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At Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), One Young World is proud to support the Lead 2030 challenge for SDG 4 to reduce gender disparities in order to create a more gender equitable education system globally and empower girls to transform communities around the world.

As a company, they truly believe in investment and the development of the next generation of women leaders despite the discouraging statistics around the world. BMS believes that everyone, regardless of gender, has equal access to education and future opportunities. To this end, BMS welcomes solutions that embrace intersectionality to deepen understanding and capacity to improve the real-life experiences of marginalised groups in STEM.

Sustainable Development Goal 4 aims to close this gap, in particular target 4.5, which aims to eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for vulnerable people, including people with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations. .

This challenge welcomes solutions from young innovators that include interventions such as :

• Remove barriers to women's and girls' access to education in areas where there are significant gender gaps.
• Educate government, employers, academic institutions and family members about the business case for gender equity.
• Eliminate gender and other stereotypes from learning materials and teaching approaches.
• Create a teacher mentoring/training programme focusing on gender-sensitive pedagogies and invest in platforms that help women from all backgrounds to find a professional career in STEM.
• Invest in girls' STEM education through funding programmes and scholarships.
• Create affordable distance learning opportunities that prioritise girls' safety.

Information on the prize Reducing gender disparities

The winning solution will receive :

• Sponsorship to attend the One Young World Summit 2022 in Tokyo from 16 to 19 May
• A grant of US$50,000 $ from Bristol Myers Squibb
• 12 months of mentoring by a team of professionals from Bristol Myers Squibb. The mentoring team will work to accelerate your solution based on the needs of your initiative or organisation, such as:
  • Corporate strategy
  • Best practices for data collection
  • Control and assessment
  • Product design

Criteria Reducing gender disparities

• Aligned: from Clearly aligned with the Lead2030 challenge for SDG 4 supported by Bristol Myers Squibb.
• Directed by young people : Founded by a person aged between 18 and 30.
• Centred: one well-structured time horizon, identified stakeholders and key beneficiaries, and proposed outcomes that are reasonable and well thought out.
• Ready for the market : product/service already on the market or ready to be launched.
• Impacting: the solutions must have a positive social impact, for example by creating jobs or developing skills.
• Measurable: The The impact of the solutions must have been properly measured and/or be measurable.
• Financially viable : Must be able to achieve efficiency and survive autonomously thanks to the resources they generate and/or the investments and donations they attract.
• Upgradeable : Potential to work as well or better after extending its range or size and/or being transported to other regions.

For more information, please visit One Young World .