Moving beyond traditional conference formats, Studio 5 blended strategy with creativity to reimagine what’s possible – and help to build it. The programme spanned sharing circles, roundtables, intimate dinners, nightcaps and sound baths, all designed to amplify feminist solutions, spark collaboration and sustain momentum for gender equality in the post-2030 era.

• Key Themes Included:
  Financing gender-based violence prevention.
• Peace and power through the lens of First Nations women’s knowledge.
• AI and women’s health.
• Addressing sexual violence as a public health crisis.
• The role of storytelling in driving equality.
• Self-care for those working on the front lines of gender equality.

From First Nations artists to local women- and impact-led partners, the space itself was designed to reflect the values and mission of Studio 5. The identity of Studio 5 was created by Janelle Burger, a Noongar and Italian illustrator, as part of a series of paintings and patterns using soft, organic shapes that feel calm and fluid. Drawing inspiration from the colours, forms, textures, and patterns found in Australian landscapes, Janelle aimed to create a space that feels gentle, human and connected.

Our strategy focuses on accessibility and community-led scaling. We create and distribute high-quality, creative resources translated in over 7 languages. Central to this mission is our massive, grassroots educator network: 76,000 teachers across 170+ countries who act as local champions for the Global Goals.

To maintain momentum throughout the academic year, we develop lesson toolkits for key moments in the global calendar. For Global Goals Week and Earth Day, we provide educators with the ready-to-use, customisable resources that help connect classrooms to the Global Goals and develop SDG skills within their students. By providing these ready-to-use materials, we lower the barrier to entry for teachers and ensure that the Global Goals are not just a one-off assembly topic, but a year-round educational priority.

Hope Island
We partnered with multidisciplinary artist and designer Yinka Ilori. Known for playful projects that evoke a sense of joy and optimism, Ilori created an original artwork for the Be Hope campaign: Hope Island. The vibrant new artwork was displayed at locations across the country – an unmissable symbol of possibility in the public realm.

Be Hope Piano
To mark the campaign’s launch, Ilori unveiled a striking new Sing For Hope Piano, emblazoned with the message ‘Be Hope’. The piano took centre stage on London’s Carnaby Street, with surprise performances by Rae Morris, Camden Stewart and the London Youth Choir stoping passers by in their tracks with spontaneous songs of solidarity and joy.

The Hope Report
We partnered with the ONE Campaign to produce a brand new report providing inspiring proof that progress is not only possible – it’s already happening.

From a 60% reduction in HIV infections, to extreme poverty dropping by more than half, and over 90% of the world’s population now having access to the internet and clean energy, the report highlights the wins we should be celebrating and sets out a roadmap for how we can continue on this path.

The Be Hope Lesson Plan
World’s Largest Lesson launched a Be Hope lesson plan. Designed for learners of all ages, this 45-minute creative session invites students to reflect on hope and express their visions for a better future through art.

At the heart of the lesson is a global digital story map, an inspiring collection of “hope art” from young people around the world. Each contribution adds to a powerful shared message: individual hopes can unite to drive global change.

By creating and sharing, students don’t just learn about hope—they become it.

The Show

Alongside the Foundation, we produced an evening show highlighting the powerful science, technology and dedicated people that can help to save millions of children from losing their lives to preventable causes. We weaved together data, storytelling and music to craft a moving, motivational show.

Host Olivia Wilde, and musical co-host Jon Batiste, took the audience on a journey of discovery from addressing the sad reality of the current global health landscape, to a feeling of active hope. We used powerful scripting, working with Oliva and Jon to convey their personal connection to the theme. We worked with Jon Batiste to curate a musical journey that complimented the journey, adding emotional weight to the messaging.

We built 3 sets on stage, a clinic, a child’s bedroom and a lab in order to take the audience on a chronological journey, from when a child is in utero to their 5th birthday, when their chances of survival increase dramatically. We used a demo format to explore the tools and innovations that help to ensure a child survives and thrives at each stage of the journey. We ensured that the audience heard directly from the researchers, doctors and advocates developing these key solutions.

Using storytelling throughout the show, we highlighted the incredible people dedicating their lives to ensuring every child survives and thrives, and the importance of ensuring they are properly equipped and funded.

The Goalkeepers Champions & Champion Luncheon

Project Everyone helped to shape the Champions cohort, managing suggestions by nominating parties and bolstered by our research and knowledge on the dedicated people inspiring bold action on child health.

We managed communication with the Champions and ensured that the majority of the Champions were able to attend the Goalkeepers show and Champions Luncheon in person in New York.

The aim for the Champions luncheon was to be relaxed and celebratory, ensuring that the Champions were front and center. Nomzamo Mbatha hosted the programming, and we worked with her on scripting and preparing for her role. Musician Adekunle Gold turned the luncheon into a party, creating a joyful and exciting atmosphere.

Attendees were able to network informally and form real connections, and the selected smaller group felt exclusive and exciting.

Despite significant momentum behind the youth agenda, young people are still too often relegated to the sidelines of major global summits – selected from a narrow pool of media-trained advocates for highly curated moments, rather than engaged in all of their diversity.

The Education Team at Project Everyone and the United Nations Youth Office identified an opportunity to change that with Unscripted: a new event series designed to refresh the intergenerational event format and foster more authentic encounters by bringing together an intimate and diverse group of local and international young people to share, connect, and explore the issues that matter to them, guided by “Connectors” (senior leaders from business, philanthropy and policy).

By design, Unscripted is powerful not prescriptive; participatory not curated; and driven by youth insight. With the support of SAP, the event was successfully piloted at Goals House during UN General Assembly week (New York; September 2025) and at the Misk Global Forum (Riyadh; November 2025), with the ambition to scale with new partners and to new spaces in 2026.

Alongside the Gates Foundation and MBZfH, we produced an evening show that blended global health advocacy with a celebration of the UAE’s progress in maternal & child health & eradicating infectious diseases.

To ensure that the event felt deeply rooted in the host country, we incorporated regional touchpoints throughout the creative direction. We took inspiration from cultural textures and patterns to inspire the screen visuals.

HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, the Mother of the Nation, was awarded with a Goalkeepers Lifetime Achievement Award for her work on health and gender equality for women and children in the UAE and beyond.

We worked with David Oyelowo, a Nigerian British actor, and Dubai Abulhoul, a young Emirati woman and founder of the Fiker Institute, to host Goalkeepers Abu Dhabi. We worked closely with both David and Dubai on powerful scripting, ensuring that their personal passion for the theme shone through. 

We collaborated with Nigerian musician Adekunle Gold and Abu Dhabi based orchestra Bait Al Oud to craft a unique “south- south” musical journey, fusing traditional middle eastern sounds with afrobeats, celebrating the cultural and developmental partnerships between Global South countries. 

Throughout the show, we highlighted the incredible scientists, healthcare workers, and advocates who form the backbone of progress in maternal & child health- using demos, storytelling and captivating keynote speeches to bring their dedication to life. 

The evening rounded out with a compelling conversation between CNN’s Becky Anderson, Bill Gates and H.E Reem Al Hashimy, grounding the evening in a discussion about the future of global health and the importance of cross- border collaboration. 

With the impact of climate change keenly felt across the MENA region, a “business as usual” approach to climate education will not drive the action needed. The BIG GREEN Legacy was designed to disrupt the traditional approach by directly engaging UAE youth in shaping their own learning.

Central to the programme is the BIG GREEN Legacy Survey — an interactive, play-based survey designed for 12–22 year olds, gathering their perspectives on climate change, their learning and engagement in action.

Through a large-scale coordinated approach with the Ministry of Education, the Survey was shared to all UAE public and private schools along with new learning content to showcase and celebrate the richness of the UAE culture in sustainability and nature protection, increasing momentum towards community action for sustainability. Content was developed in collaboration with a group of youth advisors from the UAE and wider MENA region.

Survey findings were discussed at dynamic intergenerational action planning workshops. Immersed in a mangrove forest at Casa Mikoko in Umm Al Quwain, students and teachers worked closely with curriculum designers from the Ministry of Education and representatives from the Al Ghurair Foundation. 150 ideas were generated, resulting in 42 recommendations to evolve future UAE curricula, BIG GREEN Legacy resources and learning programmes.

We worked with a diverse ecosystem of partners including Synchronicity Earth, Aviva, WRI, Wellcome Trust, and many others to design, curate and deliver eleven events throughout a one-day activation: Nature Day.

As we built the programme, we deliberately crafted content that would span diverse themes while diving deep into the complexities of each issue.

We aimed to create conversations that would amplify underrepresented voices while also using Nature Day as a platform to explore critical intersections like AI and climate action, the role of the financial sector in detecting and addressing environmental crime, and intergenerational dialogue that deserved greater prominence in climate/nature nexus conversations.

Our overarching ambition was to foster an inclusive, thought-provoking and action-oriented environment where participants could learn, challenge existing paradigms, and forge collaborations toward nature-based solutions.

The choice of Kindred as our venue aligned with our values – founded as a member club turned community space that welcomes all and breaks down traditional barriers to meeting new people.

The venue’s commitment to locally sourced, seasonally curated food offerings reinforced our connection to nature and sustainable practices throughout the day.

Our programming spanned from systems thinking about food and metabolism to high-level policy discussions on green finance and climate justice.

Event formats were deliberately varied – from immersive nature walks and creative storytelling sessions to expert roundtables, film screenings, strategic dinners, and cultural performances – bringing together Indigenous leaders, former heads of state, financial executives, filmmakers, scientists, activists, and environmental champions from across the globe.

This diversity of voices and formats created genuine connections and meaningful dialogues that extended far beyond traditional conference settings, bringing nature to the very heart of LCAW.

We worked with a range of partners and stakeholders in the ocean space and beyond to design, curate and deliver twenty-six events over the course of three days.

As we built the programme, it became apparent that our approach needed to be twofold. On one hand, we wanted to ensure our programme was reflective of the themes explored at the main conference, enabling therefore those conversations to continue beyond the negotiation halls. On the other hand, Ocean House also gave us an opportunity to explore important and urgent topics such as deep sea mining which we felt would have benefited from being featured more prominently at UNOC.

Overall, our ambition was to create an inclusive, inspiring and dynamic environment for people to learn, challenge ideas, and collaborate towards ocean action. Our choice of venue offered our ocean advocate guests some precious time by – and sometimes, in! – the water, cementing Ocean House as a space in and for nature, underpinned by genuine connections and meaningful dialogues outside of the formal negotiation setting.

Our programming covered topics such as system-disrupting ocean financing, Antarctic protection with the launch of the Antarctic Avengers, High Seas Treaty ratification, coral restoration, sustainable food systems, underwater noise pollution, and the integration of science with traditional Indigenous knowledge. From morning till night, event formats ranged from immersive ocean-based experiences with guided breathwork in the water, expert roundtables, film screenings, high-level dinners, panels, receptions, nightcaps and more – bringing together a community of policymakers, activists, scientists, heads of states, artists, and other ocean champions from around the world.

Art and music were central to Ocean House, weaving culture throughout the programming and creating a cohesive visual and sonic experience. Musical performances punctuated the programming, featuring Māori sonic weaver aeotora WHAIA, DJ and producer Auntie Flo, vocalist Bernard Fowler (associated with the Rolling Stones), folk singer Sam Lee, and experimental electronic duo NYX. WHAIA’s contributions connected most directly with the house’s themes, bringing the indigenous sounds from communities we were passionate to spotlight—voices that carry deep cultural resonance in coastal waters. At nightfall, American-Cuban artist Frankie Batista’s ocean ripple projections brought the cliffs to life, casting moving patterns across the stone face and the club stairway roof, blurring the line between the digital and the natural landscape.

We worked with a range of partners over four months to carefully curate the programme, hosting twenty-five events over four days.

Our ambition was to create an inclusive, dynamic space where all can learn, challenge, and collaborate to put nature on a path to recovery; a lush oasis for delegates to forge connections and have authentic conversations beyond the negotiations hall.

Nature House was framed through two strategic lenses: a space of inspiration, where partners and community come together to deliver a diverse programme underpinned by our values, and secondly, a space of celebration, showcasing the best of Colombian culture and Cali’s distinctive heritage through a curated food, music, and art offering.

INSPIRATION: PROGRAMMING, PARTNERS AND COMMUNITY

Our four-day programme, built in collaboration with our partners, focused on three thematic areas articulating the GBF: Arts & Culture, Finance, and The Road to COP30. Carefully curating each session, this was an opportunity for Project Everyone to:

Explore a range of formats: Breakfasts, roundtables, workshops, lunches, in conversations, panels, receptions, dinners and nightcaps. Evening events pulsed with salsa classes and performances from local Colombian artists.

Collaborate with a range of partners: From Earthrise to Microsoft, Nia Tero to Business for Nature, we brought together partners across the Project Everyone ecosystem within civil society, government, UN, private sector and creative industries.

Draw in new audiences: Leaders at the intersection of nature, climate, creative, finance, and tech industries. Indigenous voices took center stage, with Monday’s programming dedicated to critical areas of engagement for indigenous peoples and advocates.

Approach thematic content more creatively: Spanning topics from radical collaboration for nature restoration to the power of the world restoration economy, from land defenders’ challenges to creating transformative change toward COP30. Our content bridged the GBF with issues at the intersection of the Global Goals.

Lift language barriers: Whether as speakers or attendees, enabling all non-English speaking guests to contribute and share in the language of their choice. Events featured English, Spanish, Portuguese, and a number of indigenous languages from across the Amazon Basin, with live translation provided at select sessions, a first step towards ensuring language accessibility is no longer a barrier for engagement.