Global Co Lab Network
The Global Co Lab Network empowers teens globally to take action on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with opportunities for leadership development, cross-cultural collaboration and volunteering. To learn more, watch this two-minute video! Join us for our newest campaign on climate change and take the pledge here! Contact us at staff@globalcolab.net
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Why join the Global Co Lab Network?
Stand out in the admissions process with leadership and teamwork skills. Earn volunteer hours!
Establish networks with professionals at leading worldwide organizations like the United Nations.
Work on global challenges including climate change with teens from across the world!
Develop self confidence and greater mental health by interacting with like-minded global teens to do good!
By joining the Co Lab, you commit to:
- One-hour virtual meeting per week; one-hour monthly meeting for All Hands!
- Commitment to changing the world with the UN Sustainable Development Goals!
Types of Initiatives We Offer
Created by teens at the Co Lab, the Change Our Climate campaign aims to encourage individual action for sustainable living. Join us and take a pledge to change one daily habit that will reduce your carbon footprint at changeourclimate.org. Follow @GlobalCoLabNetwork and join Co Lab teens making reels to inspire others. Use our hashtag #ChangeOurClimate and make sure to tag us! You can enter to win $500 if you pledge by April 1. Email us at staff@globalcolab.net to join us!
Join one of our 9 teen-led weekly virtual meetings to move action forward on the UN Sustainable Development Goals for free. Each hub addresses important issues such as climate change, mental health, hunger, gender and racial equality, plastic pollution, quality education, and many more. Complete our interest form if you are interested!
Apply to the annual Teens Dream Changemaker Video Challenge, opening October 2025! Upload a short video about how you would address an SDG and be a trailblazer. Winners are honored at our annual Spring Celebration.
Each July, the Co Lab takes a teen delegation to the UN High-Level Political Forum in New York where the world assesses progress on the SDGs. Teens advocate on the SDGs to a global audience and build connections with other students and professionals. You can watch last year’s delegation present here.
Our documentary, Youth Voices on the UN Goals: Changing the World Together, has reached over 30,000 teens and adults. This 20-minute educational film is focused on empowering the next generation of changemakers with a focus on the UN SDGs. Watch it now! See here for a $100 grant you can apply for to show the documentary to teens in the USA!
Our Partners
