Enabling Folks neighborhood. Samsung and IOC plan to nominate people who exemplify this theme as world ambassadors and collaborate with them to develop options.

“We’re delighted to work with our Worldwide Olympic Associate Samsung on the creation of this new sport-driven theme,” stated Ollie Dudfield, Affiliate Director of Olympism 365 at IOC. “It’s an thrilling step ahead according to the ambitions of IOC’s Olympism 365 technique — empowering younger individuals all over the world to suppose boldly about how sport and expertise can drive optimistic change.’’

Leveraging Samsung’s Experience To Strengthen Assist for Members

Samsung is leveraging its distinctive assets and experience to strengthen Remedy for Tomorrow. By integrating the Samsung Design Pondering methodology into this system, the corporate hopes to encourage the event of sensible, user-centered options. Samsung additionally plans to develop worker mentoring to assist contributors additional refine their concepts with steerage from specialists with real-world expertise.

IOC Younger Leaders Programme can even have a task to play in serving to college students perceive how sport and expertise can combine to generate progressive options to social challenges. “By way of Samsung Remedy for Tomorrow, I’ve discovered that even a small thought can spark huge change,” stated Remedy for Tomorrow US ambassador Ngan Huu Kim Le.

“Working alongside associates from all over the world motivates me to maintain in search of inventive options for a greater future.”

Remedy for Tomorrow 2025 lately kicked off in Vietnam and India, and can quickly be launched in Indonesia, Türkiye, Singapore and different nations. Spanning months from the qualifiers to the finals, this system will award successful groups, relying on the nation, with venture incubation funding and help for establishing STEM labs.

“Samsung Remedy for Tomorrow has been Samsung’s flagship company citizenship initiative for the previous 15 years,” stated Eddie Cho, Government Vice President and Head of Company Citizenship Workplace at Samsung Electronics. “We stay up for strengthening the function of the worldwide platform to nurture much more younger individuals into the leaders of tomorrow.”

▲ The fifteenth annual Samsung Remedy for Tomorrow U.S. Pitch & Reveal Occasion came about in Samsung DC on April 28. (From left) U.S. Nationwide Winner Constitution Faculty of Wilmington from Delaware with Yoonie Joung, President of Samsung Electronics North America; Remedy for Tomorrow U.S. ambassador Ngan Huu Kim Le

▲ The India Opening Ceremony came about in IIT Delhi on April 29. (From left) Shubham Mukherjee, Head of CSR & Corp Communication, Samsung SWA; Abhishek Singh, Extra Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & IT; JB Park, President & CEO, Samsung SWA; Shombi Sharp, United Nations Resident Coordinator in India; Prof. Rangan Banerjee, Director, IIT Delhi; Dr. Sapna Poti, Senior Director, Workplace of Principal Scientific Advisor to the Authorities

▲ The opening ceremony of Remedy for Tomorrow 2025 Vietnam was held in Hanoi on March 28