Dubai: Abu Dhabi renewable energy company Masdar unveiled a new online platform to educate the youth to fight climate change.
Launched under Masdar’s Youth 4 Sustainability (Y4S) initiative - the SkillUP program aims to equip one million youth by 2030 with the knowledge and skills necessary to fight climate change. The Y4S SkillUp platform provides 42 hours of self-paced learning and engagement opportunities like, video presentations, information materials, activity sheets, and interactive quizzes—all of which center around the more than 20 specific skills necessary to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Dr Lamya Nawaf Fawwaz, Masdar Executive Director of Brand and Strategic Initiatives said: “Masdar is expanding our renewable energy portfolio across more than 40 countries and works through Y4S, one of our strategic initiatives, to engage students and young professionals wherever they are, and in ways they find compelling, which is why SkillUp’s globally accessible, mobile platform is so promising.”
SkillUp users can complete specific courses to earn certificates for each of the 20+ skills, which span five broad categories: knowledge; personal; people; cognitive; and design thinking. Within each category, focus areas include STEM knowledge. The platform’s ‘Innovate with Y4S Unit’ also offers users self-paced guided lessons about each of the 17 SDGs, for which they then have the opportunity to define SDG-related challenges in their daily lives and pitch workable solutions for their communities, schools, and workplaces.
