Bright Young Minds
Bright, young minds are the focus of 2022. It's the European Year of Youth! And Leiden2022 is taking part in this wonderful year as well!
We organized the wonderful Bright Young Minds program. Between the 13th and the 18th of September several events took place with as goal to shine a light on young talents. You can see the overview on this webpage!
The year 2022 is proclaimed by the European Commission as European Year of Youth. An appealing moment, especially for the city of Leiden. Not only proudly being titled the European City of Science of 2022, but also given the composition of its population.
Bright Young Minds
Leiden is characterized as a real youth city: half(!) of its residents are under 36 years of age. In that context it isn't very surprising that Leiden partnered up with the European Year of Youth and proposed a dedicated Bright Young Minds program as part of Leiden2022.
EUCYS
Leiden gave stage to even more young bright minds.132 young gifted talents between the ages of 14-20 years, originating from 33 different countries, gathered for the European final of EUCYS and brought their brilliant projects to life. They were the happy few selected from over 65.000 participants.
Want to know more about EUCYS? Visit the EUCYS website here.
EU TalentOn
Simultaneously more than a hundred young academics between the ages of 21-35 were joining in for the first ever EU TalentOn: a pressurecooker-event in which these peer-selected geniuses entered teams and mission arena’s based on the five big challenges of the moment. The ideas they came up with have the potential to become real gamechangers.
Want to know more about the EU TalentOn? Visit the EU TalentOn website here.
Brave Young Minds
Hundred young curious minds aged 10-18 years were invited to ask clever questions to a special international guest: these Brave Young Minds had a meet & greet with writer, historian and philosopher Professor Yuval Noah Harari.
Night of Discoveries (Nacht van Ontdekkingen)
Last but not least: we organized a special edition of the Night of Discoveries - this event resembled the after party for all Bright Young Minds - and focused fully on young artists and scientists. They came up with more than 100 breathtaking performances and thrilling lectures.
