Young Bled Strategic Forum
Young Bled Strategic Forum is a participant-driven platform where bright young minds from around the world come together to share ideas and find inspiration to improve their communities.
We believe that understanding the how and why behind contemporary social phenomena is an indispensable prerequisite for making the world a better place.
Drawing on this fundamental belief, Young Bled Strategic Forum offers an environment where social problems can be broken down to their most basic building blocks around which tailored solutions can then be designed.
A safe space, an open stage, a laboratory, a testing ground – we hope to offer all of these and more.
Young Bled Strategic Forum 2025
29.–31. 8. 2025
Applications open in Spring 2025.
History
First Young Bled Strategic Forum took place in 2011 under the title ‘The power of the future’. It was established with the aim of bringing together aspiring students and prospective young professionals from the diplomatic, academic, and think-thank fields in both Europe and the Mediterranean region.
Since then the Young Bled Strategic Forum has developed from a one-day side event with a couple of the discussions happening on the outskirts of the Bled Strategic Forum into three-day separate international conference for young participants from all over the world. Young Bled Strategic Forum is a separate event, yet inalienably interwoven with the Bled Strategic Forum.
Past Editions
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2024 Restoring Common Ground
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2023 Mitigating our Butterfly Effect
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2022 Democracy fit for the new age
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2021 Future of Europe: Youth at the Centre
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2019 Youth as a (Future) (Re)source
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2018 Sustainable Security: The Role of Youth in Bridging the Divide
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2017 The (Dis)connected Reality
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2016 Generation of Global Citizens
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2015 Building the Future
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2014 Potential of Trust
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2013 The Clash of Generations
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2012 Young BSF
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2011 The Power of the Future
Vision
Although the conference has addressed different topics of discussion throughout the years, the leading vision of the Young Bled Strategic Forum remains the same: to connect eager, motivated young individuals and active citizens coming from different fields of expertise and offer them a cooperative, creative, and motivated environment for discussions and networking.