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The 50 Percent is a flagship youth-led programme of The Fifth Element, (which serves as the base for the BRIDGES Club of Rome Impact Hub), situated within its Intergenerational Leadership workstream.
The initiative is dedicated to driving systemic transformation by empowering youth leaders and encouraging collaborative, multi-generational action and solidarity.
The Power of a New Generation
With individuals under the age of 30 now accounting for more than half of the global population, this "50 Percent" represents a formidable force for world change. The initiative seeks to harness this potential across every level of society, from local grassroots movements to the highest tiers of international leadership.
A Platform for Change
As a youth-led digital hub, The 50 Percent enables changemakers to address the planet’s most intricate problems.
The platform focuses on two core pillars:
By cultivating international solidarity and fostering partnerships between young pioneers and youth-centric organisations, the project is establishing a global community defined by a shared sense of purpose.
Practical Tools for Systemic Impact
Rather than offering abstract theories, The 50 Percent provides young people with the practical methodology required to decipher the interconnected forces shaping our world. This approach allows them to:
Learn more: https://the50percent.org/
Publications
A Young Person’s Guide to Systems Change
A co-created toolkit to address systemic challenges.
How to Get Things Done: Young person's toolkit for responsible project management
A toolkit designed to empower young people everywhere to transform the world around them, serving as a companion to the Young person’s guide to systems change.
A Young Person’s Guide to Story Telling
A practical guide to counter misinformation and strengthen democratic culture.
We are not waiting: Youth-led initiatives for a fairer, more sustainable world
Across the world, young people are not waiting for permission to act. They are already creating fairer, more sustainable futures through community organising, social innovation, cultural work, technological creativity and environmental stewardship.
We are not waiting is a joint initiative by the UNESCO–MOST BRIDGES UK Hub and The 50 Percent at the Club of Rome, with two linked outputs: a youth-led webinar series and an accompanying anthology.
The project centres young people aged 14–35 not as symbolic participants but as hosts, moderators, editors and authors — showcasing real-world initiatives across six themes: regenerative economics, climate justice, circular living, peacebuilding, mutual aid and arts and storytelling.
Running over June and July 2026, the webinar series will comprise three sessions, an introductory session to launch the project, and two webinar diving into the anthology's themes, bringing together contributors, editors and wider audiences in open conversation.
These sessions feed directly into the anthology: a 150–180-page, six-chapter open-access publication drawing on a global call for abstracts as well as influential youth voices, reviewed and edited by young people themselves.
The anthology is targeting a launch at the UNESCO MOST Forum in 2027.