Starting next week, I’ll be the new “Road to Rio+20″ Project Manager at Peace Child International. My job will be to get young people from all around the world involved in the upcoming UN summit on sustainable development taking place in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.

I’ll be based in Buntingford, UK, until at least November 2011. If you think that in this new role I can be of any help, or if you think you can contribute meaningfully to what I’m about to start working on, please get in touch!

The website of my new youth venture, Yparticipate, went live a couple of days ago. I’m proud of my team!

By now, if you’re a regular on this blog, you know about my involvement with the UN CSD Youth Caucus. I was recently appointed at the person in charge of their Social Media working group and I’m counting on some help from you guys to get our job done. Read below for more information and please spread the word!

Tomorrow my international lobbying adventure starts, with the 18th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, a United Nations body where civil society is actively involved in agenda-setting and policy-making. I’ll be attending as one of the members of the Youth Caucus and I hope, together with my colleagues, to represent the interests of younger generations with competence and passion!

I’ll be updating this blog with coverage of the event in two ways:

1. every night for the next couple of weeks (weekends excluded), I’ll be posting a video entry where I talk about what happened during the day at the UN
2. I will also be live-tweeting from the working sessions (hashtag: #CSD18)

Ban Ki-moon, here we come!

UPDATE: Apparently, the call for help worked! Thanks to the wonderful cooperation of Micaela from SustainabItaly, I now have (a) a great event I can present my UN experience at (taking place in Rome on Earth Day) and (b) a survey I can use to gather more relevant input to prepare properly for the CSD session.