Studio 5
A brand new initiative for gender equality
- Theme:
- Gender
- Type:
- Convening / Events
- Partner:
- The Gates Foundation and Fondation CHANEL
- Location:
- Melbourne, Aus
- Year:
- 2026
The challenge
Progress for women and girls is going backwards
Around the world, hard-won progress on gender equality is under pressure. With the Women Deliver conference bringing the global gender equality community together in Narrm (Melbourne), there was an opportunity to create a different kind of space alongside the formal programme.
A place where people could connect, share ideas and focus on the actions capable of accelerating progress for women and girls.
The idea
A new space for feminist ideas and action
Project Everyone created Studio 5, bringing strategy, creativity and community together in an intentionally designed space for gender equality.
Moving beyond the traditional conference format, Studio 5 created room for honest conversation, unexpected connections and new ideas, bringing together people working across some of the most urgent issues affecting women and girls.
what happened
Three days of conversation, connection and creativity
Across three days, Studio 5 hosted sharing circles, roundtables, intimate dinners, nightcaps and sound baths, bringing together feminist changemakers from around the world.
The programme explored everything from preventing gender-based violence and women’s health to First Nations knowledge, sexual violence, storytelling and self-care. Creativity was built into the experience, with the space and visual identity drawing inspiration from Australian landscapes and created in collaboration with First Nations and local partners.
Result
A global community came together.
17
events across three days
“I was seriously impressed by the team’s strategic and creative thinking, by their commitment to providing an incomparable experience for their participants.”
Sarah Sternberg
Director, Global Reimagining Masculinities Initiative, Movember
Goalkeepers 2025
We Can't stop at Almost
- Theme:
- Health / General
- Type:
- Convening / Events
- Partner:
- The Gates Foundation
- Location:
- USA
- Year:
- 2025
The challenge
We’ve come too far to stop at almost
Since 2000, child mortality has been cut in half. But cuts to global health funding risk reversing decades of progress, with child deaths expected to rise for the first time this century.
The challenge was to bring global leaders, advocates, healthcare workers and innovators together around a simple message: extraordinary progress has been made, but the work is not finished.
The idea
Turn the data into a story of active hope
For the ninth year, Project Everyone partnered with the Gates Foundation to produce Goalkeepers during UN General Assembly week in New York.
Hosted by Olivia Wilde with musical co-host Jon Batiste, the show combined data, storytelling, music and live demonstrations to explore the innovations and people helping children survive and thrive. Rather than focus only on the scale of the challenge, the experience showed audiences the solutions already within reach.
what happened
The people behind progress took centre stage
Three immersive sets, a clinic, a child’s bedroom and a laboratory, took the audience through a child’s journey from pregnancy to their fifth birthday.
Researchers, doctors, healthcare workers and advocates demonstrated the tools and innovations saving children’s lives, while Project Everyone also helped shape a cohort of 10 Goalkeepers Champions from around the world.
The following day, a dedicated Champions Luncheon brought the group together to celebrate their work, build new connections and continue the conversation.
$912M
pledged by the Gates Foundation to the Global Fund
10
Goalkeepers Champions recognised
3
immersive sets brought the child survival story to life
9 years
of partnership delivering Goalkeepers with the Gates Foundation
“Unequivocally, these experiences are the most touching, memorable, and inspiring moments I have ever had the privilege of enjoying.”
Freedom-Kai Phillips
Director, Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress
EXPO 2020 Dubai
Bringing the SDGs to life at Expo
- Theme:
- General / SDGs
- Type:
- Communication / Convening
- Location:
- UAE
- Year:
- 2021/2022
The challenge
Take the Global Goals to a truly global stage.
Expo 2020 Dubai brought together countries, cultures and ideas from around the world at a moment when communities were emerging from the disruption of the pandemic.
It created an opportunity to take Global Goals Week beyond New York for the first time and bring governments, businesses and citizens together around a shared question: how could the world accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and build a fairer, greener future?
The idea
Make the Global Goals impossible to miss.
Working with Expo 2020 Dubai and the United Nations, Project Everyone helped bring Global Goals Week to life across the Expo site.
The Global Goals identity and World’s To Do List became a powerful visual thread throughout the week, including a spectacular projection onto the Al Wasl Dome, the world’s largest 360-degree projection surface, accompanied by a procession of SDG flags carried by Global Goals advocates.
what happened
A week of action at the heart of Expo 2020.
From 15 to 22 January 2022, Global Goals Week brought together world leaders, policymakers, businesses, young people and changemakers to explore solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges.
Project Everyone co-curated the Global Goals for All flagship event, with contributors including UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed, UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment Mariam Almheiri, UN Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake and Bill Gates.
Across the week, events including the Global Goals Business Forum and Global Best Practice Assembly explored climate action, gender equality, innovation and the role of business in delivering the Goals by 2030.
8.27M
social media impressions
7.5M
total campaign reach
281
social posts across five platforms
“Let us join hands together and end poverty, reduce inequality and protect our planet. Let us deliver the SDGs, our Global Goals for humanity, now!”
Amina J. Mohammed
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Act for Equal
Why we need to Act For Equal?
- Theme:
- Gender
- Type:
- Campaign / Communication
- Partner:
- UN Women
- Location:
- Global
- Year:
- 2021
The challenge
A generation of progress was at risk of stalling.
Twenty-five years after the Beijing Declaration set out a global blueprint for gender equality, women and girls were still facing discrimination, violence and barriers to opportunity around the world.
With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening to deepen existing inequalities, the challenge was to reignite public attention ahead of the Generation Equality Forum and build a new wave of support for urgent action.
The idea
Bring generations together to Act For Equal.
Working with UN Women, Project Everyone created #ActForEqual, a global, video-led campaign designed to mobilise young people, activists, leaders and influential voices around gender equality.
At its heart was Generations Together, a film bringing together people from different countries, generations and backgrounds to share why equality matters to them and invite audiences to answer one simple question: Why do we need to Act For Equal?
what happened
A global conversation took off.
The campaign film brought together voices including Megan Rapinoe, Leymah Gbowee, Mary Robinson, Jazz Jennings, Winston Duke, Dr Denis Mukwege and young activists from around the world.
Launched across UN Women, Global Goals and partner channels ahead of the Generation Equality Forum in Paris, the film became the catalyst for a wider social campaign.
Project Everyone also partnered with TikTok UK, inviting creators and audiences to respond with their own reasons for acting for equality. The hashtag was featured on TikTok’s discovery page for a week, helping the campaign reach millions of people and generate hundreds of user-created videos.
Result
More than a conference
14.4M
#ActForEqual views on TikTok
3M+
views of the campaign film
750
TikTok videos submitted
$40BN
in financial commitments announced at the Forum
“Why do we need to Act For Equal? To build a movement of young people, influencers, activists and leaders to be a force for change.”
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Director, Ecosystems Division, UN Environment Programme
