Panda Solar Stations – Youth Engagement and Innovation to Promote Sustainable Development

Continuing the global success of the Naming Campaign for the ‘UNDP Panda Ambassadors for the Sustainable Development Goals’, the Global UNDP Panda Campaign for the SDGs will use the unique power of the pandas to further adovate and raise public awareness of the SDGs and clean energy.

UNDP tackles the toughest development challenges in the world and are committed to finding the best-fit solutions to those challenges.

Innovation has been a key priority of UNDP with ‘open challenges’ providing a platform to encourage innovation.

UNDP will organise an ‘open design challenge’ for creative and aspiring youth in China. Using renewable energy as the foundation and utilizing the expertise from Panda Green Energy Group, the ‘open challenge’ will provide an unique environment encouraging co-creation which blends design, prototyping, and open-processes, aiming to support the achievement of SDGs in China with practical solutions to the growing need for affordable and clean energy whilst engaging the youth with sustainable development.

Young candidates from around China will be recruited to participate in summer camps at the Panda Solar Stations. Under the theme of the UNDP SDGs with a particular focus on clean energy, young people will have the opportunity to learn, share knowledge, and experience the steps of an intesnse innovation process.

The camp will offer participants a deeper understanding of green energies and first-hand experience of environmental protection, with top notch mentors and facilitators in the field to monitor and provide on-site support.