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BE OPEN at the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development 2025 at the UN in Geneva

Lilia Valieva

On April 2-3, BE OPEN joined the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development 2025 at the UN offices in Geneva. The theme of the forum was “Advancing Sustainable, Inclusive, Science- and Evidence-based Solutions for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its SDGs”. The forum brought together UN governments, international organizations, civil society, academia, youth, the private sector and other stakeholders to discuss strategies for accelerating the insufficient progress towards the SDGs.

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BE OPEN debuts at the 4th annual Sustainability Week Asia conference

Lilia Valieva

On March 25, BE OPEN visited Thailand, as The Economist Group’s signature sustainability summit returned to Bangkok for the fourth time. Sustainability Week Asia rounds off a series of global conferences – from Cape Town to New York – which bring together the world’s foremost experts and industry leaders shaping the transition to a more sustainable future.

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BE OPEN congratulates the winner of the BE OPEN Cultural Tapestry Open Call to celebrate the richness of diversity and cultural identities

Lilia Valieva

BE OPEN announces the winner of #BEOPENCulturalTapestry, a recently finalised creative open call across social media. With open calls, by asking the participants to share their vision with pictures and photographs, BE OPEN aims to support creativity as a universal approach, and build bonds between people around the globe.

BE OPEN Cultural Tapestry was dedicated to celebrating the rich tapestry of human culture, the colourful threads of meaning, identity, traditions and customs, languages and symbols interweaved into a beautiful pattern of the everyday life rooted in sustainable relations, inclusivity and acceptance.BE OPEN encouraged the subscribers to capture glimpses of vibrant kaleidoscopes with each facet reflecting a unique story of a person, community, or even country.

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BE OPEN Art launches the first regional competition of 2025 to support emerging artists of South Asia

Lilia Valieva

BE OPEN Art continues to run BE OPEN Regional Art, the regional competition for emerging artists aimed to support those whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities, for the third year now.

The first stage of the third year of the programme run will cover the countries of South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. The stage will traditionally last three months, and the regional winner for South Asia will be announced and awarded 500 euro in early April.

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BE OPEN Art congratulates the winners of the Regional Art Competition in Southern Africa

Lilia Valieva

BE OPEN Art is ready to announce the results of the last stage of BE OPEN Regional Art in 2024 which covered the countries of Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

BE OPEN Regional Art is a region-based competition for emerging artists, aimed to support those whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities. Throughout 2023 and 2024, BE OPEN expert community have been selecting artists to feature them in the BE OPEN Art gallery, offer greater visibility and encourage the public to vote and thus select the monthly and the regional winners. The winner of each regional stage receives a money grant from the foundation.

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Press-Clipping: Launch of Desiging Futures 2050 competition

Charlie Root

UNTERNATIONAL STUDENT COMPETITION BY BE OPEN HOPES TO INSPIRE YOUNG PEOPLE TAKE AN ACTIVE PART IN BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Business Matters
November 2024

BE OPEN LAUNCHES DESIGNING FUTURES 2050: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR YOUNG CREATIVES FOCUSED ON THE UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Cyprus Mail
November 2024

DESIGNING FUTURES 2050 EMPOWERING THE NEXT GENERATION TO SHAPE SUSTAINABLE CHANGE
The Future Magazine
November 2024

BE OPEN LAUNCHES SIXTH GLOBAL COMPETITION DESIGNING FUTURES 2050 TO INSPIRE SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION AMONG YOUTH
International Business Times
November 2024

BE OPEN INVITES YOUNGER PEOPLE TO HAVE A SAY IN THE FUTURE OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Ogly Buzz Singapore
November 2024

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR 2050: SHAPING A GREENER FUTURE WITH DESIGNING FUTURES 2050
Rethinking the Future
November 2024

ΤΟ BE OPEN ΕΓΚΑΙΝΙΆΖΕΙ ΤΟ DESIGNING FUTURES 2050
Larnaca Newspaper
November 2024

COMMITMENT TO INCREASE SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS FROM 2025 ON MADE BY BE OPEN THINK-TANK AT COP29
World Excellence Magazine
December 2024

BE OPEN COMMITS TO SUSTAINABILITY AS THE LEADING PRINCIPLE
Better This World
December 2024

BE OPEN at COP29 in Baku: presentation of the sustainability-focused competition programme

Lilia Valieva

At COP29, BE OPEN hosted a session dedicated to our competition programme in support of the UN SGDs. We shared our experience of fostering and awarding the best design ideas from young people around the world. At the session, BE OPEN celebrated and gave stage to 6 of the winners of Design Your Climate Action, the most recent of our sustainability-focused competitions. We hope this session becomes an inspiration for our winners’ peers all over the world to get involved in sustainable causes.

BE OPEN Launches BE OPEN Cultural Tapestry Open Call to celebrate the richness of diversity and cultural identities

Lilia Valieva

BE OPEN is launching its next global open call across social media. With open calls, by asking the participants to share their vision with pictures and photographs, BE OPEN aims to support creativity as a universal approach, and build bonds between people around the globe.

BE OPEN believes that the ability for creative interpretation is not confined within the art and design industry. The series of online challenges reach out to those creative minds around the globe, who keep their eyes open, see inspiration in everyday life, and are able to transform it with their own unique vision. 

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