The World Health Organization (WHO), supported by the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN-OICT), UNAIDS, the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF, challenge you to use your bright minds and entrepreneurial skills to address one of the of urgent health challenges for the next decade: Keeping young people safe.
The range of possible health innovation solutions that may be submitted include: apps or games; wearables, digital technologies, tools or platforms, products; the creation or improvement of products, services, processes; new approaches to collaboration or communication, or new ways of engaging young people and/or other stakeholders; policy reform proposals - with a view to keeping young people safe across the world.
Health innovations are defined here as the creation or improvement of virtual, physical or digital products, services, processes, or systems to improve public health.
Individuals and groups of up to four (4) individuals are invited to respond to the challenge by submitting a proposed solution to the challenge. There are no age restrictions. Only one (1) submission is allowed per individual or group of individuals. Submissions must be made in your own personal capacity, and not as representative of an organization.
Submissions will be accepted globally, but priority will be given to submissions that demonstrate respect for gender diversity and involvement of young people exposed to, affected by or living with the issue/risk/disease/condition in the development of the respective solution.
All submissions will be featured on the challenge webpage on the Unite Ideas platform. The winners and their proposals will be mentioned on the WHO public website and invited to attend an award ceremony at WHO’s Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in June 2020 (date and other details TBC). Flights and accommodation will be covered by WHO, in accordance with its rules and procedures, for up to three winners (one individual representative of each winning proposal).
Submit your solution by 15 April 2020. More details about the challenge can be found here.

 UPDATE  In the scope of the XXII World Congress on Safety and Health in October in Toronto, Canada, the International Media Festival for Prevention will take place.
The IMFP is an integral part of the World Congress and highlights that successful prevention work can be advanced through outstanding creative multimedia initiatives. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the various ways different cultures approach occupational safety and health.
The IMFP profiles films and multimedia productions about safety and health at work from all over the world. It provides a unique opportunity for participants to present their products and ideas to a major group of influential safety and health professionals.
All films and multimedia productions, for example films, websites, apps, web-based training, social media and software, are accepted. Submissions can be made by national and international organizations, or institutions as well as by agencies, filmmakers or individuals. We accept all media on safety and health at work produced since January 2016.
So far over 200 productions from all over the world have been submitted to the International Media Festival for Prevention 2020!
The deadline for submissions has been extended to March 31, 2020.
An international jury will select the winners and all nominated and winning productions will be presented to World Congress delegates in the Festival Cinema during the Congress. Prizes will be awarded in the presence of a large audience during the Special Media Session on October 5, 2020.
More details on the IMFP Website.

On 24 January 2020, the second UNESCO International Day of Education, a new report was published that highlights 17 key principles for delivering effective road safety education in Europe.
This new report sets out recommendations in the form of Key Principles that should be implemented in all European countries, in order to ensure that everyone – and especially children and youngsters – receive high quality traffic safety and mobility education. The 17 Key Principles are accompanied by best practice examples that illustrate how these principles can be applied in practice.
The report is published as part of the LEARN! (Leveraging Education to Advance Road safety Now) project, by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) and Fundación MAPFRE, and aims to improve the quality of traffic safety and mobility education across Europe.
More information on the project and the report for download are available at www.trafficsafetyeducation.eu