Empodera.org is a collective intelligence platform that makes it easier for citizens to create challenges and concrete actions to achieve the SDGs, which provides an itinerary to carry out the full cycle of social innovation, from knowledge of the SDGs, identification needs, through the provision of creative solutions, to the design and implementation of the best initiatives that can generate social impact.

The digital platform and methodology are recognized by the United Nations through UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Professional Training and Research), with whom Fundación Cibervoluntarios signed a framework agreement in September 2018 to promote the values of the Agenda 2030. Its director and Undersecretary General of the United Nations, Nikhil Seth, with whom we signed the agreement, is one of the outstanding fathers of the 2030 Agenda, and its objective is for it to be transversal and reach all citizens, especially young people. Hence its recognition to Empodora.org it is very important.

In 2021, the platform has been used by more than 1,500 people, more than 300 initiatives have been generated, and 100 organizations and entities have joined ato this multi stakeholder ecosystem. This impact highlights robustness, efficiency and effectiveness of Empodera.org.

Fundacion Cibervoluntarios has been a pioneer in the development of this digital tool at European level, testing it 2018 with educational centers and Universities across Spain, as well as NGOs and public institutions, From the collected evaluations show the need to transmit youth information on the importance and raise awareness on the SDGs.

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• Spain

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• People with disabilities
• The unemployed
• Migrants
• Refugees and internally displaced people
• Remote and rural communities

For the development of the methodology, the program has the open and collaborative digital platform Empodera.ORG, which allows the entire process of social innovation to be carried out, from the creation and publication of an initiative, aimed at one or more SDGs, through the definition from the needs to carry it out and the possibility of involving collaborators, to measuring the impact achieved with the initiative. In addition to the methodological tools that it has at a technological level, it has a customized training tool that facilitates the training, development, monitoring, evaluation and certification of the training activities proposed by expert personnel on the subject.

The entire process will be accompanied by expert facilitators, both in the direct virtual part and in the later part of the development and improvement of the initiative for those who want to. Participants may work individually or in teams. Once the training is finished, the participants will have to document all the work developed through the platform so that it can be evaluated by the trainers and facilitators and obtain their certification.

All the processes can be made both onsite with the students and also online to provide a longer term solution to the initiatives proposed. The goal is also to provide training and open methodology on how to create social innovation and entrepreneurship for the SDGs achievement.

Empodera.org offers the possibility of building the 2030 Agenda within the reach of citizens in a simple, sustainable and replicable way: Involving the local community directly in initiatives and concrete actions related to the SDGs. With an online methodology that can be replicated in different languages and the possibility of carrying out activities remotely with digital training.

Empodera.org guarantees the acquisition and certification of digital skills for entrepreneurship and innovation for all the people involved. Thus forming a civil society much more interested in building, co-creating and acting on specific needs related to the Sustainable Development Goals within its environment: real, scalable and replicable solutions from the local to the global.

Empodera.org counts on the support of The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and also counts on a network of Universities and Educational centers to provide users and initiatives.

By training and providing tools to achieve the 2030 Agenda through dynamic, participatory and innovative events: "2030 Competencies" and "Ideathons for the SDGs" within local communities. With them we want to reach NGOs, organizations, private companies, public institutions, municipalities and universities in the acquisition of digital skills for the SDGs. The objectives set out in the 2030 Agenda focus on five major axes of critical importance for humanity and the planet, which are called the "5 Ps": people, planet, prosperity, peace and alliances. Empodera.org was born to involve citizens in an innovative way in the process so that they provide a real vision of the needs through collaboration between civil society and an ecosystem of organizations, entities, companies and the academic sector. Providing both beneficiaries and stakeholders with collaborative tools to achieve it. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: 1. Provide participating entities, organizations and universities with digital and certified tools to work on the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs in the classroom. 2. Help identify and select an SDG, investigate the situation at the global and local levels and create and develop initiatives and concrete actions to act concretely with solutions from local to global. 3. Develop critical and purposeful thinking, which allows them to be creative and innovate to transform their environment.