Leadership for change: young people

“Gen C – Generazione Changemaker” is the initiative promoted by Ashoka Italy and National Agency for Youth along with 40 partners to promote youth prominence. Hundreds of responses have been collected that confirm the presence of a generation of change leaders with very peculiar characteristics.

In a historical and social context such as the present one, the role of young people, their centrality for the economic and social development of the country was often evoked. But what are the tools and initiatives that society and school in particular can make available to promote and facilitate processes of youth leadership?

In this publication, the first of a cycle on the concept of leadership of change, is investigated the role and characteristics of youth leadership through a specific in-depth study carried out on the basis of the work of Ashoka Italy in recent years with young people and schools changemakers.