About

OUR MISSION
UNICEF Innovations Lab Kosovo cultivates Innovations for the benefit of Kosovo’s youth. By Youth For Youth projects are a chance for Kosovo youth to impact their own lives, and those of their peers. The Design Center directly designs and implements technological innovations for Kosovo institutions that work on behalf of youth and children.
THREE PILLARS
BY YOUTH FOR YOUTH DESIGN CENTER YOUTH ADVOCACY PLATFORM
Kosovo is the youngest region in Europe, with more than half of its population under 25 years old. Moreover, research has shown that many youth do not have ways to participate in processes that affect them. The Innovations Lab By Youth For Youth projects provide Kosovo youth this opportunity. At the Innovations Lab, we support Kosovo youth turn their innovative and impactful ideas into reality. The Lab will help youth transform ideas into actionable projects and implement them. The lack of statistically sound and internationally comparable data is a widely recognized and significant impediment to the work UNICEF and its partners do in Kosovo to serve Kosovo’s youth and children. The Innovations Lab Design Center projects directly designs and implements projects to serve data and information needs of UNICEF Kosovo, Kosovo’s institutions, and Kosovo’s youth and children. YAP is a dynamic advocacy platform run by and for young people. Offering a unique space for Kosovo’s youth to directly involve in creative, sustained social and political action, YAP activities focus on generating demand for youth participation through a variety of formal and alternative advocacy tools, mobile outreach projects and innovative, high-impact public campaigns.